16 Iulie 2008:
Walter Block ne sparge câteva cărămizi de pe piept
Asemeni unui sensei de renume mondial venit pe plaiurile mioritice la invitația unui învățăcel, Walter Block, parcă purtând un nume predestinat pentru așa ceva, își suflecă mânecile cămășii și crapă rapid și implacabil câteva blocuri de probleme economice de sub a căror greutate strivitoare nu părea că vom ieși prea curând.
Drumurile? Privatizarea. Prostituție și droguri? Legalizarea. Șomaj? Desființarea salariului minim. Românii emigrează? Câteva reforme economice majore și lucrurile ar sta pe dos. Roșia Montană? Doar instituirea și respectarea consecventă a proprietății private poate oferi o soluționare avantajoasă tuturor părților implicate. Hipermarketurile? Prosperitatea dincolo de ipocrizie. Piața liberă? „A cumpăra si a vinde în mod liber, fără coerciţie sau fraudă.” Probleme, Walter? „Guvernul, socialismul, fascismul si analfabetismul economic.”
Dacă vreți să încercați și dumneavoastră acasă – ar fi chiar recomandat -, „senseiul” ne și explică mai pe larg cum a ajus la asemenea performanțe, în scrierile sale, din care una a apărut foarte recent în limba română.
Trebuie totuși să atrag atenția că a sparge astfel de cărămizi nu e totul în viață, iar Block știe și el asta, însă alții știu chiar mai bine.
27 Iunie 2008:
Rugaciunea ca antidot la reeducarea publica
«Daca veti izbuti sa saditi in inimile copiilor vostri frica lui Dumnezeu, atunci feluritele ciudatenii omenesti nu vor putea sa-i influenteze prea mult in rau.» (Staretul Ambrozie)
«De ajuns va fi daca va veti ingriji sa-i cresteti pe copiii vostri in frica lui Dumnezeu, sa le insuflati conceptul ortodox si prin povatuiri blande sa-i feriti de conceptele straine Bisericii Ortodoxe. Binele pe care il saditi in sufletele copiilor vostri in copilaria lor poate stagna dupa aceea in inimile lor cand ajung la maturitate, dupa incercarile amarnice din scoala, din pricina carora nu rareori se frang ramurile bunei educatii crestine dobandite acasa.» (Staretul Ambrozie)
«Trebuie sa gravam pe inima cea delicata a tanarului cel mai dulce nume, cea mai scurta si mai frumoasa rugaciune: “Doamne Iisuse Hristoase, Fiul lui Dumnezeu, miluieste-ma pe mine, pacatosul.” Abia atunci va fi culmea bucuriei, veselie nesfarsita, cand se va inradacina Iisus in inima lui si nu-si va mai dori nimic. Caci Insusi Imparatul impreuna cu intru-tot-laudata Sa Maica si cu toti Ingerii si sfintii vor veni la el si vor face locas la el, Daca ma iubeste cineva, va pazi cuvantul Meu, si Tatal Meu il va iubi, si vom veni la el si vom face locas la el (Ioan 14, 23)» (Staretul Anatolie)
(extrase din „Ne vorbesc Staretii de la Optina”, Ed. Egumenita/Ed. Cartea Ortodoxa, 2007, pp. 31-32)
26 Iunie 2008:
Professor Hoppe on the place of intellectuals in public reeducation
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe18.html
…Suppose you and your friends happen to be in control of such an extraordinary institution [as the state]. What would you do to maintain your position (provided you didn’t have any moral scruples)? You would certainly use some of your tax-income to hire some thugs. First: to make peace among your subjects so that they stay productive and there is something to tax in the future. But more importantly, because you might need these thugs for your own protection should the people wake up from their dogmatic slumber and challenge you.
This will not do, however, in particular if you and your friends are a small minority in comparison to the number of subjects. For a minority cannot lastingly rule a majority solely by brute force. It must rule by opinion. The majority of the population must be brought to voluntarily accept your rule. This is not to say that the majority must agree with every one of your measures. Indeed, it may well believe that many of your policies are mistaken. However, it must believe in the legitimacy of the institution of the state as such, and hence, that even if a particular policy may be wrong, such mistake is an accident that one must tolerate in view of some greater good provided by the state.
