AN ABC - AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR
by J. M. Zube, 1975,
slightly revised, after scanning, in October 2,001.
A HANDBOOK OF IDEAS ON THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR
WAR,
PROPOSING:
DISSOLUTION OF THE WARFARE STATE
THROUGH EXTENSION OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES AND
RESPONSIBILITIES.
FREEDOM VERSUS THE ULTIMATE OF STATISM NUCLEAR
HOLOCAUST.
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UNRESTRICTED INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES,
INCLUDING E.G.:
MONETARY FREEDOM, FREE MIGRATION, FREE TRADE, VOLUNTEER MILITIAS,
RIGHT TO RESIST, RIGHT AND DUTY TO DESERT FROM A DICTATORSHIP,
TYRANNICIDE, MILITARY INSURRECTIONS, RIGHTFUL GOVERNMENTS IN EXILE,
EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY FOIL ALL VOLUNTEER COMMUNITIES BASED ON
INDIVIDUAL SECESSION, DECISION ON WAR AND PEACE BY THE PEOPLE,
ALSO ON: UNILATERAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, UNILATERAL PEACE
DECLARATIONS, SEPARATE PEACE TREATIES, DESTRUCTION OF ALL NUCLEAR
REACTORS AND ON RIGHTFUL WAR AIMS.
THESE AND MUCH MORE ARE HERE DESCRIBED AS GUARANTIES AGAINST NUCLEAR
WAR.
YOU COULD HELP TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR BUT SO FAR YOU STILL DISAGREE
WITH MOST OF THE ABOUT 500 SUGGESTIONS MADE HERE.
PEACE PLANS series, combined issues 16 18, PLAN No. 251, 1.000 impressions, 1975,
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CONTENTS:
AN ABC AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR: PEACE PLANS 1618, plan No. 251
Pages Appx. Headings
1 4 INTRODUCTION
5 199 ALPHABETICAL ENCYCLOPAEDIC SECTION
200 208 1 SUMMARY
208 209 2 IDEAS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR
209 211 3 WHAT DOES REALLY MAKE FOR NUCLEAR WAR?
212 4 A LISTING OF WRONG IDEAS
213 216 5 STEPS TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR
216 6 THREE STEPS TOWARDS NUCLEAR WAR PREVENTION
217 7 FROM PARTICULAR SINGLE STEPS ALL ELSE COULD FOLLOW
217 8 THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE POINT FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR
WAR
218 9 WHAT HAS THIS PROGRAM IN COMMON WITH AT LEAST SOME OTHERS?
219 10 IN WHAT POINTS DOES THIS PROGRAM DIFFER FROM MOST OTHERS?
219 11 SECTIONS OMITTED IN THIS BOOK .
219 221 12 SOME NOTES AND COMMENTS BY ULRICH VON BECKERATH
222 13 A SHORT LIST OF RELATED SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS
222 14 SOME OF THE RELATED PEACE PLANS SO FAR PUBLISHED
223 233 15 PANARCHY
234 237 16 NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY &
DEFENSIVE APP APPEALS
238 240 17 RAILWAY MONEY & NUCLEAR WAR THREAT,
REVOLUTION AND RELIGION
241 244 18 MILITARY JIU JITSU OR: HOW CHINESE SOLDIERS DETERMINED
THE LIMITS MILITARY OBEDIENCE
244 246 19 LET US TURN WARS INTO ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
246 250 20 DEMOCRATIC NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
250 256 21 SOME DETAILS ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT BY THE PEOPLE
256 257 22 SOME EDITORIAL NOTES
258 260 23 INDEX OF THE HEADLINES OF THE ALPHABETICAL SECTION
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INTRODUCTION
WE STILL LIVE IN THE SHADOW OF THE BOMB AND YET WE GO ON IGNORING IT.
WHY?
That there is a danger of nuclear war is common knowledge. There are only disagreements as to how
large and how acute the danger is.
Nobody appears to believe that there are no risks involved at all and yet at the same time nobody seems
to value his own Life and that of mankind enough to draw the conclusion that no matter how small this
manmade risk might be, one should not take such a risk with the survival of mankind, no more so than
one would wager the lives of ones children in a social game of chance. The democratic "law and order"
system and despotic state socialism, both supposedly defended by nuclear weapons, have both their
popular appeal but do not, objectively, justify risking nuclear war. Neither the "socialist" societies of
the East nor the "free" societies of the West are worth defending because, among many other reasons,
both make for nuclear war. Thus they really deserve each other and would not do each other wrong if
they wiped themselves out in a holocaust. But what about all their nonconsenting and yet conscripted
victims?
Is there anything more important to think about than how to deprive all those, who prepared for nuclear
war and keep society at its brink, of all their warmaking powers?
DESTROY ALL NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND EVERYTHING THAT MAKES FOR THEM!
Nothing but the complete destruction of all nuclear weapons, their manufacturing facilities and the
prevention of their rebuilding will assure our survival.
How could this be achieved?
At present everything has been done to bring about nuclear war soon and as yet nothing effective has
been done to prevent it.
Governments are unable to prevent nuclear war.
They have done what they could do and still do what they can do.
Everybody can see what can be achieved in this way.
New paths must be taken.
They consist mainly out of selfhelp and disobedience measures, leading to the destruction of all
nuclear weapons,
and of steps replacing all institutions making these "weapons" by free and peaceful alternative
institutions.
THE MOST IMMORAL AND IRRATIONAL BET:
It is selfevident that real threats, large or small, do not go away by ignoring them, by hoping for the
best or by relying on myths. And yet, this is apparently the common practice towards the nuclear threat.
Everybody bets his whole property, his Life, the Lives of his family members, those of all his friends
and the future of mankind on his opinion that either
1. nuclear war will not occur or
2. that it would not be so bad after all or
3. that he couldn't prevent it anyhow.
There is no truth in the first supposition. Presuming that no radical social changes take place it will
occur rather sooner than later.
The second opinion amounts merely to hoping for the best, no matter how much the laws of chance and
of war gaming are against it.
But there is some truth in the third supposition if the present situation is accepted as unchangeable.
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APATHY
People are apathetic because they are at present powerless to act directly upon the danger.
Moreover they are apathetic because they are still too ignorant to act indirectly, getting themselves at
first into a position from which they could do something directly to abolish this danger. This should not
surprise us because they experienced only a society which gives tem no power at all in this sphere and
they are ignorant of the peaceful characteristics of a free nonstatist society because in the state's
education system they are not even taught a glimpse of this alternative vision.
POWERLESSNESS
People are powerless because, among other things, they are not organized, trained and armed militarily
for the protection of their rights and because all other essential powers are also centralized away from
them.
Their powerlessness rests largely on ignorance and this ignorance is understandable because:
a) since tribal times they were never given responsibilities regarding external policies and war, peace,
armament and disarmament decisions,
b) they do not know from personal experience the type of political organization which would allow
different ideologies to coexist and be acted. upon in the same country and which would never tend to
lead to nuclear armament (Only few books describe such experiences in the past.),
c) they do not know the right means organizations and methods to defend their rights forcefully, if need
be, and without nuclear weapons, even against an enemy regime armed with such weapons. (Only
literature on how to conduct totalitarian wars and revolutions is common.) and
d) they are indoctrinated with the wrong ideas, the ideas making for nuclear war.
Schools, universities recognized experts, political leaders and the mass media confirm these errors,
continuously.
NO SIMPLE SOLUTION
As indicated above, the threat of nuclear war is by no means a simple and easy task which could be
solved by one or two obvious steps. For that reason the rather involved steps towards the solution have
been recognized only by a few.
One might be inclined to sum up the hints given in this book with slogans like: "Power to the people"
or "Power to the individual" but what would they mean here?
They should certainly not be interpreted to mean: "Power to use nuclear devices into the hands of a
majority or nuclear weapons into everybody's hands" as e.g., Alfred Bester suggested in: "The Stars
My Destination". Majorities and individuals are all too often all too irrational and should therefore not
have any power over the basic rights of others.
But they should have all the powers and motives required to allow them to participate in one way or the
other in the destruction of all mass extermination weapons.
These powers should reside in every individual.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to envision a society in which that will be the case.
The roots of the nuclear mushroom have penetrated all of society and specialization of knowledge has
gone so far that only few see the extent of this penetration and few can see more than a few roots at a
time. (The author
does not exempt himself from this rule. )
What is involved?
Almost every social organization, principle and idea!
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WHY AN ALPHABETICAL HANDBOOK?
The nuclear war threat requires an enormous amount of rethinking and reorganizing. That's why it
still exists. The present "society", in all its ramifications is an almost perfect recipe for nuclear war and
we are merely lucky that it has not happened as yet.
Before this threat is over, an extensive change of public opinion is required, a change of principles, a
change of aims, a change of institutions: together the most comprehensive revolution ever.
A peace lover must attempt to think a few hundred moves ahead or of hundreds of moves made either
simultaneously or in connection with each other in order to realize how to defeat the threat of nuclear
war presented by the present suicidal power game. Even grand masters of chess can't think that far
ahead.
At the same time, we must realize that the hundreds of steps required to prepare for nuclear war, and to
bring it about, at almost any time, have already been taken. Moreover, many of them are very popular.
Furthermore, no effective moves have so far been made to prevent nuclear war. These steps have not
even been recognized or looked for.
For this reason this book has collected numerous steps leading to the prevention of nuclear war, as well
as those leading to the abyss, in handbook form.
The alphabetized form was also preferred because only few are able to grasp, in a single vision, all the
full freedom alternatives to collectivist and nuclear power, i.e., after reading a booklength enumeration
and conventional description of the alternatives.
Too many misconceptions have to be overcome first. Thus the simple alphabetical ordering of this
book was chosen. It allows everyone to see details of the peaceful and free alternative (to the coercive
society making for nuclear war), point by point, according to his interest, knowledge and commitment
and allows a continuous integration of newly found understanding through numerous cross references.
Scholarly tomes, with their elaborate classification and subdivisions are read, studied and understood
only by a few. I want this work to be an easytouse handbook, one which everybody can use to rapidly
clear up many doubts he has regarding solutions.
The alphabetical order makes it easy to jump from one related point to another. Relationships are rarely
linear. One can thus find answers to particular questions almost instantly while, otherwise, one would
have to read the whole book, or a large section of it. Correlations can thus be continuously checked and
kept in mind.
Lastly, the alphabetical arrangement makes it easy to include, later on, more relevant material which
will, I hope, be supplied by some of my readers.
Please make the fullest use of the alphabetical order and try to get the whole picture, idea by idea.
Measures, which on their own appear rather futile, will often appear effective if seen in combination
with the other proposals.
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
This book certainly hasn't got all the answers but I am conceited enough to believe that its collection of
ideas from all sources contains enough of the bare bones, general ideas, guidelines and hints to
practical steps to discover, sufficiently explain and prove, with your assistance, all the remaining
detail and additionally required steps.
If anyone knows another, simpler and better way to prevent nuclear war than the one here described,
please, don't keep it from me.
I have attempted to keep this exposition short, Much more could be said on every point but even fully
developed essays on particular points will be easier to understand when this program survey is already
at hand. If you love life enough, not necessarily what it means now but what it could be for you and
your children, then you will think ahead further on this subject, on any of the remaining problems. Give
me the benefit of your thinking and write but do not expect a personal reply.
Anyone wanting to develop any of these themes in specialized articles, essays and books, would be
welcomed by me. But I could not promise to print and distribute them at my expense in money and
labour. Do your own thing in this sphere but, please, let me know what you are doing and thinking. At
least I want my files on the subject complete and could then possibly offer an information and clearing
centre for those interested.
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Some monographs, on some of the topics summarized here, are planned by myself. Others will, I hope,
be written by others.
The tools to bury the nuclear threat cannot be forged and wielded by one man alone.
I do intend to work on the following subjects: Monetary Freedom, Secession individual, Exterritorial
Imperative, Compulsory Unionism, Bill of Rights, Price Control, Inflation, Tyrannicide, Cultural
Revolution. With some others I have already dealt at some length in my PEACE PLANS series e.g,
with Panarchy, Devaluation, Tax Strikes and Voluntary Taxation. Please help me by collecting material
for any of the above topics, Also, let me, and, possibly through me, others as well, know about the
related subjects you are working on. A listing of all libertarian research in progress could do much to
promote it.
SEPARATE APPEAL TO LIBERTARIANS
All others either missed the main issue, are making the problem worse or have only nonsolutions to
offer. They are to some extent excused because they cannot see the freedom solution. But those, who
call themselves libertarians, and do not see the libertarian solution but, instead, rely on nuclear strength
for "defence" or as a "deterrence", are not to be excused. They are acquainted with the solution and are
merely mentally too lazy to apply it to the international sphere as well.
The solution to the problem of nuclear war is individual liberty in EVERY sphere and there is no
excuse for libertarians who overlook this. Libertarians now must not only make sure that all will be
free, or as free as they want to be, but also that we will we will continue to exist at all!
Or would you rather want to leave it to governments to deal with this threat? If you do not help
yourself out of this dilemma, then the government won't do it either because, objectively, it cannot, On
the contrary, it, EVERY TERRITORIAL government, even a "limited" one, is the most important
factor making for nuclear war. Who else but governments has any genocidal powers at present?
Libertarians can no longer afford to ignore this danger. They have a duty to spread the knowledge of
the libertarian solution to this greatest problem of our time and perhaps of all times.
THE CHANCES TO REVERSE THE CURRENT TREND TOWARDS NUCLEAR WAR?
The danger itself is fairly well recognized although not its acuteness and its causes. People are
rational enough not to like paying taxes, People do not like forced labour, Regardless of collectivist
indoctrination and opinions, given the chance, most people will follow their rational selfinterest, e.g.
they smuggle and cheat regarding income taxes. Nor do most people like being outvoted in democratic
decisionmaking. In general, "the people", individually and in most of their voluntary groups, when
free to express and inform themselves, and free to act, are more peace loving and trustworthy than their
present rulers. Mostly they are not poweraddicts. Given a chance to act, most people would act against
nuclear war preparations. They have no wish to become mass murderers. Most abhor the very thought
or possibility of mass murder. I do know that there are exceptions and our present territorial States do
tend to breed them.
Unfortunately, the people have presently not the vision of the sound alternative society, a complete
enough vision to induce them to act on it. It has not yet been put before them in a convincing and
comprehensive way.
With that vision, individual liberty could be established, point by point, even if at first only by a few,
until, finally, new communities of free men could openly opt out of the nuclear power system, protect
their freedom and proceed to destroy the nuclear powers of the remaining old communities.
The nuclear threat itself is and can be used as the strongest incentive to induce people to opt out of the
territorial power systems with their inherent nuclear war threat.
The enlightenment required could be sufficiently speeded up with the cultural revolution program
indicated in this book.
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5
Alphabetical Section:
ABDICATION: ABDICATION OF RULERS AND ABDICATION OF INDIVIDUAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
There are two important and different types of abdication: The abdication of power and the abdication
of liberty.
The abdication of liberty is the primary one and leads inevitably to political power and all its inherent
abuses and corruption. Has it ever been offset by abdications of political power? The rulers may change
but their office, resting on the abdication of individual responsibilities, remains.
When citizens wrongfully abdicate their rights, liberties and responsibilities, there are always some
who (although they are unable and unwilling to fill the vacuum thus created, nevertheless, and with the
approval of the victims,) take over political powers and only rarely give them up again unless death
does them part, The solution to problems which only individuals could solve is then rendered a
prerogative of the crown or the presidential office, although both by their very nature, cannot solve
them, The result is a mess and now the threat of nuclear holocaust.
Seeing that the nuclear threat rests on political power, of the own and other governments, it would be
desirable if those holding this power would voluntarily abdicate. But it is rather unlikely that they will
do so. In history cases of formal abdication are rare. Moreover, abdications of power are rarely done
deliberately, voluntarily, wisely, in recognition of ones incompetence to sensibly regulate the lives of
millions of others. Usually, the abdications that did occur were only coverups for previous real losses
of power, or actions arising out of prejudices, religious ones for instance, as in the case of Charles V.,
or enforced actions, arising from fear, e.g. of execution, or loss of succession rights of one's heir due
to some scandal, defeat or corruption. Sometimes it happened due to strong public opinion pressure
exerted by those wanting another leader in their endless, hopeless and utopian quest for the ideal one. It
may also have happened under the threat arising out of conspiracies from competitors for the throne or
office or, maybe, under pressure from the men of one's own party, who are afraid of exposures of their
cases of corruption and are thus looking for scapegoats.
Forced resignations would usually be a more apt description. But these forced resignations were not
happening very frequently, either. The old observation: "For every tyrant a thousand ready slaves"
explains this. Even when they get rid of one tyrant, slavish people see to it that they quickly get
another: "The king is dead! Long live the king!" characterizes this state of development. This
principle, when applied to rulers armed with nuclear devices, makes now less sense than ever before.
All rulers ought to abdicate their present powers because these powers threaten us with nuclear war and
because they, as rulers, are unable to prevent nuclear war. From this it follows that they should at least
be put under the conventional pressures to abdicate. How difficult it is to induce a public servant, like
the U.S. President to, resign by e. g. impeachment procedures against him, was very well demonstrated
recently.
Such pressures are rarely strong enough to be successful or they are so senseless that they lead only to
the rapid replacement of one regime by another, not necessarily a better one. Often they merely lead to
riots which usually can be suppressed and are, with bloodshed. New types of pressures ought to be
applied, These pressures could all arise from ending the abdication of individual rights, liberties and
responsibilities, abdication from the rightful powers of selfrule or selfgovernment based on individual
consent and individual sovereignty.
To induce some politicians, especially elderly statesmen, to resign, one moderate means, sometimes
sufficient, would be to assure them of a good pension and some honorable position. The old Romans
did this with consuls who could not be elected again and Americans still offer this to their former
presidents.
A forceful pensioning off of all public servants would go much further. It would be a cheap
expenditure compared with the costs and risks of continuing nuclear war preparations. It would also
appeal as a reform proposal to a very powerful and large lobby: that of the public servants. A free
market system, rid of the obstructions they caused, could easily bear this temporary charge. Many
public servants would also be likely to decline acceptance of this charity, at least after a while, and
after having taken up some productive work.
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Those unwilling to abdicate or resign could be threatened with the loss of all their pension claims.
Those who have to fear for their lives, when they have lost power, would have to be offered an amnesty
backed up by asylum, anonymity, protection and economic support in their retirement.
Such measures would certainly help to thin out the ranks of the true enemies of peace, the men in
power. But. to defeat the remaining fanatics and power addicts, some stronger measures would be
required, measures like outlawry, tyrannicide, military insurrection and revolutions, secessions,
accompanied by a step by step and as fast as possible destruction of all their powers.
Selfrule, not rule over others, is the solution to the problem of peace. All rulership powers over others,
i.e., all rule over involuntary subjects, ought to be renounced, removed or destroyed.
Ordinary citizens in democratic countries ought also to abdicate their wrongful powers, those inherent
in their present "right to vote", i.e., their power over the fate of others, as expressed in majority
democratic elections, whose results are enforced upon minorities. The abdication of this part of the
present voter's limited power would amount to his recognition and reassertion of his own right to rule
himself and of the right of others to selfdetermination. He would thus abdicate his position as a subject
of a territorial political body, one whose fate is mainly decided by the votes of others
The wrongful abdication by citizens of their liberties, rights and responsibilities must be ended, A
sufficient but not the only reason is that it makes for nuclear war. Citizens must abdicate from their
present position of powerlessness over their own fate, or of subordination and obedience towards
others, and must gain new rightful, selflimiting and responsible powers over their own lives, They
could achieve this by individual secession and voluntarist reorganization on an exterritorial and
personal law basis.
Compare Appx 3 & 5 and see under the following headings: Amnesty, Asylum, Autonomy,
Broadcasting, Censorship, Decisions, Declarations, Democracy, Desertion, Disarmament,
Disobedience, Duty, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Migration, Free Trade, Government, Government
inExile, Human Rights, Individual Responsibility, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Monopolies, Motives,
Obedience, Outlawry, Pension Claims, People, Politicians, Power, Prize Money, Recall, Referendum,
Resistance, Rights, Rulers, Secession, Social Contract, Sovereignty, Statism, Subordination, Tax
Strike, Tolerance, Voluntary Taxation, Tyrannicide, Voting, Weapons Monopoly.
ABORTION
One type of mass murder makes the other appear more acceptable, People habituated to one type of
mass murder do not object strongly enough against another. From the firebombing of Dresden &
Tokyo to the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki no great progression in immorality. Morality is
indivisible. Think yourself through, from the realization of the immorality of abortion to e.g. the
recognition of the rights of noncombatants and innocents. You will then be closer to a rightful
definition of "the enemy" and you will, by that much, come closer to the solution of the nuclear
problem, a problem which is also mainly a moral problem and thus a problem which can be solved
only with a new moral stand.
People remaining insensitive to the murder of 25 to 40 million humans every year, murders committed
not by strangers but by the victims' own parents and with scientific assistance, will remain insensitive
to the moral questions involved in the nuclear war threat, as insensitive as the other barbarians. What
makes this murder worse than any other is the fact that the victims of this war of extermination are all
noncombatants. They are so young that they are completely helpless, more helpless even than the 12
million Jewish children that were murdered by the Nazis. See Morality and plan 243.
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ACCIDENTAL NUCLEAR WAR
"If nuclear weapons and their factories are not destroyed, then the end will come for the same reason
fire comes to a depot of easily inflammable material, sooner or later, when it is continuously frequented
by people handling lighters, burning cigarettes and lanterns, no mater how careful they are in their
use." U. von Beckerath.
When accidents can occur they will occur. They are so certain to occur that sound insurance systems
have been built upon their statistical regularity. No failsafe system is failsafe enough to prevent them
altogether and only a 100% failsafe system would suffice. All factories for explosives and all
ammunition dumps have, in the average, only a limited Lifespan and then they blow up. Nuclear
weapons are set off by "ordinary explosives" and also by "explosive" human natures, by computer
malfunctions or misinterpretations of radar screen observations and could thus similarly "selfignite".
There are numerous chances which might lead to an unpremeditated nuclear attack. It might be a bad
trip of a drug addict among those having their fingers on the buttons. The buttons are there for many
fools to press them and there was never a shortage of fools. The occasion might be irrational national
hatreds or religious fanaticism, or the all too widespread notion of "collective responsibility". Some
Christian sects, like Jehovah's Witnesses, in Germany, before I left it, in 1959, assure us in their
pamphlets that "you can be happy that so little time is left." They expected to get to their "heaven" all
the sooner! It might be thirst for glory. Instance: DeGaulle's motivation for nuclear armament. Or it
might be nothing more than a sudden fever attack. Hitler was by no means the only contemporary
madman. (In recent years, when the government of Pakistan, largely a military dictatorship, acquired
nuclear "weapons", its ignorant and prejudiced subjects, unaware that they are antipeople massmurder
devices, were dancing in the street in they joy about this event! J.Z., 10.10.01.) What makes all this
worse is hat madness among rulers tends to remain a well kept secret for a considerable time. The
power urge itself is a kind of madness and it has led to more senseless destruction already than that of
all certified madmen put into insane asylums for being dangerous to the public. Mass hysteria among
statists and collectivists is the equivalent to the madness of power addicts among the "leaders". Among
the essential preconditions for such mass hysteria are territorialism and notions of collective
responsibility as well as the false notions that arise from them regarding "enemies".
In 1959 Krushchev admitted to Mr. Nixon that a Russian missile had headed for Alaska by mistake and
only by luck fell short of the American continent. (Daily Telegraph, 31/10/60.)
A volcanic explosion like that of Krakatoa might be interpreted as a nuclear attack, The same could
happen in case of a large meteor hitting earth without advance warning given by astronomers.
Nuclear war might even be started as a practical joke, e.g. on the 1st. of April. Or has nobody ever paid
with his life or limb for irrational jokes?
Was there ever any real shortage of thrill killers and are not those striving for life and death powers
over their fellow men somewhat related in their attitude to these not so uncommon criminals? Rulers,
like others groups of mien, have vices and one sadist among them could spell the end.
Wrong radar observations might suffice, or suicidal tendencies or irrational hatreds or drunkenness or
lovesickness of a commander. They could all lead to nuclear wars not intended by most of those in
power. Even WW I and WW II largely "happened" unintentioned by most of the decisionmakers. The
arms race itself increases the risk of accidents and so does any policy of strength, deterrence, secrecy
and deception. Even civil defence preparations have been interpreted as preparations for a nuclear first
strike.
The analysis of radar observations has to be undertaken so fast that mistakes are inevitable. Indeed,
they occurred already several times. Due to a technical breakdown the instruments have sometimes
indicated the approach of bomber formations at supersonic speeds. Only the discretionary hesitation of
the commanding officers, which some might interpret as treasonable, has then prevented a massive
retaliation. Even flocks of geese were sometimes mistaken for missiles. A formation flight of UFOs or
a swarm of meteors could well once be interpreted as a flight of IBMs and could thus be a motive for a
"counterstrike".
Even in conventional wars, when there is still some time available and there are some eyewitnesses,
there arises, nevertheless, and remains a doubt on who began it and who would, according to popular
ideas, have to be considered as the aggressor. Due to military secrecy, monopolized decisionmaking
and censorship, both sides might then engage in a "defensive" war against each other which might well
escalate into a nuclear war.
Suitcase bombs might be exploded prematurely in situ, and start the nuclear war, e.g. when a radio
amateur accidental broadcasts the frequency sequence required to start them off. There are 60,000
HAM radio amateurs in the Soviet Union alone.
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World Wars I and II were not intended as world wars either by most, if not all of the participants. They
just slid into them without having foreseen them, without having planned for them, Many books have
described Europe on the brink of WW I in terms of "a startling and often tragic picture of the blunders,
misunderstandings, irresponsibilities and sheer fatalism that sent 20th.century Europe lurching into
selfdestruction: "'This is a war that nobody wants, unleashed, as it were, by elemental forces,' saith
Bethmann Hollweg, while in London the icy, patrician Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, was
pounding his desk and crying in a voice high with frustrated passion: 'I hate war! I hate war!"'
Geoffrey Scott, The Bulletin, 25 .7.64, in reviewing "The Twelve Days, 24. 7. 4.8.14", by G. M.
Thomson, Hutchinson.
According to Krushchev, Stalin was mad during his last 3 years. Only during the last three? one might
ask.
Dag Hammarskjoeld, according to his memoirs, "Road Signs", almost certainly regarded himself as
God's instrument in guiding the U.N. along its path. (Bulletin 4/11'6.3.) How many more such
instances are required before most people wake up to this danger?
Numerous novels were written, all believably describing this risk and their stories were not without
reason considered fascinating and believable by millions of readers. They were thus confirming that
this risk is neither infinitesimal small or unbelievable.
There is no moral duty to obey any government which involves all in such risks. To expose mankind to
any of these risks reveals a degree of irresponsibility which borders on insanity.
As long as any nuclear powers remain this danger remains. Thus a complete nuclear disarmament is a
must and even a unilateral one is preferable to none.
See: Acuteness of Danger, Automated Warfare, Decisions, Defence, Disarmament, Failsafe, Madness
of Rulers, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
ACTION, FREEDOM OF :
Without all nonaggressive people gaining not only freedom of expression and information but also
freedom of action, they will always risk being forced, hands tied, into a war situation, now even into
nuclear war.
When any man feels certain and who does not? that he has no powers at all, to directly protect his
life, property and freedom and those of his family and friends, against the threat of nuclear war, then
the diagnosis is quite simple: He actually has no freedom of action.
"To destroy freedom of action is to destroy the possibility and consequently the power of choosing, of
judging, of comparing; it amounts to destroying reason, to destroying thought, to destroying man
himself." F. Bastiat (Roche III: Bastiat, 213.)
There is no other way to introduce peace promoting alternative institutions and Systems and to
convince others of their effectiveness than to gain freedom of action first: "If you would convince a
man that he does wrong, do right." said H. D. Thoreau.
Men are not yet adapted to the requirements of a free society but there is no other way to get them
adapted than to give them freedom of action first and to hold them only individually responsible: "It is
only in freedom of action that a mans full powers are used and developed." Dr. H.G. Pearce in: "Good
Government", Dec.1971.
If you ask : "But what can I do?", you have not yet fully' realized how much of your liberty you have
handed over to politicians and bureaucrats. Enlighten yourself. Demand your freedom of action back
from them. Secede, Use your tax money for your own expenditures. Run your own budget. Make your
own friends and enemies, Arm and train yourself with rightful weapons and resist. Do not expect
advice on how you can be free and could directly act to prevent nuclear war under the present
restrictive system.
For some instances of what freedom of action would mean see under Autonomy, Capita
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lism, Competition, Decision, Desertion, Disarmament, Disobedience, Economic Freedom,
Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative Freedom, free Migration, Free Trade, Human Rights,
Individualism, Militia, Monopolies, Powerlessness, Referendums, Resistance, Secession, Selfhelp,
Separate Peace, Subordination, Tolerance, Weapons Monopoly.
ACUTENESS OF DANGER
"1945 gave us a whole new situation. Up to then it was people who ran out of time. Now there is
always the chance that time will run out of people first." William Garner in: "The Us Or Them War",
ch. 27.
"The experts think the chances of nuclear holocaust in the next five years are about even." Henry
Schoenheimer, The Australian, 16/6/73.
Madmen are in power and will be again. Men in power, as a class, are the most criminal class. The
whole nuclear war preparations are irrational and immoral. Who could feel safe under the power of
terrorist madmen?
The production of overkill nuclear stockpiles goes on and on and does in itself indicate irrationality.
We come closer and closer to the Doomsday Bomb.
More and more nuclear power plants produce more and more nuclear weapons material. More and
more powers and politicians and generals have their fingers on nuclear buttons. Some do so openly and
other, smaller powers, may already be armed secretly with nuclear weapons, e.g. Israel and Egypt.
The sequence of narrow escapes. which we had so far, will not be continued indefinitely.
Balance of power preparations always failed in the long run and often led to war.
Arms races have resulted in war in 99% of all cases.
Deterrents are never 100%.
Failsafe precautions are never completely reliable and now nothing less would do.
All preparations and incentives for nuclear war are ready. See Appx. 3 & 4. Nothing suitable has been
done, so far, to prevent it. None of the basic requirements for preventing it are fulfilled. See Appx.
1,5,6 & 8,
Nevertheless, we have apathy regarding this question, even among most of the libertarians who, due to
their moral philosophy and knowledge of practical solutions to economic, social and political
problems, are closest to the solution. Their apathy really frightens me because the realization of the
program to prevent nuclear war depends largely on them.
I hold that there is nothing more important now than working to prevent nuclear war. If we do not cope
with nuclear power before it is too late, nuclear power will cope with us.
Ulrich von Beckerath remarked in a letter to Dr. R., 25.6.57: "In this situation in which Germany and
the whole world find themselves, the thoughts of all, who are able to think, should concentrate on one
single point:
How can one abolish the danger that all life becomes extinguished in Germany, including sparrows and
moles, and in the rest of the world almost all life? The nuclear devices to bring about this condition are
ready. Factories which allow to produce still more of them, more and more cheaply, are also present.
Madmen who would rather today than tomorrow throw nuclear devices at "the enemy" do also exist.
Common men who consider these madmen as leaders or prophets in the same way as they recognized
Nero, Jenghiz Khan, Tamerlane and Hitler are available en masse (the all too many, as Nietzsche called
them rightly). An insignificant coincidence can close this cosmic mousetrap. Then the liberated life
energies of herrings, octopuses and perhaps albatrosses at the South Pole will seek new avenues, but
they will hardly get further than we did.
What is to be done? Everybody can do something and even if it were nothing else than to challenge
others to occupy themselves with this crisis and try to find a way out."
See : Accidental War, Deterrence, Miscalculation, Research, Time Factor.
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AGGRESSION IS IT A GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY OR THE ACTION OF FREE
INDIVIDUALS?
The problem is not a wrongfully assumed aggressiveness of man in general but how to stop the own
and foreign governments from practising their inherent aggressiveness. Man is supposed to be
aggressive but is not really inherently so. Only his upbringing, his institutions, his indoctrination and
the poverty of his ideas make him so. Otherwise civilization would not have survived wars. Continuous
wars combined with diseases would have wiped man out. There are even a few instances of primitive
tribes who do not know systematic and organized violence of man against man. Herbert Spencer in
"Political Institutions, par. 437 & 574, gave eight examples from races of different types. In Principles
of Ethics he mentions the Lepcha, the Hos and the WoodVeddhaa. Pitirim A. Sorokin, in
"Contemporary Sociological Theories", page 484, refers to researches revealing nine peoples who did
not know war at all. P. Kropotkin has also shown, in his work "Mutual Aid", that in spite of it all man
is still the most cooperative animal and that most of his successes are due to this fact.
When we see men acting aggressively, we must not simply assume that they do so because this is bred
into them, We must realize that their actions could also be due e.g. to wrong ideas forcing them to live
in wrong institutions. Instances : The employer m employee relationship creates and preserves
antagonism between employers and employees. Monogamy, combined with difficulties for divorce,
have led to many a husband and wife struggle and sometimes to murder. Sexual mores and the
outlawry of prostitution led to many a rape, Sexual repression in armed forces and gaols led to many
perverse assaults and rapes. With other aggressive behaviour of man it is similar.
How aggressive really free men will be we do not know as yet from experience. They might be
habitually quite peaceful unless their lives or liberties are meddled with. Once the "exterritorial
imperative" (see under this heading) is obeyed, no nuclear threats will be made any longer, no nuclear
strength preparations will continue, nuclear aggression will be avoided by the voluntary and even
unilateral destruction of all nuclear weapons. (Compare: Motives, Targets.) But up to then the mere
production and storing of ABC weapons or of the raw materials for the production of nuclear weapons,
is an aggressive act, a conspiracy to commit mass murder or genocide, warranting any act of resistance,
Through their nuclear strength policies both, East and West, are aggressors.
Any rightful definition of aggression, a definition which governments so far could not agree upon,
would have to contain a clause like the following:
Whosoever suppresses elementary human rights, on any large scale, does thereby declare war to all
human beings and has no reason to be surprised and to complain when thereupon mankind takes up
arms against him, treats him as an aggressor and helps his victims to resist him. Compare peace plan
100.
"Governments which do not respect human rights are to be considered as a group which has declared
war against mankind. It is an inborn and holy duty of every human being to seriously consider how to
destroy their means of power, how to enlighten their subjects, teaching them that subordination under
such a government must never be voluntary and how to reorganize society after these common enemies
of man have been rendered harmless." Ulrich yon Beckerath, 3.6.59.
An ideal militia would not resist an enemy occupation force which would not threaten but help to
realize individual human rights but would rather welcome them as liberators. It would invade another
territory only when this would be essential to protect human rights and when in its own normal sphere
of action all human rights are already realized and protected. Thus such a militia would not conduct
unjust defensive wars like the war of Hitler against the Americans in 1944/5. It would rather offer its
services, as a body, to a German government in Exile which is allied to the U.S. On the other hand, this
kind of militia would participate in as just a defensive war as that of Prussia against Napoleon I in 1812
was. One of its maxims would be the statement of Machiavelli: "Not whosoever first resorts to arms is
the aggressor, but whosoever makes this necessary."
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The ideal militia, the only rightful military force, would not conduct wars for any nationalistic or
imperialistic interests. It would not conduct wars of conquest or for the suppression of people, races,
classes or religions. Neither would it conduct wars of aggression in the old sense. Its wars, although
sometimes appearing aggressive in the old sense, would be something completely new: wars for the
protection of human rights, wars conducted in a way that human rights are not any further infringed by
acts of warfare. Such wars of liberation could hardly be called unjust. Every nation considering to
shake off the chains of despotism would thereby become an ally of this militia force. The militia would
then, generally, grant generous military and other assistance. Instance: Until Gustav Adolf's Swedish
army suppressed human rights in occupied territories its participation in the 30 years' war was justified.
It was an act to protect the rights of Protestants. Ideally, it should also have protected the rights of
Catholics and religious tolerance generally.
If the despotism to be overthrown has nuclear weapons at its disposal, then the assistance given must
be mainly moral and economic and militarily confined to advice on how to organize military uprisings
and popular revolutions successfully. If you want, call it aggression to defeat aggression. But know
what you say and know the difference.
That man is not inherently aggressive will be demonstrated once he gains, in a revolutionary or direct
democratic wary, the freedom to secede from all aggressive governments the rights and freedoms
required to resist them effectively, including the right to have a say on whether there is to be a war or
not, the right to arm, train and organize militarily, to refuse payment of taxes and to refuse the
acceptance of a dictator's paper money. Until such liberties are fully realized one can still always
rightly say that men are forced into wars. Governments certainly do not rely on any inherent
aggressiveness in man when they conscript their soldiers.
See: Class Warfare, Communism, Conscription, Derisionmaking, Defence, Dictatorship,
Enlightenment, Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, Imperialism, Invasions Liberation War,
Militia, Resistance, Revolution, Secession, Social Contract, Subordination, Territorial Integrity,
Territorial Organization, Weapons.
AGORIC REVOLUTION
Introduction of free market, contractual and property relationships within enterprises and involving all
employees, would bring about industrial peace, defeat the class warfare ideology, increase the general
standard of living and would thus help to defuse the international situation.
See: Communism, Cooperative Production, Hierarchical Production, Class Warfare Ideology, Purchase
of Enterprises, Unions, and also peace plans 150, 1802, 215, 226
AIRCRAFT
As long as there are still nuclear weapons around, all bombers and even all civilian heavy aircraft pose
a threat as their means of delivery. The bombers of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were specially converted
planes. Boing studies show that the Boeing 747 jet could be converted into a missile carrier. (The
Australian, 4/2/74.)
Thus military bombers ought to be dismantled and the large civilian air carriers at least militarily
disabled and afterwards closely supervised.
Maybe, for a while at least, helicopters, gyrocopters and other light and slow aircraft would have to be
the only aircraft to be used. (While chemical and biological warfare threats continue, even these
aircraft may have to be outlawed. Perhaps the numerous people no longer free to fly would become
interested in steps to prevent nuclear war? They seem to take their air travels more serious, so far, than
the survival of themselves, their children and grandchildren, in the face of threats from ABC mass
murder devices and institutions that promote their use. J.Z., 11.10.01.)
If we accept that then modern aircraft should be reconsidered only once it can be safely assumed that
all nuclear weapons have been destroyed and no more of them will be produced, Compared with the
cost of nuclear war this would be a very low price to pay. Compare this risk and cost e. g. with the
news that on one of any of the Pan Am jets an ordinary high explosives bomb would be hidden.
Immediately, all these aircraft would be grounded. Why, then have we up to now ignored the larger
danger? Because it is government organized?
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AIR RAIDS
Air raids, particularly carpet bombing air raids, or "strategic" air raids against civilians and incendiary
air raids, designed to cause fire storms, set the precedents for mass destruction and mass murder
mayhem by means of the ABC antipeople weapons. They must be ended for the same reasons.
According to Murray N. Rothbard: "The very nature of nuclear war" is "resting on the annihilation, of
civilians.' From his essay: "War, Peace and the State."
The international laws of warfare, outlawing attacks on open cities and on noncombatants, must
become respected again. Only those have a chance to survive who will respect them.
See: Civilians, Collective Responsibility, Destruction, Disarmament, Enemy, Indiscriminate Warfare,
International Law, Noncombatants, Open Cities, Scorched Earth Policy, Weapons, Peace Plan 186.
ALCOHOL
People who, in their leisure hours, put themselves into any degree of alcoholic stupor, are unlikely to
think rationally about the causes of nuclear war and are still less likely to do anything sensible about
them. Alcoholics or drunken people cannot even drive a car safely. Far less can they or are they
interested in preventing nuclear war, Drunken people think and act belligerently and they can be used
to engage in and continue a senseless slaughter. Any noncoercive measure to induce people to reduce
or stop their alcohol consumption would indirectly be peace promoting. According to some teetotalers
the sense of justice, the perception of and respect for the rights and liberties of others, are more
impaired by frequent drunkenness than any other capacities, perhaps permanently. Any drunkenness
causing slight dizziness causes the destruction of thousands of brain cells. The mere possibility of such
a crippling effect would be enough for me. I would not want to wait for a statistical proof which might
not be available for another few decades.
A drunken commander might even start off nuclear war. Although drunk he may stall be cunning
enough to bypass the failsafe precautions, I doubt very much that all nuclear weapons are manned
only by confirmed teetotalers. People who are completely sober and rational, and who would stay thus
long enough, would not arm or continue to arm themselves with nuclear weapons.
Militiamen would have to be teetotalers at least while on duty.
See: Accidental War, Drugs, Escapism, Nuclear Strength,
ALIEN ACTS
A lasting peace requires the repeal of all Alien Acts. All coercive discrimination against all non
aggressive aliens must cease. Freedom of movement and settlement must be introduced for all rational
people. The more aliens are forcefully discriminated against by special alien acts, the less are likely to
immigrate, The less alien immigrants are living next to us (but exterritorially independent from us, if
they want to), the greater is the likelihood that we become targets for their home countries' nuclear
rockets. There is safety in the number of aliens among us. They, for the same reason will one day
welcome many of us. This motive may not be praiseworthy but the results would be. I doubt that
Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been bombed had they contained not only about 10.000 Japanese
Christians but, let us say, 50.000 Christians of mixed origin, Christians who were autonomous, i.e. not
subservient to the Japanese emperor.
See: Emigration, Exterritorial Imperative, Immigration, Minority Autonomy, Secession, Segregation,
Peace plan 232.
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ALLIANCES, NEW ALLIANCES AGAINST THE NUCLEAR THREAT
Conventional. territorial alliances do not prevent but accentuate the nuclear threat. Thanks to them
every minor crisis might escalate into World War III or even the nuclear holocaust.
We should use other, new types of alliances instead:
Let the potential victims themselves form alliances, defensive alliances which could be trusted.
Let minorities rule themselves to allow all peaceful and rightful changes and to disperse extreme
powers.
Let even worldwide autonomous and exterritorial communities of volunteers be established freely, i.
e.,. on a peacefully competitive basis.
Let all traders trade freely, at least within their own alliances.
Let all potential migrants freely ally themselves by migration and voluntary associations.
Let tax payers ally themselves against the tax gatherers who buy nuclear weapons out of tax funds.
Let the targeted cities make alliances between them to gain power against all rulers, who have put them
on their target maps.
Let Moscow's and New York's people get thus together against the Kremlin and the White House.
Let every ideologically motivated terrorist and warmonger be ideologically disarmed by granting him
all the opportunities for his utopia among his voluntary allies which he can rightly ask for, that is, all
chances to practice it at their risk and expense.
Let all tolerant people practise solidarity against the intolerant ones.
Let the disarmed people arm themselves with rightful weapons against those who so far stood over
them, with the help of the weapons monopoly and that for military organization.
Let the people conclude separate peace treaties and alliances over the heads of their rulers.
Let all those who appreciate their human rights ally themselves against all those who threaten them.
Let people be free to use all the so far unused and peace promoting ties in form of rightful, voluntaristic
and individualistic alliances, across all present frontiers and areas of jurisdiction.
But, do not tolerate any longer any of the territorial, collectivist and conventional alliances of political
powers which now make for nuclear war. Secede from them. Resist them.
See: Balance of Power, Bases, Cities, Decisionmaking, Declarations, Defence Experimental Freedom,
Exterritorial Imperative GovernmentsinExile, Militia, Motives, Negotiations, Referendums, Separate
Peace Treaties, Trust. Compare: Desertion, Enemy, Secret Allies.
ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS
Would a rational man complacently relax knowing that there is a time bomb ticking away in his cellar?
Either man will, in the not so far future, destroy nuclear weapons or the nuclear weapons will destroy
him.
Once enough people are thinking rationally on this situation they will no longer tolerate it but engage
instead in the numerous actions required to change it.
As long as territorial and monopolistic States remain, organizations sanctioned by all kinds of social
institutions, they are unlikely to be deprived of their nuclear powers. They remain the holy beasts, the
holy cows, in the eyes of most. People who cannot imagine privately run post offices, social insurance,
roads and garbage removal services, will go on trusting what governments offer under the misnomers
"defence" and "national security".
Thus all institutions which grant exclusive State powers and prestige, institutions whose apex is the
nuclear deterrent, must be replaced by peaceful, harmless, rightful, voluntaristic and competitive ones,
which do not grant to anyone any immoral and
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irresponsible powers.
Alternatives must be established for all present public services:
We will have to allow market alternatives to e.g. State Housing Commissions, Education Departments,
Tax Offices, Courts, Police Forces, Main Roads Departments etc.
Likewise, all their more directly war promoting powers must be replaced by peacepromoting ones.
The replacement must be done by selfhelp measures of the citizens otherwise it would not be done.
The abdication tendencies of this hierarchical society are not strong enough to allow us to rely on them.
See: Abdication.
Defence ministries, presidential powers, standing armies, departments for foreign affairs, must all be
replaced by decisionmaking by the people, volunteer militias, negotiations and peace declarations by
the people themselves. For some of these alternatives see under: Communication, Decisionmaking,
Defence, Deterrence, Disarmament, Economic Freedom, Free Trade, Exterritorial Imperative,
Immigration, Military Organizations, Monetary Freedom, Monopolies, Political organization,
Panarchy, Power, Production, Rights, Social Security, Taxation, Trust, War Aims, Weapons.
AMNESTY
Every tyrant should be threatened with outlawry and tyrannicide if he persists in his suppression of
human rights.
Wrongful assassinations or murders must be distinguished from tyrannicide or rightful executions of
major criminals.
Everyone with mass extermination weapons at his disposal is also to be considered and treated as a
tyrant. But in order not to drive them to desperate steps, they ought to be offered an amnesty period
during which they could surrender safely. Moreover, holders of nuclear weapons should be offered
amnesty even after this period expired, provided only they render at least one nuclear weapon harmless
or hand it over.
The amnesty offer to former rulers and commanders of nuclear devices should be accompanied by
offers of anonymous asylum, pension and protection, whenever required. These would be cheap
compared with the destruction a single nuclear device could cause.
See: Asylum, Outlawry, Tyrannicide.
ANARCHY
An anarchic society would have neither the means, the power, nor the motives to build nuclear
weapons or to keep them in readiness.
An anarchic society is one in which not one single nonaggressive and rational being is either ruled
over at all or ruled over without his individual consent:
"Anarchism... advocates the abolition of all government as we today understand the term, save that
originating in voluntary cooperation." Encyclopaedia Americana, 59.
Usually, those who want to destroy the State are as intolerant as those who want to destroy what they
call capitalism or communism or churches or insurrectionist secessionist groups like the Biafrans. But
the State need not be forcefully destroyed in the short run. People have only to become free to desert it
individually and it will collapse relatively soon. (Recent examples are the fall of the Berlin Wall and of
the Iron Curtain in general. Alas, we have set up other walls against those trying to vote with their feet.
J.Z., 12.10.01.)
Only, its aggressive, coercive, monopolistic powers need be destroyed or, rather, competitive services
should become free to compete its disservices out of existence.
Any State might be your worst enemy but it is still the beloved one for many other people. They are
entitled to their love, to their selfimposed punishment for their illusions and selfdeceptions. They
have the right to make their own mistakes at their own expense and risk. Thus any form of anarchy or
libertarianism for you and any form of State for them, each according to his choice, is the only just
answer.
That does not mean that dissenters have to go on tolerating any aggressive powers of the remaining
States. Instead, we must realize, and we would soon see, that as soon as dissenters are free to secede,
individually, and in groups, and to organize themselves in their own volunteer communities, under
exterritorial autonomy, then the remaining States would
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soon be reduced to the status of relatively powerless, voluntaristic, individualistic and cooperative
societies, no matter what particular spleen or utopia they attempted to put into practice among
themselves.
Neither rule through nor be ruled by nuclear power! Nor by compulsory membership and a territorial
monopoly.
See: Alternatives, Decision, Disarmament, Democracy, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom,
Libertarianism, Motives, Panarchy, People, Territorial Organization, Tolerance.
ANNEXATIONS
The desire for annexations, no matter how worthless and depopulated a country is, is still one of the
factors making for nuclear war. The fact that a country conquered with nuclear weapons might be
nothing but a radioactive wasteland, for hundreds of years, does not necessarily deter a politician.
Pakistan and India fought a war, not long ago, for a worthless piece of desert. Moreover, is much of the
land the Israelis and the Arabs fought about really worth conquering?
Only the exterritorial reorganization of society would eliminate this motive for war.
See: Conquests, Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers, Governments, Imperialism, Power, Red/Dead,
Secession, State, Territorial Organization, War Aims.
ANTICOMMUNISM
Anticommunism, of the unthinking and all too common type, applying the principle of collective
responsibility and considering all under communist rule, even its victims, as enemies, leads logically to
nuclear weapons to "defend" us against such an imagined enemy while leaving the real menace of
communism untouched.
This "defence", instead of threatening the communist regimes, does in reality strengthens them by
threatening their subjects and thus driving them into the hands of their rulers, who offer them
"national" defence.
Anticommunists should attack one of the Achilles Heels of communism: the fact that it threatens to
exterminate the proletarians it has promised to "liberate". Whosoever "thinks" that we should wipe out
all the "Reds" is threatening the survival of all redblooded animals. All those who want to fight what
they consider to be "capitalism" by threatening, what they believe to be its victims, the "proletarians",
constitutes a threat not only to all proletarians but to all other innocent people as well. For decades
these quite immoral and irrational threats to our survival persisted because the "enemy" was never
properly defined, on either side.
See: Asylum Class Warfare, Collective Responsibility, Communism, Declarations, Defence, Desertion,
Discriminating Warfare, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Liberation War, Nuclear Strength,
Revolutionary Warfare, Socialism, Tolerance, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
ANTIMAN ATTITUDES
The antiman movement is presently stronger than ever before apart from the religious eras, like the
Christian one with its strong belief in "original sin". This antiman movement upholds nationalistic,
racist and economic myths, class warfare and collectivist ideas, overpopulation notions, the
denouncement of rights, liberties, science, technology, progress, trade, property, profit and wealth. It
shows preferences for flowers and animals in place of humans. It is responsible for all the crimes of
Statism.
Whosoever most strongly represents this negative attitude has usually the least understanding of
individual human rights.
Numerous books are now in print on man as the destroyer, the polluter, the arsonist, the naked ape, the
territorial animal. Behaviorists try to describe him as a mere bundle of preprogrammed impulses and
instincts.
All these hypotheses undermine the faith in man, what he sometimes already is, often could be or could
become and thereby they weaken the belief in the rightfulness and rationality of efforts to save him.
The welfare state considers and makes persons immature. Only a free society develops
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and reinforces the character of a free man. Power corrupts, slavery corrupts even more and only
individual liberty or laissez faire, laissez passer, releases all the creative powers of man and turns him
into a sufficiently moral, rational and reasonable being.
The right to make mistakes the right to experiment, the right to secede, are essential steps in this
direction.
The belief in the potential of individual rational man has to be reestablished.
See: Class Warfare, Conservation, Cultural Revolution, Enlightenment, Exterritorial Imperative,
Human Rights, Ideas, Man, Overpopulation, Racism, Reason, Religion, Selfhelp.
ANTISEMITISM
Antisemitism once used the oldfashioned extermination camps extensively and is now aspiring to or
has already at its disposal their concentrated essence: ABC mass murder devices. It immoral basis is
the principle of collective responsibility. Collective responsibility is also behind the wrong definition of
the enemy, which has led to the use and preparation of ABC devices. Survivors from the holocaust, or
their descendants, now being armed with "nuclear weapons", or scientific mass extermination
packages, are as much a moral obscenity as are "antisemites" armed with such mass murder devices.
Only full autonomy for semites and antisemites alike, as well as for nonsemites, has a chance to
reduce this enmity to a bearable level and would eliminate nuclear targets. That would require the
elimination of all geographical and borders, of all territorialism, and its replacement by "borders"
around individuals and their voluntary associations, no matter how dispersed their members live.
Only in forced association does one fear to become outnumbered and overpowered by people one
considers to be aliens or enemies. When one is free to mind the own business, in all spheres, then one
does not mind when others do mind their business in their ways.
In the long run these ancient animosities will anyhow disappear by individuals crossing these artificial
borders, by voluntary integration or intermarriage.
A great precedent has already been set by religious liberty or tolerance to the extent that it has been
introduced and become traditional custom or habit anywhere.
As for racism: By now almost all of us are "bastards", of very mixed descent, with almost everybody
related to almost everybody, if one goes back long enough. Not so long, if one takes into consideration
how long man has already existed on this planet.
See: Arabs, Collective Responsibility, Exterritorial Imperative, Israel, Minority Autonomy, Racism,
Religion, peace plans 200203.
APATHY
What do you do with people who elect and obey governments armed with antipeople weapons? One
might rightly say that all those who take no interest in the prevention of nuclear war do not deserve to
survive. Unfortunately, they are not the only one who would be killed.
"Man is so built that he cannot imagine his own death" said Robert Heinlein in: "Stranger in a Strange
Land", page 337. Thus he partly explained this apathy and the popularity of the deterrence policy.
But the threat of nuclear war is not to be apathetically accepted like a bad climate or weather and yet
this is just what most people do. No wonder: They are rendered powerless in a rather effective way. It
is only too obvious that, directly, immediately and individually, they can hardly do anything directly to
prevent nuclear war.
Once we accept that for one or the other reason most people are today apathetic in this respect we have
to ask ourselves: What should the few nonapathetic people no? What kinds of freedom of action for all
should they strive for to release everybody's creative energies rather than their destructive prejudices?
What means are available now to spread enlightenment fast?
Once that is decided upon, and convincingly conveyed, then sufficient people might be induced to drop
their apathy and help to prevent nuclear war.
See : Cultural Revolution, Enthusiasm, Ideas, Ignorance, Interest, Powerlessness, Selfhelp.
APPEALS, PUBLIC APPEALS BY THE PEOPLE AND TO THE PEOPLE
All appeals to governments "to do something" are condemned to failure. Governments neither know
what is to be done nor could they do it if they knew it.
But certain public appeals can help prevent nuclear war and promote peace generally. Such appeals can
be used as "weapons", as means which could make the use of other weapons largely unnecessary as
they could bring about an extensive voluntary disarmament of the enemy's conscripts. Naturally, to be
"disarming", the offers made in these appeals must really be "disarming". General aim of all such
appeals is to turn one's secret allies into open and active supporters, even comrades in arms against a
common enemy. Then, due to desertions, uprisings and secessions, the real and remaining enemy could
be rendered relatively harmless.
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Appeals, declarations, proclamations and manifestos were frequently used with great success by
generals and statesmen and, generally, the more rightful and trustworthy their contents was the more
successful they were. The most famous examples are the American Declaration of Independence and
the Declaration of Human Rights of 1789. This "weapon" should be used in its most perfect forms, e.g.
the offers made should be exclusively rightful ones.
Publicity is not a drawback but an essential feature for the effectiveness of such appeals.
The appeals must not only be made with the most extensive publicity but they must also be made long
before an acute crisis, preferably years before. They must also be frequently repeated so that almost
everybody will become aware of them and reminded how to apply them in particular and foreseeable
crises.
Moreover, the appeals must be made in a serious, truthful and trustworthy manner. This almost
automatically excludes most governments from making any such appeals successfully.
To fulfil all these conditions the appeals must be made on a peopletopeople basis, i.e., over the heads
of the rulers.
There should be separate but interrelated appeals to the own people and to foreign people, separate
ones to the soldiers and to the citizens among them.
There should e .g. be appeals to the own people, especially the opinion makers, to help in the
prevention of nuclear war by the proclamation of a new morality, a new political cal organization, a
new military constitution, a new economic system.
Unilateral nuclear disarmament by itself, if well publicized, would constitute a unique and most
important appeal and so would a unilateral peace declaration.
Among the other more important public appeals, serving as nonviolent "weapons" to promote peace,
would be appeals e.g. to the Red Armies of Soviet Russia and Red China to cease obeying the Moscow
and Peking regimes, to destroy their nuclear weapons, to conclude separate peace treaties with the
Western communities, to organize themselves into exterritorial and autonomous bodies of volunteers,
to send delegates who could convince themselves and their comrades of the complete destruction of all
ABC weapons in the West and the sincerity of all the appeals made.
Whenever and wherever they could not disobey , resist, rise or secede successfully, they should be
asked to desert at the first opportunity to their own governments an exile or to Western exterritorial
communities of their choice. ALL these associations are to offer them asylum, protection and a chance
to earn their livelihood in freedom
The appeals should also encourage them, in any rightful way, to form militia units wherever they are or
have to flee to.
Declarations of rightful war aims would be very important appeals to deprive soldiers on the other side
of their motives to fight us. They should, in essence, declare:
In case of war we desire no conquests and no reparations from innocents. We will not attempt to
dominate the people of the defeated regime or forcefully recruit them into our armies or workforces.
Our aim is exclusively the introduction or reintroduction of individual human rights. We are proving
this by already accepting, in peace time and, naturally, in wartime, any refugee and deserter, without
infringing in the least any of his individual rights.
To be successful and predictable in their results, the appeals must be directed mainly to the moral
sense, to reason and rationality and a well understood personal interest and not to ill defined feelings
like nationalistic sentiments, readiness to sacrifice and subordinate oneself, religious or racial
emotions. They should appeal to personal honor and courage only of those who do appreciate and
respect human rights.
This would often require a prior and prolonged and extensive propaganda and enlightenment effort.
One cannot deal, on an intellectual level with irrational people. But the allegiance or at least neutrality
of unenlightened people could be literally bought with monetary offers made in the appeals, e.g. with
prices for surrendered weapons or on the heads of tyrants, and with good and earned wages for free
jobs taken up by the refugees and deserters.
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Appeals to the enemy's soldiers should offer them amnesty, asylum autonomy, jobs, the alternative of a
free, peaceful and just society, a society without a nuclear threat. They should assure them that they
would not be treated as enemies but rather as guests and friends if they surrendered or fled to us.
They should induce them to rise, if that is possible, and offer practical advice for this purpose,
particularly advice on how to finance such an a rising.
They should appeal to them to execute their tyrants and to destroy their ABC mass murder weapons.
They should be asked to usurp and properly protect their freedom of assembly, association, expression
and information and to form militias for the protection of their rights.
They should be offered a separate peace, individually and in whole units.
The appeals should induce them to avoid the usual mistakes and crimes committed in military
insurrections in the past: arson, inflation, requisitioning, curfew declarations etc.
They should be asked to secede from dictatorships while keeping their arms and military organization
and to organize themselves exterritorially and autonomously according to their individual ideological
preferences.
Appeals ought to be directed to all the enemy regime's civilian subjects to recognize and respect
individual rights and should make them realize that the realization of these rights and nothing else is
our aim.
These appeals should also induce them to form or join militia units for the protection of individual
rights.
They could inform them how to start, organize and finance a revolution and how to help in the
destruction of their regime's nuclear devices.
The appeals should motivate them to secede from their regimes, whenever and wherever this becomes
feasible, and to organize in exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers instead.
They should also be asked to reveal, as soon as possible and publicly, their peaceful and friendly
intentions towards us in a way sufficient to convince the most suspicious nationalists on our side.
See: Amnesty, Asylum, Broadcasting, Communism, Decision Declarations, Desertion, Employment,
Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Enlightenment, Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Liberation
War, Morality, Motives, Noncombatants, Open Air Meetings, Peace, People, Propaganda,
Referendums, Secrecy, Separate Peace, Trust, Tolerance, War Aims.
ARABS: THE TERRITORIAL STATISTS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS AMONG THEM
In their extermination war against Israel (the nationalistic and socialistic state of a minority of the
Jewish people) and, seeing the terrorist, totalitarian and extortionist inclinations of many of their States
& movements, they will sooner or later resort to nuclear weapons if they can get hold of them. Then
they may involve all of us in nuclear war. In spite of the declarations of Egyptian rulers that they see in
nuclear weapons the solution to Egypt's external affairs problems, the U.S. has now offered them the
technology to produce nuclear weapons. The most powerful government which, in spite of all its
powers, could not cope successfully with guerillas in Vietnam, with rioters, smugglers, tax evaders and
criminals in its own country, does now pretend to be able to prevent the abuse of nuclear materials and
technology in another country Some people dig their own graves believing that they are engaged in
mere agricultural activities.
Nothing but the recognition of the ancient Arabic tradition that Islamic Law applies to Muslims only
wherever they may be living and that the nonbelievers are to remain "condemned" to live under their
own laws, would preserve us from a nuclear holocaust initiated by Near East territorial politics. This
would require, among other things, fully free migration for all Arabs, even into Israel, and fully
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ted autonomy for all Arabs, even within the present borders of Israel. Naturally, the Israelis would have
the right to insist upon this same autonomy for their own nationals or faithful. If they initiated it, they
could induce the same transformation among their neighbours. They could rely for this on the
numerous tangential and decentralizing and diverse forces existing among the Arabs as well as among
all other peoples.
See : Antisemitism, Exterritorial Imperative, Israel, Minority Autonomy, Panarchy, Tolerance, peace
plans 200 & 202.
ARBITRATION COURTS, INTERNATIONAL
International arbitration courts should be set up in advance to settle disputes which might arise between
members of different exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers. The basic law they
ought to apply would be an improved code of individual rights (compare peace plan 110) and Jerome
Internoscia's "New Code of International Law", New York, 1910. Generally, unless otherwise agreed
upon between certain communities, the particular personal law of the accuser ought to be applied,
whenever not only his feelings and interests but his rights were hurt. See: Exterritorial Imperative,
Panarchy.
ARCHIVE OF IDEAS
Without making the fullest use of all reasonable peace promoting ideas and abilities, we may not
achieve peace. The only way to find and fully use all these ideas and talents and to distinguish them
among the multitude of others, would be to gather all of them in a central archive and register,
combined with a research and information service. Rightful ideas are, potentially, the most powerful
force. They can set off a constructive and enlightening chain reaction, one which can be more powerful
than the destructive one of nuclear devices.
See: Education, Enlightenment., Ideas, Myths, Prejudices, PEACE PLANS Nos. 20 & 183 & compare
Appx. 4.
ARMS RACES
Almost all arms races end in war. The nuclear arms race will also, as soon as the deterrence does not
work strongly enough, somewhere temporarily, among some people.
"Among 1656 arms races since 650 BC no less than 1640 led to war", stated Otto Lehmann Russbueldt
in: "How can we win peace?"
Nuclear power plants are part of the nuclear arms race efforts and must be destroyed as at least
potential nuclear arms factories. (See a Atomic Energy.)
Most arms races feed on motives for war (See: Motives.), on territorial organization and on compulsory
taxation and would stand or fall wish them. (See under the relevant headings.)
Today we need today a race to destroy all nuclear devices.
See: Acuteness of Danger, Accidental War, Decision, Defence, Disarmament, Espionage, Militia,
Nuclear Strength, Secrecy, Trust, War Aims, Weapons.
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION
Freedom of association does not yet exist because it would also mean freedom to set up e.g.:
1. New States or societies exterritorial and autonomous ones.
2. New armed organizations for the protection of human rights.
3. New unions e .g of young or coloured people or women whenever the existing unions infringe their
rights.
4. Payment associations using other than the government's currency as means of exchange and
standards of value.
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5. Free Trade associations.
6. Associations of experimenters who are exempt from certain laws for all their internal relations and
actions.
See.: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Freedom of Action, Competing Governments, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, Minority Autonomy, Panarchism, Parallel
Institutions, Pluralism, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Unity.
ASYLUM
Deserters and political and other refugees from dictatorships should be offered unconditional asylum
and protection, upon request, everywhere. Otherwise, they are likely to be among the conscripted
soldiers and workers used against us one day.
Those who surrender or destroyed a nuclear device should not only be offered asylum but also
protection, a reward, and amnesty for past offences. This should apply even after they had previously
been outlawed. We cannot afford to drive people with nuclear weapons to desperate steps.
See: Amnesty, Desertion, Outlawry, Refugees, Tyrannicide.
ATOMIC ENERGY
The "peaceful' use of atomic energy can lead, in the long run, to mass extermination through
radioactive pollution as well as through nuclear war. It produces more radioactive materials for still
more nuclear devices. It has too high an accident, sabotage and garbage disposal risk and would attract
nuclear weapons in case of war.
Due to this risk, no nuclear reactor should be built or continue in operation unless it has been approved
in a referendum by the people living in a circle of several hundred miles diameter around it.
People who become informed on the subject will refuse use to permit such power production. Such
referendums ought to be initiated everywhere and repeated when they fail at first.
No international safeguards are likely to prevent the abuse of such facilities in case of war by a
nationalistic government. Nuclear power is still uneconomic. Even if it were possible to produce it
cheaper (than power could be produced by other means), the difference should be considered as an
insurance premium against the risks involved. Moreover, since transmission costs make up to 95% of
the cost of electricity to the consumer, it is obvious that even if nuclear energy could be produced free
of charge and risk, in a few central power plants, then this would not significantly reduce the price of
electricity.
The future does at present, indeed, appear to belong to nuclear power not to us! It leaves us no future.
The following is a free version of some remarks by U. von Beckerath in a letter to Prof. H. R.,
18.10.56:
"After a referendum has outlawed the use of atomic energy even for purposes of research, within the
area of this decision, every nuclear installation has to be considered as an attack on the people's safety
and health, an action which could be regarded as a preparation for a mass murder. Every citizen has to
practise selfdefence against such installations and those building or using them. Every citizen,
moreover, may make preparations to practice such selfdefence, It does not matter that the offender
may be unconscious of the immorality and dangerousness of his actions to others. The others would
still act in selfdefence. The situation is similar to one in which the promoters of a new religion would
consider it as a pious act to poison the water works with Prussic Acid and would refer to the fact that
Prussic Acid would also be used in medicine and for various purposes in industry. I have no doubt that
the people, once they are free to act, would prohibit the
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use of atomic energy. In any case, it is extremely undemocratic that the authorities act to realize their
opinions over the heads of the people. After such a referendum the concessions, granted by the
authorities, will be declared invalid and those responsible will be sued for damages."
See: Decision, Democracy, Disarmament, Peaceful Use, People, Radiation Hazard, Referendum.
AUTHORITARIANISM
There is no justification for the new nuclear aristocracy which led to a situation in which a handful of
men have the fate of mankind in their hands. Or is any man good enough to be rightly authorized to
decide whether millions of others, whole nations or mankind, are to killed? Who was ever so
authorized by all concerned, that is, by all his potential victims?
See : Centralization, Consent, Decision, Democracy, Monopoly, Power, Responsibility, Tyrannicide.
On authoritarian forms of production see under: Class Warfare, Cooperatives, Hierarchical Production,
Purchase of Enterprises, Unions.
AUTOMATED WARFARE
"The 'ideal' of nuclear war is the complete automation of slaughter." said Frances Hoffer. (Quoted in
Peace Research Abstracts Journal, 33443.)
Automated radar and computer analyses will now often indicate within seconds or minutes whether we
are being attacked or not. Sometimes these indications are wrong, due to a technical breakdown.
Sooner or later one of these wrong indications will be accepted as right by one of the deciding humans.
To make the right decision only minutes are available. Compare this with the fact that in Dec. 73 the
astronomers of the world were wrong by a factor of 1 to 50 on size and appearance of one comet they
had already observed for 3 months. Nuclear defence machinery may even automatically unleash a
nuclear counterattack to what it interprets as a nuclear attack.
See: Accidental War, Decision, Doomsday Bomb, Extermination Camps.
AUTONOMY, EXTERRITORIAL AND VOLUNTARISTIC FOR ALL MINORITIES AND
MAJORITIES
The old type of territorial sovereignty and national independence must be replaced by full autonomy
for all groups and individuals desiring it. Otherwise, the nuclear targets and motives and powers to use
nuclear weapons would remain.
See: Decision, Exterritorial Imperative, Minority Autonomy, Motives Nationalism, Panarchy, Power,
Secession, Selfhelp, Targets, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Voluntarism.
AVOIDANCE
Seeing the degree of the danger, it is surprising how much the topic of nuclear war is avoided in
discussions and conversations. The unpleasant, the "unthinkable" is not treated seriously until it is too
late, until it happens.
Most people avoid this topic, probably because so much innovative and unconventional thinking is
required to find the way out.
Avoidance of such discussions is one of the main causes for the present powerlessness of individuals.
A small fraction of the attention now given to health and natural deaths would suffice to overcome this
threat. A fraction of the funds now going to heart and cancer foundations or to sports activities would
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research required in this sphere. See: Apathy, Cultural Revolution, Deterrence, Education,
Enlightenment, Escapism, Ideaslarge, Myths, Powerlessness, Prejudices, Statism.
BACKFIRING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Nuclear weapons are not weapons but indiscriminately destructive and even suicidal devices. No
nuclear weapon can be safely used without harming noncombatants, not only among the enemy's
subjects but also among the own fellow citizens. Radioactive fallout from each nuclear explosion finds
its way all around the world. This was one of the few lessons to be learned from nuclear testing. Why
was atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons banned by most governments? Precisely for the
indiscriminate spread of radioactive pollution everywhere.
Nuclear weapons do not respect borders. For them there is no enemy territory to be exclusively
attacked. No matter where they explode, in enemy or in friendly territory, in deserts, on the high seas,
in the arctic, in New York, or in Moscow or Peking, everywhere, they will, at least to some extent,
harm friends with the enemies. Never mind the motives and intentions of those who use these devices.
Due to the hardening of firing sites, or their dispersal or naval mobility, or due to interceptors or
interfering broadcasts etc., it is almost certain that no surprise attack will be able to prevent a strong
retaliation. This kind of backfiring does deter rational beings but this does not mean that it would
always deter rulers and similar madmen.
There is always a dilemma when two sharpshooters have each other in their gunsights and their fingers
on the triggers. The guns have then the unhappy tendency to be fired even against the will of those
holding them. They might as well direct their shooting against themselves. Regarding wars the
situation is similar. Almost all arms races ended in wars.
But nuclear war is comparatively worse in that the own bullet will return and poison the one who shot
it off. Not only will it kill the armed men, against whom it was intended (assuming it is not directed
against hostages in the first place), but all his friends, relatives, acquaintances and others, who may
never have met him but just happen to live in the same country. There would be no spectators either
who could have fun watching fools killing themselves off, for a point of "honor" as the spectators
would also be wiped out. The situation is even worse in that the shooters do not fully realize their
situation and are separated from the spectators by a wide abyss so that they cannot easily disarm these
madmen.
Whosoever threatens others with nuclear weapons must expect that sooner or later the others will
likewise threaten him. Two can play at that mad and criminal game, a game which is logical only at
present, due to the absurd and immoral situation we find ourselves in.
See : Accidental War, Arms Race, Balance of Power, Civilians, Collective Responsibility, Defence,
Deterrence, Disarmament, Discriminating Warfare, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Failsafe,
Madmen, Motives, Noncombatants, Nuclear Strength, Radiation Hazards, Revolution, Rulers, Suicide,
Targets, Territorial Organization, Tests, Weapons.
BALANCE OF POWER
A precarious balance which, once upset, may end in total disaster, and which may easily be upset by
the chances of technological advances, the uncertainties of espionage efforts, censorship and secrecy
attempts, suicidal threats and the unbalance minds of excessively powerful and corrupted men, who are
often deceived by their own propaganda, is an insufficient basis to base the survival of man upon.
"We cannot live forever in a world where our safety and our security depend on a
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precarious balance of terror .... This is a balance of insanity, an immoral balance, that undermines our
very claim to be civilized." Vice President Humphrey, The Australian, 26/10/68.
The attempts to keep up an assumed balance of power caused perhaps more wars than they prevented.
The best reference I found was an essay by W. G. K. Duncan: "The Balance of Power and the
Preservation of Peace", in: "Paths to Peace, edited by V."H. Wallace, Melbourne University Press,
1957, pages 241246:
"The closer one looks at balance of power, the less helpful it becomes as a maxim of statecraft, or a
goal of policy. Each of its terms is vague and ambiguous. What exactly is power, and in what unit is it
to be measured? Square miles of territory and density of population? Think of the helplessness of
China until very recently. Industrial development? Certainly; but what sort of industries are of military
significance? That depends on the technique of war. And how certain are these industries of access to
the necessary raw materials in time of war? Selfsufficient United States of America and navally
supreme Britain were obviously in a different category from continental powers vulnerable to blockade
or military invasion. But what about counterblockade? Might not submarines cut Britain's life line?
And what limits can be set to the discovery of synthetic substitutes for raw materials? On what
assumptions are any such calculations to be made in an age of increasingly rapid technological change?
"And this is only the beginning of the problem. When one comes to such subjective factors as morale,
or fighting skill and spirit, stubborn endurance and ability to 'take it', political stability and reliability,
how does one measure these things or assess their military equivalence? Even when military alliances
have been formed, how much reliance can be placed upon them? The Allied Powers succeeded in
detaching Italy from the Triple Alliance in World War I, but failed to detach her from the Axis in
World War II. Britain interpreted her commitments under The Entente Cordiale as much more binding
than Germany hoped they would prove to be, white the United States completely upset Germany's
calculations in both world wars.
"'Balance' the other term in the phrase, turns out in practice to be equally difficult, for it is capable of
contradictory interpretations. As Lowes Dickinson pointed out years ago: 'It means, on the one hand, an
equality, as of the two sides when an account is balanced and, on the other hand, an inequality, as when
one has a "Balance" to one's credit at the bank. The balance of power theory professes the former, but
pursues the latter. It is thus, in fact, a perpetual effort to get the better of the balance; and as this effort
is prosecuted on both sides, the ultimate issue is war.' ("The International Anarchy, 19041914", 1926,
p. 4.)
"It is because power is so difficult to measure, and its constituent elements so constantly changing, that
each power (or group of powers) deems it necessary to have a margin of safety on its side of the
balance. But the achievement of any such margin by one power or group makes its opponents feel so
insecure that they are driven to redouble their efforts to tilt the balance in their favour. Everyone must,
for safety's sake, be ahead of everyone else. Hence the vicious spiral of the armament race, which itself
becomes one of the factors leading to war. Balance of power turns out, in practice, to be a chimera, a
myth, an ideology, a cloak to disguise the realities of foreign policy from critics, at home as well as
abroad...
"Sooner or later balances of power break down, and the powers fight it outs. But, the same search for a
balance starts again immediately afterwards. 'The balance has gone long live the balance' seems to be
the inescapable treadmill of competing sovereign states; or, in perhaps a more appropriate figure, 'from
one slippery path to another, all leading to damnation..."
In a foreword to the same book, pages XVI / XVII, Nehru (or his ghostwriter) commented:
"The advent of thermonuclear power and the weapons of mass destruction as part of the armory of the
great powers, has totally deprived the conception and policies of balance of power of any validity
which it might have had, and has rendered it a menace instead of a means of security in the world of
today. This is the case both in regard to the nations concerned on either side in the present bipolarity
and to the rest of mankind. These weapons and the magnitude in which they will be employed have
erased the differences between the capacity to inflict punishment and of receiving the same; for
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the side that employs them is not immune from the lethal effects of their own offence. They have no
defence before the proximate and almost instant retaliation any more than the enemy had against the
attack delivered on her... "There are those again who have begun to look on the hydrogen bomb and the
capacity for mass destruction as a 'deterrent' to war. It may be conceded that this may be the case in the
beginning and in the short term. But fear is no basis on which to build peace and, what is more, we
cannot be certain that the hydrogen bomb will function as a deterrent against its use by the possessor of
it, Some miscalculation panic or some internal changes within a country, and even fear overreaching
itself, can trigger this force. Nothing deters global conflict thereafter … "
Even the World Federalist concept is still based on the unchecked premise of a balance of power: the
idea that certain powers of States must continue to exist and cannot be abolished. Quite obviously, once
all these dangerous powers are withdrawn, there would no longer be any motive for attempting to
establish a lasting balance between them.
It does take a degree of mental imbalance to totally rely on the success of any balance of power
politics.
See: Accidental War, Alliances, Arms Race, Deterrence Immorality, Madmen, Miscalculations,
Nuclear Strength, Power, Property Concept of Citizens, World Federation.
BAN THE BOMB?
Don't just ban the bomb; destroy it! Disgust with taxes is not enough to get rid of them. One has to
know how to do without them. It's just the same with the bomb. How does one ban the bomb? Is it any
easier than banning diseases, stupidity, ignorance, crime and irresponsibility? Bombs must not only be
banned but physically destroyed. The governments would not even ban them. Selfhelp against the
bombs is the only way out.
Actually, one cannot "ban" the bomb but only those producing, stockpiling and preparing to use them.
Once nuclear weapons are no longer considered as weapons then, obviously, no ban would be any
longer proposed. Those holding them would destroy them themselves.
Until then, the best agency for banning or rather destroying nuclear "strength" would be a volunteer
militia for the protection of human rights.
See: Decision, Destruction, Disarmament, Militia, Nuclear Strength, Outlawry, Resistance, Selfhelp,
Tyrannicide. Compare: Demonstrations, Protests.
BASES, FOREIGN NUCLEAR STRENGTH BASES
All foreign and the own bases, which directly or indirectly promote nuclear strength, ought to be
subjected to referendums and destroyed once they are condemned by them. This should also apply to
communication centres, even when they are also used for peaceful purposes at present as some of the
bases are, which allow the more accurate positioning and targeting of nuclear submarines.
All nuclear armed allied troops should be sent home. According to an article by Ian Moffitt in: The
Australian, 3/9/71 , there are at least 28 secret bases in Australia and its territories. Australia is simply
considered as 'a large empty aircraft carrier, available for use.'
Naturally, all nuclear weapons of one's own national government and all plants for their construction
should also be destroyed by the people themselves or under their supervision and that of the world
public.
In short : All primary nuclear targets should be abolished. They invite and provoke nuclear attack.
They are inherently aggressive.
See: Alliances, Atomic Energy, Defence, Disarmament, Referendums.
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BET, THE ULTIMATE BET
Many people who would not even bet a few dollars on a dog or a horse race are, nevertheless, among
the worst gamblers by having bet their lives and that of their families on their conviction that nuclear
war will not occur. Rational men would hedge their bets but in this respect very few have, We are all
walking willingly to the "Final Solution" furnaces, betting that they are only delousing chambers.
See: Acuteness of Danger, Apathy, Decision, Deterrence, Enlightenment, Ideaslarge, Myths,
Powerlessness, Reason.
BIGNESS, WRONG IDEAS ON THE VALUE AND EFFECTIVENESS OF BIGNESS
Most people uncritically assume anything very large and powerful to be also very valuable and
effective. But going e.g. after tyrants with antipeople weapons is no more effective than artillery fire
against sparrows.
An effective weapon against a tyrant need not even be as large as his heart and only one heart makes
him tick. The weapon which could make it stop need not be powered by anything stronger than a
human arm.
The weapons which could prevent a thousand ready slaves from following their tyrant any longer could
be as small as words are.
The larger and blunter a cutting instrument is the more useless it becomes, e.g. for cutting out a brain
tumor. No surgeon could do it with an axe or high explosive. Killing the patient would also get rid of
the tumor but it would hardly be a moral or efficient way. Tyrants cannot be wiped out by nuclear
devices without also killing all too many of his victims. But a single dagger or bullet could do the trick.
See: Centralization Decentralization, Defence Desertion Discriminating Warfare, Governments Myths,
Rationalism, Nuclear Strength, Power, Revolutionary Warfare, Tyrannicide, Weapons.
BILL OF RIGHTS
Governments restrict numerous basic rights by laws and regulations and they do not even have any or a
halfway complete and consistent paper bill of rights in their constitutions to prevent this.
Good bill of rights codes attempt to settle what basic rights no government of whatever persuasion may
interfere with (unless they are exterritorial ones restricting only the rights of their voluntary members
with their full individual consent) and allow us to realize and extend these rights.
A completed bill of rights, protected by an armed citizenry, would contain many basic rights which
would help prevent nuclear war:
The right to trade, travel and migrate freely, the right to bear arms, organize and train for the protection
of human rights, the right to resist and revolt against oppression the right to secede as an individual, the
right to associate exterritorially, the right to remain neutral, the right to participate in nuclear
disarmament and other war and peace decisions, the right to refuse paying taxes, the right to refuse
acceptance of a dictator's deteriorated paper money and the right to issue or accept sound alternative
exchange media and valuestandards instead.
