Only Slaves Respect The Limit: TDV Week in Review December 1st, 2013
Speeding is Spontaneous Order
I drive a lot these days. (Those of you who tuned into TDV Homegrown in time for the recent release of the November issue know why.) So I spend many hours of each day marveling at how inanely restrictive and commonly ignored the government speed limits are.
Everywhere I drive, people routinely and safely exceed the posted speed limits by about 30%. And they’re right to do it! Every 25 mph zone is safely handled at 30-35. Every 55 mph stretch makes 70 mph feel natural. The 70 mph zones are the most sensible and people barely exceed that limit because that’s about the limit at which most people can handle their vehicles safely even under ideal conditions. Even then, however, 80-85 mph is also perfectly manageable for a significant percentage of drivers.
So we all fly along at speeds we can actually manage given our level of driving skill and the road conditions, particularly the width and straightness of the road along with lack of obstacles and potential slower-moving incidentals (like deer or human pedestrians). We use the roads at the speeds for which they were actually designed.
But every now and then we all come across an armed predator whose vehicle is wrapped in the local gang colors and who is looking to run down, corner, and extort from those going above the local gang’s limit and we slow way down. This impedes us all in the completion of our intended commercial or personal goals while also creating much more danger on the road.
It drives me nuts how people are inherently anarchist on the road, policing themselves, trusting their own judgments while ignoring the government’s rules and organizing themselves, yet willing to bow and scrape and admit they were wrong when one of the state’s enforcers appears and forces them over at gunpoint to demand money for going along at completely safe speeds!
Ignore for just a moment all the other arguments for anarchism and pure free markets. You’d think the daily example of the beauty of self-organization and the destructive, criminal interference of state enforcers to flex muscle and collect cash would get people to start thinking.
What drives me really nuts, however, are those people who actually strictly obey the speed limits on major highways. All the time.
Even the uniformed thugs don’t bother people going five miles or so over the limit (if only because it’s better for their quotas to devote their limited harassment time to those driving the fastest). It takes some serious authority-worship to make a man consistently drive the speed limit. It reveals a mind so whipped that it throws reason out to make as much room as possible for obedience.
If you’re stuck in the USSA, you have to grab your freedom where you can. Ignoring the speed limit is one small way to empower yourself. Slow down where you know the uniformed predators lie in wait, but wherever and whenever you can, drive at the speed that suits the road conditions and your level of comfort. Speed for liberty’s sake.
Regards,
Gary Gibson
Editor, The Dollar Vigilante
P.S. Those who signed up in time for the November issue of TDV Homegrown will know why I’ve had cause to be on the road so much these past few months. It’s something I wish I’d done years ago and Homegrown readers will know why, and how to apply my experience in their own lives.
If you haven’t signed up for Homegrown yet, then you’ve been missing out on our best “boots on the ground” advice for surviving and flourishing anarchist-style right in the belly of the bankrupt police state. Find out more about signing up here.
Before we get to the review, I wanted to briefly mention a new initiative from my other project, the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Canada. Mises Canada is excited to announce the first annual Rothbard University, a 3-day collection of lectures, courses, and engaged discourse about the Austrian school of economics this July 16-19 on the campus of the Universoty of Toronto.
Rothbard University will be the first instructional program of its kind in Canada, and will be led by a faculty made up of some of the most progressive and respected economics academics in the world. Selected students will be attend this program without cost. Spaces are limited, so if you’re interested, or someone you know is interested, have a look at the program’s webpage here.
Now, on a busy Sunday, let’s have a look at what you missed in November’s TDV Homegrown.
First, Gary reflected upon how he may have made different decisions about debt, work, and surviving the economy, and had some interesting conclusions.
Amanda Hooper followed with a call for a Christmas boycott, and who could blame her?
Next, as he does in all of our subscriber-only publications, Jeff Berwick rounded up absurdities of statism from around the globe.
