We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]

Samizdata slogan of the day

Private property is the basis of civil society. Whatever violence is required to defend private property against those who would steal it is justified, as to defend private property is to defend civilization itself.
– Perry de Havilland

Samizdata slogan of the day

Many Jews in Israel want to make the lives of Palestinians intolerable so that they will wish to live elsewhere. Many Arabs in Palestine find the lives of Jews intolerable anywhere.
– Tariq Bay (a Palestinian who married a Jew and moved to London)

Samizdata slogan of the day

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
– Lord Acton

Samizdata slogan of the day

One definition of the Libertarian Samizdata ‘anarcho-militarists’ tendency

“You don’t believe there should be a state but if there is, it should be bombing the shit out of Iraq”
-Paul Coulam at the St. George’s Day Party tonight

Samizdata slogan of the day

It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.
– Yarnek of Excalbia, “The Savage Curtain”, stardate 5906.5

Hey, even that fountain of marxist science fiction, Star Trek occasionally gets it right

Samizdata slogan of the day

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 expenditures. In reviewing the history of the English government, its wars, and taxes, an observer, 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

Samizdata slogan of the day

I started out my political life as a bedwetting liberal. Young, idealistic and dumb. Then I started paying income taxes…
Neil Boortz

Samizdata slogan of the day

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
– H.L. Mencken

Samizdata slogan of the day

I can’t go to work today. The voices told me to stay home and clean the guns.
– Seen on a bumper stocker in Colorado last week by a certain nefarious Doctor

Samizdata slogan of the day

When the Mafia offers you protection, you pay up or they send some goombahs in dark suits around to pay you a visit.
When the State offers you protection, you pay up or they send some goombahs in blue uniforms around to pay you a visit.
– Samizdata Illuminatus

And a message to all you US taxpaupers taxpayers

You might want to take some time today, of all days, to check out The Centre for Freedom and Prosperity. If you need to know why you should look into the idea of organising your life around off-shore banking and business, then might I suggest you need look no further than what today means for your personal wealth… or at least the part of it you are permitted to keep.

Avoiding tax all together can be difficult for most people but you owe it to yourself to try and minimise the extent to which you are financing your own repression (and mine too). It is quite possible to do it by using the law against itself, though frankly whatever means you have to use when dealing with the state is fine by me. Any oath or declaration extracted under the threat of force has no moral basis whatsoever and breaking it is just a matter of deciding based on risk/benefit analysis, not morality.

Samizdata slogan of the day

The taxpayer; that’s someone who works for the federal government, but doesn’t have to take a civil service examination.
– Ronald Regan