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FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS -- FALL ISSUE, 1993
Editors: Vincent H. Miller, James R. Elwood, Tim Starr

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In this issue
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** REPORTS ON ESTONIAN & LITHUANIAN CONFERENCES
** LIBERTARIANS MEET IN RUSSIA
** ANNOUNCEMENT OF ISIL 1994 CONFERENCE IN CANCUN, MEXICO
** AMERICA IN CRISIS - Editorial by Vince Miller
** REPORT ON LP SALT LAKE CITY CONVENTION by Jim Elwood
** POLISH TOWN GOES PRIVATE
** CLASSIFIEDS
** OBITUARIES: PETR BECKMANN, HENRY HAZLITT


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ISIL's 1993 world conference was held in the recently freed Baltic
country of Estonia -- a country that is rapidly taking on a fresh look
of western prosperity. Tallinn, the capital, is a charming and
fascinating town with a beautifully restored medieval old-town section,
complete with castles and towers and walls to repel invasions (of which
there have been many over the centuries -- by the Danes, the Swedes, the
Germans, and most recently the Russians). However, despite the many
invasions of foreigners, the people were open and friendly to the crowds
of western tourists and the ISIL members there-assembled.

ISIL's conference this year was very competently organized by ISIL Rep
Roger Wessman of Finland with the able assistance of Priit Joeruut and
Juri Kaljundi -- both of Tallinn. Held at the Estonian Management
Institute in Tallinn, it was a memorable event which drew attendees from
close to 20 different countries -- including all the Baltic states.
Also, thanks to a significantly larger number of sponsorships this year
by you, our members, many more Central and Eastern Europeans were able
to attend and benefit from the extensive dialogue that occurred.

The following are but a few highlights of the conference (audio tapes
available for most sessions – see ad in this issue).

REPORT BY ESTONIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
Aap Neljas, a member of the Estonian parliament, delighted the
conference with his call for massive privatization and the establishment
of full property rights in Estonia. He stressed his desire to see
Estonia develop along the free-market lines of a Singapore or Hong Kong.

        Following the conference ISIL Pres. Vince Miller, Exec. VP James
Elwood, and international financial newsletter guru Harry Schultz
enjoyed lunch at the Palace Hotel with Aap Neljas, and Priit Joeruut.
Neljas informed us that the Kroon (the Estonia currency unit) had been
pegged at 8 to 1 to the Deutschemark and is fully backed by "hard"
currency -- including 15% gold reserves. Our advice of course was to
increase the percentage of gold reserves. Inflation has been cut from
over 1000% a month during the bad old Russian ruble days to less than 1%
today. We also discovered that unique among former East bloc countries
they now allow foreign ownership of property and the government is
currently offering a 2 to 5 year tax exemption on new businesses. Neljas
confided that they are also committed to major tax cuts in the coming
years. All in all a rather rosy outlook -- particularly for Americans
who have been witnessing the devastation of their own economy by an
increasingly more Soviet-styled centralized bureaucracy in Washington
DC. On other days we met businessmen in Tallinn who had fled the
poisoned business environment of North America for greener pastures in
the former Communist countries. They seemed very bullish on the future
of this Baltic state.

Libertarians who visited the Estonian parliament buildings on one of the
excursions were delighted to hear that it takes a 2/3 majority to pass a
bill -- but only a 1/3 majority to repeal a bill!! As a joke Matti
Virtanen, a Finnish journalist who was covering the conference, called
for a vote of the 80 some odd libertarians (then seated in the members'
seats) on whether to repeal all laws and dissolve the parliament or to
retain a few of them. The minarchists prevailed (but only by a small
margin).

CIVIL LIBERTIES TOO
Any questions about how strongly Estonia was headed in a libertarian
direction as far as civil liberties are concerned were answered by
an article in the Tallinn CITY PAPER. The cover and lead article,
entitled "Happy Hookers" started out with the subhead: "What do
you do two years after winning the hard-fought battle for independence?
Start thinking about making prostitution legal, of course!"

In later days we enjoyed lunch in the old-town with Ed Clark and Olari
Koresaar, Baltic Regional Administrator for the U.S.-Baltic Foundation.
We hope to report on the work of the US-BF in future issues -- but their
program of local democracy, free market economics and educational
programs in the rule of law, and the promotion of free trade look very
promising indeed.

DEVOLUTION
A very popular seminar was held by former Vermont Republican State
Senator John McClaughry. McClaughry is author of The Vermont Papers, an
excellent book on local participatory democracy and decentralized power
that Frances Kendall claims was a strong influence on her when she wrote
"The Heart of the Nation". He spoke on the virtues of local town hall
political involvement by ordinary citizens and spoke with pride of his
participation as Moderator in town-hall government in Vermont for the
last 25 years. The "shires" he proposes for Vermont are structured very
much like Swiss cantons and give maximum participation by members of the
community (this in an attempt to counteract massive interventions by
state and federal governments to wrest decision-making away from people
at the grass-roots level). McClaughry also commended Estonia as a good
model to follow for Yugoslavia -- particularly the policy of "Cultural
Autonomy" they developed during the initial period of independence in
the 1920's. Under this structure each ethnic group (Germans, Russians,
Swedes, Jews) formed their own government within the state (this was not
a partitioning as many of these minorities were interspersed throughout
the population). Each minority had representation, raised funds from
among their own members for charities and unique cultural pursuits. The
Estonian government provided the basic infrastructure -- services such
as police, roads, defense. Music to the ears of libertarians. We highly
recommend the tape of this session for those interested in studying
devolution schemes (see ad in this issue).

