Anarcho-capitalists are accused of being pro-violence. Article by Butler Shaffer.
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Articles by Butler Shaffer
back to columnists »As the State Wades in Oceans of Blood
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/butler-shaffer/as-the-state-wades-in-oceans-of-blood/
10/8/2013
They Want To Outlaw Free Speech
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/butler-shaffer/they-want-to-outlaw-free-speech/
But the Ministry of Truth will fail. Article by Butler Shaffer.
10/2/2013
The State Attracts Sociopaths
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/09/butler-shaffer/the-state-attracts-sociopaths/
Surprised? Article by Butler Shaffer.
9/10/2013
The Compulsion To Rule
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/butler-shaffer/the-compulsion-to-rule/
And why it self-destructs. Article by Butler Shaffer.
8/30/2013
The Stegosaurus Is Dead
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/butler-shaffer/the-stegosaurus-is-dead/
Can the modern nation state be far behind? Article by Butler Shaffer.
8/12/2013
Trust the State?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/butler-shaffer/trust-the-state/
You need to read the funnies, says Butler Shaffer.
8/5/2013
Emma Goldman Was Right
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/butler-shaffer/the-democracy-illusion/
If voting could change anything, it would be illegal. Article by Butler Shaffer.
7/8/2013
Judge Napolitano Smacks Down John Stossel
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/07/butler-shaffer/judge-napolitano-smacks-down-john-stossel/
Butler Shaffer on what it means.
7/1/2013
If You See Something, Say Something
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/06/butler-shaffer/if-you-see-something-say-something/
As Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange did.
6/12/2013
Hell Hath No Fury
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/05/butler-shaffer/hell-hath-no-fury/
Like a non-combatant.
5/2/2013
Just How Stupid Are They?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/04/butler-shaffer/just-how-stupid-are-they/
Butler Shaffer on the Boston IQ.
4/24/2013
Why I Do Not Vote
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer1.html
Politics is evil, says Butler Shaffer.
4/18/2013
Men vs. Women, Blacks vs. Whites, Gays vs. Straights
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/03/butler-shaffer/men-vs-women-blacks-vs-whites-gays-vs-straights/
The State exacerbates conflict, the better to rule us, says Butler Shaffer.
3/12/2013
Less Dangerous Targets
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer268.html
The State exacerbates conflict, the better to rule us, says Butler Shaffer.
3/12/2013
2/12/2013
The Mirror Speaks
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer267.html
Butler Shaffer on the one-man State.
2/12/2013
Schools as Black-Holes
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer266.html
Don't drop your child into one, says Butler Shaffer.
1/29/2013
Wet Sidewalks Cause Rain
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer265.html
But young minds will defeat it, says Butler Shaffer.
1/1/2013
More People Sacrificed to Destructive Thinking
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer264.html
Another domestic mass shooting.
12/17/2012
Learning Begins From Within
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer263.html
Will government protect private property?
12/12/2012
A Public ‘Thank You’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer262.html
Plenty, says Butler Shaffer.
11/6/2012
‘I Want a Cost-Free Life!’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer261.html
It mobilizes anti-social forces like theft, killing, parasitism, torture, and lying.
9/27/2012
What Are Our Priorities?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer260.html
Butler Shaffer on elections.
9/25/2012
Of Children and Fetuses
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer259.html
Butler Shaffer on abortion.
9/17/2012
Why Do They Pretend To Care?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer258.html
Butler Shaffer on the Batman and Sikh shootings.
8/14/2012
What Lies Beyond Mars?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer257.html
Does the US empire now extend to Mars?
8/7/2012
Why Can’t We Be More Like Leprechauns?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer256.html
Valuing our property, but loving our liberty more, says Butler Shaffer.
8/1/2012
The State Tries To Fog Your Mind
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer255.html
Butler Shaffer on how to clear it.
7/21/2012
We Can’t Change the Political System Through Politics
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer254.html
Ron Paul made progress, but his campaign is over, so what now?