Such human rights declarations ought to be included in all constitutions at least as basic codes for
international if not for internal conduct. Citizens, public servants and militiamen ought to swear to
abide by them as their highest law.
See: Broadcasting, Cultural Revolution, Enlightenment, Freedom of Action, Freedom to Experiment,
Free Migration, Free Trade, Human Rights, Militia, Resistance, Revolution, Secession, Voluntary
Taxation and the anthology of about 100 PRIVATE human rights drafts in PEACE PLANS 589/590.
BIOLOGICAL WARFARE
Apart from technical detection, prevention and destruction measures and financial steps, the same
preventive measures apply as for nuclear weapons.
See : Collective
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Responsibility, Control, Decision, Disarmament, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Individual
Responsibility, Inspection, Militia, Motives, Power, Targets, Weapons.
BLACKMAIL, NUCLEAR
If any community is threatened by a blackmailing and nuclear armed government then it should
formally surrender, preferably even before the first nuclear weapon is used against it, That means that
all official military resistance would have to cease, The fight would then have to be continued on
another level, that of revolution, tyrannicide and military insurrection, among the occupation forces and
the home forces of the enemy government. If preparations for such a resistance are far advanced and
this fact is made well known to dictatorial rulers then this would severely dampen their aggressive
spirits and it would promote their overthrow.
See: Crime, Surrender.
BLOCKADE
No blockade in war or peace! Their common premise with nuclear war is collective responsibility and
it feeds on and supports this immoral and all too popular fallacy.
Trade with the enemy's subjects but not with him as far as this is possible.
Offer his subjects and victims food, clothing and medicines, either in exchange or as a loan or even as a
present. Sell or lend them, sometimes, weapons to be used against their and our enemy.
In some instances it would even be wise to supply his troops with food and medicine to soften them up
and ready them for uprisings, fraternization, surrender or desertion. (Wrongful blockades are still all
too common. Instead of executing Saddam Hussein, Western troops killed masses of his conscripts and
kept food and medicines from his civilian victims. As a result, according to some estimates, a million
innocent people died and these indirect killings continue and hardly inconvenience this dictator and his
henchmen. J.Z., 12.10.01.)
Although not usually classed and recommended as such, a tax strike, combined with a refusal to accept
a government's paper money, could well serve as a rightful and sensible blockade of the real enemy,
one which would have to be practised mainly by subjects against their own oppressors.
Under armed protection by newly formed local militias and after taking precautions, so that the militia
itself would be able to continue essential payments, this kind of blockade could blockade a dictator
better than most others. Other blockade measures are not likely to prevent nuclear war or to promote
peace, on the contrary.
See: Boycotts, Free Trade, Monetary Freedom, Revolutionary Warfare, Tax Strike.
BOMBING, AIR RAIDS
All heavy bombing, especial area or carpet bombing, is, in its effects, all too similar to the use of
nuclear devices, namely, capable only of indiscriminate murder and destruction. An exception are the
recently developed "smart" bombs. But they are by far not as smart as yet as they are said or believed
to be. If they were, then they might be useful even for tyrannicide.
Thus all ordinary bombs and bombers usable only for carpet bombing and, naturally, all heavy aircraft,
which could be used for the transport of nuclear weapons, ought to be rendered unusable or, if
necessary, ought to be destroyed.
Until all nuclear "weapons" are destroyed we have to go back to relatively slow and small aircraft,
small helicopters, gyrocopters and small private planes. Seeing the threat posed by biological and
chemical mass murder devices we might have to do without these as well, while we allow this threat to
continue.
The great losses in transport capacity and time savings would be more than offset by the greater
security. Anyhow, we have now rapid trains and email. We can't go on indefinitely as if the nuclear
war threat did not really exist. Instead of trying to develop Star War capacity, we ought to aim at
destroying all rocket delivery capacities for ABC mass murder devices. That can be achieved by fully
collaborating with the victims of all dictatorships, including most of their conscripts.
See: Aircraft, Air Raids, Carpet Bombing, Collective Responsibility, Disarmament, Discriminatory
Warfare, Indiscriminate Warfare, Rockets, War Aims, Weapons.
BOMBMAKERS AND BOMB USERS
Those who made and use nuclear devices are best protected against counterattacks and thus least
deterred. Those who have nothing to do with their production and
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use are threatened most. Nuclear devices are antipeople "weapons" or mass murder devices, in a
situation where the people are rendered powerless and helpless, The bombmakers and users would be
rightful targets but even they could not be safety be attacked with nuclear weapons without hurting
innocents. They have to be rendered harmless in other ways.
See: Amnesty, Asylum, Decision, Deterrence, Disarmament, Militia, Prizemoney, Referendums,
Resistance, Revolution, Rulers, Secession, Tyrannicide, War Aims
BOREDOM
People tend to react only to immediate and temporary dangers. They get accustomed to large and
persistent ones, and do even get bored with them, especially when they cannot imagine a way out. How
else could one explain the current apathy towards growing government powers, aggressive acts of
communists and towards the nuclear threat? Children have only a very short attention span on almost
all subjects. That of adults is comparatively onger but it does not last either, for decades, at full
strength, with them. This also helps to explain the current attitudes towards statism, totalitarian
communism and nuclear holocaust. People got accustomed even to slavery, oppression and tributes
especially when they come not under terms like "taxation", "selective service", "compulsory schooling"
and "general franchise". They would no longer be bored by such problems once they became liberated
to act themselves and directly against such dangers. So far their Statecontrolled "education" does not
include lessons on such freedom options and this organized miseducation will probably never include
such lessons.
See a Acuteness of Danger, Apathy, Enlightenment, Enthusiasm, Freedom of Action, Ideas large,
Ignorance, Powerlessness, Secession.
BOUNDARIES, BORDERS, FRONTIERS
Ambrose Bierce, in his: "The Devil's Dictionary", defined a boundary as: "in politics, the imaginary ine
between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other."
Boundaries in today's military "thinking" define the "enemy" and "targets" large enough to make
people think of using nuclear mass destruction and mass murder devices against them. Without such
boundaries nuclear weapons would be useless, as useless as they are for fighting criminals in a large
city.
Nuclear devices appear suitable only against a large collective enemy located in a large separate
territory which is exclusively his own, i.e., against the practice of the "national unity" myths, expressed
and upheld by coercive boundaries and imposed laws and governments.
Under full freedom for territorial secessions new boundaries would multiply so much and political
units would become so small that many of them might become excluded as nuclear targets, except,
perhaps, for the smallest nuclear mass murder devices, those called "tactical nukes".
But boundaries and the danger they bring with them could be fully removed not by multiplication but
by individual exterritorial secessions only, or you will, by allowing everyone to draw a boundary
around himself, his companions and his property, no matter where he has chosen to live at his own
expense. Even miniStates can be despotically governed and could be expanded into empires. Compare
the history e.g. of Athens, Sparta and Rome and that of the British Empire. Even within the U.K. some
fighting still continues because neither all the Irish nor all the Scottsh and Welsh people, not to speak
of all the other kinds of dissenters, have attained, even there, all the liberties they desire for themselves.
Territorialism cannot offer it for widely desired territorial subdivisions have their dissenters, too.
Enforced territorial unity can at most achieve temporary armistices and it breads revolutionaries and
terrorists.
See : Collective Responsibility, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers, Governments, Nationalism,
Rights, Rulers, Secession, Territorial Organization, Targets, Unity, Weapons.
BOYCOTTS
Boycott nuclear powers, i.e., make no alliances with them, Grant them no bases. Boycott all engaging
in nuclear power "games" apart from counterpropaganda efforts, which should go on and refuse
also to pay for nuclear armaments. Don't in any way give the consent of the victim to any preparations
for the nuclear holocaust.
See: Alliances, Bases, Decision, Employment, Freedom of Action, Powerlessness, Referendum,
Secession, Tax Strike, Uranium Mining.
NUCLEAR BRINKMANSHIP
At any time some "strategic" bombers are in the air and some IBM rockets on the ready. The warning
time in the U. K. is supposed to be down to 2 minutes, according to some even to 20 seconds. Thus we
are on the brink all the time now and could got from an unstable "peace" or armistice to a nuclear
holocaust very rapidly.
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Under the nuclear strength and deterrence policy every incident involves brinkmanship.
"Only men of small worth would ever have let things drift this far. And if they were such small men
they wouldn't have the humility to, draw back now" said Lauran Paine in: "This Time Tomorrow",
World Distributors, London 1963.
A comprehensive listing of all those occasions, at which nuclear threats were made so far, might go far
to help overcome apathy towards the nuclear threat As much secrecy surrounds these events that often
we have no more than speculations and suppositions to mark these occasions. The following list is very
incomplete.
Years ago I saw once a survey listing about 12 such events. Most of them were revealed only much
later, years later, if at all. Thus, those condemned to die through the use of nuclear "weapons", without
having been accused of anything, without having had a hearing, may hear of their death sentence only
when it is already too late, when they are already being exterminated as if they were a pest.
During the Korean War Gen. McArthur was supposed to have been dismissed by Truman for his
intention to use nuclear weapons against North Korea.
In the Cuba Crisis the threats with nuclear weapons were rather openly committed by both sides.
The Hungarian revolutionaries, it has been said, were isolated from their Western sympathizers by
nuclear threats made by the Soviet Regime.
The 1955 dispute for the Quemoy and Matsu islands involved a US nuclear armed fleet.
"The Eisenhower Administration offered in 1954 to sell France four atomic bombs for use in a last
ditch defence of its embattled forces at Dien Bien Phu, a leading U.S. aerospace magazine reported
yesterday." The Australian, 1/9/71.
The 1967 Arab/Israel Six Day War involved nuclear threats , and so did the 1973/4 Arab/Israel war.
Several Berlin Crises brought us to the brink and were possibly only stopped by threats of massive
nuclear retaliation.
Please add your information and suspicions on this subject.
See: Acuteness of Danger, Accidental War Automated Warfare, Censorship, Decision, Deterrence,
Nuclear Strength, Power, Retaliation.
BROADCASTING
Under government control broadcasting is more an instrument of war than of peace. The Nazi's use of
broadcasting was one of the worst examples but even the BBC's broadcasting on Rhodesia's UDI went
pretty far towards advocating aggression. (I was pleased to hear on the grapevine that British air force
officers, in talks among themselves, had agreed to refuse orders to attack Rhodesia's white regime.
Alas, Unilateral Declarations of Independence for ALL people in Rhodesia, were not part of the public
debate.)
"One must bear in mind that throughout the last seven thousand years of human history the twenty
large empires and hundreds of little empirettes were held together mainly by control of all major
systems of communication.' said Dagobert D. Runes in his excellent "Handbook of Reason", page
105.
We shouldn't let broadcasting be monopolized, taxed or licenced any longer. We should introduce
freedom in the airwaves and should tolerate no censorship of any kind except selfcensorship.
Without freedom in broadcasting we could not easily come to an agreement with the people on the
other side, over the heads of our rulers, building up trust between them and us, enough for common
action against the threat of nuclear war.
Moreover, without free broadcasting bringing e.g., numerous specialized talkback shows, public
opinion cannot be changed rapidly enough to remove all other institutional and mental obstacles to
peace.
See: Cultural Revolution, Declarations Enlightenment, Ignorance, Negotiations, Open Air Speaking
Places, Peace Declarations, People, Publicity, Referendums, Trust, War Aims, peace plan 249.
COULD CRIMINALS GET THEIR HANDS ON NUCLEAR EXPLOSIVES?
CRIMINALS, OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER, DO ALREADY HAVE THEIR HANDS ON ALL OF
THEM!
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BROTHERHOOD OF MAN
Whosoever talks of the brotherhood of man has probably no brothers or has never seen brothers
fighting. The utopia of brotherly love between all humans need not be realized if only we learn to
concede justice to each other, whether we are brothers or not.
Brotherhood is dangerous if enforced and beneficial only if it leads to the toleration of diversity and to
justice between the various independent groups, each practising one or the other degree of "brotherly
love" within the group. In short, it can be achieved only by individual secessionism, for even brothers
disagree and have the right to disagree. They need not love each other as long as they leave each other
alone.
See: Alliances, Appeals, Declarations, Diversity, Freedom, Human Rights, Justice, Love, Negotiations,
People, Referendums, Rights, Separate Peace, Segregation, Selfishness, Tolerance, Trust, Unity, War
Aims, World Federation.
BUREAUCRACY
Only bureaucrats can conceive of and prepare for a nuclear war. If your life span continues to be
administered by a handful of bureaucrats, what chances do you have?
Bureaucrats, whether they are in or out of the armed forces, by their very nature, cannot prevent
nuclear war nor do they even want to. Their whole thinking is conditioned to consider only attempts to
solve everything with power and if this proves to be difficult, then they are always inclined to use not
less or no power at all but instead more and more concentrated power. The nuclear threat does perhaps
best illustrate the absurdity of this attempt but this has not deterred the bureaucrats as yet or induced
them to use their underdeveloped reasoning powers. Nor is it likely that they will do so in the future.
See : Decision, Governments, Leadership, Monopolies, Power, Rulers, Selfhelp, Secession.
CANALS
Canals, like the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, should not be subjected to national control but
rather to an open access system similar to the principle of the High Seas. They should be treated as if
they were scarce natural resources of a monopolistic kind. The owners and investors in such a canal
should only be entitled to the free market prices of their services no matter who would use them.
Canals would then cease to be objects of contention between opposed States, Moreover, without
obstacles and threats by national governments, another Suez and another Panama Canal would
probably have been built long ago.
See: Nationalism, Natural Resources, Open Cooperatives.
CAPITALISM
Capitalism is not one of the causes of but one of the major cures for the threat of nuclear war. Why is it
peace promoting? Because in essence it means nothing but fully free and competitive production and
trade based on private property rights and the absence of monopolies and both are inherently
peaceful, without any privileges, and powers over others. Thus it offers only advantages to all
involved. Only when capitalism becomes mixed with State power does its State power aspect become
dangerous to others. As somebody once said:; To call our present system capitalistic is a slander of
capitalism. It amounts to more or less fascistic or communistic rule over "free" enterprises and "free"
people.
Only if one defined, with Ulrich von Beckerath, the present situation, popularly called capitalistic, as
one in which most people don't know much about their own important affairs and are not even
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interested in them, could one attack this situation as war promoting. But this has nothing to do with
capitalism as an ideal, as the unknown ideal which Ayn Rand described in her works. Compared with
the ideal capitalism, this kind of "capitalism" is nothing but a misnomer.
See: Cooperative Production Economic Freedom, Free Migration, Free Trade, Greed, Human Rights,
Investments, Laissez Faire; Monopolies, Profit, Property, Purchase of Enterprises, Selfhelp, Socialism,
Welfare State.
CAPTIVE NATIONS, LIBERATION OF ALL CAPTIVE NATIONS.
"You cannot have freedom until the captive nations are free." Mr. Darby, MLA, 9/72.
Captive nations increase the threat of nuclear war in at least four ways:
1. They provide the manpower which seemingly can be defeated only with nuclear devices.
2. Their uprisings might be countered with nuclear weapons and this could involve outside nuclear
powers.
3. There are good reasons for being afraid of any regime which suppresses whole nations and only the
most
"powerful and modern" weapons seem strong enough against such empires.
4. The suppressed nations themselves might, out of nationalistic hatreds, use clandestine nuclear
weapons against
their oppressors.
No captive nation has any worthwhile chance to see liberation through nuclear war or even to survive
it. To have a good chance for liberation and to avoid the danger of nuclear holocaust, they must be re
defined as minority or majority groups which have the right to full exterritorial autonomy on a
voluntaristic and personal law basis but no right at all to rule over dissenters. Free secession from all
nation states, including formerly captive nations, and from all empires, individual secession as well as
territorial secession, is the answer. We must recognize that among the present world population, being
as mixed up as it is now, there are no ethnic borders left except those around individuals and their
freely chosen associates. See: Exterritorial Imperative.
Totalitarian communism holds now more nations captive than any other ideology if one excludes the
ideology of territorial organization.
"The Berlin Wall is a concrete example of captivity" said a contributor in the Mosman Debating
Society, Sept. 72 and this is as far as the concretebound thinking of most sympathizers with the most
obviously captive nations goes today. Most do no longer realize that "communism is not content with
holding one third of the world captive, It is determined to hold the whole world captive, if it can," (Mr.
Darby ibid.) Often it is overlooked, particularly by those advocating the use of nuclear strength in this
situation, that "the Russians are just as much captive as the other captive people in the Soviet Union."
(Mr. Darby, ibid.) Very few people ask themselves, as Mr. Darby did at the same opportunity: "Are we
the same people who said in 1939 that Poland must be kept free?" I heard only one person so far (Mr.
John Holt, ibid.) ask the question: "Why wasn't war declared also on the Soviet Union when it divided
Poland up, together with Nazi Germany?" We must be aware, in asking such questions, that Poland
was neither a fully free country before that division and also that it hasn't been freed yet, not even
through the immense efforts of W.W. II. Obviously, wrong methods were used to keep it free or to
liberate it and these, there and elsewhere, finally led to W.W. II and to the continued enslavement of
Poland. (There are considerable differences in the degree of enslavement. Today's Poland has probably
more internal political freedom than Soviet Russia has while Eastern Germany has less. At the same
time, the standard of living in Eastern Germany is higher than in Russia and Poland, although it, too, is
an exploited satellite and captive nation.
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For any chance to dissolve the communist empires and the nuclear threats they pose, the whole idea of
captive nations has to be explored and clarified. Most importantly, the popular concept of "captive
nations" ought to be very much extended:
While the most obvious and worst types of captive nations are those behind the Iron and Bamboo
Curtains and while these oppressions have no objective justification, they are not the only examples of
captive nations, nor are, as some would have you believe, the Spanish, Rhodesian, Ugandan or South
African suppressed majorities the only or equally captive people.
All captive nations should be released. This applies also to minorities and majorities not only in the
abovementioned countries but in India, Ireland, Scotland, the U.S. Canada, and most of the "self
governing" new African states. One should definitely not confine liberation attempts to nations under
communist dictatorships but extend them to nations (and other voluntary communities) under any
dictatorial regime, including those under democratic majority despotism.
Admittedly, many of these other nations are far from being equally unfree but this should not lead us to
assume that they are not unfree or sufficiently free or as free as they have the right to be. Certainly, the
various people in Formosa are not as much in bondage as the various people are in Mainland China,
e.g. the Tibetans, but they are also in some kind of bondage which offers not a sufficiently strong
contrast and alternative to the Red Chinese system. Arthur Koestler summed such criticism up when he
stated:
"Between us and the communists there is not black and white. We are the grey."
From this follows one conclusion which very few have drawn so far: Freedom for the nations captive
under totalitarian communism and security for ourselves becomes obtainable only after we ourselves
grant full freedom to the various communistic, socialistic and numerous other movements in the West,
which are now subjected to the political and mixed economy laws of the Western democracies. This
domination, moderate as it is, is nevertheless considered by some of the so restrained fanatics as
severe enough to justify their subversion, terroristic and revolutionary attempts and their alliances with
communistic nuclear powers.
To disarm this enemy ideologically and, lastly, also militarily, we have to allow them all the self
imposed restrictions they aspire to. We have to let them suffer freely under the system of their choice,
We should not prevent them from experiencing their system in practice. We should cease to be the
scapegoats for their failures. We should let them live in their own fool's paradise. There is no better
way to cure them and to save us from the nuclear and other threats of their Big Brothers. A society
offering freedom even to communists is the most attractive alternative to totalitarian communism. It
could easily become the ideal for revolutionaries fighting what they consider to be e.g. "capitalism",
"democracy", "globalism", etc., and it could unify them sufficiently for common liberation efforts that
would liberate all of them each group only to the extent that it would want to be free.
The Imperialism of the Captive Nations:
Even the recognized captive nations intend to hold other nations captive after their own liberation.
They are also territorial imperialists although on a smaller scale: Biafra , for instance, did not favour
secessionism in the territory it claimed but suppressed a variety of small tribes during its own empire
building attempt. To my knowledge none of the captive nations today, which is working for its
liberation, intends to permit territorial secession freely, to all dissenting minorities and communities,
far less would it permit individual secessionism. Thus, without realizing it, they all give the consent of
the victim to the very principles of imperialism.
None of the Existing Nations Permits Secessions Freely:
In all nations existing today, not even those claiming to be the freest excluded, neither minorities nor
majorities are granted a formal right to secede with or without territories. Thus all existing nations
claim the right as the communist dictators do to keep dissenting nations in their own territories down
and to ignore their aspirations.
All Nation States Hold Nations Captive:
The prison of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a prison for all, was and is the Nation State. Every
territorial nation state is a prison at least for some
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freedom lovers. Thus the conventional "captive nations" should be given only a limited support, one
limited to their rightful claims and not one extended to their wrongful ones. The sympathizers with
Biafra should, e.g, have insisted that the Biafrans do not impose the Biafran type of federalism upon
dissenting coastal tribes and that, instead, they should grant to these and the Federalist Nigerians in
their midst, nothing less than full exterritorial autonomy. This would have reduced their own federation
to a rightful, exterritorial and voluntarist one and might have even gained the victory for them and for
all others so liberated.
The conventional captive nations advocates do also wrongfully assume that the conventional
democratic decisionmaking process would, on its own, guarantee freedom, But this is not necessarily
so when decisions are made on a collectivist, uniform and territorial basis and when human rights are
unknown to the majority or insufficiently known and thus e.g.. a "soak the rich" mythology is popular.
Small Scale Imperialism:
Small scale imperialism is not the proper answer to large scale imperialism, although quite often it
would improve matters considerably and might even save many lives otherwise sacrificed to "nation
building".
Oldfashioned coercive nationalism will no longer convince and motivate relatively enlightened people
or not sufficiently to fight totalitarianism effectively. It has only a new boom among illiterate and
semiliterate peoples and among them it ought to be defused by supporting individual as well as
territorial secessionism.
Among the more advanced people the old type of coercive nationalism is, by now apart from its
economic forms largely out of fashion, Due to its inherent intolerance it is also unsuitable to unify
them in their resistance against totalitarianism. But it is not yet dead and it should not be ignored,
either, Otherwise, once the pendulum swings back to small scale territorial nationalism, it might come
to the suppression of the remaining largescale territorial nationalism and do wrong and harm there.
Territorial secessionists should and only individual secessionists would as well respect the voluntary
unity or federation aspirations of Chinese, Russians, Americans and Cosmopolitans, World States and
World Federalists. To each his own. But to none any exclusive State territories!
The largescale as well as the small scale national aspirations can be rightfully satisfied, that is, without
hurting the rights of the various captive nations in these areas, only by the voluntary establishment of
exterritorial nations or commonwealth organizations or world federations which apply among their
own voluntary members personal law, not territorial law.
The idea of giving different nationalities their own land or "territorial integrity" is not right at all but
completely wrong and impracticable, as wrong as the territorial rule of any particular church.
Independence? Yes, Territorial independence? No! They could not have it all at the same time and in
the same territory. Thus nobody should have it because it could exist only at the expense of the rights
and interests of the others.
The genuine captive nations not the people happening to live together in certain territories, but
volunteers agreeing among themselves on certain basics and being forced at present to live under laws
given by others should be allowed their own personal laws or institutions or, rather, a chance to
establish them for themselves and this at their own risk and cost. They should not be allowed anything
more. All their other aspirations, amounting to the intention to lay down the law for others, an
inclination they may have still in common with their present oppressors, ought to be resisted, forcefully
if necessary.
Individual Sovereignty:
To settle the question of captive nations we must ask ourselves: "What constitutes a nation? One
million people? 1000? 10? A family? One person?"
Does it have to have the population at least of a city like Singapore, Bremen and Berlin or does a
village population suffice? Is a national club the minimum or a city district like Harlem? I assert that
there is no minimum collective size
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required. A population of one is good enough in some instances and one is bad enough in others.
In other words, the captive individual ought to be discussed. It is the most suppressed minority, in the
territorially defined captive nations and even in the democratically ruled territories as well as in
dictatorships. Only when we recognize the rights of the individual as inviolable would we reduce
nations to the classic definition given by Caroline Chisholm: "Nothing but what is voluntary deserves
the name of national"
Every individual is a captive nation today with the exception of collectivists and may rightfully
liberate himself or be liberated if he wants to. Otherwise as Charles Brooks said in September 72:
"Slavery is alive as long as the power of tie State can be wielded against any people."
Or, as Patrick Brookes said at the same time: "Everybody is captive because of the fascist attitudes of
those in control."
As long as one man's freedom is not secure no man's freedom is secure. We could best support
secessionist aspirations, like those of the now somewhat recognized captive nations, by going beyond
their aims and being more rational moral and consistent than they are, i.e. by recognizing individual
secessionists also, in "their' territories as well as in 'ours", by recognizing e.g., Len Casley's Hutt River
Province in Western Australia. Under the restrictions imposed on it, it is a captive nation as well.
If we, in a supposedly free country, suppress secession, what could we expect from Stalinists and
Maoists and other collectivists? By not recognizing all voluntary secessionists one gives the sanction of
the victim to all repressions of individuals, minorities and majorities striving for independence.
Indeed, all captive nations ought to be liberated except those which want to continue geographical
exclusiveness and domination (going beyond the private properties of their members), and instead of
introducing freedom want to continue imperialism on a smaller scale, with themselves as rulers or the
dominating faction. They ought to be confined, like all others, to exterritorial and autonomous self
government.
We should establish diplomatic relations with the captive nations but not with their oppressors. This
would require, among other things, freedom of broadcasting to the captive nations. We should also
boost the brain drain from the Soviet Union and Red China, recognize all governments in exile which
have only exterritorial aspirations, welcome refugees and deserters, repeal our alien and immigration
acts and allow immigrants to organize themselves autonomously and encourage even communists to
set up their utopias in our midst but among themselves and only at their expense and risk.
See: Appeals, Communism, Declarations, Defence Imperialism Liberation War, Motives, Negotiations,
Nationalism, Peace Declarations, Referendum, Revolutionary Warfare, Secession, Separate Peace,
Socialism, Targets, Trust, War Aims.
CAREER SOLDIERS, PROFESSIONAL SOLDIERS, MERCENARIES & STANDING
ARMIES
Career soldiers tend to be the less intelligent and obedient types of people, i.e., the types which prolong
wars unnecessarily and even might start them off in order to increase their chances for promotion. We
can no longer afford them. Whosoever makes a career out of collectivist military organization and
fighting is unsuitable to organize genuine peace efforts or a worthwhile defence. While, perhaps,
physically and technically very skilled in the purely military sense, he will also be largely blind to all
alternatives, as blind as the native witchdoctor is to modern meteorology.
A career involvement in nuclear war preparations does automatically disqualify, at least morally, for all
desirable military defence and, naturally, for all peace work.
To further their career they just might obey orders to use nuclear weapons.
Soldiers armed with nuclear devices are engaged in a career to end all careers. Thus the careers of all
require that this career be brought to a nonexplosive stop.
To induce career soldiers to desert or to hand over nuclear weapons they may have to be bribed or
threatened or both.
They must be replaced by parttime and voluntary soldiers of local militias who are trained and sworn
in to defend nothing but individual human rights and would gain nothing but such a satisfaction out of
their military
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activities. See: Amnesty, Asylum, Conscription, Defence, Desertion, Employment, Experts, Espionage
Mercenaries, Military Insurrections, Militia, Oath, Obedience, PensionClaims, Prize Money,
Subordination, Tax Strike, War Aims, Weapons.
CARPET BOMBING, AIR RAIDS, INDISCRIMINATE WARFARE & NUCLEAR
"WEAPONS"
Carpet bombing set the precedents for nuclear weapons use with its devastating explosive effects on
large areas and the firestorms it caused. Until all its fallacies are clearly recognized nuclear devices will
continue to be considered as genuine weapons.
Carpet bombing is not the most efficient use of air superiority. It did not significantly reduce the
German war potential during W.W. II. It did not break the German soldiers will to resist. On the
contrary, the terror bombings tended to increase the morale of soldiers who saw their women and
children attacked and murdered from the air. The selfdefeating effects in Korea and Vietnam were
similar. The civilian victims of war became a higher and higher percentage of those killed, Nuclear
strikes against open cites would almost exclusively murder civilians. Carpet bombing is thus one of the
roots of nuclear war. The losses suffered in carpet bombing raids confirm this. The firestorms caused
by carpet bombing (a clever mixture of explosives and incendiaries was used) in Hamburg Dresden and
Tokyo, are said to have cost more lives in each of these cities than the nuclear explosive used against
Hiroshima. I remember a particularly vicious feature added to the fire bombs. For a while the attacked
had a chance to extinguish a burning phosphor bomb by covering it with sand. To prevent that self
defence of their property, explosive cells were added to these small stick bombs, so that people would
rather let their property be burned than go near these new and exploding incendiaries.
See: Air Raids, Bombers, Collective Responsibility, Indiscriminate Warfare, Weapons. Compare peace
plans 43 & 44 on discriminate air raids.
CAUSAL THINKING
Most people cannot fully or do not often enough apply abstract causal thinking. Instead, they use
personal thinking. To them everything is caused by the actions of persons with bad or good intentions.
This kind of "thinking" always looks for leaders or culprits instead of causes, And it is not very
discriminating in looking for leaders or culprits either. For this mentality e.g. antisemitism, racism in
general, nationalism or, more abstractly expressed, the principle of collective responsibility, are good
instances. Such people see an evil and immediately believe that some evil persons must have brought it
about, with malice aforethought. Thus numerous people still believe firmly in ore or the other
conspiracy theory on freemasons, bankers, financiers, capitalists, the Catholic Church, Jews,
communists and others. All are collectively accused by one or the other group of "true believers", of
having brought about practically every evil in existence.
Religious people can conceive the world only as one created and regulated by some superman, God,
and influenced by an evil spirit like the Devil. When a ruler makes a wrong decision on war and peace
then this is perceived as due only to his personal imperfections and not to the imperfect system which
allows one man to make such a decision for all others, They are all demonridden primitives still.
When they recognize that a certain government is particularly bad, then they merely want its positions
filled by presumably better persons. They do not see the defects in the mere existence of powerful
offices. When finding themselves in a depression or a war then, according to them, this is due to
bankers, speculators, the wrong finance ministers and politicians, or "pricemaking" producers and
retailers, but not at all to inherent flaws in the monetary and constitutional system imposed upon them.
Thus, in numerous ways, personal thinking prevents people from seeing the real causes of nuclear war
and the real solutions and only causal thinking could show us the way out. See: Collective
Responsibility, Conspiracy, Conspiracy, Cultural Re
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volution, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enlightenment, Freedom of Action, Morality, Myths,
Prejudices.
CAUSES OF NUCLEAR WAR
The causes of nuclear war are numerous and they must all be revealed and treated, no matter how small
and insignificant they may at first appear, Consider the alternative, if a single one of them were
overlooked
Only with this in mind should the most important factor be considered: the forceful subdivision of this
Earth among sovereign, centralized and territorial States. Without this institutionalized intolerance and
coercion over large areas of the Earth's surface, the diverse groupings which would develop naturally
through voluntary association, would have no more wars between them than churches have today in
the more advanced countries under the rule of religious tolerance or religious freedom. We do need
the same kind of tolerance and autonomy in the economic, social and political spheres
See: Alternatives, Autonomy, Exterritorial Imperative, Parallel Institutions, Panarchy, Appx. 3 & 8.
CENSORSHIP
Presently censorship and systematic misinformation exist even on fallout news from nuclear tests.
Peace requires the total abolition of all censorship which infringes human rights, There should be no
censorship on war games that took place, a censorship undertaken with the excuse that the calculated
results might panic the population, No censorship on nuclear bomb production and nuclear stockpiles
produced with the help of "peaceful" nuclear research and power production. No censorship on war and
peace aims, on foreign nuclear bases, on freedom of expression of soldiers. No war secrets except
regarding times and places of particular counterattacks and names and addresses of resistance fighters,
revolutionaries, conspirators and spies for peace Maximum publicity during wartime. Let truth be a
weapon., Consider the precedent set by Athens under Pericles. If Napoleon I had realized before
Waterloo that his soldiers were already so warweary that one tenth of them had deserted or avoided
conscription and were hiding in the forests, then he would probably not have dared giving battle But
censorship of one kind or the other kept the truth even from him, 1n he long run not only the subjects
but the dictators themselves fall victims to their own propaganda machines but what a costly way to
achieve their overthrow!
See Appeals, Broadcasting, Decision, Declarations, Freedom of Expression, Negotiations, Open Air
Meetings Overestimation, Propaganda, Publicity, Referendums, Revolutionary Warfare, Secret
Diplomacy, Soldiers, Rights, Trust.
CENTRALIZATION
The common aspiration is no longer to have only one king or one pope but one State, one body of aws,
one money issuer etc., all with the same disastrous weaknesses and excess powers.
Centralism has been driven to the heights of absurdity when only a handful of men, in an extreme case
a single person only, may decide whether mankind is to continue to exist or not.
"The President and Mr. Brezhnev between them have the capacity to annihilate humanity… " Dr.
Henry Kissinger, quoted in The Australian 19.11.74.
No centralization could be more irresponsible than this one and yet it is almost sanctified by severe and
well protected monopolies Nuclear devices are something like the materialized essence of over
centralized power.
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"Caligula would have preferred the people to 'have only one head so that he could easily chop it off and
a conqueror would like a people to have only one spiritual head so that he could easily replace it."
said Jean Paul in Peace Talks, p. 60.
See: Control, Decentralization, Decision, Exterritorial Imperative, Government, Monopolies, Nuclear
Strength Power, Secession, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, State, Uniformity, United Nations, World
Federation.
CHAOS
Atomic destructive devices are the largest chaos makers of them all. Nevertheless, their defenders pose
as upholders of law and order or of the socialist "order".
No chaos presumed to follow from some of the measures advocated here would come in any way close
to that which would certainly follow a nuclear exchange or that demonstrated daily by the coercive
territorial system which makes for nuclear war.
See a Anarchy, Freedom, Laissez Faire, Law and Order, Libertarianism, Nuclear Strength, Panarchy.
CHEMICAL WARFARE
Chemical warfare with mass extermination poisons is probably as large a risk as nuclear warfare.
Luckily, the same preventive measures apply, amounting to elimination of targets, motives, power,
finance, and secrecy required to prepare and conduct such a war.
See: Control, Disarmament, Exterritorial Imperative, Inspection, Militia, Motives, Panarchy, Secrecy,
Targets, Weapons.
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
As long as not even children's rights are clarified and respected, we need not be surprised that the rights
of men are not secured either. Al barbarisms are interrelated. Children should, e.g., have a right to
decide on whether we ought to have nuclear weapons or not. Their lives are also at stake, And they
may have less of a deathwish than many of those over 18 or 21.
See: Abortion, Death Wish, Decision, Referendums, Rights, Voting, peace plans 244/5, & the private
rights drafts in PP 589/590.
CHINA, COMMUNIST
Mao once declared that he is not afraid of nuclear war and that China would survive it not only as a
communist power but as the mightiest power on Earth, With such a belief he needs only more nuclear
weapons and rockets to deliver them in order to start the holocaust. He is close to having reached both
these aims. Red China is perhaps better prepared with fallout shelters than any other nation. This
preparedness is ominous. To induce and support antitotalitarian revolutions and military insurrections
in Red China is thus one of our highest priority duties.
See: Appeals, Communism, Declarations, Decision, Desertion, Disarmament, Free Trade, Government
in
Exile, Immigration Restrictions, Liberation War, Military Insurrections, Revolutionary Warfare,
Tyrannicide, War Aims, Weapons.
CITIES, ALLIANCES BETWEEN TARGETED CITIES
Cities are the main targets of the modern antipeople weapons and in many countries they
accommodate most of the population, in Australia about 90%. It would thus make sense if they allied
themselves across national borders and against
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all nuclear armed regimes. They do have the political, military, financial and general economic power
and the strongest possible motive to do so and they could easily take some or all power out of the hands
of the national governments, They would be much less likely to keep or use nuclear weapons,
particularly if their municipal
governments made nuclear armaments an election issue.
Admittedly, this would only be an interim step at which they should not stop.
Internal justice and peace, and thereby also external peace, they could achieve, in the long run, only if
they also allowed individual secession and personal law communities.
In the meantime let us have leagues of targeted cities against those with anticity "weapons".
See: Alliances, Exterritorial Imperative, Militia, Nationalism, Open Cities, Secession, Separate Peace,
Targets, Tax Strikes, World Federations.
CIVIL DEFENCE
Civil Defence attempts in vain to offer enough protection, It accepts massmurder and mass destruction
as inevitable and attempts only to reduce their effects. Only the prevention of nuclear war makes sense.
Everything else is a waste of time and resources.
When people make individual or family survival preparations at their own expense, then they do at
least waste only their own resources and this they are entitled to do.
Civil Defence advocates accept the future occurrence of nuclear war almost like a natural catastrophe
and thereby and by the suspicions which a large scale Civil Defence effort causes, on the other side, it
might actually help to bring nuclear war about. It did worry me when I read recently that Red China is
very advanced in providing fallout shelters and that it has e. g. in Peking alone built enough to house
no less than 4 million people. A people which publicly renounced all shelters and instead declared and
practised unilateral nuclear disarmament and rightful war and peace aims, would be much safer and
might even, by a kind of chain reaction, help to prevent nuclear war between other people. It must be
admitted, though, that civil defence is useful to two groups of people: building contractors and
bureaucrats.
See: Declarations, Defence, Disarmament, Nuclear Strength, Shelter Program.
CIVILIANS, NONCOMBATANTS, NO WAR AGAINST THEM!
A war with ABC "weapons" or mass murder devices means, primarily, war against civilians, innocents
or noncombatants, a war against people as hostages, against open towns and cities, a war which is
inexcusable.
Even conscripted soldiers are usually only camouflaged civilians who ought to be given, whenever
possible, a chance to surrender, desert or rise against their war lords. See: Air Raids Collective
Responsibility, Desertion, Discriminating Warfare, Enemy, Hostage, International Law, Militia,
Noncombatants, Targets, Terrorism, Warfare.
CLASS WARFARE IDEOLOGY
If the class warfare ideologists were consistent and were not predominantly territorial nationalists, then
they would not dream of preparing and using mass extermination devices. But their systems are
territorially organized and territorially threatened (by "our" nuclear devices). Thus they do not prepare
themselves exclusively for subversion and revolution but for nuclear war. In this they are supported by
their belief that morality does not count, that it is nothing but a bourgeois prejudice. Their intolerance
is worsened by adherence to a number of prejudices like e.g. the belief that socialistic experiments
cannot be undertaken on a small scale, that people can be rightly held collectively, responsible ( e.g. for
the class origin of their parents) and that nuclear devices are powerful and modern weapons, although
they cannot distinguish between "capitalists" and "proletarians", "imperialist aggressors" and
"oppressed people" on our side.
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Our side is similarly guilty by
a) on the one side describing the countries under communist rule as totalitarian dictatorships , as people
to be liberated from the communist yoke, one imposed and upheld by a small minority only and
maintained by terror and then
b) threatening the majority, the victims of the regimes, with the ultimate terror weapons: nuclear mass
murder devices.
But inconsistent as the ideologists of class warfare as well as those of majority democracy are, they
have contributed to the status quo of large territorial nations engaged in a nuclear arms race against
each other. To defuse this system becomes possible only once individuals become free to secede from
it and join any other system of their choice. This can be done only on the basis of individual
sovereignty and exterritorial autonomy.
In the Western nations this requires an enlightenment and propaganda effort which would amount to a
genuinely cultural revolution.
In the East this cultural revolution cannot take place directly, for obvious reasons, but its ideas and
opinions could be transmitted through free broadcasting (now also through the Internet. J.Z.,
12.10.01) and it should lead to military insurrections, secessions and revolutions which would destroy
nuclear weapons and all dictatorships.
Once every ideology could easily be practised by converts, within a tolerant framework, then it would
soon gain leaders & members who would no longer advocate coercion but only improved persuasion
and practical demonstrations.
They would not see any sense in going to war or engaging in civil war to realize something that they
could peacefully establish among themselves, immediately, without having to wait for a faraway or
nevernever heaven or paradise and without having to make any more sacrifices than their own free
experiments would require of them and without having to persuade a dissenting majority.
See: Communism, Cooperative Production, Cultural Revolution, Disarmament, EmployerEmployee
Relationship, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, General Strike, Military Insurrections,
Minority Autonomy, Open Cooperatives, Revolutions, Socialism, Strikes, Tolerance, Totalitarianism,
Unions.
COBALT BOMBS
The more indiscriminating in their effects, the more some "weapons" appeal to some governments.
Some psychologists might say that some kind of "penis envy" is involved or the power madness of
impotent people. Here one should take into consideration that most "leaders", who acquire this kind of
"potency", are already at an age where their sexual potency is diminished, to say the least.
How could any rational person seriously consider not only assaulting, with nuclear explosives, whole
cities, countries and populations but, with the resulting radioactive poisons, among the survivors, if
any, the future generations as well? How could these unborn possibly be considered as enemies
unless one holds that everyone with a spark of rationality in him would be an implacable enemy of
such governments?
See: Deterrence, Doomsday Bomb, Neutron Bombs, Nuclear Strength, Radiation Hazard, Retaliation,
Terror, Weapons.
COEXISTENCE & NUCLEAR "WEAPONS"?
Should we learn to coexist with nuclear devices? Their mere existence makes sooner or later for
nuclear war. A safe, longterm coexistence with such devices is impossible.
Man never has to live with manmade blunders. We didn't have to continue living with slavery,
religious intolerance, the inquisition, the burning of witches and widows or with madmen like Hitler,
with the Black Death, Cholera, Small Pox etc. Moreover, we are actively fighting e.g. cancer, heart
disease, tuberculosis, malaria etc. So why should we accept the extreme immorality and irrationality of
the nuclear war threat?
See: Accidental War, Arms Race, Disarmament, Madmen, Miscalculations, Tyrannicide.
COEXISTENCE PEACEFUL
Territorial States cannot peacefully coexist with each other, at least not in the long run. They are
organized to antagonize each other and their own citizens. They are only as safe as corroding high
pressurized containers are even while nothing appears to happen for the time being.
Peaceful coexistence is possible only when nobody has conquest in mind or between those who are not
aggressive, and those who are not forced into aggressive institutions and actions, like e.g. conscripts
are. At present even democracies are acting like conquerors , at least towards minorities, whom they do
not allow to secede, Demo
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cracies are so oppressive today that they would usually rather conduct a unification war than permit
secession freely. Even they put barriers up against Free Trade and do not permit individual
secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities. They all practise degrees of
majority despotism and factional despotism. See the Congo, Sudan, Biafra and Bangla Desh.
They have not learned either how to peacefully coexist wish large numbers of unemployed, refugees
and deserters and rather employ despotic means than concede to them and others all the rights required
to achieve full employment and selfsupport via freedom in production and exchange.
Only a system based on individual secession and thus allowing every whim, spleen, belief and ideology
to either disprove or prove itself already among the first adherents and thus to be defeated early or to
spread from the smallest successful group to many or all others, has sufficient safety valves (as many
as there are dissenting citizens) to allow for a peaceful coexistence.
Totalitarians talking about peaceful existence, are, as somebody once said, no better than the farmer
who talks of peaceful coexistence with his turkeys until Christmas. Tolerant and intolerant groups can
no more coexist than cats and mice,
Only on the basis of exterritorial autonomy for all volunteers could organization coexist peacefully for
long periods.
See: Alternatives, Communism, Dictatorships, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative,
Freedom of Action, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Territorial Organization,
Tolerance, Totalitarianism.
COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Nuclear weapons are an extreme case of applying the principle of collective responsibility. In nuclear
war the principle is applied to the territorially organized enemy states and all their populations and thus
it leads logically to territorial or genocidal weapons.
"From ancient times till today & to a large extent even in private relations, the following principle is
still applied:
1. A subject has to suffer for the crimes of the government which taxed and ruled him,
2. Every subject is to be held responsible for the crimes of any of his countrymen against members of
other groups or nations, provided his government has ordered the commission of these crimes. This
applies even if he has not known of these crimes or had no influence whatsoever on his government or
his countrymen involved. It applies even when he has criticized these actions and tried to resist them.
"We have here an old religious principle. It is assumed as selfevident in the Bible, in the Old
Testament as well as in the New one. This has certainly facilitated the uncritical acceptance of it into
the moral code of all nations calling themselves Christian." Ulrich von Beckerath, n.d.
"The subject is responsible for the behaviour of his rulers" is the most common, application of the
principle of collective responsibility.
"One member of a race is responsible for the behaviour of other members of his group" is another.
Subjects of a ruler accused a war monger may "naturally" be wiped out with nuclear weapons is the
essence of the most acute application. 90 % of all Americans, Russians, Chinese, Frenchmen and
Englishmen and members of other nations agree upon this. Whether these people are in reality peaceful
is considered irrelevant. Their subordination is held to be sufficient to apply the principle.
"The principle of collective responsibility lies in the blood of 90 % of the population, When the Nazis
destroyed Coventry, they did this in realization of this principle. When Churchill declared: 'For every
English town 10 German towns', then for him and 99% of all Englishmen, the principle of collective
responsibility was considered as selfevident. When W.W. III starts, then public opinion will demand
the H.bombs in accordance with this principle. That very soon afterwards the enemy government
will also use H.bombs is not taken into consideration or they do not want to think about it. Under a
totalitarian regime they would not even be free to talk about it." Ulrich von Beckerath, 4.4,55
W.W. I began when the Austrian Government held the Serbian Government responsible
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for the terrorist act of the Serbian student Gabrielo Princip, who had murderer the Australian successor
to the throne.
Hitler began W.W. II after holding the Poles collectively responsible for bad treatment supposedly or
really meted out to Germans in Poland.
Every nationbuilding attempt is an attempt to build a new collective which at one time or the other is
likely to be held collectively responsible for the misdeeds of some of its voluntary or involuntary
members.
The only "guilt" of many of the victims of collective responsibility is frequently that they are taxed or
repressed like all other subjects of a criminal government, and that at least to some extent they do
believe in the "principle" of "collective responsibility" themselves, as shown by their ideas, opinions
and actions.
Article 50 of the Hague Convention on Land Warfare explicitly prohibits the application of the
principle of collective responsibility in war and it is one of the most forgotten or ignored articles, It
runs:
"No fine or other punishment may be imposed upon a whole population for the action of individuals for
which the whole population cannot be considered as responsible."
There is a moral obligation to criticize, flee from or, if possible, to resist all those who apply the
principle of collective responsibility.
To fight against this principle should be the main concern of parties, churches and ideological
associations and all individuals capable of rational judgments.
Should be!
The principle could be rightfully applied only in a very limited sphere, that of convicted criminals of a
kind. (See peace plan 227.)
This subject deserves a fullscale libertarian study.
See: Air Raids, Enemy, Hostages Individual Responsibility, Nationalism, Property Concept of Citizens,
Responsibility, Targets, Unity, Weapons.
COLLECTIVE SECURITY
If you can be drawn into a nuclear war because of a nuclear alliance then your security is as low as can
be in the long run. Collective security among nuclear armed governments is only as good and as weak
as the deterrence policy is.
See: Accidental War, Alliances, Bases, Decision, Defence, Deterrence, Nuclear strength, Nuclear
Umbrella, Nuclear Power Problem, Retaliation, Security.
COMMAND ECONOMY
All who treat economic relations as if they were military ones (and frequently express this by the
language they use, e.g. "fighting" inflation) and who would rather use force than let two parties
voluntarily make a deal for their mutual benefit, do indirectly and directly contribute to the danger of
war and lastly to nuclear war. Their national economies preserve nuclear targets, prevent peace
promoting international investments, keep immigrants and refugees out, block access to natural
resources, reduce international trade, etc.
See: Capitalism, Communism, Economic Freedom, Free Economy, Free Enterprise, Free Trade, Free
Market, Investments, Laissez Faire, Planning, Protection, Socialism.
COMMON MAN, POWERLESSNESS OF THE COMMON MAN
As long as the common man remains powerless, is not free to run his own affairs,
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not free to take steps to preserve his own life, the danger of nuclear war will persist. What are needed
are common sense and uncommon actions taken in common by common men. They can help
themselves only once they become free to act. Thus is should become their ambition to achieve the
required freedom of action, i.e., to cease to remain sheep led to the slaughter. Powerless men will
remain apathetic in the face of the nuclear threat or merely appeal to their territorial governments,
whose continued existence caused the problem in the first place, "to do something about it." No
territorial statist, from the mere single voter to the prime minister, knows what to do about this threat.
No statist education system enlightens its victims about this.
See : Authoritarianism, Centralization, Collective Responsibility, Consent, Decentralization, Decision,
Democracy, Dictatorships, Disarmament Disobedience Enlightenment, Experimental Freedom,
Experts, Freedom, Freedom of Action, Human fights, Individualism, Individual Responsibility, Militia,
Monopolies Obedience, People, Personal Law, Power, Power Powerlessness, Referendum, Resistance,
Responsibility, Secession, Selfhelp, Subordination, Totalitarianism, Voting, Weapons
COMMON SENSE, OF RULERS?
Common sense of rulers is a contradiction in terms, They all suffer from delusions of grandeur. Their
common sense can certainly not be relied upon to assure the survival of man. They make numerous
wrong decisions every day and one wrong decision by one of them, involving nuclear weapons, may
mean the end of us all.
There is only one rightful decision about nuclear weapons, namely to destroy them, even onesidedly.
That nuclear war has not happened so far was more luck than sense. Rulers are bent on power for
themselves and this in itself is an indication not of common sense but madness.
See: Accidental War, Automated Warfare, Decisions, Deterrence Doomsday Bomb, Failsafe,
Leadership, Madness, Nuclear Strength, Overkill, Power, Reason, Responsibility.
COMMUNICATION
"We can't spread the word" is a frequent excuse for those who have not yet answered sufficiently the
counter question: "What word?"
Even if the antinuclearwarprogram were complete, communication would remain a problem but not
an insuperable one. By now we have not only e.g. microfiche & floppy disks at our disposal but also
CDROMs and websites to cheaply and permanently publish any information on this subject widely
enough, at little cost and, in many countries, even at little risk to ourselves. But have we made, so far,
sufficient use of such opportunities? (J.Z., 12.10.01.)
See : Appeals, Broadcasting, Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Declarations, Encyclopaedia of
Refutations, Enlightenment, Freedom of Expression, Ideas Archive Negotiations, Oaths, Open Air
Speaking, prejudices, Propaganda, Publicity, Pubic Opinion, Questions, Referendums, Talent Registry,
War Aims.
COMMUNISM
Not only do nuclear arms in the hands of communist rulers refute the declared aim of "liberating" the
"oppressed" "proletarians" but the danger of nuclear war also emanates from the communistic ideal of
an allpowerful State, a State which in reality is the greatest monopolist, enemy and exploiter of all
workers.
Would most of the Western democracies "arm" themselves with nuclear weapons against any but
communistic or other totalitarian dictatorships? The elimination of totalitarian governments, especially
when they are armed with nuclear weapons, is therefore one of the most important steps towards the
prevention of nuclear war.
Nuclear weapons are not only immoral but extremely unsuitable for this purpose. Any dictatorship
armed with nuclear weapons would, as a result, have at least some popular support among those afraid
of nuclear weapons in the hands of "our" governments.
Obviously but largely overlooked, nevertheless: Nuclear weapons are no more a means to liberate the
Russian and Chinese people from the communist yoke than they are a means to convert any
Americans, Englishmen or Frenchmen to communism. They are immoral and absurd.
The victims of a regime should never be held collectively responsible for its actions.
The rulers are likely to survive longest after a nuclear wars. The most guilty ones would thus suffer the
least. Probably much of the hatred in the world against the USA originated from its position as a
monopolistic nuclear power after W.W.II.
With Soviettype means, that is, under almost complete disregard for individual human rights, with
totalitarian means, with coercively recruited or at least coercively managed and coercively financed
armies and weapons, with a military organiza
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tion that, in peace and war, forms a model of communistic "life, with a regulated economy which
comes all too close to the communistic model, with totalitarian military discipline for their "citizen
soldiers", the democratic governments attempt to resist advances of communism. The poverty of the
ideologies predominating in the democratic states could hardly be better shown. Moreover this whole
"democratic" might is not directed against the despots on the other side, the Soviet rulers and their
relatively few voluntary supporters, but against the whole Russian people, the whole Chinese people.
Thus we might succeed again, as Hitler once did, in driving the Russian people into the arms of its
oppressors, into another war "for their fatherland'.
Communism must not only be fought, in all its totalitarian forms and aspirations, but also tolerated and
protected in all its voluntarist forms, Otherwise the animosity which now threatens us with nuclear war
would continue, the targets and motives for nuclear war would remain. Fanatics with nuclear weapons
at their disposal must be given other choices, other aims than execution or submission. Communists
must be convinced that communism like any other ism has only once chance to survive the threat of
nuclear war and to continue in existence, at least among its remaining volunteers: through exterritorial
dispersal or voluntary and autonomous segregation under communistic personal laws.
See: Amnesty, Capitalism, Class Warfare Ideology, Collective Responsibility, Conscription, Defence,
Democracy, Desertion, Dictatorships, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Minority Autonomy, Refugees,
Socialism, Totalitarianism, War Aims.
COMPETING GOVERNMENTS
War means that governments are fighting, not competing. Competition means a peaceful effort to gain
more customers and profit by satisfying customers with a better product or service. It leaves the
customers free to choose. Not the supplier but the customer is king. Individual consumer sovereignty
prevails. Any consumer or citizen may at any time transfer his patronage to another agency.
If the same principle is applied to governments and citizenship, then the remaining communities would
be neither able nor willing to keep nuclear weapons and engage in nuclear war. They would be no more
likely to do so than churches are under religious freedom. An extension of competition into all spheres
of nonaggressive human action is essential if nuclear war is to be prevented.
See: Alternatives, Autonomy, Capitalism, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of
Action, Free Economy, Free Market, Free Trade, Minority Autonomy, Monopolies, Motives, Panarchy,
Parallel Institutions, Pluralism, Secession, Sovereignty, Targets, Unity, Voluntarism, Voting,
Voluntary Taxation, plan 153.
COMPROMISES
Compromise, although usually considered as peace promoting, has also the characteristic of
perpetuating a struggle based on disagreements because, by its very definition, it does not fully satisfy
either party. Its unchecked premise is the supposed need for uniformity.
When compromises are made between right and wrong actions, then the right side always loses and the
wrong side always wins. As any lasting peace must be based on the full realization of human rights, on
justice, the effects of compromises on peace are obvious. Justice, freedom and peace should never be
compromised There is no need or justification to agree upon compromises in all spheres where
opposed interests and practices can be rightfully separated between autonomous groups, which can be
set up on an individualistic, i.e. personal law basis, in full agreement with personal knowledge,
preferences and prejudices. There are few exceptions, like left or righthand drive.
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Such a society would not breed class warfare, national warfare or conspiracy ideologies and practices
and would test mad ideologies to the limit in practice, before they could grow and spread dangerously
and come to dominate whole large territories and populations.
See: Coexistence, Competition, Democracy, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom
of Action, Governments, Human Rights, Liberation War, Majorities, Minorities, Segregation,
Tolerance, War Aims.
COMPULSION
In all too many ways our society rests on compulsion: from e. g. compulsory fluoridation or
vaccination over numerous monopolies to the compulsory imposition of an ideology or constitution on
dissenters, to compulsory taxes and military or other dictatorial rule.
The ultimate in compulsion is nuclear power. To abolish it compulsion must be abolished at all levels
(except against well defined criminals and aggressors) starting anywhere, and be it with the abolition of
the municipal garbage removal system or the postal monopoly.
Nobody has the exclusive authority to offer services and nobody at all has the right to force disservices
on others (taxation bureaucracy, nuclear war). Let's undermine this whole social tendency at its
weakest part: individual consent, by instituting individual secession. Then the fallacies upholding the
nuclear strength policy would soon be revealed.
See: Autonomy, Exterritorial Imperative, Force, Freedom, Freedom of Action, Militia, Monopolies,
Nationalism, Secession, Statism, Subordination, Tolerance, Voluntarism, War Aims.
COMPUTER DIRECTED WARS
Computers are not only used to simulate war in war games but also to direct and sometimes to fire such
"weapons". None of them is failsafe and thus nuclear war might actually be started without any human
finger touching any buttons. Computers do make mistakes, not only in the calculation of debts, salaries
and pensions. "Thus we have reached a situation in which our fate may depend on an electronic brain
and the mistakes it can make Its decisions are made automatically. It has not the capacity of the human
brain for rational considerations. Its conclusions follow very fast but without the thoroughness and the
reliability of the human brain. Its function relies entirely on the perfection of all its parts.! Albert
Schweitzer , 1958. (By now computer viruses number probably around 50,000 and there are thousands
of hackers with totalitarian or fundamentalist mentalities, who would love to cause nuclear "accidents",
given the chance. No "failsafe" computerized and nuclear "defence" system is failsafe enough against
all such attempts. Radioactive bomb material has already, repeatedly, appeared on blacks markets.
J.Z., 12.10.01.)
See: Accidental War, Automated Warfare, Brinkmanship, Centralization, Derision, Deterrence,
Doomsday Bomb, Failsafe.
CONFERENCES, INTERNATIONAL, SUMMIT CONFERENCES
Conferences between heads of states to bring about peace are like conferences between heads of
organized crime groups meeting on the agenda of eliminating crime. Peace conferences, at best, are
assemblies of people full of good will and ignorance and powerlessness, where it counts most.
Conferences of military leaders are conferences of people full of ill will, myths, prejudices, suspicions,
full of ignorance of any sensible alternatives and at the same time with all too much power to do wrong
and harm.
See: Centralization, Decision, Governments, Ignorance, Negotiations, People, Power, Rulers, Statism,
Summit Conferences, U.N., Appx. 12.
CONFLICTING INTERESTS
To reconcile all interests one has to separate or even individualize them first. Then one can harmonize
them by leaving all individuals free to pursue their own
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interests, to mind their own business, with only justice remaining as a common bond between them.
See: Alternatives, Capitalism; Communism, Exterritorial Imperative, Greed, Harmony, Human Rights,
Individualism, Justice, Laissez Faire, Market, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Rights, Secession,
Segregation, Tolerance, Totalitarianism, Voluntarism, War Aims.
CONQUESTS
Conquests make only sense when one persists in territorial organization. In the "nuclear age" territories
have become senseless liabilities which are inviting nuclear holocaust. Even hanging on to "one's own"
exclusive territory invites its transformation into a radioactive wasteland by rulers who still think of
territorial "possessions" and conquests.
See: Aggression, Defence, Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers, Natural Resources, Personal Law,
Property Concept of Citizens, Secession, Territorial Organization, War Aims.
CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION
Whilst there are many conscientious objections that can be raised against nuclear war preparations and
actions, what is commonly called "conscientious objection" is, by itself, not enough to prevent nuclear
war unless all played that game and participated, including the "baddies". A few, using armed
terrorism, could defeat a majority of conscientious objectors. The scheme is thus as impracticable as
that of Christ's suggestion: "Love thy Enemy".
During the transition stage to a free society, in which conscientious objection would indeed tend to
become automatic and quite natural and would not require any sacrifice but be a very selfish action
instead, many forceful but limited resistance steps must be taken.
See: Boycotts Decision, Desertion, Disarmament, Employment, Force, General Strike, Love, Military
Insurrections, Militia, Morality, Nonviolent Steps, Resistance, Revolution, Secession, Tax Strike,
Tyrannicide, Weapons.
CONSCRIPTION
To be conscripted into a war, which might become a nuclear war, is the height of immorality and
absurdity. The nuclear arms race conscripts all of us into this at an indefinite date in the near future.
Moreover, the mere existence of conscription creates some of the nuclear war threat because some
rulers imagine that against the conscripted masses of some other rulers they could fight successfully
only with massextermination
weapons.
See: Defence, Desertion, Human Rights, Military Insurrections, Militia, Revolutionary Warfare,
Secession, Separate Peace, Volunteer Army, War Aims.
CONSENT
Governments retain nuclear powers because all their powers are based on the fiction of democratic or
popular consent.
This consent is never unanimous. It rarely shows majority consensus regarding particular policies. It
expresses only a general consensus based on ignorance and the assumption that governments are
necessary in many instances. In practice, the only consensus all citizens are free to give is one giving
full approval to everything the government does. As soon as any citizen disagrees with his government
on any point he finds himself in difficulties when he wants to act
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on his beliefs.
Consensus is extremely doubtful regarding questions like conscription, taxation and inflation. There it
is doubted even by the rulers themselves, Thus the power to impose either is rarely ever subjected to a
referendum.
No government has ever received a formal consent by all of its citizens for its nuclear arms, deterrence
and alliance policy.
Consent can only be assumed to exist in a society where individual citizens are so free that they may
secede as individuals from any government and may withhold from it the payment of taxes and may
also freely associate themselves with others, without having to migrate first.
See: Decision, Democracy, Disarmament, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Governments,
People, Power, Powerlessness, Publicity, Referendums, Representation, Responsibility, Voting, War
Aims.
CONSERVATION
The nuclear war threat and nuclear reactors constitute perhaps the greatest threat to rightful
conservation aspirations. They have turned man into an endangered species unless, of course, you
consider man merely as a pest, and then, please, speak only for yourself.
See: AntiManAttitudes, Atomic Energy, Doomsday Bomb, Radiation Hazard.
CONSPIRACY
A more or less open conspiracy to destroy all nuclear weapons is a rightful and dutiful activity in which
every rational being should participate.
But wars are not the result of some or the other evil conspiracy. Only ideas, opinions, prejudices,
ignorance and conditions "conspire" to bring about nuclear war. These causes are all openly revealed
for all those able and willing to look for them and judge them intelligently.
See : Causal Thinking, Decision, Disarmament Exterritorial Imperative, Militia, Prejudices, Racism,
Resistance, Revolution, Statism, Tyrannicide, Appx. 3 & 7.
CONSTITUTION
Among the main constitutional changes to assure a lasting peace and, especially, to prevent nuclear
war, are the following:
A Bill of Individual Human Rights,
Recognition of an International Law based on these rights,
Monetary Freedom,
Right to resist and revolt,
Tyrannicide and outlawry,
Militia for, the protection of human rights,
Referendums on questions of war and peace, armament and disarmament and international treaties,
Equal access to natural resources and, probably most important of all,
Voluntary State membership, based on individual secession, exterritorial organization, personal law,
tolerance and
voluntary taxation.
See under the relevant headings and Appx. 10. See also: PEACE PLANS 6163.
CONTACTS
Directories, guides, Lists, calendars and short descriptions of minority group activities, activists,
talents, facilities, meeting centres etc., can ALL act as catalysts to make the best use of all forces for
positive change in society. They would help to bring about a free market of ideas, talents and facilities
to promote freedom and
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peace, a genuinely cultural revolution.
See: Broadcasting, Cultural Revolution, Enlightenment, Ideas Archive, Open Air Speaking,
Propaganda, Publicity, Talent Registry.
CONTRACT
Freedom of contract means that one may freely contract on anything, even a "marriage" to any political
or economic system, but for oneself only and at one's own risk and expense. Thus, under full freedom
of contract, one neither has to win over the majority to enjoy one's preferred system, nor does one have
to fight a war or win a revolution and set up a dictatorship in order to realize it.
Full freedom of contract would also do away with unemployment and inflation through monetary
freedom, freely spread from the successful experiments of the first voluntary pioneering experimenters.
Moreover, one could contract some form of voluntary taxation (fee, price, subscription or dues) system
for oneself, only for services one desires and this would exclude nuclear "defence".
Furthermore, freedom of contract would allow insurance contracts with companies which are not under
legal compulsion to finance an arms race with their funds. It would allow to opt out of all monopolies.
It would embrace the freedom to dissociate oneself individually from every aggressive government.
Nuclear targets would be eliminated as everywhere there would be one's contractual associates or
friends or trading partners.
One would be able and free to contract peace for oneself. One could not be forced into military
servitude or tax slavery to a military regime.
In this and other ways freedom of contract would remove all motives, means and institutions making
for nuclear war.
See: Desertion, Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, Neutrality, Secession, Separate Peace, Targets,
Taxation, Tolerance, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims.
CONTROL, THE MYTHOLOGY OF CONTROL
A mythology has been built up in defence of controlling man and preventing him from becoming a free
individual. This mythology led to the ultimate crowd controller: the nuclear "weapon".
Only controls arising from free individuals, acting justly, in selfinterest and selfdefence, have any
inbuilt capacity to succeed.
In other words, the only social controls required are those of a free market including volunteer militias
for the protection of human rights, competing protection agencies in form of free enterprises subject to
free consumer choice.
See: Competing Governments, Democracy Freedom, Human Rights Individualism, Laissez Faire,
Leadership Market, Militia, Myths, Panarchy, Prejudices, Secession, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Statism.
CONTROL OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
Police, army, international inspectors, spies, and other government agents, cannot even satisfactorily
disarm ordinary criminals terrorists of mere firearms. Far less can they and would they disarm
themselves with regard to nuclear weapons. Governments are only likely to offer a number of
unenforceable bans and promises and "agreements". But they are obviously not enough.
How could any government control e.g. the smuggling of nuclear weapons and their placement in
targeted capital cities? They could not not even with all their custom officers stop the smuggling of
ordinary goods or drugs. Governments cannot even ether all the taxes they are legally entitled to and
this in spite of tenthousands of tax inspectors.
If one would rely on government disarmament inspectors alone, the old question
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would arise again: "Who controls the controllers?"
No control system is 100 % failsafe. Certainly, no government system is going to be that. Only a
disarmament by the people themselves is going to come very close to 100$ effectiveness in the long
run. For this purpose every citizen should become an honorable nuclear disarmament controller.
Germany, between the world wars, was subjected to the largest disarmament effort ever undertaken by
governments. We all know with what results.
Governments should no more be given the power to control disarmament than organized crime
syndicates should be given the power to control crime. The Soviet Union, for instance, has never
consented to thorough control measures. There is still no certainty that there are no nuclear missiles in
Cuba now. The Soviet see in control an infringement of their sovereignty, It is indeed. And it is also a
good argument in favour of doing away with territorial sovereignty or territorial "integrity".
The people themselves could and would carry out a nuclear disarmament control effectively, in their
own interest, given the liberties and information required for doing this. Only the people are numerous
and omnipresent enough and also forceful enough, in their public opinion pressure, to see to it that
nuclear disarmament is sufficiently controlled and that lastly all hidden weapons stores are found or
betrayed. But there would probably be only one way to effectively control the radioactive raw material
output of hundreds of nuclear reactors: ensuring that there are no such reactors left in operation.
How could one control a government which has numerous secret areas under military guard? Nothing
but an ideal volunteer militia could do this, a force which the governments at present would not allow
and which may have to be established against their will.
No control attempt would be effective enough as long as most people still consider destructive and
murderous nuclear devices as modern weapons. Controls cease to be a problem only when there is
finally a popular demand for and a referenduminitiated and militiasupported attempt at unilateral
nuclear disarmament This requires a large enlightenment effort first of all. Then the people could
mobilize themselves to carry out and control this disarmament and they would invite soldiers and
officers of enemy governments to send as many delegates as they like to help uncover secret nuclear
arms caches and supervise the destruction of all such weapons. This would help to make them less
aggressive, more inclined to rise against their governments, desert to our side or at least declare
themselves neutral, or to conclude a separate peace treaty with us, on the basis of just war aims which
we should have publicized well beforehand
See: Disarmament; Enlightenment, Freedom of Action, Failsafe, Governments, Inspection, Militia,
Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Power, Prize Money, Publicity, Referendums, Secrecy, State,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons.
COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION
Much of the present danger of nuclear war originates in the class warfare ideology which could be
eliminated at its roots by a transformation of the organization of production from hierarchical structures
to those with a large degree of individualistic, democratic or contractual selfmanagement and also by a
change of a largely concentrated financial ownership and control into one where ownership and control
are largely dispersed among all those engaged in particular enterprises. The great variety of producers
coops which has been suggested and experimented with would form one such approach. Extensive
employee shareholding, labour coops and "open coops" are some of the others. The more free
experimentation of this kind would take place and the more publicity these experiments would receive,
the faster and more thoroughly would the currently most important ideological motivation for nuclear
war be removed.
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One of the best ways for establishing productive coops would be the organization of the employees of
present enterprises into coops which then would make takeover bids for their enterprises, using long
term industrial bonds, issued & guaranteed by themselves, as means of payment. In most instances they
could afford to outbid other interested parties because from their side the greatest productivity
improvements are likely to arise, once the cooperative transformation has taken place and has given
everyone involved a businessman's interest in his work. Moreover, later on technological
improvements will be multiplied and introduced much sooner, due also to the changed motivation of
the former employees.
In reality, the cooperators would, in most cases, pay for their factories etc. not with part of their present
wages or savings but with part of their income increases which would result from this transformation.
Those involved would not have to "sacrifice" anything else than some of their prejudices.
See: Class Warfare Ideology, EmployerEmployee Relationship, Hierarchical Production, Open Coops,
Purchase of Enterprises, Socialism, War Aims.
COUNTERTERROR
Counterterror is still terror:
"The political terrorist is the most evil person on the face of the earth" said Alan Johnson in
"perception", Sydney , 3/73. I would add: "Especially if he is "armed with ABC mass murder devices."
"Then he fully deserves to be shot on sight, redhanded. Unless he has a deadman switch! But,
perhaps, those are worse whose coercive systems motivates terrorism? Namely, the ignorant,
prejudiced but mostly wellintentioned "defenders" of national borders or "territorial integrity"?
The question is not one of courage and determination but one of common sense, one not of force and
nonviolence but of justice:
".., the question is not whether 'we would be willing to use force to prevent the rape of our sister' but
whether to prevent that rape we are willing to kill innocent people and perhaps even the sister herself "
said Murray N. Rothbard in p. 3 of his "War Peace and the State."
See: Appeals, Collective Responsibility, Declarations, Defence, Deterrence, Disarmament, Force,
Justice, Mass Murder, Morality, Nuclear Strength, Retaliation, Scorched Earth Policy, Terrorism,
Tyrannicide, Violence, War Aims, Weapons.
CREDULITY
Men mostly believe only what they want to believe. Towards all other facts they show an almost
endless incredulity. In our instance they do not want to believe in the possibility of nuclear war, or of
the possibility of preventing it. Enlightenment and the demonstration value of freedom of action could
get this obstacle largely removed.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Apathy Decision, Deterrence, Enlightenment,
Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Ignorance, Myths, Prejudices, Publicity, Statism, Survival Instinct
CRIMINALS
Nuclear war is a crime against humanity. Those who prepare for it are criminals. Even without nuclear
devices criminal madness or mad criminality was higher among rulers than among any other
profession, according to Professor P. Sorokin. Now their tendency to commit crimes and mad acts,
combined with criminal and mad mass murder devices, render rulership of the old style and kind
completely unsuitable for the future if mankind is to survive. Under the present system of territorial
organization, the democratic forms included, the worst people tend to go to the top. Here too, the best
way of getting rid of corruption in high offices is to get rid of the jobs.
Owning nuclear devices, producing them and keeping them in readiness, not only are capital crimes but
ought to be treated as such, especially once referendums resolved
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on that. The popular fallacy that rulers are not criminals and that they cannot do wrong, must be
refuted.
Nuclear war crimes are the worst war crimes, perhaps the worst crimes altogether. They are at least a
conspiracy to commit mass murder. No government is prepared to prosecute these criminals because
they are all men in government.
In future there will also exist the danger that ordinary criminals will get their hands on nuclear devices
for extortion attempts. When engaged in these they might well set off nuclear war accidentally. This
danger might help to wake up the public. Although the danger arising from criminal governments is
objectively much greater, it is habitually ignored, being outside the concepts of most people immersed
in the Statist religion.
See: Arms Race, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enlightenment, Madness, Militia, Outlawry, Power,
Rulers, Statism, Tyrannicide.
CULTURAL REVOLUTION
Without a genuinely cultural revolution, one creating the institutions and practices which could
enormously speed up the processes of enlightenment, the changes required in public opinion to prevent
nuclear war cannot be achieved in the short time we may have left available for the required
enlightenment efforts. Required are, for instance:
Several daily opened Speakers' Corners within walking distance of every city inhabitant,
Archives of ideas, proposals and plans,
Competing postal, telephone and broadcasting services,
Registers of innovators and of people looking for innovations,
Speakers' pools and pools of potential listeners, listing people according to their interests,
Centres of secondhand bookshops,
Encyclopaedias of definitions,
Encyclopaedias of the best refutations of errors, myths and prejudices,
Encyclopaedic treatment of all controversial questions,
Information services,
Periodicals publishing only letters to the editor,
Periodicals publishing only reform proposals,
New forms of written, flowchart type discussions,
Daily opened discussion centres,
Contacts between booklovers through library catalogues,
Regular listings of comingup events , meetings and lectures,
Directories of minority associations and magazines,
Surveys of libraries and their specialities, and last, not least,
Minority autonomy, on a voluntary and exterritorial basis.
The basic aim of a genuinely cultural revolution is: To make use of all knowledge and ideas available
to draw out more and to apply them in the most effective way, i.e., to let no opportunity remain unused
for selfeducation and educating others.
See: Broadcasting, Censorship, Contacts, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enlightenment, Ideas Archive,
Myths, Open Air Speaking, Propaganda, Publicity, Sign Debates, Soldiers' Rights, Talent Registers,
War Aims.
DEATH CELL
How many people are aware, every day and every hour, that we are all in a situation comparable to that
of a man sentenced to death and waiting for his execution date to be fixed? We are all full of wishful
thinking and daydreams to shield us from this harsh reality. Reality demands only one thing: Break out
of this situation, don't console yourself, don't accustom yourself to it. To attempt to escape from this
death cell is not only a right but a duty. Apart from your selfcaused ignorance and immaturity in this
sphere you are innocent!
See a Accidental War,
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Acuteness of Danger, Bet, Deterrence, Human Rights, Myths, Powerlessness, Prejudices, Resignation,
Resistance, Selfhelp.
DEATH WISH
There are suicidal tendencies in all who have lost sight of a purpose in their lives and who have
experienced many disappointments while retaining sufficient intelligence to see the longterm
emptiness of a mere sensual life. Only individual freedom would release their energies in a peace
promoting way. Freedom in the arts, crafts, literature and on the sports field is not enough to make us
mature, comprehend and appreciate the world, our lives and all liberties. All creative energies need to
be released to get the best out of man and to turn us into fully developed human beings. Those
suffering, however unconsciously, under all too many visible or invisible fetters, do neither fully
appreciate their own lives nor those of others.
You might also ask yourself whether those, who remain inactive towards the nuclear war threat, do
really love their wives, husbands, children and grandchildren.
See: Apathy, Freedom, Human Rights, Reason, Resignation, Statism, ValueFree Society, Welfare
State.
DECENTRALIZATION
Decentralization has to be carried out to the utmost up to the level of the individual. It must not be
confined to geographical decentralization only, desirable as this might be on its own. All centrifugal
forces in society should be used to get away from the nuclear terror situation. The new decentralization
must transcend the political and national divisions, especially via personal laws and constitutions
practised by autonomous and exterritorial bodies either in their local or worldwide voluntary
communities and their desired spheres of desired free and tolerant activities. It must be based entirely
on fully free individual consent.
Once this kind of individual liberty has become a common practice and its full understanding creates
a selfrealizing force then no rational being would have a motive left to arm himself with nuclear
devices nor would anyone have an opportunity to do so easily, nor would anyone then be considered as
a dangerous enemy by others. Nuclear weapons make no sense at all for use against people next door
living under different personal laws.
See: Centralization, Consent Denationalization, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom Frontiers,
Human Rights Individualism, Militia, Monopolies, Motives, Personal Law, Power, Secession, Secrecy,
Targets, Voluntarism, War Aims.
DECISIONMAKING, DEMOCRATIC AND IM INDIVIDUAL VERSUS CENTRALIZED AND
MONOPOLIZED DECISIONMAKING ON WAR AND PEACE, ARMAMENT AND
DISARMAMENT
The power to declare war or peace should rest with those who have to pay the costs of war with their
lives, limbs, health, freedom and property. The people themselves and directly should decide on war
and peace, armament and disarmament. That used to be a platform point of the Social Democrats, over
a century ago in Germany. The modern SPD members and voters managed to forget about that idea.
The following stories somewhat demonstrate this right: A captain, in a pep talk to his men, shortly
before an assault, addressed his men as follows: 'Men, in five minutes we will attack. It will be a fight
at close quarters, man against man.' Whereupon one small private piped up: 'Sir, would you please
point out my man to me? I am certain I could come to an arrangement with him!' That was a story on
trench warfare in WW I and the role of the private was given to a Jew, as if only a Jew could be as
sensible and "unpatriotic" and nonviolent.
From WW II and the Eastern Front comes the following story: A private asked his commanding officer
in vain for leave, for urgent personal reasons, for which it was usually granted. "No chance, son," was
the reply. "Due to the tense situation all leave is cancelled. Your only chance for a special leave would
be the capture of an enemy machine gun." "Very well, Sir!" the private replied and, to the great
surprise of the officer returned, within half an hour, with an enemy machine gun in his hands, The
officer gave him his well earned leave certificate and then took him aside and asked him confidentially:
"I won't give you up, but please tell me, how did you manage that? I did not hear any firing during the
last 36 minutes." "Quite simple, Sir", was the reply: "Someone on the other side wanted a machine
gun, too."
All decisions affecting your life should be your own affairs unless you personally and directly
delegate them to another person or to a particular agency, for the time being. It demonstrates an almost
unbelievable complacency to let a hand
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ful of people, certainly not the best ones, decide whether mankind is to survive or not. We have slid
into a situation where even a junior officer may one day intentionally or unintentionally take steps
initiating the eradication of mankind.
Atomic war concerns everyone and yet at present, only very few have any direct say on its preparation,
execution or prevention. This basic wrong must be righted. Individual man, who would be wiped out in
the nuclear holocaust, must have a say in the matter and this on its own would be one of the strongest
factors preventing such a war. Only this kind and related types of individual decisionmaking could
prevent nuclear war. Nuclear war is, in essence, the exact opposite of individual decision making as
every nuclear device, when exploded, at the command of a few, would wipe out the individual
preferences of tenthousands, if not millions of people. As in a Third World War all of us are likely to
die, all of us, including our young children, should have a say on whether there is to be another war,
whether we should be armed with ABC devices, and who, if anyone, is going to be treated as our
enemy. You and I can no longer assure our survival by proxy if it was ever assured in this way before.
Regarding nuclear war decisions we are all in the position of the supplicant arguing with Richelieu who
had refused his petition: "But, Sir I have to live!" R. replied: "I do not see the necessity for this!" (Let
us assume that this was a denial of selfhelp and not a case in which e.g. Ayn Rand would also have
answered with a refusal.)
One of the worst features of the present situation is that the decisions are made not by the best but by
the worst, who have risen, in democracies as well as in dictatorships, like scum, to the top. Hayek's
most famous work contains a chapter on this. In any territorial and representative democratic system
the dullest or least creative minds, smart only in gaining and retaining power within the status quo, are
likely to strive for and gain the highest political offices and to retain them. As Ambrose Bierce said, in
his "The Devil's Dictionary", under "brain": "in our civilization, and under our republican form of
government, brain is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office."
Governments have always, sooner or later, abused their power to decide on war and peace. So, et us
have some real and direct democracy again for a change. Let the people themselves and directly decide
on this issue and let there be provisions for neutral minorities and conscientious objectors. There would
certainly be less wars as a result. For who has to bear their costs and risks? The politicians? War is the
health of the State, as Randolph Bourne said. Nuclear war will be avoided once the targeted people get
their say. Dwight D. Eisenhower once made a relevant remark. (I feel certain that it was written by one
of his ghost writers and for propaganda value only.): ''People want peace so much that governments
had better get out of their way and let them have it."
