The Little Brown Reader

Tom Knapp's Program For The Libertarian Movement (draft)

I'm going to write an entry in response (or, more accurately, as a supplement) to this call to action by Thomas Knapp from Rational Review. Specifically, I plan to submit a number of ideas and proposals related to the fourth point (excerpted below) in his Program For The Libertarian Movement.

It should be noted (and he notes it in his text) that his essay is currently in draft status -- not necessarily the official final product.

Mourn -- and organize -- on the 4th of July
by Thomas L. Knapp

Excerpt:

4) In anticipation of a failure of the state to implement the first two points of this program, we call upon the libertarian movement to create, and to offer for the use of the American people, such alternative institutions as may be required to perform the legitimate services required for polity; said institutions shall operate in accordance with the Zero Aggression Principle, upon the basis of the Unanimous Consent of all who deal with them, and in direct competition with the state's distorted versions of said institutions for the patronage of the American people.

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That has been the idea behind my non-profit organization Future Solutions, which has unfortunately taken a back seat to my (nominally) for-profit company PeoplesForum.com for the past many years. The seating arrangement between those two will be shifting over the course of this year, and by year's end I hope to be much more engaged in "provid[ing] solutions where Government has failed", in accordance with Future Solutions' motto.

More on this soon, over at my main blog.

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