NEW FREEDOM IN BALTICS
ISIL members Virginijus Daukas and Algirdas Degutis were to sponsor a
conference on the Free Society in Vilnius, Lithuania just after the
Tallinn conference. This event was attended by ISIL Board members Ken
Schoolland and Mary Ruwart who were both speakers. Valdis Bluzma of the
Latvian Free Market Foundation in his speech told of an experimental
free zone being developed in Riga, Latvia. Bluzma's institute reportedly
won a government contest to formulate this plan which starts out with a
duty-free warehouse complex in a river island near Riga which will also
soon include a hotel. Algirdas addressed the group, proudly holding up
copies of books that they had already translated and published in
Lithuanian: John Locke's "2nd Treatise on Government"; Ludwig von Mises'
"Economic Policy (Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow)" and "Bureaucracy";
Murray Rothbard's "What Has The Government Done to Our Money", Frederic
Bastiat's "Economic and Political Essays", F.A. Hayek's "The Road to
Serfdom"; plus several books of collected essays by various authors.
They are now working with ISIL Director Mary Ruwart to publish her book
"Healing Our World" in Lithuanian. Ken Schoolland's The Adventures of
Jonathan Gullible has also been translated into Lithuanian. $600 from
ISIL's translation fund were turned over at Tallinn for the first
printing of "Gullible". All in all many very impressive achievements.
The groups in Latvia and Lithuania are very hard-core and highly
entrepreneurial. They deserve your support (either directly or through
ISIL).

Virginijus Daukas
Lithuanian Free Market Institute
P.O. Box 536
2004 Vilnius, Lithuania

Valdis Bluzma
Latvian Free Market Institute
Box 15
Riga 226013, Latvia


LIBERTARIANISM AND THE ARTS
New emphasis was made on the importance of art to the libertarian
movement. At the opening banquet Linda Abrams of California started the
Tallinn conference off on a very high note with an hour of dramatic
readings of the inspirational poems of Berton Braley. Braley, now
virtually unknown, wrote heroic poems around the turn of the century
about the achievements of entrepreneurs and the glory of technology.
They embody just the virtues of romantic literature guaranteed to
delight Libertarians and Objectivists alike. These are the poems that
Ayn Rand would have written had she been a poet. A book of poems by
Braley is scheduled to hit the market in late fall of this year. Later
on in the conference Chris Tame of the Libertarian Alliance in London
(also ISIL Rep for the UK) followed up on this with a very popular
session on "The Politics of Art" (the latter available on tape).


DUTCH POLICE INSPECTOR SPEAK OUT AGAINST DRUG WAR
A very hard-hitting speech was delivered by Detective Superintendent of
Police Tim Bremmers of the Netherlands who spoke on "Legalization of
Drugs -- A Dutch Perspective". He described the reasoning of the Dutch
authorities in not pursuing a U.S.-styled War on Drugs and called for
complete legalization of drugs -- including all hard drugs. Prohibition,
he stated, turns a medical problem into a crime problem. (speech
available on tape or as a Word Perfect 5.1 word processor file -- DOS).


DEBATES ON THE EC
Nigel Ashford, Lecturer in Political Science from the UK argued the case
for the European Community. This definitely proved to be controversial
and, not unexpectedly, generated considerable spirited debate in the
question and answer period following his speech – as well as at the
workshops. (tapes of both available).


AND MUCH MORE
There were so many excellent talks that I feel guilty about not going
into great detail on all of them but alas, no time and no space. Tibor
Machan's lecture on "Two Kinds of Individualism and The Moral
Foundations of the Free Market" was voted the best session of the
conference by Brian Micklethwait of the British Libertarian Alliance
(tape available). Ingemar Nordin, Professor of Philosophy, Sweden spoke
on "Enlightenment and Social Engineering". ISIL's European coordinator
Hubert Jongen spoke on "A Strategy for Achieving Freedom Tomorrow." Ken
Schoolland spoke on "The Dark Side of Japanese Education"; Mary Ruwart
on "Government Intervention in Health Care"; Bruce Benson on "Justice
Without The State". Yves Montenay, Director of the Institute of Culture,
Economics and Management (France) spoke on "How Individual Rights are
Solving the World Population Problem". Olli Loukola, Philosopher at the
University of Helsinki entitled his speech "Why Stop Here?" and Dame
Barbara Shenfield, Chairman of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service,
spoke on "Welfare without the Welfare State."  Glenn Cripe of the
California Business Institute spoke on "Teaching Entrepreneurship".
Both speech and workshop available on tape.