7/16/2012
A Southern Art Treasure Hated by the Elite
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer253.html
Butler Shaffer on the glory of decentralization and Alice Walton's museum.
7/2/2012
The Constitution Is No Contract
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer252.html
And Butler Shaffer didn't sign it.
6/11/2012
Don’t Scapegoat the Bully
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer251.html
Not when you support the State.
5/24/2012
Speak Truth to Power?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer250.html
It's far more important to speak truth to the powerless, says Butler Shaffer.
5/4/2012
The 51% Hooey
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer249.html
Butler Shaffer on the violence of democracy.
3/27/2012
The White Rose of Freedom
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer248.html
It will triumph over the vicious State, says Butler Shaffer.
3/12/2012
Life Belongs to the Living and Not to the Corporate State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer247.html
Butler Shaffer on the message of the Ron Paul movement (and LRC).
1/6/2012
The War Propaganda Party
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer246.html
Only Ron Paul refuses to join.
12/28/2011
May I Kill You More Efficiently?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer245.html
Butler Shaffer on a bureaucratic worry.
12/6/2011
Worship of Military Violence
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer244.html
Butler Shaffer on Joe Paterno, Ron Paul, and Leviathan.
11/16/2011
When the State Comes After You
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer243.html
Butler Shaffer on responding morally.
11/10/2011
Klaatu Barada Nikto!
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer242.html
Butler Shaffer on Algore, Paul Krugman, and saving the state with an "alien invasion."
8/26/2011
A Poet Speaks of Liberty
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer241.html
Butler Shaffer on the extraordinary Lilija Valis.
8/6/2011
Three Cheers for the Casey
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer240.html
Butler Shaffer on the Madame Defarge lynch-mob mentality vs. justice.
7/11/2011
Green Statists at the Grocery Store
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer239.html
Butler Shaffer straightens them out.
6/20/2011
The US Ministry of Truth
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer238.html
Bill Clinton wants one, which means even he knows the jig is up.
6/14/2011
The State’s Foundations Are Collapsing
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer237.html
Butler Shaffer on its futile retaliations.
6/9/2011
The US Post-bin Laden
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer236.html
America can survive, if not the regime.
5/14/2011
How Perverted Have We Become?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer235.html
Butler Shaffer on the celebration of government hit squads, and the persecution of Manning and Assange.
5/9/2011
American Fascism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer234.html
Butler Shaffer on big business vs. free markets.
4/29/2011
The Unabomber in Washington
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer233.html
Terrorizing the world.
4/11/2011
The New Definition of ‘Liberty’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer232.html
Obedience to the state to keep yourself out of a cage.
4/4/2011
Believe Nothing the Government Says
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer231.html
About radiation or anything else.
3/25/2011
History Proves Nothing
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer230.html
That's why secession is a hot option, says Butler Shaffer.
3/8/2011
The New Math and the New Geometry
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer229.html
Butler Shaffer on how they
3/2/2011
How To Think Clearly
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer228.html
About the criminal State.
1/17/2011
1/17/2011
Violence Is the Essence of Government
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer227.html
Keep that in mind amidst the agitprop.
1/11/2011
The State’s Indecencies
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer226.html
Will the Tea Party be one of them?
12/28/2010
Tea Party Fraud
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer225.html
Butler Shaffer on the latest gang of political scam artists.
11/11/2010
The State Is Distilled Violence
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer224.html
Advocates of liberty may not use such an evil tool.
11/1/2010
Government Disrupts and Destroys
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer223.html
Never believe a word it says, says Butler Shaffer.
10/13/2010
A Virulent Pathology
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer222.html
Butler Shaffer on the hate merchants vs. the Islamic cultural center.
8/28/2010
This Land Is Whose Land?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer221.html
Butler Shaffer on unexamined questions and illegal immigration.
7/21/2010
Repudiate Government Debt
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer220.html
Every dime, says Butler Shaffer, federal, state, and local.
7/13/2010
6/29/2010
The Regime Is Collapsing
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer218.html
It's McChrystal clear, says Butler Shaffer.