And finally, Dear Slavey, TDV’s resident advice columnist, prepared us for the collapse of the government.
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Here’s what we wrote about this week…
MONDAY, November 25
After Assault on Alex Jones in Dallas Another Texan Looks to Secede
Kevin Schmidt reflects upon the protests in Dallas during the JFK death anniversary, and considers how his state as fallen.
“This past Friday was the darkest day in my life, giving proof to my worst fears.
Friday was a cold rainy day in Dallas, and Alex Jones called his listeners to march in a peaceful protest on Dealey Plaza (where JFK was killed) to help fight the powers that be from completely strangling our First Amendment (Free Speech) rights, and I was proud to be among them. Anyone who was not invited by the Mayor, or who disagreed with the official government story about the murder of JFK, was not allowed to enter public property during the government-sponsored event.”
TUESDAY, November 26
Lies, Damned Lies, and Government Statistics
Christopher P. Casey considers how the government deceives with its curious numbers game.
“As of October 2013, unemployment stood at 7.3%. Notwithstanding the previous month’s rate of 7.2%, this represented its lowest level since December 2008 (7.3%) which appears an impressive rebound given its peak of 10.0% (October 2009). But the Labor Participation Rate, the statistic which measures the actively employed percentage of an economy’s work force, stands at a mere 62.8% (October) – a level not observed since 1978. The discrepancy? Literally millions of discouraged unemployed workers having ceased looking for work. In BLS calculations, if you do not have a job, you are unemployed. But if you have been looking for years and have become so disillusioned as to end your efforts, you are no longer unemployed – but you still do not have a job.”
WEDNESDAY, November 27
Crash You F#cker: Reactions to Bitcoin Soundly Breaking 900
Gary Gibson on Bitcoin’s upward trend.
“Yesterday afternoon Bitcoin broke through the 900 USD mark with so much momentum that it made my ears pop.
I keep a realtime bitcoin price tab open at all times these days. One second the price was bouncing around $880 or so and the next it was over $930. As of this writing the USD price is batting its head against $970, just inches away from $1000. I wonder if by the time this goes to “print” whether $1000 will have been broken…or if those four significant digits will prove to be the barrier off which the Bitcoin price bounces and crashes.”
THURSDAY, November 28
Unemployed and Deployed in America
Wendy McElroy discusses unemployment the world round, and the lies about it in the US.
“Unemployment will be a global tipping point in 2014, and America will tip as well. Europe is already panicking about the likelihood of young people rioting in the streets next summer. The 17-nation Eurozone is predicting severe riots due to soaring unemployment, especially among the young. In September, the Eurozone’s general unemployment rate was 12.2%; the rate for young workers was 24.1%. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, youth unemployment is nearly 60% in Greece, 55% in Spain and 40 percent in Italy and Portugal.
Last month, violence broke out between police and tens of thousands of protesters who marched in Rome against unemployment and austerity; the French held similar mass rallies last month as well. Greece and Spain seem to have been protesting for most of 2013.”
FRIDAY, November 29
After All That Turkey, Invest in Turkeys (Like Jim Rogers)
Jeff Berwick with a post-Thanksgiving reminder that food is always a great investment.
“As many of our American readers are slowing waking up from their tryptophan, or more like “massive meal with gravy and wine”, we thought we might again point out that all that food in front of them this Thanksgiving may also be the best investment to survive The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It (TEOTMSAWKI).”
SATURDAY, November 30
The Weekend Vigilante — November 30, 2013: Freedom, Bitcoin and China
Jeff Berwick, back in Acapulco Bay, with his weekly address to TDVers.
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Whistler Blowers, Insiders
The 30 mph limit is there for a reason being based on a pedestrian childs chance of surviving an impact. At 20mph it is 90%, dropping to less than 50% at 30 mph, your speeding close to 40 mph in a 30 zone will kill the child. As an adult what you choose to do on the freeway is your own concern and that of the local sherriff, but in the suburbs you have become a risk.