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Tony Blair’s top legal advisor Lord
Peter Goldsmith admitted he was initially skeptical of the legitimacy
of US military action against Iraq. Goldsmith
told the Chiltoc inquiry on Wednesday that he had not been convinced an
invasion was necessary, pointing out that UN Resolution 1441 —
which gave Saddam Hussein a final warning — was “not crystal
clear.” “I didn’t see […]

‘Oil, Gold and Minerals
resources like Iridium would explain why the post earthquake
occupation/invasion has taken place in Haiti by the UN and US forces
primarily. The EU is now also sending Poilce to Port-au-Prince.’

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‘When it comes to hiring staff, there
are plenty of legal pitfalls employers need to watch out for these
days. So recruitment agency boss Nicole Mamo was especially careful to
ensure her advert for hospital workers did not offend on grounds of
race, age or sexual orientation. However, she hadn’t reckoned on
discriminating against a wholly different section of the […]

‘Drivers who ‘pay and display’ to park
their cars are being fined if they leave earlier tickets showing on
their windscreen. Council traffic wardens are exploiting a legal
loophole to penalise motorists who have paid but simply forgot to
remove a previous stub from their dashboard or window. If wardens, or
parking attendants, can see more than one ticket, they […]

‘Israeli prison staff
impose financial punishments on Palestinian prisoners. A human rights
organisation has claimed that Israeli prison staff are imposing
financial punishments on Palestinian prisoners. In a statement, the
Prisoners’ Centre for Studies said that guards and administrators in
Israeli prisons force Palestinian detainees to pay for the water and
electricity that they consume as a form of additional punishment.

According […]

‘Thousands of hungry
Haitians spilled into the streets defeating barbed wire and a tiny
contingent of blue-helmeted UN peacekeepers distributing food. The
chaotic scene unfolded outside the wrecked presidential palace in
Port-au-Prince where aid agencies struggled to control 4000-strong mass
of desperate Haitians, two weeks after the devastating earthquake
struck. Security forces fired
pepper spray into the air in an effort to […]

‘Tony Blair is to be paid at least
£200,000 by a City firm accused of profiteering from the
financial crisis that brought Britain’s banks to their knees. The
former prime minister has been hired by the hedge fund Lansdowne
Partners to deliver four presentations to staff about the world
political situation. Mr Blair, one of the world’s most highly paid
speakers, […]

‘In our previous article
we discussed how Sex Majick is used in the media, by the Illuminati, to
influence the masses through television. We also pointed out that
television and the media are controlled by the Military Ruling Class,
who are Satanists that worship the forces of chaos. In other words, our
modern media is nothing more or less than […]

‘Stalin’s inaction
despite foreknowledge of  “Operation Barbarossa”, Hitler’s 1941
invasion of Russia, is one of the great mysteries of World War Two. Like
the improbable Dunkirk, where Hitler allowed the evacuation of 330,000
Allied soldiers, the explanation lies in the collusion of the wartime
leaders: Hitler, Churchill, FDR and Stalin.

The Illuminati bankers
manufacture war to advance a satanic world government […]

‘Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has
been briefed by the Pakistani Military High Command that they are being
overwhelmed by highly trained and extremely well armed militants in the
border regions and terrorists operating across the country. 
We have been told by the highest sources
that Blackwater/Xe and other US based mercenary groups have been
actively attacking police, military and […]

‘After Washington ousted
President Jean-Betrand Aristide in February 2004, UN Blue Helmets
(MINUSTAH) occupied Haiti as paramilitary enforcers. They still do,
subordinate to around 20,000 US land and sea based troops, including
Marines, Army 82nd Airborne paratroupers, Navy assault ships, and Coast
Guard vessels offshore, a powerful force for indefinite occupation,
severe repression, and ruthless exploitation for American interests –
obstructing, not […]

‘A UN report on Israel’s
22-day offensive against Hamas-controlled Gaza is anti-Semitic, an
Israeli government minister said, as the Jewish state prepares to
formally respond to its allegations of war crimes. “The Goldstone
Report … and similar reports, are simply a type of anti-Semitism,”
Diaspora and Information Minister Yuli Edelstein told the YNet news
agency ahead of a trip to New […]

Chris Williams
The Register
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Home Office has created a new unit to oversee a massive increase in surveillance of the internet, The Register has learned, quashing suggestions the plans are on hold until after the election.
The new Communications Capabilities Directorate (CCD) has been created as a structure to implement the […]

‘Airline passengers will
have no right to refuse to go through a full-body search scanner when
the devices are introduced at Heathrow airport next week, ministers
have confirmed.