6/24/2010
How Can We Enforce ‘Rights’?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer217.html
Without empowering those who long to regiment their neighbors, that is.
5/24/2010
Listen to the Presidential Sock Puppet
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer216.html
And stop thinking.
5/15/2010
The Truth About Elena Kagan
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer215.html
Butler Shaffer on the myth that justice is blind.
5/12/2010
The Sociopathic Dance of Politics
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer214.html
Butler Shaffer on the heart of the regime.
4/14/2010
4/7/2010
The GOP Is To Be Condemned
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer212.html
For its essential criminality, and its treatment of Ron Paul.
4/5/2010
Will Boobus Wake Up?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer211.html
Butler Shaffer on oblivious Americans and Obama, MD.
3/30/2010
Another Magic Trick From Oboudini
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer210.html
Butler Shaffer on the health-care chimera.
3/24/2010
With the Predator State in Charge
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer209.html
We are consuming our capital, which means being poor.
3/22/2010
Running on Empty
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer208.html
Butler Shaffer on conservatives.
3/9/2010
Being a Witness
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer207.html
Butler Shaffer on Texas tax suicide and peaceful resistance.
2/22/2010
8th Grade, Then and Now
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer206.html
Butler Shaffer on the modern stupido-factories.
2/13/2010
The Nation-State Is a Typhoid Mary
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer205.html
Butler Shaffer on resisting the deadly virus.
2/10/2010
‘To Make Lies Sound Truthful’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer204.html
Butler Shaffer on the purpose of political language.
1/29/2010
The Establishment Is in Crisis
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer203.html
How sweet it is.
1/22/2010
Increase Your Carbon Footprint
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer202.html
Butler Shaffer on what you can do for freedom.
12/9/2009
What the Taliban Actually Think
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer201.html
Butler Shaffer on some of the people on the receiving end of democracy.
10/29/2009
In Praise of Hoaxsters
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer200.html
Butler Shaffer on the boy-in-a-balloon family, and other heroes.
10/23/2009
Needed: a Brobdingnagian Statue of Madeline Albright
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer199.html
Taller than the Washington Monument, wider than the Pentagon.
10/2/2009
The ‘Common Good’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer198.html
That's just a synonym for state collectivism, says Butler Shaffer.
9/28/2009
Freedom Newspapers in Bankruptcy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer197.html
Butler Shaffer on the difficulty of sustaining enterprises devoted to liberty.
9/4/2009
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer196.html
And Butler Shaffer feels fine.
8/3/2009
The State Is Anti-Life
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer195.html
See, for example, the suicides of its soldiers.
8/1/2009
Is Man a Killer Ape for the Government?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer194.html
No, so we better prove that notion wrong, says Butler Shaffer.
7/17/2009
Who Should Have a Date With the Hangman?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer193.html
Butler Shaffer on justice and American politics.
7/13/2009
War = Tyranny
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer192.html
Butler Shaffer on the secret of state growth.
6/23/2009
Human Life Is Destroying the Planet!
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer191.html
Butler Shaffer on the essence of environmentalism.
6/16/2009
Beyond Obama’s Probationary Period
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer190.html
Time to hold him up to examination, says Butler Shaffer.
5/9/2009
Keeping People in Manageable Herds
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer189.html
A lesson in politics from Butler Shaffer.
3/11/2009
Watching the Collapse of Western Civilization
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer188.html
It's interesting, if not pleasant.
2/16/2009
An Outbreak of Order in NYC
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer187.html
Butler Shaffer on spontaneous order vs. dead-handed coercion.
1/21/2009
Plagiarizing Ron Paul
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer186.html
Butler Shaffer on the National Republican "Trust."
12/6/2008
The Real World Order Is Chaotic
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer185.html
Much as it bothers the god-kings.
11/28/2008
The World Is Bankrupt
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer184.html
But we don't need to follow it, says Butler Shaffer.
10/27/2008
10/20/2008
Reject State Lies
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer182.html
Starting with "national defense," says Butler Shaffer.