It seems so selfevident that those most exposed to the dangers of nuclear war should also make all the
decisions on it. The rulers are the most protected ones and for this fact alone are already the most
unsuitable persons to make these decisions. This has often been recognized in the past but rarely were
consistent conclusions drawn from this observation. I remember e.g. the contents of an SF story in
which it was suggested that rulers be made to feel all the pains of their subjects through a special nerve
surgery. Another, similarly devious solution was proposed by G. Chr. Lichtenberg (Selected Writings,
Reclam, 1st. ed., p. 140.):"In a certain country there exists, supposedly, a custom prescribing that
during a war the regent and his counselors must sleep above a gunpowder barren for as long as the war
lasts. They do this in separate rooms of the palace which may be inspected by everyone to judge
whether the night lantern is still burning The barren is not only sealed with the seal of the people's
deputies but also belted to the floor with belts which are also properly sealed. Every evening and
morning the seals are inspected. It is said that for a considerable time the wars in this area have
altogether ceased."
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One does not have to circumvent a basic flaw in the constitution in such an elaborate way. It is enough
to deprive the rulers of their power and leave it in the hands of the people instead. The story also
wrongly presumes that one could not concede e.g. courage or suicidal bravery or madness to at least
some rulers. Unfortunately, one can. As power corrupts it should rather be abolished than somewhat
tied down or "balanced".
Ulrich von Beckerath, in a letter to Mr. K., stated: "The decision whether the armed forces are to be
armed with nuclear weapons, whether factories are to be established for their production and whether
the help of allies should be accepted, who are armed with nuclear devices, this decision is not to be
made either by a defence ministry, nor by the whole government, nor by the parliament but by the
whole people. This referendum is to be brought about as soon as possible."
Any government having declared a war, without asking the people first, is to be considered as being
out of office and any obedience towards it is illegal. Until a new government is then democratically
elected, the governments power should automatically be transferred to the president of the
constitutional court. If he is not available, then the judges of the supreme federal courts should be the
new temporary office bearers, the oldest ones first. Alternatively the supreme federal commander of the
local militias for the protection of human rights could take over or the various leading persons in a
variety of exterritorial and autonomous organizations of volunteers.
In future, each of the exterritorial communities would decide for itself on questions of war and peace.
Any such decisions would have to consider the difficulties of conducting military operations with
members of exterritorial communities living amongst their "enemies" and their "enemies" living
amongst them. In other words, it would rarely ever come to war. What rational beings would remain
"enemies" to other "enemies" once all are free to do their things to and for themselves, all at the own
risk and expense only? We might become amused observers of the follies of others, rather than their
enemies.
Legend has it that Czar Peter the Great, to impress some foreigners with his power, commanded one of
his serfs to jump out of the window of the room they were talking in, a room situated several stories
above ground level. The serf obeyed without hesitation, jumped and fell to his death, We tend to look
down on such slavish obedience and forget that leaving the power to decide on war and peace in the
hands of a few rulers amounts to a similar slavish and suicidal obedience but on a much larger scale.
You own your own life. No ruler does. Don't be a slave to men. Don't let your rights be trampled upon.
Don't blame the slave masters you have set above you. Blame yourself for your position, You have so
far sanctioned it with your consent.
When Rudolf Hess made his famous flight to offer a separate peace to the U.K., this offer was hushed
up by Churchill. He was officially declared to be a madman, The idea of peace negotiations was not
allowed to get around the British public. Naturally, there was no moral or rational case for separate
peace negotiations with Nazis, But there was a very good case for separate peace negotiations with the
oppressed German people. And this would have become apparent if the British government, in
collusion with the Nazis, hadn't veiled the attempt of Hess in secrecy or lies and myths.
Complete freedom in decision making would also lead to nuclear disarmament by the people and it
would make a sufficient control of this disarmament possible. The physicist Robert Oppenheimer once
suggested, when asked for an instrument to discover hidden nuclear weapons, a very simple tool to
carry out a complete nuclear disarmament:
A strong screwdriver suitable to open every box and wardrobe looking for hidden and insulated
nuclear bombs. It has only one drawback but at the same time this would be its guaranty: such a tool
would have to be in the hands of almost every citizen for this purpose. In other words, the question
nuclear tests and disarmament ought to be discussed, decided and acted upon at the lowest not the
highest level or, rather, the lowest level has to become the highest level in this respect. Let me
conclude this section with another quotation from Ulrich von Beckerath's writings: "Every State in
which the citizens do not decide about war and peace is really a dictatorship." B., a Kantian, only
reworded what Kant already expressed in 1795, in his "Eternal Peace".
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really a dictatorship."
This subject does deserve a largescale monograph which cannot be offered in this context. I have
collected much material on the subject and want still more. Does anyone want to collaborate as a
collector writer or editor?
See: Appeals, Control, Declarations, Disarmament, Inspection, Negotiations, Anarchy, Peace
Declarations, People, Referendum, Secession, Separate Peace, Trust, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament,
Voting, War Aims.
DEFENCE, INDIVIDUALIZED VERSUS NATIONALIZED DEFENCE
The dangerous delusion still predominates that it is possible to achieve a worthwhile protection against
an attack with nuclear devices, National defence of the old type does only temporarily preserve nations
as nuclear targets and leads in the long run to their annihilation. Only the attractions of freedom could
make any largescale defence effort unnecessary, prevent aggression in most instances and avoid the
risk of nuclear war.
The generals always tend to be behind developments in their thinking, As so far there was always a
defensive means against any aggressive one although that never helped to reduce the total losses
they still assume that against the new aggressive means there must also be technological defensive
means. They cannot understand that something built as a weapon cannot really be used as such:
"It should also be pointed out that there is no defence against nuclear weapons (the only current
'defence' is the threat of mutual annihilation) and therefore that the State cannot fulfill any sort of
defence function as long as these weapons exist." said Murray N. Rothbard in his pamphlet "War,
Peace and the State", pages 5 & 6.
Defence becomes nonsensical when, like nuclear defence, it risks destruction of the civilians to be
defended, perhaps, even of civilization or mankind. We have to defend ourselves against nuclear
defence and against the attacks by our defence bureaucracy, To prevent the use of nuclear devices by
anyone is the only rational national defence policy when one is faced with nuclear holocaust, We have
to defend ourselves not only against threatened nuclear attacks but also against threatened nuclear
defence.
The best defence against other people consists in not attacking or threatening their rights in any way
but, on the contrary, upholding them instead in every possible way. Such a just, defensive or liberating
war could be fought largely with the strength of the enemy and financed largely out of his assets.
(Compare the article on voluntary taxation in PEACE PLANS No. 14 and also the financial method
advocated in PEACE PLANS No. 19 c.)
We need a defence against governments and as such it cannot be safely entrusted to any coercive
government, not even ours. It has to be a defence without nuclear weapons against governments
threatening to attack or defend us with nuclear devices. To be effective, it would require new political,
military and economic organizations. See the references. As Sir Robert Watson Watt put it:
"The only defences are those which must be spun from the fragile and intangible fabric of man's
humanity to man." The remaining aggressions would be so small that no more than small police
actions, e.g. by by local and federated militia forces, would be required to defeat them,
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Aggression, Air Raids, Alliances, Amnesty, Appeals, Arms
Race, Bombers , Broadcasting, Career Soldiers, Carpet Bombing, Censorship, China, Class Warfare,
Collective Responsibility, Conquests, Conscription, Decision, Declarations, Desertion Deterrence,
Dictatorships, Disarmament, Disobedience, EmployerEmployee Relationship, Employment, Enemy,
Espionage, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Migration, Free Trade, GovernmentsinExile, Hostages,
Human Rights, Individual Responsibility, Liberation War, Loyalty, Mercenaries, Military
Insurrections, Military Organization, Militia, Minority Autonomy, Monetary Despotism, Mone
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tarry Freedom, Nationalism, Nuclear Strength, Oaths, Obedience, Open Cities, Police Actions,
Prisoners of War, Prize Money, Propaganda, Publicity, Refugees, Revolutionary Warfare, Scorched
Earth Policy, Secession, Separate Peace, Soviet Union, Subordination, Surrender, Targets, Tax Strike,
Terrorism, Tolerance, Torture, Treason, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voluntary
Taxation, War Aims, Weapons, peace plans 34, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 61.
DEFINITlONS
The threat of nuclear war is largely due to wrong definitions and ideas. Nothing but an encyclopaedic
approach can set them right.
See: Consent, Defence, Democracy, Encyclopaedia of Refutations Enemy, Enlightenment, Ideas, Law
and Order, Myths, Nationalism, Nuclear Strength, Power, Prejudices Responsibility, Revolution, and
Appx. 4.
DEFLATION
Deflation becomes impossible once all are free to issue their own money, subject only to a free market
rate and the right of others to refuse to accept it. But such private currencies would be acceptable only,
at least as local currencies, provided they do have some acceptable backing, like e.g., acceptance by
local consumer goods stores. Then enough exchange media could be issued to bring about all desired
exchanges and thus avoid a currency shortage. The free market rate of these exchange media would be
determined against e. g., a gold weight unit in which goods and services are priced out or in any other
standard of value which is acceptable to contracting partners.
See: Monetary Despotism, Monetary Freedom, PEACE PLANS Nos. 811 & many other issues in the
PEACE PLANS series.
DELEGATION OF POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Certain powers should never be delegated. The threat of nuclear war arose only because they were
delegated.
See: Authoritarianism, Broadcasting, Censorship, Cities, Consent, Decision, Declarations, Defence,
Democracy, Diplomacy, Disarmament, Freedom of Action, Government, Human Rights, Individual
Responsibility, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Monopolies, Nationalism, Negotiations, Neutrality, Open
Air Meetings, Power, Publicity, Referendums, Representation, Responsibility Rights, Secession, Self
defence, Selfhelp, Separate Peace, Sovereignty, Unity, Voluntary Taxation, Voting, Weapons.
DEMOCRACY, TOTALITARIAN. TRAITS
To the extent that bureaucrats and politicians rule we do no longer have democracies. The most
important decisions are taken out of the hands of the people. The powers of rulers were hardly ever
greater, The time limits put on them hardly matter.
A democracy in which only a few decide about war and peace, armament and disarmament,
international treaties, international recognition etc., is to that extent not a democracy but a dictatorship.
A democracy in which a few are granted the authority and means to wipe out whole nations and risk
the destruction of the own in the process, is in reality one of the worst kinds of dictatorship. A power
which threatens the life of the own nation and of several others is hardly democratic but rather
authoritarian. When it threatens all mankind it is not only dictatorial but something worse. A new word
for this new and terrible condition may have to be found. How can anyone dare to call a State that
threatens the life of all human beings a democracy, and a government which produces antipeople
weapons and keeps them in readiness, like spare extermination camps, a democratic government?
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It could not rightly be called a demonocracy, either, since even "demons", if they existed, must be
presumed to have more sense than to wipe themselves out together with their toys.
In small countries as well, which themselves do not possess nuclear "weapons", appearances
notwithstanding, democracy has largely come to an end. They have become, more or less, the subjects,
pawns or hostages of the nuclear powers. But they are not innocents, either. Their small, centralized
and monopolistic democratic governments do help to preserve the myths of the need for and morality
of statist territorial organizations and suppress minority groups by depriving them of freedom for
tolerant actions. Even Switzerland collaborated to some extent with the Nazis, e.g. in keeping refugees
out, particularly Jews and in more recent times put deserters from the Russian Army in Afghanistan,
the few who survived their capture, into Swiss prisons with the intention to forcefully return them, and
Australia has established concentration camps for illegal immigrants and coercively forces refugee
ships back into the high seas. (Note of 13.10.01.)
One of the better concepts of democracy was that of a system which protects the rights of minorities
This rested on the assumption that the majority, if only it is free, will anyhow realize its will. By, now
the territorial form of States can obviously protect neither the majority nor the minorities any longer.
Democracy has also been defined as participation of every adult and rational citizen in important
decisionmaking. But the parliamentary process, growth of bureaucracy and the multiplication of acts
of state intervention have prevented this. Moreover, the secrecy covering "national security" efforts,
has kept even parliamentarians uninformed.
Do you have any influence on whether we are to be armed with nuclear weapons or not, whether we
are to have nuclear bomb factories in form of nuclear reactors, whether we are to ;organize in form of
nuclear targets or not? Has anyone of your friends, relatives or acquaintances such an influence? If not
then you are no
longer living in a democracy and the sooner you are aware of this the better. Otherwise your resistance
might come too late.
All this doesn't mean that democracy in its direct or indirect forms and in all its variations could not or
should not be revived. It could and should be by those who want it, on a completely just and non
contradictory foundation, fully based on individual consent, on exclusively voluntary membership.
This would require exterritoriality and personal law.
Only a fully free market for all goods (including e.g. exchange media and value standards) and all
services (including public services and democratic government services) would give people a chance to
run their own ives,
would grant everyone an equal & sufficient vote or voice. Only it would amount to real self
government and selfdetermination.
Individual secessionism would be essential to bring about such new democracies. It alone could ensure
that within each voluntarist grouping all decisions that affect all affairs common to the group, would be
made almost exclusively with unanimity or individual consent.
See: Authoritarianism, Bill of Rights, Centralization, Consent, Decision, Declarations, Dictatorships,
Disarmament, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Human Rights, People, Power, Referendum,
Secession, Secrecy, Selfdetermination, Targets, Tolerance, Totalitarianism, Voting, War Aims,
Weapons.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Demonstrations, tenthousands of them, should by now have proven how ineffective they are when
aiming to prevent nuclear war and ban the bomb. Demonstrating crowds are no more effective than
bleating sheep, aimlessly running about and driven to the slaughterhouse, by barking dogs, on a
prescribed route, commanded by their
"shepherds". The appeal of demonstrators to the leaders is comparable to one by sheep directed to
butchers and their customers to become gardeners and vegetarians.
As Ulrich von Beckerath suggested, the unarmed voter, no matter how agitated he is, is usually just a
comical figure clown in the eyes of rulers and his loyal armed forces,.
He is a tragicomic figure demonstrating ignorance in action. He appeals to "leaders" to think and act
for him, "Leaders", who out of similar ignorance and prejudices, have created the problem and preserve
it and do not
see the answer, either. Both,. the Leaders and the Led, believe that selfhelp in freedom is not the
answer and so they are both blind to the real and only solutions.
See: Alternatives, Ban the Bomb, Broadcasting, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Declarations,
Disarmament , Enlightenment, Ignorance, Leadership, Militia, Myths, Open Air Speaking, Power,
Protests, Propaganda, Resistance, Selfhelp.
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DENATIONALIZATION
All services taken over by the governments must be denationalized, liquidated, reprivatized, defence,
courts and police services included, if we are to avoid nuclear war.
See: Capitalism, Decentralization Defence, Economic Freedom , Exterritorial Imperative, Free
Enterprise Governments; Human Rights, Laissez Faire, Liquidation of Governments, Market,
Monopolies, Nationalism, Reprivatization, Selfhelp, Social Security, Targets.
DEPRESSIONS
The existence of depressions, recessions, credit restrictions and deflations with widespread
unemployment is behind much of the ideological motivation for nuclear war. It has caused much to
most of the East/West conflict. They have greatly contributed to e.g. W.W. I & II. They caused
unnecessary desperation and hatreds and mass followings for demagogues indifference to the
sufferings of others & readiness to work in ammunition and even in nuclear arms factories and nuclear
armed forces. They misdirected the energies of people into nationalistic & territorial clashes in which
nuclear devices are welcomed for "final solutions".
Depressed countries, forcefully kept from markets on which their livelihood depends (e.g., Japan
before WW II), and unaware of the monetary freedom and international clearing options, will always
be inclined towards the conquest of exclusive markets for themselves.
Full employment for nuclear reactor personnel and nuclear weapons crews in some other, productive
and rewarding jobs, is essential to induce them to change their jobs. No one among the recognized
experts knows how to organize and finance, within hours or days at most, productive labour for
millions of refugees and deserters. Those having that knowledge, provided they are free to apply it,
need not fear millions of conscripted cannon fodder "attackers", deserters or refugees or millions of
dissatisfied unemployed, but could very soon turn them into selfsupporting and employed people,
even into allies or at least into neutrals.
Only an end to monetary despotism, by the introduction of full monetary freedom, together with the
other procedures and contracts of a free market, e.g., free trade, free pricing, floating exchange rates,
unrestricted investments etc., can end and prevent depressions and other economic crises.
See: Arabs, Communism, Development, Employment, Experimental Freedom, Free Trade, Monetary
Freedom, Secession, Unemployment.
DESERTION
Most of an enemy regime's strength can become one's own or an allied one if one fights rightly and
for a rightful cause. When one can induce mass desertions among numerically superior but conscripted
conventional military forces of an enemy regime, then one will no longer be convinced that only
nuclear devices could create a balance or a chance for victory or a successful defence. Through induced
mass desertions most of an enemy's military strength could be turned against him. The problem is only
how to bring this about.
See: Appeals, Declarations Disarmament Disobedience Employment, Exterritorial Imperative,
Governments in exile, Human Rights, Liberation Wars, Military Insurrections, Militia, Minority
Autonomy, Prisoners of War, Prize Money, Refugees, Revolutionary Warfare, Separate Peace,
Tolerance Trust, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims. Many of the peace plans
published so far, dealt with this aspect. The subject deserves a booklength treatment. Collaborators are
wanted.
DESTRUCTION, PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION OF ALL NUCLEAR DEVICES &
INSTALLATIONS
There is only one final safety valve against nuclear war: no nuclear weapons. There will be no nuclear
weapons once the people are freed to destroy them or to supervise their destruction, once radioactive
bomb materials are no longer available to anyone,
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nor any motives, facilities, manpower or finance for making such devices nor targets to use them
against. Let us destroy all these possibilities, from all angles.
We should not retain any nuclear devices nor allow anyone to retain any. No one can be safely
entrusted with nuclear power, least of all the rulers and military men. Nor is the U.N. or any other
committee or congress fit for such power. Such power is inevitably immoral, since it is always
practised without the consent of the victims, most of whom are innocent civilians.
There will be attempts to hide some atomic devices in secret caches. But these will finally be found and
also rendered harmless once public opinion becomes strong against them and freedom to act against
such monstrous war mongers is established. We would have a situation similar to that a against
kidnapping. Sooner or later a member of the kidnapping gang or a member of the public will supply the
required information, revulsion against the murder of children being what it is.
Admittedly, as long as a single nuclear device remains there is no 100 % security achievable anywhere.
The physical destruction of nuclear devices encounters not only sociological difficulties and requires
not only a very different spread of powers and responsibilities but it constitutes also a major physical
problem: The radioactive materials cannot be neutralized, Their radioactivity cannot be brought to a
stop, it must, at least according to the present state of science, run its course. It is effective as
destructive bomb material because of its high concentration (like political despotic power, because of
its centralization).
(In the limited nuclear disarmament agreed upon between the major powers, mainly for outdated
nuclear bombs and rockets, the radioactive cores were preserved and could be used again! J.Z.,
13.10.01. This material must therefore either be efficiently decentralized, under sufficient guard, or
spread or thinned out and dispersed or deeply and relatively safely buried or shot into space, either
into the sun or to one of the otherwise useless moons, e.g. of Jupiter, etc. This would require a large
scale technological effort and relatively much time. For the intermediate & revolutionary period some
decentralizing steps ought to be taken which would render an abuse of the remaining concentrated
materials very difficult. For instance, each small unit of the liberating militia forces could e. g. be
entrusted with. for instance, about 1/10th. of the radioactive material required for one nuclear warhead.
It would have to keep this material guarded like its ammunition and heavy weapons. Safe enough lead
containers could easily be made. This would serve until the preparations are made for a wide enough
dispersal of these materials in air, water or land, preferably the latter, from which they were
concentrated by a great effort in the first place. The dispersal should be done so widely, or so deeply,
that extensive and noticeable recovery efforts would be needed if anybody wanted to abuse these
materials again. Such efforts would not remain unobserved. Earthquake cracks, volcanoes, edges of
floating continents, moon or sun rockets ought to be considered apart from a thin distribution in desert
sands, oceans or air space or burial in deep mines, in which the material is melted into or chemically
bound into some form of insoluble artificial rock. Some of the techniques for the disposal of
radioactive garbage will be found helpful.
This dispersal will take place controlled by and under the eyes of an armed populace. The actual work
would be done by the nuclear scientists so far trained for war or warpromoting activities. It would be
their last chance to make some money out of their specialized knowledge. They will be no more
pleased than the suppliers of torture racks and of firewood for stakes were when the prosecution of
"witches" was finally brought to an end.
The steps to be taken are: Find out where the weapons are, find alternative work for those guarding or
producing them, occupy or conquer these places, hire the experts watch them dismantle the weapons,
distribute the material, guard it until the final dispersal, invite foreign military attachés and soldiers
delegates, the press, television, etc. to watch the dispersal closely. No secrets, Fullest publicity. In
short: Let us as much as possible & nonviolently dissolve nuclear weapons materials into their atoms
and molecules and distribute these as widely as possible from each other.
See : Atomic Energy, Control, Disarmament, Employment, Inspection, People, Public Opinion,
Publicity, Referendums, Secrecy, Trust, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
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DETERRENCE POLICY
Most people rather believe that nuclear war isn't going to happen anyhow than believe that it could be
prevented. It is so convenient for them to believe that, through the "nuclear deterrent", nuclear war
would be avoided. They do not have to strain themselves looking for real solutions.
The nuclear deterrent is a deterrent but it is NOT the best one and it is NOT accompanied by an
acceptable risk.
Once can safely admit that whatever deterrent effects nuclear devices have, may have prevented
nuclear war for the last few decades. But this amounts to no more than a postponement. A deterrent
which only buys us some time, which does not offer us a 100 % guaranty, is not good enough. No
deterrent has ever offered this. Compare e .g. the history of the death penalty.
When accidents can happen they will happen and mankind cannot afford accidents and
miscalculations on that scale.
Deterrence offers no more than a probability. And probability considerations should take into account
that men, who in conventional wars, are able and willing to advance bodily against machine gun fire,
are not easily deterred. Suicidal courage is an all too common feature and the suicide statistics should
teach the deterrence gamesters at least something.
To be sufficient, the nuclear deterrence must be 100%. But if it were then it would deter the defender
as much as the attacker and it would thus cease to be an effective deterrence against large scale
conventional wars which, with their own logic, and compulsions could escalate into nuclear holocaust,
or would, in "total" warfare, come in their effects too close to nuclear holocaust to accept this risk with
any degree of complacency .
Nothing, objectively, is worth defending at the price of nuclear war. Realization of this could very well
be used to force the other side into submission.
Those who ought to be deterred most, the decision makers, are best protected and are the most
irrational, powerhungry, misinformed and criminal ones.
The same kind of politicians who, because of the assassination of a single person, a crown prince,
started World War I, in which they murdered about 10 million people, are suddenly supposed to be
rational enough not to use cobalt bombs or other forms of massive retaliation. Considerations for
mankind do not deter such people nor does fear for their own lives, especially as they might survive, at
least for a while, in the best shelters available.
As the deterrent effect of physical injury or death was insufficient to prevent all duels between angry
men, it can far less be relied upon to totally prevent something like nuclear holocaust from occurring.
Fear does not keep men
from dangerous actions. On the contrary: It has its own fascination not only for duelists and mountain
climbers. All the risks taken with the nuclear strength policy are taken on the assumption that they are
small enough to be acceptable. The ineffectiveness of fear as a deterrent in ordinary life is overlooked.
Criminals are not sufficiently frightened by the possibility that they might be caught. Even death
penalties have never prevented all crimes and neither the most efficient statist police force nor even
freely competing private police forces could deter all criminals all the time and everywhere.
The fear on which the deterrence policy rests does actually make matters worse all the time by further
spurring on the nuclear arms race.
Was there ever a war prevented or stopped out of fear of its horrors? Compare the horrors of the 30
year war, 16181648, which reduced Germany's population from 25 million to 5 million. Remember
the Kamikaze pilots of the Japanese and the Vietcong volunteers, who loaded themselves with high
explosives at Dien Bien Phu just to destroy the barbed wire for those who followed them. Soldiers
have often braved knowingly mi
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ne fields and barrages lid by artillery, even gas attacks. If great fear were an effective deterrent, then
there would never be any volunteer soldiers and we would soon run out of heroes and perhaps even of
car drivers.
The deterrence theory simply misjudges the human character and ignores that in our instance nothing
less than a completely incapacitating fear, induced in all people, would suffice, a fear which cannot be
observed in practice. Do people panic in the face of nuclear threats? Do you see all around you people
frightened out of their wits because nuclear war might occur any moment? Not even the overkill
statistics of the nuclear arms race frighten them sufficiently to spur them into action. No they are rather
apathetic or indifferent and go on building still more such bombs or warheads or at least go on paying
for still more and "better" ones.
Why are civil defence preparations continued? Because people cannot face the threat of nuclear war?
No, they accept and face it, "bravely", in their usual way. Some famous men even assured them: "With
enough shovels…."
Even when, as in former and present wars, heads of state, as scapegoats or war criminals, risked their
own necks also, they were not deterred from engaging in wars. There was never a real shortage of
courage, even suicidal courage, among men. At most, a considerable number of subjects are deterred;
leaders almost never are or never for sure and in this instance certainly not enough. Most of them risk
tyrannicide or assassination every day!
Admittedly, rational beings would not want to harm themselves and others in this way. But where are
the persons who are never irrational? Who would like biting his tongue and who doesn't, nevertheless,
now and then? Compare the irrational attitude of rulers on price control. For thousands of years they
have repeated the same mistake over and over again just like all their other coercive utopias. They
don't lack courage but something else!
Only those are deterred, who fully realize the danger. But numerous public remarks made by men in
power and in the limelights do prove that at least some of them have not fully realized the danger
Among them are highranking military men. One single fearless American or "Socialists" might be
enough to start the holocaust.
Are any of the rulers fully aware of he dangers and thus fully deterred? If that were the case, then they
would destroy their own nuclear devices, even unilaterally. If rulers were rational, moral, self
interested, and if we and they could rely on that then they would not have built and kept these devices
in the first place.
Some people might argue that poison gas was not used during WW II, either. But, poison gases were
used in Abyssinia, China, Vietnam and recently in Yemen. Some forms of it are used by police forces
around the world. Whosoever considers atomic devices as weapons will sooner or later be tempted to
used them as such. As usual, people are mastered by words.
The deterrence policy ignores irrational and emotional states of mind among the monopolistic decision
makers, states which could be due to sheer ignorance and insensitivity, inability to reap grasp large
dangers and act on them, sleeplessness, madness, nervous breakdowns, the beastly nature of leaders
like Hitler, a habit of ignoring dangers and risks and merely hoping for the best, while doing something
foolish, in rage or lust for revenge, in drunkenness or other drug addiction, during a love sickness,
suicidal mood, habitual power madness, fighting madness, destructive urges, inclination to engage in
"practical jokes", and, last not least: the relatively safe shelters for decision makers. They are
habituated to letting other people do most of the dying for them, upon command.
Technically, the deterrence policy overlooks a) the danger of selfignition, b) the danger of "failsafe"
systems breaking down, c) technical errors e.g. in radar observations, d) wireless ignition of already
planted bombs, and the escalation tendency in every fight.
Peace cannot rest comfortably or for long on the tips of nuclear destructive devices any better than on
the points of bayonets. What the nuclear deterrent should really deter us from is: any further trust in
any territorial governments, East or West, as defenders, protectors and liberators.
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The deterrence theory is just a weak apology for a situation full of terrors. It blinds its adherents to the
real solutions.
It is also a bluff which may be called any time.
Among the real and effective deterrents are the following:
Knowledge of how to finance and otherwise conduct, initiate, motivate and win a revolution and
military insurrection,
knowledge of revolutionary warfare methods,
widely enough spread and quite rightful public appeals and declarations,
tyrannicide preparations,
just war aims, well publicized,
the establishment of a really free and just society or societal framework, like the panarchistic one,
unilateral nuclear disarmament,
even official surrenders, under sufficient nonnuclear preparations for later effective resistance and
liberation efforts.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Cities, Collective Responsibility, Decisions,
Defence, Enemy, Failsafe, Madmen, Nuclear Strength, People, Power, Referendums, Targets,
Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons.
DEVELOPMENT
Only free market development, including monetary freedom, can maximize development and
overcome poverty as fast as possible. The U.S., in its beginnings, came closest, so far, to that approach.
It was originally nothing more than another utopian colony attempt but it was the only one which
succeeded in the long run and on a large scale to a degree which surprised even the participants and
most observers and this for reasons is still not fully understood today by most people. When a free and
rapid development takes place, a development which releases the creative energies of all, then
ideological and national hatreds are likely to be at a minimum.
By means of individual secession and reassociation, every individual member of a so far
underdeveloped country could become a member of a developed community. There would be no
hindrance for him to increase his earnings capacity and income from much below the present minimum
wages in developed countries to far above them, nothing but his inherent abilities, willingness to learn
and work. He could trade freely with anyone in the world, at least with all free traders.
Here, as everywhere, individualizing a problem goes furthest towards solving it.
See: Capitalism, Economic Freedom Free Enterprise, Free Migration, Free Trade, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Investments, Market, Monetary Freedom, Nationalism, Natural
Resources, Protectionism, Racism, Segregation, Voluntarism.
DICTATORSHIPS
All dictatorships must be overthrown. They do not only now and in the future threaten others with
nuclear weapons but, as long as they exist, others will have reasons to be afraid of them and will feel
inclined to attempt to defend themselves against them with all, even nuclear devices. This in spite of
the fact that nuclear devices are objectively not the best but, instead, probably the worst means for a
defence against dictatorships.
Every country in which only a handful have the decision making power on war and peace is, at least to
that extent, a dictatorship. Every man who keeps nuclear weapons at his disposal is, at least to that
extent, a dictator. Every dictatorship is supported by suppression of freedom of expression and
information, no matter where they take place. To fight and overthrow dictatorships with rightful means,
wherever and whenever possible, is a duty for all rational beings. How to do this in a just and efficient
way is subject of a new science of libertarian revolutions. Students of such revolutions could not learn
much or enough from the revolutions advocated or practised by totalitarians.
See: Censorship, China, Collective Responsibility, Communism, Defence, Demo
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cracy, Desertion, Enemy, Human Rights, Liberation Wars, Military Insurrections, Militia, Outlawry,
Resistance Revolution, Revolutionary Warfare, Secession, Socialism, Soviet Union, Totalitarianism,
Tyrannicide, War Aims.
DIPLOMACY, SECRET AND MONOPOLISTIC
Diplomacy is unjustified to the extent that it helps to monopolize negotiations, treaties & decision
making. Secret diplomacy is worse because its agreements are secret conspiracies against the people,
They cannot stand publicity and must therefore be wrong, They lead to miscalculations, e.g., regarding
the allies an adversary has and thereby may invite aggression. Compare WW I and WW II.
Conventional diplomacy is just an offshoot of inherently immoral powers and it is similarly tainted and
defective. Don't expect anything from the secret councils of criminals and from their syndicate
agreements. Moreover, our freedoms are not for diplomats to dispose of or to risk.
Open negotiations with the likely victims of nuclear war on the other side negotiations by freedom
loving people, over the heads of rulers and disregarding their rulers' interests and ambitions are one
way out. By means of free broadcasting free people could convey acceptable rightful and attractive
offers even to oppressive people living under dictatorships and could make them act on these, even if
they have no immediate opportunities for replies and dialogues. Thus it would be all the more
necessary to make that one's peace and freedom offers quite rightful, clear, most attractive and
trustworthy. Only the people are trustworthy enough where the lives of all are at stake. And only when
there is full publicity can sufficient trust develop, Without sufficient trust there will be no unilateral
nuclear disarmament moves and without such moves there will be no nuclear disarmament.
Let targets and motives be dissolved by allowing all minorities full autonomy. No official diplomacy,
no secrecy, can improve upon this offer. Only the fullest publicity can. A diplomatic offer of this kind
would not be trusted. One given by the people themselves, e.g. in large and broadcasted public
meetings, one practised and demonstrated in the area of a former "nation", can and would be trusted.
Let representatives of the targeted people, representatives of large cities and, most of all,
representatives of minorities desiring autonomy and willing to grant it to others, either get together or
communicate with each other and they would not require the services of professional diplomats to
come to a sensible agreement.
See: Appeals, Broadcasting, Declarations, Disarmament, Governments, Miscalculations, Monopolies,
Negotiations, Open Air Meetings, People, Publicity, Referendum, Trust, War Aims.
DISARMAMENT, MULTILATERAL, BY GOVERNMENTS?
Multilateral disarmament undertaken by governments is a utopia. Territorial governments cannot trust
each other. They have reasons for not trusting each other. They will cheat. They have the power to do
so. They have always abused it in this way and will go on doing this. They cannot control each other.
Their kind of "control" is victory in war and disarmament of the defeated. All disarmament conferences
so far have confirmed that one cannot rely on governments coming to a multilateral nuclear
disarmament agreement. Most conferences come to a stop already at the beginning because the
delegates cannot agree on what they consider to be preconditions, like the size and shape of the
conference table. The survival of mankind should not be made dependent on the political miracle in
which all nuclear powers would agree on all points of a disarmament agreement and faithfully carry it
out.
See: Control, Disarmament, Governments, Madmen, Nuclear Strength, Rulers, Trust.
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DISARMAMENT, UNILATERAL, DEOMOCRATIC OR REVOLUTIONARY FOR AND BY
THE PEOPLE OR UNDER THEIR SUPERVISION
Nuclear devices are in breach of the moral law and also contradict the current international laws on
warfare as they cannot be used without hurting noncombatants. Therefore, it is the duty of all citizens
to prevent the use of nuclear weapons, i.e., to destroy them as well as all production centres for more
nuclear weapons.
Nuclear disarmament need not be part of a total disarmament. On the contrary , it should not be.
Firearms may well be necessary for the people to take over and destroy the antipeople weapons which
are now protected against them with conventional arms.
Governments believing in nuclear strength cannot be relied upon to undertake nuclear disarmament.
They could not even control a disarmament agreement effectively. But they could be relied upon to
attempt to prevent nuclear disarmament through their arms, military organization and political power
monopolies, which amount also to a monopoly to undertake disarmament moves.
The people themselves should decide on the necessity for and extent of disarmament and should
control it themselves.
While they might delegate some subordinate tasks to governmental agencies and tech disarmament
jobs to specialists, none but the majority of citizens could effectively carry out and control nuclear
disarmament.
The disarmament referendum would set a short period for the government to carry out the ban on
nuclear devices and the destruction clause for all of them and their production and research facilities.
After this period the people are to take matters into their own hands. But, at least from the moment on
that the referendum has decided against nuclear weapons and, preferably, as from now, the veil of
secrecy surrounding them is to be lifted and all citizens are to act as spotters to prevent attempts to hide
some ABC devices away. The "Spies for Peace" did have a rightful idea.
Luckily, nuclear weapons cannot defend or destroy nuclear weapons except in a suicidal way. This is
the weakness of these extremely destructive devices, their Achilles heel.
Nuclear devices can be taken and destroyed on the ground, without using nuclear devices against them.
It would be easiest with the full cooperation of those supposed to use them against us or against other
people. This requires concessions to their thinking and rightful aspirations, concessions which neither
our nor their rulers are likely to grant them, a trust which only a very popular movement on our side
could inspire, a movement so motivated and organized that it could be trusted even by these
indoctrinated to regard us as enemies.
Unless the people attempting to occupy and destroy nuclear weapons stores have made it quite clear
that they are antitotalitarians and favour e.g., anticommunist revolutions and are actively working to
promote them, the guards of these stores might interpret their actions as an attack by communist
saboteurs and might thus be motivated into a nuclear attack against Soviet Russia or Red China.
If the disarmament is undertaken only after a referendum has insisted upon the destruction of nuclear
device, then this danger becomes very much reduced. Other enlightening steps ought to be taken.
Let us establish and train an ideal volunteer citizen army, in form of local militia forces, realizing
individual rights even for their members and aiming at nothing but the protection of individual rights,
as a force for the destruction; unilateral destruction, of all nuclear devices and installations, and let us
initiate the establishment of such armies elsewhere.
See: Control, Decision, Democracy, Employment, Exterritorial Imperative, Governments, Inspection,
Militia, Morality, Nuclear Strength, People, Referendum, Research, Safeguards, Space Weapons,
Submarines, Targets, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
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DISCIPLINE
Military discipline of the old type can make automatons out of soldiers and can make them obey any
command, no matter how immoral, irrational and even selfdestructive it may be. ALL military
organizations based on such discipline must be dissolved. In the ideal military force, the local militias
of volunteers for the protection of human rights, it must be replaced by a largely selfimposed moral
and rational discipline, which would even include drills on how to effectively disobey and resist
wrongful orders and prevent them from being carried out by others.
Cromwell's "Ironsides" offer the largest example of an army whose military efficiency was not
decreased but increased by its men enjoying basic rights and following their consciences.
See: Thomas Babington Macauly, "The History of England from the Accession of James II," Vol., 1
quoted in peace plan 51.
See: Disobedience, Human Rights, Immorality, Militia, Morality, Obedience, Soldiers' Rights,
Subordination.
DISCRIMINATION IN WAFARE
The discrimination necessary for the conduct of a moral and effective defence cannot be achieved with
mass murder and mass destruction devices or with collectivist war aims. As long as collectivist
premises and institutions prevail, not even the need for discrimination will be recognized and non
discriminating means like atomic mass murder devices are considered as just right.
Every compulsory discrimination against liberty amounts to indiscriminate warfare against all.
See: Air Raids, Bombers, Collective Responsibility, Desertion, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative,
Indiscriminate Warfare, Individual Responsibility, Personal Law, Police Actions, Prisoners of War,
Scorched Earth Policy, Secession, Separate Peace, Segregation, Tolerance, War Aims, Weapons.
DISOBEDIENCE
Disobedience towards men with nuclear powers is a virtue or moral duty. So is every lie, deception,
ruse, conspiracy, espionage, resistance act, revolution, treason and insurrection against them. They are
the common enemies of mankind.
Military disobedience towards orders to use mass murder weapons is among the highest military duties
and should be accompanied by either arrest or immediate execution of the one giving the order.
Otherwise, someone else might obey.
Government declarations, that they would not be the first to use nuclear mass murder devices, are
unlikely to be trusted because they are unlikely to be trustworthy. If. however, the people themselves
would declare, in large public and well publicized meetings, that would not obey but rather resist their
government if it wanted to or did commit aggression against another people, then such a declaration
could become effective. Such a declaration could be given without endangering those making it. They
could always state that they assume that their own government would never commit aggression but that
in case it would do so, or prepare to do so, e. g. after a putsch, then they would no longer obey it. If
such declarations were also given by soldiers and armed citizens, well trained in effective resistance
and liberation methods, then it would have weight.
Disobedience against every command to commit aggression is an important step towards the
prevention of nuclear war.
A well defined concept of aggression would embrace all preparations for nuclear war as aggressive acts
and would lead all peace loving people to a commitment to disobey all nuclear powers.
All large scale and violent suppressions of or threats against important human rights will in future also
be considered as constituting "aggression" and justifying resistance.
See: Aggression, Appeals, Decision, Declarations, Defence, Desertion, Disarmament,
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Enemy, Human Rights, Oath, Obedience, Outlawry, Resistance, Revolution, Secession, Sovereignty,
Subordination, Surrender, Trust, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
DIVERSITY, UNITY IN DIVERSITY
Unity is not worth fighting for unless it is voluntary, i.e. a genuine unity.
Diversity is worth fighting for because it implies voluntarism and individualism unless it is
interpreted & practised as compulsory segregation.
Divided we stand, united we fall, could be a slogan for ending the nuclear age.
If you want peace, you should make diversity instead of unity your aim.
See: Alternatives, Autonomy, Centralization, Competing Governments, Decentralization, Exterritorial
Imperative Freedom, Laissez Faire, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions,
Personal Law, Pluralism, Secession, Segregation, Targets, Tolerance, Uniformity, Unity, War Aims.
DOOMSDAY BOMB
No more than 30 Nitrogen bombs could wipe out mankind was a 1954 estimate and the former
British Foreign Secretary Mr. Morrison ,as well as the Japanese Prof. Asada, declared that the Soviet
Union was producing them. People mad enough to think of building doomsday bombs or for that
matter any nuclear device or actually doing it, should not be entrusted with any powers or weapons
and must be deprived of both.
See: Decision, Defence, Deterrence, Disarmament, Disobedience, Indiscriminate Warfare, Nuclear
Strength, Overkill, Power, Publicity, Resistance, Revolution, Soviet Union, Tyrannicide, Unilateral
Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons. Compare the film: "Dr. Strangelove".
DRUGS
Those, who are not senseless but rightly feel helpless in their present predicament, are often inclined to
take narcotic drugs. Once they have taken them they are even less likely to understand how their
helplessness could be ended. Drug users are not likely to be in the forefront of preventing nuclear war.
Drugged minds are not innovative or especially intelligent minds. (Coffee and tea, in moderate doses,
appear to be exceptions as they tend to stimulate brain activity in most people.) Most people are
irrational enough without being under the influence and by now a single drugged or drunken OIC of a
rocket battery or submarine might start off the nuclear holocaust. Thus abstention from all narcotic
drugs, unless for medical purposes and under medical supervision, is one of the many steps help
helping to prevent nuclear war. If you set a bad example in this respect, the commander of a nuclear
rocket battery might just follow it. See: Alcohol.
DUTIES, RECOGNITION OF INDIVIDUAL DUTIES
If there are any duties at all, the foremost would be to work towards peace and a free and just society.
Such a society is impossible as long as there are nuclear devices and similar devices for mass
extermination, as long as not even the survival of man is ensured. Thus I assert, it is every man's
foremost duty to do his share to help destroy all these devices to give himself and his children and
mankind another chance.
See: Disarmament, Disobedience, Freedom, Human Rights, Resistance, Social Contract, Surrender,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons.
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ECONOMIC FREEDOM
Only when the two or more involved in trading are completely free can they contract for maximum
mutual benefit and will no one be deprived of what is his, and disagreements will then not lead to
clashes between powers. Economic freedom is thus a basic requirement for perpetual peace whilst
every forceful redistribution of earnings constitutes a warlike act. Economic freedom alone could
create and distribute wealth justly and sufficiently wide to reduce envy, robbery and domination
motives to a tolerable level.
Collectivist, national, regulated, restricted and centrally planned economies do clash easily because
they are based not directly on production and exchange but on monopolies and coercive exploitation,
on mutual enslavement attempts instead of mutual convenience offers. Nevertheless, for a variety of
motives and beliefs, economic freedom has not many supporters left and it isn't fully realized anywhere
on earth so that no convincing example exists.
Economic freedom should therefore be introduced only subject to individual choice and its spread
should have to rely on the success of its first undisturbed experiments and its gradual. voluntary
acceptance by finally converted people.
For the time being, all advocates of individual liberty in the economic sphere should therefore merely
insist upon tolerance for their kind of actions among themselves. It would grant them all they can
rightly ask for and only in this way would they not block their own best chance for converting others to
their convictions. It would have to be a tolerance in the sphere of actions, a tolerance for all tolerant
economic, social and political experiments which differ from the present ones, exclusively undertaken
by governments.
Individual secession, contractual freedom and minority autonomy all on an exterritorial and voluntary
basis, would provide a sound framework for such alternatives. They would also supply safety valves to
prevent aggression by the followers of economic or rather antieconomic or neocomic theories.
Tolerance would allow all ideologies and utopias to be freely practised but among volunteers only
and at their expense and risk. It would not allow them to grow dangerously strong. They could grow
only upon successes and not on the basis of continuous failures.
See: Communism, Contracts, Cooperative Production, Crises, Depressions, Employment, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Free Trade, Government, Human Rights, Individualism,
Inflation, Investments, Laissez Faire, Libertarianism, Market, Minority Autonomy, Monetary
Despotism, Monetary Freedom, Motives Myths, Natural Resources, Poverty, Prejudices, Property,
Rights, Socialism, Tax Strike, Tolerance, Voluntarism., Voluntary Taxation, War Aims.
ECOLOGY
Those genuinely concerned with ecology would be interested in preventing the wiping out of a rare
species, a species which may be unique in the universe: homo sapiens. (The trouble with homo sapiens
is that he isn't sapient enough!) Probably no threat to almost all life on earth is as great as that posed by
the nuclear power maniacs. And if the ecologists are not interested in the preservation of their own
species at all, by preventing a nuclear holocaust, then they should at least be interested in the
preservation of butterflies and birds against such dangers. Alas. But lately they have at least become
interested in the pollution and war promoting aspects of nuclear reactors and have in some instances
successfully opposed this threat. There is only one political system which leaves every single human
being in his rightful ecological niche: the one based on individual choice, on exterritorial autonomy for
one and for all volunteers. It does not place anyone out of his natural environment and into a zoo or
laboratory for observation, exploitation and manipulation by others.
See: Conservation, Exterritorial Imperative, Panarchy.
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ECONOMIC WARFARE
Centralized, planned national, legal, collectivist, bureaucratic, welfare statist or outright state socialistic
or communistic control of the economy, all of them deny the possibility of harmonious economic
interrelationships, the existence of individual human rights to the economic sphere, of rights to do
something for oneself instead of raising claims against others or being enslaved by the claims of others.
All coercive economic measures amount to political domination, to a dictatorship in particular but
extensive and overlapping spheres, and they lead to the buildup of monster States which in the end
will arm themselves with nuclear mass murder devices against each other.
All those who take from the able to give to he needy, who gain legal monopolies and privileges like
exclusive licences, a central banking monopoly, or who merely authorize taxation by their votes, are
thereby declaring a war of conquest, domination and exploitation against their fellow men. This kind of
war underlies almost most all civil and national wars. On such a basis no lasting peace is possible.
See: Blockades, Boycott, Class Warfare, Communism, Cooperative Production, EmployerEmployee
Relationship, Free Trade, Inflation, Investments, Market, Monetary Despotism, Monetary Freedom,
Monopolies, Nationalism, Protectionism, Restrictions, Socialism, Social Security, Statism, Strikes,
Taxation, Territorial Imperative, Union Violence, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, Welfare State.
EDUCATION
Man's mind is at present crippled and prejudiced by compulsory mass and miseducation. Alternative
education approaches are a must if sufficient people are to be enabled to grasp what must be done.
Those taught to see in the government the savior from all problems will not be able to see in it the
creator of most remaining and manmade problems. What school does e. g. not instill territorial
nationalistic prejudices which are suicidal at this stage? What school does not teach e. g. wrong ideas
on unity, a unity which creates and preserves nuclear targets?
State financed universities sometimes participate in nuclear research just to improve their funding.
Without government financing hardly any of the research and training which went into the building of
nuclear mass murder devices would have taken place.
See: Alternatives, Cultural Revolution, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enlightenment, Government,
Ideas Archive, Ignorance, Market, Prejudices, Research, Statism, Welfare State.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS
No officer who would lead them into an aggressive war is likely to be elected by soldiers possessing a
minimum of rationality. Others solders should no longer be employed & armed in the future. Who
would elect officers to lead him into a nuclear war? No officer favoring nuclear armament is likely to
be elected by soldiers realizing that such arms would turn them into primary nuclear targets.
The election of officers, at least in stages, as happened during the French Revolution, in its National
Guard, could go up to the highest military offices and could thus influence or be decisive in the choice
of weapons.
Freedom's soldiers would not only have the right to vote on who is to be their commander and for how
long and under what circumstances and conditions and within what limits, but they would also decide
upon what weapons they are to keep in readiness. They are not likely to vote for ABC or other anti
people "weapons". Last, not least, the voluntary membership of an ideal militia force would prevent
subjection to incapable cruel or dictatorial officers. Officers elected by military forces fighting
consciously for rightful war aims would be different from those which would be elected by conscripts
or career soldiers. Un
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popular wars could hardly be fought with elected officers. This is one more argument in favour of
electing them, See: Decision, Democracy, Disarmament, Disobedience, Militia, Obedience, Recall,
Soldiers' Rights, Subordination, Voting.
ELITE
The members of the elite are as much statists or more so than those whom they are supposed to lead.
The elite hasn't fully recognized the danger of nuclear war and its causes and far less has done anything
against it. Obviously, in spite of there being more Doctors and Professors in existence now than there
were ever before, no genuine elite exists any longer. Our present recognized "elite", in the shadow of
the nuclear bomb, confines itself to word games, the discussion of art, literature, esoteric or secondrate
scientific problems. They might even espouse still more statist "principles" and institution's which help
to increase the nuclear threat.
Only those who recognize their duty to think about the problem until they have found the solution and
who then start to realize it, belong to the new elite required.
See: Duty, Experts, Leadership, Reason, Selfhelp, Statism, Valuefree Society.
FREE MIGRATION
Break down all walls and armed frontiers which prevent peaceful citizens from escaping their
tormentors. Do not wait until they can prove to you that they were politically prosecuted. Few will
survive such trials or retain a chance to flee afterwards. Their will to emigrate from a dictatorship or
large degree of underdevelopment should be enough. No other motive should be required than a will
to improve one's personal freedom and economic condition. Our own ancestors usually had no better
motive when they spread all over the world. Today's emigrants have the same right.
England made once a name for herself by breaking the slave trade, using its navy for this. A similar
armed effort is now required to break down barriers set up by governments holding their own citizens
in captivity or keeping immigrants out. The Berlin Walt is a concrete example of captivity, someone
said.
Fortifications have rarely held against a determined and well prepared attack. The frontier obstacles of
East Germany, for instance, could probably be destroyed without the toss of a single life, by using
guided and armed drones.
One of the best ways to destroy border would be to induce mass desertions by those supposed to guard
the borders, the frontier guards. East German policemen supposed to guard the frontier have already
deserted by the thousands. Proper invitations and treatment for them might have attracted the majority
of these guards.
See: Asylum, Boundaries, Captive Nations, Defence, Desertion, Dictatorships, Disobedience,
Employment, Frontiers, Governments in Exile, Immigration, Liberation War, Military Insurrections,
Prize Money, Refugees, Revolutionary Warfare.
EMOTIONAL WAY OF LIFE
Emotions do not offer a way out of the nuclear war dilemma. Compare e.g. the CND movement a few
years back. Emotions rather fan hatreds, misunderstandings, irrational reactions and revenge ideas and
could thus promote nuclear retaliation or aggression.
See: Class Warfare Ideology, Collective Responsibility, Demonstrations, Deterrence, Enemy,
Escapism, Exterritorial Imperative, Ignorance, Leadership, Nationalism, Prejudices, Protests, Reason,
Revenge, Statism, Tolerance, War Aims.
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EMPLOYEREMPLOYEE RELATIONSHIP
The employeremployee relationship is a remnant of the old feudalistic relationship. It applies the "rule
or be ruled" mentality to production, an ideology which now, due to Marx's elaboration, threatens to
lead us into nuclear war. Only individually or cooperatively selfemployed people are immune to state
socialist ideas
See: Class Warfare, Communism, Cooperative Production, Hierarchical Production, Ideological
Warfare, Purchase of Enterprises, Socialism.
EMPLOYMENT FULL
For all those rendered unemployed by nuclear disarmament and by the dissolution of the old armed
forces, and for refugees and deserters as well, full employment is one of the most important objectives.
It would be achieved by realizing the practices, principles and institutions of monetary freedom in
combination with free pricing, free trading and unrestricted savings, investments and capital transfers.
Such radical economic liberties could most easily be introduced on the bases of autonomous
experiments among volunteers. From the successes of the first few such experiments they could rapidly
spread via more and more volunteers for these rights and opportunities.
Employment offers should not only be made in the abstract but concretely, by declarations of
employers that they have so and so many jobs waiting at such and such wages for people unemployed
due to the revolution against nuclear armament.
Enterprises could contribute to full employment and utilize their full production potential up to the
limit of their market and could widen this market to its optimum, by issuing their own notes, in
standardized money denominations and using them in payment for all their expenses at free market
rates. Their own obligation would consist merely in their readiness to accept all their own notes in
payment, from anyone, for all their goods and services, at any time, at their nominal value. For details
see e. g., Dr. Walter Zander's "Railway Money and Unemployment", reprinted in Peace Plans No. 9.
These enterprises would pay their suppliers, dividends, profits, salaries and wages in their own notes,
to the extent that these would be freely accepted. Through retailers, wholesalers and clearing these
notes would come into the hands of those who could use the goods and services offered or have other
debts to pay to the issuer and the circle would be closed.
People who are free to put claims against their own labour or products into circulation, in so acceptable
form that they could pay all their expenses with them, without having to force anyone to accept their
notes, would never be unemployed or suffer sales difficulties. These claims would soon come back to
them to be redeemed in their labour, services and products. That is why freedom to issue money
promotes employment. It provides sufficient media of exchange to let all desired exchanges take place.
It does not reduce the exchanges possible and easy to the quantity for which monopolized exchange
media are made available. It provides the quantity and quality of exchange media the market desires
and needs.
The most suitable issuers would be associations or retailers of consumer goods and services
associations which could use the variety of goods and services of their members as their "redemption
fund". These stores and providers or utilities, which constitute, in reality, the shortterm backing, or
shopfoundation, readiness to accept or debt foundation, for any currency, even gold coin currency,
could supply at least the required local currencies. Free private issuers, on the basis of private
contracts, could fully mobilize all the ready for sale stores and service potential and with this turnover
credit capital finance full employment.
See: Monetary Despotism, Monetary Freedom, Unemployment, Peace Plans 811, especially No. 10.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF POPULAR PREJUDICES AND THEIR BEST REFUTATIONS
Territorial statism, which promotes nuclear war, rests on numerous prejudices, errors and myths. They
are so numerous and support each other so well that only an encyclopaedic approach has a chance to
defeat them, effectively and lastingly, provided it would collect and make accessible the best
refutations so far found for each of them.
See: Cultural Revolution, Education, Enlightenment, Ignorance, Myths, Prejudices.
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ENEMY, WRONG IDEAS ON THE ENEMY.
"He has ceased to be, for me, that monstrous abstraction which he was for all of us during the war
years." said André Chamson, Readers Digest, 12/62.
In most wars people fight against imagined enemies. Almost never have military actions been directed
against the real enemy and his voluntary supporters only, Thus one way to get rid of most of ones
enemies consists in merely defining them properly. The "them" and "us" distinction is an emotional,
not a rational one, and it leads to disasters on a national scale. There are no national enemies or enemy
nations. There are only enemies of individuals and individual enemies. There are no communist nations
for instance but merely more or less aware victims of communism, including the fanatic communists,
who are themselves engaged in an endless and costly struggle against their ill defined enemy
"capitalism".
Generalizations are deadly. The enemy concept of most people is no more than an unjustified
generalization. Those who do not know their real enemy (particularly in international wars) consider
almost everyone who is somewhat associated with him as a national enemy, and even if the
"association" be it only by the colour of his skin or uniform or tax declaration or place of birth,
language or custom. Then, unaware of their real enemy, they fight their secret friends or allies or
neutrals, i.e., those people who the real enemy pretends to be loyal subjects or voluntary allies,
although they are forced to pay, work, march and fight for him. In other words: The principle of
collective responsibility dominates the world and the condition of the world is correspondingly bad.
Those making such unjustified generalizations are among the real enemies of all innocent persons. But
this enemy ought not to be killed but enlightened.
In the same way as frequently not the people on the other side are your enemies but, instead, their
rulers, so often neither a foreign government nor a foreign people but your own rulers are your worst
enemies and your public enemy is your private friend. Then applies what Marion Purzo said in: "The
Dark Arena", pages 78:
"Our enemies are behind us and commit the crimes for which we die."
In reality, as Patrick Brookes said : "There is no such thing as a collective enemy."
Those wanting to use nuclear devices do also fail to define the enemy properly and thus act as if he
would include e.g. women, children, old and sick people. Those so ignorant, that they cannot
distinguish between an aggressive government and its conscripted subjects, should not be entrusted
with any power, any firearms, far less with nuclear devices.
No enemy is so bad that he ought to be wiped out with his whole family, house, garden, pets,
neighbourhood, everything, risking even one's own destruction.
Anyone who thinks it is justified to give the Sodom and Gomorra treatment to any city is mad by
fancying himself as an avenging God, and he certainly does not love but hate mankind.
Enemies declare themselves by their actions and beliefs. Anyone who believes in the principle of
collective responsibility of innocent people for the actions of others or, if he is not fully intellectually
aware of his belief, nevertheless acts in accordance with this principle, is not only an enemy of a
particular nation, race, ideology but an enemy of mankind. These enemies of mankind have, through
their leaders, access to nuclear mass murder devices, the ideal tools to impose something as
abominable as collective responsibility.
To a large extent enemies to not exist at all but are made, either by the real enemy or by yourself or by
some involuntary and inexplicit cooperation between you and your real enemy. Enemies are e.g.
"made", or, better, marked as such, by the uniforms they are forced to wear and by the customs and
international laws that regard anyone as an enemy who is uniformed and armed and may thus to be
treated according to the old soldier's habit of "shoot first and ask questions later." They are made e.g.
by selfdefence being forced
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upon them:
"Nobody should expect friends in a village hit by napalm." (A remark by Dennis Warner, quoted from
memory only.) Nobody should expect to be considered as a friend if he applies the scorched earth
policy, shoots hostages, mistreats prisoners and deserters, dictatorially dominates an occupied territory,
rapes its women, extorts goods and services, doesn't declare rightful war aims or doesn't stick to them,
or, worst of all if he threatens with or uses mass extermination devices. In short: The best way to make
enemies is to treat them as enemies. Even your friends will predictably react to this kind of treatment.
Once we learn to see and recognize the real enemy we soon learn how to defeat him easily: "...Russia
was a nation occupied by an internal enemy", said Eugene Lyons in: "Our Secret Allies, the Peoples of
Russia", Arco, London, 1954 p,121. One might, add : "and such enemies are enemies of all other
people as well."
In the same work, on pages 5153, Lyons wrote:
"German leaders, who survived the war, realize today that in Russia they could have saved hundreds of
thousands of German lives, and possibly avoided defeat in the East, had Hitler not insisted that 'any
Russian is the enemy' Hitler, we now know, disdained those who sought to make allies of the Russians
as 'emotionally soft'. Yet Red troops deserted and surrendered en masse as long as they believed the
Germans would distinguish between the communist minority and the rest of the country. The despised
Russians, upon discovering that they were all 'the enemy', rallied around the Kremlin and licked the
emotionally hard Nazis... "
"... Both, in averting war or in winning war, are we not better off with friends in the adversary's
empire? The toughness that cuts off its strategic nose to spite its face, I dare suggest, is neither logical
nor mature. Softness, as mankind's teachers have tried to convey, may have a strength of its own, even
in terms of expediency. Thomas Paine wrote: 'He who would make his liberty secure must guard his
enemy from oppression.'...
"To concede a solidarity in the Soviet camp that does not exist. to reject allies out of hand, amounts to
giving the Kremlin a valuable victory by default. It repeats the Hitler mistake of turning millions of
Russian allies into implacable enemies. Though our potential friends in the USSR were a handful, we
would have no alternative in common sense but to enlist them on our side of the struggle...
"But do not all freeworld journalists and statesmen make the same arbitrary assumption of Soviet
unity every time they talk of 'the Russians', whether in praise or in blame, when they have reference to
the Soviet regime? Are they not supinely conforming with the central myth manufactured by the pro
Kremlin crowd?
"The maintenance and strengthening of this myth is of lifeanddeath importance to the Soviets. By the
same token its exposure and demolition is of lifeanddeath importance to the nonSoviet world.
Already the Kremlin has won too many facile victories, at home and in the international arena, by
using the prestige of presumptive inner strength and solidarity, by making us swallow the biggest of its
Big Lies.
"The belief that Russia and oppression are inseparable Siamese twins has no validity in logic or in the
historical experience of the rest of mankind. Millions of Russians have died to disprove this defeatist
assumption. The fact that their struggle has not yet succeeded proves exactly nothing about the future."
We ought to prick the balloon of the popular enemy concept in order to get the problem of war
prevention down to manageable proportions. Once the enemy is properly defined, he will be found to
be so small in numbers and power that a small and relatively cheap police action could cope with him.
What ought to be done against the real enemy?
Let the enemy be properly defined by individual choice and secession.
Make your own enemies or friends. Do not let anyone, not even your government, tell you who your
enemies or friends are supposed to be!
Follow as far as possible the old maxim: "The best way to get rid of an enemy is to make a friend of
him!"
From the viewpoint rightful war aims, the uniformed and conscripted enemy soldiers are our most
important but so far still secret and in
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active allies, potential allies at least. It depends on us whether we turn them into real enemies or real
allies:
Use every opportunity for rightful public appeals and declarations, negotiations and separate peace
treaties. Conclude an alliance with governmentsinexile on the basis of rightful war aims.
Appeal to the soldiers on the other side to fight for their rightful government, a government of their
own individual choice.
Act as a liberator not as a conqueror.
Remove all wrongful threats against them like ABC mass murder devices and threats of domination.
Remove these threats even from communists. Allow even them minority autonomy based on individual
sovereignty.
This would remove most war promoting or prolonging motives and prevent people being turned into
scapegoats.
Fight with the utmost discrimination between conscripts and selfmade enemies. Offer even the latter
an attractive and peaceful way out.
Fight the remaining enemies only in a rightful way, with no atrocities, granting pardon and treating
prisoners of war properly.
Then the old proverb will come true again which says that: "a wise enemy is worth more than a foolish
friend."
See: Air Raids, Alien Acts, Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Blockades, Bombers, Borders, Boycotts,
Civilians, Collective Responsibility, Communism, Conscription, Decision, Declarations, Definitions,
Democracy, Desertion Deterrence, Disarmament, Discriminatory War, Dictatorship, Emigration,
Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Trade, Frontiers, Governments, Governments in
Exile, Ideas, Immigration, Leadership, Nationalism, Negotiations, Noncombatants, Nuclear strength,
Open Cities, Outlawry, Peace Declaration, Police Actions, Prejudices, Prisoners of War, Propaganda,
Publicity, Red/Dead, Revolutionary Warfare, Rulers, Secession, Secret Allies, Separate Peace,
Sovereignty, Strength, Targets, Territorial Organization, Treason, Tolerance, Tyrannicide, Unilateral
Nuclear Disarmament, Unity, War Aims, Weapons.
ENERGY RES0URCES, ENERGY SHORTAGE? ENERGY CRISIS?
Those who ignore the function of free pricing and who exclude free enterprise from providing energy
on a businesslike basis, do create thereby energy shortages and then want to overcome them with the
establishment of nuclear reactors. They overtook the war promoting effects of nuclear reactors, the
radiation hazards involved, the shortage of reactor materials (they are likely to run out before coal), the
availability of numerous undeveloped other energy sources, the high costs of nuclear power, the high
transmission costs and the existence of the biggest reactor of all, one whose energy is, directly, barely
touched, although it is the only one which could be used safely and does not cost anything to establish.
We need only to tap its energy effectively: the sun.
See: Atomic Reactors, Geothermal Energy, Peaceful Use of Atomic Energy, Sun Energy, Tidal Energy,
Wind Energy.
ENLIGHTENMENT
The people to are not well enough informed on how great and acute the danger is. They are
hoodwinked by misleading propaganda for the socalled peaceful use of nuclear energy and in favour
of governments as the only defenders when in reality they are the main aggressors. Ask your defence
minister and a foreign ambassador how many nuclear devices their national governments have, what
power these devices have, under what circumstances they would be used and what would be the likely
losses and how they are going to prevent this danger without more than mouthing pious hopes, wishes
and generalities. Only unrestricted enlightenment on every aspect of the nuclear threat and on every
rightful countermeasure can show us the way out.
See: Acuteness of Danger, Apathy, Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Encyclopaedia of
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Refutations, Immorality, Myths, National Security, Peaceful Use, Prejudices, Propaganda, Publicity,
Secrecy, Statism, War Aims.
ENTHUSIASM
"The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is
the speaker's enthusiasm for the result. Eloquence may set fire to reason." said Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
"Remember that you need enthusiasm to accomplish great things." remarked St. Simon.
"A burning purpose attracts others who are drawn along with it and help fulfil it." stated Margaret
BourkeWhite, in "Portrait of Myself".
How can one build up enthusiasm for a practicable program to prevent nuclear war? One cannot appeal
to the survival instinct. See: Survival Instinct. One cannot appeal to conventional nationalism or to
religious fervor. See: Nationalism, Religion. Only appeals to rational thinking and the moral instinct
are possible. Both are still underdeveloped in most. See: Immorality, Human Rights Justice, Morality,
Reason.
Activists could be gained by the freedom of action part of the program. But enthusiasm is required to
make people attempt to understand, spread and practice every part of the program. How?
Reason and the feeling of discovery or of having learned a lesson, do also fire enthusiasm but all too
rarely and in all too few. More common are the instances of ignorant enthusiasm which does not
inspire reasoning, e.g. the common run of activist pacifism, full of enthusiasm for petitions, marches,
demonstrations, leafleting and slogan chanting.
One you become aware that nuclear war really could be prevented and that you yourself could do
something, no matter how little, to prevent it, furthermore, that the prevention of nuclear war would
mean the introduction of an ideal, free, just and peaceful society, your enthusiasm should be large
enough to influence your actions and be persuasive and infective towards others, knowledge being the
mother of eloquence. For, the same reason, if you are still short of enthusiasm, you should become
aware that you do not see the fullpicture yet.
An Archive of Ideas (see there) and an Encyclopaedia of Refutations (see there ) are likely to be among
the main tools to build up a healthy enthusiasm. Naturally, it is much easier to become enthusiastic for
simple ideas.
Can people be induced at all to struggle as enthusiastically for the realization of human rights as they
have so frequently fought against them? The struggle of the original Swiss communities, that of
Cromwell's Ironsides, that of the American Revolution, some aspects of the French Revolution and the
potential for an ideal militia force do make me "somewhat cautiously" optimistic. From this confession
you may rightly conclude that I do not clearly see the full picture either as yet. It is perhaps, like the
free market, too large a picture to become quite clearly envisioned, in all its interrelationships and
complexities, and one person, in his lifetime, may only become able ton fully understand a few points
and be somewhat effective only regarding them. No one has the ability and knowledge to become an
effective monarch or dictator. The release of everyone's creative energy or a marketlike approach to
"social reform" or liberation is required.
To help build up enthusiasm authors are needed who could turn e.g. the main contents of this
compilation into popular films, plays, novels, stories, songs and poems.
See: Apathy, Boredom, Cultural Revolution, Enlightenment, Freedom of Action, Ideas/ Large, Militia,
Motives, Oaths, Powerlessness, Propaganda, Referendums, Selfhelp, Selfresponsibility
ESCALATION RISK
Any use, no matter how small, of destructive nuclear devices does bear the inherent risk of limitless
escalation until all nuclear stores have been used up. The more "effec
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five" these weapons appear to be in the short run, the stronger the pressure will be to achieve still better
effects by using larger or more such devices. We engage here in something as senseless and bloody as
blood revenge between governments.
Indeed, any political or military incident could nowadays escalate into full scale nuclear war. It came
close to a nuclear war when Red China and Taiwan struggled for the offshore island Quemoy and the
Matsu Islands. Several times it came close to the holocaust through some fighting around Israel and
there the incidents amount to hundreds every year. The only safe way to prevent the escalation risk is
to destroy all nuclear devices, no matter how "small" and also all facilities for their production,
including the "peaceful" nuclear reactors.
See: Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Collective Responsibility, Decision, Deterrence, Disarmament,
Nuclear Strength, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
ESCAPISM
The search for amusements distractions, entertainment, games, conventional dropping out of hippies,
the use of various narcotic drugs, they are all attempts of escapism, to some extent also from the threat
of nuclear war. Yawning, boredom going to sleep in a discussion on nuclear war, walking away from it
or starting to talk about something else, are all instances of such escapism and they are all too common.
The more hopeless a situation appears to be, the more will people grasp at diversions within their
power. Not knowing how to act freely, directly, rightfully and rationally against certain dangers or
being legally prevented from doing so, they will at least tend to please themselves by stimulating their
senses within the narrow sphere of action and time they have left. The excess drinking of soldiers in
wartime is a good instance. In such actions they see the only way to get at least some value out of the
rest of their lives and to forget the threats hanging over them. "Aprés mois la deluge!" expresses their
attitude well.
Naturally, this kind of behaviour makes the realization of the threat, which they are rightly afraid of, all
the more likely. They are thus selffulfilling prophets of doom by committing the sins of omission. If
you live it up you are unlikely to live it out.
It must be admitted that they are quite right in feeling powerless in their present situation and that
their behaviour is understandable as they do not see the long but certain way out of their labyrinth. A
feasible and clear program might help many of them to overcome this kind of apathy and resignation.
See: Alcohol, Apathy, Drugs, Emotional Way of Life, Freedom of Action, Myths, Prejudices.
ESPIONAGE
Espionage could be rightful if , e.g., it were not used to hand nuclear devices, or information on them,
to other criminals but if, instead, it were used to facilitate the destruction of these devices or of those
who have their fingers on the nuclear buttons. Espionage to protect human rights is no crime.
Espionage to attack them or keep them suppressed is.
ETHICS
Could there be anything more unethical than mass extermination devices, their building, stockpiling
and use? They punish the innocent, cannot be used discriminately and do inevitably apply the
"principle" of collective responsibility. They can be used only against a wrongly defined enemy. They
are not really weapons at all. They can serve only immoral aims. They offend against every single
human right by threatening the basic one to life and physical inviolability.
To possess such a power is in itself immoral. It amounts to absolute a power which cor
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rupts absolutely. The coercive State which developed, keeps, has motives to use and is likely to use
nuclear devices, is in itself unethical because it is not founded on unanimous consent in its
establishment, its aims and its actions. Those who would suffer most from a nuclear war have presently
the least power to prevent it. Those most responsible for nuclear war can presently not be held
responsible. Nuclear power is organized extreme irresponsibility Nevertheless, while those threatening
others with genocide deserve to be executed at every opportunity which offers itself or can be arranged,
as tyrants, they would have to be granted amnesty in case they surrendered a nuclear device, so that
still further bloodshed and destruction will be avoided. While the God of our legends needed 6 days to
create the world, our overlords need less than a day to destroy it. Should we continue to obey, pay and
serve such demons? What rights and duties has a rational being against them?
See: Aggression, Air Raids, Amnesty, Collective Responsibility, Consent, Decision, Defence,
Democracy, Discriminatory War, Desertion, Disobedience, Duty, Enemy, Government, Human Rights,
Immorality, Individual Responsibility, Indiscriminate Warfare, International Law, Militia, Morality,
Nuclear Strength, Outlawry, Power, Referendum, Resistance, Responsibility, Rights, Secession, Self
defence, Selfhelp, Social Contract, Sovereignty, State, Socialism, Subordination, Tyrannicide,
Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, Voting, War Aims.
EVIL
Most people favour evil in form of what they suppose to be the lesser evil and completely ignore
rightful and attractive alternatives.
There are some who really love the bomb. That love is not so strange compared with some of the other
strange attitudes of modern man, e. g. , the one towards abortion. Evil is no longer generally despised
but often considered to be necessary. Compare the personality and leadership cult. Compare statism.
Even Satan cults are popular. Dictators and other "great leaders" are glorified or at least excused.
Almost everybody strives for power. Mass murders, oppression, exploitation and imperialism by
"socialistic" regimes were widely whitewashed, excused or ignored for decades. More and more is
coercion relied upon to deal with problems. It is still wrongful when it is legalized. The end is supposed
to sanctify the means and even the ends are no longer objectively good.
ABC mass murder devices are the outcome of such attitudes.
There is no such thing as a necessary evil. Nuclear devices are not necessary for the defence of liberty.
On the contrary, they are so evil that they are perhaps the greatest threat to it. There is hardly anything
compared with which they could be regarded as the "lesser evil", and even the lesser evil is still an evil.
See: Deathwish, Enemy, Ethics, Immorality, Nuclear Strength, Red/'Dead, Statism, Totalitarianism,
Valuefree Society.
EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM
People not allowed to experiment with their own freedom will be inclined to "experiment" with the
freedom of others. They will attempt to get their own way by suppressing others, by forcing their
system on them. Nowadays, they will tend to do this even with nuclear devices or they will attempt to
"defend" with them their system against attempts by others to impose their system. They will do so as
long as the only way that they can envision is the inherently intolerant one of territorial organization
and exclusive jurisdiction.
Only when no ideologically motivated and other experiments of any kind are prohibited, be they
economic, social political or religious experiments, and provided only that the experiments undertaken
are tolerant, i.e., that they can be undertaken at the expense and risk of their voluntary participants
only, can we be pretty certain that no terrorist groups will arise who would use even nuclear weapons
against the majority in order to get a chance to practise their
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ideals. Not until radical minority groups can live among us and yet, legally and voluntarily apart from
us, can we be reasonably certain that they will not conspire against us with mass extermination devices
or with nuclear armed allies beyond our borders. Then they would not have to depend for their success
on establishing a whole country as an exclusive area for the practice of their beliefs.
Nuclear destructive devices are the offshoots of nationalistic intolerance, of the belief that in one area
only one system at a time ought to be practised, namely that approved by the majority or that insisted
upon by a minority in power. Regarding sports, entertainment, relaxation, religion, consumer goods
and services, arts, crafts, hobbies etc. we have already learned to act tolerantly of each other's
preferences, although we do live in the same territory. Now we have to become as tolerant in the
political, economic and social spheres.
See: Alternative Institutions, Capitalism, Communism, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action,
Majority, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism,
Revolution, Secession, Socialism, Sovereignty, Targets, Terrorism, Tolerance, War Aims.
EXPERIMENTS, NUCLEAR & SCIENTIFIC
Nuclear experiments are defended as inevitable and desirable aspects of scientific progress But
progress of whom, in what direction and at whose expense and risk? It is not progressive to invent new
methods of killing maiming, torturing, poisoning and controlling people! If it were then we should
openly teach still a science of torture, of totalitarianism, of mutilation, of indiscriminate destruction.
See: Decision, Peaceful Use, Research, Scientists, Tests.
EXPERTS ?
Presumed experts assure us that we can defend ourselves against nuclear mass murder devices. Who
has ever done this?
They tell us that they are weapons, that they are rightful weapons, that the deterrence system can be
relied upon, that the failsafe system will not fail, that no other defence system is possible against
someone attacking or threatening to attack with nuclear devices, that civil defence makes sense, that
the radioactive fallout from tests is negligible, that nuclear reactors are necessary and harmless, that
governments should have all the powers required to wage nuclear war against mankind, and so on.
Experts have been wrong before and they are wrong on every one of these counts. Those relying on the
judgment of experts can always find at least some experts who do agree with their own prejudices,
hopes and expectations. There is no absurdity which hasn't been, at some stage, upheld by some
presumed "experts". When the survival of all of us is at stake we ought to become extremely careful in
our choice of expert advice.
Experts have brought us into the present mess and it appears that can only continue it, as they already
have, for decades. They are not innovators but men knowing only the status quo and interested only in
preserving it, The recognized experts offer us no way out, They cannot even agree on a definition of
aggression, cannot see the justification for tyrannicide, see no way to effectively control nuclear
disarmament, wrongly presume that disarmament must be multilateral, and are still utopians enough to
propose that the governments should do "something" about this threat.
Further reliance on such experts is suicidal, Only innovative thinking outside the ruts of their thinking
can help us. We should no longer risk our lives and that of our families in an unspoken bet that the
current crop of experts and government advisers is right. Far less should we ever be FORCED to risk
our lives on the assumption that the opinions of the government's experts are valid Merely by working
for the government they prove to be wrong about nuclear war.
The madness of our experts all ethical infants, is proven also by the overkill rate. They are not
satisfied to kill us just once. No, they had to prepare the equivalence of several tons of TNT for every
living person.
See: Decision, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Government , Individual Responsibility, Leadership,
Madness, Power, Responsibility, Rulers, Selfhelp, State, Territorial Organization.
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EXTERMINATION CAMPS: NUCLEAR STOCKPILES!
What nuclear weapons amount to are: concentrated and portable concentration camps for the murder of
hostages. Have we become so accustomed to the idea of mass murder that the threat of such genocide
devices does not shake us any more? Have we come to believe that hey might be somewhat justified,
after all? Unfortunately, they do not spare the single just man in a city and at least for his sake and that
of his descendants mankind ought to continue. Moreover, even the Nazi's extermination camps were
more selective in the choice of their victims. Can we be proud to be prepared for even more
indiscriminate mass murders and on an even larger scale than the Nazis committed?
See: Collective Responsibility, Enemy, Hostages, Outlawry, Resistance, Tyrannicide, War Aims,
Weapons.
EXTERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
If you want to survive, organize exterritorially! The subdivision of the Earth's surface among territorial
states causes most wars and tends to deteriorate any fighting into total war. Atomic destructive devices
make it now more imperative than ever before for man to leave the old territorial organizations and to
reorganize himself in exterritorial ones in which he has, matter of fact, spent most of his development.
Absolute territorial rule was in the main only an aberration of the last 300 years, an offshoot of the new
religion of Statism. Exterritorial organization is required it mankind is to survive and be free.
In order to replace the Warfare State by inherently peaceful human organizations, no more is required
than recognition of the right of individuals to secede and toleration for the autonomous and exterritorial
minority groups of secessionists which would be built up by these secessionists. Also an awareness of
the rightfulness and advantages of such freely chosen and experimental societies. We have already
accepted experimental freedom and voluntary action in most other spheres, so much so that we take it
for granted in our daily private actions. The condition of exterritorial autonomy for all volunteer
communities could be rightfully imposed as a peace condition on a defeated enemy regime and as a
liberation option for all its victims, in order to make the introduction of this radical liberty much easier
and use opportunities for this. Such a step might be undertaken only out of the nationalistic motive to
destroy an enemy country's potentialaggressive capacity permanently. But the influence of such a
measure would go far beyond that. The "defeated" "victim" would soon find that no burden has been
imposed upon him but, instead, the very foundation for a free, peaceful and prosperous society. (See
peace plan 234 in Peace Plans 14.)
"Nobody may rightly demand that the people, with a polite bow before the helpless governments of the
world, prepare themselves for their end which may come any hour now.
"On the contrary, they must become authorized (they already have the right) to organize themselves in
autonomous organizations to which the subjects of all governments are invited as members.
"The foremost purpose of these new powers would be to destroy or render harmless, in a suitable way,
all weapons which are outlawed by international law, and referendums confirming it, especially nuclear
devices." Ulrich von Beckerath.
An exterritorial society would have neither the motive, the finance, the targets, the obedience the
secrecy, the conscription and decisionmaking power, nor other powers required to prepare and carry
out a nuclear war. Compare plan 221 in Peace Plans 12.
See: Alternatives, Centralization, Competing Governments, Conscription, Decentralization, Decision,
Disobedience, Experimental Freedom, Finance, Governments, Market, Minority Autonomy,
Monopolies, Motives, Nationalism, Obedience, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, People, Personal Law,
Pluralism, Resistance, Secession, Secrecy, Security, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Targets,
Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Uniformity, War Aims.
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTERVENTION
One of the weakest defences of the nuclear strength position is the assertion that, while we would not
need it for a defence against humans, we might need it against invading aliens. This ignores that the
real threat of nuclear holocaust comes from our
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own governments. We do not have to imagine any other threat beyond that one. They would really be
"our own" only once we have become free to individually chose the one of our dreams for ourselves,
or, alternatively, the nongovernmental society of our dreams for ourselves.
Aliens, who have mastered space travel, may also be presumed to be more rational and peaceful than
we are, or alternatively, more advanced in weaponry as well. Moreover, even against enemy aliens,
they would not be suitable weapons because of the radiation backlash.
One should also take into consideration that among all the sightings of UFOs, going back perhaps
hundreds of years, there is not even one reporting a warlike attack, Why, then, should they want to
attack us, now, suddenly? Do we ever wage war against our animals in our zoos?
We have here nothing but a rather weak excuse for an inherently intolerable abuse and threat.