Yet how can one persuade the majority of the population to believe this? The answer is: only with the help of intellectuals.
How do you get the intellectuals to work for you? To this the answer is easy. The market demand for intellectual services is not exactly high and stable. Intellectuals would be at the mercy of the fleeting values of the masses, and the masses are uninterested in intellectual-philosophical concerns. The state, on the other hand, can accommodate the intellectuals’ typically over-inflated egos and offer them a warm, secure, and permanent berth in its apparatus.
However, it is not sufficient that you employ just some intellectuals. You must essentially employ them all, even the ones who work in areas far removed from those that you are primarily concerned with: that is philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities. For even intellectuals working in mathematics or the natural sciences, for instance, can obviously think for themselves and so become potentially dangerous. It is thus important that you secure also their loyalty to the state. Put differently: you must become a monopolist. And this is best achieved if all educational institutions, from kindergarten to universities, are brought under state control and all teaching and researching personnel is state-certified.
But what if the people do not want to become educated? For this, education must be made compulsory; and in order to subject the people to state-controlled education for as long as possible, everyone must be declared equally educable. The intellectuals know such egalitarianism to be false, of course. Yet to proclaim nonsense such as everyone is a potential Einstein if only given sufficient educational attention pleases the masses and, in turn, provides for an almost limitless demand for intellectual services…
23 Iunie 2008:
Human Action in Romanian, complete!
Almost seven years since its inception, the task of translating Human Action in Romanian is finally accomplished. We are now offering Acțiunea umană from the first to the last chapter.
Our gratitude goes to the supporters of the project and to the translator, Cristian Comănescu, for his long-lasted endeavor to offer the Misesian masterpiece to the Romanian reader.
23 Iunie 2008:
Acțiunea umană, pe de-a-ntregul!
La aproape șapte ani de la inițierea proiectului, vă oferim traducerea operei de căpătâi a lui Mises, Acțiunea umană, de la cap la coadă.
Cu bucurie, cu mulțumiri celor care ne-au spijinit și cu recunoștință traducătorului Cristian Comănescu pentru că a oferit versiunea românească a unui adevărat sistem de referință pentru înțelegerea oricărei societăți umane posibile, vă invităm la lectură-studiu și la reflecție.
02 Mai 2008:
Puterea celor fara de putere
BEYOND TORTURE -The gulag of Pitesti ROMANIA
Pastor Richard Wurmbrand’s hymn
(V. si aici si aici, referitor la contextul ultimei inregistrari)
18 Aprilie 2008:
Ce poate invata machiavelismul (inca?) relativ, de la cel absolut
incet:
…Organele de ordine au instaurat prezumtia de vinovatie si au tratat cu brutalitate orice persoana cu insemne anti-NATO…
Bucurestiul summitului NATO – un oras mizerabil, cenusiu, pustiu si dominat de paranoia autoritatilor. Majoritatea cadrelor au fost realizate pe ascuns, pentru ca expresia cea mai utilizata in aceasta perioada este ‘nu aveti voie’…
…dar sigur:
CSAT a decis inaintea Summitului NATO de la Bucuresti sa inlesneasca accesul SRI la serverele operatorilor de telefonie si internet …Potrivit Mediafax, Hotararea CSAT din data de 25 martie 2008 are caracter secret si a fost comunicata exclusiv institutiilor interesate, acestea avand obligatia de a o pune in aplicare in regim de urgenta…
…In 25 martie 2008, CSAT, sub comanda presedintelui, a decis in secret ca toti operatorii de telefonie si Internet sa-si puna serverele la dispozitia SRI spre interceptare …Basescu si premierul Tariceanu si-au dat mana pentru intarirea statului politienesc…Daca pana acum exista o suspiciune ca serviciile secrete ne asculta, cu mandat sau fara, prin hotararea CSAT se risipeste practic orice posibilitate de a avea parte de o minima confidentialitate a discutiilor telefonice sau a schimburilor de informatii prin orice alt mijloc electronic…
…inapoi la “argument”:
…Terrorists can only be stopped, Bush says, if Bush has the right to spy on everyone without any oversight by courts…
Bush Regime Preaches Democracy, Proposes Tyranny
by Paul Craig Roberts
…Here is a short list of the Bush administration’s crimes:
- - Spying without court warrants on Americans in violation of both the US Constitution and the FISA statute.