There was also a movie night with the ever-present "Fountainhead", and
new this year was the "Dead Poet's Society" -- now a cult movie among
Swedish libertarians.

We particularly want to thank Brian Micklethwait of the Libertarian
Alliance (UK) for his brilliant, entertaining, witty speech at the
closing banquet. It was very inspiring indeed and left everyone with
especially positive and warm feelings about their involvement. Thanks
for tying the whole package together so nicely, Brian.


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After the ISIL Tallinn conference, forty members of our group set off
via night train to St. Petersburg, Russia. This train was somewhat of an
adventure for those used to Western standards of luxury accommodations.
The coaches were old and dilapidated -- a dirty drab olive color with
the old Soviet hammer & sickle emblems on the sides corroded or painted
over. The washrooms were indescribable. The stench in them was enough to
bring tears to ones eyes. There was a small broom in the washroom in our
car comprised of a bunch of twigs tied together with twine. As the train
bounced along over horribly maintained tracks, I noted that the
crossings were maintained by old peasant women with flags. They operated
manual gates -- it looked like a page out of another century. One of our
members dubbed the train the "Dr. Zhivago Express". Another of our group
scanned the night landscape with infra-red night-vision binoculars he
had picked up for a song at a street auction in Tallinn.

When we arrived in the early AM at the St. Petersburg train station, we
were greeted by a dingy, crumbling vista punctuated by a huge grey
"Leningrad" sign which obviously had not been torn down or changed since
the city's name was recently changed back to St. Petersburg.

The day was brightened by smiling Russian libertarians Dmitrii Costygin
and William Milonoff who met us at the platform. We were whisked off to
our hotel in a bus emblazoned with bright red Coca Cola advertising.

The next day Dmitrii was host for our Ayn Rand "roots" tour of St.
Petersburg. He pointed out landmarks from Rand's life and scenes
mentioned in the novel "We The Living". A photo in the printed version
of this newsletter shows a few of our group in front of Ayn Rand's
apartment building. The confused locals must have wondered what was
going on with crowds of tourists taking pictures and genuflecting around
their non-descript building. They will soon know and will no doubt erect
stands to sell copies of Atlas Shrugged before long. Members of our
group suggested taking up a collection to purchase a plaque for the
building.

At dinner that night Dmitrii unveiled the artwork for the covers of the
Russian versions of "We The Living", "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas
Shrugged". We were told that the first run of the Russian versions of
Mary Ruwart's "Healing Our World" and Ken Schoolland's "The Adventures
of Jonathan Gullible" in hard cover had filled the distribution channels
and that they were waiting anxiously to see how sales went. We brought
back a small number of the Russian Jonathan Gullible books.

On the evening of our last day in Russia we were addressed by Igor
Soshnikov and Vladimir Slavneishev, president and vice president of the
Free Democratic Party of Russia. They stated emphatically that their
main goal was to establish private property rights in Russia and to work
on drafting a new constitution via a constitutional congress. William
Milonoff acted as interpreter.

The day before, Dmitrii informed us that the Russian government had
passed a law making it mandatory for all businesses (including street
vendors) to have cash registers, presumably to provide a paper trail for
tax collection (do we detect the heavy hand of U.S. IRS trainers
here??). I mentioned that I thought that this was the stupidest thing I
had ever heard of -- to harass small businesses just struggling to get
off the ground in a precariously weak economy. William made the
following statement:

"Vincent! This is Russia -- not America. Is not police state. No one
will obey these laws!"

Perhaps it is true as Alan Bock wrote in the last issue of the Freedom
Network News that the levers of power in Russia are not connected to
anything important. No one seemed to have the slightest trust in
government or the banks or any formal institutions and business deals
were consummated with a wad of hard currency in one pocket backed up by
a gun in the other.

Even as we dined in St. Petersburg, drinking Azerbaijan champaigne and
superb Georgian red wines, Russia itself was coming unglued under what
is jokingly called the "Sinatra Doctrine" (they're going to do it "Their
Way"). The Vologda timber-producing region declared independence,
followed by Sverdlovsk (the coal-rich homeland of Boris Yeltsin)
followed by Irkutia (rich in minerals) and Yakutia (Siberian
treasurehouse with deposits of gold, diamonds and oil) -- plus many
others, including even the St. Petersburg area itself.

It is anyone's guess how this situation might unfold. It could very well
turn out to be a Balkanization process that could degenerate into
another Yugslavian-type bloodbath. Or perhaps the libertarians will have
enough influence to turn it into one happy big free trade zone.

A great opportunity for libertarians both in Russia and the growing
world ISIL network to influence the course of history..

All in all, like other ISIL conferences, this year's event combined
exotic adventure with the warm camaraderie and close atmosphere that
made it seem more like a family reunion than a conference. Also, as
with past events, it provided a environment out of which we are certain
there will emerge even more projects that will lead to the rapid spread
of the ideas of liberty.


