Libertatis AEquilibritas

So, I'm zooming through the internets over the last few days and I come across some interesting pages. first i saw a page of a gravestone with writing on it. it said something about
"first they took your lives
now they took your memory"
or something. what caught my eye was the circle A symbol and a heart with an A inside.
i didn't know exactly what that meant, so i googled it. this is what i found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_symbolism

that led me to read a bit about anarchism, a topic i hadn't looked at in some years. i found the usual socialistic anarchism, but i also found
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-capitalism

which in turn led me to
http://www.capitalist.me/

among other sites. i haven't even realized that Anarcho-capitalism existed, but now that i've found it i love it. i haven't read enough yet to brand myself an Anarcho-capitalist...but i'm close.
it' so easy to say, "just look around, obviously the government is a filled with either morons or demons" but it's also too extreme. i routinely ignore all extremist statements like that on the basis that if the proponent can't bother to explain himself logical and simply spouts vitriol, it isn't worth my time because most of those nuts are just that, nutty. they come in all flavors, ufo nuts, vegan nuts, paranoid nuts, animal rights nuts, go fish.

still the more i read and watch about governmental action the more it reinforces my belief that power corupts. it's not a scathing indictment of any person in government, it's a simple truth that humans are selfish beings who cannot resist the temptation to abuse power.


but this whole thing got me thinking about symbols. the Libertatis AEquilibritas symbol is not a common symbol. few would recognize it, let alone know what it stood for. even the circle A doesn't bring to mind the tenants of anarchism. instead it usually brings to mind riots and fires and murder. when in fact that isn't anarchy, it's chaos. go read the wiki page about anarchy...it's an eye opener.

even before this i had considered myself borderline libertarian...but now i feel like i have to re-investigate these things to find out what to call myself. odds are that there are others like me out there.

the one thing i do know is that i'm against socialism. here's the hard truth. when 1/2 the population learns that the government will feed them even if they don't work, and when the other half learns that the government will take their earned wages away...the workers will stop working. then the government will have to force people to work. read that again, "foce people to work"...folks, that's slavery.
ah well.

i'll leave you with a few interesting links.

flash presentation on liberty
http://www.capitalist.me/media/philosophyliberty.swf


DefCon 15 - T112 - No-Tech Hacking
http://www.stumbleupon.com/click_redir.php?t=49a9b0f91378c&src=blog&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-2160824376898701015

america: freedom to fascism
http://www.stumbleupon.com/click_redir.php?t=49a9b0f91378c&src=blog&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-1656880303867390173