- - The denial of habeas corpus, attorney-client privilege, due process, and Geneva Conventions protections to those, American or foreign, designated without evidence as terrorists or enemy combatants.
- - The justification and use of torture to coerce confessions and the kidnapping of foreign nationals who are sent to be tortured in foreign prisons.
- - The initiation of military aggression against states based on intentional deception by the Bush administration of the US public and the United Nations, and the intentional fabrication of “evidence” to justify unprovoked aggression against sovereign states, which is a war crime under the Nuremberg standard established by the US.
- - Violation of the oath of office to defend the US Constitution by practically every member of the Bush administration and Congress.
- - Bush has assaulted the separation of powers and the rule of law with “signing statements” and “executive orders” that President Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean says are commands that treat the co-equal branches of government and the electorate as subservient to executive authority. In April 2006, Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage listed 750 laws “challenged” by the Bush administration. Not even the demonized president of Iran claims to be above the law.
- - Genocide against the people of Iraq where one million Iraqis have died as a result of Bush’s invasion and several million Iraqis are displaced persons.
Massive civilian casualties in Afghanistan, which is a form of genocide in which military force is routinely applied to unarmed noncombatants.
Massive corruption in which no-bid contracts are issued to Republican corporations in exchange for kickbacks to political campaigns.
- - The theft of two national elections as documented in books by Mark Crispin Miller and Greg Palast.
The Bush administration has even conducted Stalinist show trials…
… The cruel war and the deceptive vocabulary that protects it are a cover for expanding US and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East and for constructing a functioning police state at home…
…Today, [U.S.] Congress is almost as superfluous as the Roman Senate under the Caesars. On Feb. 13 the U.S. Senate barely passed a bill banning torture, and the White House promptly announced that President Bush would veto it. Torture is now the American way. The U.S. Senate was only able to muster 51 votes against torture, an indication that almost a majority of U.S. senators support torture.
Bush says that his administration does not torture. So why veto a bill prohibiting torture? Bush seems proud to present America to the world as a torturer...
(Dreptul la “replica”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp4vLBvU1bA)
15 Aprilie 2008:
Monarhia, democratia si tirania
…pe intelesul regimurilor Bush & Co.:
«If you went only a hundred steps further on from parliament, you could see every day—and usually more often—a carriage drawn by two horses drive out of the Hofburg. In it sat the old Emperor and his equally elderly adjutant, and they would set out for Schönbrunn at an easy trot, always at the same hour, and always down the same street. There was no security escort ahead of or behind the carriage, no policeman sat in the vehicle itself; any assassin would have had an easy job. But nobody took the opportunity…The leaders of our modern great empires are driven rapidly in bullet-proof cars, protected by countless bodyguards. Aristotle thus defined the difference between a monarch and a tyrant: the monarch protects his people, the tyrant has to protect himself from them» (Felix Somary, The Raven of Zurich: The Memoirs of Felix Somary, London, Hurst &Co., 1960, p. 11, citat de J. G. Hülsmann, in Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism, p.51).
(A se vedea si eseul profesorului Hoppe referitor la rolul intelectualilor in ecuatie.)
02 Aprilie 2008:
Building Blocks for Liberty, by Walter Block
Libertas Publishing has just printed Reconstrucția libertății (Building Blocks for Liberty) a Romanian collection of ten critical essays by Walter Block, dealing with property theory, gun control, ecology, work, transportation, immigration, secession, drug prohibition, libertarianism and libertinism.
02 Aprilie 2008:
Reconstrucția libertății, de Walter Block
Libertas Publishing a tipărit Reconstrucția libertății, o colecție de zece articole în care Walter Block se folosește de învățaturile Școlii austriece de drept și economie pentru a ne arăta ce e în neregulă, de ce și cum ar trebui făcute lucrurile de fapt, când vine vorba despre proprietate, regimul armelor, ecologie, muncă, transporturi, imigrație, secesiune, droguri, liberalism și libertinism.
Dincolo de rigoarea logică și cultura austriacă bogată, cartea lui Block este delicioasă pentru felul amuzant în care autorul își expune argumentele.
