Libertarian Party of Connecticut

By Marc Guttman

A supposed Chinese curse says may you live in interesting times. Well, the 21st century so far has not disappointed with depressed economies, wars overseas, and authoritarianism and cronyism at home.

But, we can make these curses into blessings. Already there has been stiff shifts in public opinion and conventional wisdom and massive grassroots movements to activism. Governments surely govern by the consent of the governed, and the governed lately are expressing their disapproval en masse.

Tax resistance increased early in the century by individuals unwilling to support U.S. government wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, believing them to be immoral actions. These military interventions, the government argues, are in response to the massacre innocents suffered on 9-11 (itself a response to U.S. government military activities over several decades) and the war on terrorists that the government claims encompasses a global battlefield
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