The option of having a
full-body pat-down search instead, offered to passengers at US
airports, will not be available despite warnings from the government’s
Equality and Human Rights Commission that the scanners, which reveal
naked […]

‘Fresh fears were raised
over GM crops yesterday after a study showed they can cause liver and
kidney damage. According to the research, animals fed on three strains
of genetically modified maize created by the U.S. biotech firm Monsanto
suffered signs of organ damage after just three months.
The findings only came to light after Monsanto was forced to […]

Robert Murphy
Campaign For Liberty
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Whenever a natural disaster or violent insurrection causes the downfall of a corrupt government, various commentators cannot resist labeling the result “anarchy” and then citing the chaotic situation as an apparently obvious refutation of the ideas of Murray Rothbard. Critics of Rothbardian anarchocapitalism often point to mafia-infested Sicily, gangland Chicago, modern-day Colombia, Somalia, and of course now Haiti, as ostensible examples of a free market in police and law.

The week after the earthquake hit, commenter “Greg” posed this typical question on my blog: “How’s that anarchy thing working out in Haiti?”

Here is my response. When Rothbardians say that they favor anarchy, what we mean is that for any given society, with all else held equal, a government monopoly on legal rulings and police enforcement will make the society worse off. (I am here focusing on the pragmatic claims rather than ethical considerations.)

A Rothbardian wouldn’t deny that if, say, a nuclear war or superflu bug killed off 99 percent of the world’s population — including all the politicians — that the resulting anarchy would be awful. But by the same token, if a nuclear war or superflu bug killed off 99 percent of the world’s population and yet enough politicians survived to maintain working governments, things would still be awful. In fact, if Rothbard is right, things for the survivors would be even worse if they looked around and realized a bunch of politicians had pulled through, as opposed to engineers and farmers.

So although this video about a vacation in Somalia is undeniably clever, it rests on a complete non sequitur. The government of Somalia didn’t peacefully wither away because the vast majority of Somalis read my pamphlet on the stateless society and saw the light. No, the Somali government was a corrupt military dictatorship that implemented socialist policies and then was overthrown in a civil war. In essence, the dominant gang lost the ability to enforce its monopoly on violence in the region, and previously subordinate gangs expanded to fill the power vacuum.

When dealing with Somalia, therefore, the relevant question isn’t, “Would you rather live in the United States or Great Britain, with a stable government, or live in Somalia, with competing warlords?”

Instead, a much more relevant question is this: were the Somali people better off with a government or without a government? Several economists (e.g., Pete Leeson) have argued that Somali anarchy — unpleasant as it was — was better than Somali statism. The critics who dismiss the idea of ordered anarchy by pointing to Somalia after its government fell in 1991, don’t seem to realize that a Rothbardian could equivalently “prove” how awful governments are by pointing to Somalia before 1991. (Note that many consider Somalia to have ended its period of anarchy in 2006.)

Anarchy in Haiti?

In the case of Haiti, many economists who are generally sympathetic to the free market, and who even recognize full well the problems with government “aid” to poor countries, nonetheless immediately called for massive doses of “help” from the US government in the aftermath of the earthquake. To such analysts, it seems cruel to let the Haitians die on the altar of anarchist ideology when the US government could offer so much help with its enormous military and financial resources.

But wait just a second. In what possible sense can we describe the situation in Haiti, even after the earthquake, as one of political anarchy? There were still remnants of government law enforcement, as this Wall Street Journal story from January 20 describes:

Across the wrecked and crowded street, more than a dozen men and women swarmed over the tumbled two-story façade of a shop where sandals had been sold before last week’s earthquake.

They risked their lives diving into crevices with empty rice sacks, emerging with sacks bulging with footwear and other goods.

They also risked the wrath of police, who every now and then scattered them with long batons.

Now in this situation, where people were starving to death while perfectly good food and other merchandise lay buried in rubble, is it really so obvious that the Haitians were “helped” by police forces maintaining “law and order”?

The concerned outsiders who feel that “somebody needs to go in there and prevent violence!” typically commit the classic economic fallacy of focusing on the seen, while ignoring the unseen, effects of government intervention. Yes, I have no doubt that “peacekeepers” going into Haiti will crack down on certain criminal behaviors and possibly prevent many violent deaths.

Yet that’s not the only consideration. It’s also true that the influx of foreign military occupiers will disarm private militias and prevent the development of a balance of power among myriad decentralized groups. There will undoubtedly be people who are murdered in the coming years

1. by foreign occupying troops who mistakenly overreact in a tense situation,
2. by petty private criminals because their victims are disarmed or cannot join a private militia due to the rules imposed by the occupying troops,
3. by drug gangs who bribe the foreign occupying troops to solidify their power over the helpless Haitian civilians.