8/29/2008
Why Won’t They Say No?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer181.html
Butler Shaffer on the people and the parasite.
8/12/2008
The Evil Greenspan
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer180.html
Butler Shaffer on the arrogance of a depresssion-starter.
7/31/2008
The Deeper Meaning of the Ron Paul Campaign
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer179.html
And the Kent Snyder fundraising effort.
7/8/2008
The July 4th Lie
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer178.html
Butler Shaffer on the evil of state holidays.
7/4/2008
Reds and Fascists Hate Speculators
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer177.html
Butler Shaffer on some of our most valuable fellow beings.
6/26/2008
George Carlin, Libertarian Hero
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer176.html
Like Lenny Bruce, he was hounded by the state.
6/24/2008
Enough of the Tim Russerts
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer175.html
Butler Shaffer on stenographers for the regime.
6/16/2008
Totalitarian Republicans
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer174.html
Butler Shaffer attends an anti-Ron Paul convention in Minnesota.
6/9/2008
The Case for Starvation
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer173.html
Butler Shaffer on the environmentalists.
5/24/2008
The Immigration Question
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer172.html
Butler Shaffer on private property rights.
5/15/2008
A Greater Threat Than Global Warming!
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer171.html
Butler Shaffer on colliding galaxies.
4/30/2008
One Way To Weaken Government
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer170.html
Butler Shaffer on meticulous obedience.
4/16/2008
Ozymandias USA
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer169.html
Butler Shaffer on where matters stand.
3/28/2008
The State Lynch Mob
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer168.html
Butler Shaffer on why so many want to kill and torture.
2/18/2008
‘Support the Shopping Mall Killers’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer167.html
Butler Shaffer offends you.
12/12/2007
Neocon Projection
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer166.html
Butler Shaffer on neo-fascist accusations against Ron Paul donors.
11/16/2007
Global-Warming Neurosis
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer165.html
Butler Shaffer on cloud-cuckoo-land.
10/31/2007
What Debates?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer164.html
Butler Shaffer on an establishment fraud vs. Ron Paul.
10/12/2007
The Emperor Has No Humor
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer163.html
Butler Shaffer on the MIT student, airport security, and the sweatshirt "bomb."
9/25/2007
Where the State Is Competent
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer162.html
Butler Shaffer on mass murder.
9/19/2007
Sy Leon, RIP
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer161.html
Butler Shaffer remembers a libertarian original.
9/11/2007
Why They Won’t Impeach
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer160.html
It would endanger the whole scam, says Butler Shaffer.
7/17/2007
Identifying With the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer159.html
Butler Shaffer on a crime against self and society.
6/29/2007
The War Against Learning
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer158.html
Butler Shaffer on the American university.
6/21/2007
The Remnant and Ron Paul
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer157.html
Butler Shaffer on the shape of the future.
6/7/2007
For Your Antiwar Film Festival
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer156.html
More choices, from Butler Shaffer.
5/21/2007
5/16/2007
Civilization in Free Fall
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer154.html
Butler Shaffer on what the state has wrought.
5/1/2007
The Control Cult
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer153.html
The total state is zero protection, says Butler Shaffer.
4/21/2007
4/12/2007
Americans Don’t Believe in Private Property
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer151.html
Butler Shaffer on a Cold War-era myth.
2/26/2007
Riding a Dead Horse
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer150.html
Butler Shaffer on the statists.
1/25/2007
Alternative Medicine
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer149.html
It's libertarian medicine, says Butler Shaffer.
12/5/2006
Impeach the American People
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer148.html
Not just the White House sociopaths, says Butler Shaffer.
11/17/2006
Don’t Vote
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer147.html
It's a scam, says Butler Shaffer, and an evil one.
10/24/2006
The Amish and Mark Foley
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer146.html
Butler Shaffer on why integrity matters.
10/10/2006
The War-Crazed Police State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer145.html
Butler Shaffer on how a nation loses its soul.
