Why I Endorse the SDS Campaign-Harrass the Brass
It’s late in coming but I’ve asked Brad Spangler to add my name to the list of MLL members who endorses this campaign. Why do I endorse it? Let’s put the reasons into words. In counteracting the state, focusing attention on issues in the limelight is important. One such issue is the continuing war in Iraq. Here, a newly resurgent SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) has the right idea with direct action aimed at confronting the war machinery.
Should we feel qualms about engaging in illegal activity? No! As long as we remain within the ethic of non-aggression. Some might raise the issue of property rights being violated. How can recruitment stations, congressional offices, and so on be regarded as genuine private property? Remembering that the state is criminality writ large, being funded by taxation or receiving tax dollars renders a different situation.
These actions are consistent with the final goal summed up well in this fine chapter from For A New Liberty.
“To conclude our discussion, the primary plank of a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, from everywhere.”
-Murray Rothbard
