Liberty rests on the fact that no one can aggress against another.  You have a right to your body and do with it what you see fit so long as you don’t aggress against another’s body.  This must be understood to understand economics.  Politics can’t be understood without understanding economics.  Politics is just chaotic muddle if you don’t understand property.  Liberty means adherence to property rights.

The only right you have is to use your body how you see fit.  As Gustave de Molinari pointed out, “Private property is redundant.  Public property is an oxymoron.  All legit property is private.  If property isn’t private it’s stolen.”  The ones who favor private property are the only consistent ones.  You can’t be moral if you aren’t consistent.  No one has a special right to violate property.

Those who favor liberty emphatically oppose violations of property rights.  All crimes are violations of only these rights.  One where there is a victim.  Victimless crimes are fictitious and an aggression, a crime by the enforcer of this invented crime.  No group gets a special sanction to commit crimes.  The invention of victimless crimes is reprehensible.  Those who favor liberty must point out the emperor has no clothes.

The court intellectuals disguise support for statism in equations and graphs.  I’m sure they didn’t get interested in economics because of their love of these.  If they did in fact love these, they would’ve become mathematicians.  Moreover, the economics profession hides these equations and graphs behind physics terms.  The math makes it look confusing and the physics terms makes it look credible.  The only way to view economics is through property.

Only the state acquires revenue through violence on a massive scale.  If you don’t think that’s a crime, you’re welcome to try to keep your own money or rob other people of theirs.  You’re welcome to try counterfeiting.  It won’t turn out well if you try these.  We can, as defenders of liberty and freedom, demystify state actions and educate the public.  We must shine a light on the mystified banditry.

References

Murray Rothbard; For a New Liberty

Murray Rothbard; Rothbard Reader