10/2/2006
9/18/2006
The Bogeyman Industry
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer143.html
Eek, there's a Mexican Southerner Spaniard German Japanese Russian Korean Vietnamese Arab under your bed!!!
9/12/2006
To End All Wars
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer142.html
We need only love our children and grandchildren more than the state.
8/14/2006
The Manhattan Projection
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer141.html
Butler Shaffer on the US and the atom bomb.
8/7/2006
The War Conspiracy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer140.html
Butler Shaffer on how they train us for "glory."
7/19/2006
The Price of Madness
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer139.html
Butler Shaffer on the results of 9/11.
6/15/2006
The Death of the American State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer138.html
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
5/22/2006
The State Must Fail
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer137.html
The world is far too complex to be managed, says Butler Shaffer.
5/11/2006
Off With His Head, Or Off With His Chains?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer136.html
Butler Shaffer on the individual vs. the state.
5/1/2006
Power Is What They Want
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer135.html
Butler Shaffer on statists of all stripes.
4/25/2006
The War on Terrorism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer134.html
In the People's Republic of Virginia.
4/14/2006
Why Do We Fear Our Minds?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer133.html
Butler Shaffer on shutting down dissident opinion.
4/7/2006
An Anti-State Masterpiece
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer132.html
Butler Shaffer on V for Vendetta.
3/20/2006
The Federal Lynch Mob
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer131.html
Butler Shaffer on what lies ahead now.
3/17/2006
The Military-Industrial-Corruption Complex
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer130.html
Butler Shaffer on the best government money can buy.
2/7/2006
The Google Conundrum
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer129.html
Butler Shaffer on taking a byte out of free expression.
1/31/2006
Central Park Is Founded on Evil
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer128.html
So is eminent domain.
1/18/2006
The Unfortunate Moral of Narnia
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer127.html
Butler Shaffer on myths, fables, fairy-tales, and the real world.
1/18/2006
The Religion of the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer126.html
Worry about that horrific doctrine, not Intelligent Design, says Butler Shaffer.
12/22/2005
The Deaths of Children
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer125.html
Butler Shaffer on being pro-life.
12/13/2005
A Strategy for Survival
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer124.html
As individuals, and as a people.
12/5/2005
If It’s Good Enough for ‘Scooter’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer123.html
It's good enough for his bosses.
11/2/2005
The Ethics of Aggression
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer122.html
Spare us, Col. Boylan.
10/28/2005
Fear, Incivility, and the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer121.html
Butler Shaffer on irrational fear as a wrecker of civilization.
10/21/2005
An Evening With Mr. Galloway
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer120.html
Butler Shaffer on what one person can do.
9/26/2005
The Dehumanizing State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer119.html
Against the life-giving market.
9/16/2005
Power vs. the People
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer118.html
Butler Shaffer on how the state uses crises.
9/12/2005
The Reich-Wing Attack on Cindy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer117.html
Butler Shaffer on why she’s a threat.
8/23/2005
The War Against Cindy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer116.html
Butler Shaffer on tyranny pushed into a corner.
8/15/2005
The ‘Struggle Against Extremism’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer115.html
It's about the power and pelf of the state.
8/1/2005
The Decline and Fall of Conservatism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer114.html
Today, the cons celebrate madness, says Butler Shaffer.
7/25/2005
The Truth About Suicide Bombing
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer113.html
It's politics in action, says Butler Shaffer.
7/21/2005
Terrorism Is the State’s New Scarecrow
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer112.html
But it won't work, says Butler Shaffer.
7/14/2005
Cui Bono Revisited
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer111.html
Butler Shaffer on who benefits from terrorist acts.
7/8/2005
Cowardly Lynch Mob
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer110.html
Butler Shaffer on the warmongers in hiding.
6/30/2005
The Hitler Icon
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer109.html
Butler Shaffer on Sen. Durbin's sin.
6/21/2005
Fight the Power
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer108.html
Withhold your consent, says Butler Shaffer.
6/14/2005
Democrazies
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer107.html
Butler Shaffer on the state religion and its murderous acolytes.
