tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83129680148559997782024-02-02T08:21:33.215-05:00The International LibertarianViews of the world from an Objectivist who embraces Anarcho-CapitalismDarren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-39297548721736407082018-03-27T04:00:00.000-04:002018-03-27T06:02:44.440-04:00March For Tyranny (videos)A cold wind blew through West Chester, PA that Saturday. It was the day of the so-called March For Our Lives. While the wind was cold the protesters' anger burned and nothing good ever comes from such burning anger.
Reacting to my sign that reads “background checks do not work” this guy
was really upset.
(I wasn't able to record the first part of the
conversation as my camera Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-54327200824866821252018-03-14T21:05:00.000-04:002018-03-24T18:13:58.928-04:00Mike Weisser: NRA Member, Gun Rights Hater
Gun Sense Chester County's brochure
Mike Weisser, who likes to be known as “the gun guy”, and I had a short conversation before his presentation on March 3, 2018 in Devon, PA. It was enlightening. Upon finding out that I'm a libertarian he asked if I refuse to pay taxes. My reply was no. Taxation is theft but I submit to the thieving government's superior force. Weisser then asked if I thoughtDarren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-14750472738645295472018-03-06T08:39:00.000-05:002018-03-06T08:43:18.219-05:00El No Votar Por Principios: El Comienzo de la Desvinculación del Estado
[Este
articulo fue originalmente escrito en 2010 en ingles para lectores en
los EE UU. Con toda la polémica acerca de las elecciones convocadas
para mayo
(por ahora serán en mayo) en
Venezuela pensé que las ideas expresadas son mas relevantes que
nunca en ese país. El original en ingles se puede leer aquí.]
El
día del trabajador llego y paso, y hay elecciones en noviembre. La
temporada de Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-64126670558238960172016-02-28T17:26:00.000-05:002016-02-28T17:26:56.136-05:00Don't Let Gun Rights Haters Intimidate You
Terry Rumsey and Robin Lasersohn of Delaware County United For a Sensible Gun Policy [sic] telling us what they really want to do with guns.
I can hear many gun owners laughing saying “I not afraid of those gunless and gutless morons”, but it's not physical intimidation I'm talking about. Think about it. They can't use force to shut us up but many of us are intimidated into silence by their Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-7203952030157626542015-06-29T08:16:00.000-04:002015-06-29T08:16:00.850-04:00Murder Rates: Why Comparing The United States Only To Other Developed Countries Is Deceitfulp { margin-bottom: 0.1in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 120%; }p.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif","Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.cjk { font-family: "Droid Sans Fallback"; font-size: 12pt; }p.ctl { font-family: "FreeSans"; font-size: 12pt; }a:link { }
Bicycle taxi drivers waiting for passengers outside
of a hospital in poor but peaceful MalawiDarren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-27479237855323701372015-06-22T06:00:00.000-04:002015-06-22T06:47:41.264-04:00Islands, Churches, and Guns
Myself on a beach on Little Exuma, the Bahamas
This article is prompted by two things that happened recently. The first was a happy event, my vacation to the the Bahamas. The other the horrible shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. At first glance these two things may not seem related but the connection between them will soon be made clear.Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-51710249324223247612015-06-07T14:12:00.000-04:002015-06-07T14:12:03.167-04:00This Is What Gun Control Looks Like: Shaneen Allen's New Jersey Ordeal (video)
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It's great that Shaneen Allen is free and was able to share her story with us at a Citizens for Liberty meeting. I just couldn't post this video without commenting on her call for national reciprocity for state issued carry permits. She's in favor of them, I'm not. Here's why. National reciprocity is just more federal domination of the Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-81678986519786925332015-03-15T18:39:00.000-04:002015-03-15T18:39:02.940-04:00Braving Gun Rights Haters' Nails: Lower Merion Township, PA Family Open Carry Rally (video)
Braving nails placed in the street by our car tires by gun rights haters (one wonders if there is no low they won't stoop to) we protested the fact that Lower Merion, PA won't repeal their local gun ordnance despite the fact that it's in violation of the state's preemption law.