See: Deterrence, Nuclear Strength.
FAILSAFE SYSTEMS
No matter how far technology advances, it is unlikely that it will ever construct anything that is 100 %
foolproof and failsafe. With nuclear devices nothing less than this will suffice. Consider the
alternative. The mere existence of nuclear devices for mass murder and mass destruction proves that at
least our political system is not constructed in a failsafe way. We need such a failsafe political system
to eliminate the motives and powers to build nuclear mass murder devices. Sociologically, the only
failsafe system is one in which technological gimmicks to protect nuclear devices against abuse
(actually, every use of them is an abuse, also) become unnecessary because they are all destroyed and
there are no longer any organizational assurances and ideological motives and financial opportunities
and secret locations and official guards to produce and stockpile them again. Otherwise, no
technological failsafe system is completely failsafe.
"No one has ever been able to devise measures which can permanently protect men from their folly."
said financier Bernard Baruch. At most one can achieve that the foolish ones suffer only themselves
under their own follies and that the others are protected against them. But even the wisest men would
not be wise enough to use a nuclear device wisely. And they could not keep all fools from getting
access to them. All the manpower, expenses and sacrifices of the "war against drugs" have made the
drug problem worse rather than reducing it.
For thousands of years men have tried to let only wise men have access to high offices and what a
failure rate they have had in spite of all their failsafe, checks and balancing attempts.
Nuclear weapons must all be destroyed to render this world again relatively safe.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Automated Warfare, Brinkmanship, Decision,
Disarmament, Doomsday Bomb, Madness, Overkill, People, Referendum, War Aims.
FEAR, JUSTIFIED FEAR
Deterrence leads inevitably to counter deterrence, to an arms race motivated by increasing fears and
almost every arms race ends in disasters for both. Fear is an insufficient basis for peace. I offer here as
sufficient proof the fact that most people have been and still are facing the threat of an allout nuclear
war with irrational fearlessness. No matter how real and frightening a threat is in the eyes of rational
people most people remain unafraid of it. But the same people could often be frightened by a vicious
or even a harmless dog.
To make use of whatever rational fears do already exist with regard to nuclear war, we should give all
people a chance to express it in a positive way, e.g. in referendums on all powers and institutions
making for nuclear war. Exclusive reliance on fear would make people turn into deadend roads, to
"solutions" like the Doomsday Bomb. See: Apathy, Appeals, Arms Race, Balance of Power,
Brinkmanship, Conquests ,Counter Terror, Decision Declarations, Deterrence ,Ideas/barge, Nuclear
Strength, Powerlessness, Taxation, Trust, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voluntary Taxation, War
Aims, Weapons.
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FREEDOM
The free man is a peaceful man. The unfree man is a warmonger even if he is nothing but a slave.
"Beware of a slave when he breaks his chains but do not tremble before a free man! said Friedrich
Schiller, somewhere. ("Vor dem Sklaven, wenn er die Kette bricht, / Vor dem freien Menschen
erzittere nicht!")
Nuclear power is useless in the defence of freedom. It means, creates and preserves its opposite.
Without individual liberty in almost every respect, including the freedom not to be free, according to
one's choice, nuclear war cannot be prevented in the long run. Freedom is the secret weapon against
nuclear war, Total freedom for all to the extend it is desired by each and everyone, for himself and
likeminded people only, is the way out. Please, do check this assertion on every point.
See: Alternatives, Autonomy, Capitalism Competing Governments, Consent Democracy, Economic
Freedom, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, Independence,
Individualism, Militia, Monopolies, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Publicity,
Referendums, Rights, Secession, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Tolerance, Voluntarism, War Aims, Weapons.
FREEDOM OF ACTION
Nuclear destructive devices are means to deny freedom of action to millions at a time by
exterminating them. They are not means to defend liberty but the despotism of a few. Only full
freedom of action for all can assure us that all nuclear devices will be destroyed and that none will be
built again. It requires exterritorial and autonomous organizations of volunteers for its full realization.
See: Action, Alternative institutions, Competing Governments, Decision, Disarmament, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Militia, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism
Resistance, Revolution, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Selfreliance, Secession, Sovereignty, Tolerance,
Voluntarism. (Also the ON PANARCHY subseries of PEACE PLANS, of which so far 24 volumes
have appeared, on 24 microfiche. J.Z., 14.10.01.)
FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION & DISSOCIATION
Let everyone associate in all spheres according to his own likes and dislikes and friction between
people will be reduced to a minimum and war will practically be eliminated. Why fight anyone when
you are free to do your own thing? Why fight for a utopia when you are free to realize it here and now?
Why fight against another utopia when
you do not have to join it?
Free consumer choice for government services would replace wars by a competition to make converts
either by persuasion or by example.
Freedom for divorce from an unsatisfactory marriage partner does obviously reduce strife in marriages.
So would freedom for individuals and dissenting groups to divorce themselves from a government and
to set up or join another government or nongovernmental society that is in accordance with their
preferences.
See: Alternatives, Appeals, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Declarations, Enemy, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Human Rights, Minority Autonomy, Panarchy,
Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Power, Secession, Separate Peace, Tolerance, Unilateral Peace
Declaration, Voting, World
Federations.
FREEDOM OF CONTRACT
Under full freedom of contract you could contract all peace promoting conditions and thereby peace for
yourself and likeminded people and your successful example would be one likely to be followed by
most others.
Freedom of contract, by its very definition, excludes aggression but puts all relationships on a
contractual basis instead.
It would allow everyone to hire protection agencies and to contract with others regarding selfdefence
measures against the few remaining aggressors. These measures would largely become reduced to
nothing more than limited but effective police actions against criminals.
Who would be stupid enough to contract with a government to "protect" him with nuclear devices?
See: Contract, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Trade, Minority Autonomy, Monetary Freedom, Personal
Law, Protectionism, Secession, Separate Peace Treaties, Social Contract, Social Security, War Aims.
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FREEDOM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM
Economic freedom would prevent deflations and inflations and with these many a war. Without
inflation not many unjust wars could be financed. Its full employment, based on monetary freedom,
would allow the integration of millions of refugees and deserters into the process of production within
a few days. It could thus help to dissolve the armies of aggressive governments. The wealth honestly
attainable for almost all, under a genuine laissez faire capitalism, as an optional economic system,
would also tend to make more people rather peaceful traders and exchangers than criminal aggressors,
conquerors, plunderers and oppressors. Business is a peaceful activity and so are voluntary labour
arrangements in their great possible and desirable variety.
See: Capitalism, Class Warfare Ideology, Competition, Cooperative Production, Desertion, Economic
Freedom, EmployerEmployee Relationship, Employment, Free Enterprise, Free Trade, Immigration,
Inflation, Investments, Land Monopoly, Market, Laissez Faire, Monetary Despotism, Monetary
Freedom, Natural Resources, Property, Protectionism, Refugees, Socialism, Tolerance,
Unemployment, War Aims.
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & INFORMATION
Men not free to express and inform themselves cannot conclude peace but will rather go on fighting.
Without these freedoms they will all the more fall victims to myths, prejudices and hatreds which
induce them to fight each other. Only with these freedoms can they find the freedom road to peace.
See: Appeals, Archive, Broadcasting, Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Declarations,
Dictatorships, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Human Rights, Ideas Archive, Militia, Negotiations,
Open Air Meetings, Outlawry, Propaganda, Publicity, Rights, Secrecy, Separate Peace Treaties,
Soldiers' Rights, Talent Registry, Trust, War Aims.
FREE MIGRATION
Freedom of movement, away from dictatorships and into free countries, weakens dictatorships and
strengthens free countries, This is the reason why dictatorships like East Germany try to stop it and
why freedom lovers ought to support it, People are in no way to be regarded as the property of their
rulers. If people had been free to migrate, for the last few hundred years and had continued to grant
each other exterritorial autonomy, if, in other words, the religion of territorial nationalism hadn't arisen
then we would now live as peacefully intermixed and yet separate from each other as e.g. the
Catholics and the Protestants do now, in countries like Germany, Canada, Australia, England and the
US. Moreover, then none of them would dream about attacking the others with nuclear devices and
even if some did, they would not find it practicable.
See: Asylum, Emigration, Employment, Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers, Human Rights,
Immigration, Property Concept of Citizens, Unemployment, War Aims
FREE TRADE
"When goods do not cross frontiers armies will." said F. Bastiat.
If the UK and Germany, before WW I, had clearly recognized that they were not only each other's
greatest competitors but also each other's greatest trading partners, would they then have fought?
Would Japan have entered WW II, if it had had free access to the world market?
We cannot afford the same mistakes again. There is no need for anyone to "conquer" a market or
terrorize it into submission when he has free access to it. Monetary freedom would be the largest door
opener in this respect.
The same nationalistic prejudices which consider whole "nations" as enemies and suitable targets for
nuclear devices, do also create and close national markets or, rather, more or less confine the market to
nationalized areas. Free Trade with all, even those who, according to our government's wrongly
assertions, would be our inherited or collective enemies.
No trade with weapons etc. with those who are our real enemies: dictatorial governments.
But at the same time: No blockades with regard to food, clothing and medicines, not even towards
members of the enemy regimes, even if they are armed and organized. Chocolate bombs are more
persuasive than are high explosives. (Compare peace plan 183.)
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Repeal of all government barriers to trade: of customs duties, quotas, licences, exchange rate controls
etc. To that extent the world should be unified, at least between voluntaristic groups of free traders.
From them this liberty would soon expand.
Naturally, if some volunteer groups would impose protectionist restrictions unanimously upon their
own no members and enforce them at their own expense, they should not be interfered with.
The best way to introduce Free Trade would consist in the secession and exterritorial reassociation of
those who favour it and would afterwards unilaterally apply it among themselves and with any other
willing traders.
See: Blockades, Borders, Boycotts, Capitalism, Desertion Economic Freedom, Enemy, Exterritorial
Imperative Experimental Freedom, Investments, Market, Monetary Freedom, Nationalism, Protection,
Secession, Separate Peace, Targets, Tolerance, Trust, War Aims. (The PEACE PLANS series contains
by now many texts on Free Trade, all on microfiche. J.Z., 13.10.01.)
FRONTIERS
The forceful preservation of frontiers provides the lines for battles, sets juridical limits, defines trade
restrictions and indicates nuclear targets. They would disappear under exterritorial organization and
personal law, free migration, free trade and free investments. The fight for territorial possessions and
taxpayers and obedient citizens would be replaced by a competition to gain customers or converts for
competing voluntaristic governments and exterritorial, and autonomous organizations.
See: Autonomy, Borders, Competing Governments, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative,
Freedom of Contract, Jurisdiction, Laws, Legislation, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions,
Territorial Organization, Unity, War Aims.
FUTURE
If there is to be a future for humans on this planet then you and I will have to make and secure it. Are
you ready for this task?, Do you know enough about it? If not, then let us discuss the problems
involved if there is a spark of rational survival inclination left in you.
If you entrust your future and that of your children furthermore to the tender mercies of governments,
then you deserve to die and are likely to die. Unfortunately, you would take others with you. The future
of mankind will be without nuclear devices, nuclear energy and nuclear science or there will be no
future for mankind.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Bet, Brinkmanship, Deterrence, Doomsday
Bomb, Failsafe, Nuclear Strength, War Aims.
GARBAGE REMOVAL, PRIVATE ENTERPRISE VS. MUNICIPAL MONOPOLY
Even municipal garbage removal contributes to nuclear war, ridiculous as this sounds at first. It re
enforces our reliance on bureaucrats in every sphere. If we ignore their inevitable failures in this small
task, then we are likely to ignore them in e. g. their defence preparations also.
People who cannot even envision garbage removal without bureaucratic intervention are unable to
envision defence or liberation without it. In a Statist religion the God, the State can do no wrong.
Private garbage removal would help to promote selfreliance and selfresponsibility, which do offer the
only way out.
Safe garbage removal for radioactive wastes has not yet been discovered and may never be although
the authorities assert or pretend that they have the problem in hand. This kind of garbage should be
removed at its source by eliminating its production, by stopping all nuclear reactors, nuclear research
laboratories, uranium mining, concentration plants etc.
See: Economic Freedom, Peaceful Use, Selfdefence, Selfhelp Welfare State.
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GAS WARFARE AS PRECEDENT
Just because poison gasses were not used extensively during WW II (apart from their use in mass
extermination camps) people have come to believe that neither poison gasses nor bacteriological nor
nuclear "weapons" would be used in the next world war. They manage to overlook the extensive
preparations of "their" governments for such warfare. This view does also overlooks that poison gasses
were used in WW I and in the Abyssinian War, that milder forms were used in the Vietnam War and in
many police actions and that, after WW II, lethal poison gasses were used in a civil war in Yemen and,
probably, also in the Soviet War against Afghanistan.
Moreover, it should not be overlooked that the first two nuclear bombs on human targets are already
dropped. History teaches that man is quite capable of committing genocide and suicide particularly
when ordered to do so by some powerful rulers. Thus, man's past behavior is far from reassuring.
See: Accidental war, Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Brinkmanship, Bet, Deterrence, Failsafe,
Nuclear Strength, Precedents.
GENERALS
War has become too important to be left to the generals who are always all too ready to engage in war
games, using the latest toys and who habitually consider only "strengths", ignore rightful aims, demand
immoral obedience, are ready to risk everything for another promotion, use men as mere pawns or tools
and are always ready to sacrifice the lives of others rather than their own, with very few exceptions.
Generals cannot be relied upon to prevent nuclear war. They have militarily prepared for if. They
represent a totalitarian system which makes for war. They have excessive and monopolistic powers.
They insist on absolute obedience, Objective psychologists might classify many of them as powermad.
They have made a career out of preserving the status quo, no matter how dangerous its continuance
would be. They think almost exclusively in territorial terms. Their ignorance of economics and
therefore, of the proper financing of defence, is usually abysmal, and perhaps only exceeded by their
lack of interest in economics. They usually do not bother about just warfare methods. Hawks appear to
predominate among them. I have not heard a single general ever making a responsible and sensible
remark on the prevention of nuclear war. They often are unable to recognize old mistakes and thus
repeat them, over and over again, e.g., indiscriminate air raids with conventional bombs and scorched
earth policies. They are thus unlikely to omit them in the future. Nuclear "weapons" permit them to
repeat the old mistakes on an even larger scale.
They are mostly either unwilling or unable to apply the system of military Jiu Jitsu against an enemy
regime Wherever generals have taken over from civil governments, they have tended to repeat their
mistakes or to worsen them. Most of Hitter's generals surprisingly enough didn't wand him to involve
Germany in yet another world war. But, the decisive point is that they didn't prevent him. either, and
they helped him conduct it in the oldfashioned nationalistic, collectivist and professional way.
See: Air Raids, Arms Races, Career Soldiers, Decision, Defence, Desertion, Deterrence, Disobedience,
Election of Officers, Elite, Experts, Madness, Mercenaries, Militia, Nuclear Strength, Obedience,
Overkill, Politicians, Power, Rulers, Scientists, Soldiers' Rights, Standing Armies, Subordination,
Tyrannicide, War Aims, Weapons.
GENERAL STRIKE
General Strike is general nonsense. Why should all workers go on strike when a strike of policemen
and soldiers, guarding the nuclear destructive devices and keeping them in readiness, and a strike of the
workers who produce further such devices, would already suffice? It would make much more sense to
encourage only these people to go on a permanent strike and to offer them alternative attractive jobs,
jobs which are productive and peacepromoting instead of extremely destructive and murderous in
their longterm effects.
Any strike against nuclear strength, going beyond such a strike, would be a senseless and harmful
demonstration. People acing so irrationally should certainly never get their hands on nuclear devices,
not even in the process of nuclear disarmament.
See: Defence, Demonstrations, Disarmament, Employment, Enlightenment, Military Insurrections,
Militia, NonViolence, Protests, Referendum, Resistance, Revolution, Secession, Soldiers' Health,
Soldier's Rights, Strikes, Tax Strike, Tests, Unions.
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GOVERNMENTS
Governments, territorial, exclusive, monopolistic and centralized governments, no matter under what
pretences they operate and what their good intentions are, remain, essentially, organized force. Thus it
should not be surprising that the biggest threat to civilization, culture and the survival of man, the
nuclear war potential, is also government administered. The question: "How can we avoid nuclear
war?" amounts thus largely to the question: "How can we avoid Government?"
See: Alternatives, Anarchism, Capitalism Coexistence Competing Governments, Consent, Decision,
Desertion, Disobedience, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Monopolies, Nationalism,
Opting Out, Panarchy, Personal Law, Pluralism, Power, Referendums, Resistance, Revolutions, Rulers,
Secession, State, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, War Aims.
GOVERNMENTSINEXILE
To defeat all totalitarian regimes and dissolve all nuclear powers, motives and means, targets, conscript
armies etc., governmentsinexile should be recognized, provided they aspire only to exterritorial rule
over voluntary followers. Through recognition of and alliances with such exterritorial governmentsin
exile, the forces of an enemy regime could be turned against it and no defensive motive would remain
to use nuclear devices. Even communists could make use of this offer of minority autonomy.
See: Alliances, Alternatives, Captive Nations, Coexistence, Collective Responsibility, Communism,
Competing Governments, Decision, Defence, Desertion, Deterrence, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative,
Jiu Jitsu, Military Insurrections, Military Program, Militia, Minority Autonomy, Negotiations
Recognition, Referendums, Refugees, Revolution, Revolutionary Warfare, Secession, Secret Allies,
Tolerance, War Aims, Weapons.
GREED
Let people become greedy for peace.
Greed and selfishness cannot be rightly blamed for nuclear war. For who would be sure to survive it?
Nuclear war doesn't offer profits, only losses.
It is too often overlooked that for every armament manufacturer making a large profit and for every
armament worker receiving a high wage there are numerous taxpayers who lose much more than
these receive. What about their greed? It should be mobilized instead of ignored or accused. If they
became greedy enough to want to retain what is right theirs, then they would establish a system of
voluntary taxation. What would happen then to the income of nuclear armament manufacturers and
workers?
See: Aggression, Atomic Energy, Capitalism, Defence, Economic Freedom, Employment, International
Corporations, Investments, Man, Market, Profit, Property, selfishness, Subsidies, Taxation, Tax Strike,,
Uranium Mining, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims.
HIERARCHICAL MODE OF PRODUCTION
Hierarchically production, whether under "capitalism", communism, socialism or even in cooperative
enterprises, has psychological and economic disadvantages and is contrary to the morality and aims of
individualism. It does not appeal to whatever initiative and innovative talent exists at every level of the
production process but allows only members of the hierarchical structure a limited creative activity. It
creates antagonistic interests which are counterproductive and lead to classwarfare notions and
practices and is a major factor producing the cold to hot war between East &Well and thus does
significantly contribute to the threat of nuclear threat. Only the introduction of contractual, market,
property and cooperative
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relationships within enterprises could dissolve this danger and would fully realize the selfmanagement
and propertarian principles of capitalism and the nonstatist, voluntary and cooperative forms of
socialism.
See: Agoric Revolution, Capitalism, Communism, Contract, Cooperative Production, Employer
Employee Relationship, Market, Monetary Freedom, Open Cooperatives, Socialism.
HIROSHIMA
Hiroshima's destruction is still accepted by many as a military "necessity". No wonder then that the
danger of nuclear war exists still.
There was never a justification for mass murder, especially not for the mass murder of noncombatants,
but there are always some people who believe that there it is possible. Consequently, nobody should
have access to nuclear weapons. This means that there must be no such devices.
Curiously enough, the same people who considered the wiping out of Hiroshima to have been
necessary, do often believe that nuclear devices form an effective deterrent which nobody would ever
use. People who are prepared to kill millions of other nationals and to risk millions of their own in the
process, are not easily deterred.
If they were easily frightened then they would not run for political office in the first place, offering
themselves thus as targets for political assassination attempts.
One cannot rely on a sudden development of conscience in politicians either: Hiroshima's destruction
was followed by a peace offer which was ignored until the second bomb was also tried out and had
wiped out Nagasaki. Naturally, why should leaders feel concern who were unconcerned when they
wiped out about 80,000 people in a planned and organized firestorm in Tokyo "achieved" with the
help of conventional bombs?
Moral and sensible actions by men in power are the exception, not the rule.
See: Air Raids, Bombers, Decision, Deterrence, Disarmament, Governments, Immorality, Madness,
Nuclear Strength, Open Cities, Rulers, Scorched Earth, War Aims, Weapons.
HONOUR
"Rather dead than red" is one of those "honorable" and deadly prestige ideas which do not allow
individuals to opt out but would draw all collectively, into nuclear war. Another version, "Rather the
Reds dead!" still embodies the wrong collectivist enemy and collective responsibility notions.
Communist Party members were a minority in the Soviet Union, too and only a few party members
actually ruled. The rest were largely opportunists.
Nuclear weapons cannot distinguish between "Reds" and bitter opponents of a communist regime.
They kill both, most likely more of the latter. As the war in Vietnam showed, unless they are found
armed and attacking or in a distinct uniform, which they did not wear, the "Reds" are indistinguishable
from the general population. And since they also used conscription, their forces embodied many who
were not communists or even anticommunists. Up to 50,000 of them deserted every year. Carpet
bombing and nuclear bombing of communist terrorists and guerillas resembles the bombing of city
blocks to kill bank robbers after a back robbery and also thousands of innocent bystanders.
A more rational resolution would be: Rather let the enemy's subjects and even the enemy himself
survive than wipe out all mankind and all its chances in a massive nuclear retaliation."
In the eyes of rational people honor cannot even justify a duel. Far less could it justify indiscriminate
mass murder. See: Alternatives, Communism, Defence, Enemy, Nuclear Strength, Power, Prestige,
Red/Dead, Retaliation, Revolution, Surrender, War Aims.
HOSTAGE SYSTEM
Nobody likes being a hostage and feels comfortable in that situation. But how many people realize that
right now they themselves are hostages in the nuclear power game, hostages for the "good" behaviour
of their own governments in the eyes of foreign governments?
At least be no unconscious, apathetic or willing hostage!
See: Bet, Collective Responsibility Disobedience, Noncombatants, Property Concept of Citizens,
Resistance, Revolution, Selfhelp.
HOW COULD NUCLEAR WAR BE PREVENTED?
All too many people expect an answer in a single sentence or a single idea which would be conveyable
in a three minute talk. No one seems to realize that he himself contributes to the danger by certain ideas
he believes in and upholds and also by his lack of sufficient interest in the problem and in workable
proposals for its solution. We are in this situation because we left the necessary thinking and actions to
organizations least suitable for both and also responsible for it in the first place, by their very existence.
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Those who are serious in their search for genuine solutions should at least have the patience to look up
some of the parts of the answers through the index of this compilation. They should e.g. look under:
Alternative Institutions; Decision, Defence, Desertion, Disarmament, Exterritorial Imperative, Free
Migration, Free Trade, Human Rights, Individual Responsibility, Militia, Referendum, Revolution,
Secession, Selfhelp, Separate Peace, Surrender, Tryannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War
Aims. See also Appx. 1, 2, & 48.
HUMAN NATURE
Human nature is supposed to be greedy, aggressive etc. But only the institutions of power and coercion
render certain human traits dangerous to the survival of the human race. Under the institutions of a
fully free market, under laissez faire capitalism or anarchocapitalism, the same traits are revealed not
as contrasurvival but as prosurvival.
The existence of at least some pacifistic primitive tribes proves that human nature is not involved but
rather customary institutions, ways of thinking, fetishes and taboos are.
See: Aggression, Capitalism, Centralization, Decentralization, Decision, Exterritorial Imperative,
Greed, Human Rights, Laissez Faire, Man, Market, Nationalism, Power, Profit, Publicity,
Referendums; Secession, War Aims.
HUMAN RIGHTS, A NEW DECLARATION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
If all human rights were known, recognized and practised there would be no risk of nuclear war. See
for instance: Negotiations, Decision, Disarmament, Resistance, Free Trade, Monetary Freedom.
A new bill of individual human rights (and of natural rights of rational beings) should therefore be
introduced into every constitution.
Included should be new human rights like the right to
opt out of any organization, including states, armies and unions,
organize in exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers,
trade freely, even in foreign currencies, even with subjects of enemy regimes,
unrestricted freedom of movement, settlement,
freely contracted employment,
supply oneself with work, without depriving anybody else of it, and to do so by suitable economic and
organizational steps,
freedom of exchange,
issue noncoercive money tokens,
free choice of value standards, i.e., to refuse acceptance of exchange media and standards one has not
contracted
to accept,
vote in referendums on all public affairs,
to remain neutral,
conclude a separate peace treaty for oneself,
resist,
bear arms,
organize in military fashion for the protection of individual rights,
buy or refuse to buy any services, including public services, from anyone,
assemble in the open air, even armed,
freedom of expression and information, even through broadcasting,
freedom of contract,
selfhelp,
selfdefence,
clean air and water.
Here these short hints, which make no claim to completeness, must suffice.
Any individual rights could be rightfully be renounced or restricted, but only by and for the voluntary
members of particular communities.
"A peace which is not enforced by the pioneers of human rights is merely an armistice" said U. v.
Beckerath in 1955. See under Militia.
To assure that all human rights are protected and thereby peace becomes established, all coercive
governments must be replaced by voluntaristic and competing ones, go
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vernments which, because of these characteristics, would at least externally not be aggressive and
which would also have an inbuilt safety valve against any internal deterioration which goes too far.
See: Bill of Rights, Exterritorial Imperative, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Panarchy, Secession, peace
plan 110 & especially the anthology of private human rights drafts in PEACE PLANS 589/590.
UNITED NATIONS, UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
This declaration is so incomplete and imperfect e.g. by including so much implied aggression &
exploitation in its welfare statist clauses that it cannot form the basis for a lasting peace. It is so
imperfect that even dictatorships formally subscribed to it. It is being promoted by a congregation of
representatives of the world's foremost aggressors. Anyone pinning any faith on it has lost contact with
reality.
See: Decision, Freedom, Free Trade, Militias, Monetary Freedom, Monopolies Resistance, Rights,
Secession, Sovereignty, Tyrannicide, United Nations, Welfare State.
IDEAS ARCHIVE
A central archive, uniting the best ideas man has so far had to prevent nuclear war and to establish a
just alternative society (or framework for free societies), would also be one of the most influential
means to actually prevent nuclear war. It could lead to a chain reaction of enlightenment.
So far the most precious possessions of man, ideas, are neglected by collectors who collect almost
anything else. If man ever lost everything else then he could quickly restore almost everything with the
right ideas, if they are preserved and accessible.
Ideas are mightier than the bomb if we make use of them.
This does require that demand and supply for ideas are finally brought together by a special market for
ideas. An archive and information service would be the first step towards such a free market.
It would also gather the refutations of utopian ideas which were vainly tried over and over again.
The nuclear threat can be overcome with the right ideas as this compilation tries to prove. This book
is based on a small private archive of this type.
See: Cultural Revolution, Enlightenment, Ignorance, Myths, Prejudices.
IDEAS, LARGE
"A fivepound note has no effect on a sixpenny slot machine" said R. S. Jaffray.
Large ideas or ideas on large subjects are very hard to communicate whenever they run counter to the
generally accepted ones or simply lack of interest, knowledge or comprehension.
Often they run contrary to people's world image or religion and these two have numerous ramifications
and are supported by a host of prejudices and myths.
And yet, nothing less than a considerable number of "large" ideas, which are new to most people, could
prevent World War III.
So, how could we spread them? See e. g. under Broadcasting, Cultural Revolution, Encyclopaedia of
Refutations, Ideas Archive, Open Air Speaking, Propaganda.
What ideas am I talking about? Ideas relating e.g., to exterritorial and autonomous communities of
volunteers and individual secession, monetary freedom Free Trade, Free Markets, Direct Democracy,
Free Immigration, Selfdefence and Selfhelp. For some samples and still all too limited details see this
alphabetical compilation.
All of them have all their popular statist counterparts.
IDEAS, OUTDATED AND WRONG IDEAS
The cause of nuclear war lies largely in oldfashioned and outmoded national and statist ideas which
form the basis of all of present territorial States. Wrong ideas lead to the most destructive devices, right
ideas can overcome and prevent them in the future.
See: Anarchism, Broadcasting Capitalism, Class Warfare, Collective Responsibility,
Communism, Competition, Definitions, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enemy, Freedom of
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Action, Governments, Greed, Ignorance, Myths, Nationalism, Prejudices, Profits, Socialism, Society,
Statism, Territorial Imperative, War Aims, Appx. 4.
IDEAS, POWER OF IDEAS
The power of ideas must first be fully appreciated to prepare the way for their best use. The following
quotations may help to strengthen this appreciation. Even Napoleon I had to recognize in the end: "An
idea whose time has come is more powerful than all armies."
A remark in "Problems of Communism" (3/4,1966) put it thus: "Those who wield the guns are in fear
of those whose only weapon is the pen."
But the old saying: "The pen is more powerful than the sword", needs the following qualification:
"Force without justice is tyranny and justice without force is futility."
"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid
of the light." Plato.
"Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king." Mark Van Doren.
Make better proposals: "Whatever may be the native vigor of the mind, she can never form many
combinations from few ideas, as many changes can never be rung upon a few bells". Samuel
Johnson.
"Free scholarship and criticism in our open system of ideas permit the best of every diverse theory to
be tested in the marketplace of thought. Timidity and scholarship are incompatible." Chief Justice
Earl Warren, at the New School for Social Research, New York Times, 7. 6. 64. Like so many, he
wrongly presumed that a genuine and free market for ideas does already exist. All too many features,
required for such a market, have still to be established, foremost of them an Ideas Archive.
"There's always some unknown unpractical person who has got most of the answers the men in the
limelight are looking for." Lawrence Meynel, "The Man No One Knew", Collins London, 195.
"We must treat ideas somewhat as though they were baby fish. Throw thousands out into the water.
Only a handful will survive but that is plenty." Anne Heywood, Readers Digest, 8/69 or 59. That
would be a rather wasteful approach, resembling the present one, in which many of the best ideas go
under, at least for all too long. What are needed, too, are nurseries for new ideas. We do not expose our
babies to the wilderness, expecting all or the best to survive.
"Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings." Quoted to Adolph A. Berle, Jr., New York Times
Book Review, Read Dig. 3/55.
"There is no adequate defence, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea." Percy W.
Bridman, "The Intelligent Individual and Society", MacMillan.
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up."
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Ideas are like seed useful only when they fall upon fertile ground.
"When people say they want something new, what they mean is that they want the same old thing only
different. To something new, they are inevitably hostile until it has had the edge taken off it by being
imitated at least twice." David Stracton, Read. Dig. 5/64. For this reason freedom of expression and
information must be accompanied
by freedom of action., freedom to experiment.
"It is the beauty and the terror of a revolutionary age such as ours that theories and ideas are probably
the most important facts, altogether." Prof. Carl J. Friedrich, "The New Belief in the Common Man",
p. 49. See under Ideas Archive, PEACE PLANS 20 & 183.
(Here I would like to add a personal note: When I met my later wife, then a 17 year old girl, at a new
year party of Free Thinkers, 1957/1958, we came to talk about the nuclear war threat. At first she did
not want to talk about it, because she saw no way out. If she did, it would drive her mad, she declared.
My reply was, in essence, as far as I can remember it: It would drive me mad as well, if I did not see a
way out. But I do see it and it gives me hope and an incentive to try to cope with this threat. But it took
me still years before I had completed my first book on the subject, ca, 1962, in German, much later
selfpublished, and only on microfiche, in PEACE PLANS No. 399401 and, years later, I translated it
into English and then selfpublished it in PEACE PLANS 6163. The earlier numbers were due to the
fact that they had become free through the refilming of some other text. After 3 kids, all boys, we
split up in 1964. She went her way, to trying to make the best out of her life accepting present
conditions, while I went on struggling against these conditions with my limited abilities and means,
fully aware that I could not cope with them singlehandedly but that all creative energies against these
conditions ought to become released. largely with the aid of what I came to call a "genuinely cultural
revolution" J.Z., 14.10.01.)
IGNORANCE
Ignorance is bliss appears to be the attitude of most people towards the nuclear war threat. And this
ignorance is likely to let this war happen by doing nothing to stop it. Where knowledge is limited to
seeing the danger but no way out, this attitude of ignoring and forgetting the danger is humanly
understandable. Who likes to be continuously in a panic? Most people try to cover up their ignorance
with comfortable myths beliefs, prejudices, definitions, opinions and religious and bet their lives on
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shallow and contradictory these ideas are. They are all sentenced to death in this case but still believe
firmly that a reprieve is on the way and will arrive in time.
End your selfcaused ignorance and immaturity. Sapere aude! Dare to think and act for yourself. The
governments do not and cannot do your thinking for you. They brought you into this dilemma and do
not know the way out because government is ignorance in action and coercive action at that and
because the solution requires that we discard the institution of territorial government.
See: Apathy, Collective Responsibility, Deterrence, Enemy, Enlightenment, Foolishness, Government,
Ideas/wrong, Leadership, Madness, Myths, Prejudices, Rulers, Selfhelp, Statism.
IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS VS. FREE IMMIGRATION
To the extent that racism and nationalism as well as religious and cultural differences make the wiping
out of "foreigners" and "aliens" acceptable to some people, we are in danger from mass extermination
devices and this danger is perpetuated by immigration restrictions.
Every additional Chinese and Russian in Australia is an additional safeguard against Red Chinese and
Soviet nuclear devices, particularly if these immigrants are communists and are allowed to live here as
communists, practising their system among themselves, at the own expense and risk.
Otherwise, the nuclear strength mania becomes reenforced by radial, ideological and religious hatreds.
Let there be peaceful and voluntary integration and peaceful and voluntary segregation rather than
violent and involuntary integration, segregation and finally disintegration.
See: Alien Acts, Asylum, Autonomy, Collective Responsibility, Desertion, Employment, Enemy,
Exterritorial Imperative, Migration, Minority Autonomy, Refugees, Secession, Segregation, peace plan
232.
IMMORALITY
"Yours is the Morality of Death." Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged",p. 950.
The present nuclear power system offends against all rational ethics. It threatens the most elementary
human rights the rights to life, physical inviolability and property. It excludes punishment of culprits. It
makes it impossible to hold them responsible in accordance with the enormity of their crimes. If driven
to desperation, every nuclear armed tyrant (and this includes all too many presidents, precisely because
of their nuclear powers) might use still more nuclear weapons so that one cannot, under all
circumstances, threaten them with the death penalty they so richly deserve. (See a Outlawry and
Amnesty.)
But one might say that it would perhaps be enough punishment for one of these power addicts to have
lost all of his powers and to retain no chance at all to regain it again. Many of them would perhaps
prefer death.
After sufficient enlightenment and the realization of all individual human rights, people would no more
voluntarily remain members of nuclear armed organizations than they would now voluntarily belong to
religious sects which slaughter children and offer them as religious sacrifices.
Actually, we are already offering ourselves and our children on the altars of national "unity" and
"security".
See: Apathy, Bet, Collective Responsibility, Decision, Discipline, Enemy, Ethics Government Human
Rights, Indiscriminate Warfare, Law and Order, Monopolies, Morality, Murder Obedience,
Disobedience Power, Responsibility, Rights, Secession, Statism, Subordination, Tolerance, Uniformity.
IMPEACHMENT
The impeachment of Nixon was not enough. The impeachment of all men in power is required.
Moreover, they should not be replaced in their present excessive powers. These powers must be
destroyed.
Let every future authority among men grow from the grass roots only and let it depend
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upon the grass roots by recognizing the right to individual secession. Then we will never again find
ourselves in a similar mess.
See: Amnesty, Authority, Autonomy, Consent Decision, Desertion, Exterritorial Imperative,
Government, Leadership, Madness, Outlawry, Power, Recall, Rulers, Secession, Sovereignty,
Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, Voting.
IMPERIALISM
Any nation or State depending on the voluntary consent of its subjects, subjects who are free to secede
any time after their contractual period has expired, would be conceptually and qualitatively different
from any old type nation or empire. It could not hold any other nation or people in subjugation when
each of their individual members would remain free to secede.
There is no other and more antiimperialistic principle and practice than individual secession and
exterritorial and autonomous organization.
No matter how worldwide the new autonomous communities would be, no matter how many satisfied
voluntary members they would have, they would no longer be empires in the old derogatory meaning.
An exterritorial association couldn't have and couldn't gain the power to build another empire nor
would it have a motive for attempting it.
No exterritorial community could secretly arm against another one.
None of them could make conquests as they would not have any territorial possessions and would not
own their subjects like slaves.
If any of them attempted an aggressive war then most of its soldiers would desert or secede and join a
government in exile.
It could not cope with a well organized international militia federation.
Free Trade would do away with national and empire "economies".
See: Centralization, Communism, Conquests, Exterritorial Imperative, Nationalism, Power, Secession,
Secrecy, State, Territorial Organization, U.N., World Federation.
INDISCRIMINATE WARFARE
ABC devices are the ultimate in indiscriminate total warfare which was never right and efficient. To
defeat the enemy he must first be singled out. Otherwise our hostile and indiscriminate actions would
create enemies for ourselves and allies for our enemies.
See: Amnesty, Air Raids, Appeals Collective Responsibility, Declarations, Desertion, Discriminate
Warfare, Enemy, Governments in Exile, Hostages, Military Program, Militia, Peace Declarations,
Prisoners of War, Revolutionary Warfare, Secret Allies, Separate Peace Treaties, Unilateral Nuclear
Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
INDIVIDUALISM
There is probably no other more antiindividualistic technological device than a nuclear bomb or
rocket. Nevertheless, and curiously enough, some individualists still advocate them because of a
remaining addiction to territorial power concepts.
Nothing less than full individual liberty will do to ensure the survival of the human race. And full
individual liberty means for some the opportunity to be voluntarily unfree. Give this chance to
communists all over the world and they would, to a large extent, be ideologically disarmed.
You do not have to love your enemy. But you owe him justice and not the "justice" of collective
responsibility and blood revenge, either, but the justice of individualism. To individualize all war and
peace decisions is the solution to the problem of war and peace. Once everyone gains a veto power on
this question, a veto applying to himself only, wars will cease.
"Individualism does indeed recognize the need for cooperative association among men
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but it insists that the association be of a voluntary nature. Moreover, it is only upon the premise of
individualism that genuine cooperation can be based, for it is only when men are free to act in their
own selfinterest that genuine cooperation can exist. If men are compelled by law to serve the interests
of others it is no cooperation but servitude." Richard Grant in: "The Incredible Breadmachine".
To be an individual means to want to be an emperor or sovereign over oneself and over nobody else,
and to want one's empire, one's property, one's life and liberties undisturbed.
Individualists do not want national independence but personal independence, individual self
determination or individual sovereignty. Nothing less will satisfy them. They are also willing to grant
the same freedom to anyone else who desires it and are willing to cooperate with all others on this
basis.
The right to vote on the affairs of others is of no interest to them. They rather want the exclusive right
to vote on or, rather, to decide their own affairs, the right to mind their own business whilst leaving
everyone free to mind his.
They want an end to all government usurpation of individual responsibilities and a chance to enjoy all
their individual human rights, not just the ones the government concedes them.
They want an end to slavery in all forms be it through compulsory schooling, conscription or taxation
or inflation or monopolies.
How far does individualism go? It claims
the right to secede from any organization, be it a union, an army, a school, a church or a State,
the right to issue one's own private and noncoercive currencies,
the right to choose one's court, police and penal services,
the right to live under personal laws, chosen or made by oneself and applied only to voluntary
associates,
the right to bear arms, even concealable ones,
the right to refuse to pay taxes for unwanted and unordered goods and services, and, naturally for
disservices, and the right to migrate freely anywhere and trade peacefully with anyone.
If you do not include these and related rights in your concept of individualism then you have not yet
realized as yet what individualism means.
Realize with Arnold Glasgo that "Improvement begins with 'I' and that everyone is your enemy who
hinders your selfimprovement when it does not infringe the rights of any other individual.
See: Capitalism, Collective Responsibility, Communism, Decision, Discriminating Warfare, Economic
Freedom Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, Individual Responsibility, Justice, Libertarianism,
Liberty, Love, Market, Neutrality, Retaliation, Secession, Sovereignty, Tolerance, Unify, Voluntarism.
INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY
The use of nuclear destructive devices constitutes an extreme breach of the principle that everyone is to
be held responsible only for his own actions and omissions and not for those of others. Nobody can be
rightly held responsible for conditions and events which were outside of his intentions and authority.
At the same time, the removal of the threat of nuclear war by all concerned, by all its potential victims,
i.e. by the citizens themselves, offers the only way out. THAT is a responsibility of everyone with a
minimum of morality and rationality. Leaving this decision to a few individuals only, reduces all the
rest to mere puppets or things.
Such responsibilities cannot be rightfully transferred to a few individuals. Attempts to do so risk the
lives of millions, perhaps even of mankind. Some cynics might say: Who cares? They might deserve
this selfmade "fate". But do e.g. the butterflies deserve to die and all the babies?
See : Collective Responsibility, Decision, Declarations, Disarmament, Duty, Referendums,
Responsibility, Secession, Selfhelp, War Aims.
INDIVIDUALS: POWER TO INDIVIDUALS, OVER THEIR OWN LIVES AND AFFAIRS
Are individuals really powerless? As long as this belief persists, the nuclear war danger will persist
because with this belief individuals will not do anything and governments, by their very nature,
cannot do anything positive to prevent it.
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"I have always cherished the story of the executive whose secretary burst into his office on May 21
1927 and cried, 'Mr. Murphy, a man has just flown from New York to Paris all by himself!' When he
continued to work calmly, she cried out, 'You don't understand! A man has just flown the Atlantic all
by himself! Now Murphy looked up: 'ALL by himself a man can do anything,' he said quietly. 'When a
committee flies the Atlantic, let me know."' William Manchester in LOOK, Readers Digest, 6/68.
(Actually, by now, large aircraft and passenger ships ARE guided by committees. Is that one of the
reasons for many accidents? J.Z., 14.10.01.)
If you made up your mind to do so you could become a prime minister. But this is not a worthwhile
aim for any rational individual. It would not stop but rather help to continue the danger of nuclear war.
Power over others is not the answer. Power over self is.
"But what can I do?" "Go only where called but do everything within your power to qualify to be
called. Become so proficient in the philosophy of freedom that tutorship or counsel is sought. Rely on
the law of attraction the force that makes the world go round. Difficult? Perhaps, but improving oneself
is easy compared to reforming others, an impossibility. Too slow? There's nothing faster than going in
the right direction. Futile? No, it's a rule that works, for it induces emulation." said Leonard E. Read.
Everything that's done gets done by individuals:
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres
of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can seep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance." R. F. Kennedy, or rather, his ghostwriter, in 1966.
"Let no man imagine", proclaimed Henry George, "that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and
wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power."
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle and a single candle can
light a million others says a Russian proverb.
The technique for arranging this is a very interesting subject. See under Cultural Revolution.
"I believe every individual human being has a potential which is well nigh infinite. I believe it is
impossible to actualize any significant part of this potential unless you are committed to ideals, unless
your reach exceeds your present grasp. I think of the process of 'growing up', of maturing, as the
mastery of ever more difficult and exalted goals, resulting in ever increasing selfawareness and
control..." William Carlson in VES, Spring 68.
"Any man more right than his neighbour constitutes a majority of one." Thoreau.
Make your vote count: Exact e. g., a promise from your parliamentary representative and swear at the
same time that you would never vote for him again or for his party unless he keeps that promise.
Better still: Opt out and mind your own business and run your own experiments.
Individuals who are free to experiment at their own expense and risk and to communicate the
results, at their own expense, can achieve anything.
Individuals are not necessarily powerless to prevent nuclear war although at present, and under
present conditions they are indeed rendered powerless to do something directly to prevent it. Thus,
obviously, their first task is to gain sufficient freedom of action for themselves and for others.
"… it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brush
fires in people's minds…" Samuel Adams.
See : Anarchism, Autonomy, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Disarmament, Encyclopaedia of
Refutations Enlightenment, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Freedom of
Action, Human Rights, Ideas Archive, Parallel Institutions, Panarchy, Power, Powerlessness, Rulers,
Selfdefence, Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Tolerance, Voluntarism, Voting.
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INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY
Once individual secession has replaced national sovereignty, the danger of nuclear war will have
passed because this would imply the abolition of all life and death powers over nonaggressive others.
Individual sovereignty would not grant any powers over others but all powers over oneself. That topic
alone could fill many books. At least start thinking along these lines.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy Competing Governments, Conscription, Decision, Desertion,
Freedom of Action, Human Rights, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law,
Pluralism, Secession, Sovereignty, Territorial Organization, Voluntary Taxation, Voting.
INFLATION
Repeal legal tender laws and the monopoly of the central bank.
This is the only way to stop inflation.
Inflation must be stopped to prevent governments from continuing e.g., the nuclear arms race with its
assistance. Inflation does allow governments to continue "spending" "money" on the nuclear arms race
without obviously increasing taxes. In reality, inflation is a tax also, although a pretty well hidden one.
After a successful tax strike governments shouldn't have any means left to pay the salaries of, for
instance, those guarding their nuclear "weapons" or antipeople mass murder devices. This, on its own,
would already be a sufficient reason for a tax strike and a monetary freedom revolution.
As supposed "guardians" of a national currency, the central and monopolistic banks of issue have failed
everywhere. Just look at the development of prices, in all countries, which had to be expressed in their
notes and in their nominal paper value standard, over the last century.
When government paper money is no longer an exclusive and enforced or "legal tender" currency, with
a forced acceptance and a forced value, i.e., when private note issuers are no longer suppressed, then
good private money issues will finally be free and able to drive out the bad government paper money.
In other words, then the government could no longer force its currency into circulation, i.e., inflate its
paper currency and thereby drive up all internal prices.
People would soon come to discount it (against preferred other value standards) and, finally, outright
refuse to accept it all, or would accept it only at a loss to the government that is, by accepting it only at
a discount and then paying their taxes with it at par, at its nominal value. Obviously, everyone has to
accept the own I.O.U.'s at their face value.
All politicians talk about the need to "fight inflation but none of them wants to fight its cause: Legal
tender and the issue monopoly or is even aware of the cause.
Just imagine e.g., a large corporation, like BHP, being allowed to give its shares a forced circulation or
"legal tender, i.e. a forced value and a forced acceptance, and that, like with all present government
paper monies, all other share issues would be outlawed. You would have to accept all of is shares at
face value, regardless of their market value, in all payments due to you.
Wouldn't it be rather likely then that these shares, too, would soon be overissued and that all goods
prices, wages, etc., expressed in these depreciated shares, would rise correspondingly? Keep this
thought example in mind when trying to comprehend the complexity of money issues and of the value
of currencies.
In their general results, inflations, when not properly understood and fought or prevented, tend to call
forth a prostatist mentality and lead to more and more power in the hands of governments in the end
even nuclear power.
A stable currency, on the other hand, tends to bring about at least a limited government only. It is one
of the best limitations on governmental powers. Its introduction requires merely monetary freedom,
which is based upon the following human rights:
The right to refuse acceptance of means of payment one has not issued oneself or contracted to accept.
The right to issue or accept alternative means of exchange.
The right to pay all one's debts through clearing and
the right to use any standard of value agreeable to one's trading partners in all of one's dealings.
See: Legal. Tender, Monetary Despotism, Monetary Freedom, Tax Strike
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
To make people fully aware of the danger of nuclear war and of the possibilities to prevent it, they
must have freedom of information, To speed up the process of enlightenment a variety of new
communication channels and information centres and publications must be established.
See: Acuteness of Danger, Broadcasting, Censorship, Cultural Revolution, Encyclopaedia of
Refutations, Enlightenment, Espionage, Flow Chart Discussions, Freedom of Expression, Ideas
Archive, Ignorance, Madness, Miscalculations, Open Air Meetings, Over
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estimation, Publicity, Registry of Talents, Secrecy, Secret Diplomacy, Sign Debates, Treason, Trust,
War Aims.
INSPECTION OF NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
Any disarmament agreement between governments would need more inspections and controls than
governments could and would be willing to supply or suffer.
A disarmament agreement between the people themselves or a unilateral nuclear disarmament by the
people would barely need any further controls. But just to make sure, all such disarmament actions
should be fully publicized and all foreigners, who might be interested, should be invited to attend and
observe the proceedings. E.g. delegates of the Red' Armies should be invited to observe and check the
unilateral nuclear disarmament in the West.
Naturally, this opportunity should also be used to make them acquainted with a complete program for a
liberating military insurrection and revolution something they might be very much interested in, once
they have no longer to be afraid of our nuclear power. We should also be able to inform them at this
opportunity, and otherwise, that the people on our side would be well informed on how to effectively
resist and overthrow an occupation force, should it come to that.
See: Control, Disarmament, Governments, Military Insurrections. Militia, Multilateral Nuclear
Disarmament, Publicity, Secrecy, Surrender, Trust, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims,
Weapons.
INSTINCTS & HUMAN RIGHTS
We are all still ethical infants and nuclear giants. (General Omar Bradley's expression, shortly after
WW II.) We have the stone age man's defence and revenge instincts but are armed not with stones but
with nuclear devices. Like the stone age savages, we tend not see any but immediate and obvious
dangers. And most of the nuclear weapons are out of sight and thus largely out of mind. However, I
remember a cycling tour, in West Germany, in the late fifties, in which I noticed some rocket batteries
from a distance.
Some moral instincts are presently more or less repressed and thus cannot freely act in a peace
promoting way. When we are forced to kill, we do so usually upon command and often from a great
distance.
Some positive human instincts or moral senses are more clearly expressed in certain human rights,
presently suppressed, like the right to rule oneself or to submit only to rulers of ones own choosing, the
right to refuse to pay taxes, to arm oneself with rightful weapons, to express and inform oneself, to
trade and migrate freely, to make friendships and contracts across borders, to obey selfgiven rules
rather than imposed laws etc.
Without such and related liberties we are not becoming fully human and cannot always act or even
think as mature human beings.
See: Aggression, Conscription, Enlightenment, Ethics, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Greed,
Human Nature, Human' Rights, Ideas/Large, Information, Morality, Reason, Survival Instinct.
INSTITUTIONS, COERCIVE VERSUS VOLUNTARIST ONES
To prevent nuclear war, the immoral, superfluous and harmful institutions of the territorial State have
to be legally dissolved or rendered powerless. In dictatorships they would have to be forcefully
destroyed.
The moral and necessary functions, now wrongly and monopolistically carried out by coercive Statist
institutions, should be taken over by institutions which are morally unobjectionable. This requires
competitiveness and voluntarism which for States can only be achieved on an exterritorial basis.
All institutions which are coercive towards noninvasive persons, all institutions which initiate coercion,
that is, all present day States and armies, must be dissolved and replaced by nonaggressive institutions
made up of volunteers only, institutions which are autonomous, regardless of where their individual
members live.
Only individual. secession could bring about this changeover to a peaceful condition in a peaceful
way, without any bloody revolution or civil war.
Each individual member would then be free to undertake a complete but nonviolent revolution for
himself.
Let people opt out of the nuclear threat establishment. Their example will infect the majority. Finally,
most people would secede from the territorial States. The remaining mere subjects and their "leaders"
could be overwhelmed and rendered powerless without causing a war.
See : Alternatives, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Decision, Experimental Freedom, Freedom,
Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Acton, Governments, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions,
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Pluralism, Secession, State, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, War Aims.
INTEREST, SERIOUS, IN ONE'S OWN AFFAIRS
"Don't be afraid of your enemies. They can only kill you. Don't be afraid of your friends, They can only
betray you. But be afraid of the disinterested ones. Only thanks to their tacit agreement do we have
murder and betrayal in the world." said Bruno Jasiewsky in a "The Conspiracy of the Disinterested,"
Serious interest in the question of nuclear war is very limited? Why? Saying one is not interested in
nuclear war is like saying one is not interested in one's life. Is the Freudian deathwish as real with
you?
Is it because most people do not see the way out? But then, why don't they search for it?
Is it because some of the threat, like radioactivity, is not visible to the naked eye?
Is it because of their statist or other religious conditioning?
Is it because of their present individual powerlessness? But then why doesn't this turn them into
individualists, favouring freedom of action in all spheres, so that they would no longer be helpless
victims of war mongers, now armed with nuclear mass murder devices?
Is it because the threat is just too large to be perceived by most?
After almost 56 years of nuclear war threats, it's just about time that those capable of waking up do
wake up to this danger. I do hope that the cultural revolution program suggested in this compilation
will help to bring this about. See: Acuteness of Danger, Apathy, Cultural Revolution, Death Wish,
Deterrence, Emotional Way of Life, Enlightenment, Enthusiasm, Escapism Freedom, Human Rights,
Ignorance, Individualism , Individual Responsibility, Ideas/Large, Myths, Peaceful Use, Powerlessness,
Prejudices, Selfhelp, Statism, Survival Instinct.
MULTINATIONALS OR INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS
The Multinationals are among the few promising developments of the last decades and are already
threatened by popular prejudices. They are basically not territorial but exterritorial organizations
harassed by territorial ones. If their development goes on, they might replace the territorial nation
States. They could and should become fully autonomous. They are already voluntaristic and should
become fully exterritorial , i.e., exempt from all territorial laws, interfering with their internal affairs
and their dealings with each other and with other contractors and, naturally, from all imposed taxes.
Thus they might become the strongest advocates of the panarchistic alternatives.
At most the national governments should have the power to interdict their own and voluntary national
members' dealings with these organizations, as long as their subjects are prepared to put up with such a
restriction.
At the same time, the international corporations should not be allowed any monopolies or privileges,
i.e., the exclusive possession of natural resources like oil or government patents. There should be full
freedom for all alternative forms of "possessive individualism" or "voluntary socialism" which people
do agree upon among themselves, for their own affairs and properties, labours and services.
See: Competing Governments, Competition, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Trade, Investments,
Nationalism, Natural Resources, Secession, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, World Federation.
INTERNATIONAL LAWS OF WARFARE
Volunteer militia forces for the protection of human rights should publicly declare how they would
conduct their defensive and liberating campaigns, that is, at least under full respect for the Hague
Conventions. They would, e.g., realize the international conventions on the exemption of
noncombatants and the inviolability of open cities. Beyond this, they would work towards the
acceptance of a new code of international law, one based on a new declaration of individual rights, on
the recognition of exterritorial minority autonomy based on individual secessionism. In this process
and initially, and they would take e.g. Jerome Internoscia's monumental work: "New Code of
International Law", N.Y., 1910, into consideration. For the period of transition, this work could serve
well enough as the main reference work. If a court or jury wanted to deviate from its clauses then they
should have to justify their decisions sufficiently as well as publicly.
See: Air Raids, Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Cities, Civilians, Collective Responsibility,
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Decision, Declarations, Desertion, Disarmament, Discriminating Warfare, Enemy, Experimental
Freedom Exterritorial Imperative, Governments, Hostages, Human Rights, Indiscriminate Warfare,
Individual Responsibility, Militia, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Negotiations, Noncombatants,
Nuclear Strength, Open Cities, Peace Declarations, Police Actions, Power, Prisoners of War, Publicity,
Referendum, Revolutionary Warfare, Scorched Earth Policy, Secession, Separate Peace, Tyrannicide,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
INTOLERANCE, TERRITORIAL
Territorial intolerance towards people who are somewhat different finds its most extreme expression in
a war with ABC devices.
It is based on the unchecked premise that people cannot be otherwise and better organized than
territorially. This is absurd, since most organizations and affairs are already exterritorially and
individually decided and managed. Only in a few significant spheres have States, by coercion, laws,
customs and prejudices, upheld their territorial monopoly, centralized decisionmaking, nonsolutions
and immoral and dangerous institutions.
Territorial intolerance leaves dissenters only one way open, to realize and protect the own and
preferred system, namely the defeat of the other systems. It leaves only the choice between being anvil
or hammer. Persuasion and propaganda offer little chances to realize unpopular alternatives or would
require years to decades of costly efforts and, usually, end only in unsatisfactory compromises. Thus
revolutionaries and terrorists are bred by territorial intolerance.
It could never lead to lasting peaceful coexistence. In between its inevitable factions fights, and wars
for supremacy over certain territories, there are at best armistice periods.
Rulers, who treat "their own" country like a conquered province, should not be expected to be princes
of peace towards others.
While under some restraints in their treatment of their own citizens, they have not sufficient inherent
restraints against the use of conventional and ABC mass murder devices against "aliens" and
"foreigners".
The territorial system is selfperpetuating through its inherent intolerance. It feeds on its own mistakes
until it will finally be wiped out in the nuclear holocaust unless it is abolished first.
The main step towards its abolition is freedom for individuals to secede from it. Territorial sovereignty
and "integrity" should not extend beyond the limits of a man's castle, his own home and property.
See: Alien Acts, Autonomy, Coexistence Competing Governments, Democracy, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Freedom of Acton, Immigration, Jurisdiction, Majority,
Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Power,
Property Concept of Citizens, Subordination, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Unity, War Aims,
Weapons.
INVASIONS
When there is no longer an enemy territory which could be invaded, i.e., no enemy border which could
be crossed, when there is no longer a geographical nation or a collective enemy to be attacked, nor any
large enemy target to be destroyed, when there is no longer any logical motive for war, when decision
making power is no longer monopolized, when there are no longer suppressed minorities waiting to be
liberated, when nobody can be forced to pay for an invasion, when nobody can be conscripted into it,
then international invasions will cease. Only defensive police actions against criminals would remain,
criminals who offended against human rights and personal laws.
See: Aggression, Annexation, Conquest, Conscription, Decision, Dictatorships, Enemy, Exterritorial
Imperative, Frontier, Minority Autonomy, Motives, Nationalism, Taxation, Territorial Organization,
Voluntary Taxation, War Aims.
INVESTMENTS, FOREIGN AND INTERNAL
The more people have a capitalistic stake in the own country and or in other countries, the less they
will be inclined towards means of mass destruction. The more we succeed in "selling" "our country" to
foreigners, the less they will be inclined to destroy it. The more we cam buy up of theirs, the less we
will be inclined to destroy their places of living and working. To sell out one's country and to buy up
others, piece, piece, is indeed a very peace promoting activity and it should not be a surprise to those,
who have studied characteristics of the warfare State, to find that
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it restricts such investments as much as possible.
The seller can't rightly complain, seeing he gets the price agreeable to him. Only for those, who have
little or no property, apart from their own persons, is there often a pleasure in destruction. (Think of the
riots in which cars and houses are torched.)
When investment opportunities are extended to all within a territorial nation and all barriers are
removed for foreign investments and transfers of profits, especially tax and foreign exchange laws,
then a large step towards peace will have been taken.
Freedom to issue and accept private exchange media, short, medium, and longterm securities, and to
trade them freely, on freely established markets, under full publicity, would be among the basic
requirements to maximize international investments. They must also be safe from nationalization
threats and "fair participation" rules etc.
See: Alien Acts, Capitalism, Communism, Cooperative Production, Economic Freedom, Free
Enterprise, Free Trade, International Corporations, Laissez Faire, Market, Monetary Freedom,
Nationalism, Nationalization, Property, Purchase of Enterprises, Voluntary Taxation.
ISOTOPES, USE OF RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPES
As long as there is any danger of any present or future military use of radioactive materials, none
should be used any longer, not even for medical purposes. All stocks should be destroyed together with
that of the disarmed nuclear devices, e.g. by extreme dispersal or by shooting them into the sun.
Technology and Medicine can progress without these materials. Where there ever reliable statistics
proving that e.g. Radium and Cobalt irradiation techniques did not, in balance, cause more cancer cases
than they cured?
See: Atomic Energy, Disarmament, Peaceful Use, Radiation Hazard, Research.
ISRAEL
If all Jews were now living in Israel then this would be, in the eyes of some fanatic antisemites, like an
open invitation to murder them altogether, probably with ABC devices. Hitler, at least, would not have
hesitated.
Israel's organization type, the territorial one (similar to the Nazi concept of a mythical connection
between "blood and soil") is now obviously a survival risk for every religious, national, racial or
ideological minority;
or even majority, seeing the use terrorists could make of nuclear weapons.
The Diaspora of the Jews, their dispersal and continuance all over the world, has so far assured their
survival in spite of massive and repeated pogroms in some other countries. For many centuries they
were never as much concentrated in one small spot, ready for what their genocidal enemies called the
"Final Solution". The Diaspora, continued by most of the living Jews does prevents their enemies from
ever resorting to nuclear war everywhere, directed especially against them. Their concentration in
Israel is something else again: an "ideal" nuclear target, in the eyes of their murderously inclined
enemies. Some of their enemies, like Nasser, declared openly, many
years ago, that the "solution" of the problem of Israel would lie in the Hydrogen Bomb.
The real solution for them would be to go into the Diaspora again, wherever they wanted to, even in the
area of the present Israel, but without any territorial and nationalistic claim to an exclusive rule over
this whole area. They should come to live again, and this time comprehensively and safely, under their
personal law, be it the current democratically formulated one, voluntarily continued by some, or that of
the Torah and Talmud etc.
Their voluntary segregation, in autonomous and exterritorial organizations, fully respecting the same
autonomy for their present enemies, could assure their survival as it had before, for about 800 years
under Ottoman rule.
See: Arabs, Arms Race, Exterritorial Imperative, Middle East, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Oil,
Secession, Segregation, War Aims, Peace Plans 12.
JIU JITSU, MILITARY
The conventional military strength of nuclear bomb owners can be used against them in close combat,
i.e., when they will not or cannot dare to use these mass murder "weapons" since using them would,
obviously, be suicidal.
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No tyrant would advocate throwing a large bomb at an assassin who threatens him with a pistol. Using
a dictator's masses of conscripts as volunteers against him, is another, rightful and sensible approach.
Redirecting tax funds against him is still another.
Giving free reign to communist aspirations among communist volunteers is also one such method, as
long as they apply their system tolerantly, that is, at their own expense and risk only. This would turn
their minds away from terrorism, conspiracy, subversion and revolutionary strength and also from the
advocacy of nuclear strength against us. The more our real enemy conscripts people and confiscates
property (e.g. by taxes and inflation) in his fight against us, the more potential friends and allies we
would gain, if only we treated them as such.
See: Alliances, Conscription, Desertion, Disarmament, Enemy, Liberation War, Military Insurrections,
Motives, Prisoners of War, Revolutions, Revolutionary Warfare, Secret Allies, Separate Peace, War
Aims, Weapons.
JURISDICTION, EXTERRITORIAL VS, TERRITORIAL
The juridical sphere of a king, president or dictator constitutes much of his of power. To destroy his
power his "turf" is targeted, in which he has established exclusive constitutional, legal, juridical or
arbitrary power. This is now done also with ABC mass murder devices, which seem eminently suitable
to such targets. If a territory and all its people and all the territorial powers of a government are to be
considered as "the enemy", then ABC "weapons" do make some sense.
If a government really brought justice to its subjects then it would not be a threat to them and to
citizens in other countries and no rational person would consider ABC mass murder devices as
"defensive" "weapons" against it. But, seeing that free competition between different constitutional,
legal and juridical systems is suppressed by territorialism, a just jurisdiction is only very rarely, if ever,
achieved!
If a government or nongovernmental society, instead of being a territorial monopolist, ruled only over
voluntary followers, then it could still happen, sometimes, that it would be attacked, however unlikely
and difficult that might under such conditions. But it would not be attacked with nuclear mass murder
devices, seeing that its subjects or citizens are living intermixed with those of other volunteer
communities, side by side and yet independent from each other. That kind of tolerant coexistence
would not prevent, always or sufficiently, the murder of individuals or of some members of a group.
But this would be done rather by e.g. sticks and stones and firearms than by ABC mass murder devices.
After living and working next to each other for many years, also under conditions of full employment
and growing prosperity for all able and willing to work, the tendency to name and "punish" scapegoats
would also be greatly diminished.
Uniformity of laws and juridical equality under an exclusive law are possible only on a territorial basis
and they must disappear if mankind is to survive. They might, however, develop one day, in the far
future, The time is not ripe for that yet. The development of fully just ideas still requires competition.
Otherwise, we would merely petrify diverse injustices and perpetuate struggles.
See: Arbitration Courts, Competing Governments, Exterritorial Imperative, Panarchy, Parallel
Institutions, Personal Law, Power, Secession, Territorial Organization, War Aims.
JUSTICE
Justice is a precondition of peace. Its realization requires the realization of all human rights
everywhere, at least for all who appreciate them. It also requires that the various and sometimes
contradictory notions of "social", "economic", "racial" and "political" justice be practised only among
volunteers.
"Ask all people: 'Do you want peace?' Unanimously they will answer: 'I wish, desire want and love it.'
Thus you must also love justice, for justice and peace are like two friends. If you do not like the friend
of peace, then peace will neither like you nor come to you" said Saint Augustine, 354430.
See: Collective Responsibility Enemy, Ex Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, five,
Human Rights, Individual Responsibility, Minority Autonomy, Secession, Uniformity, War Aims.
LAISSEZ FAIRE
The proper translation of "Laissez faire, laissez passer!" is: "Let people produce, let them exchange!".
It is also the proper meaning of that phrase, contrary to the xyz myths, errors, prejudices and fables
spread about it. Its realization would not enslave anybody but set everybody free as free as he wants to
be and without restricting the same freedom of others. It does not grant
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any powers over others. It gives nobody a chance to oppress and destroy but everybody a chance for
every rightful, constructive, reasonable, creative & profitable activity. It is not a licence for robbers,
barons, pirates, tax gatherers and rulers since they do not respect the laissez fare rule but, habitually,
break it.
Nor does "laissez faire" mean: Let those owning nuclear devices do whatever they please with them.
Instead, it amounts not only an appeal to these human beasts, to leave their potential victims alone, but
also to an appeal to the potential victims to realize and make use of their latent liberties and right for
their own liberation and security, their very survival.
All nuclear powers have at present aims which are opposite to the ideals of laissez faire. A society
based on these ideals would not produce, keep or use nuclear devices. It would be a society of free
producers and traders, i.e. a society which allows nobody any power over others and it would thus be a
peaceful society
See: Capitalism, Competing Governments, Economic Freedom Exterritorial Imperative, Market,
Militia, Monopolies, Resistance, Selfdefence, Tolerance, War Aims.
LAND MONOPOLY
"Land, n. A., part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject
to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the
superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some have the right to prevent others
from living; for the right to own implies the right exclusively to occupy; and in fact laws of trespass are
enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that, if the whole area of Terra Firmis is
owned by A, B and C, there will be no place for D, E, F and G. to be born, or born as trespassers, to
exist.'' said Ambrose Bierce in his "The Devil's Dictionary".
The land monopoly expressed in private or cooperative real estate property is at least mitigated by
relatively free transferability of land titles and by their very large number. This transferability is
wrongly restricted by monopolistic registration, zoning and building ordinances, tax burdens, credit
restrictions, inflated prices due to government inflation etc.
The land monopoly at its worst is demonstrated by the national territorial governments. They have
indeed divided the world up between them, as indicated above by A. Bierce. Only about 200 such
monopolies exist in the whole world. Between them they cover all the inhabitable surface. Only those
who submit to them, and pay "rent" or taxes to these official land lords and absolutist land holders, are
allowed to live, but only under the burden of more laws and regulations than they would ever find even
time to merely read. Between them, these national land monopolists, have effectively monopolized the
world & have, more or less, but everywhere in "their" territories, or criminal turfs, suppressed
individual liberty.
As a result they have turned every country into a potential or actual nuclear weapons producer and also
into a nuclear target.
This inherent danger of the national land monopoly could and should be broken up by free individual
and group secessions and by exterritorial and autonomous reorganization on a voluntary basis.
Alas, most land reformers do ignore this, the worst form of land monopoly.
The private land tenure monopoly is already very decentralized by the existence of literally millions
of land holders, engaged in a very extensive competition with each other. What remains of this
monopoly, the main concern of most land reformers, could, probably, be best broken up by what has
been called "open cooperatives", establishing freedom for individuals to join them in the exploitation of
natural resources, which are presently closed to them, under the organizational and financial forms of
"open cooperatives" for their exploitation of these resources, in free competition with all other land
reform systems, each applied only by and to its believers and at their expense and risk. This option has
been originated probably by P. Buchez, and then developed in several books by Theodor Hertzka and
in several letters and drafts by Ulrich von Beckerath.
Open cooperatives would mean free access to land and minerals. Those freely joining them would
either owe their share of capital to previous investors or would get a correspondingly lesser return. All
members would be financially rewarded only according to their investment, knowledge, skill and
labour input. This would make it impossible to derive a monopoly "profit" from a natural resource and
would do away with the land hunger, the class warfare ideology and the civil and international laws
they lead to.
This kind of "socialization" could be introduced completely peacefully and morally, through free
market purchases of the natural resources.
See: Exterritorial Imperative, Free Migration, Free Trade, Frontiers, Governments, Nationalism,
Natural Resources, Open Cooperatives, Secession, Targets, Territorial Organization. See also Peace
No. 5.
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LANGUAGE, ABUSE OF LANGUAGE
The danger of nuclear war arises largely out of an abuse of the language which leads to myths,
misconceptions, irrational hatreds etc. People who realty and fully understood each other would not
fight each other.
See: Alien Acts, Anarchism Capitalism, Collective Responsibility, Definitions, Deterrence,
Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enemy, Enlightenment, Freedom, Greed, Honour, Ideas, Ignorance,
Laissez Faire, Law & Order, Laws, Myths, Nationalism, Nuclear Strength, Obedience, Power,
Prejudices, Prestige, Profit, Racism, Targets, Tolerance, War Aims, Weapons, Welfare Sate.
LAW AND ORDER
The conventional concept of it preserves the status quo which suppresses minorities and thus
preserves nuclear targets. It upholds the notion that there could be only one kind of law and order in
any territory, a concept which is one of the main factors making for nuclear war. It also ignores the
importance of Human Rights. The present law and order is certainly not worth defending at the risk of
the total chaos and destruction of nuclear war.
See: Autonomy, Democracy, Disobedience, Human Rights, Majority, Minority, Resistance,
Revolution, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Uniformity.
LAWS
Territorially applied laws authorize legalized aggression against basic but not yet generally recognized
rights of all dissenters and nonconformists. They are morally as flawed as was the old maxim of "Cuius
regio, eius religio!'' (The ruler's religion determines that of his subjects.)
They are laws of warfare and oppression which cannot be the basis for any lasting peace. They
seemingly unite while in reality they antagonize and provoke. They are not even fully enforceable.
They must be replaced by Personal Laws if there is to be lasting peace. Only then would nobody any
longer consider mass extermination devices to be suitable weapons to hurt other "countries" or
"nations", "governments" or "States" although some might still want to arm their followers with e.g.,
daggers and rifles. But one can cope with such arms.
See: Aggression, Autonomy, Conquests, Consent, Democracy, Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers,
Governments, Human Rights, Militia, Minority Autonomy, Motives, Nationalism, Personal Law,
Representation, Secession, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Statism, Targets, Territorial
Organization, Tolerance, Uniformity, War Aims.
LEADERSHIP, POLITICAL AND COERCIVE
Leadership of the conventional type leads now directly to nuclear disaster. No leader has the right to
nuclear devices because no leader is authorized to commit genocide. Nor has any leader ever been
granted a formal monopoly for measures to prevent nuclear war, no matter how strong the statist
religion is in some countries. What a ridiculous belief this is, the trust that leaders, who led us to the
brink of nuclear holocaust and keep us there, would suddenly lead us away from it. Like hell they will.
This is the only road they know. This is the only way they have been trained to use. This is the only
way they, as powerful territorial leaders can travel. It has only one end: nuclear disaster.
Only when no leader has any but voluntary followers and when the aggressive leaders have been
executed as tyrants or otherwise rendered harmless, is there a chance to avoid nuclear war.
Leadership would be entirely different when there are only voluntary followers, when the leader has no
exclusive legislative power over dissenters and when dissenters could easily have their own leaders in
their own autonomous organizations,
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doing their own things, for and to themselves, under their own personal laws. All coercive leadership.
with aggressive and oppressive aims, is wrong and must be ended. If everybody's creative powers
became unleashed, everybody could to some extent become a leader, pioneer or innovator in at least
one specialized sphere.
What we need now is only a rational and advisory leadership, one leading away from all kinds of
territorial political leadership and powers making for nuclear war.
Let everybody be his own leader away from nuclear war. Let everybody follow his own Leader. And
let us wipe out or otherwise render harmless all criminal leaders who do not only aggress against their
own voluntary slaves but against others.
One can very well oppose all leadership over conscripts, taxpayers and other subjected victims, whilst
at the same time welcoming or at least tolerating leadership over nonaggressive volunteers. The
former is the conventional and more or less despotic and intolerant leadership whilst the latter is
innovative leadership at its best giving every new idea a chance to be practised among volunteers.
See: Accidental War, Arms Race, Collective Responsibility, Competing Governments, Decision,
Democracy, Desertion Deterrence, Dictatorships, Disarmament, Disobedience, Elite, Experts,
Exterritorial Imperative,' Freedom of Action, Freedom to Experiment, Governments, Madness, Militia,
Monopolies, Obedience, Outlawry, People, Referendum, Resistance, Responsibility, Revolution,
Rulers, Secession, Selfdefence Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Statism, Subordination,
Tolerance, Trust, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, War Aims.
LIBERATION WARS
A liberation war cannot be conducted with nuclear devices but could be conducted without them
against those holding them, with the aim to destroy these devices and to deprive these madmen of their
powers and to introduce the rule of individual human rights.
No other wars than defence and liberation wars are justified. No others than truly defensive and
liberating means must be used. All aggressive wars which are not genuinely liberating must be resisted.
(For an exception see under Surrender.) Truly liberating wars could never use totalitarian means
without defeating their purpose.
See: Appeals, Declarations, Defence, Desertion, Disarmament, Enemy, Militia, Revolutionary Warfare
Secession, Secret Allies, Separate Peace, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims,
Weapons.
LIBERTARIANISM
How could libertarianism help against the nuclear war threat? Just go point for point through this
collection and look at the summaries. As a special appeal to libertarians to consider the nuclear war
threat and the libertarian solutions to it, Murray N. Rothbard's essay : "War, Peace and the State" is so
far unsurpassed. In a few pages he clearly demonstrates:
" .. libertarian theory can be brought sharply to bear upon all of the world's crucial problems" ( p. 2),
including the nuclear one.
What is Libertarianism? I liked the collated explanation in the Libertarian Yearbook 1972:
"Libertarianism is freedom.
Libertarianism is a philosophy of rational human action.
Libertarianism is an ideology directed toward the maximum freedom of the individual within the laws
of reality. Libertarianism is a concept of individual liberty.
Libertarianism is the realization by an individual of his self, and the rational needs for his own
happiness. Libertarianism is a movement of individuals aware of the meaning of freedom and working
to make that idea a
reality.
Libertarianism is an agreement with the principle hat an individual is solely responsible for his own
life, and he
may pursue the interests of his life so long as he denies to no other man the same right.
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Libertarianism is the conceptual result of an individual's love for life.
Libertarianism is an understanding that free enterprise is the only economic system consistent with
individual
liberty.
Libertarianism is the knowledge that the coercion of an individual has no rightful place in human
society. Libertarianism is a revolution against those institutions by men which attempt to dictate to the
individual by force. Libertarianism is the belief that no individual is equal to another.
Libertarianism is an appreciation of the beauty of the free and rational human being. … "
See: Anarchism, Capitalism, Economic Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Free Enterprise,
Individualism, Laissez Faire, Morality, Rights, Secession.
LIBERTY & SURVIVAL
Only Liberty can assure the survival of the human race. This is the only logical conclusion I can draw
from a survey of all the programs against nuclear war that I have come across. Check it out for
yourself.
"From Liberty flow all the blessings of peace, prosperity, and human happiness; from power flows war,
impoverishment and despotism." said Murray N. Rothbard in "Laissez Faire Review", MayJune 74.
See: Autonomy, Dictatorships, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Human Rights, Individualism,
Libertarianism, Secession, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Tolerance, Voluntarism, War Aims.
LICENSING LAWS
As an "ad hominem" argument let us consider imposing licensing for the possession of nuclear devices.
Who is good enough to be entrusted with them? And who is to issue such licences, if anyone, and what
for?
It has been tacitly assumed that a government is licensed to build and use nuclear destructive devices
and to decide on war and peace, even on nuclear war, while the same government will not even
concede air rifles and fireworks to the youngsters in some States. Who, when and where gave a
government such an authority?
Is the submission under such government any better, morally, than the old assertions: "The King can do
no wrong!" and: "My country, right or wrong!"?
Instead of "licensing" wrongdoers and wrongs, let us rather "license" exterritorial and autonomous
communities of volunteers and the human rights which were so far everywhere more or less
suppressed.
Let us usurp the authority to withdraw licences from bureaucrats, whom we had so far commissioned
to either grant or refuse licences to us.
Let the people, in referendums, restore the freedoms so far withheld from them by compulsory
licensing systems. Let them thus destroy all the unjust powers, and privileges and monopolies
established by this compulsory and territorial licensing system.
Let us, for instance, repeal, by referendum, all licensing requirements for broadcasting, postal and
transport services.
Let us, in the same way, repeal the dangerous privileges we have granted to diplomats, defence
ministers, generals ministers for external affairs and prime ministers.
And let us repeal as well the licence granted to the Central Bank, a licence to issue, inflate and deflate
at will a coercive and exclusive currency, thus to manipulate an exclusive standard of value and a
forced currency and to restrict credit and clearing.
Let us repeal, moreover, the monopolistic licences we granted to the State's military, police, juridical
and welfare services.
Last, not least, let us repeal the "licence" we gave "our representatives" to tax us without limits, sense,
or equivalent service. Let individuals freely drop out of all imposed licensing systems.
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Let us repeal all universal and exclusive and territorial licensing laws, whether they be for weapons,
exchanges, noteissuing banks, autonomous political organizations, secessions, protective companies,
courts etc.
The only organizations which could rightfully keep or restore such restrictions would be autonomous
and exterritorial organizations, freely experimenting among their voluntary members and with their
unanimous consent.
Nobody has the licence to grant or refuse a licence to live (in any form or way) to any nonaggressive
and nonconsenting person.
See: Authority, Autonomy, Capitalism, Consent, Decision, Democracy, Diplomacy, Economic
Freedom, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Free Migration, Free Trade,
Human Rights, Laissez Faire, Militia, Monopolies, Panarchy, People, Recall, Referendum, Taxation,
Tolerance, Voting, Weapons, Welfare State.
LIQUIDATION OF GOVERNMENT
Sell the roads, sell the Post Office sell the railways, sell the governments laboratories, the government
buildings, and the gold hoard. Sell the defence establishment, sell the gaols; sell every government
asset, all government owned machines and stores. Limit all liabilities to the sales proceeds and cut out
all subsidies.
Restore "reserve deposits" etc. to their rightful owners.
Let every citizen get his share in whatever assets the governments still possesses: in form of newly
issued and freely transferable share certificates, after all current & quite rightful claims against it are
paid off. (These rightful claims do not include any investments in tax slaves, not even in form of
pension claims for politicians and bureaucrats.
Do not grant any taxing power to any territorial government and withdraw all existing ones.
Let good private money drive out the bad government money.
Let people hire and fire bureaucrats individually.
Let individuals opt out of the subjugation to territorial governments.
Then no government would remain any more powerful than is any other and private association.
This would be one way to disable governments from continuing e.g., the nuclear arms race.
See: Bureaucracy, Competing Governments, Denationalization, Employment, Exterritorial Imperative,
International Corporations, Licensing Laws, Minority Autonomy, Military Insurrections Militia,
Monetary Freedom, Pension Claims, Recall, Referendums, Reprivatization, Resistance, Revolution,
Secession, TaxStrike, War Aims.
LIVE WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS? DO WE HAVE TO LEARN TO LIVE WITH THEM?
Are ABC weapons merely facts of life that we have to learn to live with? Are they part of an inevitable
and irreversible as well as scientific "progress" we must put up with?
We might as well ask whether have to live with tuberculosis, cancer and the common cold, with
slavery, torture and oppression or whether we ought to fight them.