6/9/2005
First the USSR, Then the EU, Then the US
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer106.html
Butler Shaffer on the decline of centralized power structures.
6/3/2005
The Government War on Private Property
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer105.html
"Historic preservation" division.
5/21/2005
No Room for Us on the Spectrum
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer104.html
Left and right are just two wings of the same bird of prey, says Butler Shaffer.
5/11/2005
A Breaking Point for the State-Corporatist System
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer103.html
It cannot last, thank goodness.
4/8/2005
The US State Is Terminal
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer102.html
Butler Shaffer on what will become of it.
3/29/2005
Politics Is Anti-Life
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer101.html
Time to stop feeding the state, says Butler Shaffer.
3/26/2005
Stateoids
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer100.html
Butler Shaffer on the really dangerous drugs.
3/21/2005
Work for the Government?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer99.html
Then your life is far more valuable than a taxpayer's.
3/15/2005
Failure Is the Health of the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer98.html
Butler Shaffer on why the criminal band that rules us delights in fiascos.
3/2/2005
The Establishment Media Are Going Down
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer97.html
Butler Shaffer on a victory for truth, freedom, and the web.
2/21/2005
Politics Is a Sociopathic Cult
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer96.html
Butler Shaffer on the prognosis.
1/24/2005
Extremism in Defense of the Status Quo
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer95.html
Butler Shaffer on the only kind to worry about.
1/4/2005
The Exploitation of Soldiers
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer94.html
Butler Shaffer on what to do about it.
12/21/2004
The Case for Ebenezer
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer93.html
From his defense attorney, Butler Shaffer.
12/13/2004
Oliver Stone vs. George Bush
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer92.html
Only one admits to making it up, and doesn't kill people.
12/8/2004
The State-Security Charade
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer91.html
Butler Shaffer on a system in crisis.
11/30/2004
Moral Values and Politics
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer90.html
Or is that moral insanity?
11/11/2004
The Libertarians’ Albatross
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer89.html
Butler Shaffer on Objectivism.
11/3/2004
A Rational Choice for Election Day
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer88.html
You know there is only one.
10/28/2004
Collectivism Is Utopian
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer87.html
Individualism is part of the very structure of reality.
10/9/2004
Politics Is a Sickness
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer86.html
But you can cure yourself, says Butler Shaffer.
9/20/2004
The Lying State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer85.html
Butler Shaffer on our political system.
9/14/2004
The Madness of Emperor George
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer84.html
Butler Shaffer on what it means, and what to do about it.
9/4/2004
Take Off the Red, White, and Blue Blinders
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer83.html
And look at events clearly, says Butler Shaffer.
8/31/2004
Yes, Master
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer82.html
Butler Shaffer on slave mentality and the draft.
8/17/2004
Bush or Kerry?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer81.html
Butler Shaffer on how to decide.
8/13/2004
Elect a Donkey
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer80.html
No, no. A real one. Article by Butler Shaffer.
7/31/2004
The Government Is Terrified of the People
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer79.html
Butler Shaffer on our dysfunctional police state.
7/27/2004
The US Lynch Mob
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer78.html
Butler Shaffer on war, Martha Stewart, and the boobus Americanus.
7/19/2004
The Masses Are Asses
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer77.html
Butler Shaffer on the life and death of civilizations.
7/12/2004
Only Commies Hate Wal-Mart
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer76.html
Butler Shaffer on the real nature of the free market.
6/19/2004
The Jihad Against Wal-Mart
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer75.html
Butler Shaffer on anti-market monsters.
6/10/2004
Shut Up!
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer74.html
Government hates an unbridled tongue.
6/8/2004
Celebrating the War System
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer73.html
No thanks, says Butler Shaffer.
5/31/2004
The Right To Be Irresponsible
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer72.html
That's the whole purpose of politics, says Butler Shaffer.
5/28/2004
The Democracy Hoax
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer71.html
Butler Shaffer on the state's current ideological trick.