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           REPORT ON FREEDOM CONFERENCE IN LITHUANIA
                By Steve Browne, Brwinow, Poland
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The week following the ISIL conference in Tallinn, Estonia there was
another conference held in the outskirts of the town of Trakai, near
Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.

The conference was sponsored by the Lithuanian Free Market Institute and
Club Nuomone ("Opinion" in Lithanian). It was aimed at a broader
spectrum of opinion than the more strictly Libertarian convention in
Tallinn and had many delegates from classical liberal groups in Sweden,
Denmark, and the Netherlands as well as from the Baltic countries. There
was also a Russian-speaking group from Belarus. Some sessions were held
both in English and Russian and a joint session was held with Anna
Ebeling serving as translator.

Though not purely a Libertarian gathering, the speaker lineup was
heavily loaded with such libertarian luminaries as ISIL Board members
Ken Schoolland and Mary Ruwart, and Future of Freedom Foundation
Director Richard Ebeling. The end result was that a lot of young
intellectuals from the European Liberal tradition got exposed to
Libertarian ideas and went home with a lot to think about.

NOTE: Steve Browne is now involved in a project to start a new private
college in Poland. He has been creating an English program in physics
and math and hopes they will coalesce with other similar projects to
form a new university.


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                       THANKS TO ISIL SPONSORS
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Our thanks to those of our members who helped spread the ideas of
liberty by sponsoring ISIL members from Central & Eastern Europe to
the Conference in Tallinn, Estonia.

Ed & Alicia Clark
Ron Dorsey
Mary Lou Gutscher
Hubert Jongen
Paul Lundberg
Arthur Prosser
Warren Roberts
Various anonymous

*** We are particularly grateful for the very generous assistance
provided by internationalist Sir Harry D. Schultz who helped ISIL
through a difficult financial crisis earlier in the year and enabled
ISIL execs to attend the Tallinn event.



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      ANNOUNCING ISIL'S 1994 WORLD CONFERENCE -- CANCUN, MEXICO
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I.S.I.L.'s next World Conference will be held in Cancun, Mexico from
October 23rd to 29th, 1994. We are just now putting together the speaker
lineup but the topics will stress Devolution & feature the world’s top
experts. There will also be emphasis on privatization and economic
development in Latin America.

The price for the week (including conference, hotel, 2 banquets, &
all meals) is $500.00 U.S.

** You can save $100 U.S. and qualify for the $400 U.S. "Early Bird"
rate if your registration is received by Dec 31, 1993. ($450 U.S.
if paid by March 31, 1994).

*** We are planning supplementary trips (including a visit the Mayan Ruins
and a 48-hr jaunt to Cuba). More details as to costs and availability
of low-cost air fares in future issues.

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[ ] Legalization of Drugs in Holland (Dutch Detective Superintendant
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[ ] Liberty, Decentralization, and the Power of Choice (Sen. John
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[ ] Politics and Art (Chris Tame/Libertarian Alliance - London, England)

[ ] The Libertarian Case for the European Community (Nigel Ashford/UK)

[ ] Two Kinds of Individualism and the Moral Foundations of the Free
Market (Tibor Machan/USA)

[ ] Entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe (Glenn Cripe/USA)

[ ] The Prospects for Liberty in Estonia (Aap Neljas, Member of Parliament,
Estonia)

[ ] Enlightenment and Social Engineering (Ingemar Nordin, Philosopher,
Sweden)

[ ] Individual Rights Can Solve The World Population Problem (Yves
Montenay/France)

[ ] Why Stop Here? (Olli Loukola/Philosopher University of Helsinki,
Finland)

[ ] The Dark Side of Japanese Education (Ken Schoolland/USA)

[ ] Government Intervention in Health Care: A Matter of Life and Death
(Dr. Mary Ruwart/USA)


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    AMERICA IN CRISIS -- Time To Finish The Revolution of 1776

             By Vincent H. Miller, President ISIL

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No one wins when freedom fails
The best men rot in filthy jails
And those who cried "Appease, Appease"
Are hanged by those they tried to please.

For as far back as I can remember, America has been viewed as the
"golden city on the hill" -- a shining beacon of liberty and hope for
the politically oppressed around the world. Sadly, times have changed
and the foundations of America’s great traditions of limited government
and individual liberty which made it the envy of the world have been
slowly and insidiously crumbling. Indeed in the face of unrelenting
criminal usurpations of power by centralized government over past years,
the republic now finds itself in a state of extreme danger. The
leviathan state in Washington D.C. has become an uncontrollable
monstrosity which threatens to reduce the great American experiment in
liberty to rubble.

Over the past few years we have watched in horror as the Bill of Rights
and the sacred institutions that we as Americans have revered for so
long have been trampled into the dust by the jackboots of a full-blown
fascist police state. Its mounting excesses, which now occur on a daily
basis, have become increasingly more brutal and obscene. There are now
dozens of state agencies that at any time can legally destroy virtually
anyone they please -- for no good reason at all.

