Oppression waxes; freedom wanes. From Joel Bowman at joelbowman.substack.com:
“A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.”
~ Lysander Spooner, from No Treason: the Constitution of No Authority (1870)
Tide comes in… tide goes out… tide comes in again. Same as it ever was…
Down in South America, as elsewhere on this little blue dot, the vital course of liberty ebbs and flows.
On the one hand, here in the “libertarian hellscape” of our beloved Argentina, the country is gradually opening up. Onerous regulations are being lifted… taxes are being rolled back… the whole economy – and the people who comprise it – are gradually being liberated from the heavy hand of The State.
It’s something we’re following carefully, unreconstructed anarchists that we are. It’s also part of the whole Free Markets, Free Minds, Free People tagline for this very publication… which you are, dear reader, free to support right here…
Liberty Recedes
Alas, the same cannot be said for our long-suffering, Brazilians neighbors to the north, who are at present watching their own tide of freedom fast recede.
Last week, Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes dropped the hammer on social media giant, X, announcing the “immediate, complete and total” suspension of the social media platform across the whole of Brazil.