See: Coexistence, Ethics, Ignorance, Immorality, Modern, Morality, Prejudices, Progress, Science,
Statism, War Aims.
LOVE
"Make Love, not war!" is not a very clear and practicable suggestion, neither for a virgin struggling
against a rapist nor for a free country try trying to defend itself against a dictatorship. One should rather
say: Make war with love, or better with justice, meaning, not war on love, but war, if unavoidable, with
reverence for innocent human life and for the rights remaining even in such a situation.
Could any moral and rational being love those who threaten us with nuclear holocaust?
Could any moral and rational being love the Soviet and Red Chinese rulers?
Could any sensible person love a Western government which shows its "love" for the victims of its
opponents by threatening them with nuclear devices?
Hate your true enemy and love your secret allies would be a better suggestion.
Mass murderers who killed a few dozen people, individually, are harmless compared with
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the murderers using nuclear strength. Can one love any mass murderer?
Love others enough to grant them justice: full freedom to exercise all their rights! Otherwise you may
freely hate their guts. Love your neighbour enough to grant him autonomy and personal law. Refrain
from meddling with his affairs. The more he differs in his ways of life from yours, the more you will be
safe from all those, all over the world, who do, likewise, prefer his kind of living. They will not attempt
to wipe you out with nuclear devices for fear of hitting your neighbour. (If you don't give him his
freedom, then they might never realize that he is their ally and wipe both of you out.) He is your life
insurance, so to speak if you leave him alone. And you are his.
You do not have to love your enemy or your neighbours if only you do them justice. In practice, this
often merely means that you ought to tolerate or avoid each other. And this might very well be enough
to disarm him. It becomes enough when the enemy is properly defined and noncombatants, neutrals
and friends and secret allies are no longer treated as enemies.
See: Air Raids, Appeals, Autonomy, Civilians, Collective Responsibility, Communism, Desertion,
Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Justice, Laissez Faire, Military Insurrections, Militia, Negotiations,
Noncombatants, Peace Declarations, People, Prisoners of War, Secession, Secret Allies, Targets,
Tolerance, Trust, War Aims.
LOVE OF LIFE
Do you really love life or do you despise it? If you really loved life, then you would see the only
rational attitude towards the threat of nuclear holocaust: to do your best to prevent it. And this requires
that you do not rest and "enjoy life" at the edge of a volcano until the last nuclear device has been
destroyed and all steps necessary have been taken so that they will not be built again. But you do not
love life as much or do you?
Those having children, and thus having given hostages to the future, are sometimes somewhat more
responsible in their outlook whenever ignorance or prejudice has not made them apathetic.
If people really loved life they would love liberty and would not licence, at their expense, to
bureaucrats. But they do not love freedom enough and thus they do not love life sufficiently. Not
knowing freedom sufficiently, they do not appreciate it and do not realize how closely it is interrelated
with life, namely, that it is nothing but the possibility for a full life.
No wonder then that they are unaware of the greatest threat to life: oppression, consisting of, thousands
of large and small repressive acts, mainly undertaken, under one or the other pretence, by territorial
governments.
In many people the slave mentality or statism is so ingrained that they do not consider their subjugation
as such but regard it instead as a deliverance, a service which frees them from the efforts of living of
acting freely and responsibly. Actually, they do not love life but hate it. Otherwise, they would see to it
that they remain no, longer powerless to protect it. Otherwise they would not love their chains.
See: Apathy, Death Wish, Ideas/Large, Statism, Survival Instinct.
LOYALTY
Loyalty is misplaced when it threatens survival, e. g., when it is granted to nuclear powers. Be loyal to
yourself, first of all and it follows as the night the day that you cannot then be loyal to nuclear powers.
(With apologies to Shakespeare's Hamlet.) Nuclear weapons are likely to be guarded by the most
"loyal" soldiers against sabotage and disarmament attempts by the people. To whom are they loyal?
Certainly not to mankind and objectively not to their countrymen, either. Loyalty to tyrants is a
contradiction in terms, Any anyone with nuclear power is a tyrant, even if originally he was elected.
See: Disarmament, Disobedience, Oaths, Obedience, Resistance, Statism, Subordination, Tyrannicide.
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MADNESS OF RULERS
When a ruler ought to be certified as insane, not only because of his nuclear strength policy, is it very
likely that he would be so certified or more likely that the facts about his mental condition would be
hushed up?
What would be the likely fates of the physician and the psychologist who were to certify him? Would
they dare doing it in time? Could they do so without risk to themselves in any present State? Could
they do this safely in a dictatorship?
There is no failsafe system to prevent madness of men in power. The mere fact that they strove for
power indicates already that they are at least powermad.
If a gunman holds some civilians hostage, in an escape bid or in a holdup, then we consider him as at
least halfdemented. If politicians, with their nuclear devices, hold millions of citizens beyond their
own borders, in practice, as hostage and do expose "their own" citizens to the same threat, then they are
usually considered as sane and rational. How mad can one get?
In spite of an abundance of destructive nuclear devices being available, an abundance providing a
multiple overkill capacity, they go on producing and refining them.
In spite of all failures of interventionist legislation in economic affairs, our rulers go on passing more
and more such legislation.
I spite of the accumulated evidence against the "war on drugs", they go on and on with their
prohibitionist policies, which are obviously wrong, harmful and barely put a dent in the drug trade but
rather boost it by driving its illegal prices and profits up and up.
Are these instances signs of rationality in our rulers?
The only at least temporarily and in partly rational rulers were the few ones who abdicated. The others
are all irrational power addicts and victims of delusions. They are the people who should least of all be
trusted with ABC "weapons" and yet they are the ones granted a monopoly on them!
"The most disturbing fact about the Eichmann trial, says Merton, is that a psychiatrist examined him
and pronounced him perfectly sane. As no doubt he was. He slept well and had a good appetite. He
developed no anxiety neuroses or psychosomatic illnesses. He had a profound respect for his political
leaders and for law and order. He was conscientious and devoted to duty He was sane, all right …
"We were mistaken: 'It is the welladapted ones who can without qualms and without nausea aim the
missiles and press the buttons that will initiate the great festival of destruction that they, the sane ones,
have prepared.'
"It is sane, solid, sober, industrious citizens who have invented and developed the weapons and are
even now planning strategy for the next war. They are the ones who are coolly estimating how many
millions can be regarded as expendable in a nuclear conflict.
"If we are to avoid a holocaust, we need all the cranks and crackpots, dreamers and visionaries, radicals
and ratbags we can get." Gordon Hawkins, The Australian 2.2. 1973: "Ragbags: a vital part of the
nuclear age", quoting from the essay of Father Thomas Merton, Trappist Monastery in Gethsemane,
Kentucky, titled: "A Devout Meditation in Memory of Adolf Eichmann."
Keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of these sane madmen, and of all crackpots, too, one should
add.
See: Abdication, Accidental War, Decision, Disarmament, Generals, Governments Leadership,
Murder, Outlawry, Politicians, Power, Rulers, Secession, States, Talent Registry, Tyrannicide, War
Aims, Weapons.
MAJORITY
Obviously, an individual, or a minority, should not have the right or the opportunity to involve all in a
nuclear war. But neither should the majority have the right to thus decide the fate of all mankind.
Individual rights are individual rights independent of majority opinions.
See: Autonomy, Consent, Decision, Democracy, Dictatorship, Exterritorial, Imperative, Freedom of
Action, Human Rights, Individualism, Experimental Freedom, Minority Autonomy,
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Neutrality, Secession. Sovereignty, Tolerance.
MAN
Is a man "armed" with nuclear devices still a man? Can he still claim human rights?
Is he to be obeyed or to be resisted? Is he to be a law maker, or minister or to be treated as an outlaw?
Is he to be considered as a ruler based on consent or as a tyrant to be wiped out? Was anybody ever
authorized by any election to decide by himself whether mankind is to go on living or not? Think it
over by and for yourself!
See: Aggression, Decision, Disobedience, Governments, Greed, Human Nature, Leadership, Madmen,
Nuclear Strength, Outlawry, Power, Resistance, Responsibility, Rights, Secession, Subordination,
Tyrannicide.
MARKET, A FULLY FREED MARKET, AT LEAST FOR ALL WHO VOLUNTEER FOR IT!
The free market, introduced for every service, within the framework of human rights, would eliminate
the threat of nuclear war by depriving governments of all warmaking powers.
On a free market, those favoring despotism could even buy the despotism of their choice for
themselves with their money and their lives and liberties. They could do so without endangering
others. Thus one could leave all political sadists and masochists to themselves. But one should never
give them any chance of power over others.
See: Capitalism, Conscription, Contract, Decision, Defence, Economic Freedom, Employment,
Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Free Enterprise, Free Market, Free
Migration, Free Trade, Governments, Human Rights, Investments, Militia, Monetary Freedom,
Motives, Power, Protectionism, Secession, Tolerance, Unemployment, Voluntary Taxation, Welfare
Sate.
MASS MEDIA
The mass media appear to have somehow conditioned us to accept mass killings and mass murder as
normal. Largescale death has lost much of its horror by being a daily and often even visual experience
through the mass media. What could be done about this?
Censorship is certainly not the answer.
As an excuse for not knowing what could be rationally done against the nuclear threat, the mass media
often do pretend that the threat is not really very large and that there is some worthwhile and fully
harmless "peaceful' use of atomic energy.
In their information function they do not even attempt to list, as a rule, what proposals have been made
so far to overcome any particular problem. Mostly only the official and territorial nonsolution get full
exposure.
What would happen if, e.g. by the information service of a comprehensive Ideas Archive, the mass
media would be regularly supplied with material on individual resistance, selfmanagement of one's
life, tyrannicide information etc., and a consistent philosophy and programs to oppose the present
trends?
Or if all such information were made readily available in alternative media or on the Internet but not
yet on the mass media?
Then, I believe, their reenforcement of the current trends would become weakened and would finally
cease. They
respond to public opinion pressures and public opinion could and should be changed. Properly used,
the mass
media, especially broadcasting, offer an ideal opportunity for the rapid spread of libertarian and peace
promoting ideas.
A simple suggestion could be helpful to win over most papers, publishers and broadcasters, and their
employees, even many teachers, to the cause of laissez faire: No taxes on any publisher, printer,
journalist, editor, writer, paper supplier, bookshop, on anyone working in the educational sphere. This
would not have to be a special privilege. Voluntary taxation simply has to begin somewhere.
See: Apathy, Appeals, Archive of Ideas, Atomic Energy, Broadcasting, Contacts, Cultural Revolution,
Decision, Education, Enlightenment, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Ignorance, Open Air Speaking,
Peaceful Use, Prejudices, Propaganda, Publicity, Referendums, Selfhelp, Trust, Voluntary Taxation,
War Aims.
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MASS MURDER
Ordinary firearms are merely weapons for individual murders, one by one, in the hands of any
murderer and they could also be used to prevent murders. Compare them with nuclear "weapons"
devices. The latter are inevitably, and with the best of will, still murder weapons and mass murder
weapons at that. They cannot be used to prevent crime without committing thereby a much greater one.
Counterterror is still terror.
See: Arms Race, Civilians, Deterrence Immorality, Indiscriminate Warfare, Quality, Noncombatants,
Nuclear Strength, War Aims, Weapons.
MERCENARIES
Men willing to hire themselves out at a price, to fight for anything and anyone, should no longer be
allowed arms but ought to be disarmed by a volunteer militias Otherwise, they might even establish a
world dictatorship, resting on nuclear power. See: Career Soldiers, Conscription, Defence,
Disarmament, Generals, Militia, Oath, Standing Army, Weapons.
MIDDLE EAST
The Middle East is one of the all too many flash point areas for the beginnings of a general nuclear
war. Only restoration and expansion of its ancient exterritorial tradition, meaning autonomous self
government for all nations, religions, tribes and other groups, on an exterritorial basis, could defuse the
situation.
See: Arabs, Arms Race, Canals, Exterritorial Imperative, Israel, Nationalism, Natural Resources, Oil,
Panarchy, Personal Law, Pluralism, Peace Plans No. 12.
MIGRATION
Free migration is no longer a good enough way out, a way away from the threat of nuclear war. Not
even migration to the stars, since the nuclear devices and the ideas and institutions making for them,
would go with these emigrants as well.
Only internal migration or secession or exterritorial reorganization or opting out whilst staying
wherever one lives, could solve the problem.
Nevertheless, less, free migration would help to reduce the power of governments and to assure a better
mixing of minority groups worldwide, so that all people, in all countries, would finally get interested
in preserving the peace everywhere.
See: Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Movement, Free Migration, Immigration Restrictions,
Motives, Targets, War Aims.
MILITARY INSURRECTIONS
Even the strong strongest military dictatorship could be rendered powerless by a military insurrection.
Those wanting peace must attempt to induce them against all dictatorships and against all nuclear
powers. To induce such insurrections one's aim must be so obviously rightful, clear and attractive that
even an enemy regime's soldiers
and officers would gladly rather fight for them than for their own rulers.
The following is a comment made by Ulrich von Beckerath in 1954:
" .. In the next war a military strike in the authoritarian States is not improbable. Required is 'a program
how the strikers can finance their strike …'
"The military strike muss not be the equivalent to a subjection to the nonauthoritarian States. We
expect that whole armies of the authoritarian States will organize themselves as autonomous
communities. These communities will negotiate as equals with the governments, especially to assure
the support of the millions of members of these
communities through full employment, an employment which would have to be organized
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within a day or two.
"Autonomous communities in the form of independent armies are nothing new in the Eastern world.
The Red Army was in its beginnings an autonomous community, even if in a very primitive form. The
armies arising against the Soviets organized themselves likewise as autonomous communities, e.g. the
armies of Denikin, Judenitsch Wrangle, Machnow and others
"Also the Czarist Army, which after WW I retreated into the Serbian Territory, still existed for a long
time as an autonomous community. (Among the thousands of publications on details of WW I and its
consequences, there is apparently not one supplying information on the autonomous communities
arising from the fall of the Czar's empire."
This topic deserves a book length treatment. Here no more than hints can be given.
See: Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Autonomy, Declarations, Desertion, Disobedience, Enemy,
Exterritorial Imperative, Governments in Exile, Militia Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Nuclear
Strength, Peace Declarations Publicity, Revolutionary Warfare, Secession, Secret Allies, Trust,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons
MILITARY ORGANIZATIONS, RIGHTFUL VERSUS WRONGFUL ONES
All prohibitions of private military organizations should be repealed with regard to local volunteer
militia forces for the protection of human rights and organized on the basis of soldiers' rights.
See: Career Soldiers, Decision, Disarmament, Declarations, Defence, Discipline, Disobedience,
Election of Officers, Generals, Mercenaries, Militia, Monopolies, Oaths, Obedience, Soldiers' Rights,
Standing Armies, War Aims, Weapons.
MILITARY PROGRAMME
I will not even attempt to hint in a single paragraph or page at a comprehensive libertarian defence,
liberation, military insurrection and revolution program. But hints for it are spread throughout this
ABC compilation.
See: Air Raids, Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Blockade, Boycotts, Collective Responsibility, Decision,
Declarations, Defence, Desertion, Disarmament, Discriminatory Warfare, Disobedience, Election of
Officers, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Financing, Individual responsibility, International Law,
Military insurrections, Military Organization, Militia, Nuclear Strength Obedience, Outlawry, Peace
Declarations, Police Actions, Prisoners of War, Revolutionary Warfare, Separate Peace Treaties,
Soldiers' Rights, Surrender, Targets, Tax Strike, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament,
Voluntary Taxation, War Aims, Weapons, Introduction, Appx. 1,5,6,12, Index. Compare also the more
systematic treatment of this subject in PEACE PLANS 6163.
MILITARY TARGETS, RIGHTFUL VERSUS WRONGFUL ONES
Even if the U.S. would stick to its recent (1974) promise to target predominantly only military
installations, railway yards etc., the questions still arise: Is the resultant radioactivity acceptable?
Would the government stick to these targets or resort to 'total' war sooner or later? Would not, even in
the most favorable case, a large number of noncombatants be killed, at least indirectly?
There should be a concentration of military strike forces not only on all military targets but only on all
essential military targets, as were e.g. furnaces and ball bearing industries in WW I and II. For their
destruction conventional bombs and rockets and sabotage actions would be enough and would be more
suitable.
See: Air Raids, Bombers, Escalation, Enemy, Indiscriminate Warfare, Nuclear Strength, Targets,
Tyrannicide.
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MILITIA
Unarmed, unorganized and untrained men are, with regard to nuclear war prevention, like sheep led to
the slaughter house. More than half the population of the world lives under dictatorships and is thus
intentionally disarmed. (That situation has been somewhat improved in the meantime. But the newly
liberated States are far from being libertarian ones or even very "democratic". J.Z., 15.10.01.) The
others are disarmed largely with their consent.
Without safeguarding of human rights peace cannot be achieved and nothing but a volunteer militia,
sworn and trained to defend nothing but human rights, and this only in rightful ways, could effectively
protect or realize them against despotically inclined governments.
Those in power argue that firearms in the hands of their subjects are dangerous and that nuclear devices
in their own hands are harmless.
To form or join a local militia and an international federation of militia forces for the protection of
human rights is not only a right but a duty for every ethical, rational and fit man and woman.
Once militias are anywhere well organized and trained, then they could, temporarily, take over all
government powers but only with the aim to dissemble them as fast as possible and to prevent the
establishment of any new centralized and coercive power. In practice this would usually require no
more than a defence by the militias of the right of individuals to secede from the State and to establish
exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers:
"Required is a militia embracing all ablebodied men, unless they decline membership. It is also to be
sworn in on the Human Rights. But every militiaman ought to swear not only not to offend against
Human Rights but also to protect and realize them if and whenever they are attacked anywhere in his
neighbourhood.
"How to protect them, how they could form action committees and volunteer units to tackle particular
tasks, has still to be elaborated" Ulrich v. Beckerath, n.d.
The most acute task of militias would be to occupy all nuclear weapon stores and places of their
manufacture, including nuclear reactors, to disarm the bombs and rockets or supervise specialists doing
this and to distribute fractions of the radioactive material required for a single bomb to each local
militia unit for safe keeping until it can be safely disposed of.
Secondly, they are to support revolutionary and insurrectionist efforts and initiate the establishment of
militias and the destruction of nuclear devices in other countries by these new militias.
Thirdly, they are to be the main defence force against external aggression.
Fourthly, they are to be the ultimate sovereign institution.
Men who respect human rights have the right and the duty to resist suppression of human rights and
this implies that they have the right to bear arms and to organize and train in military fashion.
Selfevident conditions for such organizations are:
They must be voluntary.
They may use only rightful arms.
They may pursue only rightful war aims.
They may use only rightful strategic and tactical methods.
Their military obedience is to be limited and accompanied by a ; right and duty to resist wrongful
orders.
Their soldiers would still have to retain their individual rights.
They must be free to elect and recall their officers.
They must swear to uphold nothing but individual rights.
Preferably they should be organized locally, from parttime volunteers, mobilized according to the "on
the minute man" system and internationally federated. The subject deserves a booklength treatment.
See Appx, 12. Some details were proposed in PEACE PLANS 6163.
MINING OF URANIUM
No more uranium mining! It is comparable to atheists and church reformers building torture racks for
the inquisition or to Jewish volunteers building gas ovens to be used by Nazis against them. Only the
misleading propaganda for a "peaceful" use of
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atomic energy makes this kind of mining appear morally acceptable: In democratic countries a
referendum could put an end to this misuse of "scarce resources", resources which should remain as
scarce as possible.
Mining, considered as the extraction and concentration of ores, should rather use some of its techniques
in reverse and put back and dilute concentrated uranium in an attempt at total nuclear disarmament.
See: Arms Race, Atomic Energy, Disarmament, Immorality, Peaceful Use, Radiation Hazard,
Referendum, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
MINORITY AUTONOMY FOR ALL NONAGGRESSIVE MINORITIES
All minorities, even formerly terroristic ones, should be granted amnesty and autonomy if only they
agree and abide by autonomous selfrule and no longer attempt to impose their system upon others.
The conventional nations with exclusive territorial rule are guilty themselves, insofar as they left these
true believers no other and a rightful approach to realize their ideals rapidly among themselves.
This is not a demand for amnesty and full autonomy for those people determined to continue their
attacks on others, even after the attackers had been granted full exterritorial autonomy on their own
affairs.
Autonomy, like tolerance, is only for those willing to grant autonomy and offer tolerance to others.
"Freedom is the only thing you cannot have without willingness to give it to others."
But minority autonomy could well be granted to despotically inclined and totalitarian minorities as
long as they applied their system only to their own voluntary members and left each of them one way
out, namely: individual secession. There was e.g. nothing dangerously wrong with the most restrictive
monastic life as long as each monk or nun was free to give notice. Sometimes, during the French
Revolution, the National Guard had to assure this right of individuals in certain monasteries which
treated their inmates like prisoners.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Communism, Competing Governments, Coexistence,
Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal
Law, Pluralism, Secession, Territorial Organization, Totalitarianism, War Aims.
MISCALCULATIONS
Practically all wars were started or continued based on a miscalculation of the other side's strength and
will to resist. If the relative strengths, including morale, the real costs, the efforts involved, the blood
sacrifices to be made, were known beforehand, few wars would be started by the aggressors and some
would not be resisted. Miscalculations will sooner or later lead nuclear powers to clash, using these
mass murder devices. The hotlines will somewhat reduce but not eliminate this risk. We must take
precautions so that the fate of man does no longer depend on miscalculations. Only total nuclear
disarmament could achieve this security.
See: Accidental War, Censorship, Decision, Disarmament, Experts, Generals, Information Freedom
of, Leadership, Overestimation, Power, Publicity, Secrecy, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
MODERN WEAPONS
The torture instruments of the Inquisition were once also considered to be "modern" tools, in the eyes
of the Inquisitors not of their victims. The Nazis set up "modern" extermination camps, with all
modern conveniences for fast cheap and efficient mass murder. Nuclear devices are only a still more
indiscriminate and modern mass murder means than the Nazi extermination camps were.
See: Air Raids, Collective Responsibility, Concentration Camps, Defence, Deterrence, Failsafe,
Militia, Nuclear Strength, Prestige, Weapons.
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MONETARY DESPOTISM
Under the forced currency of a centralized and monopolistic note issuing bank the economy will
always fluctuate between inflations and deflations and frequently have both at the same time:
stagflation. The resulting crises nourish totalitarian movements, ideologies, racism; nationalism and
religious hatreds. They make despotism relatively strong, and weaken democracies. They condemn
many revolutions to failure and prevent many people from fleeing from a dictatorship or deserting its
armed forces, since countries they would prefer tend to keep them out fearing even more
unemployment. In these and similar ways it contributes to the danger of nuclear war. Together with
taxes it allows governments to finance antipeople weapons, even against the will of the majority. By
its monopoly for the issue of exchange media, needed for wage payments, governments could always
direct people into employment at nuclear weapons and auxiliary military facilities, simply by starving
otheremployment opportunities of cash.
See : Deflation, Desertion, Dictatorships, Economic Freedom, Employment, Freedom of Migration,
Free Trade Inflation, Market, Monetary Freedom, Nationalism, Refugees, Refusal to Accept,
Totalitarianism, Unemployment, Peace Plans Nos. 911.
MONETARY FREEDOM
Without monetary freedom or free banking there will be unemployment and inflation and both make it
easier for the warhawks.
Monetary freedom could assure employment to workers who resigned from nuclear weapons factories,
as well as for deserters and refugees from dictatorships.
Monetary freedom would do away with depressions, and after a while, when savings, due to full
employment as well as selfmanagement schemes, would build a rapidly, it could significantly
contribute to the abolition of involuntary poverty. Thereby it would help to ideologically disarm the
communist fanatics who believe that communism would deliver the goods. and that nothing else could.
It would be essential to finance any prolonged liberation or revolutionary war.
It would be helpful in paying some of the less idealistic deserters from the other side.
I t would be necessary for the integration of millions of soldiers and refugees into the production on
process in the shortest possible to time.
The best defences of the right to issue private money are to be found in the writings of Arthur Kitson
and E. C. Riegel, especially in the latter's "The New Approach to Freedom". Alas, both didn't find the
right techniques to make the best use of this freedom. The best suggestions can be found in the writings
of Ulrich von Beckerath, Dr. Walter Zander and Prof. Heinrich Rittershausen. See especially: Peace
Plans Nos. 911.
See : Desertion, Dictatorships Employment, Financing, Inflation, Monetary Despotism, Refusal to
Accept, Unemployment.
MONOPOLIES OF POWER AND ECONOMIC MONOPOLIES
The monopolization of all activities against nuclear strength and nuclear war must be ended. The
survival of man. is too important to be left any longer to politicians and bureaucrats. Everyone must be
free to participate in the destruction of all nuclear weapons and the replacement of every institution that
makes for nuclear war.
See: Appeals, Capitalism, Competing Governments, Contract, Decision, Declarations, Democracy,
Desertion, Disarmament, Economic Freedom, Experimental Freedoms, Exterritorial Imperative,
Freedom of Acton, Laissez Faire, Minority Autonomy, Militia, Nationalism, Natural, Resources,
Negotiations, People, Referendum; Representation, Secession, Secret Diplomacy, Selfdefence, Self
help, Separate Peace, Territorial Organization; War Aims, Weapons.
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MORAL INSTINCT
The moral instinct hasn't been fully developed yet. Particularly, like the survival instinct, it hasn't been
sufficiently developed as yet towards the threat of mass extermination weapons. The remoteness of the
enemy and the invisibility of the decisive buttons, for most citizens, are factors making for moral
apathy on this question.
The moral instinct must become not only much more developed but also rationally underpinned. This
does not, necessarily, require much time and effort but has not yet been systematically.
See: Collective Responsibility, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Enemy, Enlightenment, Ethics, Human
Rights, Immorality, Morality, Selfhelp, Subordination, Disobedience, Encyclopaedia of Refutations,
War Aims,
MORALITY
The old statist and territorial order is built upon a special morale, a morale which rests, from law
abiding to absolute military obedience, upon the principle of subordination. The new order, required to
achieve and maintain peace, would be characterized instead by: voluntarism, individualism, self
responsibility, individual sovereignty and selfhelp. Could any other morality help to abolish the
nuclear threat?
We can no longer afford to remain "nuclear giants and ethical infants". (General Omar Bradley's
formula.) We must come to realize that there is no justification for mass murder. Moreover, that mass
murder preparations are not justified, either, even when undertaken in the belief that they might act as
sufficient deterrents.
The principle of collective responsibility is also wrongly applied in nuclear confrontations.
There are rightful and wrongful weapons. Rightful weapons can be used with restraints,
discriminatingly, again the major culprits, warmongering decisionmakers and their fanatic followers.
Nuclear devices belong into the latter category. Quite inevitably, they do kill innocents, too.
There are rightful and wrongful war aims and with nuclear devices one cannot pursue any rightful ones,
while wrongful ones lead to nuclear war.
There are certain rights which, when suppressed, lead to nuclear war.
The revulsion against nuclear weapons must become so strong that they would no longer be considered
as suitable means. We should feel at least as strongly about them as about the suggestion by someone
to a tender young baby for dinner.
Once the first serious moral doubts arises as to the morality of nuclear destructive devices, thinking
people would soon discover that they cannot serve any moral and rational purpose.
See: Aggression, Autonomy, Collective Responsibility, Consent, Decision, Defence, Democracy,
Deterrence, Ethics, Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, Immorality, Individualism, Individualism,
Individual Responsibility, Militia, Monopolies, Obedience, Outlawry, Power, Referendums,
Representation, Resistance, Responsibility, Rights, Secession, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Social Contract,
Social Order, Sovereignty, Statism, Subordination, Taxation, Terrorism, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism,
War Aims, Welfare State.
MOTIVES FOR WAR
The exterritorial reorganizationof human beings, based on individual secession and association in
voluntaristic and exterritorially autonomous communities, catering for every taste, prejudice,
conviction, belief and ideal, that can be tolerantly practised, at the own risk and expense, would
eliminate almost every motive for war except a remnant of the power motive. Moreover, it would offer
the best organization to cope with the power motive or to direct it into constructive channels.
See: Communism, Conquest, Conscription, Decision, Defence, Desertion, Exterritorial Imperative,
Frontiers, Free Migration, Free Trade, Invasion, Leadership, Minority Autonomy, Natural Resources,
Power, Secession, Tolerance, Voluntarism, War Aims, Weapons.
MURDER
The same society which outlaws murder usually protects mass murderers by outlawing
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tyrannicide. The same society which frequently outlaws fireworks and concealed firearms as being too
dangerous, nevertheless entrusts mass extermination weapons to corrupt and prejudiced politicians who
cannot be held responsible a wrong nuclear decision involving ABC mass murder devices.
To kill a single person, no matter how abominously he has behaved, is considered a crime. But to
prepare for the mass murder of millions, with nuclear devices, no matter how innocent these millions
are, is considered right and dutiful, a patriotic act.
Some governments which have nuclear allies, like Australia, prosecute even suicide attempts as
criminal, not realizing, for instance, how much the suicide of most men in power would benefit
mankind.
How inconsistent and unreasonable can people become once they do employ "political" "thinking"?
To prevent nuclear war no criminal must be safe, no matter how high his political office is. The best
way to arrange for the destruction of their powers is to eliminate their offices.
See: Collective Responsibility Decision, Desertion Exterritorial Imperative; Immorality , Individual
Responsibility, Madness, Morality, Nuclear Strength, Outlawry, Power, Resistance, Responsibility,
Rulers, Selfdefence, Tyrannicide, Weapons.
MYTHS
"Destruction is the only end that the mystics' creed has ever achieved as it is the only end that you see
them achieving today..." said Ayn Rand in "Atlas Shrugged", page 971.
The origin of all beliefs, institutions and customs making for nuclear war ties in a great number of
myths. Thus, and often, the survival requirement is: "Burn what you have adored and adore what you
have burned!"
In this ancient suggestion, of an early French missionary, converting a French king, we ought to
replace the instruction: "burn" with: "Leave alone". Intolerance is obligatory only towards the
intolerant.
See: Balance of Power, Capitalism, Collective Responsibility, Competition, Control, Defence,
Definitions, Desertion, Deterrence, Enemy, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Failsafe, Freedom,
Governments, Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Nationalism, Nuclear Strength, Overpopulation,
Power, Prejudices, Prestige, Racism, Reason, Religion, Statism, Surrender, Unilateral Nuclear
Disarmament, Weapons, Appx. 2, 4.
NATIONALISTM, VOLUNTARIST VERSUS TERRITORIAL NATIONALISM
Morally, the territorial type of nationalism was never justified. Historically it is a relatively modern
development: "Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals
of modern nations will not bear inspection! Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
"The new creed is nationalism, the doctrine which expresses and contains the selfadulation of the
power unit, the nation state, its sacred absolute authority." Gregory Raines in: "Good Government",
June 72.
There are totalitarian traits even in democracies: "… In effect, a government at war tells its people:
'Forget that you are workers fighting against fellow workers; that you are students fighting against
fellow students; that you are Christians fighting against fellow Christians. Remember only that you are
Britishers or Germans, or Japanese. That is your supreme allegiance.' " W. Macmahon Ball in the
anthology: "Paths to Peace", compiled by Victor Wallace.
"Nationalism means nothing anyhow. Take the British: In France a Briton is perfidious, in America
he's a silly ass with a monocle, in Italy a gaunt, coldblooded aristocrat, in Germany a bony pipe
sucking child starver." Eric Knight, "This Above All", page 121, World Distributors, London.
The world will not see peace until we have abolished the collectivism and coercion
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inherent in all existing nationalist movements and institutions and have reduced the nationalists to
voluntaristic communities which, as such, could have all the autonomy they desire.
Caroline Chisholm was right where she said:
"Nothing but what is voluntary deserves the name of national". (I found these words quoted but not yet
the text in which they occur. J.Z., 16.10.01.)
One nationality becomes as voluntaristic and individualistic as church membership it will become as
harmless.
Geographically defined nations are by their very definition nuclear targets. Thus we can no longer
afford to be organized in this way.
Voluntary and exterritorially autonomous nationalism, according to any person's free and individual
choice, is the answer. This reorganization would do away with all the warpromoting tendencies of
territorial nationalism.
If some nations would not want to accept certain members, then the newcomers would still have no
cause to resort to war, for they would remain free to set up similar nations without this exclusiveness,
anywhere but without any monopoly claims to the whole territory in which they come to live and work.
It would all be a question of private contracts with private owners, who might belong to different
panarchies.
See: Alliances, Appeals, Autonomy, Collective Responsibility, Competing Governments, Declarations,
Defence Enemy, Espionage, Exterritorial Imperative, Individualism, Loyalty, Militia, Military
Insurrections, Minority Autonomy, Natural Resources, Obedience, Panarchy, Peace Declarations,
Personal Law, Pluralism, Property Concept of Citizens, Secession, Sovereignty, Surrender, Targets,
Territorial Organization, Treason, Trust, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voluntarism,
War Aims, Weapons.
NATURAL RESOURCES AND OPEN COOPERATIVES
No national or private monopoly for natural resources! Instead: Free access even for individual, to all
natural resources, even if this means free movement into existing enterprises.
The dissolution of geographic nations by individual secession, the replacement of territorial law by
personal law, would mean, at least in the long run, free access fore all to all natural resources. This can
be realized by means of the institution of "open coooperatives (as described in several works by
Theodor Hertzka, i.e., associations which accept all comers, either as workers or investors, and do
reward them according to their contributions.
No more wars for the exclusive possession of oil bearing areas. No more civil wars fomented by the
land hungry. No more exclusive national land tenures which forcefully exclude some people from the
better endowed areas of this planet. Invaders drove e.g. the Hopis and the Eskimos into the wilderness.
Free access to exploit the natural resources of the world would also turn all into proprietors, although
not exclusive ones, and would thus make all people more reluctant to willfully destroy any part of the
world.
It surprises me that the conservationists and ecologists or "greenies" have not yet rediscovered this
organizational and management approach.
Free access for all people, as decisionmakers, to deposits of radioactive materials, would mean that the
majority of people could then effectively organize themselves and decide to make these minerals still
less accessible for their use, i.e., under present conditions, under territorialism, their abuse, e.g. for
nuclear weapons and reactors.
See: Freedom of Migration, Free Trade, Frontiers, Land Monopoly, Monopolies, Nationalism, Open
Cooperatives, Panarchy, Peaceful Use, Property, Purchase of Enterprises, Targets, Peace Plans No. 5.
NECESSARY EVIL?
Nuclear mass murder devices are not necessary evils, either; they are absolutely evils. There is no such
thing as a necessary evil.
See: Defence, Evil, Immorality, Indiscriminate Warfare, Morality, Nuclear Strength, Weapons.
NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE PEOPLES VS. MONOPOLY FOR NEGOTIATIONS
Negotiations between rulers to eliminate war are as senseless as meetings between leading criminals to
eliminate crime. Morally and rationally there is nothing to negotiate about nuclear strength. Only
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nuclear disarmament of the unilateral kind makes sense. Why wait with getting rid of a liability until
someone else does so too?
Negotiations between the peoples themselves, over the heads of their rulers, are required for this. Only
they can inspire the necessary trust and would, lastly, and rather soon, lead to an allround nuclear
disarmament, unilaterally initiated and continued.
When and wherever prolonged peace negotiations between the peoples are rendered difficult to
impossible by the regime on one side, e. g. by the restrictions imposed by a dictator, then the people on
the other side must, onesidedly, publicize as acceptable appeals and offers, and this in a quite
trustworthy way, that they would convince, without arguments, the peoples on the other side.
Such appeals could be made on the basis of a unilateral nuclear disarmament, the declaration of rightful
war aims, the recognition of rightful governments in exile, the welcoming of refugees and deserters,
freedom for the establishment of all kinds of panarchies and by full publicity for the appeals,
declarations and rightful war aims. In broadcasts almost all possible objections could be anticipated
and answered.
See: Appeals, Broadcasting, Decision, Declarations, Democracy, Diplomacy, Enemy, Exterritorial
Imperative, Leadership, Liberation War, Military Insurrections, Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament,
Minority Autonomy, Open Air Speaking, People, Propaganda, Publicity, Referendum, Revolutions,
Secrecy, Secret Allies, Secret Diplomacy, Separate Peace, Summit Conferences, Trust, Unilateral
Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
NEUTRALITY, RIGHT TO REMAIN NEUTRAL
Atomic destructive devices, by their very nature, ignore the right to remain neutral in arguments
between governments.
But neutrality alone is not security enough against nuclear devices. It is helpful only to the extent that it
is respected by one or both of the main contestants:
"A country can only remain neutral if it is allowed to be neutral," said Prof. Jeffrey Blaines, in a radio
interview, 28/1/74.
An armed neutrality, based on volunteer militias and revolutionary warfare training, would be the
safest.
To adopt a neutral a stand in the face of nuclear devices would be a crime of omission unless it goes
beyond this to the advocacy of exterritorial autonomy for all dissenters, on all sides, who are now
coercively embraced, oppressed, exploited, enslaved or sacrifice by the contending territorial
governments.
"In the struggle against such horrors as these, how dare you be neutral?" asked Henry Schoenheimer in
The Australian, 26/6/73, regarding nuclear holocaust.
Any neutral country could invite followers of all of the main beliefs or convictions, which are
struggling through their statist territorial organizations, to establish themselves peacefully, tolerantly in
the neutral country, in form of exterritorial and autonomous organizations, on a voluntary basis. This
kind of peaceful coexistence could then soon become the declared war aim of all contestants.
Deserters from all sides could be offered asylum and protection, as well as political, economic, social
and personal freedom, of the kind they like for themselves. An alternative and peaceful way of living
would become visible to soldiers all both sides, particularly if full use is made of free broadcasting to
spread the message.
See: Appeals, Asylum, Broadcasting, Coexistence, Communism, Competing Governments, Decision,
Defence, Desertion, Employment, Exterritorial Imperative, Governments, Governments in Exile,
Immigration Restrictions, Liberation Wars, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Peace Declarations, Publicity,
Refugee Problem, Resistance, Revolutionary Warfare Secession, Sovereignty, States, Targets,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
NO GOVERNMENT
The "no government" philosophy is the most radical philosophy against the threat of nuclear war.
"No government" is here used as meaning: no government that is not fully based on individual consent.
See: Action, Alternative Institutions, Anarchism, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Consent,.
Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Government, Individualism, Libertarianism,
Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Secession, Sovereignty, Statism, Territorial
Organization, Voluntarism, War Aims.
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NONAGGRESSION PACTS
Nonaggression pacts between governments are unreliable, to say the least, All too often the
governments concerned consider it as being in their interest to break them. Only few have never been
broken.
Since they leave the powers making for war unchanged, they are usually no more than a temporary
windowdressing. Instance: The nonaggression pact between the Nazis and Stalin's regime, which led
to the aggression against and division of Poland and started off World War II.
See: Alliances, Decisions, Governments, Leadership, Madness, Peace Declarations, People, Politicians,
Referendums, Rulers, Secret Diplomacy, States, Treaties, Trust, War Aims.
NONCOMBATANTS
Don't make war against anyone but the aggressors. Spare the noncombatants, spare civilians,
particularly women and children, and even conscripts, whenever this is possible. This is a basic rule of
the international laws of warfare and it is the one most offended against by ABC weapons. Because
with nuclear weapons one cannot fight combatants only. They are mass murder and mass destruction
devices or anticity, anticountry and antipeople "weapons". Thus they are not really weapons, which
one can direct and use against a real enemy only, but merely senselessly destructive and murderous
devices, devices which must be destroyed unilaterally, in full recognition of this fact.
See: Air Raids, Asylum, Civilians, Defence, Desertion, Enemy, Indiscriminate Warfare, Mass murder,
Militia, Neutrality, Nuclear Strength, Open Cities, Refugees, Revolutionary Warfare, War Aims,
Weapons.
NONVIOLENT STEPS AGAINST NUCLEAR WAR
This program does advocate many nonviolent steps to prevent nuclear war but it does not advocate
them exclusively. It does not advocate nonviolent submission or only nonviolent "resistance" against
dictatorships, totalitarians and terrorists but, rather, more rightful and rational resistance and liberation
steps, methods and institutions.
See: Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Autonomy, Broadcasting, Cultural Revolution, Decision,
Declarations, Desertion, Disobedience, Enlightenment, Exterritorial Autonomy, Free Trade,
Geothermal Power, Immigration, Individual Responsibility, Militia, Negotiations, Open Air Speaking,
Panarchy, Peace Declarations, Publicity, Questions, Referendums, Resistance, Revolutions, Secession,
Separate Peace, Sun Power, Tidal Power, Tolerance, Voluntary Taxation, Wind Power.
NTHPOWER PROBLEM OR PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR "WEAPONS"
Already one government possessing nuclear weapons is one too much. Now there are at least six
known to have them: USA, USSR, UK, France, China and India and dozens more could easily get
them by using their nuclear reactors. A further spread must be prevented, at almost any cost, seeing
how much this would increase the likelihood of nuclear war. Any kind of commando raid and sabotage
effort would be morally justified in that cause. A nuclear attack would not be.
See: Accidental War, Arms Race, Atomic Energy, Decision, Desertion, Disarmament, Espionage,
Military Insurrections, Militia, Resistance, Research, Revolutions, Secrecy, Separate Peace, Treason,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Uranium Mining, War Aims.
NUCLEAR ATTACK, UNILATERAL, SURPRISE ATTACK, FIRST STRIKE
The fear of such an attack is the main driving force behind the nuclear arms race and the deterrence
policy. To overcome this fear, some effective alternative defensive methods must be convincingly
described and put into operation. Some of these are mentioned under: Defence, Desertion,
Disarmament, Free Migration, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Revolutionary Warfare, Sabotage,
Secession, Tax Strike, Tyrannicide.
Once certain rightful war aims are believably proclaimed and certain appeals and public declarations
made in a trustworthy way, by the people themselves, then every dictatorship (every government from
which such an attack might
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come), would be rendered so shaky that any new & large wrong that it would commit could topple it
and its rulers would realize this. The threat of well organized and popular revolutions and military
insurrections, as well as of liberation wars and tyrannicide, is probably the most effective deterrent for
them.
See: Appeals, Declarations, GovernmentsinExile, Guaranties, Liberation War, Military Insurrections,
Militia, Peace Declarations, People, Revolution, Secession, Surrender, Trust, War Aims.
NUCLEAR FREE ZONES
NuclearFreeZones are a basically sound idea, but badly worded, since all dead and living matter is
made up of atoms or nuclear matter. Only the scope of the suggestion is much to small, revealing
parochial rather than worldwide thinking. In an age IBM's no area is absolutely safe, even when it is
declared to be a "nuclearfree zone". Admittedly, if it has no nuclear installations, or installations
subsidiary to nuclear warfare, like some communication bases for e.g. nuclear armed submarines, then
it is correspondingly less likely to be attacked with nuclear devices.
The old idea of nuclearfreezones has been especially outmoded by the development of nuclear
submarines and nuclear weapons placed in space i. e., in formerly nuclearfree zones.
To offer full safety there ought to be only one NuclearFreeZone, one encompassing the whole Earth
and space around it. They must all become free of nuclear weapons and of installations for their
production, including nuclear power plants.
Otherwise, it will be almost as ineffective as "gun control", a disarmament which disarms the honest
citizens and leaves the criminals armed against them. It has thus been aptly called: "victim
disarmament".
To initiate a worldwide NuclearFreeZone and achieve at least a moderate degree of increased
security, any democratic people could and should initiate a unilateral nuclear disarmament.
See: Decision, Declarations, Defence, Disarmament, GovernmentsinExile, Liberation War, Military
Insurrections, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Nuclear Strength, People, Revolution, Surrender, Tax
Strikes, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
NUCLEAR REACTORS
Nuclear reactors produce plutonium and enriched uranium as raw material for still more nuclear
destructive devices. The governments running or supervising them may also secretly stockpile these
materials "to keep their options open". Thus referendums should initiate the destruction of all these
camouflaged nuclear arms factories.
Due also to the pollution, accident and sabotage risk involved and through their being primary targets
in a nuclear war, the people, those living up to 500 miles around them, should become free to veto, by
referendum, the establishment and the continuance of any such power plant.
See: Atomic Energy, Peaceful Use, Referendum.
NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND RESEARCH
Nuclear science and research should be stopped for the same reasons that research into torture methods
and "scientific" investigations of Nazi doctors in extermination camps, using involuntary human guinea
pigs, were finally stopped.
See ; Peaceful Use, Research, Scientists.
NUCLEAR STRENGTH: GOVERNMENTS & NUCLEAR WEAPONS DO NOT MIX WITH
PEACE
Even most advocates of "limited governments" still favour unlimited nuclear strength and do not notice
the contradiction.
Nuclear strength means absurd strength: It holds the victims rather than the culprits responsible. The
culprits might survive, in the safest bunkers.
To defeat a dictator much less destructive weapons than nuclear devices are required. Otherwise his
victims maybe completely wiped out instead and their oppressors may well be the only survivors.
Nuclear strength means: If anything goes wrong, all goes wrong and we have had it.
"A nuclear armed nation is like a mouse with detonator teeth and a nitroglycerine soaked tongue"
suggested D.Z., 7. 12. 73, when he was ten.
All nuclear strength policies remind me of the words of a rowing boat captain to his crew: "It's not all
brute strength and stupidity!"
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Nuclear strength is an invitation to disaster: It makes us a primary nuclear target for others.
All in all it amounts not to an extreme strength but an extreme weakness in national and individual
security. Security can only be achieved when nobody has any nuclear strength left. To possess only a
suicidal strength does indicate an extreme military weakness, probably the most dangerous of all.
"1945 gave us a whole new situation. Up to then it was people who ran out of time. Now there's always
the chance that time will run out of people first." William Garner, "The Us or Them War", end of ch.
27. Don't let time run out of people! would be a shorter version.
Nuclear strength means widespread individual powerlessness, since nuclear power in the hands of a
few renders all others impotent. (One might well ask whether most of those with nuclear potency want
to make up for sexual impotence due to their age.)
Admittedly, nuclear strength in everyone's hands would make everybody even more insecure and
probably would reduce our survival chances to hours or even minutes only.
Only the power to destroy all nuclear powers ought to be in everybody's hands. The only rightful and
sensible conclusion is not a further monopolization of nuclear power but general decision that nobody
ought to be allowed any ABC mass murder devices. That is the only gun control we really need. It
would be impossible to effectively control anybody's nuclear strength with complete safety, if he is left
in possession.
But all nuclear strength could be destroyed. This process of destruction can be controlled although not
by governments, no matter how "strong" they are. It could be achieved by people properly armed,
organized, trained and motivated for this, best in ideal militia forces.
No moral or rational aim: can be achieved with nuclear strength. What is usually called "nuclear
strength" is nothing but a scientific preparation for mass murder. If you want to make friends with the
innocents you have first of all to cease threatening them, indiscriminately, together with their
oppressors.
A chain reaction induced among the enemy's conscripts, dissolving his military forces by desertion or
turning them against him en bloc, is a much more effective approach to peace than any nuclear chain
reaction and it is also a way to avoid nuclear war.
Secede from all nuclear powers and associate against them on an exterritorial basis, which does not
offer them any nuclear targets.
Real strength instead of the fiction of nuclear "strength", would lie e.g. in the following measures and
preparations:
Outlawry and tyrannicide of all who retain or build nuclear mass murder devices.
Induced mass desertions from the enemy's forces.
Alliances with governments in exile. Public declaration of quite just war aims.
Revolutionary warfare, Leading e. g. to military uprisings among the enemy's forces.
Separate peace treaties with the enemy's armies.
Establishment of militias for the protection of human rights largely with deserters from the enemy
regime's military forces.
Highly discriminating destructive warfare measures, like destruction of furnaces and ballbearing
industries only but without nuclear weapons.
Respect fur the human rights even of the enemy's soldiers and civilians.
Proper clarification of who the real enemy is.
Appeals and declarations which could and would be trusted even by the enemy's soldiers.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Backfiring, Decision, Collective
Responsibility, Defence, Deterrence, Disarmament, Control, Doomsday Bomb, Enemy, Failsafe,
Exterritorial Imperative, Madness, Overkill, Politicians, Power, Responsibility, Sleeplessness, Strength,
Surrender, Targets, Terrorism, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
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NUCLEAR UMBRELLA
We are all living in a fool's paradise, the nuclear "umbrella". Whosoever believes in the effectiveness
of the nuclear umbrella has not yet realized what radioactive rain means and the hard and heat radiation
from a nuclear explosion or the following fire storm otherwise he would not use this analogy. Nuclear
devices simply are no defensive means nor effective enough deterrents. There are no effective
umbrellas against the nuclear war threat.
When attacked or threatened with nuclear devices because one hasn't taken. the necessary preventive
steps in time it is far preferable to surrender immediately than undertake or let one's ally resort to a
nuclear counterstrike. This way some more people are likely to survive and altogether less nuclear
devices will be used.
See: Alliances, Communism, CounterTerror, Defence, Deterrence, Nuclear Strength, Red / Dead,
Retaliation, Surrender.
OATH TO DEFEND NOTHING BUT INDIVIDUAL HUMAN RIGHTS
The military oath is morally not binding, at least not when used to force someone to engage in mass
murder with nuclear "weapons". An oath of obedience and allegiance to a nuclear armed regime is not
better but worse than one to an absolutist monarch or totalitarian dictator. All such oaths must be
publicly declared as invalid, as binding no one. Whosoever would persist in obeying them and showed
any readiness and opportunity to use nuclear devices against other should be outlawed. He should get a
chance for amnesty only if he destroys or surrenders at least one such device.
All present oaths in armed forces ought to be replaced by oaths to defend nothing but human rights.
One cannot defend then with nuclear devices. When all human rights are realized, no one will wield
nuclear power over anyone any longer. Those unwilling to give this oath ought to be disarmed and kept
disarmed.
All members of all armed forces, including policemen, are to swear this new oath.
Everyone will have to swear neither to give nor to obey any order whose execution would offend
against individual human rights. Equal to such orders are general regulations and instructions. (Freely
translated note by U. v. Beckerath, 23. 3. 55.)
See: Allegiance, Amnesty, Discriminating Warfare, Disobedience, Election of Officers, Indiscriminate
Warfare, Human Rights, Loyalty, Military Insurrections , Militia, Obedience, Outlawry, Resistance,
Subordination, Terrorism, Tyrannicide, War Aims, Weapons.
OBEDIENCE
Rightful obedience ends where nuclear war would begin. Obedience towards men with nuclear
weapons is a vice unless a whole country is threatened with nuclear terror. Then a moral and rational
man must be prepared to submit, outwardly, officially, and then wait and use his next chance, for
which he should be very well prepared. A desperate stand would only lead to still more mass murder.
"Live and fight another day is an old military motto, justifying tactical or strategic retreats before
superior forces.
See: Appeals, Control, Decision, Declarations, Disarmament, Disobedience, Immorality, Military
Insurrections, Militia, Oaths, People, Prizes, Red/Dead, Referendums, Resistance, Revolution,
Secession, Separate Peace, Subordination Surrender, Tyrannicide.
OIL, EXCLUSIVE TERRITORIAL POSSESSION
Territorial ownership claims on natural resources tends to lead to military clashes, especially among
monopolists and protectionists. They could ultimately lead to nuclear war. Equal access for all to such
resources, e.g. through open cooperatives and free trading, would avoid these clashes. See: Exterritorial
Imperative, Free Trade, Free Migration, Nationalism, Natural Resources, Open Cooperatives,
Territorial Organization, War Aims.
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OPEN AIR SPEAKING PLACES, SPEAKERS' CORNERS, STREET CORNER ORATORY
For public and well publicized appeals directly by people to the people on the other side of a frontier,
for onesided peace declarations, declarations of rightful war aims, separate peace treaty offers and for
all kinds of external policies, declared and guaranteed, directly, by armed and organized people
themselves, such places and opportunities are essential, in addition to all other opportunities and
channels for freedom of expression and information for everybody.
Publicity for such appeals, declarations and offers should be maximized in order to reduce the risk of
deceptions and misunderstandings and to maximize mutual trust, not between leaders but between their
victimized subjects.
In this the oldfashioned open air meetings could still play an important role, as they did in many
democratic former revolutions. Anyone from the other side, who is still full of distrust, could easily
mix anonymously with such crowds and convince himself of the seriousness and reliability of their
intentions and proposals. Such meetings could should thus be widely broadcast. As obviously
democratic meetings they could be trusted.
If, moreover, the people were also free to assemble armed and then show their disobedience and
resistance determination towards nuclear power and their readiness is shown to engage in unilateral
nuclear disarmament actions, then their promises are more likely to be trusted than those of diplomats
or politicians, especially when it is known that they are also militarily organized and trained in militias
for the protection of human rights.
Rarely would there be everywhere sufficient roofed space to shelter all those involved in such direct
democracy meetings.
Preferably the whole adult population should participate.
Obviously, to bring about such popular meetings of sufficiently enlightened people, an enormous
enlightenment effort would be required. We have now more and better alternative media to promote
this than ever before. But open air meetings and special meeting places for such meetings could still
play a significant role in achieving the required degree and spread of enlightenment.
Decisive is not the present condition and use of such free speech places and their present bureaucratic
repression but what could and should be made out of such places.
See: Appeals, Broadcasting, Decision, Declarations, Diplomacy, Enlightenment, Peace Declarations,
People, Publicity, Referendum, Trust, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims.
OPEN CITIES
International conventions outlawed attacks against open cities; i. e. most nuclear attacks. Just check for
yourself how well are governments prepared for the breaking of these conventions, risking the lives of
most of the world population in the process.
Nuclear war devices are primarily anticity "weapons", even though some governments recently
promised not. to use them exclusively against cities. In any large scalescale war escalation would see
to it that they would be so used.
Only nuclear disarmament could prevent this and it ought to begin unilaterally, in full recognition. of
the weakness of nuclear strength and to make sure it begins at all.
See: Air Raids, Bombers Cities, Collective Responsibility, Deterrence, Disarmament, Discriminating
Warfare, Enemy, Indiscriminate Warfare, International Laws, Liberation War, Overkill, Revolutionary
Warfare, Secret Allies; Targets, War Airs, Weapons.
OPEN COOPERATIVES
In order to prevent all further fighting about exclusive national ownership of natural resources, equal
access to them should be established. Everybody should have a free market access to them, as an
investor and employee. No "closed shops" or legal monopolies for them. This means much more than
merely free migration, free trading and privatization.
It could be achieved, for every individual, by organizing the exploitation of natural resources through
"open cooperatives", i.e., productive enterprises which everybody may freely join but which would
reward their members only according to their contributions in capital, labour and skills.
Everybody would also be free to join them as a voter in their general meetings.
Under such conditions nobody could, to any considerable degree or for any length of time, abuse any
natural monopoly monopolistically and thus obtain an advantage that others would be willing to fight
him for. This idea has been elaborated in several books by Theodor Hertzka, especially in his recently
reprinted social utopia; "Freeland", Gordon Press N. Y., 1972 and in the sequel: Travel to Freeland.
See: Class Warfare Ideology, Communism, Cooperatives, Investments, Monopolies, Natural
Resources, Oil, Property, Purchase of Enterprises.
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OPEN SEAS
The open seas or high seas convention was never meant to be an open invitation to pirates and other
aggressors to hide in and attack from but grants freedom for all peaceful activities from interventions
by territorial States.
While placing nuclear devices into oceans might, to some extent, deter from aggression, because it
ensures some counterstrike capability, it also keeps counterstrikes away from those who might want
start a nuclear war and does to that extent encourages aggression.
Moreover, by hiding the identity of an attacker, a nuclear armed submarine might induce third parties
to make nuclear war against each other by pretending to be one of them and hitting the other. For
instance, the Red Chinese regime might attempt to set the USSR and the US against each other. Several
novels and films have explained these possibilities.
Generally, an attack is considered to be all the more morally reprehensible the more it is undertaken
from ambush or secret sanctuaries. We have here something like secret preparations for mass murder,
for genocide, undertaken by the same people who outlawed the execution of a single tyrant, as if it
were a murderous assassination, and sometimes even the execution of an ordinary criminal. Moreover,
they have usually outlawed selfdefence with firearms while being prepared to use nuclear devices to
murder millions of innocents. They have good reasons to fear for their lives when their victims are
armed and their powers and laws create victims by the millions.
Nuclear weapons are immoral and they are no weapons. They hit neither the real enemy nor the proper
target. They are neither defensive means and nor rightful retaliatory devices. Nor are they reliable
deterrents or sufficiently failsafe. Thus they should not only be kept off allland areas, out of the air
and space, but also out of the open seas. The sea ought to be kept free of all nuclear armed and nuclear
powered ships and submarines and thus free from nuclear counter strikes and the pollution caused by
nuclear power plants.
All peacefully trading people, everywhere, are wronged, harmed or endangered by this abuse
All people on Earth, no matter how far they live away from the point of impact of any nuclear weapons
delivered from the high seas, are exposed to the radioactive pollution hazard involved.
The high seas will be freed from these monstrous "military" "defence" preparations once this whole
program has
been realized. These nuclear war ships and submarines, too, could be rendered harmless by induced
mutinies or by taking over their bases on land. To wipe them out with nuclear weapons would be
wrong and risky. It would still amount to an attack against the whole world population, by means of.
radioactive pollution, and it could lead to a counterstrike from these nuclear armed ships and
submarines.
Theprinciple of the open seas, namely that they remain open for all peaceful activities, but not for
piracy, if applied to land, would mean the dissolution of nuclear targets, the realization of the
exterritorial imperative and would thus lead to nuclear disarmament and peace.
At present the seas have become attractive to defence planners by their ownerless status and their
relative emptiness. Thus everybody should get access to this natural resource: Let the seas be "owned"
by open cooperatives. These cooperatives would lead to an extensive international use and lastly even
to settlement of the seas. The technology for this "ocean freedom" has been achieved. Thus the high
seas could become eliminate as an unclaimed and empty battleground. The cooperatives would stop
this abuse of their property.
Individual sovereignty, thus applied to the high seas, would give every individual a veto against its
abuse for nuclear power games.
See: Accidental War, Aggression, Bases, Collective Responsibility, Counterstrike, Decision, Defence,
Deterrence, Disarmament, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Immorality, Individualism, Liberation
Wars, Military Insurrections, Morality, Nationalism, Natural Resources, Open Cooperatives, Nuclear
Strength, Radiation Hazard, Referendum, Secrecy, Secret Allies, Sovereignty, Sovereignty,
Submarines, Targets, Territorial Organization, Terrorism, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims,
Weapons.
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OPTING OUT OF THE NUCLEAR ARMS RACE
Don't be part of the nuclear war establishment Dissociate yourself completely from those engaged in it.
Opt out of all beliefs and institutions making for nuclear war, including armies, national economies and
territorial States.
See: Alternative Institutions, Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Conscription, Consent, Competing
Governments, Decision, Desertion, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of
Action, Government, Minority Autonomy, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Pluralism, Revolution,
Secession, Separate Peace, Sovereignty, State, Territorial Organization, Unilateral Nuclear
Disarmament.
OPTIONS, PEACEFUL
Peace requires the existence of peaceful options. They are denied e.g. by censorship, the practice of
collective responsibility, compulsory State membership, conscription, monopolies for decision making,
diplomatic monopolies, immigration or emigration barriers, majority despotism, military discipline,
monetary despotism, legally established monopolies, territorial nationalism, protectionism, repression
of individual and minority group secessions and exterritorial autonomy, secrecy, coercive
subordination, taxation, uniform territorial legislation, legalized and mass murder "weapons" systems.
See also under: Alternatives, Exterritorial Imperative, Secession.
OUTLAWRY, AMNESTY AND TYRANNICIDE
Anyone persisting in nuclear research, production of nuclear weapons material (nuclear reactor by
products ), nuclear weapons storing and stockpiling them, targeting, commanding them or ordering
others to use them or retaining powers to do so, should be outlawed in the old meaning of the word,
i.e., everyone should be free and under obligation to kill him, with impunity, when the opportunity
arises. These criminals are even worse than most of the invading monsters from space, imagined by
Science Fiction, and they should, after expiry of an amnesty period, be incapacitated or shot on sight.
During a well published amnesty period they should be given an opportunity to surrender, provided
they surrender also their weapons or weapon materials or production or research facilities. This radical
and "illegal" procedure should be legalized and constitutionalized by initiative and referendum. The
amnesty period, thus determined, might run for, let us say, 10 days after the referendum. Then its
outlawry clause would come into force.
From then onwards the only chance for one of the outlawed to escape his execution would consist in
destroying or, surrendering a nuclear device.
Not only the officers, managers, administrators and scientists of nuclear weapons installations should
be outlawed but everyone employed in such installations, down to the sweepers provided they
persisted in these employments beyond the amnesty period stated in the referendum.
On the other hand, alternative employment should be offered to those giving up their preoccupation
with mass murder preparations and do so within the stipulated period.
In short: Outlawry for those who keep nuclear weapons in readiness and amnesty for those who help to
render them harmless.
What a change in mentality would be required: one from blind obedience to those with nuclear powers
to one leading to active resistance against them!
See: Amnesty, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Desertion, Disarmament, Disobedience, Education,
Employment, Encyclopaedia of the Best Refutations, Enlightenment, Ideas Archive, Militia,
Obedience, Open Air Speaking, Resistance, Revolution, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Statism,
Subordination, Tyrannicide.
OVERESTIMATION
Habitual overestimation of the own strength and underestimation of that of the oppo
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sition makes for war. This tendency applies also to nuclear war and is supported by the usual servile
reports of the own followers and the secrecy of the preparations for war on all sides.
See: Accidental War, Aggression, Censorship, Decision, Experts, Generals, Miscalculations,
Politicians, Publicity, Rulers, Referendums, Secrecy, War Aims, Weapons.
OVERPOPULATION THEORY
The overpopulation theory is wrong but popular and widely accepted. Thus it makes the vision of mass
extermination appear as less horrible, at least to some people. Some might even consider it to be
"desirable", for "humanitarian" reasons. We live in an age when "one child families" have been
imposed by some governments and compulsory sterilizations and abortions. Refutations of this theory
can be found e.g. in the works of Theodor Hertzka, in Henry George's "Progress and Poverty" and the
pamphlet by R.A. Childs': "Laissez Faire in Population". I am still seeking William Godwin's very
early pamphlet against these teachings by Malthus.
See: Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Ideas/Wrong, Myths, Prejudices
PANARCHY
Panarchy means that there may be anywhere and at the same time as many different "governments" or
nongovernmental free societies, competing with each other, as can find voluntary supporters. They are
then in the same position as churches are in countries with religious liberty, but, contrary to most
present churches or sects, they would enjoy full exterritorial autonomy. "To each the government or
nongovernmental society of his or her dreams!" (K.H.Z. Solneman's formula, from his "Manifesto for
Peace and Freedom", slightly reworded by myself.)
Only when all governments, nations, societies and communities can be
a) set up, maintained and expanded quite peacefully, everywhere, by making individual converts and
b) can be reduced, peacefully, to a harmless degree of power, or even to bankruptcy and disappearance
all this by free individual secessions and voluntary membership,
i.e., when only voluntarily and unanimously supported governments & societies remain,
all coexisting in the same territory,
all minding their own business or doing their own things to and for themselves,
only then will there be no longer a continuous and severe threat to peace.
Only then will governments neither be able to arm themselves with nuclear devices.
Only then will they non longer be motivated to use nuclear mass murder devices against each other and
their subjects.
Only then will targets for mass murder devices disappear and conscripts to man them.
Panarchy provides this survival chance.
Please, do check out these assertions and all related ones, from every angle. Then, when you have
finally convinced yourself. do not rest until you have done your part to realize this ideal society or
peaceful framework for idealistic societies and supposedly "ideal" governments, for those willing to
put up with them.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Experimental Freedom,
Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Secession,
Territorial Organization, Voluntarism, War Aims, peace plan 109 and the PEACE PLANS subseries
called ON PANARCHY.
PARALLEL INSTITUTIONS, PANARCHIES, ONEMAN REVOLUTIONS
Uniform territorial states are without parallel in causing or preparing slaughter and destruction via
conventional weapons and now ABC mass murder devices. They can be competed out of existence by
the establishment and protection of parallel institutions, or competing governments, or panarchies, to
take over all their desired activities at the expense of those desiring them. Via individual and minority
group secessionism voluntary associationism all people could come to escape those territorial States
and societies they do not want and could drive them into bankruptcy and thus make them disappear, for
lack of followers or customers or could reduce them to the size determined by their remaining
voluntary followers.
All revolutions are started and promoted by parallel institutions. To institutionalize these institutions
means making revolution permanent, but doing this in a peaceful and individualistic way, by allowing
the realization of any degree of progress or regress desired by some, without motivating anyone to
resort to territorial legislation or other oppression or terrorist means to overcome a dissenting majority
or several dissenting minorities. In this practice even oneman revolutions would become possible and
they would be confined to the individuals who made their revolutions for themselves.
See: Alternative institutions, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Experimental Freedom,
Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Liquidation of Governments, Minority Autonomy,
Majority, Panarchy, Personal Law, Power, Rulers, Secession, Sovereignty, States, Voluntary Taxation,
Voluntarism, Welfare States.
PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY
Don't monopolize the power to prepare, start, end or prevent nuclear war! Don't make nuclear power a
nationalized industry or a government option. Destroy all such powers and preparations. Allow
everyone freely to act to prevent nuclear war and thus to help preserve his life and that of his beloved.
To work towards a just, free and peaceful society is not only a right but a duty for every sufficiently
reasonable being.
Any "democracy" or "republic" in which decisionmaking on war and peace, armament and
disarmament as well as on international treaties and on war and peace aims is monopolized, in a few
hands, instead of such affairs being decided by the people, by individuals, for themselves, is in reality
an authoritarian, even a despotic regime. Never mind its democratic or republican trappings and
pretences.
We have been so conditioned by statist education systems that hardly anyone questions the
wrongfulness of centralizing these excess powers and rendering all others powerless in these respects.
Selfdefence, survival preparations, selfdetermination, cannot be rightfully and effectively delegated.
Attempts to do so have always led to disasters and manmade catastrophes can be all the greater while
ABC mass murder are available to anyone. No one has the right to determined whether mankind is
going to survive or not. All such powers must be destroyed together will all means and "weapons" for
them.
See: Appeals, Consent, Decision, Free
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dom, Freedom of Action, Free Migration, Free Trade, Human Rights, Individualism, Militia, Minority
Autonomy, Negotiations, People, Peace Declarations, Referendum, Representation, Responsibility,
Secession, Selfhelp, Separate Peace, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, Voting, War Aims, Weapons.
PARTIES
Parties are not the answer and cannot be. They just continue in the internal sphere what externally leads
to nuclear war. They are also pushing for wars when their kind of people are suppressed in other
countries.
They do not offer services to willing buyers but are engaged in power games, planning for aggressions,
oppressions and exploitation and engaging in it whenever they get the chance. Territorialism gives
them that chance. They, combined with the territorial system, guarantee that the world population
remains coercively organized in antagonistic groups, that either the majority or minorities will be more
or less oppressed. They are unable to harmonize interests. Their compromises are at best temporary
expedients which do not settle anything and continue to antagonize all concerned. They play zerosum
games rather than winwin games.
Parties will cease to be parties for more or less bloody civil or external wars and become harmoniously
and peacefully coexisting organizations only once their powers become confined to their own members
and voters, once one can escape their sphere of influence and power as easily after they have gained
political power than before: when one can at any time in case of aggression or otherwise, at least after
a giving notice, secede from their governments unilaterally, individually, without thereby endangering
a single of one's individual human rights.
Let parties freely rule but only over their members and followers but not ever over a single non
aggressive dissenter.
Under panarchism every party would win in every election: full exterritorial autonomy for itself and its
voters.
See: Autonomy, Coexistence, Competing Governments, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial
Imperative, Freedom of Action, Laissez Faire, Laws, Leadership, Majority, Minority Autonomy,
Nationalism, Parliamentarism, Politicians, Power, Referendums, Secession, Sovereignty, Territorial
Organization, Voluntarism, Voting.
PEACE
Peace cannot be based on ABC "weapons" or territorial governments. It requires their abolition.
Be peaceful or be gone might be a motto for mankind now. We can no longer afford wars which
might escalate into nuclear wars.
But to achieve a lasting peace we must have justice and complete individual liberty for every non
aggressive and sufficiently rational being or, in other words, full realization of all individual human
rights and all rights of rational beings. There is no other way to peace than trough the full realization of
all these rights and liberties.
The record shows that territorial governments are unwilling and unable to do this job. On the contrary,
they are the greatest single threat to rights and liberties and thereby to peace.
See: Dictatorships, Freedom, Government, Human Rights, Individualism, Justice, Liberty,
Libertarianism, Militia, Police Actions, Power, Rulers, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Tolerance, Voluntarism,
War Aims, Welfare State.
PEACE DECLARATIONS, UNILATERAL
Especially under the threat of nuclear war, a peace declaration, even a unilateral one, makes more sense
than a war declaration but it requires more thought and preparation to become quite effective. Any
fool in power can start a war but not just any fool in power can preserve the peace with some foolish
peace declaration. Peace declarations by governments deserve to be distrusted. Only thoughtful and
practicable peace declarations, given publicly by a free people, are trustworthy. A sensible and
trustworthy peace declaration could serve to destroy the morale of the
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enemy regime's troops and could lead to a revolution or military insurrection. Lenin & Trotzky tried
this out in 1918, at the peace negotiations in Brest Litowsk. No immediately but only after a few
months, not as early as they had hoped for, they were successful: the democratic and partly
communistic revolution broke out in Germany, started by the mutiny of some sailors who did not want
to be sacrificed in a last and major naval attack, and so World War I was terminated. Then the
subsequent and territorial nonsolutions, imposed by governments, prepared for WW II.
The unilateral peace declaration, uttered by Trotzky, simply invited the soldiers in the trenches to
leave, go home, and till their soil. It told the ammunition workers to do the same, closed the armament
factories, declared the war to be over, regardless of what the Germans would do and appealed to the
revolutionary and peaceful spirit of all the other victims of the war, worldwide.
This is the kind of nonviolent action and "turning the other cheek" which does deserve study and
ought to be repeated in combination with many other libertarian steps. The Russian revolution and
this declaration did also have an effects on several of the invasionforces which the Western Allies sent
in later, in an attempt to suppress the communist revolution. Some of these soldiers disembarked but
refused to march far away from the ships that had brought them. The had their sympathies for these
revolutionaries and all too many delusions about them. War wariness existed on all sides but may not
have been sufficiently recorded and publicized on the side of the victors.
See: Appeals, Broadcasting, Decision, Declarations, Desertion, Disobedience, Military insurrections,
Militia, Negotiations, NonViolence, Open Air Speaking, People, Publicity, Referendum, Refusal to
Accept Government Paper Money, Revolution, Secession, Separate Peace, Tax Strike, Trust,
Tolerance, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims, peace plans 169 & 234.
''PEACEFUL" USE OF ATOMIC ENERGY: NUCLEAR REACTORS
To my knowledge, no nuclear power plant has ever been approved in a referendum by free and
enlightened people . They would be aware of the radiation hazard associated by these plants and of
their role as factories for nuclear bomb material. They would know how uneconomic they are, if all
their risks are taken into consideration and that without government guarantees insurance companies
would not cover them and could not cover all the risks involved. During wars they would become
prime targets. Such abuses should not be allowed to continue. Nor should they be covered up. They
make a sham of democracy, By means of referendum, repeated if necessary, among the people living
hundreds of miles around such a plant, the people could become aware of their rights, interests and
their powers in this respect and would no longer be likely to submit to government plans, institutions,
directions and controls for nuclear reactors. Once the voters are also suitably armed and trained,
governments could no longer act against the will of the people.
The slogan "peaceful use of atomic energy" has so far disarmed most of the opposition to nuclear
weapons. It ignores that most of the reactors are, in effect, bomb factories or at least production centers
for radioactive isotopes that could be used in nuclear "weapons". It ignores that most of the nuclear
research was of a military nature or sponsored by the military and is likely to be misused for military
purposes. It also ignores the longterm radiation hazards. It is mainly just a cover for nuclear war
hawks.
The wellbeing, freedom, peace and security of people does not depend on the use but on the nonuse
of nuclear power.
The utopia of unlimited, very cheap and quite safe nuclear power, which some have built up in their
minds and have promised to the public, are easily enough refuted. Radioactive ores are even rarer and
shorterlasting than are coal and oil. They are not renewable energy resources, although some isotopes
are produced in breeder reactors, usable in power plans or "weapons".
Fusion reactors using hydrogen are not yet practicable and, hopefully, never will be. Imagine hydrogen
bombs becoming easy and cheap to construct!
The production costs of electric power amount only to about 1/20th, of the transmission costs. Thus the
costs of electric power to the consumers cannot be significantly reduced by nuclear reactors. They
might even lead to a greater centralization of power production and thus higher transmission costs.
Moreover, these reactors are indirectly through the costly extraction and refinement methods used for
radioactive ores and reactor fuels huge consumers of electricity, usually conventionally produced.
Thus they are, more or less, mere storage and release systems for electricity produced elsewhere and
otherwise.
Once there are any nuclear power plants built, which produce, even if only as a byproduct, the raw
material for more nuclear devices, and, even if in times of peace their output is not used for this
purpose, in wartime these byproducts would almost certainly be diverted for nuclear weapons
production "in order not to render the fatherland defenceless." In reality, these "weapons" would
greatly increase our insecurity.
Some activists would feel conscientiously inclined to sabotage or otherwise destroy nuclear reactors.
Seeing that acting ignorance in this sphere could initiate large radiation hazards, such attempts by
laymen should be discouraged. If the staff of such plants were involved in such efforts, I would not
blame but rather praise them and r hope that a grateful population would assure their immunity from
prosecution and would even offer them rewards.
See: Arms Race, Atomic Energy, Disarmament, Militia, Nth. Power Problem, Progress, Radiation
Hazard, Referendum, Research, Scientists, War Aims.
PENSION CLAIMS, LOSS OF THEM
All those remaining obedient to dictatorships, to men with nuclear power, instead of resigning or
resisting, should at least be threatened with loss of their pension claims, e. g. claims against the
remaining State assets, People who could not be motivated ideo
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logically could often be motivated to do the right thing through their wallets This would apply to
military officers, nuclear scientists, nuclear engineers, and also to mere administrators.
The people must come to fully realize the fact they, with their taxes, pay for the police, the army, the
scientists, technicians and the bureaucrats, who are involved with this technology, and that they are
thus threatening themselves and the very survival of mankind, of peoples, nations and all kinds of other
communities, however indirectly. They pay for the nuclear, biological or chemical annihilation
"weapons" which are largely directed against themselves. Why should they, the people, be obliged to
pay them their high salaries, pensions and perks for such disservices? Who usually pays the politicians
and bureaucrats? Their victims! Deny them "the sanction of the victim"!
The general rule should be that all those convicted of having offended against human rights and natural
rights of rational. beings, should be recalled and deprived of their pension rights. Whosoever received a
salary for oppressing basic rights should, at least, not be rewarded with a pension for this activity. All
suppressions of rights, from censorship to military dictatorship, are liable to lead, lastly, to the extreme
suppressive act: a nuclear holocaust.
The threat to withdraw pension rights will not be fully effective on its own. It will, however, act as a
deterrent. Another effect is perhaps still more important. Every pension withdrawal made public, with
the reasons fully stated, would increase among the people the appreciation for human rights, whenever
and from whatever countries such cases are reported. The pension withdrawals could be enforced or
promoted by special tax strikes.
To make the realization of this system easier, at least the following changes should be undertaken in
the pension system:
1. the payment of pensions is to be undertaken by the productive enterprises themselves and directly.
These payments are to be deducted from their social insurance contributions. The employees and the
employers of these enterprises will have a close took at 'their" pensioners. This has also the advantage
of avoiding payment difficulties in revolutionary times.
2. Special associations should be established to check the justification of all pensions. To assist them,
the addresses of all pensioners, the details of their career and the amount of their pensions should be
published, Procedures for the withdrawal are to be developed. Everybody should be free to act as an
accuser in these proceedings. A suggestion by U. v. Beckerath.
Who would deny that the people have a right to refuse paying pensions which were approved by a
tyrannical government for services to it? Nobody should be burdened with tributes to the enemies of
mankind. To demonstrate the necessity of this step just one instance: Former Nazi henchmen, often
under jurisdiction of former Nazi judges, were all, too often, granted pension rights at the expense of
their victims.
The revolution which would reorganize human communities on a voluntary and exterritorial basis, to
prevent nuclear wars as well as other wars, organizations which would establish freedom, justice and
selfresponsibility, would recognize pension claims only for those who earned them by at least
recognizing rights and liberties and acting, whenever possible, in their favour. At the very least they
should now declare themselves publicly in favour of individual human rights. (See: Oaths.) None of
those involved in the nuclear arms race can claim to have done this. At most, in special cases, e. g.,
when they either destroyed or surrendered an ABC mass murder device, they should be granted
amnesty, safe conduct and subsistence, and protection in some retreat where they would have to spend
the rest of their lives under some other names.
See: Amnesty, Asylum, Outlawry.
SELFHELP BY FREE PEOPLE
Nuclear devices are not antityranny but antipeople "weapons". This is rather obvious: They are not
designed to destroy only e.g. a dictatorial government, one that is conscripting its subjects, their
earnings and property, to fight us, but instead, they are designed to wipe out, en masse, these primary
victims of tyranny, and, by this threat, they do incite fight our citizens in the same way or to give their
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cedure, all this fully accordance with the wrongful principle of collective responsibility. The
governmental decisionmakers, sitting in the safest shelters, may even survive on both sides, at least for
a while.
The people every individual have the right and duty to destroy these antipeople weapons and to
take all steps necessary to prevent their reconstruction.
The people cannot longer rely on governments to help them out of this danger. Territorial government
established and maintained it. They must help themselves and for this they must become sufficiently
enlightened and then also armed, trained and organized with rightful weapons.
In every statist or national territory there exist at present not just one people but a "majority nation" or a
dominant minority group, as well as a conglomerate of xyz national and other minorities, a coercively
"united" diversity which, by its very nature, creates dissatisfaction and unrest, resorting even to
terrorism, resistance and revolutionary and civil war attempts, as well as international wars. Individuals
should be free to secede from any of these forced grouping and to join or establish communities,
peoples, nations or utopias of their own individual choice, wherever they happen to live. All these
communities should be fully autonomous on an exterritorial basis. At present we do not really have "a
people" or "a society" but, more or less, only a territorial slave State or more or less despotic territorial
regime, in spite of various democratic or republican features and pretences. Their territorial nature
renders all of them despotic. Often this is openly revealed only when they establish concentration
camps, as the British did in South Africa during the Boer War, the U.S. government, during WW II for
American citizens of Japanese descent and the present Australian government for "illegal immigrants".
I can understand it when territorial governments are mad enough to engage in a nuclear arms race. But
I cannot fully comprehend the consent of the victims. Did the European Jews approve of the
establishment of extermination camps for themselves? That's what the tacit approval of nuclear
strength by most citizens amounts to.
Are we, like most dogs, loyal to our masters even when they prepare to shoot us?
Do we really want weapons which are essentially "antipeople weapons"?
Let us put such questions openly and clearly and repeatedly, if necessary in referendums. On the
replies hinges the fate of mankind.
I do hold that the people are inherently peaceful when reasonably civilized and educated and not
misled by governmental miseducation, propaganda, myths and censorship and when they are not
organized in an inherently antagonistic way, as they are in territorial organizations, which sets each
group against all others.
I believe that at present only the territorial powers of the present governments and their own
powerlessness, prejudices and ignorance drive them towards nuclear war and to the brink of it.
At least they are less warlike than their rulers are and this fact could be used by direct democratic
methods in order to gradually preserve or establish peace and, rather soon, eliminate the danger of
nuclear war.
