My weekly commentary, Strategic Murder is up at Center for a Stateless Society.

A lot of my commentaries had touched on war and militarism or included the violent tendencies of state action, but i thought it would be a good idea to do a full article on war. It came out a little longer than I had intended.

Of course i had to use aggressive language at the end to show how badass my stance against their wars really is:

Those who indiscriminately bomb and dismember are enemies of all people who wish to live as free individuals. They use their flags and their pronouncements as nets to trap us into categories that serve their interests. We will tear open the nets, and we will topple those who stomp on us.

I think I like Black Sabbath, but not Ozzy Osbourne so much. So this cover by Bruce Dickinson is pretty cool.

Last night’s Thinking Liberty podcast can be downloaded from LibertyActivism.info. You might need to get a plugin to play it – if so, just click on the Ogg Vorbis link on the page and download the appropriate file for your system.

We should be getting a dedicated url for Thinking Liberty this week. This is one of the changes we’re making to the format. Now that we have our own equipment, we can make a much more reliable setup. We’ll have more guests on the show, and more ways to interact with the live broadcast. Please bear with us as we make the conversion.

I’ve got a new commentary up at Center For a Stateless Society.

Saturday’s car bomb attempt in New York saw the response of numerous government officials, who evacuated the area, investigated the scene, and made an arrest. So how can I say that we don’t need the state to keep us safe?
Read the rest.

I’m trying to make Tuesday my regular commentary day. This week’s might be a little cumbersome for an editorial, but the topic required a lot of ideas be packed together to address it sufficiently.

Provision of security is one of the key things that people expect the state to do. Showing that the state is at best unnecessary to keep us safe undermines a major justification for its existence. In the short term, widespread distrust of state security policy can at least slow the expansion of murderous empire-building and the police state apparatus.

In other news I was at a metal show the next block over from where the bomb was found. It’s going to take more than a carbomb to stop an Overkill show.