The rights to due process of law have been crushed by RICO statutes and
civil asset forfeiture laws. Armed with this draconian legislation,
Federal and State agents have been engaged in an orgy of pillaging and
looting and even murder of innocent citizens across the country. Using
the War on Drugs as license, billions in assets -- homes, businesses,
bank accounts -- have been seized without any charges having been laid.
Peoples’ lives are being destroyed and their lives' work stolen while
corrupt police and government agency officials sit back and split the
loot among themselves.

America now has the largest per-capita prison population in the world --
even more than Russia or South Africa -- and most of these people have
not harmed anyone, but have failed merely to obey some government edict.
The chances of receiving a fair trial are now almost zero. Most people
do not get jury trials, and the rest are routinely railroaded into
guilty pleas (whether they are guilty or not) by plea-bargaining and the
threat of being charged under a number of barbaric and unconstitutional
laws.

The FDA (Food & Drug Administration) has been smashing down people’s
doors and seizing property because of new bans on vitamins(?!)

The Bureau of Land Management and the Environmental Protection Agency
has been harassing western farmers and ranchers and seizing their
properties under the flimsiest of pretexts.

We have all witnessed the horror of the Waco massacre in which some 100
men, women and children were murdered by BATF and FBI agents. As the
evidence now shows, the Branch Davidians were guilty of no crimes at
all. The BATF and FBI, were simply flexing their muscles. Now, the
so-called "Justice Department", in a mind-boggling display of arrogance,
has called for closure on the Freedom of Information Act and has moved
to seal public access to records on Waco indefinitely.

Last year BATF agents in Idaho laid siege to Randy Weaver's mountain
home, killing his wife, 14-year-old son and a friend.

Where is this all going to end? The answer is: it won't. It's getting
worse. And the minions of the super-state are becoming bolder and bolder
as they become more bloated and crazed with power.

As a result of gross political mismanagement the U.S. economy is headed
for meltdown -- and fast. We are in a deepening depression and there are
no self-correcting mechanisms to alleviate this crisis. It can only get
worse as the largest tax increase in the history of the world and
massive increases in government programs and regulations, now including
nationalized medicine, continue to bludgeon the economy into a state of
abject paralysis.

Are Americans aware that there are colonies of American businessmen
around the world who have fled the U.S. to try to escape the tax and
regulatory Hell that is America today? Do they know that former American
immigrants are now returning to their homelands in Eastern Europe – even
to China and South America – to escape the packs of U.S. bureaucratic
predators?

Do they know that the U.S. image abroad is that of an ogre, an Orwellian
"Big Brother", who demands tax ransom from its citizens who no longer
live in the U.S.? No other country taxes its citizens living abroad, but
the U.S. will track down its citizens to the ends of the earth to exact
its tribute.

At home the U.S. socialist welfare state is in the final stages of
collapse and a bankrupt federal government, desperate for funds to
expand and perpetuate its folly, has resorted to open looting of the
citizenry in order to fill its coffers. Particularly pernicious is the
practice of browbeating state governments into implementing Washington’s
overpriced and failed welfare programs (called federal mandates), while
leaving it to the states to raise the money.

Don Gorman (Libertarian) of the New Hampshire State legislature told me
recently that there isn't a single NH. legislator who isn't thoroughly
outraged over federal mandates. Members of State Legislatures across the
country look upon these mandates as blackmail by Washington.

IT'S TIME TO "JUST SAY NO"
Many people across the land have had it with the Nazi-like tactics of
the Federal Government. We keep hearing rumblings of revolution -- of
arms buildups in Texas and the Southwest. There is seething discontent
across the land with strong separatist movements building in Alaska,
Texas and Hawaii. There are partitioning movements in California,
Kansas/Oklahoma/Texas and Arizona/New Mexico. And the mood of the
electorate gets uglier by the day as the rounds of taxes, open looting
and terror increase unabated.

Adding considerably to the tension are the escalating (almost desperate)
attempts by Congress to disarm the people either by direct repeal of the
2nd Amendment or by making end-runs around it (licensing and taxing gun
dealers out of existence, selective disarmament, banning of ammunition,
etc.).

It should be noted that the 2nd Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms
was not meant to protect the rights of deer hunters to pursue their
sport in 1993. It was included by the Founding Fathers to ensure that
American citizens would have the means to wage armed revolution if the
government became corrupt or tyrannical. Hence, assault rifles with
large magazines, while undoubtedly unnecessary for deer hunting, are
indispensable to an armed insurrection.

The Declaration of Independence clearly states: "That whenever any form
of government becomes destructive of these ends [the unalienable rights
to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it..."

It is clear that the time has come for drastic measures. The present
crisis is not one that can be solved by simple fine-tuning or disbanding
a few rogue agencies such as the BATF.

The present government has become far too corrupt and beholden to vested
interests for the citizenry ever to hope of reforming it.

Former governor Bruce Babbit of Arizona remarked in recent years that it
is long past the time when we should "Dust off the Federalist Papers
and renew the debate that began with Jefferson and Hamilton."

