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In my very early days in the Libertarian movement I encountered a publication entitled
The Libertarian Handbook 1973 (Vincent McCaffrey and Mark Frazier, editors; published by Avenue Victor Hugo, Boston, Massachusetts). It was a useful catalog/guide of organizations, services, publications, and related pre-Internet networking tools. It also had a few essays or articles of a philosophical bent. One of these has firmly stuck in my mind since I first read it decades ago. It vigorously put forth the case that the Libertarian movement would remain merely a side show academic exercise or parlor game until it focused upon the real nature of the military hierarchical command structure of obedience and deference to higher authority of the National Security State. Until legions of Libertarian “George Pattons” within the military who seriously took their Oath of Allegiance “to defend the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign
british life has not had such smooth sailing. the bbc s rory kellen-jones has this story. reporter: 1986 and the groundbreaking scheme is recording daily life in britain. the first thing we want to do is put in the amenity count. how do we do that? reporter: the doomsday project gathered up schoolchildren, women s institutes and other groups to describe their area in words and pictures. this is user-generated content. and it was a bit like google maps as you would say now but all of this is 25 years ago where all of this had to be invented. reporter: now some of those involved are getting a chance to look at what they wrote then. i m 8 and i like fashionable clothes like jumpsuits. i still like fashionable clothes but not quite like jumpsuits. but it s bizarre just reading that because it s completely different to what i remember. reporter: the idea was that every school and library would end up with one of these doomsday systems. made up of a bbc microcomputer and state-