See: Appeals Autonomy, Broadcasting, Cities, Collective Responsibility, Consent, Decision,
Declarations, Defence Democracy, Disarmament, Disobedience, Enemy, Extermination Camps,
Exterritorial Imperative, Governments, Human Rights, Ignorance, Leadership, Militia, Minority
Autonomy, Myths, Rationalism, Negotiations, Obedience, Open Air Speaking, Participatory
Democracy, Peace Declarations, Powerlessness, Prejudices, Property Concept of Citizens, Publicity,
Referendums, Representation, Responsibility, Resistance, Rulers, Secession, Selfdefence, Selfhelp ,
Separate Peace, Social Contract, State, Statism, Subordination, Targets, Territorial Organization, Trust,
Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voting, War Aims, Welfare State.
PERSONAL LAW
Why do territorial governments resort to nuclear weapons? Their intention is either to impose or defend
territorial constitutions, laws, jurisdictions and powers. They know no other. They "think" only in
terms of them. Their territorialist traditions and ideas lead inevitably to wars with ABC mass murder
devices. They never consider the alternative, the other side of the coin, the opposite to territorial law,
namely personal law for all human organizations and relationships.
Personal law, consistently applied to individuals and volunteer communities, and, naturally, to all
existing territorial States, causing most of the international and internal troubles, offers a way out, one
which is satisfactory to all sides to the extent that they are not interested in power over others but only
in power over their own affairs. It also offers a common platform for all selfresponsible, ethical and
rational citizens, no matter what their particular volunteer community affiliation is, against all
totalitarians, terrorists, war mongers and other aggressors.
It, and the panarchistic forms of organization, and their free competition with each other, is the optimal
form for a no longer tacit and enchained majority, made up of numerous minorities, and all other
minorities, for people of all kinds who simply want to live their own lives in their own ways, at their
own risk and expense..
A defensive federation between all of them could easily overpower all remaining aggressors, especially
when it is expressed in an federation or confederation of panarchies or ideal local volunteer militias for
the protection of individual rights and when its members are trained in the techniques of effective
resistance and liberation methods.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Coexistence, Consent,
Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Individualism, Laissez Faire, Libertarianism, Minority
Autonomy, Motives, Nationalism, Panarchism, Parallel Institutions, Pluralism, Territorial
Organization, Voluntarism.
PLANNING, CENTRALIZED AND COERCIVE, VS. GENUINE SELFDETERMINATION
The territorially and centrally planned collectivist defence ended up in the greatest insecurity for all
due to nuclear "strength". In this it is similar to the centrally planned national "eco
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nomies", which ended up with extreme poverty and even death for millions, state bankruptcies,
inflations, deflations, stagflations and prolonged and quite involuntary mass unemployment, conditions
which further promote despotism and wars as well as other violence.
See : Centralization, Communism, Decentralization, Decision, Economic Freedom, Freedom, Free
Enterprise, Laissez Faire, Market, Power, Monetary Freedom, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Voluntarism.
PLOWSHARE PROJECTS
Nuclear weapons cannot be turned into harmless "plowshares". The excavation projects for which they
are to be used do largely ignore the fallout danger. There is also the danger that anyone possessing
such explosives might use them for political or ordinary criminal blackmail or genocide attempts,
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
See: Atomic Energy, Disarmament, Peaceful Use, Power, Radiation Hazard.
PLURALISM
If men are not allowed to live according to their individual preferences, then they will attempt to
dominate others and thus realize their ideals far themselves. The territorial system leaves them no other
way. The history of territorial religious hierarchies and their wars and civil wars should be sufficient
proof for that. Now the territorially organized dissenters can terrorize each other with nuclear devices
and they continue doing so under the wrong assumption that territorial organizations are the only
possible and desirable ones, even if adhering to them would kill them in the long run.
The only way to satisfy all is to let all go their own way. We do this already daily, in numerous ways,
in our private lives. There individual decisions and actions prevail and thus individual satisfactions are
maximized. But in the political, economic and social sphere our taboos, traditions and customs, not so
ancient, have presently wedded us to territorial States and their rules, so much so that only very few are
able to think about alternative forms of organization and rules in these spheres.
Not only should individual voters and several groups have an influence on political, economic and
social decisions for the whole but there should be no majority decisions made for all except those few
required to uphold the peace between various autonomous and exterritorial bodies.
This requires no more than respect for the basic rights of members of other communities, no matter
what they do with their rights at their own expense. E. g., people who have the right to live in economic
freedom, have also the right to impose economic restrictions upon themselves, if that pleases them and
as long as it does, to retreat into any kind of communist monastery or nunnery or utopian colony
arrangement (on a private or cooperative proper ty or an exterritorial autonomy basis) if and as long as
they do prefer this and as long as they do not try to impose their choices on others.
Between these various communities there need only be treaties. e.g., on whose laws are to be applied
when members of several communities are involved.
Historically, either the law of the accuser, or that of the accused or mixed courts were used.
Panarchism is the consistent and ultimate development of pluralism. It is pluralism without its
territorialist prejudices, institutions and practices.
See: Alternative Institutions, Coexistence, Communism, Competing Governments, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Individualism, Laissez Faire, Minority
Autonomy, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Secession, Sovereignty, Tolerance,
Voluntarism, War Aims.
POLICE ACTIONS
Now that ABC weapons have driven the indiscriminate use of destructive power to the heights of
absurdity, it is most urgent to reduce all war actions to their rightful and sensible core: rightful and
limited policing actions against a few genuine aggressors:
"War… is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminal"
said Murray N. Rothbard, in: "War, Peace and the State", page 3.
To prevent nuclear war and WW III we do have to reduce wars to mere police actions against the main
political criminals with involuntary victims.
See: Aggression, Air Raids, Bombers, Civilians, Collective Responsibility, Decision, Defence,
Desertion, Destruction, Discrimination, Enemy, Human Rights, Indiscriminate Warfare, Liberation
Wars, Militia, Noncombatants, Outlawry, Prisoners of War, Revolutionary Warfare, Scorched Earth,
Targets, Tyrannicide, War Aims, Weapons.
POLITICAL ORDER, NEW VS. OLD
If we want to survive, then we must change our political system radically. Numerous
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points in this collection demonstrate this. Our present system, if it remains unchanged, makes nuclear
war inevitable at least in the long run.
It is not a natural social order and natural and rational morality which produced the nuclear threat but
the artificial political order, based on defective moral systems, enforced with wrongful coercive
institutions and measures and characterized by the territorial subdivision of mankind into subjects of
exclusive and coercive governments, which have a more or less absolute power over their subjects, a
power which allows them to use or abuse their subjects e.g. as soldiers, ammunition workers and
taxpayers. The statist religion of the subjects the sanction of the victims is the precondition of this
political disorder.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Decision, Exterritorial Imperative, Obedience, Referendum,
Secession, Statism, Subordination, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism.
POLITICIANS AND GENERALS
The professional nation "preservers and defenders" are now the most powerful nation destroyers.
What does one do with surgeons who have become demented and turned into very efficient mass
murderers or who very skillfully prepared themselves for such crimes?
All politicians and military men believing in nuclear strength, maintaining it or preparing for it, are a
menace to mankind and ought to be treated as such.
See: Abdication, Alternatives, Amnesty, Decision, Defence, Disarmament, Experts, Exterritorial
Imperative, Generals, Governments, Ignorance, Leadership, Madness, Militia, Nuclear Strength,
Officers, Outlawry, Pension Claims, People, Power, Recall, Revolution, Rulers, Secession, Security,
Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
POLITICS, COLLECTIVIST & COERCIVEZ: THE TERRITORIAL TYPE
If it ever was, politics is no longer "the art of the possible" but has, rather, become a war game,
endangering all that is free, rightful, rational and possible, to play a game to achieve what is impossible
for territorial politics: It cannot achieve peace, security, justice, freedom or wealth. In all its struggles it
only assures the contrary. It must be discarded or mankind will be its victim.
The oldfashioned politics, in which a few powerful men continuously make decisions contrary to the
interests and rights of at least numerous minorities, that is, of people who have not individually
authorized them, leads now to the ultimate extreme: nuclear holocaust.
Thus we should no longer tolerate this criminal and wasteful territorial war "game".
All political decisions are to be made in future by individuals and exclusively at their own cost and
expense.
All political powers not based on individual consent, at least expressed in voluntary membership, must
be destroyed.
All political monopolies must be dissolved.
See: Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Balance of Power, Consent, Decision, Declarations, Defence,
Democracy, Diplomacy, Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers, Governments, Individualism, Minority
Autonomy, Monopolies, Nationalism, Nuclear Strength, Parties, People, Politicians, Power,
Referendum, Responsibility, Secession, Security, States, Targets, Territorial Organization,
Voluntarism, War Aims.
POLLUTION
The realization of the right to clean air and water and foodstuffs would stop nuclear weapons tests,
nuclear reactors and the use of nuclear weapons. The people and individuals need only the right to sue
or resist polluters and the powers to hold them responsible.
See: Atomic Energy, Conservation, Disarmament, Human Rights, Militia, People, Radiation Hazards,
Selfhelp.
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POVERTY, INVOLUNTARY
The socalled "war against poverty" is a war, a civil war.
It perpetuates poverty by spreading and subsidizing it and restricting numerous economic activities
which could reduce poverty it effectively.
Instead of increasing. production it reduces it, e.g. by keeping employable people out of jobs and
reducing production incentives.
But involuntary poverty must be removed or at least greatly reduced if the nuclear war threat is to be
removed as it promotes class warfare ideas and is thus behind the East/West conflict, and now behind
much of the hatreds in extremely underdeveloped countries against the somewhat developed ones.
In theory and in practice only full economic freedom can do away with involuntary poverty. Measures
like full economic and financial freedom, still new to most people, would be primary. Naturally, these
freedom steps would have to be supported by many of the more conventional monetary freedom steps,
like: free pricing, free wage agreements, cooperative production, free trade, free interest rates, free
insurance and credit arrangements and, last and least, charity. Territorial statism cannot abolish poverty
but it can spread and perpetuate it.
Full experimental freedom, for all kinds of economic and social experiments, within volunteer
communities, in combination with a genuinely cultural revolution, could prove this sufficiently.
Panarchism would soon bring not only an end to wars but also an end to involuntary and widespread
poverty.
See: Capitalism, Communism, Competition, Cultural Revolution, Economic Freedom, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Enterprise, Free Migration, Free Trade, Investments, Laissez
Faire, Land Monopoly, Market, Monetary Freedom, Natural Resources, Secession, Socialism, Statism,
Taxation, Tax Strike, Voluntary Taxation, Welfare State.
POWER, TERRITORIAL, COERCIVE, CENTRALIZED & MONOPOLIZED, IN THE
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SPHERES
Territorial government power and nuclear power form an explosive mixture which could be set off
anytime, a mixture which could be dissolved into harmless constituents only by the full realization of
all individual liberties and rights.
Whosoever, after the invention of nuclear power, still believes in political power, does deserve to be
certified as insane.
Nuclear power renders most people more powerless than ever before and grants mass murderous and
suicidal powers to a few men.
Every territorial system is inseparably tied to power, excessive power in the hands of a few and it
means powerlessness for most of its victims. This is one of the reasons why territorial States of the
present and more or less totalitarian or authoritarian type must disappear, including those which are
wrongly called democracies.
What renders this situation desperate is that the men in power, as well as the academics and opinion
makers in the mass media, are almost blind to the impotence of territorial power, whilst those, who are
powerless, are almost blind to the remaining avenues to achieve selfdetermination and thereby peace,
freedom, justice, security and wealth.
Nuclear armament brings its own power concentration with it. Decisions must be made so fast in a
nuclear war that there is barely time for any consultation or even notification of allies, far less for
parliamentary discussions or for a referendum. A mere handful of men do then hold an almost arbitrary
power over the fate of man.
Such power should not be tolerated but rather be eliminated by the direct democratic process,
individual secessionism, and exterritorially autonomous volunteer communities and ideal militia forces,
revolutions, military insurrections, international police actions to liberate people, all initiated only after
a genuinely cultural revolution that would change public opinion in many ways. Sufficient
enlightenment before any unenlightened "actions". "Nothing is more terrible to behold than ignorance
in action." said W. v. Goethe.
Alternative and nonterritorially decentralized institutions, including and alternative defensive and
liberating organizations and steps must be used which put all remaining and rightful powers in the
hands of the people and would thus really protect them instead of endangering them.
How do we know that there is no new Nero, Caligula, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Idi Amin, or Castro among
the new rulers?
How can we tolerate nuclear devices in the hands of another "chairman" Mao who had presided over
the "liquidation" of between 32 and 64 million of his own countrymen? He was mad enough to have
believed and to publicly declare that it would be possible for him to remain victorious after a nuclear
war! (By now even many more innocents may have been killed in forced abortions in Red China. But
they are murdered, by the millions, in the rest of the world as well, by their own parents, with the aid of
trained medical persons.
Did those who voted for Nixon foresee what accusations would be levied against him and what could
one expect of politicians like him in the future, if they remain in power?
Curiously enough, the only presidential candidate who had at least some libertarian aspirations. was the
only candidate who was feared as a nuclear war monger. In office he might have been much safer than
the rest. However, nuclear strength is not safe in anyone's hands!
When I first heard about the assassination of President J.F. Kennedy, I assumed that another journalist
had got his facts wrong and that he meant the Khrushchev had been assassinated. Then I remembered
that under J.F.K. the nuclear "arsenal" of the U.S. had been doubled. There are no innocents in power.
Political power is the target of all too many ambitious men and it can be conquered much more easily
than widely dispersed power.
The power urge can express itself most dangerously in any territorial and statist constitution. In a just
organization it could not flourish, no more so than any other antisocial instinct, like the lust to kill.
Compare, for instance, the preference of German navy officers during World War I for large surface
ships compared with the rather small submarines. The former gave them more chances for promotion.
The same tendency was observed in the US Navy, according to a report in: "Das Beste aus Readers
Digest", April 1958, page 63.
Voluntaristic, exterritorial volunteer communities would still have their powerseekers, great leaders
and gurus but only over their volunteers. They would have to supply them, almost daily, with
sufficient consumer satisfactions, at competitive prices, to retain them as their customers and followers.
They would, largely, have to put up or shut up. Competition by other and often better systems,
organizations and leaders would be all around them and the opportunities for their members to shop
around would be immense. Powers and their games are costly and voluntary tax payers or contributors
cannot be very much imposed upon.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, both the powerful and the powerless. Nuclear
devices are perhaps the best instances. Bismarck is said to
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have remarked that a liberal may become a minister but this would not mean that he would become a
liberal minister.
"Politicians pride themselves in being able to blow up a city and at most you could get them to say:
'What a pity!"' (Suggested by David Z., 31/12/73)
To preserve their power, or in an attempt to preserve it, every means is right in the eyes of politicians,
even nuclear mass murder devices. Thus one of our guiding principles must be:
No more territorial political powers or any step ladders to such powers for anyone.
As long as there remains political power in the old sense, namely territorially organized and
monopolized and centralized coercion, and compulsory membership in its organizations, an effective
control of disarmament becomes impossible.
Moreover, all motives for "nuclear strength" would remain. Everybody would be rightly afraid of any
nuclear power except the mad power addicts and their statist followers.
We must now resist and destroy all institutions which cater to the ancient power urge found in many
most men. The pecking order has become so selfdestructive for humans that we must discontinue it, at
least for all territorial organizations offering dangerous powers over others, i.e., powers other than
those of e.g. presidents of national and international football leagues.
All unequal power, of which nuclear power is perhaps the worst, because it means absolute power over
others, must be destroyed. All individuals must gain the full power of selfdetermination, or individual
sovereignty, no more no less. Any sharing of that power with others must completely depend upon
their individual consent and the continuance of that consent.
Only this most severe limitation of territorial State powers could ban the danger of nuclear war
everywhere and permanently, at least while individuals cannot as yet, easily and cheaply construct
nuclear weapons as a craft or hobby. Even then the wrongful motives for their use would largely be
absent, as well as targets for them and disarmament forces against such devices would be maximized.
There would be no secrecy or privacy for the construction of ABC mass murder devices. Towards them
everybody with a minimum or morality and rationality would be an armed disarmament inspector.
All political powers must be limited to the extent of being "atomized" or exploded and should never
again be allowed to reach the critical territorial mass.
No political power should be allowed to persist which is not based on individual consent, i.e., which
does not confine its activities to voluntary followers, their own affairs and to aggressors against them.
This would exclude all economic and political policy powers binding upon peaceful dissenters.
It would require exterritorial organization, voluntarism, minority autonomy and personal law.
If the present territorial political powers are continued, nuclear war becomes inevitable in the not so
long run.
See: Acuteness, Arms Race, Balance of Power: Centralization, Decentralization, Decision Defence,
Democracy, Dictatorships, Disarmament Exterritorial Imperative, Monopolies, Motives, Nationalism,
Nuclear Strength, Referendum, Responsibility, Secession, Targets, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
POWERLESSNESS OF INDIVIDUALS UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM
Why do we feel powerless regarding nuclear war? Because we are! All relevant powers are
concentrated in the hands of our rulers, who, as exclusive and territorial rulers are unable to solve this
problem.
To undercut this powerlessness, and the apathy which it causes, people and individuals must gain
certain powers. Only when powers to run the own life become transferred back to the individual does
the nuclear war problem become solvable.
See: Alternative Institutions, Decision, Desertion, Freedom, Free Trade, Individualism, Militia,
Minority Autonomy, Monetary Freedom, Personal Law, Secession, Sovereignty, Voluntary Taxation.
PRAYERS
Have prayers ever prevented any war? About 10,000 Christians lived in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The
crusaders killed many Christians who happened to wear Arab type clothing. Religious wars were
among the worst. Even in W.W. I & II preachers still provided "religious" encouragement for the
slaughter, on both sides. And those in foxholes all too often prayed rather than preparing themselves
and their comrade for mass desertion, mass fraternization or a military insurrection. What is the "Ban
the Bomb!" slogan otherwise than a senseless short prayer?
And yet this absurd prostration and declaration of helplessness and powerlessness is still the most
common and most fervently engagedin and supposedly peacepromoting "activity".
On our knees and by folding our hands and by tacitly or audibly speaking to ??? we will not gain
sufficient liberties and rights to save ourselves.
Almost all of these pious people have considerable good will and do wish for peace (if only they would
not have to give up any of their beloved and objectively wrong aspirations) but in their ignorance and
prejudices they do contribute, in practice, to the continuance of war.
Most are not even able to apply the analogy of religious tolerance or religious liberty, and its effect
upon religious wars, to the political, economic and social spheres, where the application of the
principle involved would similarly bring about peace. A prayer is no substitute for knowledge,
understanding, intelligent observation, sound reasoning, judgment and free and rightful selfhelp
actions.
They have neither learned sufficient responsible disobedience from their holy writs, nor about
tyrannicide from the incidents reported in the Bible (e.g. of Judith against Holofernes), nor have they
made up their minds whether they favour the sections reporting collective responsibility actions by God
or his believers or those sections favouring individual responsibility. And this, in the case of
Christianity, after almost 2,000 years!
See: Collective Responsibility, Enemy, God, Ignorance, Intolerance, Myths, Nationalism, Personal
Thinking, Powerlessness, Prejudices, Property Concept of Citizens, Religion, Statism, Subordination,
Territorial Organization, War Aims, Weapons.
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PRECEDENTS
Nuclear weapons were not used so far and are thus unlikely ever to be used is the belief of some
rationalizing people. They forget that they were used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and this in less than a
survival situation and when Japan was already close to surrender. Something that in its effects is almost
as destructive mass murderous as a nuclear bomb attack, namely, the carpet bombing of cities, is still
an accepted military practice, although it is internationally outlawed. To assume that nuclear
destructive devices won't be used, because they have not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is
like saying: Cancer will not strike me; it is harmless, because it has not killed me yet.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Air Raids, Brinkmanship, Deterrence, Gas Warfare,
Indiscriminate Warfare, Madness, Motives, Scorched Earth Policy, Targets, Territorial Organization.
PREEMPTIVE WAR
There are attempts by both of the major contestants to prevent preemptive nuclear strikes by building
up second strike capabilities. But the success of these efforts is not guaranteed and they are just one
aspect of a continuing nuclear arms race which tends to produce more and more destructive and more
and more indiscriminately murderous "weapons".
Seeing that every country would lastly suffer from the fallout even of an otherwise successful
preemptive nuclear strike, security cannot be found in this way. On the contrary, preemptive war is one
of the dangers inherent in any arms race and any attempt to prepare for it, or to counter it, could very
well set off the nuclear war it intends to avoid.
See : Aggression, Arms Race, Defence, Miscalculation, Nuclear Strength, Overestimation, Second
Strike Capability, Surprise Attack, War Aims.
PREJUDICES
"Big wars from little errors grow" said William Dykes.
Prejudices lead lastly to nuclear war. They must be refuted in the strongest and most effective way.
Only the encyclopaedic approach has a chance to do that and it could succeed if it is accompanied by
tolerance for all tolerant experiments.
See: Broadcasting, Cultural Revolution, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enlightenment, Ideas/Wrong,
Ignorance, Myths, Publicity, Tolerance, Voluntarism.
PREMISES, CORRECT ONES
The following is a short list of some of the correct premises required for a program to prevent nuclear
war:
The nuclear war danger exists.
It is very acute.
Nuclear strength weakens us.
Nuclear defence does not defend.
Collectivist defence is often selfdefeating.
Nuclear deterrence does not deter sufficiently.
Failsafe systems are not failsafe enough.
Decisionmaking on war and peace, armament and disarmament should not be monopolized.
Individuals are at present powerless to stop the danger directly.
Most are still ignorant of ways and means to obtain the required individual powers, rights and liberties
as well as the needed rightful and useful alternative institutions.
But the power potential of individuals is large enough to cope with this danger.
A large a scale enlightenment effort is required.
This could be speeded up a genuinely Cultural Revolution.
Individual liberty and selfhelp offer the way out.
Human rights exist, work and can be realized to establish peace.
Governments can neither defend us effectively nor disarm each other.
People, when free, can come to trust each other sufficiently to make even unilateral nuclear
disarmament likely and peace between them possible.
Human interests are not inherently antagonistic.
Most men can achieve more by free cooperation and exchange than by fighting and oppressing others.
For more such premises and some details see under the relevant headings. See also under: Ideas.
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PREMISES, WRONG ONES
There is an almost endless number of wrong premises which, in combination, all make for nuclear war.
It needs an encyclopaedic approach to refute most of them effectively. Such an encyclopaedia has still
to be compiled. Here are just some samples, put down at random:
The most destructive weapon is the best weapon.
The enemy is whosoever the government says is the enemy.
All powers, rights, liberties, duties and responsibilities can be safely and rightly delegated.
Governments can come to a multilateral nuclear disarmament agreement.
All must be subjected to a single leadership or decisionmaking process.
One law must apply equally to all.
Men must be territorially organized.
All weapons are wrongful.
We need a total disarmament.
People cannot be trusted. Governments can be.
Freedom does not work and is selfcontradictory.
Violence works and is noncontradictory.
Human rights don't exist or must be liberally regulated.
States and their governments express the natural society for humans.
Power must be still more concentrated to guarantee peace.
Stronger leadership is required.
Governments should work for peace.
The world is overpopulated.
Man is inherently aggressive.
War is due to greed and profiteering.
War is the result of a capitalistic conspiracy.
Whole nations and races can be rightly held collectively responsible for the actions of their rulers.
See: Consent, Definitions, Encyclopaedia, Enemy, Governments, Ideas, Myths, Overpopulation,
Power, Prejudices etc., also Appx. 2 & 4.
PRESTIGE
Power corrupts people so much that many rulers and generals are after nuclear reactors and nuclear
devices, not so much because they actually want to attack or threaten others but only because of the
additional power and prestige they would thereby gain in the eyes of the ignorant and the minds of
those rightly afraid of them and these devices. Freud might have called this urge towards powerful
nuclear rockets a penis envy.
We will have to render all these men "impotent", or castrate them, figuratively, abolishing their jobs, if
we want to survive.
The only worthwhile prestige with regard to nuclear weapons would be one resting on NOT owning
any nuclear devices because one has either never aspired to them or has had, at last, the good sense to
unilaterally destroy them.
A new kind of prestige has to be established: Communities and societies so free, just and tolerant and
diverse that e.g. the conscripts of enemy regimes would rather desert, fraternize or engage in a military
insurrection than fight it. Such associations would have friends everywhere because they are not armed
with nuclear weapons anywhere and would recognize the rightful autonomy aspirations of all people
everywhere, e.g. by recognizing their governmentsinexile and conceding to them already now
exterritorial autonomy over all those who fled to them and want to be ruled by them. They would grant
free and full development to all nonaggressive movements and minorities. They would be so well
prepared for a revolution against a dictatorship that they could risk to formally surrender to a
dictatorship threatening them with nuclear mass murder devices and still no dictator would either dare
to militarily occupy areas in which they peacefully coexist or do so successfully, in the long run.
They would be communities and societies whose peace declarations and appeals would be trusted by
soldiers and citizens on the other side. They would be so prestigious that their experts would consulted
and invited everywhere to help establish similar internal and external peace arrangements, with
security, freedom, justice and a growing prosperity for all able and willing to work and sound insurance
and credit options for the others. They would be societies so trusted by soldiers and citizens of enemy
regimes that they would, e.g., hand over to them the nuclear devices of the own despotic governments
for destruction for disassembly, rather than use them against these societies. Economically, they would
be so enlightened and experienced that they could, within hours or days at most, put to productive and
remunerative employment millions of prisoners, deserters, refugees. They would find many who would
declare themselves as neutral or even as new allies, among them.
They would be societies and communities of which nobody but dictators and totalitarians would be
afraid. They would be make themselves famous for by respecting the basic rights even of its enemies
(to the extent that these, within their volunteer communities, have not, formally or informally,
renounced some of these rights themselves).
By such characteristics and policies they would render enemy regimes largely powerless or topple them
or depriving them of their motives to fight these free societies and communities.
These panarchistic societies would not attempt to counter hatreds with love but, rather, they could and
would defeat injustice with justice and violence largely, but not exclusively, with nonviolent means:
"For when lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner."
Shakespeare, Henry V, from memory.
See: Appeals, Decision, Declarations, Defence, Destruction, Disarmament, Enemy, Exter
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ritorial Imperative, Leadership, Liberation War, Nationalism, Nonviolence, Nuclear Strength, People,
Power, Social Contract, Society, Surrender, War Aims.
PRIORITIES, CORRECTLY CHOSEN
The threat of nuclear war and steps towards its prevention have, unfortunately, no priority or only a
very low one for most people, although objectively they should have the highest ones. I see no other
way than systematic enlightenment to overcome this difficulty. Most people have still to learn much
about freedom, rights, justice, selfresponsibility and the real causes of war and peace and what they
could and should do about them. For all too long they were all too powerless in this sphere so that they
are reduced to demonstrating, marching, shouting, praying, etc., without sufficient comprehension
about their present powerlessness and their potential individual and associative powers.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Apathy, Brinkmanship, Cultural Revolution, Deathwish,
Education, Enlightenment, Foolishness, Ideas Archive, Ideas/Large Ignorance, Interest, Morality,
Myths, People, Powerlessness, Prejudices, Resignation, Statism, Stupidity, Survival Instinct.
PRISONERS OF WAR, RIGHT AND WRONG TREATMENT OF POW'S
If prisoners of war are wrongly treated then they will resist to the last, even with nuclear devices, rather
than risking captivity. They ought to be given a choice whether to become neutrals or allies or to be
treated properly as prisoners of war according to the international laws of warfare. Once this is done,
then large conscript armies will no longer pose a threat to free societies, which they, supposedly, could
counter only with nuclear devices. The armed forces of an enemy regime would thus either be
neutralized or even become allies, would fraternize or rise en masse against their regime and the
remainder would not fight desperately. Why should they? Whatever ideals they have for themselves,
these free societies could and would teach or even help them to establish these ideals for themselves.
See: Amnesty, Appeals, Collective Responsibility, Desertion, Discriminating Warfare, Disobedience,
Employment, Enemy, Governments in Exile, International Law, Liberation War, Militia, Nationalism,
Revolutionary Warfare, Secret Allies, Separate Peace, War Aims.
PRIZE MONEY FOR TYRANNICIDE & THE DESTRUCTION OF ABC MASS MURDER
DEVICES
Prize funds should be publicly collected and prizes should be publicly offered for the execution, after
the expiry of an amnesty period, of anyone having his fingers on an ABC mass murder device, ready to
be used and who has been outlawed by a fair public trials or by a referendum among the people he has
threatened or victimized in the past and who are not yet or no longer under his domination, apart from
the threat which he constitutes for them, with the mass murder devices under his control.
An amnesty period should be offered even to these top criminals, during which they can surrender
themselves. One might even consider awarding the prize money to them, in these cases. To forcefully
overthrow them would cost much more, in lives and money.
The prize money should be doubled, as Sir Thomas Moore suggested in his "Utopia", if they are
caught, kept alive and surrendered to an international court. However, if they themselves destroyed or
surrendered at least one mass extermination device, then, even after the expiry of the amnesty period,
they should still be granted amnesty, asylum, protection and support in anonymity somewhere in the
world.
These executioners should not be treated as assassins but as heroes and liberators and given protection
and support, also anonymity, if they should need it.
Prizes should also be offered to anyone else handing over a mass murder device or an important
captive member of a despotic regime, as well as to anyone who successfully destroyed or sabotaged at
least one mass murder device.
Let us open such subscription funds. Altogether they might cost us less than a day or a week of
conventional or "modern and scientific" warfare with "advanced" weapons.
See : Amnesty, Asylum, Declarations, Desertion, Defence, Disarmament, Enemy, Jiu Jitsu, Military
Insurrections, Publicity, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
PRODUCTION WITHOUT CLASS WARFARE IDEOLOGY
Production and the ownership of the means of production should be peacefully and nonviolently
reorganized to stop the class warfare ideology. This ideology on its own would perhaps not lead to the
nuclear war danger. But in combination with territorial nationalism and dictatorships it certainty does.
This reorganization would require e.g. extensive cooperative production, purchase of enterprises by
their employees, extensive employee shareholding, open cooperatives; work cooperatives, all
amounting to a kind of individualistic and propertarian or contractual workers control, one which
rightfully and in a businesslike way preserves & spreads property rights, specialization, profit
incentives and the division of labour.
The topic is involved particularly through the very large number of alternative methods for organizing
production and dividing and sharing responsibilities, properties and job opportunities. They range the
full scale, from authoritarian and centralized coops not much better than state enterprises or overlarge
corporations, to small family enterprises, from cooperatives which reduce profit and property rights to
those organizations which fully respect and develop them, even to syndicalistic corporations and
federations of volunteers and to completely anarchistic ones. Any form of organization could be
peacefully and rightly introduced e.g., by the purchase of existing productive enterprises, by their
employees, from present owners, usually on terms, long terms,
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mostly using industrial bonds, all guaranteed by the cooperatively organized employees, as means of
payment, for these, their own takeover bids. Usually they would be advised to keep all efficient
managers as coowners.
See: Capitalism, Communism, Cooperatives, Ideological Warfare, Liquidation of Governments,
Purchase of Enterprises, Socialism.
PRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ENDING AND PREVENTING IT
Production of nuclear devices requires among other things secrecy, military obedience, an unarmed
population deprived of a vote in survival decisions, statist motives, compulsory taxation, inflation, land
tenure under the control of governments, immoral war aims, territorial targets, readiness of people to
work towards mass murder, a degree of unemployment which prevents people from easily finding
other jobs, and it could be stopped from any of these approaches. See the relevant sections.
PROFITS
Profits from armament production (blamed by those who think mainly in terms of guilty persons and
not in terms of cause and effect) come almost exclusively out of coercively collected tax funds,
moreover they are distributed by government bureaucrats. To the extent that they come out of
government loans and confiscated private savings and insurance funds they are due to public ignorance
and apathy which is as worthy of blame as the thoughtlessness of armament manufacturers and
armament workers. Lastly, even these loans, if they are ever repaid, are repaid out of coercively
collected tax funds, collected at some future date. If they are not repaid they amount to a confiscation.
With this financing system, quite obviously, what the one wins the other has to lose. Worse still, the
losers lose more than the profiteers win, due to the high brokerage charge demanded by the
bureaucrats. Thus, in balance, there is no profit but a loss for the community, a loss which should tend
to turn people into peace lovers.
Unjustified returns or monopoly "profits" can be made here, as well as anywhere else, only under a
system of compulsory taxation, state budgets and coercively upheld privileges, not under laissez faire
capitalism.
Those who imagine that only "capitalists" are "greedy" tend to forget that among the most "greedy"
ones are the unionists working in arms. Unionists most of all uphold the fiction that only armaments
could guarantee full employment. Few realize that peaceful production has certain advantages over it
and that 90% of all people still suffer many basic wants, more than the whole of mankind could
produce in a few months, or even a few years, and that these wants can grow without limits, thus
providing, under freedom, endless work opportunities.
Unionists, like the armament manufacturers, only help to continue the present dangers arising from
territorial power struggles, arms races and the nuclear war threat. They do not cause them. They, like
the manufacturers, are merely agents of territorial and statist system which makes for nuclear war.
They are an effect, not a cause.
A true radical would go much further back, to the real roots of war.
See : Capitalism, Decision, Greed, Economic Freedom, Employment, Free Enterprise, Free Trade,
Laissez Faire, Personal Thinking, Socialism, Taxation, Voluntary Taxation.
PROGRAMS, FALSE ONES
There are numerous false programs advocated as panaceas against the threat of a war with ABC mass
murder devices. Some of them do positive harm by helping to preserve or increase present dangers.
See: Arms Race, Balance of Power, Communism, Deterrence, Diplomacy, Multilateral Nuclear
Disarmament, Nuclear Strength, Socialism, United Nations, World Federation.
Others are relatively harmless and ought to be fought only by counterpropaganda and alternative
examples: Prayers, Summit Conferences, World Language, International Law, World Court, etc.
Let's just make sure that everyone of the false prophets will be without aggressive powers and
otherwise let's leave them alone. Don't let us make fools out of them. They are doing all right by
themselves.
See: Enlightenment, Appx. 2 & 4,
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Ideas, Ignorance, Prejudices, Propaganda.
PROGRAM, IMPORTANCE OF A PROPER PROGRAM
What is required is a program that would so change the political, economic and social conditions so
much that any remaining ruler, who ordered a war, would simply no longer find any obedience or
powers or funds for conducting it. To achieve this, this much more is required than e.g. some
conscientious objection, some nonviolent resistance or some protests.
Why shouldn't one, to build a firm foundation for peace and establish a lasting peaceful, free, secure,
just and prosperous society, made up of numerous diverse volunteer communities and societies, make
the same patient blueprint preparations that are undertaken e.g. or any large building project, seeing
that establishing a peaceful, free and just society is worth much more than the largest construction
project?
Every day it would save us millions, if not billions of dollars and thousands of lives, if not ten
thousands. I believe that we would find that much of this blueprint for peace would consist merely in
discarding coercive plans, systems and territorial institutions which powerful men have drawn up,
realized and maintain at the expense of their victims, who are presently left with no choice in the
matter.
Please consider this ABC guide book as a fist draft for such a program and help to complete and
correct it.
A summarized program is contained in Appx. 1, 58.
See: Autonomy, Cooperative Production, Decision, Declarations, Desertion, Disarmament,
Disobedience, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Migration; Free Trade, Government Individual
Responsibility, Military Insurrections, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Secession, War Aims.
PROGRESS, WRONG IDEAS ON PROGRESS
Much of what passes as progress today is really reactionary. The use of nuclear power is a prime
example. Technologically it may be an innovation. But in its concentration of power in the hands of a
few, in its threat to individual liberty, in its mass murder and indiscriminate destruction it is not.
Because e.g. nuclear reactors are called progressive we tend to put up with these nuclear bomb and
pollution factories (whose fuel production, by the way, has swallowed up an enormous amount of
conventionally produced energy).
Nuclear weapons, merely because of the degree of their destructiveness and the speed of their delivery,
are considered as modern and progressive weapons, regardless of how archaic the notion of the enemy
and the target is which they are supposed to destroy.
Many people are so concerned with technological gimmicks that they search only for gimmicks to
down IBM's and to control a multilateral nuclear disarmament agreement that they altogether ignore
the defensive and disarming powers inherent in free and enlightened individuals and their communities.
See: Atomic Energy, Disarmament Freedom, Individualism, Modern, Peaceful Use, Power, Research,
Selfhelp, Trust, War Aims.
PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
The more nuclear weapons there are, and the more military officers and defence ministers have access
to them, the more likely becomes their accidental or aggressive use. Nothing but a reduction of the
number of the accumulated nuclear weapons arsenal to zero will suffice.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Brinkmanship, Defence, Deterrence, Nth.
Power Problem, Nuclear Strength, Spread, War Aims.
PROMISES BY GOVERNMENTS
Our and foreign governments "assure" us: We are peace loving. We will not be the first to use nuclear
devices, we will not use nuclear space weapons, we have already destroyed all our B & C weapons, we
will use only "clean" nuclear devices, we will attack only mi
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litary targets, we can defend our population, we can deter the enemy from aggression etc.
None of their promises and assurances can be trusted and certainly should not be trusted to the extent
of setting the survival of mankind depend on them. The record of promises kept by governments is all
too short.
Politicians, perhaps more than any other group of people, are infamous for going back on their
promises.
Persons who reserve to themselves the authority to commit mass murder, whenever they think the
situation would "justify'' it, should never be trusted any more than ordinary mass murderers should be.
To become independent of the promises of politicians, and to help the somewhat better ones among
them, against the real intentions and the aggressive and war promoting actions of other politicians, and,
naturally, for the best possible protection of their own rights and liberties, the people ought to properly
armed (with rightful weapons), rightfully organized and trained.
See: Air Raids, Alliances, Authority, Autonomy, Declarations, Decision, Desertion, Deterrence,
Diplomacy, Disarmament / Multilateral, Freedom, Governments, Independence, Individualism,
Madness, Militia, Monopolies, NonAggression Pacts, Obedience, People, Politicians, Power,
Publicity, Rulers, Secession, Secrecy, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Statism, Subordination, Treaties, Trust,
War Aims.
PROPAGANDA
Prevention of nuclear war requires an enormous education and propaganda effort, even across guarded
frontiers.
It requires propaganda for individual rights, especially individual, secession, economic freedom,
including monetary freedom, rightful war aims, including exterritorial autonomy, military desertion to
rightful governments in exile, military uprisings and revolutions, tyrannicide, tax strikes and monetary
revolutions, unilateral destruction of nuclear devices, the destruction of nuclear power plants and for
alternative energy sources etc., in short, it requires propaganda for moral., rational, practical and
attractive alternatives.
See: Appeals, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Declarations, Enlightenment, Negotiations, Publicity,
Referendum, War Aims.
PROPERTY OR CHATTEL CONCEPT OF PEOPLE OR CITIZENS
"We are property" said Frederik Pohl in: "Under Two Moons" in the SF selection "Day Million".
Almost all rulers treat "their" countries and "their people" "like a conquered province".
Feudalism hasn't been abolished. It has merely been nationalized.
Now, as formerly, one feudal lord tries to defeat the other by killing or subjugating his serfs.
The difference is only that today this is attempted with nuclear weapons and camouflaged under many
more myths than ever before.
If human beings were, really and instead, considered as free and rational beings, then there would be
only attempts to persuade them or trade with them but no any attempts to exterminate them nor any
powers to do so.
Then they could freely opt out of any system displeasing them.
Nobody belongs to his country or can rightfully be considered as a hostage for it. Everybody belongs
only to himself.
Nobody is rightly part of a collectively defined enemy unless he himself, by his individual declaration
or actions, turn himself into an enemy.
We have recognized that we are no longer the property of any church. Let us similarly adopt freedom
of action and freedom for "cult actions" with regard to political and economic systems, regardless of
whatever ideological or other system we subscribe to, as long as they can be practised at the own
expense and risk. Only then will we be free, as free as we want to be, and only then will we be safe, as
secure as we want to be.
Once the collectivist point of view and practice, of people as property of their rulers, a view which
most rulers were clever enough never to express explicitly, is finally quite openly rejected and that
"property" secedes,
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arms and free people arm and organize themselves for the protection of their rights and liberties, then
nuclear devices will also be renounced by almost all as completely unsuitable for the new conditions.
See: Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Conquests, Conscription, Consent, Collective Responsibility,
Democracy, Discriminating Warfare, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Government,
Hostages, Individualism, Leadership, Liberation War, Minority Autonomy, Monopolies, Nationalism,
Panarchy, Representation, Revolution, Rulers, Secession, States, Targets, Taxation, Territorial
Organization, War Aims, Weapons.
PROPERTY, RIGHT TO PROPERTY
Property earners and owners are relatively peaceful. They have too much to lose and are not as much
motivated by envy, prejudice ignorance and contempt for rights. Thus, the wider property is spread and
the more people get a chance to earn and keep it the more peaceful they would become.
When selfownership is fully recognized then abuses like taxation and conscription will also have
disappeared.
A condition in which everybody enjoys all his property rights undisturbed is, by definition, a condition
of peace.
Productive property could be rightfully and widely spread through a much wider use of e.g.
cooperative production introduced by employees purchasing the enterprises they work in on long
terms, using negotiable and interest bearing bonds as means of payment.
In order to promote peace, international investments and multinational corporations are particularly
desirable. They
give many people a proprietary interest in the wellbeing foreigners and the countries they live in and,
thereby, a vested interest in preserving international and internal peace. So far, some international
corporations were often blamed for seeing to it that during a war their property in other countries was
spared. They should have been praised for this peaceful example and it should have been followed as
much as possible.
Nuclear weapons are among the most effective devices to destroy property and they are unable to
defend it. They can be built and maintained only by continuous aggression against private property: by
coercive taxation.
Private property is as a rule not the target for nuclear mass destruction devices. It is usually too small
and dispersed for this. But property of territorial governments and property presumed to belong to
enemy governments, i.e., public works and utilities, are considered to be prime targets, no matter how
important they may be for civilians, like e.g. bridges and electricity plants and regardless of the citizens
involuntary investments in them, via their taxes.
Not only some public utilities but whole cities and towns, even whole territories, as well as their
populations, are considered, by governmental "military science" as governmental property and thus as
"rightful" targets for mass murder and mass destruction devices.
Based upon such misconceptions, and not contradicted by the victims, either, on all sides, since they,
too, generally believe in "collective responsibility" and degrees of State Socialism, and since the
victims of governments never bothered, either, to define the "enemy" properly, governments were able
to resort to area or carpet bombing, to cause artificial fire storms in cities and, finally, to ABC mass
murder and mass destruction devices.
The State is neither able nor willing to protect property rights sufficiently. On the contrary, it is their
largest enemy. Never mind the myths spread by communists and socialists about the supposed
marriage between "capitalism" and supposedly "capitalist governments". They are so blind to the
nature of monopolism and coercion that they advocate the greatest monopoly and greatest degree of
coercion on a national and international scale. Thus they are blind to the fact that laissez faire
capitalism and territorial governmentalism are opposites, not friends or couples.
Territorial States are required only by those who want privileges for themselves.
See : Annexation Conquest, Cooperative Production Human Rights, Ideological Warfare, International
Corporations Investments, Property Concept of Citizens, Purchase of Enterprises, Taxation, flax Strike,
Voluntary Taxation, Welfare State, Nationalism.
PROTECTION BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS & TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS?
Our nuclear armed and territorially organized governments, supposedly our protectors, constitute the
major problem against which we do need protection. Their promises of protection are illusory. In
reality they offer us now more insecurity and danger than ever before. Under them we are on "ground
zero" everywhere and they are prepared to kill us not only once but then to atomize or remainders over
and over again, with their overkill mad and wrongful, supposedly "modern" and "scientific"
"weapons".
Let us protect ourselves against this "protection", by abolishing it, i.e., every territorial State with an
arms monopoly and monopoly powers that cause wars and make their conduct possible.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Brinkmanship, Defence, Desertion, Deterrence,
Disarmament, Doomsday Bomb, Freedom, Governments, Human Rights, Militia Nuclear Strength,
Overkill, Panarchy, Resistance, Revolution, Security, Selfdefence, Selfreliance, State, Tyrannicide,
Weapons.
PROTECTION OF HEADS OF STATES
Due to special immunities, powers, isolation and protection of heads of States, they are
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able and likely to act irresponsibly. Due to an unpublished "gentlemen's agreement", not even the
attempt is made to kill them during a war. Usually, some of them, are held somewhat responsible only
once they are defeated and captured in a war, in which their subjects always tend to suffer first and
most. Even then, they are often allowed to escape, with some of their plunder, to write their memoirs in
comfort. (According to recent news even Idi Amin has turned up again, unlike his numerous victims,
and expects not to be held responsible for his misrule. J.Z., 18.10.01.)
Rather than granting them even more war time powers, when they declare or otherwise initiate another
war, they should be immediately overthrown or executed, if that should be necessary. But then we
should not have been so foolish in the first place, to grant them any constitutional and exclusive power
to declare and conduct wars and to prepare for them.
Due to their special and wrongful powers that territorial "nations" granted them by their constitutions
or customs, and the practice of national security, they will often be enabled to make it appear as if the
other government was the unprovoked aggressor. Compare the entry of the U.S.A. into WW I & II.
They would be harmless only once they have lost all their coercive powers. Let us abolish their
powerful offices wherever and whenever we can.
Until then, let there be an open hunting season on despotic and tyrannical rulers, including all armed
with antipeople weapons, so that none would any longer be tempted to offend against the rights of
even the least of "his" citizens and of the victims of the regimes of his enemies. Let us deprive them not
only of nuclear powers but of all coercive powers, so that they could no longer offend against anyone's
rights, even if they wanted to brave the consequences.
This could be done as a matter of official and juridical action. Their powers could be repealed e.g. by a
referendum and particular leaders, in a public trial, would be accused and convicted as tyrants and as
such to outlawry or legal execution by anyone.
In the meantime, as tax payers, and to make them less inclined to act aggressively against the rights of
any of
"their" citizens or any foreign citizens, let us discharge all bodyguards and secret service agents for
these, our "servants", so that they would get a vested interest in becoming really friendly and peaceful.
That would help to make sure that the heads of territorial States would become the first victims of any
enemies they made.
Seeing that, under territorialism, they cannot help making many enemies, even in the own country, this
would also give them an incentive to explore the exterritorial autonomy alternative, by means of which
they could become undisputed rulers of volunteer communities and, as such, relatively safe from
assassins and certainly from tyrannicide attempts, since then they would also have discarded their ABC
mass murder devices, as obviously wrong and useless for their purposes.
Under freedom for dissenting individuals and minorities to secede, the personal security of leaders, at
least the honest and sensible among them, would not be lessened but increased. Then they would
hardly need any personal protection any more.
Let us by all means reverse the situation where the politicians are very well protected but the people are
not protected at all against the power maniacs among the politicians.
Let the politicians take their lives in their hands, when assuming power, constitutionally or otherwise,
and suffer the wrath of the people if they offend against their subjects' basic rights and liberties.
See: Amnesty, Appeals, Censorship, Collective Responsibility Consent, Decision, Declarations,
Desertion, Disarmament, Disobedience, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Government, Human Rights,
Leadership, Military Insurrections, Militia, Monopolies, Oaths , Outlawry, Power, Publicity, Recall,
Referendum, Representation, Resistance, Responsibility, Revolution, Rulers, Secession, Secrecy, Self
help, Sovereignty, Subordination,
Treason, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, Weapons, Weapons Monopoly.
PROTECTIONISM
"When goods do not cross frontiers, armies will." said Frederic Bastiat.
Protectionism is one factor which preserves large national territories as nuclear targets. Free trade
between countries, on the other hand tends to gradually eliminate animosity between them and turn the
world into a single peaceful market, a situation which the economically illiterate now attack as
"globalization".
Let Free Traders opt out and do their things among themselves and let protectionists alone suffer the
costs and other disadvantages of their beloved "protectionism". Then, most likely, protection would
soon be voluntarily and
individually discarded by al or at least the vast majority. Even today protectionists do smuggle, given
the chance, and a large enough price differential.
I for one would favour refusing to deal with them unless they become members of a free trade
association and declare themselves publicly in favour of free trade. They should come to suffer the full
consequences of their beliefs and systems.
However, if we go on with territorial and collective decision making, and the suppression of freedom
of choice in this sphere, then ignorance, prejudices and myths will continue to prevail, perhaps for
further centuries.
See: Economic Freedom, Free Migration, Free Trade, Market, Monopolies, Secession.
PROTESTS AGAINST NUCLEAR TESTING, THE PLACEMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
AND AGAINTST NUCLEAR REACTORS
Protests of victims rarely ever prevented a crime When life and liberty are threatened, more than
freedom of expression and freedom to demonstrate or to commit suicide are required to resist this
threat.
I found it particularly absurd when "Greenpeace" opponents of nuclear testing placed themselves into
nuclear test areas, as if they could not wait to be killed in this way, becoming martyrs for their cause.
Moreover, the tests are as nothing compared with the risks of an alout atomic war. And yet most of the
protestors against nuclear tests are either satisfied with nuclear brinkmanship or do not think clearly
about rightful and sound alternatives to MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) "policies". They still
expect their territorial governments to save them, rather than endanger them.
Protests are required rather against the situation in which only a few men hold the fate of mankind in
their hands and all people are organized into nuclear targets, taxed and conscripted and indoctrinated
towards their extermination and made powerless to do something directly to save themselves. Protests,
and much more than mere protests, are required to get rid of all territorial and warpromoting powers.
Those who only protest against the current abuse of this power and not against this power itself, cannot
be expected to bring about rightful, rational, thorough and lasting changes. The remain part of the
problem.
and thorough changes.
The unarmed voter, especially the one committed to nonviolence; is scarcely more than
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a comical figure in the eyes of the territorial power and war mongers.
Arm, organize and train yourself to really protect your rights.
Alas, it is probably useless as well to merely protest against merely protesting, marching,
demonstrating and similar "actions". Those engaging in them are usually constitutionally unable to see
and do what needs to be done and what can be done rightfully.
See: Brinkmanship, Decision, Disarmament, Freedom of Action, Militia Nonviolence, Nuclear
Strength, Outlawry, Powerlessness Propaganda; Publicity, Resistance, Treason, Tyrannicide, Unilateral
Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, THE CONVENTIONAL TYPE
Conventional psychological warfare generally attempts only to demoralize the opposition, not to win it
over to better ideals. It tries to do this by slander, exaggeration; lies, rumors, threats and terrorist
measures. Especially when using terrorist means or threats like indiscriminate air raids or nuclear
deterrents, by actions applying the principle of collective responsibility, leading to total war, the
contrary of the desired purpose is achieved: the enemy's resistance is stiffened rather than weakened.
Even a rat gets dangerous when cornered and made desperate.
For a more rational approach see e.g. under: Air Raids, Amnesty, Appeals, Declarations, Desertion,
Governmentsinexile, Liberation War, Peace Declarations, Publicity, Revolutionary Warfare,
Secession, Separate Peace, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear tear Disarmament, War Aims.
PUBLICITY
Only full publicity, e.g., for rightful war aims and unilateral nuclear disarmament efforts and unilateral
as well as separate peace offers can help us out of our dilemmas, secrecy cannot.
Only those who have nothing to hide can be trusted.
Just remember how dictators and military despots protect themselves against popular or military
uprisings. Among other things, basically by various censorship and misleading propaganda methods.
How important publicity is to prevent wrongs can e.g. be seen in the strict secrecy with which
governments guard documents of the past few years and sometimes even past few decades. They are
afraid that their foul play and mistakes would stink even after years have passed and realize that they
would lose much if not all confidence of their subjects if all their practices and crimes where fully
revealed, immediately or soon. They, like the priesthood (priestly hoods?) of old, do keep in power
mainly by the manufacture, preservation and propagation of myths and legends.
If e.g. all facts on the private lives and political actions of our preset rulers were fully revealed then,
perhaps nobody or very few people would any longer want to entrust them with any powers, least of all
with nuclear power.
I have no objection against a man like Th. Roosevelt keeping numerous mistresses, or J. F. Kennedy
having numerous affairs, but I do object when they keeps in power by coercively preserving the images
of loving husbands. I do not mind if they makes friends with a Stalin or Mao, thereby characterizing
themselves, but I do object if by their policies, they associates me with such monsters. During WW II
the Western Allies hushed up the mass murder of Polish officers by the Soviets apparently forgetting
that the Western Governments originally got involved in WW II to protect the freedom of Poland.
I do mind it and all of us should, if any ruler does not proclaim any war aims at all, or does so only
much too late, or if his war and peace aims are not completely rightful ones and thus may cause or
prolong a war and lead, even after a victory, to further wars.
The war propaganda image of the successful attack on Pearl Harbor is still confusing much of public
opinion on this subject, keeping most people in ignorance on how the U.S. president conspired to bring
about this attack and make it successful, regardless of the costs in human lives and equipment, so that
he could turn isolationist sentiments into interventionist ones.
Are we going to hear about the present sins and crimes of our rulers only in 50 years, if at all?
See: Appeals, Broadcasting, Censorship, Criminals, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Declarations, Open
Air Meetings, Leadership, Politicians, Propaganda, Public Opinion, Referendums, Rulers, Secrecy,
Secret Diplomacy, Trust, War Aims.
PUBLIC OPINION & CHANGES IN PUBLIC OPINION
Changes in public opinion could be used to promote nuclear disarmament, particularly to help uncover
secret nuclear weapons caches. Those protecting them
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could not keep their secrets for long if such actions were condemned by the overwhelming majority
of the potential victims. These conspirators against our survival would have to live among their future
victims and would frequently hear their views. Thus. sooner or later, some members of these
conspiracies would betray them.
A public opinion expressed by a well organized, trained and motivated volunteer militia for the
protection of human rights would tend to become irresistible. Even an enemy regime's soldiers would
tend to rather join it than fight it. Compare, in revolutionary history, the cases in which all armed forces
of a regime made common cause with the revolutionaries.
Now we have so many cheap and alternative media that a rapid change of public opinion for the better,
even a sufficiently enlightened public opinion, could be achieved, if full and optimal use were made of
these media. The mass media tend to merely uphold and spread further the existing popular errors,
myths and prejudices because they appeal to the lowest common denominators.
See: Appeals, Broadcasting, Consent, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Declarations, Democracy,
Education, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enlightenment, Freedom of Action, Human Rights, Ideas
Archive, Militia, Open Air Speaking, Peace, People, Propaganda, Publicity, Referendums, Revolution,
Rights, Secession, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voting, War Aims, Peace Declarations,
PURCHASE OF ENTERPRISES BY THEIR EMPLOYEES, ON TERMS
0ne need not organize strikes or boycotts or sabotage acts or promote laws against productive
enterprises, coercively occupy them or organize a violent revolution or a war if the aim is to take over
existing enterprises. This whole "philosophy" of violence can be undermined by using the peaceful,
businesslike and just methods of the free capital market.
Ulrich von Beckerath put it very concisely in his second work on monetary freedom: "Must Full
Employment Cost Money?", p, 198 of the PEACE PLANS No. 10 edition:
"What working man has ever considered that if the body of workers of a factory or of a large estate
paid the owner quarterly one fiftieth of the value of the undertaking, and that 79 times, the workers
would own the enterprise, provided the owner is satisfied with an interest of 1 1/2 % quarterly on the
debt balance remaining at any time?"
If, moreover, they offered industrial bonds as means of payment, and their coops guaranteed them, and
would do this e.g. on a gold reckoning basis, thus avoiding the need for savedup cash, to make the
purchase and also protecting their creditors against the inflation risk, then they would, mostly, have no
great difficulty in buying the enterprises they work in, in a this relatively short time.
This would mean peace in the industrial scene and largely also in the international one, within a short
period, at most 2 decades. Consider the alternative of another 100 to 200 years of class warfare
violence and the ideological and warpromoting effect of classwarfare notions, under which anti
capitalism has become a new religion. Actually, the peace and wealth promoting effects of such
takeovers would be felt already within months and the
enterprises would be paid for with a fraction of the additional production thus achieved. This topic
deserves a monograph.
See: Capitalism, Class Warfare , Communism, Cooperative Production, Hierarchical Form of
Production, Market, Production, Property, Socialism, Unions.
PUBLIC QUESTIONS TO POLITICAL CANDIDATES
For the propagation and realization of ideas, under present circumstances, simple but loaded questions
could be a useful means, particularly if they are accompanied by promises of voters never to vote again
for a candidate not giving a satisfactory answer or not sticking to it with all of his voting record.
There should naturally, be regular followup checks on the behaviour of politicians who got elected
after giving satisfactory answers.
One such question could be: Do you favour that decisions on war and peace, on armament and
disarmament, and on international treaties, as well as on taxation, and on monetary and credit
restrictions are in future to be made directly, by the people, via referendum?
One could hardly blame voters for not voting for politicians who would want to continue to reserve
such life and death decisions to themselves. f
Lists of searching and embarrassing questions should be publicized, together with the answers of the
politicians and the optimal answers, which would embarrass and influence the politicians still further.
See: Appeals, Consent, Decision, Democracy, Disarmament, Enlightenment, Peace Declarations,
Propaganda, Recall, Referendum, Representation, Secession, Voting, War Aims.
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RACISM
Racism shows an all too common human attitude against which penalties and arguments alone do not
help. In some instances it leads those burdened with this attitude and belief to undertake extermination
attempts, instance the Nazi's extermination camps. Today, people who are so murderously inclined,
could get access to nuclear weapons. And so could their potential victims. In the clashes between Israel
and the Arab States (although, admittedly, they are not predominantly racial), the use of nuclear
devices has already been considered by both sides.
If either the Biafrans or the Nigerians or the South African Government or the black nationalists there,
or India and Pakistan (part of their differences are racial) would have had them, then we might already
have had a nuclear war.
Once cannot legislate racism out of existence. But one can account for it as a fact of present reality and
channel it away from aggression. The caste system in India was one such attempt. No matter how many
unpleasant facets it has in the eyes of someone grown up in a democratic and more or less egalitarian
society, it did manage to keep the peace between the various castes. The enforced apartheid or
segregation in South Africa was another attempt. Its major defects were:
a) that it was imposed, on racists and nonracists alike, by representatives of the ruling race and
b) it was attempted on a territorial basis, which preserves nuclear targets and does not allow individual
and
minority selfgovernment
Only exterritorial and voluntary segregation on an autonomous basis offers a rightful and efficient way
out. Once it has been allowed to operate for many generations and with regard to all the different
groups in which men would voluntarily associate, then, through intermarriage, most of the biological
differences, which led to racism, would tend to disappear entirely. The medieval Jewish settlers in
China were a good instance for this.
When communities are separated by personal laws and, under them, enjoy full exterritorial autonomy,
then the fear of being outnumbered and dominated by the others and the fear of being defeated by the
others, in competitions for jobs and housing, would largely disappear. Especially when, thanks to
experimental freedom the full employment consequences of monetary freedom would have been
demonstrated as well as the housing potential of free market housing practices.
Then, and then only, everyone could rule himself as much or as little as he liked in his own
community, and everyone, if he really had something to offer, would find sufficient customers in his
own community. Then he could also freely engage in "external" trade, subject only to the restrictions
chosen by himself and his trading partners, Naturally, if his potential customers still preferred to be
served rather by members of other racial communities, then some racial hate, based on envy, might still
be retained by him. But it might be possible to redirect even this hate against the members of his own
community (who discriminated against his services as not being as good as those of others), or one
might even lead him to the recognition that he ought to take up another field of production or
exchange, one in which he might successfully compete on the basis of equal ability.
Let there be as many boycotts and discriminatory acts as people like to engage in. The main thing is
that none of them are imposed on anyone who does not want to participate.
Let militia units protect e.g. all those threatened by racism and let the victims be free in their self
defence.
Free Banking would remove unemployment and sales difficulties and with this undermine that part of
racism which is merely based upon the fear that one might lose one's job.
The exterritorial reorganization of society would mean the abolition of frontiers and immigration
restrictions. The more physically intermixed and yet legally separated and independent the people
would live, the faster most of their racial prejudices would disappear. The mere fact that interracial
marriages were and often are legislated against or at least subjected to strong social pressures, shows
that there is a strong natural tendency towards integration between individuals. Just let every individual
make his or her own free choice in the matter, completely undisturbed. But et them
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also chose freely, if they want to, as racist and exclusive and discriminating a volunteer community as
they like for themselves.
See : Alien Acts, Alternative institutions, Autonomy, Collective Responsibility, Competing
Governments, Exterritorial Imperative, Immigration Restrictions, Minority Autonomy , Nationalism,
Panarchism, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Segregation, Sovereignty, Tolerance,
Voluntarism, War Aims.
RADIATION DETECTORS OR GEIGER COUNTERS
Sensitive radiation detectors should be mass produced and thus become cheaply available as part of a
unilateral nuclear disarmament and disarmament control effort by the people. They will be essential in
searches for hidden nuclear weapons. Few of the hidden nuclear weapons will have a completely fail
safe insulation. If they have then only public opinion pressure and the almost perfect omnipresence of
the people, acting as disarmament inspectors, could help us against these.
See: Control, Disarmament, Inspection, People, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
RADIATION HAZARDS, PRECAUTIONS VS. NEGLIGENCE
"There is always talk about permitted radiation quantity. Who has permitted it? Who is authorized to
permit it?" said Albert Schweitzer in a talk in 1958.
Someone compared hard radiation to machine gun fire and said a that the only safe exposure rate is:
Nil.
We are already exposed to some natural radiation, from space and from the Earth. More or less we
have adapted to it and it plays a factor in our evolution. However, every additional radiation is not to be
considered as automatically safe. We have already greatly added to the natural radiation via TV's,
cathode tube computer screens, mobile phones, power lines and electrical household equipment,
especially microwave ovens, broadcasting, Xrays etc. and should beware of any additional hazards of
that kind upon our finetuned chemical and electrical cell systems. The long term effects upon us are
still not sufficiently explored.
Most people are either not sufficiently aware of radiation hazards or simply ignore them. This
negligence is expressed in popular opinion and attitudes towards Xrays, TVs, nuclear reactors,
background radiation, nuclear research, defective microwave ovens, radioactive wristwatch dials,
extensive use of isotopes in industry, neglect of the hazards posed by radioactive garbage and
radioactive pollution in the waterways, oceans and the atmosphere, even in the usual overexposure to
sunlight, which causes many skin cancers.
"Depleted" uranium is even extensively used in ammunition and in Eastern Germany, under the
communist regime, radioactive waste from uranium mining was even used in road building. With
radiation hazards so carelessly accepted, why then should we expect the same people to care much
about the fallout from nuclear weapons?
Compared with the above risks, usually uncritically accepted, the hazards from all the nuclear test
explosions so far might well be comparatively small. But that may only make all the other risks
relatively more important for our health.
Why do people go on ignoring these hazards as much as they do? One answer might be that invisible
dangers are usually ignored.
Only when all the dangers of this kind are sufficiently explored and publicized and when we do take
sufficient precautions against them will we be likely to take sufficient precautions against the radiation
and other hazards associated with the nuclear war threat.
See: Apathy. Enlightenment, Ignorance, Modern, Peaceful Use, Powerlessness, Progress, Tests.'
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS & THEIR CONTROLS
At least as long as the danger of nuclear war persists, all avenues which might lead to the construction
of more nuclear weapons should be closed. The governments should not be allowed any radioactive
materials to fool around with, not even under the pretence of their use "for peaceful use only", and
neither should private people or private corporations.
Production possession and trade with such materials should be outlawed. After the closure of atomic
reactors and the occupation of nuclear weapons stockpiles, each militia unit could guard a quantity of
nuclear bomb material, far below the critical mass required for a nuclear bomb, until safe enough
disposal of this material becomes possible.
See: Atomic Energy, Control, Destruction, Disarmament, Inspection, Militia, Peaceful Use,
Referendums, Research, Scientists, Uranium Mining, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, DISPOSAL OF THEM
Nuclear "weapons" cannot be completely destroyed because their radioactive materials core is
indestructible by our present method, except by nuclear explosions and they are likely to multiply and
spread radioactive elements even further. My friend Ulrich von Beckerath, in one of his less ingenious
moments, suggested bombing the poles with them, melting much of the Arctic and Antarctic ice
thereby and perhaps making Earth's climate warmer. Later estimates of nuclear winter effects from an
allout exchange, and the flooding and additional radiation hazard involved, make such a procedure
quite inadvisable.
But the nuclear weapons can be disassembled and their radioactive and indestructible cores can be
widely dispersed and strictly guarded, so
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widely dispersed and so well guarded that their collection and recombination in new nuclear weapons
would be extremely difficult and costly and could not be done secretly.
In the ore deposits, from which they had been mined, and then refined, they had previously been stored
in relative safety for us.
Some of this material might be shot into the sun or the moon or into one of the for us useless moons
e.g. of Jupiter. Some might be buried in deep mines, in deserts, on ocean floors or in deep faults in the
earth's surface, areas which further submerge rather than expel matter, like submarine volcanoes do.
The limited experience gained from attempts to bury radioactive rubbish from nuclear reactors will be
somewhat helpful but since that problem has not yet been solved, either, by the managers of nuclear
reactors and their international control organizations, this problem might be with us for a very long
time still and none of the disposals, no more so than uranium mining and its refinement for nuclear
reactors and "weapons", will be cheap and without any risk. Not all processes are easily and cheaply
reversible.
See: Control, Destruction, Disarmament, Inspection.
RATIONALIZATIONS
There are rationalizations in defence of every wrong and absurdity that exists or has been proposed,
even for nuclearweapons. One needs an encyclopaedic approach to refute them all. This compilation is
a very modest beginning for such an effort.
See: Cultural Revolution, Decision, Deterrence, Encyclopaedia, Enlightenment, Ideas/Wrong,
Ignorance, Modern Weapons, Myths, Nuclear Strength, Overpopulation, Peaceful Use, Prejudices,
Progress, Statism, Weapons, Welfare State.
RAY WEAPONS, LASERS GUNS, DEATH RAYS
An effective ray weapon could cope with attacking missiles and bombers, preventing them from
reaching their destination. But they could not, at the present state of our knowledge, render the
radioactive cores of nuclear weapons harmless and they could not by themselves, even if 100%
effective, the aim of the Star Wars Defence efforts, assure our safety from all nuclear weapons. For
neither IBM's nor bombers are the only practicable delivery methods. They might reduce the danger or
even abolish it for these delivery options. But they could not cope with the suitcase bombs that are
smuggled in, either complete or in parts to be assembled at or near the target and then detonated upon a
radio signal.
Only an S.F. ray weapon which could render all radioactive materials harmless and. which could
broadcast in all directions without giving off harmful rays itself, could help. See e.g. Bob Shaw's
"Ground Zero Man" in which such a newly invented device was effective but only upon quantities
that were close to the critical mass.
Until such a weapon is invented, we will have to cope with the nuclear threat in other ways.
See: Defence, Destruction, Disarmament, Exterritorial Imperative, Panarchism, War Aims.
REASON
"You are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that REASON is your means of survival
so that for YOU who are a human being, the question: 'to be or not to be', is the question: 'to think or
not to think'" said Ayn Rand on page 939 of "Atlas Shrugged".
There is no reason to start a nuclear war nor any other war. This has never prevented them. Powerful
men are not necessarily reasonable or well enough informed. On the contrary. Societies, communities
and States are presently not constructed to give free play to reason whatever there is of it among their
members and leaders.
Democracies are rather structured to enforce majorityheld prejudices, however selfdefeating and self
destructive they might be, at least in the long run.
"People don't act in a reasonable manner" means all too often mainly: The government would not allow
them to do so, even if they were able and willing to do so. But in the main this applies to innovative
and experimenting individuals and minorities, who, under territorialism, are not allowed to act in a
peacepromoting way, not even when they could do so quite at their own risk and expense.
While reason is, objectively, man's supreme weapon, it is still insufficiently known what particular
steps reason demands to bring about peace and freedom and especially how to prevent nuclear war. For
instance: How popular would Ayn Rand's limited government and laissez faire capitalistic economic
system be with the masses of indoctrinated anticapitalists and America haters, who now express
themselves in terrorist actions against innocent Americans?
Reason requires not only the partrealization of some libertarian ideas, by some limited government,
somewhere but the elimination of nuclear targets and of the motives and means for nuclear war,
everywhere. To achieve this, it would require experimental freedom and tolerance for tolerant actions
everywhere, in all spheres, equivalent to the practice of religious tolerance. This would mean, e.g.:
Capitalism for consenting adults and socialism for consenting adults everywhere, in the panarchistic
way.
See: Appeals, Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Consent, Decision, Declarations, Democracy, Desertion,
Disarmament, Discriminating Warfare, Doomsday Bomb, Enlightenment, Experimental freedom,
Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Freedom of Action, Justice, Madness, Majority, Militia, Minority
Autonomy, Motives, Myths, Nuclear Strength, Powerlessness, Prejudices, Secession, Separate Peace
Treaty, Surrender, Tolerance, Treason, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voluntarism, War Aims,
Weapons. Appx. 1.
RECALL
Everyone may withdraw his patronage from his agents. The people have the right to recall men in
power who were never formally authorized to exercise nuclear powers. They may also recall them if
they ever, in error, granted them such powers They have the right to annul all such powers and to insist
upon corresponding constitutional changes.
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See: Authority, Autonomy, Consent, Decision, Democracy, Election of Officers, Pension Claims,
Power, Referendum, Representation, Secession, Selfhelp, Voting.
RECOGNITION, INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION, RIGHT VERSUS WRONG
RECOGNITION
Recognize all exterritorially autonomous and freely competing governmentsinexile that have and aim
to have only voluntary members under personal laws. Recognize especially those which refugees and
deserters or sympathizers want to establish, as alternatives to all existing despotic regimes, anywhere
and everywhere in the world.
Recognize and practise your individual right to join any of them or to ally yourself with any of them,
and, naturally, your right to establish your own governmentinexile towards your own present
democratic or republican government, no matter how "free" and "limited" it may be already. As a
territorial regime it is still all too totalitarian and too much a nuclear target.
Withdraw your recognition from all dictatorial, despotic and totalitarian regimes as well as from all
"free governments" that are still organized territorially, especially by individually and with dissenting
minority groups seceding from them and establishing your own forms of competing governments or
nongovernmental societies.
A tiny step in this direction would be in wording one's ideas in a way that one would no longer use the
same term for a people and all its dissenting minorities as for the government which has usurped power
over them. All talks and writings about e.g., "the" Americans, Russians, Chinese, etc., are leading or
thinking, or rather thoughtlessness, towards mass murder devices and their use.
Do no longer recognize any governmental monopoly for recognizing or not recognizing any
governments or free societies.
Do no longer recognize as a rightful government any government that has armed itself with nuclear
antipeople mass murder devices or even merely allied itself with such a government.
Do not recognize but resist every government arming itself with antipeople "weapons".
Nonrecognition of such criminal activities and organizations is not enough. They must be effectively
resisted. For that purpose ideal militia forces have to be established, trained, motivated and armed.
Well prepared, organized and publicized tyrannicide would be just one step among many non
recognition steps for tyrannical governments. Deserting or fleeing from them would be another. Others
would mean a military insurrection or revolution and contributing steps to these would be e.g. a well
organized tax strikes combined with refusals to accept a government's paper money and private issues
and acceptances of sound alternative currencies.
Individual and group secessions and the establishment of parallel institutions or competing
governments and societies: panarchies, might be the most important steps. Declarations of rightful
peace and war aims and greatly improved individual human rights codes would be important as well.
All wrongful ideas and practices are interconnected but then so are all rightful ones.
See : Peace plan 247, Appeals, Autonomy, Decision, Declarations, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom
of Action, Governments, Individualism, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law,
Pluralism, Referendum, Rulers, Secession, Sovereignty, State, Voluntarism, War Aims, Weapons.
RED OR DEAD, RATHER DEAD THAN RED OR NEITHER RED NOR DEAD?
"Rather dead than Red" and "Rather Red than dead" are both irrational choices and very far from being
the only alternatives. Better formulas, although not complete answers, either, are:
"Better the Reds dead!" "Liberate the Reds, too!" "Neither Red nor dead but free instead!" "No
noncriminals dead!" and "Rather be quite right than dead or red!"
That some other versions can as easily be asserted should suffice to weaken the case for all such
assertions posing as the only possible choices.
See: Brinkmanship, Communism, Counterterror, Decision, Defence, Immorality, Liberation War,
Morality, Myths, Nuclear Strength, Prejudices, Referendum; Retaliation, Revenge, Revolutionary
Warfare, Soviet Union, Suicide, Surrender, Tolerance, Totalitarianism, War Aims, Weapons.
REFERENDUM ON WAR AND PEACE, AGAINST "PEACEFUL" USE OF ATOMIC
ENERGY AND FOR UNILATERAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, ETC.
The people have the right to decide whether they are to be slaughtered or not. No nonaggressive
person may be rightly killed without his consent, especially not en masse, e.g. by ABC mass murder
devices.
If someone acted aggressively towards others, in a serious way, not just by a mere verbal "assault", the
he, personally, might have to be wiped out but this does not require or justify the extermination of all
his family, friends, neighbours, associates, the murder of all people of his tribe or nation, race, religion
or culture or conviction, of his whole neighbourhood or the country he lives in, not even when the
government of a country shelters one or several terrorists, as the Taliban regime in Afghanistan
presently does. (19.10.01.)
Nuclear weapons are inevitably wrong. People must become free to judge and act on that fact.
A referendum against nuclear tests, anywhere, no matter by whom and when, would, by now, lead to
their outlawry or rather to the outlawry of all preparing them.
Foreign nuclear bases and supportative basis for nuclear war actions, are also already under heavy and
popular criticism. Referendums should therefore also be organized against them, soon.
However, such small steps are not enough. They would be merely introductory for larger ones.
There should a referendums on every major aspect of peace, of politics and economics, especially on
nuclear arms and disarmament and on just war aims.
Then and only then would peace and liberty get their chances because under this condition at least
gradual enlightenment becomes inevitable and rational selfinterest and moral imperatives can find
expression.
When a referendum against an unjust and warpromoting government power does fail then it should be
repeated, as soon as possible, until it succeeds.
Referendums should for instance be organized on: Who is to have the decisionmaking power on war
and peace, the people or the governments?
Shall there be war or peace and if so under what conditions?
What are our rightful war aims? What are the just peace aims? These must become quite clearly and
publicly stated and widely understood, even by the soldiers and officers of all regimes that might try to
attack us.
What are justified and unjustified defensive steps? They would have to be specified, e. h., tyrannicide
vs. scorched earth policy and area bombing.
The referendum option should be used e.g. for the repeal of compulsory taxation, against compulsory
State membership, for individual secessionism and for personal laws and against conscription, against
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potism, to repeal all monopolies, etc.
In short, referendum might be used for all the reforms here proposed, even if presently there is
sometimes no chance for an immediate success. The referendums would help to propagate the right
ideas and could be repeated often enough.
When, or even before a referendum has condemned the peaceful and the military use of nuclear power;
one or the other government, or several, might hide enough nuclear devices to allow them to dictate
terms to the others afterwards. However, those knowing about these secret caches would also be human
beings and subject to human influences. They would live among relatives, friends and acquaintances,
who are not part of their conspiracy. Wherever they would go, they would hear opinions on nuclear
devices which are contrary to those of their superiors. After a while, at least some of them would have
a change of mind and reveal the locations of the hidden weapon stores. See: Control and Inspection.
Every proposal to "'peacefully" use nuclear energy, anywhere or at any time or for any purpose, sun
power plants excepted, should in future be subjected to a referendum.
Once the facts regarding radiation hazards, nuclear winter, overkill preparations, accidental war risk,
sabotage risks, waste disposal and nuclear targeting are made sufficiently known, as well as non
nuclear defensive and liberating alternatives, referendums are likely to outlaw all the nuclear war
preparations. Monetary freedom, in combinations with other economic liberties, would assure
employment for all who are thus rendered unemployed.
If any referendum favoured nuclear power then it should be repeated, after a certain periods has passed,
until finally enlightenment is spread widely enough to make it successful.
Such a referendums should contain not only an employment program for those rendered unemployed in
this way but also amnesty clauses for all responsible sabotage acts against nuclear installations in case
the governments would fail to act against these installations within a stipulated period.
Attacks merely against their staff, before the stated outlawry begins, should still be treated as criminal.
Any propaganda against nuclear reactors should be accompanied by propaganda and plans for
alternative power plants and plans for using the unemployed nuclear power workers as much as
possible in. their construction and running.
A referendum on or rather against the "peaceful" use of atomic energy would have had a chance even
in the Soviet Union and it could have turned into a popular movement which might have overthrow this
despotism. The chances for such happenings would naturally be vastly improved if the West undertook
a unilateral nuclear disarmament initiated and carried out, or at least supervised, by the people in the
West, after referendums had first outlawed both, the military and the "peaceful" use of nuclear energy,
and after a practicable revolutionary defence program has been developed and widely published in and
from the West, one including a good program for revolutions and military insurrections against
despotic regimes.
See: Appeals, Broadcasting, Disarmament by the People, Declarations, Nuclear Reactors, Peaceful Use
of Atomic Energy, Publicity, Revolutionary Warfare, Surrender, War Aims.
St The referendums should give the governments only shortterm ultimatums. When they have run out
the people themselves should take nuclear disarmament into their own hands. And they ought to
organize themselves for this purpose in rightful military and policing organizations, even before the
referendums take place, Such referendums could well become the most exiting referendums ever.
Naturally, referendums must never become means to oppress human rights, means to legalize and
enforce opinions and systems on nonaggressive dissenters. They must be limited in their applicability
to volunteers and to aggressors Others must remain free to opt out of referendum decisions at their
own risk and expense. It should be obvious that no one could e.g. keep nuclear weapons only at his
own risk. See a Peace plan 239, Appeals, Decision Democracy, Disarmament, Human Rights,
Negotiations ,Outlawry, Publicity, Separate Peace treaties, Trust, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear
Disarmament; War Aims, Weapons.
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REFUGEE PROBLEM
People forcefully driven out of a country or forcefully kept out, will be tempted to gain entry by force.
Their hatred might induce them to employ nuclear devices against those who deprived them of their
rights and against all others living in that country. They will be tempted to do so due to their
nationalistic prejudices, in spite of there being numerous other places on Earth in which they could
settle. Compare the refugee problem of those who fled from or were expelled from Israel, They want to
settle back in relatively small Israel and not in the vast Arabic countries around them or in any other
country in the world (apart from a few exceptions). Thus free emigration is not enough. It must be
accompanied by free immigration into every country and this is only possible on the basis of
exterritorial organization and monetary freedom, The one to reduce friction to a minimum, the other to
prevent unemployment.
In adaptation of F. Bastiat's famous saying on Free Trade, one might say: When peaceful migrants may
not freely cross frontiers, then soldiers will.
See: Arabs, Autonomy, Dictatorships, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Migration, Immigration, Israel,
Nationalism, National Resources, Unemployment.
RELIGION
"If you disagree with me, follow your own convictions not mine." Buddha.
"If tolerance of diversity involves an admitted element of risk, ... intolerance involves a certainty of
destruction."
Free after Alan Barth, The Loyalty of Free Men, 1951, quoted by George Seldes, The Great
Quotations.
Seeing the failure of past and present religions to eliminate war, it appears to be a hopeless case of
utopianism to expect any old or new religion to prevent nuclear war.
"None of the well known religions contains positive advice for situations as created at present by the
existence of thousands of nuclear weapons. The advice has to offer something practical and useful.
Every religion will suffer in the long run when it cannot answer this question referring to nuclear
weapons: 'What is to be done?' '' Free after r a remark by U. v. Beckerath, in a letter to E. v. Perbandt,
6/8/56.
Religious intolerance once posed the same kind of extreme, even genocidal threat, as nuclear war does
and to some extent it still does, wherever it has not yet been completely replaced by religious
tolerance. See under Israel and Arabs and compare the wars between India and Pakistan, the civil war
in Ireland and the war in the Southern Sudan Then contemplate the intolerant secular religions of
nationalism, statism and, last, not least, the cold and not so cold war by and against the religion whose
prophets were Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao.