We agree. The U.S. faces critical structural problems and unless
something is done to de-fang the beast in Washington, the whole
situation has the potential of eventually degenerating into civil war
and the breakup of the nation.

The one greatest danger facing Americans is that a breakup of The United
States of America could bring about a collapse of civil order not unlike
that which occurred with the French Revolution. We saw in the Los
Angeles riots that a breakdown of order was used as license by
minorities to declare open season on their traditional enemies. The
prospects for a Balkanization of America with a Yugoslavian-styled
bloodbath are very strong. For this reason libertarians should consider
pushing very hard now for sweeping constitutional reforms -- and
particularly for a major devolution of power. The States will be our
allies in this. Remember Magna Carta.

DEVOLUTION: THE SOLUTION
If it's any consolation to Americans, theirs is not the only empire to
fracture in recent years. As John Naisbitt predicted in "Megatrends" the
death of the nation-state has become a global trend nowadays with the
U.S.S.R. and now Russia breaking up. Canada faces imminent crack-up with
Quebec seceding (with the western provinces soon to follow). Harry
Schultz, in his excellent book "On Remaking The World -- Cutting Nations
Down to Size", lists dozens of countries in which centralized authority
is dissolving.

Thus the problems we face are not unique -- and indeed some very good
minds have been busy working on solutions. Probably the best known
advocates of devolution are our own Leon Louw and Frances Kendall who
through their books "South Africa: The Solution", "Let The People
Govern" and "Heart of the Nation" (available through Freedom's Forum
Books), promoted the Swiss canton model in South Africa. Louw has had
major input into the drafting of a new constitution for his country.

ISIL member Scott Reid of Canada has written a popular book (inspired by
Louw and Kendall) entitled "Canada Remapped" which deals with devolution
of power and the partitioning of Canada. In it, he provides excellent
background on partitionings (unsuccessful ones such as Northern Ireland
and Yugoslavia) and one successful one (Switzerland). Reid, an American
Indian, also calls for sovereignty for Indian tribes -- an idea that is
gradually becoming a cause celŠbre in the USA. For years the Bureau of
Indian Affairs has been treating Indians much like the BATF has begun to
treat the rest of us.

Another excellent book is "The Vermont Papers" by former State Senator
John McClaughry. In it he provides a history of Vermont and the
Swiss-styled system of town-hall government that has existed since
before the Revolution. It lists in detail how federal and state
governments gradually wrested decision-making from the people in order
to build their own political empires.

Last, but not least is Harry Schultz's book, "On Remaking The World --
Cutting Nations Down to Size. ($19.95 at FFB).

THE GOAL OF ISIL
We at ISIL are committed to mapping out devolution strategies that
should be of value to the U.S. as well as to most of our members in
other parts of the world. A special ISIL pamphlet on this subject is now
under development to help popularize the idea. The subject will also be
investigated in depth at our 1994 world conference in Cancun, Mexico.

Elements of this progam include:

* The need for a nationwide Tax Revolt to bring about elimination of
the Income Tax & to end Federal Mandates.

* Massive privatization -- including the Public School System and Social
Security (see ISIL pamphlet on SS -- enclosed with this FNN)

* The study of partitioning movements.

* Support of sovereignty for Native Peoples.

We invite member input and support of this important work.
Carpe diem!


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             U.S. Libertarian Party National Convention
                      SALT LAKE CITY REPORT
                     Labor Day Weekend, 1993
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                          By Jim Elwood

As if the Tallinn/St. Petersburg conference and tour wasn't enough for
one month, the action continued with the ISIL staff making a very
visible appearance at the Libertarian Party national convention in Salt
Lake City, Utah over the Labor Day weekend. We manned a large booth at
which literature and books from ISIL’s Freedom’s Forum Books were
aggressively promoted.

The Salt Lake convention was like "old home week" for ISIL veterans
Vince Miller and Jim Elwood. It was so much fun to meet very many old
friends and make new ones from among the 700 attendees. It was also very
heartening to hear so many rave reviews of ISIL's work, especially
regarding the pamphlet series -- which continues to sell (on average) by
the thousands each week! Vince and I were invited to sit at the head
table at the final gala banquet, and received an enthusiastic round of
applause from the large crowd when we were introduced. It was the first
LP national convention for ISIL assistants Geoffrey Erikson and Tim
Starr, who both took good advantage of the chance to meet movement
luminaries and to revel in the politicking and partying.

Stars of the movement were present in great numbers. Convention
organizer Bob Waldrop assembled a powerful "Who's Who" lineup of
movement speakers (over 70 in all). Just a few of the notables were
Thomas Szasz, Robert Anton Wilson, L. Neil Smith, Mark Skousen, John
Hospers and Ron Paul. ISIL President Vince Miller did a session on
devolution and secession movements around the U.S.A. and the world. ISIL
Director Jarret Wollstein presented evidence of the rising American
police state – with emphasis on the horrors of civil asset forfeiture
laws. New ISIL director Mary Ruwart made six speeches and participated
in panel discussions on libertarian community and health care issues.
Don Ernsberger did a marvellous job as MC of the auction-style "Pyramid
of Power" fundraiser at the final banquet. This raised $28,000 for the
LP. Convention tapes are available from Morning Glory Productions, P.O.
Box 526175, Salt Lake City, UT 84152. USA. Phone and fax: + (801)
582-3318.

