Who Watches The Watchmen? Every year hundreds of reports of police brutality are filed across the country, police and bureaucrats often act as if they are above the law. When someone tries to question their actions it comes down to your word against theirs, it's time to put a stop to that. It's time to arm ourselves, grab your camera: it's time to SHOOT BACK!
Future battles will be tough. The enemy is highly financed and organized. The government funds their propaganda by taxing the people we are attempting to free. Statist organizations are at an advantage because they don't let the truth get in the way of their expansionist agenda and have little regard for property rights.
We have our own advantages because, unlike the slow bureaucracy, we can move with speed and agility to clog popular culture with pro-freedom / anti-statism statistics, symbols, slogans and images. Crashers answer to no one except their own conscience.
Bureaucrash is dedicated to the idea of creative activism that makes others question their assumptions on political and social issues. The tools for fighting the information war can take almost any form.
The Ministry of Operations's job is to assist you in fighting this information war and to ensure that you are well armed. Whether you are involved as a solo activist or a member of a cell group we are here to help you.
Bureaucrash HQ and members of the network are constantly at work producing propaganda. We take the sometimes complicated reasons why large governments and bloated bureaucracies are dangerous and condense them into slogans, images and quick statistics. We call these little packets of information ‘memes.
These memes come in a lot of different forms. Sometimes they are in bits of text. Sometimes they are on flyers or full color posters. Sometimes they are on e-cards or t-shirts. Sometimes they are centered on whole campaign websites. They can even be in the lyrics of a song. Every time we produce an item with a meme on it, we include a web address (usually leading right back here to Bureaucrash.com).
People interested in the meme can learn more about the ideas behind it online. They also can join Bureaucrash if they agree with our ideas, download more resources with memes and continue to spread the meme.
Every time you do even a tiny bit of work to put a meme out there, you are not simply spreading an idea. You are also recruiting more people to spread the ideas even further.
This domino effect is at the heart of what is sometimes called guerilla activism. A tiny number of scattered people, can change the world because every action they take has the potential to spread to a whole chain of people.
The Bureaucrash network exists to make this possible. read more »
We believe that individuals are sovereign and own their own bodies.
We believe that every person has a right to make decisions about his or her own life, as long as those decisions do not directly harm other people.
We believe that no person has a right to use force against another person – to steal what they have earned or threaten their body or property.
We believe that when a government makes a new rule, it threatens to use force against someone (or everyone).
We believe that when bureaucrats and politicians have the power to make arbitrary rules, they steal our choices.
Therefore, we believe that if governments are to exist they should be small and just have the power to protect us from force and fraud.
Because we believe that any other arrangement breeds corruption and gives other people (bureaucrats) power over us. Any other arrangement makes us all slaves to the bureaucrats.
In life, we often find ourselves encountering fundamental min-understandings. Nowhere is this more detrimental to harmony—or more annoying generally—than in the realm of politics.
One such fundamental misunderstanding concerns anarchy. What is anarchy? Who exemplifies its advocacy? What does anarchism entail?
Ask different people, and you will get different answers—even among self-described anarchists. But if there is one thing on which I hope all anarchists can agree, it is this: The Joker is not an anarchist!
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Kurt Vonnegut's short story, Harrison Bergeron, is being made into a film. You can (and should) watch the trailer and read more about it here.
Liberty lolcats are popping up everywhere! They've been spotted at The Western Standard's Shotgun Blog, The Orvetti Factor, and Last Free Voice.
UPDATE: In a showering of love from the mothership, CEI has been featuring liberty lolcats prominently on their Open Market blog.
In case you haven't taken a look since their introduction, here are a few of the newer liberty lolcats. (full size and more images after the jump)
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Read The Harare Diary, the accounts of a professional living in Zimbabwe's capital city. read more »
Also, the DHS policy destroys any claim to privacy as it allows federal agencies to share information collected.
Talk about Homeland Tyranny...
Because the poor need the rich to help them make "good" decisions. Poor people need to slim down by having some delicious and nutritious organic, free range, locally made granola and home made yogurt with local organic clover honey instead of that fatty Egg McMuffin. Once we tell them how to budget their (very limited) funds, I'm sure they'll find a way to make it work.
/sarcasm.
For more info check out the full story here. For more on why California really sucks lately, read this. For more sarcasm, continue reading after the jump. read more »
(Click through the jump for a larger version of the video.)
People are (or will be) having sex all around America today. But that's nobody's business. Sex is a private matter, right? Except that local authorities sometimes say it is their business.
As I am well aware, the people must take it upon themselves to change the things that are not right. But more to the point: on one particular day as I was driving down the road an epiphany, if you will, happened upon my inquisitive mind. This epiphany pertains to the Occupation of Iraq by American troops. read more »
Check out liberty lolcats, now available under "multimedia."
Props to crashers Nozick and Dagney for coming up with the inaugural batch. read more »
Read the full story here.
I don't claim to have any kind of solution - I think claiming to understand or control our climate is even more conceited than thinking we can unilaterally run an economy.
One thing I do think warrants attention, though, is the lack of tolerance for debate on the issue. I don't normally get too upset about stories of private censorship on this issue, but I find it very hard to ignore when statutory bodies such as Ofcom in the UK start censoring the debate. read more »
Read Reason's write-up here, and a Washington Post blog writeup here. read more »
More info (and a synopsis so you don't have to read the whole thing) after the jump. read more »
Check out a sample post after the jump... read more »