Democracy, as popularly understood and practised, is also a system of intolerant beliefs and cult
actions towards dissenting individuals and minorities.
Religious tolerance or religious freedom, if properly analyzed and understood, will be seen to offer the
way out of the nuclear war danger. This is the only valuable lesson which religions and their
interactions could teach us. Alas, they have generally failed to do. Most of their representatives find it
even difficult to sufficiently comprehend the principle of mutual tolerance involved to be able to apply
it to the political, economic social sphere.
Wherever and whenever religious tolerance replaced religious intolerance, religious wars were
eliminated. In other words, not religious unity but religious diversity, combined with religious freedom,
was and is the solution to the problem of religious wars.
The same fundamental solution lies is still to be fully recognized and introduced in the economic and
political sphere, where disagreements are now as heated, emotional and violent once religious
disagreements were. Compare: Nationalism and Racism. See: Autonomy, Competing Governments,
Consent, Diversity, Experimental Freedom Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Ideological
Warfare, Individualism, Intolerance Obedience, Panarchy, Parallel institutions, Pluralism, Power,
Secession, Sovereignty, Statism: Subordination, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Unity,
Voluntarism, War Aims.
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RENUNCIATION, PUBLIC RENUNCIATION OF NUCLEAR STRENGTH BY FREE
PEOPLE
To initiate a general nuclear disarmament someone has to make a start. The people of one or the other
country in the world ought to gain freedom of action for themselves and abolish all nuclear powers or
separate themselves from all alliances with nuclear powers.
At the same time they should publicly appeal to the other people of the world to follow their example
and renounce nuclear power with declarations which say in effect:
"We do not believe that nuclear weapons are moral means or useful devices.
We possess no nuclear weapons and do not intend to ever obtain any or tolerate any in our spheres.
Those we had we have destroyed.
Neither do we operate any longer any nuclear power plants or experimental reactors, nor do we tolerant
nuclear research laboratories or the teaching and studying of nuclear science.
Nor do we tolerate any military bases that serve to target nuclear weapons or to communicate with
nuclear weapons carriers.
We broke off all alliances with nuclear armed governments.
We renounced as well the use of and preparation for biological and chemical warfare means.
Everyone is free and invited to check everywhere in the areas under our control to convince himself of
the truth of these statements."
Once the first selfliberated people could honestly such a declaration, then their example is likely to be
followed soon by others.
See: Alliances, Appeals, Bases, Controls, Declarations, Defence, Deterrence, Disarmament, Enemy,
Enlightenment, Inspection, People, Publicity, Public Opinion, Revolution, Referendums, Tyrannicide,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
REPRESENTATION
Nobody can live by representation only.
Nobody can permanently renounce all life and death decisions for himself without ceasing to be a free
and rational being.
Certain decisions should never be made by representatives. The war and peace decision is one of these.
Why should one have to stress this in our time? Any patient must give his authorization for an
operation endangering his life. Only in some emergencies may his consent be assumed. One cannot
simply assume the consent of a nation or mankind to actions which could lead to their extermination.
Here individual consent must be insisted upon and it can only be assumed to have been refused.
The refusals of free men must be explicit, effective and done in time, to prevent wars with ABC mass
murder devices.
People must be freed to decide and act in this sphere, not just "free" to suffer a general holocaust,
decided upon by a few powerful men armed with ABC mass murder devices.
The refusal of free men to submit to such weapons, policies and threats with them must be expressed
and acted upon in time, e.g. by individual and minority group secessions from nuclear powers, by a
referendum in every country on this and related questions, by tax strikes, neutrality declarations and
preparations for and participation in armed and well organized resistance and disarmament efforts, in
particular for the destruction of all ABC mass murder devices and in searches for any hidden ones.
All parliamentarians and rulers should be no more than administrators of competing "Property Limited"
enterprises, associations, communities and corporations, without the authority to endanger the lives or
property of others than their shareholders and without powers to declare, prepare and conduct wars
against competing societies and enterprises. The very nature of competing governments and societies,
with their limited and exterritorial autonomy only, would make it anyhow unlikely and rather difficult
to prepare and conduct a war, far less to win an aggressive war.
If one were to grant politicians any more power, especially large and exclusive powers over large
territories, and all their inhabitants, then one would be asking for trouble, and would, perhaps, create
another East India Company and certainly another oppressive and aggressive territorial State.
See : Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Consent, Decision, Democracy,
Disobedience, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Government, Human Rights,
Individualism, Majority, Neutrality, Obedience, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, People, Pluralism,
Power, Referendum, Responsibility, Secession, Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, State,
Subordination, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Voluntarism, Voting.
REPRIVATIZATION
Defence, public services, political organization and economic policy must become privatized and
subject to free choices by individuals and minority groups in order to deprive governments of their
nuclear powers.
A program to sell all government institutions and assets to the highest bidders, without continuing any
legal monopoly presently attached to them, could become very attractive if
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accompanied by the immediate abolition of all compulsory taxes and the winding up of all territorial
government businesses.
Once every government enterprise and asset is sold, and the proceeds distributed either to all former
taxpayers or all former citizens and once various competing private or cooperative alternatives are
established, then no more imposed taxes are required to finance territorial government activities: there
would be none left. There would only remain voluntary and exterritorial autonomous communities,
voluntarily financed by their members. These would include the rump of the former territorial
government, from which all dissenters would have seceded so that it could continue to exist only as a
volunteer community.
Some of the creditors of the old territorial States would be left empty handed. They would have betted
on the wrong horse. They would have made an investment in tax slaves and the tax slaves would have
revolted and renounced this imposed burden. If they wanted to, they could direct their claims to the
remaining State, formed by the remaining statist volunteers.
There will be few voluntary tax slaves prepared to continue the honours and burdens of the former
regimes and to submit to the claims of the handout men and their voters.
As a rule, government securities (through inflation and taxation as well as controls and regulations
already turned into governmental insecurities) are to be considered as shares in a Mafia organization
forfeited once the Mafia is busted. But bonds bought under coercion of e.g. Trustee Acts by insurance
companies might be recognized by some of the volunteer communities. Here it should be taken into
consideration that, as a rule, neither these insurance companies nor the insured did protest against
enforced investments in government "securities".
Another approach would be far individuals to secede from the State and lay their claims to shares of its
assets. To realize these claims governments would have to go into liquidation. They should not be able
to claim that the seceding individuals pay "their share" of State debts unless the government could
prove that these individuals gave their individual consent to the State budgets. When you are forced to
join a robber gang and are finally liberated, you have a claim to get some of your own back but no
obligation to make good the promises and damages of the gang. For some details on another general
privatization, of all government assets, for the benefits of taxpayers or citizens, see PEACE PLANS 19
c.
What implication would this organizational and proprietary change have with regard to nuclear war? A
very simple and direct one: Woolworth might fight Coles with every economic "weapon" at its
disposal, but it would certainly not resort to ABC weapons, for obvious reasons.
The consumers would be "king" in a practical application of the old business principle: "The customer
is always right." Enterprises are merely the agent of customers, not their owners or controllers.
See: Capitalism, Competition, Defence, Denationalization, Economic Freedom, Exterritorial
Imperative, Financing, Free Enterprise, Free Trade, Greed, Laissez Faire, Liquidation of Governments,
Monopolies, Nationalism, Natural Resources, Power, Profit, Property, Protectionism, Targets, Tax
Strike, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims.
RESEARCH, NUCLEAR, LABORATORIES, INSTALLATIONS, GOVERNMENT
SPONSORSHIP
The minimum common sense requirement is: No more nuclear research until the danger of nuclear war
has passed.
There is one exception: The only research which should be tolerated is one which would allow us to
artificially stop radioactivity, preferably from a distance and cheaply.
Future nuclear research, if it should take place at all. should be undertaken only on dead planetary
bodies. On earth at least it should depend on approvals by referendums which would be unlikely to be
forthcoming.
No more government sponsorship or subsidies to any nuclear research. This would very fast stop
almost all nuclear research.
If a free society is not introduced fast enough, i. e., a society which would not encourage nuclear
research, then, under the pressure of governments, nuclear weapons might become so simple and cheap
to produce that school boys could produce them. Then it would not be long then before one fool or the
other started off a nuclear war.
Perhaps that is one reason we have not yet heard from alien civilizations: They had all reached that
stage of "scientific development".
If the decommissioning costs of nuclear fuel enrichment plants and nuclear reactors and the costs of
disposing of their radioactive garbage in some "safe" form is not taken into consideration, nor
governmental guaranties to insurance companies and subsidies via sale of radioactive byproducts to
governmental nuclear weapons factories, then power from nuclear reactors has already become
competitively priced and practicable plans for basement nukes have already been published and shown
in action movies.
So far a huge technological effort is required still to mine refine radioactive material for reactor or
weapons use. these materials. But for how long?
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Crime, Decision, Progress, Radiation Hazard, Scientists,
Voluntary Taxation.
RESIGNATION, APATHY, LACK OF INTEREST
Are all of you "beached" (Compare Nevil Shute's nuclear holocaust novel: "On the Beach".) with
regard to the nuclear weapons question, resigned to die if and when the governments arranges for it?
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Are you going to accept mass extermination and your place in it? Are you ready face the "final
solution" your powerful rulers have prepared for you? Are you going to take it lying down,
apathetically and ignorant like an animal? Don't even dogs sometimes have the sense to run away or
secede individually when badly treated or threatened? In what classification does your resignation
place you'? Is "eat, drink and be merry" all you can do and want to do?
See: Aggression, Apathy, Bet, Death Wish, Decision, Deterrence, Duty, Enlightenment, Human Rights,
Ideas Ignorance, Interest, Madness, Man, Obedience, Power, Powerlessness, Reason, Religion,
Resistance, Slavery, Statism, Subordination, Survival Instinct.
RESISTANCE
Resistance is not only a right but a duty against all nuclear war preparations, all lethal bacteriological
and chemical warfare preparations. (Nonlethal germ and poison warfare means might be excepted.
They could often be used with more discrimination and less killing and physical harm than firearms.) A
clearly formulated right to resist ought to be included in all declarations of human rights and all
constitutions and also into the code of a volunteer militia for the protection of human rights, Compare
Peace Plans No. 4, plan 110. The subject needs a booklength treatment.
RESPONSIBILITY, INDIVIDUAL VERSUS COLLECTIVIST
One cannot bear nuclear responsibility for others. One man certainly cannot bear the responsibility for
the lives of millions of others. This is what having one's finger on a nuclear button means. Even if he
paid for his mass murderous decision with his own single life it could not make up for the lives of
millions that he took, directly or indirectly.
The rulers, who by their very existence created the problem, are by their very nature unable to solve it
and cannot be held sufficiently responsible.
Most people still suppose it to be the responsibility of governments to look after the welfare of the
citizens. But in reality almost all rulers and bureaucrats are much more concerned with looking after
their own welfare at the expense of the citizens.
Even with the best of will and abilities, the greatest education and training, and contrary to the beliefs
of all statist utopians, they cannot fulfil even this seemingly simple task.
Governments are the least suitable institutions to finance, encourage, defend or promote anyone or
anything except wrongdoers and wrongdoing including their own.
Look at their record, not at their fairy tales and myths.
As serious, sensitive and difficult a task as the defence of liberty and the administration of justice
should not be entrusted to clumsy handed, disinterested and routineridden bureaucrats, who are
corruptible or "impartial" even towards justice, They cannot possibly be ''responsible" and be held
responsible for this huge task. It requires the conscientious participation of almost all citizens.
Avoidance of nuclear war is either your responsibility or nobody's!
See: Collective Responsibility; Consent, Control, Decision, Defence, Disarmament, Individual
Responsibility, Justice, Inspection, Participatory Democracy, People, Representation, Trust.
RESTRICTIONS, CONTROLS, REGULATIONS, LAWS, DIRIGISM, LEGAL MONOPOLIES
There are so many restrictions imposed on modern man that he feels and largely is a powerless pawn in
the hands of powerful politicians and bureaucrats, powerless also to do something positive and directly
to help prevent nuclear war. He is so habituated to obey those in power that he leaves even those tasks
to them which they cannot possibly solve, tasks which only free people could solve, millions of free
people cooperating freely and rationally.
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A man who believes that only the government could run a post office, provide roads or a garbage
removal service, will naturally believe that a government must run defence and the administration of
justice and he will thus be blind to the disastrous consequences government action in this sphere as
well.
See: Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Bureaucracy, Centralization, Choice, Experimental Freedom,
Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Freedom of Action, Free Economy, Governments, Immigration,
Individualism, Laws, Legislation, Liberty, Licensing, Market, Monopolies, Nationalism, People,
Power, Powerlessness, Protectionism, Selfhelp, State, Statism, Territorial Organization, Unity,
Welfare State.
RETALIATION, MASSIVE & NUCLEAR
For decades our "defence" rested on massive nuclear retaliation and even now cities are not entirely
excluded as targets, contrary to the promises of politicians. Such preparations tend to drive the other
side into similar
preparations for mass murder and mass destruction until finally a spark might set off the ultimate
fireworks.
Hostagetaking is usually frowned upon, even by our politicians. But with nuclear strength they do
actually take and treat the whole population of other countries as mere hostages, with the exception of
the rulers, who sit in the safest bunkers, and not taking into consideration that some governments care
so little about their population that they systematically oppress and exploit them and are always ready
to sacrifice millions of their lives.
In this hostage taking the hostages are not taken away but left in their residences and places of work
but the nuclear "Sword of Damocles" if hung up over them by a mere threat.
The whole idea of massive retaliation, like that of, the preventative nuclear deterrence, is based on the
principle of collective responsibility and a wrong definition of the enemy. It is thus wrong and self
defeating. It reveals an
extreme weakness and creates an extreme insecurity. It presupposed territorial thinking and institutions.
The basic flaw of the massive nuclear retaliation response was already officially seen by Robert
McNamara, when US Defence Secretary. He at least instituted a variety of graduated response
facilities. I hold that the responses should not include any nuclear ones at all. This "defender" did not
go that far. As long as nuclear "weapons" exist, gradual or fast escalation is likely to lead to their use in
any major clash or when one side does get desperate. Many rulers would rather kill millions and
sacrifice millions of their subjects than abdicate. If they were quite rational, they would not have
striven anyhow to gain supreme power and nuclear "strength".
See : Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Air Raids, Arms Race, Collective Responsibility, Defence,
Deterrence, Enemy, Immorality, Liberation Wars, Morality, Nuclear Strength, Open Cities,
Revolutionary Warfare, Secession, Surrender, Targets, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament,
War Aims.
REVENGE, RETALIATION
Revenge or retaliation by themselves were never very peace promoting but rather tended to spread and
prolong a brawl or a war, and to lead to more and more of violence, as long as either side is capable of
it. To have progressed in this procedure from sticks and stones to nuclear devices was no progress at
all.
Revenge for an allout nuclear strike has even become superfluous. It is already inherent in such a
strike. The aggressor would, although somewhat later, suffer almost as much or even suffer rather
prolonged agonies instead of a quick death. If the nuclear explosions and the radiation hazard would
not kill all or most people then a nuclear winter might.
If nobody remained alive, who could feel at least emotionally "satisfied" by having achieved a
complete "revenge" then revenge loses all meaning.
If one or the other side of two world powers does succeed with a population annihilating first strike but
the other side has a complete nuclear retaliation capacity left, enough to could wipe out the subjects of
the attacking side as well, will the few survivors in the attacked country, manning this retaliation
capacity, be able and willing, under these conditions, to renounce their retaliation capacity and thus,
perhaps, assure the survival of mankind of a large part of mankind? I somehow doubt that they would
then be reasonable enough to do so.
No one should be given such powers over the lives of others.
See: Alliances, Defence, Deterrence, Progress, Radiation Hazard, Surrender, Unilateral Nuclear
Disarmament, Tyrannicide, Weapons.
REVOLUTION
Either submit to nuclear powers or overthrow them. If you cannot overthrow them now, prepare
yourself so that you can do so later, perhaps together with most of the occupying force of the enemy
regime and a military putsch or revolution in its homeland.
Those who have not recognized the right and duty to revolt under certain circumstances will be unable
to see the duty to revolt against nuclear powers. And yet only a revolution although, predominantly, a
peaceful one, could prevent nuclear war. It must be one which so reorganizes human beings that they
become peaceful, powerless for aggression but very effective in their defence and protection of
individual rights. This revolutionary change should prevent almost all future collectivist and violent
revolutions whilst allowing all individual ones: onemanrevolutions. Certain reforms could bring
about this revolution without any bloodshed in the somewhat democratic or republican countries.
Forceful revolutions or military insurrections or putsches are obviously required to render governments
like that of a Hitler, Stalin or Mao harmless. Because revolutionary combat is close combat, it is one
which the holders of nuclear weapons could not directly, then and there, defend themselves with them.
Thus nuclear weapons could be taken with ordinary firearms. Preferably, that should be done by those
who are supposed to guard and to use them. The revolutionary program must be attractive even to them
and deter them from using their nuclear "weapons" against civilian targets far away, or threaten to do
so, like some terrorists would.
Every rational being in the West should do everything to promote such revolutions,
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starting with broadcast propaganda and advice. In the West special colleges should also train
something like professional libertarian revolutionaries, in sufficient numbers, to make it possible for
them to initiate and direct successful uprisings against e.g. a totalitarian communist occupation force,
should it ever come to such an occupation (e.g. after a unilateral nuclear disarmament on our side,
followed by surrender if we were then threatened by the communist totalitarian governments).
The revolutionary program taught must be so attractive, even to the occupation forces, that they would
rather be inclined to join the revolution or even start it than fight it.
What could the people in the West do to promote antitotalitarian revolutions in the East? Here are
some such suggestions:
1. Introduce monetary freedom in your area, to overcome unemployment and inflation.
2. Introduce cooperative production to ideological disarm communists.
3. Let all minority groups organize themselves on the basis of exterritorial autonomy and demonstrate
thus a harmonious diversity which could serve the other side as an ideal to be copied.
4. Unilaterally destroy your nuclear devices to prove that you are not the enemy of e.g. Russian and
Chinese people.
5. Promote tyrannicide to show that you are the enemy of their oppressors.
6. Declare rightful war and peace aims in a referendum.
7. Make an attractive unilateral peace declaration towards the people under communist rulers.
8. Make public declarations in support of a revolution,
9. Introduce free broadcasting to better reach the people on the other side.
10. Publicly declare that you would rather disobey your own government than join it in a war of
aggression.
11.Organize militias for the protection of human rights.
12.Be well prepared for a formal, surrender and subsequent revolution in collaboration with the
occupying forces
to gain liberty for both of you and them.
13.Small things like studying the languages of the enemy regime's conscripts and the smuggling in of
transceivers
and propaganda literature can also become very important.
To protect revolutionaries from nuclear counterstrikes, they should not only strike simultaneously, in
many areas, and as close to the nuclear installations as possible, but should also make sure not to
liberate any particular territory completely and obviously, thus making it into a nuclear target. They
must give dictators still some seeming chance to regain control of disputed areas until all nuclear
weapons are taken out of the hands of the regime.
In short, they should e.g. preserve some of the regime's forces, as either really or seemingly still loyal
to the dictatorial government in their very midst. They might e.g. delegate some of the units, which
actually have gone over to them, to continue putting up a pretence of loyalty to the regime, and of
fighting for it, in order to prevent nuclear strikes against that area.
For the same reason, it would be essential to attempt to destroy or at least occupy all nuclear weapons
stores and to arrange for uprisings close to these weapons stores and also close to the centers of power
of the regime. The Vietcong, for similar reasons, fought often so close to the S.V. and US troops that
air power could not be used effectivelyagainst them.
This subject is so involved that it would requires at least booklength treatment.
So far there exists only a science for the organization of totalitarian revolutions.
Antitotalitarian ones as well as antinuclear ones, would differ in many respects from them.
They have e.g. no room for terrorism, extortion, mass executions, confiscations, collective
responsibility, inflation; price control, rationing, absolute military obedience subordination,
centralization uniform rule etc. Only truly liberating revolutions are rightful. Other revolutions are
simply revolting.
See: Amnesty, Asylum, Desertion, Disobedience, Election of Officers, Disobedience, Governments in
Exile, Finance, Human Rights, Prisoners of War, Publicity, Soldiers' Rights, Tyrannicide, Separate
Peace Treaties.
(An additional note, 19.10.01: Let us assume that there remain e.g., some fanatic communists, well
fortified and possessing nuclear "weapons" and delivery systems, still prepared to terrorize the world
into submission with these mass murder devices.
Then, under certain precautions, surrender to them might be advisable, with their overthrow, later on,
very well prepared.
Their readiness to use their mass murder devices against civil populations far away, e.g. via IBMs,
could be reduced once it is made clear to them that communist volunteer communities are either
already established everywhere or planned and, anyhow, quite permitted in the tolerant "new order".
They would not want to lose the good will of all, even their own followers, worldwide, by murdering
also many of them and of their potential future converts.
It might help if, in time, we had made quite clear to them the contradiction between supposedly aiming
to liberate the proletarians of the world and then threatening to mass murder them.
prevent the use of nuclear weapons: Every rational being in the West should do everything to promote
such revolutions,
Then there is the outlawry and tyrannicide threat that would hang over them, while they retained any
totalitarian powers or nuclear "weapons" and especially if they had used even one of them.
Lastly, even against fanatics, there is always the monetary reward approach here for not using nuclear
weapons but surrendering them. According to some people everyone has his price and to be paid,
perhaps, millions, in a sound currency, for surrendering a nuclear mass murder device, and also to be
cheered by millions for doing so, might tempt even some of these fanatics.
Complete security from ABC mass murder devices cannot be attained until the last of them are
destroyed and enough steps are taken so that no new ones will be secretly built up.)
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REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE
Revolutionary warfare allows us to attack an enemy government with its own troops on its own
territory, so that it cannot use its nuclear devices against this attack. As a precondition for revolutionary
warfare and as a rational and moral external policy, the own nuclear weapons must be unilaterally
destroyed and this destruction must be well enough publicized Otherwise, we could not ask our secret
allies on the other side to destroy those of their regime.
Rightful war aims, peace declarations and appeals, governments in exile, the welcoming and complete
liberation of refugees and deserters, recognizing e.g. their volunteer communities as exterritorially fully
autonomous, a good program to cope effectively and obviously with the social problems on one's own
side, rightful treatment for prisoners of war, are among the "weapons" to promote revolutions and
military insurrections on the other side.
Revolutionary warfare, in essence, uses the military strength of the enemy government against it. It
uses its conscripts as allies, also its dissatisfied taxpayers and oppressed citizens, our "secret allies"
and it systematically multiplies them. It could financially mobilize its capital assets, to be liberated,
consisting e. g., in nationalized enterprises, could uses the nationalism, religion, ethnic and ideological
interests of its minority groups, the freedom aspirations of its majority etc.
However, it would use these angles and factors only to realize a common ideal of liberty, self
determination, and end to war and security from aggression and exploitation.
It would not limit itself to setting up a single alternative government and a puppet regime at that, but
would clearly intend and practice the liberating the majority and all minorities on the other side by
offering them full autonomy and fighting together with them towards this aim and against the common
enemy: the totalitarian regime and its supporters.
To be able to apply this policy successfully, we must act be believably, convincingly: We must
ourselves already be correspondingly organized on the basis of individual sovereignty, voluntarism and
exterritorial autonomy.
See: Autonomy, Appeals, Declarations, Desertion, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative,
GovernmentsinExile, Liberation War, Military Insurrections, Militia, Minority Autonomy, Panarchy,
Parallel Institutions, Peace Declarations, Personal Law, Pluralism, Revolution, Secret Allies, War
Aims.
RIGHT TO REVOLT
There is a right to revolt, to protect individual rights or, introduce them, provided that in this revolution
no human rights are systematically infringed.
No revolution, past, present or planned, has fulfilled this condition, to my knowledge, but it would be
possible to organize one of this kind.
From the right to resist threats to human rights follows naturally the right to revolt against nuclear
powers, i.e. powers which are currently the greatest threats to human rights.
General recognition of this right would be the first step towards its application.
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right", said Victor Hugo.
See: Bill of Rights, Disarmament, Human Rights, Military Insurrections, Militia, Nuclear Strength,
Resistance, Secession, Revolution.
RIGHTEOUSNESS
Righteousness is a peacepromoting behaviour . if it is based en the recognition of individual rights
and considered comprehensively enough. But how many would realize that it includes the right to
resist, the right to secede, the right to property, to issue money, to trade freely, to bear arms, to organize
exterritorially and autonomously?
See: Appeals, Capitalism, Collective Responsibility, Declarations, Enemy, Ethics, Exterritorial
Imperative, Freedom, Human Rights, Immorality, Individualism, Individual Responsibility, Justice,
Laissez Faire, Liberation Wars, Morality, Peace, Resistance, Rights, Secession, Tolerance, War Aims.
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RIGHTS
Rights, according to Kant, express the harmonization of the arbitrary actions of one with the arbitrary
actions of others according to a general law of freedom. They are accompanied by the authority to
enforce them.
At present there exists such a philosophical muddle on this subject that an encyclopaedia would be
required to answer all the criticism. Here I will confine myself to asserting that until all basic rights are
recognized and protected the danger of nuclear war will persist.
"If a man acts at all times within his rights, it is impossible for him, by their definition, to violate
another's rights." Mark Tier in: "Murphey's Rights vs. Human Rights."
" .. a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction." Ayn Rand, A. S., 452.
See: Autonomy, Bill of Rights, Broadcasting, Children, Decision, Dictatorships, Enemy,
Enlightenment, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Free Migration, Free Trade,
Freedom of Expression, Human Rights, Individualism, International Law, Justice, Liberty, Militia,
Monetary Freedom, Monopolies, Panarchy, Power, Resistance, Referendums, Revolution, Secession,
Sovereignty, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Soldiers' Rights, Tolerance, Totalitarianism, Tyrannicide,
Voluntarism, War Aims, Weapons.
RIGHT TO LIFE & NUCLEAR STRENGTH
Nuclear strength is the most comprehensive attack on the right to life so far made.
The Yugoslavian Momirsky wrote a book describing what will remain, after World War III is through
with us: It consists altogether out of blank pages.
"Typical of man's genius is the way he develops a bomb designed to drive us into the cellar about the
time he starts building homes without any cellars." said Homer King. (Quoted in Read. Dig., 10/54.
"None of us has lost too much sleep over the threat of imminent annihilation of the human race and our
responsibility for this state of affairs." Frances Hoffer, Peace Research Abstracts Journal item 32916.
"The ideals of nuclear war is the complete automation of slaughter." ibid, item 33.443.
As long as even the right to life of the unborn is still widely disputed we must not be surprised when
the right to life of most citizens will be threatened by preparations for overkill with antipeople
"weapons".
See: Abortion Apathy, Decision, Defence, Disarmament, Human Rights, Overkill, Selfdefence,
Sovereignty, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
RISKS, POPULAR VIEW VS. MORAL VIEW
"One has to take risks" and: "Nothing risked, nothing won", etc., are popular sentiments wrong
wrongly applied to the risk of nuclear war. Here the risks are much too great to be undertaken by a
moral and rational man.
The largest risks one can rightly take only for oneself and one's voluntary followers.
The generally operating principle is: To each his own risk and responsibility or: Mind your own
business. Really do mind it! Do not ignore it, like most do e.g. the factors producing the threat of
nuclear war, the facts of monetary despotism, the possibilities of monetary freedom, of individual
secessionism and exterritorial autonomy, quite unaware of how much their own rights, liberties and
wellbeing is involved or not caring sufficiently about either.
Nobody has the right to take risks with the lives, liberty and property of dissenting others.
Nobody has the right to risk the survival of mankind.
For such reasons nuclear weapons can neither be rightfully produced nor kept in readiness or used.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Brinkmanship, Decision, Deterrence, Exterritorial
Imperative, Nuclear Strength, Responsibility, Voting.
ROCKETS
As long as there is a danger that rockets might be used as nuclear weapon carriers, we should no longer
build any, not even for space research, not even for the more or less futile ground to air missiles to
destroy incoming IBM's. All existing ones
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should be destroyed.
Rockets were developed beyond the fireworks stage and to the stage of nuclear weaponry only with
government assistance and out of tax funds. Their upkeep and further development still require
government funding in most cases. These nuclear mushroom spores would therefore most likely die
also, from lack of sufficient nourishment, if present compulsory taxation were replaced by voluntary
taxation. Even if rockets were already in some way commercially useful today, this use would be of
secondary importance to the risk they pose as nuclear weapons carriers, as long as such devices still
exist or are in demand. See: Air Raids, Bombers, Defence, Disarmament, Discriminating Warfare,
Enemy, Governments, Individual Responsibility, Targets, Taxation, Voluntary Taxation, Weapons.
(Note of 19.10.01: I am a science fiction fan myself and in a way I welcome the establishment of
private space rocket developments. But on the other hand, while ABC mass murder devices may still
be spread by them, I would rather see this development and the associated satellite use being ended
until this technology can be taken up safely, once all ABC mass murder devices have been destroyed. I
doubt that private or government rockets could be sufficiently defended against a takeover by
determined terrorists. All security precautions have so far failed to prevent the takeover of aircraft by
terrorists.)
RULERS, MISANTHROPIC ONES
Rulers must hate and despise human nature. How, otherwise, could they imagine that human beings,
need be ruled? From this belief to obtaining and using nuclear weapons is but a technical step.
Must there be rulers? Aren't even the current apologists of powerful. rulers rather speaking of a rule of
law and not of men?
Is here any rightful rule or law which authorizes anyone to risk the survival of mankind?
The invention of ABC. weapons has rendered the old type of imposed and coercive territorial
governments, imposed and coercive at least towards minorities, not only morally intolerable but also
extremely dangerous and selfdefeating for all rightful public affairs aspirations.
We can no longer afford to have rulers of this type.
One does not, normally, en entrust all of one's property and one's life and that of one's family even to
the best friend, not even temporarily. And here, for many years and even decades, one is supposed to
entrust them to the "wisdom" and "conscience" of bureaucrats, politicians and generals, in spite of their
history.
One may voluntarily dispose of one's own life in this fashion but not of that of one's children.
No ruler, no government, no State, has the right to the life of any of its citizens as bong as they have
not offended against any human right.
To fully realize the right of man to live, we will now have to discard all coercive rulership systems,
especially their compulsory membership in or subordination to territorial States.
See Anarchy, Dictatorship, Disobedience, Exterritorial Imperative, Governments, Immorality,
Leadership, Madness, Majority, Minority Autonomy, Militia, Morality, Power, Resistance, Revolution,
Secession, Sovereignty, State, Tax Strike, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, War Aims.
SACRIFICIAL LAMBS
Nuclear weapons in the hands of our rulers and their nuclear policies reduced all of us to the status of
sacrificial lambs and we behaved as such.
See: Authoritarianism, Collective Responsibility, Consent, Decision, Hostages, Nuclear Strength,
Obedience, Power, Property Concept of Citizens, Sanction of the Victim, Secession, Statism,
Subordination.
SAFEGUARDS
The real safeguards against nuclear threats are shortly indicated under the following headings:
Amnesty, Appeals, Competing Governments, Declarations, Defence, Desertion, Disarmament,
Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers, JiuJitsu, Liberation Wars, Military Insurrections, Militia, Minority
Autonomy, Motives, Outlawry, Panarchy, Parallel
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Institutions, Peace Declarations, People, Resistance, Revolution, Secession, Separate Peace Treaties,
Surrender well prepared for revolution, Targets, Trust, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
SANCTION OF THE VICTIM
Who hasn't as yet, at least for prolonged periods, given the sanction of the victim to the threat of
nuclear war, e.g. by any' of 'the following attitudes?
By keeping oneself in apathetic ignorance of ways to prevent it.
By believing in nuclear strength.
By believing the deterrence system to be safe enough and justifiable.
By granting rulers a monopoly to make war, and peace decisions.
By approving the organization of men into perfect nuclear targets.
By advocating initiated coercion against individuals and minorities at least through the imposition of
uniform
laws or by receiving some handouts out of tax funds.
Only the assertion of all individual rights and liberties and the establishment of corresponding
voluntaristic and competitive institutions and organizations for their protection could prevent nuclear
war.
See: Apathy, Centralization, Collective Responsibility, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Education,
Enemy, Enlightenment, Ignorance, Leadership, Ideas/Wrong, Modern, Monopolies, Myths,
Nationalism, Nuclear Strength, Obedience, Prejudices, Progress, Statism, Subordination, Territorial
Organization, Uniformity, Unity, Power, War Aims.
SCIENTISTS
Scientists should not have engaged in nuclear research in the first place. But now that they have done
so and have put sufficient nuclear devices into the hands of the politicians and their military forces to
wipe out mankind, it would be useless to blame the scientists and hold them responsible. Those who
hired them for this job are another story. But most of them are dead by now.
These scientists are still needed to disarm the bombs. They were no more and no less immoral than
most other citizens, who put up with the nuclear strength development.
While we will, have to interfere with their chosen profession, and with the compulsory financing
system for their kind of research (tax funded by the government, at the expense of their victims), in
order to prevent them from devising or constructing even more mass extermination devices, they
should not be prosecuted for their activities in the past. See under Outlawry and Amnesty. But amnesty
should be offered to them only under condition that they offer their services for the disarmament of all
nuclear weapons and the dismantling of all nuclear power stations, research laboratories etc. and for the
safe dispersal of all radioactive materials.
To solve the threat of nuclear war is, mostly, not a problem of natural science apart from science
fiction solutions but a moral, political and economic one.
See: Causal Thinking, Economic Freedom, Morality, Political Order, Revenge.
SCORCHED EARTH POLICY
The nuclear strength policy is as absurd as the oldfashioned scorched earth policy and is in its
destructive effects very similar. Nevertheless, it is an accepted policy and it is even popular with the
uninformed.
It is certainly not a means to be used in liberating any people from the yoke of communism,
For a short period in history we had almost completely overcome this kind of barbarism. Clausewitz
could write, almost 200 years ago, in book 8, chapter 38 of his famous work on war:
"Pillage and destruction of the enemy territory, which played such a large role with the Tartars, the
ancient people and even in the Middle Ages, were no longer in accordance with the spirit of the times.
One did rightly consider them as unnecessary violence which could easily be paid back and which
would anyhow hit the enemy's subjects more than the enemy government and to that extent remained
ineffective and only served to hold back the people in their cultural development for long periods.
See: Air
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Raids, Collective Responsibility, Discriminating Warfare, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Human
Rights, Indiscriminate Warfare, Liberation Wars, Militia, Police Actions, Reason, Revolutionary
Warfare, Sanction of the Victim, Territorial Organization, War Aims, Weapons.
SECESSION, INDIVIDUAL
Secession of individuals from the State without loss of basic rights and without having to change
one's residence should become morally and constitutionally recognized. One of the consequences
would be the dissolution of all dangerous powers of States and an unlimited autonomy for minorities.
This would lastly not only make war impracticable but would also destroy almost all motives and
means available for it.
After looking at it from every angle I could perceive, I could only come to the conclusion that to
achieve world peace it is absolutely necessary to limit the State's powers by realizing the right of
individuals to leave a State in the same way as they may leave a church.
Once this right is widely recognized then, as Ulrich von Beckerath suggested in 1957:
"In case of war millions of citizens would secede from an imperialistic State, in the same way as one
may leave a church. They would form exterritorial and autonomous communities and conclude peace
over the heads of the warring governments. The imperialistic governments would then not only be
opposed by a large section of their former subjects but also by most of the other exterritorial
communities."
Was there ever any better reason for secession than that one's government is prepared for nuclear war
or has nuclear armed allies?
Secede from all nuclear powers!
See: Action, Alternative Institutions, Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Centralization, Choice, Collective
Responsibility, Competing Governments, Compulsory Membership, Conscription, Consent,
Decentralization Decision, Desertion, Disarmament, Disobedience, Enemy, Experimental Freedom,
Exterritorial Imperative, Financing, Freedom of Action, Free Migration, Free Trade, Harmony,
Ideological War, Individualism, Market, Minority Autonomy, Monetary Freedom, Motives,
Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel institutions Personal Lady, Pluralism, Power, Racism, Referendums,
Religion, Resistance, Revolution, Secret Allies, Segregation, Selfdefence, Selfdetermination, Self
help, Separate Peace. Sovereignty, Subordination, Targets, Taxation, Tolerance, Voluntary. Taxation,
Voluntarism, War Aims, Weapons.
SECESSION, TERRITORIAL
Territorial secession on its own is not the solution but it would somewhat help to reduce the
superpowers in size and it would make it harder for the resulting smaller new states to participate in the
nuclear arms race.
It would reduce the size of targets and make them harder to hit without directly hurting other countries
around them.
It would increase the fear of retaliation and the threat these countries pose as potential aggressors
would be reduced.
Not many have reason to fear Lichtenstein or the Vatican State as aggressors or would attack either of
them with nuclear devices.
Nevertheless, even a Lichtenstein, if armed with nuclear weapons, could blackmail large nation states.
The basic flaw of territorial secession is that even in newly seceded territories there is likely to be a
majority and at least one dissatisfied minority, which thus has become forcibly separated from others of
its kind, who live in other territories. This tends to lead to civil wars and sometimes international wars.
Compare the situation e. g. in Israel and Cyprus.
To be fully effective, secessionism and decentralization must also extend into the exterritorial sphere,
or, in other words, it must go beyond the collectivist level and extend into the individualist sphere. It
must become quite voluntary.
"One of the most basic human rights should be the right to get the hell out." said Poul Anderson
(reason 10/73).
If you want nuclear war : restrict secession!
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SECONDSTRIKE CAPABILITY
As part of the nuclear arms race and nuclear strength policy and the nuclear war threat, this capability
is a danger and not a safeguard.
It is not only a danger to others but to oneself. It will stimulate even more destructive first strikes.
It amounts to revenge and it is similarly fruitless.
It is part of the immoral and insufficient deterrence policy.
Unilateral nuclear disarmament and a "secondstrike capability" to initiate and successfully conduct
military insurrections, popular revolutions, putsches and tyrannicide would be infinitely preferable for
all rational and moral people.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness, Arms Race, Brinkmanship, Collective Responsibility, Defence,
Deterrence, Enemy, Liberation War, Nuclear Strength, Retaliation, Revenge, Revolution, Secret Allies,
Shelter Program, War Aims.
SECRECY
"Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny." said Robert Heinlein in "Revolt in 2100", p.67 of the PAN
Book edition.
Presently the laws protect secret manufacture and storage of nuclear weapons. This in spite of the fact
that morally there is no longer a duty to preserve such State secrets but, rather, a moral obligation to
reveal them except to another government.
As I. Kant put it in his "Eternal Peace": "All actions relating to the rights of others are wrong when
their maxim cannot stand publicity."
Everybody should be able to obtain, easily, a search warrant to search for hidden ABC mass murder
devices or might even be authorized to do so without a special warrant. However, in practice, this task
would mainly be undertaken by volunteer militias for the protection of human rights.
See: Control, Disarmament, Espionage, Inspections, Militia, Publicity, Secret Diplomacy, Treason,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
SECRET ALLIES
One cannot expect to find many friends in a village hit by Napalm bombs or in a city devastated or
threatened by a nuclear attack. It is not only senseless but immoral to fire nuclear weapons at ones own
secret allies and friends on the other side. Once we realize that the people targeted by our nuclear
devices are in reality our secret allies or at least potential allies, we would destroy our nuclear weapons
as soon as we could and would act together with these allies against the common enemy, their
dictatorial regimes, using only suitable and discriminating warfare methods and weapons in this.
See: Air Raids, Alliances, Appeals, Declarations, Desertion, Dictatorships, Disarmament,
Discriminating Warfare, Collective Responsibility, Enemy, Governments, GovernmentsinExile,
Individual Responsibility, Jiu Jitsu, Liberation War, Military Insurrections, Negotiations, Nuclear
Strength, Peace Declarations, Police Actions, Prize Money, Publicity, Revolutionary Warfare,
Secession, Separate Peace, Targets, Trust, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims.
SECRET DIPLOMACY
Nothing about nuclear war, no treaties, commitments, nuclear maneuver results or "gentlemen's
agreements" should be kept secret any longer, When people are misled, to their deaths, through ABC
mass extermination devices and policies, then, at least, their eyes should not be tied.
If then their hands were untied, if they were also armed and well organized and trained, also free to
decide on war and peace and rightful weapons and war and peace aims, then, and only then, could they
no longer be misled, unresistingly, to their deaths.
Morally this secrecy is not any better than that of Nazi henchmen, who led their gas chamber victims to
what they said were: "delousing" chambers.
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All the secret agreements (which are "agreements" or conspiracies between the main war criminals)
should be publicized. Those responsible for them should be held responsible. No secret treaty should
any longer be considered as valid but instead as automatically invalidated by its former secrecy.
Otherwise, the trust required for a general nuclear disarmament would be unobtainable.
The people, organized in volunteer communities, must become free to make their own agreements and
alliances and to repeal those of their former territorial governments, as well as all the monopolistic and
coercive powers
of their former governments.
See : Appeals; Broadcasting, Decision, Declarations Diplomacy ;.Disarmament, Extermination Camps
Negotiations: Outlawry, People, Publicity, Responsibility, Secession, Secrecy, Separate Peace Treaties,
Trust, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims.
SECURITY
"Security, security. Security on top of an atomic bomb. Where is the sense in it? There isn't any sense
in it." said F. B. Vickers in "Though Poppies Grow", Australasian Book Society, 1958, p.98.
Was is Talleyrand, who once said: "One cannot rest very comfortably on the points of bayonets"?
One may be able to sleep on the cones of nuclear weapons but neither very comfortably nor very
securely nor for very long. There is no nuclear security. If you want security, if you want to live, you
have to destroy at least the equivalent of about 80 tons of TNT earmarked for your extermination and at
least your fraction, of about a 3.000 millionths of a pound, of a chemical or biological warfare agent
and you will have to do your part in claiming and protecting all your individual rights.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Brinkmanship, Defence, Destruction Deterrence,
Disarmament, Doomsday Bomb, Military Program, Militia, Nuclear Strength, Overkill, Peaceful Use,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Weapons.
SEGREGATION, VOLUNTARY VERSUS COERCIVE SEGREGATION
While enforced segregation and enforced integration are wrong, voluntary segregation is rightful
although it may be sometimes very foolish and prejudiced.
Everyone has the right to dissociate himself from any group. Nobody has the right to join any particular
group against the will of its members. (For some exceptions to this rule see e.g.: Open Cooperatives &
Natural Resources. Moreover, everyone has a right to become a disarmament inspector for ABC mass
murder devices. And every rational being has the right to join a volunteer militia for the protection of
individual rights.)
Everyone has the right to choose his friends or partners and his enemies. As long as he does not attack
the latter, his behaviour, no matter how irrational and harmful to himself it may be, remains still within
the limits of morality. He is still acting within his rights.
In a society with voluntary segregation and this implies exterritorial organization and autonomy as
well there are no targets nor motives for nuclear war. Some racial riots might still occur but the
frictions leading to them would be reduced to a minimum and, most importantly, they would not lead
to nuclear war.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Competing Governments, Discrimination, Diversity,
Exterritorial Imperative, Frontiers, Minority Autonomy, Motives, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions,
Personal Law, Pluralism, Racism, Rights, Secession, Targets, Tolerance, Uniformity, Unity, War
Aims.
SELFDEFENCE, RATHER THAN NATIONALIZED AND COLLECTIVISED DEFENCE
Nuclear weapons are the ultimate absurdity of a nationalized and collectivist defence They tend to wipe
out othernations and to lead to the destruction of the own.
They have brought us into a situation where a genuine national defence on a territorial basis is no
longer possible, at least not with these weapons or against them when they are ruthlessly used.
We will have to go back, or rather forward, to individualized defence against individualized enemies.
We will have to learn to fight the "national" enemies, the few remaining aggressive totalitarians, as the
individual criminals they are, with policelike methods, well coordinated, with police weapons, without
mass destruction and mass extermination methods.
Just imagine a policeman going after a bank robber or murderer with a nuclear weapon!
Our present nuclear "defence" methods are not any more sensible than such a police procedure would
be.
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To attempt to defeat a totalitarian minority in this way is similarly immoral and absurd.
One may temporarily give in to the blackmailing demands of highjackers with nuclear arms but when
there is no longer a national territory granting them immunity and asylum, then they will be caught and
rendered harmless rather sooner than later.
They are only individual human beings, too. Sooner or later one would get them, not with a nuclear
bomb but with e.g. a dagger or a bullet.
See: Defence, Desertion, Discriminating Warfare, Enemy, Human Rights, Military Program, Militia,
Nuclear Strength, Outlawry, Police Action, Revolution, Selfhelp, Surrender, Tyrannicide, War Aims,
Weapons.
SELFDETERMINATION
The only selfdetermination aspirations which help to promote peace and prevent wars are those of
individuals. "National selfdetermination" and "territorial integrity" are dangerous and immoral myths.
They preserve nuclear targets and inevitably lead to the suppression of minorities.
See: Autonomy, Exterritorial Imperative, Individualism, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Racism,
Religion, Secession, Segregation/Voluntary, Sovereignty, Subordination, Targets, Territorial Integrity,
Territorial Organization, War Aims.
SELFHELP
After it has been made obvious that the government cannot fulfil its promises, the former subjects will
be free again to resort to selfhelp. They are no longer bound when their "partner" cannot fulfil his side
of the "bargain".
Survival in the face of the nuclear threat is a matter of selfhelp and voluntary cooperation and not one
of passing the buck on to a territorial government, an imagined god, or the U.N. (A disunited
associations of ignorant, prejudiced and selfinterested government officials, unable to clearly see the
problem or the solution.)
Selfhelp against ABC mass murder devices is the only way out.
The governments will not destroy them for us. On the contrary, they go on building an oversupply of
these antipeople "weapons".
When the aim is to destroy all nuclear weapons and production facilities, then the renunciation of self
help is no longer merely comfortable but dangerous to one's life.
It requires political, social, economic and military selfhelp to overcome the nuclear threat.
Abolition of the danger of nuclear war, by all those threatened by it, means the beginning of a new
social order even of a new morale.
See a Action, Appeals Autonomy, Consent, Control, Decision, Declarations, Defence, Desertion,
Disarmament, Disobedience, Enemy, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of
Action, Human Rights, Inspection, Military Insurrections, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Monopolies,
Morality, Negotiations, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, People, Pluralism, Power, Referendums,
Resistance, Responsibility, Revolution, Secession, Secret Diplomacy, Selfdefence, Selfdetermination,
Separate to Peace, Social Contract, Soldiers' Rights, Statism, Subordination, Targets, Territorial
Organization, Tolerance, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
SELFISHNESS, EGOISM
"Let selfinterest. reign", said Oscar W. Cooley (The Freeman, March 71.).
Robert Heinlein in "Notebooks of Lazarus Long", called human selfishness "the greatest productive
force".
George Fitzhugh (Cannibals All, 1857,p.80 ) spoke of: "Selfishness, as a ruler of action and a guide of
conduct ... necessary to the exis
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tence of man and of all animals."
"Selfinterest pays off for everyone", summed up a slogan quoted in "reason", , 9/74.
Leonard E. Read, in Notes from FEE, 3/73, stated: "Ones interest is never served by doing injury to
another." (Well, I can imagine some rightful selfdefence action that would injure rather my attacker
than me. J.Z., 19.10.01.)
G. B. Shaw reminded us: " .. be sure you get what you like or you will have to like what you get."
"Look after yourself!" is all too often said thoughtlessly or only as a result of a friendship or love
relationship, but, in essence, it expresses most of the philosophy of libertarianism the only philosophy
and practice which, if consistently applied, can prevent nuclear war. There is something despicable
about a person who is not selfish. How can he appreciate others when he does not even appreciate and
take care of himself?
A lot more longterm and rational selfishness is required to ensure our survival than is presently
recognized and realized.
What it means, in detail, in the international sphere, is indicated e.g. under the following headings:
Apathy, Autonomy, Bet, Capitalism, Competition, Deathwish, Decision, Desertion, Disarmament,
Disobedience, Economic Freedom, Ethics, Free Migration, Free Trade, Greed, Harmony, Hostages,
Human Rights, Individualism, Individual Responsibility, Laissez Faire, Market, Minority Autonomy,
Monetary Freedom, Morality, Obedience, Profit, Property, Reason Referendum, Resignation,
Responsibility, Revolution, Secession, Selfdefence, Selfhelp, Selfrespect, Sovereignty, Statism,
Subordination, Suicide, Treason, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
SELFRESPECT
Selfrespect has been lessening in this valuefree "society". Those who don't respect themselves have
all too often not even a respect for their own lives and far less sufficient respect for the lives and
liberties of others.
Compare how politicians must look down on their voters, seeing the type of election propaganda they
employ.
Only a free and selfsupporting individual will find it easy to acquire and retain selfrespect. Those
living, more or less, on handouts, will find it hard and there are now possibly more of them than ever
before.
The implications for the risk of nuclear war are selfevident.
See: Communism, Cooperative Production, Cultural Revolution, Economic Freedom, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, Individualism, Laissez Faire, Man, Myths,
Obedience, Powerlessness, Prejudices, Property, Protectionism, Responsibility, Socialism,
Sovereignty, Statism, Subordination, Subsidies, Tolerance, Valuefree Society, Welfare State.
SENSUAL WAY OF LIFE
The sensual way of life is expressed in certain attitudes, like:
One cannot feel hard radiation as painful, ergo it is harmless.
We have no experienced a nuclear holocaust before, ergo it will not happen.
Let us dance on the edge of a volcano and enjoy "wine, women and songs" while we can, seeing that
we have only one life and that we are rendered powerless.
People who are thinking or rather feeling like this do make for nuclear war and cannot prevent it.
But people who are capable of reasoning and willing to engage in this chore, could become enlightened
enough to become valuable members of e.g. ideal militia forces and could then help to prevent nuclear
war.
I only hope that they will come to constitute, soon, a large enough minority or even the majority.
See: Emotional way of Life, Escapism, Ethics, Immorality, Morality, Myths, Prejudice, Reason,
Statism, Subordination, Valuefree Society.
SEPARATE PEACE TREATIES AND THEIR PROHIBITION BY TERRITORIAL
GOVERNMENTS
Allow everyone to conclude separate peace treaties for himself.
Allow all groups, minorities and armies to conclude separate peace treaties for themselves.
Require only that these treaties have individual human rights as their basis.
To facilitate all such treaties destroy all your own nuclear weapons unilaterally.
These "weapons" amount to a perpetual declaration of war, total war, against all.
Once separate peace treaties may be freely concluded & the first ones are concluded on a rational &
moral basis (which excludes treaties signed by politicians and diplo
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mats) then it is likely that other similar treaties will follow in an avalanche which would lead to a
general peace.
Separate peace treaties were so far outlawed or at least frowned upon precisely because they made the
continuance of a war rather difficult in some situations. Presently all States prohibit individual citizens,
associations, minorities, and especially their armed forces and units of their forces to conclude separate
peace treaties and they do prosecute such endeavours as high treason. But, at the same time,
governments often show neither ability nor willingness to conclude a general peace treaty, or, when
they have rightful allies, at least a honourable peace treaty for themselves.
Usually, they achieve their kind of "peace" (no more than a temporary armistice!) only when they are
so exhausted that they couldn't conduct war much longer anyhow.
Such prohibitions would be justified but quite unnecessary only in a State which recognized and
respected as well as protected all human rights without exception. (I very much doubt that a territorial
State of this kind will ever come into existence.) Every action against such a State would be an offence
against human rights. Separate peace treaties which in any way compromised human rights would not
be morally permissible for any section of such a State. But if they were concluded under full respect for
human rights, then they would be permissible and they would not exclude further warlike actions
against all those not included in this peace treaty, those continuing their attacks on human rights.
One should also keep in mind that any State which recognized all rights, including the right to secede,
would in essence be no more than an exterritorial and autonomous community of volunteers, not a state
any longer in today's usual meaning. Thus any treaty concluded by such a community would be
anyhow a separate peace treaty and it would have almost unanimous support.
Consider the possibilities of a separate peace treaty between the armies of a Hitler and a Stalin, directed
against both of these dictators. Without a doubt it would have been a moral, nay even a dutiful action
although both governments would have branded it as high treason. The contracting partners should
naturally have ignored the accusations of their regimes, should have organized an exterritorial and
autonomous community, should have kept their arms, defended their newly won freedom militarily (to
the extent necessary) and should have appealed to, all their German and Russian comrades to join
them.
From the point of view of human rights, they committed high treason by not acting in this way.
It would be different when a relatively free and democratic community like the UK or the US, being at
war with e.g. a government like the Soviet Government, could not rapidly achieve peace in freedom
rapidly. Then every Soviet army unit would be under a moral obligation to conclude, as soon as
possible, a separate peace with the democratic country, or its panarchistic communities, a peace based
on full recognition of human rights.
At the same time, an army unit of the democratic country, or militia unit of members of panarchies,
would act criminally or treasonably if it were to desert its side (defending a bill of rights, imperfect as it
still may be) and concluded a separate peace with the Red Army or the Soviet Government, thus
recognizing of the immoral claims and aspirations of such regimes.
A truly democratic government, or a panarchy, would not have any reasonable objections if its army or
some of its units concluded peace with all or some of the troops on the other side, provided only this is
done on the basis of recognition for human rights.
Exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers would use every opportunity to conclude
rightful separate peace treaties and would give the old motto of imperialists: "Divide et impera",
( Divide and rule!) a new meaning: "Divide and be free! Don't rule!" They would thus encourage their
soldiers to act in this way.
They would point, out to every soldier on the other side, that he could, in practice, conclude a separate
peace for himself, one fully respecting his rights, and not threatening any voluntary community, if he
deserted or revolted against his dictatorship.
Gradually, and often rather soon, the dictatorships would lose most and finally all their fighting men in
this way or even find them fighting against them.
See: Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Autonomy, Declarations, Decision, Desertion, Discriminating
Warfare, Enemy, Governments, Jiu Jitsu, Liberation Wars, Militia, Military Insurrections, Minority
Autonomy, Monopolies, Negotiations, Outlawry, People, Refugees, Rulers, Secession, Secret Allies,
Treason, Treaties, Unilateral Nu
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clear Disarmament, Unity, War Aims.
SEPARATISM
Separatism on a voluntary and exterritorial basis should be welcomed as it helps to defuse the danger
of nuclear war. The modern super weapons are suitable only against large targets. Thus society should
be as far as possible and desired "atomized" or "fragmentized", "split" or decentralized, into numerous
little groups, cohesive only within, all peacefully coexisting because they are fully autonomous and
none would be able to suppress any minority among the members, since all their dissenters could all
freely secede.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Captive Nations, Competing Governments, Decentralization,
Exterritorial Imperative, Governments, Imperialism, Individualism, Minority Autonomy, Motives,
Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Secession, Segregation,
Voluntarism, War Aims.
SEXUAL REPRESSION
Sexual repression and international aggression go hand in hand. Repeal of all laws repressing sexual
intercourse among consenting adults would therefore be a peace promoting step. Secession would
introduce this in most instances and would also regulate it through various exterritorial and
autonomous communities prescribing various penalties for violating someone, especially children.
See: Hopousia, by J.D. Unwin, George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London,1940, p.82 and Aldous Huxley's
introduction to this book especially p. 25.
SHELTER PROGRAM FOR NUCLEAR WAR
Some people appear to accept nuclear war as inevitable and they just attempt to give a small fraction of
mankind a chance to survive it. But with only a fraction of the time, effort and funds thus spent, all the
danger of nuclear war could be abolished.
The one side best prepared with fallout shelters is not necessarily the one which is the most peaceful.
It may well be the most aggressive nuclear power. Compare Red China's extensive shelter program. It
has fallout shelters prepared for all of 4 million people living in Peking and may be similarly prepared
elsewhere. In such cases defence may well be a preparation for aggression and may lead to it or
provoke it.
See: Arms Race, Civil Defence, Defence, Deterrence, Nuclear Strength.
SLAVERY
All types of slavery of noncriminal people should be abolished, including:
the slavery of children in the State's school system,
the slavery of conscripts in the standing armies and
the slavery of citizens under restrictive laws and compulsory taxation.
Slaves can too easily be led into nuclear war, against their will.
See: Autonomy, Conscription, Consent, Education, Exterritorial Imperative, Individualism, Laws,
Obedience, Options, Nationalism, Secession, Selfdefence, Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, Sovereignty,
Statism, Subordination, Taxation, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims.
SLEEPLESSNESS OF RULERS DURING CRISES
This is a very important factor. Many crises are not only intense but also prolonged and the rulers upon
whom at present all nuclear power still rests, in such situations do often
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go sleepless for prolonged periods. In this condition they will not always make as rational decisions (if
they are ever capable of them at all) as they might otherwise make. Prolonged sleeplessness creates
apathy, resignation, emotional upsets irrational hatreds and even a state of madness.
(Back in 1959, as a shift worker and living in a single room, with very noisy neighbours, I once went
sleepless for 4 or 5 days and came close to madness as a result. We managed to find and move into a
much quieter room, although it was next to a busy thoroughfare, and I finally got my needed sleep.)
Not only is it dangerous for us, if some rulers go sleepless, but some of them ought to be put to sleep
permanently.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Brinkmanship, Decision, Deterrence, Failsafe, Madness of
Rulers, Tiredness, Tyrannicide.
SOCIAL CONTRACT
The only sensible core in the idea of a social contract, that I can see, is the selfimposed duty of rational
beings and their tacit agreement to defend their own rights and help others to defend theirs in their
own interest.
Ultimately, it will find its organized expression in a well. trained volunteer militia for the protection of
human rights. Free societies needs no other higher authority and organized force to preserve their
natural harmonies.
The old type of social contract., assumed to be one between citizens and rulers, aiming at protection in
return for taxes and obedience, is not only discredited by the fact that it was never subscribed to
individually, by all citizens, and that those who did subscribe or tacitly agreed to it, are long dead, but
now also by the fact that the rulers have no longer any protection to sell against foreign nuclear
aggressors, or protection from their own oppressive and exploitative actions.
On the contrary, by their own nuclear armament or by alliances with nuclear powers, they do vastly
increase the insecurity of "their" citizens. Thus they have lost their main justification or excuse.
There is no longer any rightful government in existence (if any ever was need not concern us here)
since none can offer "its" citizens security against nuclear attacks.
Even assuming the best of will, they can no longer fulfil their promises but constitute themselves a
huge threat to everyone.
The citizens are now morally on their own and have to resort to selfhelp.
Their statist religion is the major remaining obstacle to selfresponsible and selfdefensive actions.
Already John Locke taught that when any government breaks the contract, by acts contrary to the
welfare of the majority, it does, in effect, declare war on the community. Then the community has the
right to retaliate and depose it.
All social contract formulas ought to be reworded, so that, quite obviously, they deal with the nuclear
threat as well.
See: Decision, Defence, Disarmament, Human Rights, Militia, Resistance, Secession, Selfhelp, States,
War Aims,
SOCIALISM, STATE SOCIALISM
How "peaceful" State socialism is was shown e.g. in Korea, Vietnam, Hungary, Cuba, Cambodia,
Czechoslovakia, China and the Soviet Union. The practice of the Nazi Regime was not far removed
from State socialism, either. Private enterprises were not expropriated but controlled and very heavily
taxed by this State.
Think of the absurdity of pretending to attempt to liberate the supposedly suppressed masses the
proletarians, while at the same time threatening them with nuclear weapons.
This is as absurd as anticommunists preparing to liberate people oppressed by communist
governments by using nuclear weapons against these victims.
The right of individuals to secede would soon lead to the collapse of every coercive State socialistic
system and its replacement by tolerant, alternative communities, practising anything from voluntary
socialism to anarchocapitalism.
According to Ray L. Covard (The Freeman, 1/73) "the basic feature of socialism" is: "a totalitarian and
terroristic nightmare." I, for one, do fear State socialism, especially when it is armed with nuclear
devices.
See: Autonomy, Capitalism, Coexistence, Competing Governments, Communism, Experimental
Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Harmony, Liberation Wars, Open Cooperatives,
Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Revolution, Secession, Taxation, Voluntary Taxation, Welfare State.
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SOCIALIZATION, RIGHTFUL VERSUS WRONGFUL
All that is rightful in socialization efforts: the intended equal access, for all, to natural resources, cannot
be achieved by any form of socialization which still leaves an exclusive possession of them. However,
this rightful access can be achieved, in a just and tolerant way, with voluntaristic and individualistic
means, through Theodor Hertzka's system of "open cooperatives", managing such resources.
Hertzka's open cooperative system need not be introduced by compulsion, either. It can grow and come
to cover its sphere through free and successful competition with e.g. all other land reform systems,
tolerantly practised among volunteers.
All other socialization and nationalization attempts are more or less coercive, expropriative, wrong and
still monopolistic and lead, almost inevitably, to mismanagement, waste and exploitative monopoly
prices, also to governmental preparations for ABC mass murder devices. They only help the
bureaucrats and reserve a power base and unjustified prestige for nuclear powers. Thus they ought to be
reversed.
See: Bureaucracy, Denationalization; Liquidation of Governments, Monopolies, Land Monopoly,
Natural Resources, Open Cooperatives, Reprivatization, War Aims.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION, NEW ORDER
A new and peaceful social order, just, free, tolerant and progressive as well, could be established by the
peaceful or revolutionary establishment of nothing more and nothing less than exterritorial and
autonomous communities of volunteers, all over this globe
It would mean peace through extreme decentralization, according to the diverse interests of individuals.
Such a social order would not be a fertile ground for any new or old war tendencies. For some of the
main features and effects of these new social organizations, which by their very nature would be
peaceful, see under the following headings: Autonomy, Competing Governments, Decentralization,
Decision, Diversity, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Harmony, Human Rights,
Individualism, Minority Autonomy, Militia, Monetary Freedom, Motives, Natural Resources,
Panarchy, Parallel Institutions Personal Law, Pluralism, Secession, Segregation, Selfdefence, Self
determination, Selfhelp, Social Contract, Tolerance, Unity, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, War
Aims. ON PANARCHY, a subset of the PEACE PLANS series, coming so far to 24 volumes, on 24
LMP microfiche, deals especially with this subject.
SOCIAL SECURITY THROUGH THE TERRITORIAL STATE?
The social "security" now offered by governments assures only insecurity due to the interestrate,
investment credit, taxation and monetary policy of governments.
It impoverishes everyone because it is based on confiscation instead of on additional production
achieved through properly invested savings.
Nevertheless, due to popular prejudices and myths, and misleading government propaganda, it is still
widely believed in and practised.
The danger consists in the fact that it expresses and increases statism not least financially and this
statism finds its extreme expression in nuclear strength. (Most of the accumulated savings for old age
pensions of German employees were used to finance armaments for the Nazis. There, as elsewhere,
most of them had to be "invested" in government "insecurities", in misinterpretation of the intention of
old laws on trustee funds.)
As long as the State is trusted as a first and last resort provider of social security, i.e. as a life support
organization, it will most likely also be entrusted with defence. Only when people begin to doubt its
effectiveness in the former sphere will their state religion weaken for them sufficiently to let them
begin to doubt the effectiveness of its defence preparations,
Provision of alternative social security systems, through the market and by autonomous minority
groups, would be a step towards nuclear disarmament. But it might require the services of a militia to
protect such funds against regulations, confiscation, devaluation and takeover attempts by bureaucrats
and politicians.
One step towards alternative social security would be nothing more than the full realization that a
genuine "social security" is not provided today. Taxation, inflation, the restricted economy, the wrong
and insufficient investment policy, which the government enforces, see to that.
Men no longer robbed by inflation, deflation, interest rate controls, investment prescriptions and
taxation could easily assure their own and genuine social security at their own expense, even a
retirement in wealth.
At the same time, nothing but their own lack of initiative would hinder them to try any noncapitalistic
system among themselves, at their own risk and expense.
In essence, nothing more is required than the complete separation of the economy from the State, even
in the monetary and financial sphere, or, in other words, freedom of contract.
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Achievement of freedom of action or experimental freedom would soon prove that alternative and
genuine social security could be provided:
a) by a free credit market,
b) by private insurance,
c) by the prevention of inflation through monetary freedom,
d) by the prevention of unemployment in the same way,
e) by an increased standard of living due to a free economy,
f) by increased private savings and high interest bearing investments,
g) by the abolition of age limits for workers and prescribed fringe benefits and minimum wages which
exclude
old people from many employments they would be able to undertake and like to take up, and
h) last and least, through private and voluntary charity.
People who are financially independent tend to be more freedom loving and selfresponsible, more
likely to resist a government which threatens their survival.
See: Alternative Institutions, Competing Governments, Cooperative Production, Economic Freedom,
Employment, Inflation, Monetary Freedom, Parallel Institutions, Poverty, Tax Strike, Unemployment,
Welfare State.
SOCIETY WITHOUT COERCION
No society which is based on coercion in most spheres can hope to escape the nuclear war threat in the
long run.
We must eliminate all coercive aspects of society (excepting only the individualized and policelike
prosecution of criminals of all types m which would anyhow merely be a defensive action aiming to
reduce as much as possible the coercion practised by them) if we are to have some hope for avoiding
the ultimate means of coercion: ABC mass murder "weapons".
The libertarian literature of recent years teaches that coercion is nowhere justified against non
aggressive persons. It is not promoting any real "common good". It is defeating its own purposes in
numerous ways. It is not necessary and there are numerous better alternatives to achieve any rightful
purpose.
A society based on government coercion is, moreover, condemned to go under in a nuclear holocaust.
Only a society without coercion has a good chance to survive, in peace, security and freedom.
See: Coercion, Competing Governments, Compulsion, Defence, Exterritorial Imperative,
Governments, Harmony, Human Rights, Individualism, Libertarianism, Militia, Minority Autonomy,
Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Secession, Social Contract, Unity,
Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation War Aims.
Compare Jarret B. Wollstein's work: "Society Without Coercion".
SOLDIER'S HEALTH RISK IN MANNING NUCLEAR WEAPONS
I have never seen a statistic of the physical and mental health risks to which soldiers are exposed, who
man the nuclear weapons stores, assemble the weapons, guard them, keep the rockets in readiness, fly
the nuclear armed bombers, man the nuclear submarines carrying nuclear rockets etc. This may be one
of the best kept government secrets. It might very well be that governments would find few if any
volunteers or only obviously irrational ones for this kind of warfare, if all the facts were known and
publicized.
Not only enormous mental stresses are involved for those with enough imagination and moral sense,
but also physical radiation risks. No single human being is mentally sufficiently equipped to constantly
or frequently bear the responsibility for the lives of millions of fellowbeings. And the physical
radiation hazards have also been widely ignored so far, not only in the sphere of nuclear weapons.
From the crew which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, Sgt. Eugene Buck, died at 43 of a chronic
kidney disease. Sgt. Shumard died of leukemia at the age of 46. Another of the crew members died in
an asylum. Twelve others, who were in the three planes that crossed over Hiroshima on the fateful day,
have died before their time. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer the physicist who played a major part in
developing the bomb, and General Tom Farrell, who was in charge of the Abomber group, both died
of cancer. By 1967 the man who pressed the button to drop the bomb, Bombardier Col Ferebee, and the
pilot of the plane, Brig. Gen. Paul Tibbets, were still alive and in
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the air force. (Sunday Mirror, 30/7/67.) Where they the least exposed ones? Where are they now and
how is their health? See a Obedience, Pub Publicity, Radiation Hazard, Secrets
SOLDIERS' RIGHTS
"An army sergeant lecturing on the evils of communism, listed on the blackboard, as the chief
disadvantages of living under totalitarian rule:
1. No freedom to criticize authority.
2. No right to choose leaders.
3. No freedom of movement.
4. No choice of jobs.
5. No right to strike.
When he asked for questions, a lanky private from the country stood up and drawled: 'Well, I don't
know exactly what, but I think you must've "left something out of that list, Sarge. The way it reads now
sounds mighty like the army to me.' " Pte. Robert Teague, quoted in Readers Digest.
The danger that soldiers are used as mere tools, to involve them and us in nuclear war, is large and it
must be countered by freeing the soldiers also, by realizing their basic rights.
Decades later only some fact came out on how much their rights, their lives and health were risked in
nuclear tests.
Lastly, the conscripts and the professional soldiers of governmental standing armies must be replaced
by citizen soldiers for the defence of human rights. S
Soldiers, whose rights are not recognized, who are nothing but nationalized slaves, trained to murder or
be murdered, upon command, disciplined to be used as mere "cannon fodder", can be led into nuclear
war against their free will.
Once they get a say on whether they are to join up or not, remain or leave the army, what weapons they
are to use, under what officers they are to serve, what aims they consider worth fighting for, who is to
be considered as their enemy, etc., then they become less and less likely to prepare for and engage in a
nuclear war. Then they would rather transform themselves into a militia.
A rightful militia would not be armed with nuclear weapons and could nevertheless defeat an enemy
which is so armed.
See: Appeals: Career Soldiers, Collective Responsibility, Conscription, Consent, Decision,
Declarations Defence, Desertion, Disarmament, Discipline, Discriminating Warfare, Disobedience,
Election of Officers, Human Rights, Military Insurrections, Militia, Mercenaries, Negotiations, Oaths,
Obedience, Outlawry, Prisoners of War, Peace Declarations, Property Concept of Citizens, Separate
Peace, Sovereignty, Subordination, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
SOLIDARITY, RIGHT VERSUS WRONG SOLIDARITY
Voluntarist and decentralist (exterritorially based) solidarity, with individuals, their rights and liberties
and their voluntary and personal law institutions, must replace the enforced solidarity under
nationalistic governments if nuclear war is to be prevented.
See": Autonomy, Class Warfare, Collective Responsibility, Compulsion, Consent, Desertion, Enemy,
Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom, Freedom of Action, Human Rights, Individualism, Libertarianism,
Militia, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Obedience, Personal Law, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions,
Pluralism, Racism, Religion, Resistance, Social Contract, Statism, Subordination, Sovereignty, Targets,
Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, War Aims.
SOVEREIGNTY, INDIVIDUAL VERSUS COLLECTIVE & EXCLUSIVE SOVEREIGNTY
The sovereignty enjoyed today by powermad rulers ought to be reduced to such extent that it becomes
harmless and equal only to that at most which ordinary rational beings would enjoy in a free society.
Moreover, the future public institutions must function in a way that they could never again lead us into
a kind of sovereignty which is expressed in the dilemma of nuclear strength. Only individual
sovereignty could assure that.
The individual, who can freely secede from any State and also either join or establish another one, or a
stateless society, both only exterritorially autonomous, to live under personal laws of his choice, is his
own sovereign.
Whenever there are violations of this individual sovereignty then the supreme sovereign institution and
ultimate arbiter would turn out to be the local volunteer militias for the protection of human rights and
their international federation.
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Under this new type of sovereignty the nuclear targets and enemies, the powers and motives for nuclear
warfare would disappear and nuclear weapons would be destroyed by the free citizens themselves and
they would hardly encounter any opposition in this.
See: Action, Alternative Institutions, Appeals, Authority, Autonomy, Centralization, Coexistence,
Competing Governments, Consent, Controls Decentralization, Decision, Declarations, Democracy,
Desertion, Disarmament, Disobedience, Experimental Freedom Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom,
Freedom of Action, Frontiers Governments, Harmony, Individualism, Laissez Faire, Laws,
Libertarianism, Loyalty, Madness, Militia, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Negotiations, Obedience,
Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Power, Powerlessness, Publicity, Secession,
Secrecy, Selfdefence, Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, State, Surrender, Targets, Territorial Integrity,
Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Treason, Unity, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims,
Weapons.
SOVIET UNION (Remember, this was written 1975! J.Z., 01.)
The Soviet Union still keeps basic rights of its citizens suppressed and keeps people opposed to it
imprisoned in forced labour camps or in mental institutions.
It is perhaps the largest nuclear power and there is no sign that it will not go on increasing its nuclear
power still further or that it will submit to an effective nuclear disarmament control system.
It is next to China the most likely aggressor or initiator of nuclear war because of its meddling
policies which flow naturally from its ideology.
This system could, without nuclear war, be defeated only by a revolution or military insurrection,
preferably by a combination of the two.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Appeals, Arms Race, Capitalism, Captive Nations, China,
Coexistence, Communism, Competing Governments, Cooperative Production, Class Warfare Ideology,
Decision, Declarations, Defence, Denationalization, Desertion, Dictatorships, Disarmament,
Disobedience, Doomsday Bomb, Human Rights, Jiu Jitsu, Liberation Wars, Military Insurrections,
Militia, Minority Autonomy, Negotiations, Overkill, People, Referendums, Reprivatization,
Revolution, Revolutionary Warfare, Secession, Socialism, Surrender,
Tolerance, Totalitarianism, Trust, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
SPACE RESEARCH
In spite of promises not to introduce nuclear weapons into space, most of the space research so far has
been used to further develop IBM's and this process is likely to continue. Until there is an effective
control system one which eliminates all nuclear powers there is no guaranty that nuclear weapons
will not be introduced into space, contrary to all promises given by politicians.
Until we have only voluntary societies and communities, which are inherently peacefully organized,
space research ought therefore to cease.
It would be likely to cease merely as a result of the introduction of voluntary taxation.
Referendum could also be used to stop it.
For all those who consider Earth as a spaceship, it is quite obvious that nuclear weapons should not be
used within its sphere.
Space weapons seem to pose a problem for nuclear disarmament, But, l guess, they can be brought
down again without being used as weapons, by broadcasted signals. They could also be disarmed by
astronauts sent up for this purpose preferably with the assistance by astronauts from the other side.
In future, once the nuclear threat is removed, space research could and should continue, but based on
voluntary contributions only and subscriptions, mainly from SF fans, sale of broadcasting rights and
the commercial use of inventions and discoveries made in the process.
See: Arms Race, Conservation, Ecology, Nuclear Strength, Referendums, Tax Strike, Voluntary
Taxation.
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SPREAD OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PROLIFERATION
The more persons get their hands on nuclear weapons, the more drunkards, madmen, criminals, rulers
and other psychopaths and maniacs, fanatics and suicide candidates will get access to them. The
holocaust will come correspondingly closer.
At the same time, the more people get an opportunity to destroy nuclear devices, the greater our safely
would become. Those who would abuse these devices are far outnumbered by those who would destroy
them given the chance. The worst danger does not really consist in more "people" but more rulers and
their henchmen getting their hands on these antipeople weapons. Such a spread must be prevented at
almost any cost short of nuclear weapons against them.
See: Accidental War Problem, Acuteness of Danger, Crime, Decisions, Disarmament, Governments,
Militia, Nth.Power Problem, Outlawry, People, Power, Powerlessness, Prizes, Referendums, Rulers,
Tyrannicide.
STATE
"The State claims and exercises the monopoly of crime ... it forbids private murder, but itself organizes
murder on a colossal scale..."' said Albert Jay Nock.
No more territorial states would mean no more wars between any States. What other organization
would or could afterwards conduct wars?
"Since each State can mobilize all people and resources in its territory, the other State comes to regard
all the citizens of the opposing country as at least temporarily its enemies, and to treat them
accordingly by extending the war to them. Thus, all of the consequences of interterritorial war make it
almost inevitable that interState war will involve aggression by each side against the innocent civilians
the private individuals of the other. This, inevitably, becomes absolute with modern weapons of
mass destruction." Murray N. Rothbard, War Peace and the State, p. 5.
The State is an instrument of aggression under the pretence of defence. It attacks its own citizens as
well as foreigners. Nowadays nuclear weapons are its ultimate means of enforcement or terrorization.
Without territorial States, no largescale aggression is likely to occur. None in which nuclear weapons
would be used, anyhow.
Nuclear war is the consequence of dividing up the surface of this globe among States. Thus, if we do
not abolish the territorial nation States, then they will destroy themselves and us.
The preservation of peace is more important than the preservation of States of the present type. Apart
from this threat posed by territorial States, I do not assume that their preservation would otherwise be
in any way desirable.
Today's States fall all under Murray N. Rothbard's definition (Ibid, p.4 ):
"The State is a group of people who have managed to acquire a virtual monopoly of the use of violence
throughout a given territorial area..."
The most rational among the rationalizations of the State is the limited government theory which
asserts, without ever being able (or even willing to try) to fully refute its radical libertarian opposition.
It assumes that the State would be necessary for defence and protection.
The threat of nuclear war has done us the service of debunking this apology for the State rather
thoroughly, at least in the eyes of informed and objective observers. Now the territorial State is
definitely the greatest threat to our security, survival and wellbeing.
See: Alternative Institutions, Coexistence, Defence, Exterritorial imperative, Freedom, Government,
Individualism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Militia, Panarchy , Parallel Institutions, Personal Law,
Pluralism, Power, Powerlessness Rulers, Secession, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity,
Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Tyrannicide, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims.
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STATE MEMBERSHIP, VOLUNTARY VERSUS COMPULSORY
Involuntary state members will always be tempted to join revolutions or become the pawns in wars of
"liberation", based on and limited by territorial nationalism. Territorial states force compulsory State
membership or citizenship or subordination on many large minorities, sometimes even on the majority,
at least a localized one.
Involuntary membership in States upholds the fiction of "united" or uniform "nations" which might be
considered as enemies, according to the principle of collective responsibility and then wiped out with
ABC mass murder devices.
Whosoever wants such involuntary membership to continue, does thus casts his vote for nuclear war
whether he is aware of this or not.
Voluntary state membership would allow only those States and societies to survive which would grant
real or imagined services to their citizens. Thus and everywhere, it would spread members of all of
them over all territories, as they are now spread over them by their religious affiliations, racial origins,
ideological beliefs, arts, crafts and hobbies, tastes and appetites, sexual preferences, chosen
professions, etc., so much so, that they would cease to be e.g. nuclear targets, since members of no
personal law community would be sufficiently separated from the members of other groups. Sticks,
stones and knives might still hurt them but, under full autonomy and full employment for all there
would also be few motives left for such attacks. Most of their motives for war would be destroyed. The
image of a collective enemy would have disappeared.
See: Alternative Institutions Autonomy, Competing Governments, Compulsion, Enemy, Exterritorial
Imperative, Minority Autonomy, Motives, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law,
Pluralism, Secession, Targets, Sovereignty, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Voluntarism, War
Aims.
STATE SECRETS
To some extent all nuclear powers of all governments are treated as State secrets, e.g. to the extent
considered necessary to prevent these antipeople weapons from being destroyed by the people. The
Nazis succeeded even in keeping the true nature of their extermination camps secret from most of their
victims until it was too late for them.
A significant feature of most nuclear reactors has been similarly covered up in the minds of most
citizens. Consequently, they do not regard them as plants for the manufacture of the radioactive
material for nuclear "weapons".
Propaganda together with legislation on State Secrets and security precautions, in combination,
naturally, with statism, has seen to that. Even now few people have learned that the Nazis had produced
enough of the poison that was used in the extermination camps, mainly against Jewish people, not only
to murder all Jews but to murder another ca. 20 million innocent people, whom they likewise have
classed as their implacable enemies. (If only more Jews had realized, in time, how far the antisemitic
fanatics among the Nazis were prepared to go! If they had not been able to escape, 5 or 6 million
desperate people, together with their sympathizers, and other internal enemies of the Nazis, could have
exacted a very high price from them, might even have overthrown the regime. Nazis. But how many of
them knew about the libertarian resistance and revolution options or do even now, in the general
population?)
After nuclear weapons existed for over half a century their true nature has still been kept so secret that
most people believe that they can be used as defensive weapons, that they are weapons at all, that
security can be attained through them, that the failsafe precautions suffice, that the deterrence policy is
reliable enough, that a handful of men can safely be entrusted with such powers, that decisions on war
and peace, nuclear armament and nuclear disarmament should remain a government prerogative.
Naturally, government organized miseducation does not help in this respect, either.
Only long afterwards usually years if not decades later, do we read somewhere, and this often only
between the lines, that we had, once again, been moved to the brink of nuclear war by the actions of
one government or the other.
We are considered and treated like children whom the governments do not want to frighten, upset,
panic or urge to resistance by the mere revelation of their monstrous policies and powers.