Pictures of guns at the rally that killed no one:
Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-7962872149511941572015-02-23T05:41:00.000-05:002015-02-23T05:47:55.031-05:00Gun Rights Haters: Victims or Aggressors?
Now these perpetual “victims” want to learn about “Powerfully Peaceful Action in the Face of Armed and Aggressive Opposition”. Why do they say they need to do this? Because, according to them, “Almost every group in the gun sense movement has – at some time in the last several years – been confronted by armed and/or aggressive counter demonstrators at one of our public actions.” Though as you Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-17347269350709266212015-02-17T08:51:00.001-05:002015-02-17T08:52:59.877-05:00Joshua Prince Mops the Floor With CeaseFirePA (video)Attorney Joshua Prince makes a complete fool of CeaseFirePA's gun rights hating Shira Goodman. They're debating Pennsylvania's Act 192 which allows people to proactively sue municipalities which enact gun control laws in violation of the state's preemption statute. Enjoy!
Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-67049088197633180462015-02-05T22:07:00.000-05:002015-02-05T22:07:37.983-05:00Gun Rights Haters Try To Learn About Guns
The cover of the handout containing the presentation's PowerPoint slides
You read the title correctly, Delaware County United for Sensible Gun Policy (Delco United) held their “Firearms 101 Presentation” Monday night (02/02/2015) in Springfield, PA. They figure if they gain a little book knowledge about guns they'll have more credibility. OK, stop laughing, you have an article to read.
A Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-87051129113132152872015-01-30T10:33:00.000-05:002015-01-30T10:34:29.698-05:00The Professor's Reply to "Gun Rights Versus Anecdotes"Below is the response to my article "Gun Rights Versus Anecdotes" from the retired professor whose mail prompted me to write said article. I'm publishing it unedited, in its entirety at his request.
********************************************************************************* The International Libertarian In the January 5, 2015 number of the International Libertarian, Darren Wolfe published Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-68732017144470180422015-01-20T08:40:00.000-05:002015-01-25T16:41:13.499-05:00Using Gun Rights Haters Own Research Against Themp { margin-bottom: 0.1in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 120%; }p.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif","Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.cjk { font-family: "Droid Sans Fallback"; font-size: 12pt; }p.ctl { font-family: "FreeSans"; font-size: 12pt; }a:link { }
Easy to do with Robert Muggah, among many things the coauthor of “We Need Better Data for a Serious Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-58889478553202519592015-01-05T07:37:00.000-05:002015-01-05T07:37:22.153-05:00Gun Rights Versus Anecdotes
Which side wins depends on whether one can reason or simply react emotionally.
Letters and an ad from gun rights hating groups
For a while back in the Winter, a retired philosophy professor (who wants to remain anonymous) and I exchanged a few emails and, from him, snail mail, discussing gun rights. After not hearing from him for several months he very unexpectedly mailed me a large Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-1562359884602966332014-11-20T20:30:00.000-05:002014-11-20T20:31:54.702-05:00Gun Laws and Murder Ratesp { margin-bottom: 0.1in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 120%; }p.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif","Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; }p.cjk { font-family: "Droid Sans Fallback"; font-size: 12pt; }p.ctl { font-family: "FreeSans"; font-size: 12pt; }a:link { }
Two of many guns carried at an open carry rally. To the surprise of many gun rights haters no oneDarren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-76187416134818576042014-11-15T09:48:00.000-05:002014-11-15T09:48:11.678-05:00ObixonThis article was originally published at the Nolan Chart on November 2, 2008. With Obama now ramping the Iraq war back up by sending 1500 more troops there I'm republishing this article on this blog.
