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The official enemy de jour that has everyone all riled up and scared is ISIS. If U.S. forces don’t bomb ISIS, the argument goes, ISIS will take over Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, and Europe, and Asia, and Latin America, and then the United States. If the bombs don’t fall on ISIS, before long Americans will be speaking Arabic and their children will be studying the Koran in America’s government schools.
It’s all just one great big racket — a racket based on “national security,” a term that isn’t even found in the Constitution and that doesn’t even have an objective meaning. The only way that the U.S. national-security state apparatus — i.e., the vast military establishment and military empire, the CIA, and the NSA -- can justify its continued existence is by ginning up crisis after crisis with the aim of keeping the citizenry filled with fear, anxiety, and depression. The apparatus then becomes people’s sedative, assuring them that ...
One year ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation presented what we called “a conference within a conference” at the annual conference of the Students for Liberty, a student-run libertarian group that is, once again, holding their annual conference in Washington, D.C., this coming weekend — February 13-15, 2015.
The theme of our mini-conference last year was “Civil Liberties and the National Security State.”
Given that a considerable number of libertarians who come into the movement as conservatives have a difficult time abandoning their conservative views on foreign policy, civil liberties, foreign interventionism, empire, the war on terrorism, and the national-security state, we believe that it is critically important to apprise young libertarians of the libertarian position on these issues, especially since the warfare state constitutes a much graver threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people than the welfare state.
Thus, the goal of our mini-conference was to raise the vision of young libertarians to the critical importance of civil ...