One breakthrough development was that this was the first time for a
sitting U.S. Senator to address an LP convention. Utah Republican
Senator Orrin Hatch addressed the convention on his "Health Freedom Act"
which would substantially limit the power of the Food and Drug
Administration to restrict access to vitamin and nutritional
supplements. Generally, the audience gave Hatch a warm welcome, but they
also let him know when there was disagreement.

As always, there was a lot of politicking at the convention. With no
presidential elections, the focus was on internal debates over party
strategy. This conflict between ideology and pragmatism has occurred off
and on over the years, but it came back to the fore after the
disappointing 291,000 vote total of the Marrou/Lord campaign last year.
A faction called the Committee for a Libertarian Majority (CLM) called
for changes that would move the Libertarian Party marketing strategy
more into the current mainstream of American politics. The controversial
elements of their proposals were the abolition of the non-aggression
membership pledge, and the abandonment of the main party platform in
favor of a short term issue-oriented program. They also called for
narrowing the party mission statement to solely electoral political
activity. The proposals were initially passed as a resolution by the
National Committee at their meeting in Atlanta in December 1992.

Passage of this "Atlanta Statement" set off a firestorm of debate around
the party throughout the winter and spring. A group called "Principled
Libertarians Endorsing Diversity, Growth and Effectiveness" (PLEDGE)
arose to preserve the platform and pledge. The debate became utterly
vicious in some quarters, although responsible leaders on both sides
agreed on the need for some changes -- such as a more positive
benefits-oriented marketing strategy, and agreed to some technical
compromises.

Most of the party membership sided with PLEDGE on the controversial
issues. This was also evidenced in much of the voting at the convention.
One of the more bizarre events was the race for chair. A tough job, it
had attracted only one major candidate prior to the convention --
sitting Vice-Chair Steve Dasbach, a prominent member of CLM. After
PLEDGE leaders failed to find a prominent member who would run for
chair, an insurgency developed which put forward a 14-year-old girl,
Natalie Lloyd as a protest candidate. She ended up getting about a
quarter of the votes for chair, while "None of the Above" also did well.
Dasbach won, but by a thin margin.

Despite the infighting, it appeared that the party is staying in one
piece. Many horror stories of government abuse and harassment of
libertarians (and others) helped focus on the real challenges facing the
party and the broader libertarian movement.

It will be almost three years until the next Libertarian Party
convention, since the decision was made to hold the presidential
convention in the election year, instead of the year before. This event
will be held in Dallas, Texas over the 4th of July weekend, 1996.

In the meantime, the best chance for North American libertarians to get
together will be at the 1994 ISIL World Convention in Cancun, Mexico --
October, 1994.


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                       POLISH TOWN GOES PRIVATE
             Free-Market Mayor More Radical Than Thatcher
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                          By RADEK SIKORSKI
                          in Kamien Pomorski

'Mrs Thatcher tried her best to reform the British economy, but we’re
more radical here,' says Stefan Oleszczuk, mayor of Kamien Pomorski, a
town of 15,000 in north-western Poland.

Wearing a black bow-tie, and sitting under a vault in his 15th-century
town hall office, the young former grocer holds forth good-naturedly –
occasionally tapping a small booklet by Ludwig von Mises, the Austrian
precursor of Hayek and Friedman.

'What we need is a capitalist counter-revolution. Socialism, whether of
the Bolshevik or the Brussels variety, must be banished,' he says.
Kamien’s municipal free-marketeering is in the forefront of Polish
economic reforms. Privatisation received a setback recently when the
Polish parliament threw out the government's latest plans, but already
more Poles work in the private than in the public sector of the economy.

The zloty (made convertible in 1990) is relatively firm and, alone in
central Europe, Poland last year registered modest growth. In
recognition, the IMF last week signed a new agreement with Poland which
will provide new credit and boost investor confidence.

But what still stifles a fuller recovery is the legacy of communism at
the grass roots: confused property rights, slow bureaucratic routines
and, above all, officials still instinctively (and determinedly)
suspicious of private enterprise.

In my own home district of Szubin in western Poland, I have been
fighting the local council for three years now for the right to buy a
piece of land the size of a tennis court.

In Kamien, however, shops are already owned privately rather than leased
from the council, and housing is next. The upkeep of council flats has
traditionally eaten up between a quarter and a third of the town’s
budget, but families will now be able to buy their dwellings for between
50 pounds and 100 pounds -- not much, even here.

In most Polish towns, the authorities still try to guide the market’s
hand, prescribing which shops should sell what. 'We cannot allow the
neighbourhood to have only hi-fi shops and no grocers,' one supposedly
pro-market Warsaw politician once insisted.