5/17/2004
Collectivism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer70.html
It begins in your neighborhood, says Butler Shaffer.
5/13/2004
The War on Terror Is a War of Terror
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer69.html
Butler Shaffer on Iraq.
5/8/2004
Corpses for the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer68.html
Butler Shaffer on politics and the dead.
4/28/2004
Moral Authority Against Power
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer67.html
Butler Shaffer on non-violent opposition to the state.
4/23/2004
The 9/11 Commission Sideshow
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer66.html
It's another Warren Commission coverup.
4/16/2004
The Evil of Politics
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer65.html
And the nuttiest utopian scheme of them all, constitutional democracy.
3/30/2004
Fear the ‘Law’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer64.html
Butler Shaffer on the federal scapegoat.
3/11/2004
The Circus Is Back in Town
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer63.html
But what if we refuse to go?
3/4/2004
1/29/2004
Save the Universe!
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer61.html
The environmentalists are all wet, says Butler Shaffer.
1/20/2004
You’re an Anarchist
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer60.html
Me too, says Butler Shaffer. So are all civilized men, in practice.
1/13/2004
How the Ridge Stole Christmas
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer59.html
Butler Shaffer on federal scares.
12/24/2003
The War Crimes Trial
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer58.html
Where the winners get to beat up the losers.
12/19/2003
Phony Boycotts and Phony Conservatives
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer57.html
Butler Shaffer on the dirty hand of the state.
11/20/2003
Lying in State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer56.html
Butler Shaffer on the rampant prevarication that undergirds government, and what to do about it.
11/11/2003
The State Turns Us Into Zombies
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer55.html
Freedom makes us human.
11/1/2003
Property Begets Order
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer54.html
And transgressions against property are the source of all social problems.
10/24/2003
The Ballot of Corruption
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer53.html
Butler Shaffer on what's in an election.
9/16/2003
Grounds for Optimism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer52.html
Fewer students are voting for Hitler.
8/22/2003
Power to the People
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer51.html
Butler Shaffer on the government's blackout.
8/19/2003
Forget Arnold
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer50.html
There is only one candidate for libertarians: Angelyne!
8/8/2003
The Purposes of State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer49.html
Don't reform the system; walk away from it.
7/25/2003
Slaves to the Past
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer48.html
Butler Shaffer on the ridiculousness of reparations.
7/14/2003
Organized Child Abuse
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer47.html
Butler Shaffer on the public schools.
7/1/2003
Your Papers, Please
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer46.html
Butler Shaffer on the nazification of America.
6/9/2003
The Humanitarian With a Machine Gun
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer45.html
Butler Shaffer on the unintended consequences of good intentions.
5/19/2003
United We Stand? Let’s Hope Not
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer44.html
That's the slogan of the booboisie.
5/14/2003
The Inherent Indecency of the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer43.html
Butler Shaffer on government morality.
5/7/2003
The Racket Called War
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer42.html
Butler Shaffer on the most characteristic state activity, and who benefits.
4/29/2003
‘Liberation’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer41.html
Just another word for the state, says Butler Shaffer.
4/15/2003
TV Does Something Good
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer40.html
Butler Shaffer on a warning about Hitlerism.
4/9/2003
The Great Lemming Race
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer38.html
Led by President George W. Lemming.
3/13/2003
The War Against Anger
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer37.html
Butler Shaffer on the real nature of the federal adventure.
3/3/2003
Political Madmen
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer36.html
Sure, says Butler Shaffer, but the real problem is the insanity of the state.
2/26/2003
Chaos in Space
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer35.html
Butler Shaffer on human enterprises and the state.
2/7/2003
The War Against Life
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer34.html
The state is, by its nature, murderous.
1/7/2003
Have Yourself a Bloody Little Christmas
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer33.html
Butler Shaffer on Christians for mass murder.
12/17/2002
The State Is in a Terminal State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer32.html
Good news from Butler Shaffer.
11/13/2002
Election Day: a Holiday for Fools
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer31.html
Voting in the US makes no more sense than in Iraq.
