Free Talk Live poll question: “Can you think of a better mascot for liberty than the rattlesnake or porcupine?” (everyone else): “Here let me name off my personal favorite animal and why I think it is awesome. . . .” Matt Stocks: “A mason jar.” OK, I lol’ed. https://www.facebook.com/freetalklive/posts/10151364102034072

You know, I live in Alabama and I hate that the current state code includes a provision requiring high school sex-ed classes to include stigmatizing, bigoted and false anti-gay content. I’m glad to see that there’s a bill pending in the state legislature that would remove these content requirements. But when I see a liberal “freethought” blog linking to a story about this, and (1) the very first comment, and (2) over half the comments thereafter are from non-Alabamians making little jokes about incest or about having sex with farm animals, I– well, I really don’t actually get the feeling y’all are really on our side, somehow. Or that y’all are quite as un-bigoted as you might think you were. http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/01/11/al-legislator-tries-to-change-sex-ed-curriculum/

“The only negotiation I want conducted on my behalf with the police is withdrawal of their paramilitary troops from my community, which includes community affairs, helicopters, police horses, barricades, …” – Omowale Adewale, Brooklyn, NY, quoted by Rosa Clemente, “Why Did Kimani Gray Have to Die?” in EBONY (March 18, 2013)

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]: Happy Ides of March / Tyrannicide Day (observed). March 15 is also the International Day of Action Against Police Brutality. Speaking of which: Cops Are Here To Protect You (Cont’d) http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/03/15/cops-are-here-to-protect-you-contd/

Packing up an order I recently received through http://distro.libertarianleft.org/ which is going to a person whose postal street address is 60-something “Mauldeth Road.” #PlaceNames #SoFrakkingMetal

Hey everybody let’s all feel sorry that we’ve lost the past golden age of Limited Government & Individual Liberty. Like back in the 1950s when all military-age men were subject to the draft, people were being interrogated before a permanent committee of Congress over their political beliefs, the FBI was conducting massive illegal wiretapping, surveillance and disruption against nonviolent civil rights activists, the National Security Agency was established as a completely secret surveillance arm of the federal government, it was illegal for married or unmarried women to buy basic birth control, it was made illegal for anyone to buy any scheduled drug without a doctor’s prescription, government was conducting medical experiments on unwilling human subjects, Urban Renewal was demolishing the core of every major U.S. city to build government highways and housing projects, and massive community-wide immigration raids were terrorizing undocumented migrants throughout the Southwest. Or like back in the 1940s when government spending was over 50% of GDP, nearly the entire consumer economy was subject to government rationing, Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps, and a secret government conspiracy was building an entire network of secret cities in order to build atomic bombs to drop on civilian centers. Or like back in the 1930s when the entire institutional groundwork of the New Deal was being implemented, Roosevelt was making himself president-for-life, government attempted to seize all gold or silver bullion in private hands, the federal government first instituted the Drug War, Jim Crow was the law of the land, Congress created the INS, Jews fleeing the incipient Holocaust in Europe were being turned away by immigration authorities, psychiatrists were using massive electric shocks or literally mutilating the brains of women and men confined to asylums. Or like the 1920s when it was illegal to buy alcoholic drinks anywhere in the United States, tariff rates were nearly 40% on dutiable imports, Sacco and Vanzetti were murdered by the state of Massachusetts, the “Invisible Empire” Second Era Klan effectively took over the state governments of Colorado, Indiana, and Alabama, hundreds of black victims were massacred in race riots in Tulsa, Rosewood, when Congress created the Federal Radio Commission, the US Border Patrol, passed the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the authority of the state to forcibly sterilize women deemed “feeble-minded” or “promiscuous” for eugenic purposes. Or the 1910s, when the federal government seized control of foreign-owned companies to facilitate production of chemical weapons, imposed the first-ever use of federal conscription to fight an overseas war, invaded Haiti, Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Russia, and Europe, passed criminal anarchy and criminal syndicalism statutes, tried and convicted hundreds of people for belonging to radical unions, imprisoned hundreds of people for protesting the draft during World War I (ordered by the President of the United States and upheld by the Supreme Court in one of its most radical anti-free-speech decisions), deported hundreds of people solely for holding anti-state political beliefs, the Mann Act made it illegal to “transport women across statelines for immoral purposes” [sic], the Colorado National Guard machine-gunned and burned alive striking miners and their families in order to break a UMWA organizing campaign, and Congress created the Federal Reserve, the Income Tax, the Espionage Act, the Sedition Act. Or maybe like the 1900s. . . . .

To-day at the Fair Use Repository: Page scans and some HTML’ized articles now up for FREE SOCIETY Vol. IX., No. 28 (July 13, 1902). From the issue: Myra Pepper, “Woman: The Old and the New” http://fair-use.org/free-society/1902/07/13/woman-the-old-and-the-new Joshua T. Small, “Two Kinds of Anarchy” http://fair-use.org/free-society/1902/07/13/two-kinds-of-anarchy H. W. Koehn, “Liberty” http://fair-use.org/free-society/1902/07/13/liberty Full issue page scans: http://fair-use.org/free-society/issue/370

From Jason Lee Byas and Grayson English: – – – quote – – – Reminder that Ask an Anarchist Day will be happening this Wednesday, March 13th, from 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. in the student union. The table will be near crossroads. Ask an Anarchist Day March 13 at 9:00am OU Memorial Student Union in Norman, Oklahoma – – – quote – – –