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About Me

I am a freelance graphic designer and web programmer.

Politically, I used to be a communitarian, then a democrat, then a conservative, then a republican, then a minarchist. Now I hover between anarcho-capitalist and voluntaryst. Maybe tomorrow I'll be an agorist.

I like progressive hard rock/metal, classical and some pop music. I have a minimalist life style. Don't need much, want much or have much. I travel light - so keep up.

I am a 100 percent for self-government
political views far-right social libertarian 9 48 libertarian 9 78
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I'd like to meet

Bill Clinton--the man is a persuasion master. Ron Paul--the leader of the current freedom movement.

Activities

Hiking, Movies, geek stuff.

Interests

Bible, Austrian economics, culture, philosophy, history, technology, art.

Favorite Music

Anything by Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, AudioSlave, David Bowie, SpaceHog's "In the Meantime", The Pixies, Jet, Radiohead, Collective Soul, Concrete Blonde, Beethoven, Mozart, The Breeders, Aimee Allen.

Favorite TV Shows

Currently The Walking Dead, White Collar, Being Human, Dexter, Falling Skies, The IT Crowd (BBC), Stossel, Grimm. Action/Sci-fi, horror and HighTech.

Favorite Movies

The Matrix, Monsters Inc., The Outlaw Jose Wales, The Music Man, Idiocracy, A Shock to the System

Favorite Books

Bible, Atlas Shrugged, Heaven by Alcorn, Bonnhoeffer by Eric Mataxas, Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Liberty Primer - Allan Burris and Your Ultimate Sales Force.

Favorite Quotes

“There’s no dishonor in being forced by a superior power into slavery, but it is an eternal disgrace to voluntarily surrender one’s liberty for a filthy bowl of oatmeal and promise of security by liars." —Charley Reese

"War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries. It is the art of conquering at home; the object of it is an increase of revenue; and as revenue cannot be increased without taxes, a pretence must be made for expenditure. In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes." ―Thomas Paine, Rights of Man - The First

"The [capitalists], by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely
facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation.
The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese
walls, with which it forces the barbarians’ intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It
compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the [capitalist] mode of production; it compels
them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become [capitalist] themselves.
In one word, it creates a world after its own image."
―Karl Marx, Manifesto of the Communist Party (I think that Marx's observation were dead on. I think his conclusions were wrong, because he falsely grouped capitalism and corporatism together, the later being closer to fascism.)

"We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil institution has impoverished the people of the United States and has practically bankrupted our government. It has done this through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it". — Congressman Louis T. McFadden in 1932 (Rep. Pa)

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain―that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." ―Lysander Spooner

"Fascism believes neither in the possibility, nor the utility of perpetual peace. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human events and all human energy, and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people to have the courage to meet it. It may be expected that this will be the century of authority, a century of the left, a century of Fascism. For the 19th century was a century of individualism. Liberalism always signifies individualism. It may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and, hence, the century of the State. For Fascism, the growth of empire, that is to say, the expansion of the nation is the essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite is the sign of decay and death." — Benito Mussolini

“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else.”
― H.L. Mencken  

“It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve; it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy.”
—Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) from 1974 to 1997, Wall Street Journal, October 2, 1989.

Favorite Heroes

Martin Luther, John Bunyan, "Freeborn" John Lilburne, Algernon Sidney, Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, George Whitfield.

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