10/30/2002
10/21/2002
There’s a Bogeyman Under Your Bed
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer29.html
Butler Shaffer on how the state gears up for war.
10/5/2002
Individualism Is Libertarianism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer28.html
Not the egoism of Ayn Rand, says Butler Shaffer.
9/27/2002
WTC and the Power of Place
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer27.html
Butler Shaffer on violence and more violence.
9/14/2002
Secession = Liberty
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer26.html
Free the San Fernando Valley! And the rest of mankind.
8/30/2002
The Individual vs. the Collective
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer25.html
All is far from lost, says Butler Shaffer.
8/20/2002
Will a Police State Protect Your Liberty?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer24.html
Butler Shaffer on Republican theory.
7/27/2002
Happy Dependence Day
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer23.html
Or we can, says Butler Shaffer, remember the great Declaration of Independence.
7/1/2002
Liberty and Property
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer22.html
In practice, they are synonymous.
6/25/2002
Bring Back Discrimination
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer21.html
It's the sign of a civilized man, and the civilized society.
6/22/2002
What Police State?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer20.html
Butler Shaffer on how easily we shut our eyes.
6/13/2002
War and Politics as Entertainment
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer19.html
Butler Shaffer on how the state gets us to agree.
5/29/2002
5/20/2002
The Beltway’s Little Red Book
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer17.html
Butler Shaffer on the delusion of limited government.
5/14/2002
The State Is a Racket
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer16.html
And an increasingly irrelevant one.
5/6/2002
Fronting For the Worst Aspects of the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer15.html
Warmongering libertarians.
4/15/2002
The Social Contract and Other Myths
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer14.html
Butler Shaffer on the State's various excuses for itself.
4/1/2002
State Terrorism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer13.html
Make that "peacekeeping" and "law enforcement."
3/16/2002
How To Be Free, Even Now
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer10.html
Butler Shaffer on reclaiming self-ownership.
3/7/2002
Does the State Own You?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer9.html
Or do you own yourself? Article by Butler Shaffer.
2/25/2002
Government Is a Conspiracy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer8.html
That's why conspiracy theories are so unfashionable.
2/11/2002
Deathwatch
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer7.html
Butler Shaffer on the decline and fall of our civilization, thanks to the State.
12/10/2001
Afraid To Be Free
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer6.html
Despite the State, there is much we can do to be free.
11/27/2001
Irrational and Violent
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer5.html
Butler Shaffer on the real nature of the State's laws.
11/17/2001
11/17/2001
World War II Is Finally Over
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer4.html
Hitler won. Article by Butler Shaffer.
10/31/2001
The Case for Optimism
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer3.html
A letter from famed libertarian scholar, Butler Shaffer.
10/19/2001
The Useless State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer2.html
On Sept. 11, the failure of the political model became obvous.
9/19/2001
In Restraint of Trade
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/mises-store/restraint-trade-shaffer.html
Butler Shaffer's classic available again!
Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer39.html
Butler Shaffer revisits the Luddites.
On the Purity of Language
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer12.html
And its relationship to liberty.
The Fraud of Representative Government
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig/shaffer11.html
Butler Shaffer responds to "his" congressman.
CXXVII – Myths, Fables, Fairy-Tales, and the Real World
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/127.html
CXLIX – Alternative Medicine Is Libertarian Medicine
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/149.html
CLI – Political Visionaries and Other Polluters
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/151.html
XXIV– Will a Police State Protect Your Liberty?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/24.html
XXXIX – A Cost/Benefit Analysis of the Human Spirit: The Luddites Revisited
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/39.html
XLIII – The Indecent Nature of Political Society
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/43.html
XLIV – Your Survival May Depend On Your Integrity
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/44.html
XLV – The Unintended Consequences of Good Intentions
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/45.html
LXXVI – What Is the Free Market, and Who Cares?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/76.html
CIV – No Room On the Spectrum: Why the u2018Left' and u2018Right' Are Only Two Wings of the Same Bird of Prey
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/ebook/104.html
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