Important For Anarcho-Capitalists on the fence

Vote for Ron Paul! I have come to the firm decision that voting is NOT immoral and that there is nothing wrong with voting, the problem lies with democracy. Lew Rockwell said that the act of voting is superfluous, and I agree, that no one vote will matter. Tom Woods on the other hand countered Lew Rockwell (in an unrecorded session at the Mises Institute) that Ron Paul is worth voting for. His counter is based on his view that 5 or 6 people could be dissuaded from voting because of what Lew Rockwell was saying. Don't get me wrong, Lew Rockwell fully supports Ron Paul, he is just not willing to vote for him. It sounds rather strange unless you happen to be an anarcho-capitalist who believes that the best policy for individuals is disengagement from the government.

There is no rational way, at this moment, to fully disengage. The state is wound so tightly into our lives that disengagement would require starvation. Furthermore an anarcho-capitalist society does not spawn from the breakdown of the state. When states have collapsed in the past no anarcho capitalist society ensued. What I propose is a different path to a more anarcho-capitalist society. A way to wean us off the milk of the state (the sour nasty virus filled milk). We should all vote for Ron Paul! Ron Paul has an outside chance of winning. Momentum IS building. Two things have happened to me in the past two days that have convinced me.
First, I was talking to a regular customer in Tipton's Gas America (where I work) and asked him, out of the blue, who he was going to vote for. He replied that "Ron Paul is his man." I was slightly stunned. I then told him that I too was a Ron Paul fan and the roundabout way that I heard of Ron Paul. Most people know Ron Paul apart from the sound Austrian School of economic thought, they know him as a politician and a libertarian who ran in the 80's. I know Ron Paul only through the Ludwig von Mises Institute. I explained that Paul has sound economic doctrine which he derived from Mises. The old guy went on to say the he used to read a lot of Mises in his younger years. What a surprise.

Today I went to Indiana University Kokomo to start research for a paper I plan on writing about Wallstreet and it's formation. On my way out I met this lady who was sporting a Ron Paul t-shirt and pin handing out papers about Ron Paul. I thought this was incredible and went on to say that I didn't need a paper because I was already going to vote for Ron Paul. Needless to say (if you know the passion that goes in to supporting Ron Paul) she gave me a handful of papers and bumperstickers.... and business cards to distribute.

Unfortunately I let a few of those bumperstickers slip into the hands of some 9-11 truthers that are also my friends. After giving them about 10 of them they told me they were going to put them on a bunch of people's cars (without their knowledge). Fortunately I convinced them to limit their sticker rampage to public property only, something the Ron Paul campaign would be utterly against but may catch the eye of other young people. (Edit note: The bumper stickers are safely stowed away from distructive influence)

There is something more to be said of these young and old people leading this dispersed campaign. The leaders of meetup groups are held in high regard and in high esteem. These guys are the people who are going to get the anarcho-capitalist movement, or minarchist movement, going in the right direction. This campaign is already More than legendary. For some people it is their last shot at something great. Older people see that liberty in their lifetime MAY be possible. Younger people are also taking this seriously in a way that young people often do. It is sad that we have to fight this hard to free ourselves from the clutches of government interventionism, but, ALAS, Ron Paul seems to be our only hope. By saying Ron Paul I really mean all those who care about liberty and sound economics, he is an idea, NO LONGER A PERSON.

--George Edwards