I am not claiming that the above considerations prove that more innocent Haitians will die with “peacekeeper” forces than without. All I am pointing out is that the people calling for such intervention typically did not even consider the possible unintended consequences of their policies. They are akin to left liberals calling for government funding of schools “because a country of illiterates would be just awful.”

The Government Hates Competition

There is another important sense in which it was absurd to characterize postearthquake Haiti as existing in political anarchy. After all, if numerous Americans agreed that it would be a good idea for thousands of heavily armed people to fly to Haiti in order to quell violence and set up food distribution and medical treatment, then what was stopping them from volunteering? Or, more realistically, what was stopping the American Red Cross and other organizations from hiring the services of private security firms?

If many Americans thought it was “just the right thing to do” to send guys with big guns to Haiti in order to make sure everyone played by the rules, then why did the US federal government have to get involved at all? The Americans who thought it was a good idea could have volunteered themselves, or paid for others to go and do this moral work. There was no reason Barack Obama had to chime in with his own thoughts on the matter, except to say that he was strapping on an M16 to cover Michelle as she handed out bottled water to orphans.

Obviously, I am being facetious. The reason the US federal government “had to” coordinate the rescue efforts in Haiti is that it would violently punish any private group that tried to field a comparable effort with adequate defense for its participants. If foreign arms dealers began trying to sell grenade launchers, tear-gas canisters, riot gear, and other equipment to nongovernmental groups in Haiti, the US Navy would almost certainly interrupt their shipments as wildly “destabilizing.”

Upon reflection, we see that there never was any hope for the blossoming of Rothbardian defense agencies in Haiti. For an analogy, if the US Air Force bombed any nonapproved Haitian farms while the US Navy intercepted any incoming shipments of food, then statists could “prove” that a free market in agriculture is a horrible idea that leads to preventable starvation.

Conclusion

I hesitated to write this article because it is horribly tacky to use human tragedies to score political points. Yet in order for people to understand just how destructive monopoly governments are, we need to clear our minds of the clichés that inevitably sprout up whenever such tragedies occur. Among all the other problems they had to contend with in the wake of the earthquake, the Haitian people were also handicapped by the nearby presence of the mighty US federal government, which ensured that any and all relief efforts had to first be approved by Barack Obama.

To make this observation doesn’t condemn the particular choices President Obama has made in regards to Haiti. The point of this article is neither to praise nor condemn particular actions taken by the US government regarding Haiti. Rather, I am making the simple observation that even if the US government “did nothing” according to the man on the street, it still would have been interfering very heavily in the situation in Haiti. The Haitians have been “enjoying” the help of the US military for years, which is partly why they were so ill equipped to deal with a powerful earthquake.

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‘Israeli President Shimon Peres declares Tehran as the main obstacle to the creation of a viable Palestinian State. “The big problem today is Iran,” He said in an interview with German television channel, ARD.

The 86-year-old
politician who arrived in the German capital of Berlin on an official
visit to mark the so-called ‘International Holocaust Remembrance Day,’
was […]

‘The million people in Haiti made
homeless by an earthquake that hit the island two weeks ago could be
among the first to receive controversial vaccinations under a campaign
organised by WHO.

 According to a document published
by WHO called „Public health risk assessment and interventions:
Earthquake: Haiti“, the UN health agency is strongly recommending
that people in Haiti receive vaccinations against tetanus, measles,
diphtheria, polio and pertussis in spite of the controversy surrounding
these vaccines.

Jagoda Savic this week filed charges at
a state prosecutor’s offic in Bosnia Herzegovina against WHO presenting
evidence that WHO had helped conceal the damage caused by a CSL vaccine
for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis distributed for free by UNICEF. Savic presented evidence that 117 children suffered severe side effects.’

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‘Sir Michael, who was the
most senior legal adviser at the Foreign Office at the time of the
invasion, told the inquiry he disagreed with the advice of Lord
Goldsmith, the former attorney general, that military intervention was
lawful.

“I considered that the
use of force against Iraq in March 2003 was contrary to international
law,” he said in a written statement.
“In my opinion, that use of force had not been authorised by the
(United Nations) Security Council, and had no other basis in
international law”.’

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President Barack Obama,
accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks to the media
after a discussion with 6th grade students at Graham Road Elementary
School in Falls Church, Va., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010.

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