Many have said that there isn’t much difference between Sens. McCain
and Obama and taken to calling them McBama. I’d like to offer a
prediction about how things will go under the next President, Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-33013926694828751302014-07-28T11:02:00.000-04:002014-07-28T11:04:55.772-04:00FirearmsTalk Discussion About Guns
On July 24, 2014 I took part in this FirarmsTalk discussion with the 3 hosts of the podcast. We covered a number of subjects including libertarianism, gun control, some gun facts, & what really drives the murder rate up or down.Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-65878806287073193492014-07-06T12:12:00.000-04:002014-07-06T15:21:28.821-04:00Countering Gun Rights Haters on the Street and in the PressP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; direction: ltr; color: rgb(0, 0, 10); }P.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif",serif; font-size: 12pt; }P.cjk { font-family: "WenQuanYi Micro Hei"; font-size: 12pt; }P.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Hindi"; font-size: 12pt; }A:link { }
This
video of me blasting universal background checks is what readers
first see when they land on the Delaware County Daily Times Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-75809775203816277822014-06-02T08:52:00.000-04:002014-06-02T08:52:30.168-04:00Stop the Drones!Hoping to stop the drone command center from opening about 50 people came out to protest on May 31, 2014. We stood outside of the Horsham Air Guard Station in Horsham, PA waving signs, listening to moving speeches, and doing a little singing. High wind prevented me from using my video camera (the audio was the problem, it just records noise in high wind). Below are pictures of the event:
 Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-28187594472719575212014-06-01T20:23:00.001-04:002014-06-01T20:23:53.610-04:00Open Carry Brunch
We had a successful and friendly open carry Sunday brunch at the Court Diner in Media, PA. The event was lead by Mark Fiorino whose arrest by Philadelphia Police sparked outrage. Below is my interview with him. We talked about open carry both here and in Texas where it has generated much controversy.
Below is a picture of all the open carriers who attended. Thanks for the great time but Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-31313756897474968142014-05-18T16:30:00.000-04:002014-05-18T16:30:35.756-04:00An African Adventure
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It
all started when YouTube analytics showed that my video PA
Gun Rights Haters Show Their Intolerance was embedded at GunSite
South Africa. I promptly joined the forum. On May 5th I noticed a
thread titled “To
vote or not to vote.......” discussing participating in their
upcoming May
7th elections. Nonvoting being one of my favorite topics I jumped
Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-54440433828072524662014-04-29T22:04:00.000-04:002014-04-29T22:04:59.148-04:00Know The Enemy of Liberty: the National Rifle AssociationP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }A:link { }
Oppressors Not Protectors
With
the release of the first episode of the Defending
Our America series titled “Know
Your Enemies and Know Yourself” the National
Rifle Association (NRA) puts itself at the forefront of the
shills for tyranny and empire. Please watch the first episode and the
season
preview. They advocate police power to fight the war on Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-69628022734427524982014-04-27T13:03:00.000-04:002014-04-27T13:03:28.186-04:00Rebutting an Anti-Free Market Comment
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In
a thread on the LinkedIn discussion group
Citizens and Societies - Building better societies together! titled
'It
is my opinion that one of the biggest challenges to better modern
societies is what I'll call the "Free Market Myth"'
Wade
Fransson posted a comment further explaining his hypothesis that
free markets can't exist (reproduced Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-56809351256836416382014-04-21T22:45:00.000-04:002014-04-21T22:45:25.855-04:00Imagine the Bundy Ranch Showdown With Well Regulated Militias
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Recently,
Cliven Bundy and his supporters had a showdown with the United
States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over grazing rights on
land claimed by the federal government. They started rounding up Mr.
Bundy's cattle but were confronted by armed, liberty-minded people.
Fortunately, the feds backed Darren Wolfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13055259906316988117noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8312968014855999778.post-76041416364872580992014-04-20T17:52:00.000-04:002014-04-20T17:52:15.753-04:00Taxes and War Profiteers
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One hopes that this sign
could be the beginning of pacifists understanding that taxes and war
go hand in hand. It was displayed at the Brandywine
Peace Community's Good
Friday Stations of Justice, Peace, and Nonviolent Resistance at
Lockheed Martin, King of Prussia, PA (Mainstream media coverage can be read
here.)
Knowledge that war depends on
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