In Kamien, all licences -- including those for the sale of alcohol --
are up for grabs. Even the local Kamien police station has a licence to
retail liquor. After an initial outcry, it turned out that illegal
drinking dens had vanished and that alcoholism had actually decreased.
This is despite the fact that competition has driven down the price of
booze.

Notary offices, refuse collection and road maintenance have all been
contracted out. And while the central government's bureaucracy has grown
by 40 per cent in the last three years, Kamien’s council staff has been
halved. 'Ideally,' says Oleszczuk, 'there should only be me, my
secretary and the nightwatchman.'

More controversially, the town's only kindergarten has also been shut.
'There were only three toddlers and 14 staff to look after them,' says
the mayor. 'I decided that it would be cheaper to provide individual
nannies.' The town saved 20,000 pounds a year.

Initial outcry also greeted the withdrawal of subsidies for libraries,
sports facilities and cultural activities. 'We are not in the business
of skimming the average taxpayer to subsidise the intelligentsia,' says
Mr Oleszczuk. 'Those who like culture can pay for it. If we leave their
own money in their pockets they’ll be able to afford to do so.'

Kamien is the venue of a prestigious international organ music festival.
This year, the chairmanship of the organising committee has been put up
for auction: bidding will start at pounds 15,000.

'Our ambition is to have the smallest budget possible. A zloty spent by
the citizen is 40 per cent more effective than a zloty spent by the
council,' argues Mr Oleszczuk.

Consequently, Kamien has the lowest local taxes in the region of
Szczecin. Yet, even though Mr Oleszczuk’s team inherited a budget
deficit in 1990, the accounts now show a surplus. A recent audit showed
Kamien spends a higher proportion of its revenue on investment than any
other town in the region: a sewage treatment plant is being finished,
roads are being recobbled and the modernisation of sewers is under
consideration.

A few remaining state companies, such as the local milk-processing
plant, are going bust, but private business is booming. Hundreds of new
small companies are registered in the town each year and economic growth
is the highest in the region: 70 per cent last year. Domestic capital is
flowing in and a French company is planning to build a hotel and a spa.

Kamien is in many ways a typical Polish small town, situated on the
banks of an estuary close to the Baltic Sea. Remnants of former
prosperity -- a cathedral of Romanesque origins, medieval city walls and
the ancient town hall - jostle for space with ugly concrete council
blocks.

Marks of the 1989 revolution are still visible: a new sign proclaiming
Hospital Street has replaced Lenin Street; Dzierzinski Street is now
Old Town Street and, perhaps most tellingly, Warynski Street (after
a 19th-century Polish communist) has been renamed Bank Street.

Seen on LIBERNET DIGEST. Published originally in The Sunday Telegraph
London, England


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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who
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                  DR. PETR BECKMANN, 1924-1993

Petr Beckmann died August 3, 1993 at the age of 68. He was born in
Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1924 where he lived until he had to flee the
Nazis in 1939. During WW-II he served in the Czech squadron of the RAF,
1942-45. After the war he returned to Prague, received a B.Sc. in
Electrical Engineering in 1949, a Ph.D. in 1955, and also a D.Sc. from
the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1962.
        In 1963 he was invited to the University of Colorado as a
visiting Professor and refused to return behind the Iron Curtain. He
became a U.S. citizen, married Irene Muller in 1965, and was appointed a
Full Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1981, he took early
retirement with Emeritus status, in order to devote himself fully to the
defense of science, technology and free enterprise through his monthly
newsletter Access to Energy. He founded the Golem Press in 1967,
publishing more than 9 books. These included "The History of Pi",
"Einstein Plus 2", and "Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear". He wrote
more than 60 scientific papers and 8 technical books. Dr. Beckmann spoke
at I.S.I.L.'s San Francisco Conference in 1990 where he received a
standing ovation for his speech in which he attacked "sham
environmentalists".
        His Access to Energy was always hard-hitting and his style, like
him, feisty. We loved his attacks on Ralph Nader, his favorite bete
noir, as well as the incisive manner in which he demolished
environmental frauds. He was a friend and a great fighter and we will
miss him.


                      HENRY HAZLITT, 1894-1993

On July 9, 1993 Henry Hazlitt, one of the all-time greats of the
libertarian movement died. He was just one year short of reaching his
100th birthday.
        Back in the early days of the movement, when it was difficult to
find adequate introductory-level books on free-market economics, many
budding libertarians, myself included, cut our teeth on Henry Hazlitt's
remarkable book "Economics in One Lesson". Now a libertarian classic, it
has sold a million copies since it was first published in 1946 and it
continues to be on our "must" reading list. He also wrote and edited
seventeen other books, including "The Failure of the 'New Economics'"
and "The Foundations of Morality".

"I watched with awe and admiration how Henry Hazlitt . . . never failed
to find eloquent words and lucid composition to dwell upon economic
subjects. He, more than any other English writer I knew, wrote as the
common people speak, but thought as wise men do."
Hans F. Sennholz, President of the Foundation for Economic Education

A great man who lived a full life and left his mark, for the better,
on the world.



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