Yesterday Ian Freeman and I spoke with Jim Babka about Liberty On Tour, Free Keene, Cop Block, voluntaryism and more.
The segment is about 40min long.
Jim heads-up DownSizeDC and was covering the first hour of Jerry Hughes’ “Straight Talk” on the Accent Radio Network.
Ian is involved with Free Talk Live, Free Keene, The Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund, and more.
Besides Liberty On Tour, Ademo and I devote a lot of our time to Cop Block, which he founded back in Feb. of 2010. It’s a project that has found a lot of traction.
Last week, we engaged in a two-hour dialogue with others in the second Agora I/O in back-to-back sessions on “Brainstorm with Cop Block: Your Feedback, Ideas & Involvement Wanted!” and “Police Interaction and Accountability: Q&A with Cop Block.”
The conversation itself was a bit more freewheeling on topics related to Copblocking, voluntaryism, private defense agencies, tactics and more.
Two months ago we posted that Carl Watner was soliciting essays from voluntaryists about their personal journey to those ideas. As a supporter of Carl and eager to share with others the ideas of voluntaryism, I submitted my own write-up, which concludes:
The ideas of liberty and of voluntaryism specifically have made me a better person. Most individuals mean well, but they’ve only been exposed to the misinformation peddled in gun-run schools and by the mainstream media, which communicate that it’s ok for people working for the government to do things that would be wrong for others to do. Introduction to the ideas of self-ownership, one mind at a time, can only encourage the peaceful evolution toward a more free and prosperous society.
In early August I left Keene for a couple of weeks on my 2002 Honda XR650L. A friend said I was taking a road trip from a road trip:)
I changed the oil before leaving since my intended route – the ‘shire to OH to VA and back – would put about 2,000mi on my bike. Also a good idea since I had just bought the bike one week prior.
I shot this video of the process using ones of two Flip cameras Kurt J. Hildebrandt recently donated to Liberty On Tour (thanks again bud!). And, since the DIY crowd seems to be pretty self-reliant, I thought some viewers would be receptive to voluntaryism, hence a plug at the end.
On this date in the not too distance past, a man pushed a button while flying over a faraway city. Fifty thousand individuals below died. Within three months another 50,000 perished. Hiroshima, 1945.
Statism – believing badges grant extra rights and conflating legislation as law – was the cause. It’s just a bad idea, and bad ideas have bad consequences. Yes, the man who pushed the button is responsible for his actions (as are others involved) but would he have been thousands of miles from home pushing a button that released an atomic bomb if not for that bad idea?