It took them even decades to finally decide to abstain from mainly targeting open cities rather than
military installations! (After 4,000 years of failures they still haven't learned to abstain from price
controls and for almost as long they still haven't realized the failures of public works employment
programs, of scorched earth warfare, etc. Slow learners, indeed, if learners at all. And yet there are still
vast numbers of people who have made a religion out of trusting governments! "For every tyrant a
thousand ready slaves!")
Inflation and budget manipulation are used to keep armament expenditures secret.
Extremely powerful governments (in the negative and destructive sense) have made their extreme
powerlessness to do anything positive for peace, freedom, justice and wealth the best kept secret in all
countries of the world.
This policy of secrecy must be broken.
See : Appeals, Broadcasting, , Censorship, Conspiracy, Cultural Revolution, Decision, Enlightenment,
Espionage, Freedom of Expression, Monopolies, Open Air Speaking, Power, Property Concept of
Citizens, Publicity, Revolution, Secrecy, Soldiers, Subversion, Treason, War Aims.
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STATISM & DECISIONMAKING MONOPOLIES
Take any newspaper and read any article in it dealing with the future. In one respect all such articles
agree. They agree that it is exclusively the responsibility of governments to decide on future
developments. Should any of the powerful governments decide to exterminate all subjects of another
great power, either with Hydrogen Bombs or other mass murder devices and thereby risking the
likelihood that at the same time the other powerful regime will use its "weapons" and destroy the
subjects of the attacking regime, then, according to the popular opinion, this is a matter exclusively
concerning the two Governments. Whether a few hundred million people are killed thereby that is no
concern of theirs. Their only task is to obey and to let themselves be wiped out, without much
complaining, whenever the deciding ministers have no better use for them.
The idea that these victims might themselves do something to preserve their lives is held to be absurd
or criminal. In order to do so they would, as everybody knows, have to negotiate directly with each
other, over the heads of their governments and this is just not done or talked about. Moreover, the own
government would consider it to be treasonable.
No, thinks, feels and speaks or writes the modern journalist: Rather the whole world should perish,
including myself and my Gods, the ministers!
I doubt that the slaves of any of the old slave States had ever such a slavish mentality. A free
translation of a remark made by Ulrich von Beckerath. (See: Mass Media.)
Territorial States, not private and voluntary organizations, brought about and continue the threat of
nuclear war and yet they are still considered by all Statists, as the holiest of the holy, as untouchable
and as essentially benevolent, moral, and irreplaceable and absolutely necessary institutions.
States feed on statism: the belief that every social action should preferably be initiated, carried out and
monopolized by the State.
"There can be no doubt that American leftists are out to replace the judgement of the individual with
the judgement of the State. Almost every bit of legislation they espouse in the domestic field contains
dangers of more power for the bureaucrat." said Sen. Barry Goldwater.
Regarding external and internal affairs not only the communist and socialist parties want still more
power in the hands of bureaucrats and politicians.
Defence by the State leads to nuclear weapons kept in readiness against other States and "their"
citizens. The State is allowed this power only because without justification it is trusted in all other
spheres.
Resisting, replacing or fighting it in all other spheres, as immoral and inefficient, as well as contrary to
any rational and rightful purpose, e.g. in the business of garbage removal and postal services, would
therefore also help to undermine its nuclear and mass murderous role and would finally help to lead to
its nuclear disarmament.
See: Anarchism, Authoritarianism, Coercion, Collective Responsibility, Defence, Dictatorships,
Exterritorial Imperative, Governments, Individualism, Madness, Monopolies, Nuclear Strength, Rulers,
Selfdefence, Selfhelp Selfreliance, States, Territorial Imperative, Totalitarianism, Tyrannicide,
United Nations, Weapons, Welfare States.
STATUS QUO
Almost everything at present does make for nuclear war and almost nothing against it. Yes, even you,
smoking a cigarette or playing a game, reading a novel or watching a TV show rather than using your
inbuilt computer to ponder the nuclear war threat and its abolition.
The status quo has thus become too dangerous. Tacit and apathetic acceptance of the status quo
combined with its forceful defence and the outlawry of innovative practices by individuals and
minorities (applied to themselves and by themselves only) is the main cause of nuclear war and it
blocks the way out.
Nuclear weapons stores and production facilities are guarded by the most loyal soldiers. The nuclear
bombs are guarded against their destruction by the people but the people are not guarded against
nuclear weapons. It does not make sense to speak of
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the own and of foreign nuclear weapons. Both invite mutual extermination and both might set it off.
This precarious balance of terror is part and parcel of the status quo. (And in the present war against all
terrorism it is also ignored! J.Z., 19.10.01.)
We must replace this status quo by free contracts. Within the present system, i.e., without changing it
radically, not enough can be done to prevent nuclear war.
The present situation supplies motives, means, weapons, men, finance, facilities and targets for nuclear
war.
It must be thoroughly changed before we can rightly feel secure.
Many will have to become reformers and even revolutionaries to prevent it. The way of least resistance
would be to realize the right to individual secession and to individual sovereignty first of all, expressed
in voluntary communities that are exterritorially fully autonomous. From these steps everything else
could become automatic flowons. However, the radical changeover might also occur e.g. with the
establishment of full monetary freedom or of rightful volunteer militias for the protection of human
rights, or by establishing the right of the people to decide on war, armaments, disarmament, war aims
and international treaties. The sequence of all the necessary and interrelated steps does not greatly
matter, as long as each of them provides the "thin edge of the wedge" and as long as sufficient
awareness of all the other steps exists as well.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Apathy, Balance of Power, Brinkmanship, Disarmament,
Exterritorial Imperative, Experimental Freedom, Ignorance, Individualism, Myths, Prejudices,
Resignation, Secession, Sovereignty, Statism, Subordination, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament,
Voluntarism, War Aims. Appx. 24.
STOCKPILING OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Any overkill nuclear armament preparations indicate already how close to madness those with nuclear
powers are. As main aspects of the arms race, these stockpiles make for war. Who wouldn't feel
genuinely threatened by a large nuclear arsenal on the other side? They must be completely destroyed.
Only the people themselves or, ideal militia forces, or their very guardians, could do that.
See a Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Brinkmanship, Decision, Defence,
Destruction, Deterrence, Disarmament, GovernmentsinExile, Inspection, Nuclear Strength, Military
Insurrections, Militia, Overkill, Panarchism, Selfhelp, Separate Peace Treaties, Unilateral. Nuclear
Disarmament, War Aims,
STRIKES
The only strikes which would make some sense would be those of soldiers, labourers and scientists in
bomb factories, including nuclear reactors.
The solders ought not only to go on strike but give notice and resign or even rise and organize
themselves into militias for the protection of human rights and therefore for the destruction of all
nuclear installations.
Alternatively, they ought to resist immediately and directly by occupying these installations with the
intention not of guarding and using but as soon as possible destroying these weapons and weapon
facilities.
The nuclear bomb manufacturers ought not only to go on strike, temporarily, but go on strike
permanently i.e., look for other jobs and only make themselves available when required for the
destruction of nuclear weapons and weapon factories
Both groups ought to associate in new political organizations according to their individual preferences
in exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers, which would replace the old territorial,
coercive and war mongering States or warfare States.
Randolph Bourne: "War is the health of the State!"
This would require individual and group secessions or, in other words, a permanent strike of every
secessionist against territorial States.
See: Decision, Defence, Disarmament, Employment, Exterritorial Imperative, Military Insurrections,
Militia, Referendums, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Unions.
STUPIDITY
"Don't you realize, my son, with how much stupidity this world is governed?" said Count Axel
Oxenstierna, to his son, on the occasion of the Peace of Osnabrueck, in 1648. Most people have still
not realized it, in spite of the enormous crimes and wrongs committed by governments and their man
made catastrophes, like economic crises.
Who knows how to avoid nuclear war?
Who is even interested in finding out?
The stupidity and lack of sufficient interest in all the factors that are involved, among the organized
peace "lovers" is perhaps the worst. They may see the danger more clearly but not the solutions. They
are blinded by their panaceas. They love their false premises, false ideas and "solutions" much more
than they love a genuine peace and what it would mean and require. One might say
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that their popular prejudices helped to bring about the present situation. And they remain unaware of
this.
Almost all of them are, for instance, Welfare Statists if not State Socialists.
Assuming that the few points and ideas stated here would embrace most of the solutions, one might
estimate the extent of the stupidity involved by observing that most of these points, ideas and
arguments are opposed by the majority.
See: App x. 24, Apathy, Cultural Revolution, Encyclopaedia of Refutations, Enlightenment,
Foolishness, Ideas Archive, Ideas/ Large, Ignorance, Madness, Myths, Prejudices, Premises, Reason,
War Aims.
SUBMARINES, NUCLEAR AND NUCLEAR ARMED SUBMARINES
How could the people disarm nuclear submarines? While they are out on patrol, it would be rather
difficult. But they do have to come back to their bases now and then and they can be reached and
influenced by broadcasts.
For their crews the motives for nuclear war would soon disappear as well as for all others.
Moreover, nobody would be willing to put them any longer on his payroll.
They would no longer have an enemy or targets to use their nuclear weapons against.
Their own countrymen or the people on the other side would have voted in referendums for unilateral
nuclear disarmament and would have taken it into their own hands.
After all, they are part of the people, too.
All their ideological aspirations could be achieved much more easily than before. Just war aims,
believably declared, would demonstrate to them that their country is no longer in desperate need of
defence efforts, least of all in need of desperate and suicidal mass murder devices.
Alternative defence methods would be put into operation.
There would be a genuine détente, based on the motto: "To each the government or nongovernmental
society of his or her dreams." (The K.H.Z. Solneman or Kurt Zube wording, in his Manifesto for Peace
and Freedom, slightly reworded by me.)
Under all the new conditions here envisioned, the indoctrination of the crews would not last long.
Naturally, until they have all returned and are disarmed, better still, until they disarm the nuclear
devices in their possession, there would still not be full security for anyone anywhere.
See: Decision, Defence, Disarmament, Declarations, Exterritorial Imperative, Peace Declarations,
People, Referendums, Secession, Separate Peace, Targets, Tax Strike, Tyrannicide, Trust, Unilateral
Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
SUBORDINATION
"As long as there are whole nations which, without hesitation, obey their governments, without even
one citizen resisting, the danger of war will not be less than it is today. The Japanese appear to be such
a people. But African nations also, e. g, the Zulus and the Abyssinians and many others, I believe, are
infected by the subordination paranoia. In a few years the rulers of these nations may be influential
upon world history.
Assume that a Zulu Chief gets 10 atomic devices built by a European nuclear scientist (for money
some Europeans do anything). Then he will be master of the world if the others have destroyed their
nuclear weapons. Perhaps this chief will dream that the gods want the world destroyed through him and
have ordered him to begin nuclear war immediately. This could easily happen. Won't such a chief
obey?
"A peace which is not enforced by the pioneers for human rights is merely an armistice, The Americans
committed a world historical wrong by unconditionally withdrawing from a Japan obsessed with
subordination. They should have established, in every single village of Japan, a society for the study of
human rights, a society offering courses on the right to resist. This wrong is similar to the one they
committed towards Germany after World War I. It was a terrible mistake to leave the few German
friends of peace without protection to the tender mercies of the nationalists, including the communists,
who were all obsessed with subordination." Ulrich von Beckerath 1/4/55.
Compare also the July 74 poll in India, showing that most Indians favoured nuclear strength for the
Indian government. Pakistani danced in the street when their government acquired nuclear weapons!
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The subordination to nuclear powered "leadership" has become the main feature of the threat of nuclear
holocaust. It does not matter whether these leaders were elected or not. Subordination under nuclear
powers has definitely become suicidal.
A new military, political and economic order is required based on another kind of morale, on selfhelp,
autonomy, individualism, selfdetermination, disobedience to and resistance against wrongful orders,
full respect for individual rights.
Such a program appeals naturally only to those who are not incurably domineering or subordinate in
their outlook and actions. Such people must become disarmed, especially of ABC mass murder
devices, forcefully, if necessary.
See: Authority, Autonomy, Communism, Decisions Dictatorships, Disobedience, Individual
Responsibility, Leadership, Militia, Nth.Power Problem, Obedience, Proliferation, Resistance,
Revolution, Selfdefence, Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, Socialism, Sovereignty, Statism,
Totalitarianism, Welfare State.
SUBSIDIES
Nuclear armament requires subsidies which the potential victims of nuclear weapons and of taxes, the
taxpayers, would not voluntarily pay.
The practice of subsidies supports or subsidizes the belief that subsidies are suitable to preserve values
of the highest priority values whilst exactly the opposite is the case.
Thus the abolition of even the least of subsidies e. g. of bus fares for school children is, indirectly,
already a step against nuclear war.
A defence which needs tax subsidies should not take place. It would defend something that should not
be defended and, due to the usual misdirection of public funds, it might end up not in defence and
security but in aggression and extreme insecurity. This is indeed the case with the subsidized nuclear
defence.
See: Capitalism, Defence, Economic Freedom, Free Market, Free Trade, Finance, Laissez Faire,
Nuclear Strength, Responsibility, Taxation, Voluntary Taxation, Weapons, Welfare State.
SUBVERSION
Laws against "subversion" help to preserve nuclear power regimes while subversion of nuclear powers
is objectively not a crime but a duty, regardless of what the law books say. In any case, it is preferable
to nuclear annihilation.
It is certainly not a technique to which only communists could resort successfully.
See: Broadcasting, Conspiracy, Desertion, Disarmament, Espionage, Military Insurrections,
Negotiations, Peace Declarations, Propaganda, Resistance, Revolutionary Warfare, Secret Allies,
Separate Peace, Sovereignty, Secession, Trust, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims.
SUICIDAL WAR GAMING
The nuclear overkill potential for a first strike, but also the nuclear retaliation power, or secondstrike
capability, the radioactive fallout danger, the nuclear winter risk and power madness and addiction
among territorial rulers turn nuclear strength into a liability and general holocaust potential for ruling
madmen. There was never a real shortage of them, as is indicated by official war games and also by the
popularity of some modern computer games.
The deadliness of their games or sports does not deter all suicide candidates. If Hitler would have had a
nuclear arsenal at his disposal, he would certainly not have been deterred from using it.
Suicide candidates and power addicts should never be given any chance to take all others with them
into their voluntary deaths. Nuclear strength gives them this chance.
A nation or all the people of the world would not all opt for suicide if everyone had a vote on this issue.
But leave this decision in the hands of a few and the weakest link among them might break the chain.
If everyone had an effective veto right and action opportunity then this would not happen.
If everyone had a sufficient decisionmaking power, then it would happen very soon. The more have a
participatory veto right and the right to participate in a general disarmament regarding ABC mass
murder devices, sufficiently armed and trained for this purpose, then the more unlikely such a
holocaust would become.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness, Balance, Brinkmanship, Decision, Deterrence, Disarmament,
Doomsday Bomb, Madness, Nuclear Strength, People, Publicity, Referendums, Subordination, Trust,
Voting.
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SUITCASE BOMBS
There is no defence against or an effective preventive measure against suitcase bombs: bombs brought
secretly into the target area, hidden there and later exploded by wireless signal. They can no more be
stopped by government inspectors than other smuggling can be, e.g. drug trafficking, or tax evasion,
ordinary violent crime or terrorism.
Such offences are actually to a large extent produced or multiplied as a result of government policies:
Territorialism, prohibitions, protectionism, imposed tributes, governmental miseducation, monetary
despotism and its consequences.
To stop this danger, all motives, institutions and powers making for nuclear war must be destroyed.
See: Alternative Institutions, Coexistence, Communism, Control, Crime, Defence, Disarmament,
Exterritorial Imperative, Financing,, Inspection, Motives, Power, Secession, Secrecy, Tolerance,
Racism, Religion, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
SUMMIT CONFERENCES
Summit talks are as sensible and rightful as the meetings of Mafia chieftains. The powers which put
political leaders into summit meetings are precisely the powers which make for nuclear war. Nothing
but a voluntary or enforced abdication of these "misleaders" and destruction of these powers can solve
the problem.
"The only summit talks that make sense are those of alpinists." said L. Tranter. (Readers Digest, 9/70
p. 37.)
See: Abdication, Broadcasting, Conferences, Exterritorial Imperative, Decision, Declarations, Freedom
of Expression, Governments, Negotiations, Open Air Meetings, Panarchy, People, Power,, Rulers,
Secession, Separate Peace, States, Territorial Organization, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War
Aims.
SUN ENERGY
Sun energy is the only nuclear energy to be used in the future. This might become the resolution of a
worldwide referendum. Without its rapid development there will be more and more manmade nuclear
reactors on earth and the danger of nuclear war would increase.
See: Atomic Energy, Nuclear Reactors, Peaceful Use, Radiation Hazard.
SURPRISE ATTACK, FIRST STRIKE CAPABILITY
There is no guaranty against surprise attacks with nuclear weapons. The warning systems do not allow
sufficient time to reach shelters even if sufficient shelters were available for most people. The second
strike capability, only invites larger and multiple warheads. There is no precaution one could take
against placed suitcase bombs.
To assure that there would be no counterstrike capability left, the surprise attack would have to be so
extensive that the risk of radioactive fallout would be unacceptable to rational men. But who says that
rulers are always rational? Surprise attacks all rest on the assumption that sufficient information is
available regarding the other side which is almost never the case. Surprise attacks are neither rightful
nor useful aggressive or defensive means. But this fact is not likely to prevent them. Only unilateral
disarmament can prevent largescale unilateral nuclear surprise attacks and can initiate a general
nuclear disarmament.
See: Defence, Deterrence, Disarmament, Nuclear Strength, Retaliation, SecondStrike Capability,
Suitcase Bombs, Security, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament.
SURRENDER, QUALIFIED AND WELL PREPARED SURRENDER TO NUCLEAR
BLACKMAIL
Surrender, militarily, to the armed forces of the tyrant threatening you with nuclear weapons and then
go, individually, after that man.
Surrender, formally, but be well prepared for a revolution afterwards.
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Surrender, even to a dictatorship is preferable to nuclear retaliation, as long as the least hope remains to
overthrow that dictatorship.
Extensive and prolonged preparations ought to be made, mainly of an educational nature, for such
revolutionary actions.
This must be done long before any surrender demand becomes acute.
Surrender in these cases merely amounts to the admission that there is no real defence against nuclear
weapons.
At the same time, surrender in lieu of massive retaliation, is a sign of understanding that nuclear
destructive devices are not genuine weapons, usable against the real enemies only.
Surrender would indicate the realization that nuclear devices do not make anyone stronger but
everyone more insecure.
Luckily, there are nonnuclear defensive and deterrent steps which would help to avoid the last and
desperate step of surrender.
Surrender after a limited nuclear attack would tend to at least halve the total number of nuclear
explosions in that war and it might "only" lead to the destruction of a few cities and of some nuclear
and other military installations.
Surrender before a nuclear attack, surrender upon nuclear blackmail, is obviously preferable from a
humanitarian and longterm moral and rational point of view.
Naturally, avoiding this blackmail by depriving the potential blackmailers of all their powers except
those required for individual selfdetermination, would be infinitely preferable.
Surrender is to be nothing but the last resort.
Once all aspects of effective libertarian resistance, revolutions, military insurrections, putsches,
defence and liberation steps are made widely known a nuclear attack against such countries becomes
less and less likely. Less and less soldiers of a dictatorship would be willing to follow such attack
orders. More and more of them would rather accept libertarian separate peace offers for themselves and
those who agree with them. Military Jiu Jitsu is possible, practicable and morally unobjectionable
against despotic regimes.
See: Decision, Declarations, Defence, Desertion, Deterrence, Disarmament, Military Insurrections,
Nuclear Strength, Peace Declarations, Publicity, Red/Dead, Retaliation, Revolution, Separate Peace,
Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
SURVIVAL
Either we or the nuclear weapons will win. In the long run we cannot coexist and survive with them.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Backfiring , Balance of Power, Brinkmanship,
Conservation, Decision, Defence, Destruction, Deterrence, Disarmament Exterritorial Imperative, Fail
safe, Nuclear Strength, Selfhelp, Subordination, Suicidal War Gaming, Weapons.
SURVIVAL INSTINCT, NOT COMPREHENSIVE ENOUGH
We cannot rely on the primitive survival instinct to protect us against the nuclear war danger. Only
reasoning foresight, thoughtful and responsible actions can save us
Only with the conviction of individuals that no matter what dangers threatened them, they would be
likely to survive, that the danger would not hit them, a conviction which has become an inborn trait,
and which is especially strong among young men, were they able to face and overcome numerous
dangers.
Former wars were frequently made possible because the survival instinct of young men is not very
strong. That is also indicated by high suicide rates among them. They were always ready to sacrifice
themselves for the survival of their herd. And for a time this helped to assure the survival of the herd.
Young men were often ready to fight, even against high odds, for kicks, adventure, fame, power, rape
and pillage. Often they do not really believe that they can and will die. This in spite of the fact that then
the dangers were was mostly visible and direct.
The primitive survival instinct and belief, combined with the herd instinct, thus served well when
people were hunters and herders and soldiers in conventional wars. But it misleads us when the enemy
is a nuclear and dictatorial power and among the real enemies is even the own and supposedly
democratic and representative government.
Now governmental powers are so large, often invisible and untouchable for ordinary men, in their
present position of well organized and legislated powerlessness, that individual and small group
suicidal courage and determination, and the most rapid and direct action, do not suffice, in most cases,
to defeat them.
To envision a nuclear war threat and to prepare for moral, rational and well planned and organized
actions to abolish this threat requires much more imagination than the conventional and largely
instinctually initiated defence efforts of young people, or even the great military skill of professional
soldiers and veterans, or the highest skills of honest policemen.
Even the older statesmen and politicians and social scientists have usually not enough of the required
imagination al
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though by their convictions, ideas, actions and institutions they have created the present dilemma.
This time death would most likely reach them also, although somewhat later than their subjects, but
they cannot clearly enough envision the causes of this situation nor any of the rational alternatives.
Consequently, they go on preparing for the general holocaust.
Their ignorance and their prejudices is so great that they cannot even cope with e.g. unemployment and
inflation. They only know how to cause them and not how to prevent them or end them rapidly. They
still are prohibitionists. They still ally themselves with dictatorships. They still adhere to tribute
gathering..
With wars and nuclear wars it is the same. They are able to start them but unable to prevent them or to
end them rapidly or to reduce them to mere police actions against a few criminals. They remain
unaware that they themselves, as territorial rulers, are the problem, not the solution.
The survival of the survival instinct, in its primitive form, beyond the time of its universal usefulness,
leads now not to any sensible counteractions but to sheer absurdities, like the overkill arsenals, or to
escapism, to living it up.
The primitive instinct only leads to "stronger clubs", more forcefully and indiscriminately wielded,
ultimately to mass murder devices.
I remember the image drawn of two savages, standing close and opposite to each other, each drawing
an arrow against the other and both saying to themselves: "The tighter I draw my bow, the safer, I
think, I am!"
The war dangers of our times can no longer bravely faced but express merely ignorance, prejudice and
suicidal desperation, which sees no way out and can end only in one way, unless some radical changes
are made in time.
Moreover, either if not clearly seen, or even if seen, then danger becomes habitually ignored or
rationalized away, as something that is unbearable if it is continuously kept in mind, without a wayout
being in sight. People can bear only so much stress and then automatic mental defence mechanisms
begin to operate.
Human survival remains believed in, or at least hoped or prayed for, in spite of all reasons, actions and
preparations to assure that it will not happen in the long run if our conditions remain basically
unchanged.
Our survival instinct has not been refined enough to make us face this new danger rationally.
In this respect, we have, almost without exception, become psychopaths, who cannot or will not think
far enough ahead. This time we are all likely to die because we believe that we will survive.
I see no other solution than to point out to all moral and rational men the alternative routes which lead
away from nuclear war. So far their responses, or lack of them, have turned this compilation into a
phenomenal nonseller, which does not give much hope for our future.
See: Apathy, Cultural Revolution, Deterrence, Enlightenment, Ideas/Large, Prejudices, Reason.
TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Some still hold to the belief that tactical nuclear weapons are relatively harmless. But the word
'harmless" should not be used in connection with a weapon which might wipe out a whole town of
5.000 to 50.000 people, These weapons are not "harmless" just because they are not as criminally,
idiotically and selfdefeatingly large or "powerful" and indiscriminately murderous as the "strategic"
nuclear devices are.
See: Air Raids, Civilians, Collective Responsibility, Defence, Disarmament, Discriminating Warfare,
Enemy Escalation, Indiscriminate Warfare, Noncombatants, Nuclear Strength, Open Cities, Radiation
Hazard, Scorched Earth Policy, Targets, Terrorism, Total War, Weapons.
TALENT REGISTRY
Directories lists and registers of all those willing, interested and able to do something about the nuclear
war threat, classified according to their interests and specialties, are among the necessary tools.
Compare: Cultural Revolution, Ideas Archive.
So far, to my knowledge, not even all of the numerous books that have been published on the nuclear
war threat, and how to cope with it, have been combined in a single comprehensive reference library. If
it existed, I should have received an order for this and some other books. Few bookshops offer many of
these titles. One of the reasons for this is probably that they do not sell very well for their ideas
contents is usually rather poor and they do not inspire hope, far less confidence for the future.
TARGETS, WRONG CONCEPT OF NUCLEAR TARGETS
"It's pretty hard to fight a war when there's nothing you can aim at," said Clifford D, Simak in "City".
Basic military caution teaches the utmost dispersal of targets. "United" nations are obvious and
seemingly justified targets for nuclear weapons. Without territorially organized targets there remains
no nuclear war threat. Even the wrongful collective responsibility "thinking" would not longer resort to
ABC mass murder devices once targets for them can no longer be geographically identified but are
spread all over the place as e.g. tennis players, birdwatchers and sectarians are.
The territorial targets for nuclear weapons can be removed by reorganizing society on the basis of
personal laws rather than geographical laws.
This does not require coercion but merely free individual choice, including secession and the right to
exterritorial and autonomous reassociation.
The nuclear targets can be dissolved e.g. through:
a) power reductions and abolition of powers,.
b) physical dispersals (free migration)
c) decentralization in form of territorial secession,
d) individual secession leading to personal law and exterritorial decentralization,
e) dissolution of frontiers and national territories by means of exterritorial minority autonomy, free
migration
and free trade,
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f) a better definition of the enemy,
g) a commitment to rightful war aims only,
h) an extension of private property rights (free international investments and free trade, also
cooperative
production)
i) free access to all natural resources through open cooperatives,
j) appealing to and making full use of secret allies on the other side,
k) unilateral nuclear disarmament,
l) unilateral peace declarations,
m) formal surrender offers in case of nuclear blackmail, combined with sufficient preparations for
liberating
revolutions,
n) tyrannicide and initiation of military insurrections on the other side.
Rightful targets for attacks, although not attacks with nuclear devices, are not peoples, or "nations" but,
rather, the devices destroying or threatening devices whole peoples or nations but, instead, men in
power who have such "nonweapons" or mass murder devices at their disposal.
See: Cities, Civilians, Coexistence, Competing Governments, Decentralization, Exterritorial
Imperative, Nationalism, Noncombatants, Open Cities, Panarchy, Power, Separate Peace, Unity, War
Aims.
TAXATION
"Whosoever desires liberty should understand these vital facts, viz.:
1. That every man who puts money in the hands of a 'government' (so called), puts into its hands a
sword which will be used against himself, to extort more money from him and also to keep him in a
subjection to its arbitrary will.
2. That those who will take his money, without his consent, in the first place, will use it for his further
robbery and enslavement, if he presumes to resist their demands in the future..." said Lysander
Spooner.
Moreover, as Murray N. Rothbard stated : "State wars can only be waged through aggression against
the taxpayer." (In his pamphlet: "War, Peace and the State, page 5.)
Compulsory taxation allows governments to build up standing armies threatening other governments
and thus leads to an arms race and finally to war. Only compulsory taxation has so far made the
production of antipeople weapons possible. Even among the advocates of nuclear devices few would
be willing and able to pay their share of the costs, far less the total production costs, if these were all to
be paid by the nuclear war advocates only and if these were also held responsible, like other terrorists,
for the lives taken and properties destroyed by these devices.
The opposite of compulsory taxation, namely voluntary taxation or contribution systems, would make
the preparation for nuclear war financially close to impossible and it would also imply exterritorial
organization and thus eliminate national targets and motives for war.
See: Financing, Inflation, Tax Strike, Voluntary Taxation.
TAX STRIKE
A tax strike would be one of the most efficient and nonviolent means to deprive the old coercive
institutions of their power, Who would voluntarily pay taxes for nuclear weapons?
But such a strike would have to be backed by a militia for the protection of human rights. Only then
could the forceful suppression of such a strike be prevented.
Such a strike would have to be well thought out and prepared.
The tax strikers would e.g. have to arrange for the at least temporary continuance of certain payments,
e .g. police and army payments, out of the tax funds withheld by them.
If the taxation system and the means of payment (see: Monetary Despotism) are of a kind that the
subjects cannot successfully engage in a tax strike, then the government could conduct a war against
the will of most of its citizens.
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See: My article on tax strikes in PEACE PLANS 13, Employment, Monetary Despotism, Monetary
Freedom, Inflation, Financing, Liquidation.
TECHNICAL FAILURES
Nuclear strength itself makes for war through the nuclear arms race, the balance of power attempts and
brinkmanship as well as accidents.
Human errors in the interpretation of equipment, e.g. radar observation of a meteor, could lead to
nuclear war. Automated defence equipment could lead to it in case of a breakdown or fault.
In the extreme instance a doomsday bomb would be unintentionally set off.
A breakdown of the failsafe systems of rockets and bombers which are on continuous alert could also
bring about the nuclear holocaust.
One of the inherent technical failures of nuclear weapons is that they are so indiscriminately murderous
and destructive that they are no longer weapons.
Furthermore, the centralization of decisionmaking involved in nuclear warfare and in the preparations
for the instant readiness to engage in it, make even the finest and most flawless machinery dependent
upon the continued rationality of some humans, who, like other humans, are subject to breakdowns
under stress.
The nuclear strength and deterrence system is anything but failsafe and foolproof. It lends itself to
abuse by fools and sick people, even if it does not have mere technical problems.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Arms Race, Automated Warfare, Balance of Power,
Brinkmanship, Deterrence, Doomsday Bomb, Failsafe, Nuclear Strength, Targets, Terrorism,
Weapons.
TELEVISION SETS, HARD RADIATION FROM TELEVISION SETS & COMPUTER
SCREENS
Those who out of ignorance or apathy ignore the radiation hazard from television sets and the cathode
tube display units of computer screens and do expose themselves daily to it and let their children be so
exposed, are unlikely to preserve themselves and their children from the dangers of nuclear war, by
doing something to prevent it. The usual attitude is revealed : For a short term benefit a long term
disaster is considered acceptable or rather ignored. Man is still very far from being a rational animal. If
you are opposed to the dangers of nuclear war then you will have to be consistent and get rid of the
radiation hazards involved in certain types of TV sets & computers, choosing e.g. LCD screens instead,
even though these are more expensive.
See: Apathy, Enlightenment, Foolishness, Ignorance, Radiation Hazard, peace plan 211.
TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
Territorial integrity should rather be renamed: territorial absolutism for that is the nature of the game.
Who has used this expression most of all lately? The Soviet regime! The term is as absurd as would be
the term "religious integrity" in naming the absolute and coercive domination of one religion over one
country, implying the outlawry and suppression of all other religions in that area.
To suppress dissenters, nonconformists and competitors, to force consumers to accept ones services
and disservices and compulsorily charging them high monopoly prices for both, does not indicate that
one's products or services are pure, genuine and honestly traded, that one is a man or an agency of
integrity.
Uniform territorial jurisdiction and exclusive legislative areas are not ideals to which millions of
human lives should be sacrificed. They are merely utopian notions and they are contrary to human
nature, makes for war and should never be enforced.
The national, collectivist, exclusive and militarily enforced land tenure system, which is defended with
this slogan, is one of the greatest evils ever conceived and practised. It makes nuclear war possible and
not only possible but likely, as long as it persists. It prevents internal and
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external harmony between voluntary human societies.
"When the warring parties inhabit different territorial areas, the scope for modern weapons becomes
enormous, and the entire arsenal of mass devastation can come into play." said Murray N. Rothbard in
"War, Peace and the State", page 4.
See: Autonomy, Exterritorial Imperative, Land Monopoly, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism,
Panarchy, Pluralism, Secession, Targets, Tolerance.
TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION, TERRITORIAL NATION STATES
Territorial divisions are the foundations for nuclear war preparations and continuing threats with
nuclear "weapons".
Without the division of the Earth among territorial states there would be no danger of nuclear war.
Territorialism organizes people antagonistically. It leaves them only the choice of being either anvils or
hammers.
Already J. J. Rousseau asked in "The Social Contract": "How can a man or a people seize an immense
territory and keep it from the rest of the world except by a punishable usurpation, since all others are
being robbed, by such an act, of the place of habitation and the means of subsistence which nature gave
them in common?"
The territorial organization preserves centralized decision making, the threat of conquest and
domination, the suppression of minorities, the imposition of uniform laws, a system for mad power
grabbers, frontiers, motives and targets for nuclear war. It makes conscription and compulsory taxation
possible, also inflation and depression causing policies. It creates unjustified powers and makes it easy
to abuse them. It holds up peaceful progress and development in all spheres.
For instance, it preserves racial religious and nationalistic and cultural prejudices, leads to the worst
atrocities in connection with the principle of collective responsibility and threatens whole nations, nay
even mankind, with extermination.
It must go. Individualistic secession points the way. Only exterritorial organization based on individual
sovereignty and personal law is in accordance with individual rights and harmonizes people's interests.
See: Action, Alternative Institutions, Authoritarianism, Autonomy, Competing Governments,
Conquest, Conscription, Consent, Decision, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom,
Freedom of Action Frontiers, Governments, Individualism, Inflation, Intolerance, Laissez Faire, Laws,
Leadership, Libertarianism, Liberty, Land Monopoly, Militia, Minority Autonomy, Motives,
Nationalism, Opting Out, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Power, Racism,
Religion, Rulers, Secession, Social Contract, Socialism, Sovereignty, State, Statism, Subordination,
Targets, Taxation, Tolerance, Unity, Voluntarism, Voluntary Taxation, War Aims, Weapons.
TERRORISM
A lasting peace was never preserved on the basis of terror. A situation of terror is by definition one of
irrational and panicky actions, one where power is being abused by one side and is likely to lead to a
similar abuse on the other side.
Most terrorists, if they had been given the choice of their own ideals, within their own volunteer
communities, and if they had not grown up in an atmosphere in which the notions and practices of
collective responsibility are taken for granted, and expressed e.g. in the ABC mass murder devices of
governments, would not have become terrorists in the first place. Most would become ideologically
and in practice disarmed and would cease to engage in terrorist activities and preparations for them,
once the endless opportunities of panarchism are opened up for them as well. Then we might even
consider to grant all of them amnesty, as we have automatically granted it to those who committed
mass murders in wars, e.g. by area bombing.
See: Air Raids, Arms Race, Balance of Power, Brinkmanship, Collective Responsibility, Counter
Terror, Deterrence, Enemy, Hostages, Nuclear Strength, Retaliation, Total War, Weapons.
TESTS NUCLEAR
Why test nuclear weapons at all? Aren't untested ones good enough to wipe people out? Is there any
real danger that they might fail and in case they fail? Aren't there already enough nuclear overkill
capacities?
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Some kinds of tests might even be the equivalent to a nuclear war; but one without any open and
obvious targets:
It was estimated, a few years ago, that if the Soviet Union, under favorable wind conditions, set off a
dozen super Cobalt bombs, or other bombs causing much more than the usual radioactive pollution, at
the Siberian coast, then most of all Americans might be killed without even one of the bombs
exploding on the US territory. The whole atrocious act might then, in propaganda, be passed off as a
failed experiment to use nuclear power for peaceful purposes and in the usual jargon of the
communists it would indeed be a "peace promoting" action.
"Stop the Tests" slogans and demonstrations do not go far enough. Nothing less than stopping the
production of nuclear weapons and destroying their stockpiles, even, in the beginning, onesidedly,
would suffice.
For this aim and its realization ordinary fire arms and military organization are needed.
Here are some general thoughts for those who so far made some more or less suicidal efforts to stop
French and other nuclear tests by entering the test zones without permission:
Don't just use verbal abuse or confine yourself to nonviolent means only.
Don't attempt to immolate yourself.
Don't expose yourself to being prematurely murdered by a nuclear bomb before the general nuclear
holocaust. Don't attack a supposedly guilty large collective, the French people for instance. They have
no more say in this than you and I have.
Don't use violence against private property. Destruction of "public" property is just as useless as
nuclear destruction unless that "public" property is one of the bombs or bomb installations.
Don't encourage the use of foreign warships or any other fumbling government attempt to stop a
nuclear test or you might set off the nuclear war we want to prevent.
Don't use indiscriminate actions and methods.
Don't try to stop all trade when stopping merely the uranium trade could be a more effective, specific
and apt means.
Don't stop short, in your protest actions, of the socalled peaceful use of atomic energy. Nuclear
reactors are nuclear arms factories.
Not only refuse to recognize e.g , the French government but recognize one or several competing
governmentsinexile instead.
Go directly after the guilty ones, all out, the scientists, administrators and politicians involved. They
prepare for "scientific" and "modern" mass murder (accidentally, naturally!).
Pay them back, individually, in their own coin, e.g. by applying a clause of the French constitution
against the French government. A general clause of it, supposedly embodies all former bills of rights
and thus the article 27 of the French Constitution of 1793 is still relevant. It runs:
"Que tout individu, qui usurperait la souveraineté, soit à l'instant mis à mort par les hommes libres."
(Every individual, who usurps sovereignty, shall be immediately put to death by the free men.)
I, for one, would never guarantee the safety of nuclear weapon producers and testers.
Incite a tax strike against the French government. The French taxpayers will enthusiastically support
this if you can show them a feasible way.
Dissolve France. as a nuclear target into numerous decentralized and exterritorial groups of all types
and you will remove the motive to have nuclear weapons in readiness against the possibility of a
nuclear attack.
Go not only after further tests but after the nuclear stockpiles. They are already large enough to wipe
all of us out several times over. (Unless you put your life on the bet that because they were not used so
far they will never be used.)
Don't merely attempt to put pressure on immoral governments but, as suggested above and below, also
on yourself, to do your bit to achieve nuclear disarmament, even onesidedly.
For instance, arm and organized yourself for your part in carrying out the nuclear disarmament.
Achieve constitutional power to vote on the issue.
Contribute to build up trust between nations e.g., by public declarations, under oath, of rightful war
aims, so that no rational motive would remain to be armed with such mass murderous "weapons".
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Help to stop uranium mining. Do no longer consider it as a desirable export item. If uranium is no
longer mined and refined then no more new nuclear weapons can be built with the additional uranium.
To that extent further nuclear tests could be prevented.
Don't be onesidedly concerned merely with radiation hazards originating from the fallout of nuclear
tests, seeing that there are many other sources of dangerous radiation like e.g. the luminous dials on
wrist watches, whenever it is caused by the admixture of radioactive isotopes, that in xrays, TV tubes,
conventional computer screens, microwave ovens, planes flying at high altitudes, even living in brick
houses or in areas rich in granite.
But most of all, as an intermediate and consistent step, stop advocating nuclear reactors as "peaceful"
when in many to most instances they breed more material for more bombs and pollute the atmosphere
and waterways much more than the nuclear tests did.
Let us rather test individual liberties than nuclear devices. This means, among other things, new kinds
of tests, namely those introducing full freedom for all tolerant experiments in the political, economic
and social sphere. They would help to eliminate the danger of nuclear war by eliminating gradually all
what makes for it, including motives, finance, manpower and targets.
See: Peace Plans No. 3, Conscription, Demonstrations, Finance, Panarchism, Protests, Taxation,
Targets, Tolerance, War Aims.
TIDAL POWER
Tidal power is at present barely used at all. I read only of one such plant, operating on the coast of
France The potential of this power source is enormous. According to an estimate that I read, about 40
years ago, one section of the West Australian coast could, on its own, if so used, supply 50 times of the
electrical energy requirements of Australia. This power, too, if used, could reduce the motive to look
for and provide nuclear power and with this, as a byproduct, the raw materials for still more nuclear
weapons. Apart from this ocean power source there is wave and wind power obtainable on oceans,
power from ocean flows like the Golf Stream in the Atlantic and power from the temperature
differential between surface and deep water, not only in tropical areas but also in polar regions.
TIME FACTOR
The time left to us for doing something to prevent nuclear war is running out. Our luck, that nuclear
war didn't happen as yet during, during the few decades of its existence, has already habituated and
conditioned us to accept this threat as inevitable or as not really very acute. We manage to forget it
while living on borrowed time. This time, time may run out of people, as someone once said.
So many changes are required to prevent nuclear war that there does not appear to be sufficient time
left to bring about the necessary prior changes of public opinion. But a genuinely cultural revolution
program might speed up the process of enlightenment sufficiently.
See: Accidental War, Acuteness of Danger, Bet, Brinkmanship, Cultural Revolution, Enlightenment,
Experimental Freedom, Public Opinion.
TIREDNESS
To think unusual thoughts if they are not your own and were just developed and if it does not
happen in the course of a lively discussion makes most people unusually tired and bored.
That is one of the reasons why people are often not sufficiently interested in solutions to the danger of
nuclear war or cannot keep their attention on it long enough.
It has been suggested that these people may have to grow or develop certain brain cells first in order
to enable them to think persistently on difficult subjects. This is at least a good analogy for this human
reaction. The tiredness of national leaders during prolonged crises may also induce them to make that
irrevocable decision for nuclear mutual suicide.
See: Accidental War, Apathy, Decision, Ideas/Large, Sleeplessness, Survival Instinct, Enthusiasm.
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TOLERANCE
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer,
Let him
step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." Thoreau.
Nuclear weapons are the devices of the extremely afraid and therefore extremely intolerant. People are
afraid of domination by intolerant alternative movements, organizations, cultures, races, faiths,
ideologies, of "aliens" or "foreigners", at least as long as they can conceive and assume only territorial
organization and uniform territorial legislation which might thus become changed, much against their
will and cause their subjugation.
Exterritorial autonomy for all volunteer associations could dissolve this fear and intolerance.
Exterritorial organization is the organizational expression of tolerance and it reenforces it. Territorial
organization is practising intolerance and reinforces it.
For instance: Freedom for communists to be and live as communists, within the limits of their
combined and collectively administered private property, wherever they live and, at the same time and
in the same territory, the same freedom for capitalists to be capitalists everywhere, within the limits of
their private property, would remove most of the present danger of nuclear war.
See: Alternative Institutions, Autonomy, Coexistence, Communism, Competing Governments,
Diversity, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom of Action, Individualism,
Intolerance, Laissez Faire, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism,
Racism, Religion, Secession, Segregation, Socialism, Territorial Organization, Voluntarism, War
Aims.
TOTALITARIANISM
All ideologists who do not have a chance to persuade the majority or are afraid to lose power again,
soon, due to minority agitation and to the revealed defects in their ideologies (whenever a serious
attempt has been made to practise them), will tend to establish and maintain more or less totalitarian
regimes, whenever an opportunity exists for them and centralized and territorial organizations do
offer many such chances, particularly during the various political, economic and social crises which
they themselves cause in the first place.
Within already centralized power systems, however democratic and republican they may appear to be,
they have to usurp or conquer relatively few positions of power for this purpose.. Then, even while
keeping up appearances of the continuance of republicanism, as the Roman Empire did and as the
American Empire does now, centralized power may become extreme and also extreme in its abuses.
Only by freedom for individual secessionists and a revolutionary program based on individual
secession could the establishment of new totalitarian regimes be prevented and the existing ones
relatively easily destroyed or reduced to forms harmful only to those who volunteered for them.
"Although few people, if anybody, in England would probably be ready to swallow totalitarianism
whole, there are few single features which have not yet been advised by somebody or other." said
Hayek in: "The Road to Serfdom", XIII.
"We must oppose all forms of totalitarianism, even those appearing in our own country." said Charles
Brooks, 9/72.
Nuclear weapons are the ultimate totalitarian means to wipe out all external opposition. At the same
time, though, they cannot be used effectively by the internal opposition against a totalitarian
government or by this government against its internal opposition. This fact offers us the chance for
their destruction.
The use of nuclear weapons by the external opponents of a totalitarian regime, or the threat to use
them, rallies nationalistic subjects behind their totalitarian governments which they might otherwise
oppose. Due to this effect a unilateral nuclear disarmament of antitotalitarian countries would make
these countries stronger, not weaker. When this unilateral nuclear disarmament is accompanied by
other suitable steps, like tyrannicide and revolutionary warfare, with its declaration of rightful and quite
attractive war and peace aims, then the totalitarian regimes will be soon close to defeat in spite or
even because of their nuclear weapons. At the same time, a "golden bridge" would be left to them, in
form of rule over their remaining voluntary followers.
See: Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Captive Nations, Collective Responsibility, Communism, Defence
Desertion, Dictatorships, Disobedience, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Individualism, Jiu Jitsu,
Military Insurrections, Military Program, Militia, Outlawry, Peace Declarations, Revolution, Secession,
Secret Allies, Separate Peace, Socialism,
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Surrender, Tolerance, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Voluntarism, War Aims.
TOTAL WAR
Nuclear war is the logical outcome of all total warfare policies. ABC weapons are the ultimate in total
warfare. They simplify the "Final Solution" of genocide and are merely a technical & cost saving
improvement upon scorched earth policies, carpet bombing and extermination camps.
Total warfare is total and murderous nonsense made possible by nonsensical myths, beliefs and
prejudices regarding e.g., weapons, enemies, responsibilities, defence, nations, strength and prestige.
See: Air Raids, Collective Responsibility, Communism, Decision, Defence, Deterrence, Enemy,
Extermination Camps, Exterritorial Imperative, Immorality, Indiscriminate Warfare, International
Laws of War, Morality, Murder, Myths, Nationalism, Nuclear Strength, Open Cities, Peace
Declarations, Prestige, Responsibility, Scorched Earth, Separate Peace, Socialism, Targets, Terror,
Secret Allies, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons, Tyrannicide,
TREASON
To destroy ones governments nuclear weapons is treason by the laws of that government but it is not so
in the eyes of mankind. From a less narrow point of view than the territorial and nationalistic one, it
becomes treason against man not to help destroy them, like Nazi extermination camp facilities,
regardless of what the statute books say.
See: Decision, Disarmament, Duty, Freedom of Action, People, Resistance, Selfdefence, Selfhelp,
Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
TRUST
Territorial governments rightly distrust each other, while international agreements must either be based
on trust, control or trade.
A disarmament agreement can hardly be based on trade. They never managed to achieve fully freed
trading. They never left it sufficiently alone.
Governments cannot mutually control each other sufficiently. (See: Control, Inspection.) They haven't
even managed to control the drug trade.
They have no reason to trust each other but many reasons to distrust each other.
Thus we should not expect them to come to mutual nuclear disarmament agreement and to carry it out.
Only the people can come to trust each other if they do not already do so. The rulers, generals and
diplomats deserve nothing but distrust,
Trust is only possible between rational people. Governments are neither rational persons nor composed
of rational beings. They represent institutionalized coercion in the service of prejudices. They deserve
and ought to be distrusted, This distrust ought to be the greater the more they appear to offer, be it as
disarmers, defenders, protectors or providers. They cannot even disarm ordinary criminals and
terrorists. But they were all too efficient in disarming victims and establishing monopolies for police
and military forces.
History teaches that there are no worse no other professions or classes of people are so full of liars,
confidence tricksters, violent criminals and extortionists and robbers than are politicians and rulers.
Their crimes cover the whole spectrum or crime, from nonviolent crimes with victims to mass murder.
Their territorial powers facilitate their crimes and provide them mostly with immunity from
prosecution. They do also allow them to commit crimes on a much vaster scale than those committed
by ordinary criminals with victims. They are even given the power to legalize their crimes. There are
few people who break their given words or promises as often as they do. Power does corrupt, absolute
power corrupts absolutely and the powerless are also corrupted by their powerlessness.
How could any rational being trust anyone who thinks it opportune to have nuclear weapons at his
disposal?
Even if he assured us that he has changed his mind and is no longer in favour of nuclear "strength",
could we really trust him when once he was
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in favour of nuclear strength?
The large nuclear powers have sufficient power to destroy each other and all their subjects completely,
many times over.
Most governments have sufficient power to conscript heir subjects into a war against their will and
interests.
A handful of rulers can use and abuse millions of citizens like tools with the assistance of the
machinery of sovereign states.
Each ruler subscribes sufficiently to popular prejudices to seemingly "justify" the annihilation of his
"enemies" before his own conscience, whatever there is of it.
There is no lack of more or less veiled threats in government propaganda, all on the childish level of: "I
am stronger than you" or: "My brother is stronger than you!" (Frequently, these estimates are
miscalculations, acted upon at the expense and risk of the subjects on both sides.)
Do not grant any men with nuclear power the sanction of the victim!
No government is quite serious in its disarmament offers because it realizes that it cannot control the
disarmament actions promised by the other side. This distrust turns all disarmament proposals of
governments into utopias.
Their control measures cannot prevent one or both sides acting on their justified suspicions and hiding
away a large number of nuclear weapons. They could do this so secretly that the inspectors of the other
side would not find them.
This distrust, a justified distrust, leads lastly, through an arms race, to war. After or during an arms race
the least suspicion or incident, the least tension, even an accident, could then lead to the general
holocaust.
Sometimes one or the other wants to anticipate the other's rightly or wrongly expected attack by a
preemptive attack. Like common criminals found loitering in the dark with breaking and entering tools
on them, near an unoccupied house full of valuable portable property ( Australian Law ), all
governments could be charged on suspicion with attempted theft or worse.
Even if the top men on both sides agreed e .g. on a multilateral nuclear disarmament agreement, all
their subordinates would not necessarily carry it out. Some of them might put them out of office or hide
nuclear "weapons" and biological and chemical ones. Some might even be into such actions by what
they consider to be "patriotism". (See: Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament.)
The only kinds of disarmament that governments ever try to carry out extensively are not mutual
disarmament agreements or unilateral decisions to disarm themselves, but instead, onesided
disarmament decisions that uphold their own arms and military organization monopolies while
disarming defeated enemy regimes and not only these but also the subjects of these defeated regimes
and the own subjects. Even in this they do usually fail, in the long run and for most of them.
How could one get rid of the justified distrust between territorial governments? In the same way as one
can get rid of corruption in government jobs: By getting rid of the jobs!
Those regimes which, quite rightly, do not trust each other, must be put into positions where they can
come to trust each other. To achieve this, they must lose all their dangerous territorial, monopolistic
and coercive powers and become reduced to the status of ordinary citizens or leaders of volunteer
communities only. Then they could begin to trust each other.
Only territorial rulers, who more or less know each other's extreme territorial powers and who do
rightly fear them, do have reason to distrust each other.
Free and enlightened citizens have only one good reason for distrust, the fear for their safety, directed
against every territorial ruler, including their own, who keeps nuclear weapons, i.e. antipeople
weapons, in readiness.
The nations, the people, the individuals making them up, do not greatly distrust each other because
they know that none of them possess great powers over others and thus they do not have to fear each
other. (Apart from the fear of unemployment, imagined as being due to overpopulation and free
immigration, and the fear of becoming outvoted by a flood of alien immigrants.
See : Employment, Exterritorial Imperative, Migration, Monetary Freedom, Minority Autonomy,
Unemployment.)
The American worker does not have to fear the Russian worker and vice versa.
Without powerful governments there would no longer be the extreme and all too justified distrust
between nations. Only an almost unanimous distrust against nuclear weapons, their factories, the power
plants producing the raw materials, and against nuclear research centres would remain.
This trust and this distrust would lead free people to destroy all nuclear war facilities. These mass
murder devices must be destroyed, even when finally sufficient trust is achieved, justified trust,
between exterritorial communities of volunteers. These communities must become established in order
to prevent their acciden
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tal, criminal or irrational abuse by some individuals of any ABC mass murder devices.
How could one get rid of the power territorial of governments?
Only in extreme cases by executing their members. (See: Outlawry, Tyrannicide and also Amnesty and
Asylum.)
In almost all cases the citizens would have to arm, organize and train themselves, especially in methods
to effectively protect individual rights (See: Military Organization, Militia, Weapons.) and to undertake
the nuclear disarmament of their governments. In some instances revolutions and military insurrections
would be required (See: Revolutions Military Insurrections, Soviet Union, China).
Among the most effective steps to deprive the rulers of their excessive powers and to reduce them to
the status of ordinary citizens (from which they could rise again only on the basis of unanimous
consent and to limited heights only), would be a individual secessionism, exterritorial organization of
volunteers, monetary freedom, tax strikes and voluntary taxation or market pricing for desired services.
Only such a program has a good chance for success.
How could trust between the people be built up or increased?
By eliminating the monopoly of decisionmaking,
by abolishing secret diplomacy and secret treaties,
by full publicity of negotiations and treaties,
by democratic decision making, even individualized decisionmaking regarding one's own affairs,
by declarations of rightful war aims,
by rightful treatment of refugees, deserters, prisoners and migrants,
by rightful warfare measures,
by separate peace treaties,
by trade with the "enemy",
by various public appeals, declarations and oaths confirming one's rightful aims,
by referendums confirming e.g. rightful war aims, by practising all liberation promises oneself,
allowing e.g.
exterritorial autonomy for governments in exile and the own minorities,
by inviting delegates and witnesses to all public declarations, by unilateral nuclear disarmament
actions,
by freedom of broadcasting to help spread public appeals and declarations and show their support by
the public,
by ending all censorship,
by unilateral nuclear disarmament,
by free migration,
by free trade,
by offering full autonomy to all minorities, even communistic ones,
by abolishing taxation,
by abolishing intolerant rule over tolerant dissenters,
by recognizing all governments in exile which themselves have no domination aspirations but want to
rule only
over voluntary followers applying personal laws.
Under such and related conditions. trust between people of different nations, religions, races and
ideologies would not only become possible but likely. See: Broadcasting, Coexistence Consent,
Control, Decision, Diplomacy, Disarmament, Exterritorial Imperative, Free Migration, Free Trade,
Governments, Inspection, Madness, Open Air Meetings, People, Power, publicity Referendums,
Rulers, Secrecy, States, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, War Aims, Weapons.
TYRANNICIDE
"Eternal hostility against every form of tyranny should be our goal, today, tomorrow and forever
more." said Charles Brooks 9/72, ascribing this to Jefferson. Nuclear weapons stand for unlimited and
indiscriminate power over others and constitute thus the essence of tyranny and are to be countered
by all the hostility and resistance tyranny deserves.
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In his "The Devil's Dictionary", Ambrose Bierce put the following words on tyrannicide into the mouth
of Oliver Cromwell:
"Abridge, v.t. To Shorten: When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to
abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to the separation."
Among public declarations of rightful war and peace aims there should be one analog to the old Roman
law against tyrants. It provided that anyone, who executed a tyrant, would thereupon automatically
become the legal dictator of Rome for 6 months. This honor was, supposedly, never abused. But today
it might be more advisable to heap other honors and riches on such "assassins".
Ulrich von Beckerath suggested, in essence:
If, for instance, one of the Soviet dictators should mobilize the Red Army against Western Europe or
ordered a nuclear attack, then any Soviet officer, who prevented that mobilization or nuclear attack and
rendered the dictator harmless, should automatically become appointed president of the European State
Federation. This could not be abused if this president would not have excessive powers, e.g. if
individuals could secede from this federation like from any church, State, or other organization. This
office itself could also be kept in check by the institution of tyrannicide as e.g. it was once embodied in
the French constitution of 1793, whose article 27 read:
"Every individual who usurps sovereignty shall immediately be put to death by the free men."
An ideal militia would be the best organization to prepare and organize the execution of all war
mongers and tyrants, especially of all men with nuclear powers.
Quite obviously, tyrannicide on its own is not the solution. But it is, nevertheless, very helpful, as
Heinrich Heine realized when he remarked that the Russian Czarism represented despotism mitigated
by assassination.
Thus tyrannicide is here not proposed as a panacea and on its own but in combination with many
other rightful steps.
See: Amnesty, Appeals, Asylum, Authoritarianism, Decision, Declarations, Democracy, Desertion,
Dictatorships, Human Rights, Military Insurrections, Militia, Nuclear Strength, Power, Prizes,
Resistance, Revolution, Secession, Tax Strike, Totalitarianism, Unilateral nuclear Disarmament, War
Aims, Weapons.
UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES
History, current experience and economic theory demonstrate to all but the prejudiced that the fastest
economic development takes place under economic freedom.
Once individuals are free to secede then, at least some of them, will be aware of this and by acting
accordingly they would set an attractive example of the benefits of economic liberty for all others.
This is the fastest, most practicable, most tolerant and convincing approach to abolish the war
promoting hatreds of the socalled havenot people.
It would even do away with the "socialism" that is nothing but an expression of envy. It would be up to
each individual to join or establish a capitalistic society in which he could advance to personal wealth
not through legalized theft but through intelligence, labour, savings and sensible investments. This
could even be achieved in a surprisingly few years, as some immigrants have demonstrated at least in
times when e.g. Australia was largely still under a free economy. By now a former prime minister of
Singapore considers Australians the "poor white trash of Asia." It took Australians 100 years of
"politics as usual", i.e., more and more economic intervention, to fall from the richest people to the 33 rd
position.
See: Capitalism, Development, Economic Freedom, Employment, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial
Imperative, Free Migration, Free Trade, Investments, Laissez Faire, Market, Minority Autonomy,
Monetary Freedom, Nationalism, Natural Resources, Prejudices, Proper Property, Secession, War
Aims.
UNEMPLOYMENT, REFUGIES, DESERTERS, DISARMAMENT & MONETARY
FREEDOM
Labourers in nuclear bomb factories and reactors will not resign unless alternative employment
opportunities are offered to them. Deserters and refugees from totalitarian countries as well as free
immigrants will not be welcomed until the problem of unemployment has been solved. (Until then the
anticommunists in the Western World will have to bear the shame of having refused to accept refugees
e.g. from South Vietnam or now from the despotic regime of the Talibans in Afghanistan. Because they
are not fully aware of all the causes of involuntary mass unemployment and how fast and effectively
they could be overcome, even many libertarians give only qualified approval to fully free migration.
Monetary freedom, in combination with free market pricing, even for wages, and free
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access to natural resources, could do away with any degree of unemployment, very rapidly.
Allow any employer to offer, and any employee to accept, anything agreeable to both in payment of
wages.
Don't force both to deal only in a monopolistic and also rapidly deteriorating and otherwise
mismanaged exchange medium and value standard.
Let's have the exchange media as competitively supplied as knives and forks are and we will have no
shortage of them, either.
For instance: The free monetization of all ready for sale goods and services in a developed country, for
wage and salary payments, to the extent that such exchange media would be freely accepted by the
present employees and newly employed, could raise enormous short term funds for paying employees,
while assuring the sale of these goods and services by the so employed people going shopping with
them.
With sufficient sound exchange media, sound value reckoning, free pricing, and when no job or trade is
closed to anyone, by any monopolies, unemployment could be done away with within hours or days in
almost all cases. But this can be recognized and realized only by people, able to understand and apply
the monetary freedom approach.
Full employment exists naturally when services can be freely exchanged for other services (many of
them manifested in consumer goods). Unemployment results only when someone puts one or the other
barrier up, thus preventing some or many of these voluntary exchanges.
The worst such hindrance is the monopolization of the exchange medium and the coercive
manipulation of the value standard for all transactions.
See: Desertion, Employment, Investments, Monetary Despotism, Monetary Freedom, Refugees, Peace
Plans 911.
UNIFORMITY IN LAWS AND JURISDICTION
Equality before the Law is a blessing only to those approving of the contents of the laws and their
interpretation.
At the same time it is a threat, a wrongful one, to all dissenters.
In this age the dissenters may feel inclined to respond with nuclear weapons and many have already
done so by arming themselves with these devices if we look at the international situation.
To remove this threat, every person must gain the right to live under his own or selfchosen laws and
jurisdiction, under his own political and economic system as long as he remains nonaggressive.
This would remove most motives and powers making for war.
See: Autonomy, Communism, Crime, Democracy, Diversity, Exterritorial Imperative, Ideological
Warfare, Intolerance, Laws, Motives, Secession, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Totalitarianism,
Unity, War Aims, World Federation.
UNILATERAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
The libertarian principle of noninitiation of force requires the unilateral destruction of all nuclear
weapons. Nuclear devices are inevitably aggressive towards civilians and noncombatants. Act rightly,
no matter how wrongly your opposition acts. Resist and fight only your real enemies not his other
victims, in the country dominated by him.
Unilateral nuclear disarmament would not be a very risky business after one has made sure that one
has turned most of one's enemies into one's friends and has also made extensive preparations for a
revolution, together with an occupation force, against a conquering nuclear blackmailer.
Unilateral nuclear disarmament could become a popular step even with the nationalists, once they
realize that nuclear weapons are neither effective deterrents nor defensive means, that they are really
not weapons at all, that there are not rightful targets for them and that they create more enemies than
friends, that, in short, they are a threat to national security.
If you want to make friends with the innocents on the other side then you have first of all to cease
threatening them, indiscriminately, together with their prosecutors.
See: Aggression, Appeals, Collective Responsibility, Brinkmanship, Decisions, Declarations, Defence,
Deterrence, Disarmament, Enemy, Failsafe, Immorality, Liberation War, Libertarianism, Militia,
Morality, Motives, Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament, Noncombatants, Nuclear Strength, Peace
Declarations, Revolution, Secret Allies, Separate Peace, Surrender, Targets, Trust, Tyrannicide, War
Aims, Weapons.
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UNIONS & VIOLENCE
As long as the belief in trade union violence continues, violence to improve the conditions of
privileged unionists, its international counterpart, international war, is likely to continue also. A union's
coercive and destructive actions, against an employer, his customers and his "scabs", is, on a smaller
scale, the same as the military aggressiveness of the Soviet Union and the Red Chinese regime against
what they call capitalism.
The hold that trade union mythology has over the minds of workers and the violence they sanction, can
be stopped only by a systematic refutation of all union prejudices which number in the hundreds if not
thousands. For this an alphabetical handbook and some signdebates would be helpful.
Apart from this, unionism should be cut at its roots by all kinds of nonhierarchical industrial
experiments which would introduce selfmanagement and spread ownership in the means of
production, e.g., by rightful purchases of enterprises by their employees, purchases that would largely
use industrial bonds as means of payment, which are issued and guaranteed by the employees. In this
way they could not only come to own their enterprises, soon, but also to increase their productivity
greatly. Thus they would be enabled to pay off these bonds with a fraction of the market value of the
additional productivity and, consequent income, which they would thus achieve. As owners of
productive enterprises their anticapitalistic mentality and actions would rapidly disappear. They would
no longer favour "anticapitalist" or "antiproletarian" nuclear mass murder devices but would rather
publicize whatever selfmanagement schemes they would have preferred for themselves, as freedom
and wealth options for others.
See: Class Warfare, Coercion, Communism, Coops, General Strike, Ideological Warfare, Hierarchical
Mode of Production, Purchase of Enterprises, Employment, Strikes.
UNITED NATIONS
If the UN gained the monopoly of nuclear weapons then this would amount to just another threat
against all aspirations for genuine independence by numerous minority groups.
The worst would get to the top in the UN as well as in any other coercive territorial institution.
Excessive power is not rendered harmless by enlarging and consolidating it. Otherwise the Mafia
would be more harmless than are individually operating criminals.
Moreover, any small political group, secretly armed with nuclear weapons, could blackmail and dictate
to a UN.
Nuclear weapons are not safe in anyone's hands.
The most misleading thing about the UN is its name. What the UN really represents is not "united"
nations or "nations" at all but, merely, disunited governments. The UN as such is very far from uniting
them in anything but a loose talk shop.
The peoples themselves, the various minorities and individuals and even their majority are given no
direct voice in the UN organization and its general meetings or various subgroups. It includes
representatives of many despotic and corrupt regimes.
Thus the UN should not be entrusted with any important task, least of all the preservation of peace.
Its Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the worst and most antiindividualistic so far made
and it completely disqualifies the UN in the eyes of moral and rational beings.
See: Centralization, Government, Leadership, Minority Autonomy, Monopolies, Nuclear Strength,
Power, Secession, Sovereignty, World Federation.
UNITY
"Unification of nations breeds wars by creating war potentials; but it also needs war in the very process
of its establishment. Hardly any great power complex in history has been created peacefully. War is a
collectivizing process, and largescale collectivism is inherently warlike." wrote Prof. Henry C.
Simons.
Nearly all wars have been fought for the sake of unification, and unification has always been
represented as pacification.
"By restoring sovereignty to small nations, who have been absorbed through war into today's
overgrown States, we cannot eliminate war altogether, but we can limit and lessen its impact. Also,
each minority people would be free to be happy in their own fashion." Robert Carnaghan in "Freedom
Review".
Most wars are fought to achieve some form of unity without consent.
The only unity required and the only solidarity necessary is that between the oppo
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nents of nuclear weapons (and similar threats to individual rights) all over the world. All they need is a
program on how to destroy the mass murder devices and how to really protect their rights and interests
without them and gain some immediate degrees of security by this destruction.
See: Centralization, Coexistence, Decentralization, Decision, Defence, Diversity, Exterritorial
Imperative, Free Migration, Free Trade Militia, Minority Autonomy, Nationalism, Pluralism,
Secession, Targets, Territorial Integrity, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, War Aims.
UNIVERSITIES
No more lectures. nor publications on nuclear physics. No more chairs for nuclear science in
universities, nor nuclear physics laboratories.
Those intending to engage in such researches could continue them at their own expense and risk on
some of the outer planets.
In most instances, the abolition of the subsidies and of secrecy would suffice.
The outlawry of such activities could be sanctioned by referendum. In some instances some forceful
steps may have to be taken by militia volunteers for the protection of human rights.
See: Disarmament, Militia, Peaceful Use, Scientists, Research, Taxation.
URANIUM MINING & URANIUM EXPORTS
We should show no more willingness to produce, enrich and sell uranium than to produce and sell gas
ovens for someone's extermination camps.
A referendum should be conducted on all existing and planned uranium mining projects.
Trade in materials which, e. g., through pollution and military abuse do, inevitably, threaten the lives of
all, should not be free. It should especially not be undertaken or should be stopped immediately if
criminal organizations are supplied with such materials.
All are criminals who stockpile mass extermination devices or who, "peacefully" pollute air and water
with radioactive poisons.
See: Atomic Energy, Decision, Extermination Camps, Mining, Peaceful Use, Referendums.
UTOPISM
Individualism offers the only quite moral and rational utopias. Statism produces only irrational,
immoral and impracticable ones.
Peace based on nuclear strength, disarmament by governments, world government, peace through
oppression, peace through unity, etc., are all immoral and impracticable peace utopias.
Only freedom works.
To help the good utopias win out, nothing else and nothing less is required than full freedom to try any
of them out, but among volunteers only and at their own expense and risk. Let the good utopias drive
out the bad ones.
This means, among other things, full freedom of choice for individual secessionists.
Their successful utopias would soon be copied by many if not all.
See: Alternatives, Actions, Authoritarianism, Coexistence, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial
Imperative, Freedom of Action, Minority Autonomy, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law,
Pluralism, Tolerance, Voluntarism,
VALUE FREE SOCIETY AND SCIENCE
An indiscriminately destructive critical opposition has destroyed, in the minds of most people, all
forms and types of values, imagined ones and real ones alike. To a mind thus emptied and demoralized
nuclear war holds no real horrors. It
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thinks, like Herman Kahn did, about the unthinkable.
This wholesale destruction of all old values requires that at least minimal new universal values become
recognized. See: Autonomy, Bill of Rights, Capitalism, Choice, Coexistence, Collective
Responsibility, Consent, Decision, Discrimination, Disobedience, Enemy, Ethics, Exterritorial
Imperative, Freedom, Harmony, Human Rights Immorality, Individualism, Individual Responsibility,
Justice, Libertarianism, Liberty, Man, Morality, Nuclear Strength, Panarchy, Personal Law, Pluralism,
Reason, Religion, Resistance, Rights, Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, Selfrespect Sovereignty,
Subordination, Terror, Tolerance, Totalitarianism, Total War, Trust, Voluntarism, War, Aims.
VICTORY & WAR AIMS
To avoid nuclear war a victory by the other side must no longer be feared as the worst thing that could
happen. For that reason just war aims must be declared in time. They must be aims which the soldiers
on the other side would prefer to those of their own aggressive government.
They must be declared by people who can be trusted and the declaration must be undertaken in a
trustworthy way.
Further, there must be sufficient technical knowledge to realize them, e.g. the knowledge how to
integrate millions of deserters and refugees into the production process, within days at most, how to
stop inflation within an hour, etc.
Once such "victory" aims are clear, war is likely to be prevented altogether.
It's similar to pub brawls: Only muddleheads engage in them. If they had a just rational and clear aim
they would not use such tactics. They would simply leave each other alone and stop single aggressors
before a brawl could develop.
Can you remember a single war which had exclusively war aims that were quite just, at least on one
side?
See: Appeals, Coexistence, Communism, Decision, Declarations, Desertion, Employment, Exterritorial
Imperative, Frontiers, Inflation, Jiu Jitsu, Military Insurrections, Minority Autonomy, Monetary
Freedom, Motives, Negotiations, Peace Declaration, People, Publicity, Revolutionary Warfare,
Separate Peace, Surrender, Tolerance, Territorial Organization, Trust, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
VIOLENCE, INITIATION OF VIOLENCE VS. THE DEFENSIVE USE OF FORCE
Nuclear war means, inevitably, even if used "defensively" against a conventional attack, an enormous
degree of initiated violence with regard to most of its victims. This applies also to a nuclear counter
strike. Just because the other side or government has begun a mass extermination campaign against
innocents on our side does not mean that we ought to do likewise and also start mass murdering
civilians and noncombatants, neutrals and secret allies alike. That would still be initiated violence
towards these people. No end justifies such means. Nuclear strength is nothing but a constant threat to
initiate such violence.
See: Aggression, Civilians, Coercion, Collective Responsibility, Concentration Camps, Counter Terror,
Defence, Deterrence, Discriminating Warfare, Doomsday Bomb, Enemy, Force, Immorality,
Indiscriminate Warfare, Individual Responsibility, Militia, Modern Weapons, Noncombatants,
Nuclear Strength, Open Cities, Police Actions, Progress, Retaliation, Revenge, SecondStrike, Secret
Allies, Targets, War Aims, Weapons.
VOLCANIC EXPLOSIONS
In a tense nuclear strength situation and when is tension under MAD nuclear strength quite absent?
another Krakatoa volcanic explosion might very well set off nuclear war. This is one more reason why
we cannot afford nuclear brinkmanship.
See: Accidental War, Brinkmanship, Disarmament, Failsafe, Nuclear Strength, Unilateral Nuclear
Disarmament.
VOLUNTARISM
A voluntarist society neither threatens with nor will be threatened with nuclear weapons. It cannot e.g.
enforce conscription or finance unpopular wars with taxation. It
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does not monopolize war and peace decisions in the hands of the rulers. It has the least ideological
motives for one of its coexisting groups to attack the other. It requires exterritorial organization and
this makes a secret arms
buildup against others impracticable even if there were a motive for it.
Minority autonomy would obviously avoid most civil wars and "class warfare". It could be kept in
check and could, achieve all desired changes by individual secessions and exterritorial and autonomous
organization of volunteers.
See: Centralization, Collective Responsibility, Competing Governments, Consent, Decentralization,
Decision, Defence, Desertion, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial Imperative, Freedom,
Individualism, Libertarianism, Liberty, Laissez Faire, Membership, Militia, Minority Autonomy,
Motives, Nationalism, Panarchy, Parallel Institutions, Personal Law, Pluralism, Secession,
Sovereignty, Subordination, States, Territorial Organization, Tolerance, Violence, War Aims.
VOLUNTARY TAXATION
Few would voluntarily pay for nuclear weapons, particularly when they could freely join or leave any
association, even political and economic ones. But appeals to subscribe prize money for the execution
of tyrants and for the destruction of nuclear weapons could very well become oversubscribed if they
were property advocated.
See: Defence, Financing, Prizes, Taxation, Peace Plans No. 13 & 14.
VOLUNTEER ARMY, CHARACTERISTICS OF AN IDEAL VOLUNTEER FORCE OR
MILITIA
Its membership is voluntary. Its members may give notice any time. Its aim is nothing but the defence
of human rights. Its soldiers are sworn in to defend nothing but human rights. As soldiers, whilst
engaged in acts of rightful resistance, they do not forfeit any of their own individual rights but can
claim them any time alone or with others, as long as they do not threaten the rights of others. Their
obedience is correspondingly limited. They decide, together with other citizens, whether there is to be a
war or not. They are entitled to negotiate with the enemy for a separate peace based on the recognition
of individual rights. During warfare they would employ only discriminate means: Most of the
conscripts in the world would be their secret allies. Their treatment of prisoners and deserters would
maximize the surrender and desertion rate. They would win largely by inciting soldiers on the other
side to either rise or desert. They would transform most of the enemy soldiers into deserters and
prisoners and would turn most of these into allies or neutrals. Their human rights commitment would
lead them to publicize their rightful war aims, which would turn most of their enemies into their friends
or at least into neutrals. They would be parttime soldiers only except during their defensive Blitz
wars. They would keep their firearms in their own homes and larger weapons in local arsenals. They
would neither own nor tolerate ABC weapons but fight to destroy all of them, in collaboration with all
those supposed to guard and use them. They would be free to elect and recall their officers. They would
make full use of freedom of speech, press and assembly. They would mobilize themselves almost
instantly, under the "on the minute" system. They would finance themselves and be independent of tax
funds. Such a force could defend and would not threaten freedom and peace.
See: Conscription, Defence, Desertion, Disarmament, Discriminating Warfare, Election of Officers,
Finance, Military Insurrections, Military Program, Militia, Nuclear Strength, Revolutionary Warfare,
Secret Allies, Soldiers' Rights, Tyrannicide, War Aims, Weapons.
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VOTING, EVERY MAN TO HAVE A FULL VOTE ON HIS OWN AFFAIRS
We must get more power than that consisting merely in voting once every 2 or 4 years on unimportant
issues or unimportant men when all the important issues are decided inbetween by our
"representatives" without our consent. A vote which allows us to vote into office rulers who will be
armed with nuclear weapons but does not allow us to vote them out of office and to destroy that office
and to destroy these "weapons" is not a worthwhile vote. It certainly is not one sufficient to prevent
World War III.
Almost all people are without a vote regarding war and peace armament and disarmament. In this and
several other respects we are all secondclass citizens and disenfranchised.
We have only rarely a chance to vote on important issues by referendums.
We have not yet recognized the individual right to vote or opt ourselves out of the establishment.
We have presently no right to votein for ourselves the kind of institutions and laws which would
please us and not some majority or large conglomeration of minorities.
We have not the right to ascertain by our vote that our individual rights not be restricted by any
"positive" legislation.
One of the most important votes is the referendum vote. This is usually all too restricted.
The most important and comprehensive vote is expressed by individual secession and voluntary
association on an exterritorially autonomous basis.
These most important votes are still missing from our "general franchise". Without these rights the
limited right to vote which the politicians have condescended to grant to us is not worth very much or
not enough to ensure our survival, liberty and wellbeing
"Let people vote freely!" can be a very revolutionary proposition but only when the right to vote is
fully understood and applied in all respects.
See: Autonomy, Consent, Decision, Democracy, Diplomacy, Experimental Freedom, Exterritorial
Imperative, Minority Autonomy, Monopolies, Negotiations, Neutrality, Recall, Referendum, Rights,
Secession, Sovereignty, Tolerance, Voluntarism.
WAR AIMS, PUBLIC DECLARATIONS OF RIGHTFUL WAR AIMS BY THE PEOPLES
"I see nothing that could justify what we could do to human beings with nuclear weapons." said
Jonathan Burns.
No rightful and sensible war aim can be pursued with them. Thus, among the main rightful war aims,
must not only be the nuclear disarmament of the enemy regime's military forces, preferably by some
form of "subversion" or separate peace treaty with them, but also the onesided renunciation and
destruction of the own nuclear mass murder devices.
The latter aim must be achieved before any war starts. Not only should it take place before it comes to
a war but long before and this fact should be sufficiently publicized. But if that had not be done in time,
then we would still be better off, militarily, if, as soon as someone declared a war against us, we would
tell him, so to speak: Hold it for a moment. We want to destroy our nuclear first. Please send observers
to convince yourself that we are serious with this! I believe that a temporary armistice could be
arranged for this.
Destruction of all atomic weapons should be one of the main aims of every conventional war still
fought today and of every rightful revolution. Such an aim could be believably declared only by a
militia which has already onesidedly destroyed the nuclear arsenals in its country.
Every nation, directly through its people, in public meetings, ought to declare, with maximum
publicity, what it would do with the people of a defeated enemy government, in case it would come to
war. It should clearly state which institutions on the other side it would destroy, as threats to world
peace, liberty and justice, and which ones it would tolerate and which it would work to protect.
Unless we declare, and this in a quite trustworthy way, that we are committed to rightful war aims
only, there will remain governments and nations who would seriously consider nuclear mass murder
devices as rightful defensive or retaliatory means against us.
Just war aims are e.g.:
No conquests.
No reparations or penalties levied in accordance with the wrongful principle of collective
responsibility,
no imposition of any system except the system of mutual to
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lerance for all the different systems that some desire for themselves as long as they remain tolerant.
No indemnification from by anyone except individually convicted war criminals, provided they do not
fall under an amnesty offer.
Full freedom for all those wanting it.
Any degree of freedom or restrictions for those wanting them.
The only just war aims are not those aims any particular individual or group has for itself as well as for
all others, but, instead, just that variety of aims which the various free individuals and voluntary
societies have for themselves and only for themselves.
To convert others to their systems they must confine themselves to words only and the examples they
set by their own experimental societies.
Ulrich von Beckerath , in a letter to K., 23.5.57 wrote:
"Considering that all governments involved try to justify the stockpiling and continued production of
nuclear weapons with the argument that, without nuclear weapons, the fatherland would be helpless
against its enemies and admitting that this argument deserves to be taken serious, in the present
political state of the world, new international conventions should be signed, analog to the Hague
Conventions. These new conventions should prevent that after a war the victor will hold the subjects of
the defeated governments responsible for the mistakes or crimes of these governments.
The rights of citizens in occupied territories should be newly defined in a proper development of the
principles announced by President Wilson in 1917. The German government, as representative of the
people who are threatened most by nuclear war, should call for an international conference as soon as
possible. A preliminary parliament, like the German people created for themselves in 1848, should be
set up and commence with preparations for such an international conference."
In detail the war aims ought to resemble the program applied by the Northern States of the US against
the Southern States after 1967. They did not impose reparations nor any other large disadvantages.
They only created conditions which allowed the Southern States to grow up politically, in order to be
accepted again, on an equal basis, into the Union. This enormously important historical precedent
affected millions of human beings. The Northern States had about 30, the Southern about 20 million
people.
The war aims declaration should also contain clauses on the conduct of warfare:
No attacks on open cities or noncombatants.
No member of the armed forces of the enemy government to be treated as a prisoner of war if he
surrenders and declares to have been forced to fight.
Such, prisoners are to be offered neutral status or status as friends or allies and, naturally, would have
to be exempted from all alien acts as they exist now in almost all countries.
Those who would declare that they fought deliberately against us should be guaranteed all rights
offered by the Hague Conventions for prisoners of war and, after the war, should be immediate
exchanged.
A government in exile, representative of their views, should also be recognized as representing them.
The proclaimed just war aims should also contain the description of an ideal militia for the protection
of human rights, as the ideal military force for the future.
Preferably, these and other rightful war aims should he declared long before any war situation
develops, best in a well publicized referendum.
One such referendum could e.g. state:
In case of a rightful, i.e., liberating or defensive war, we will
a) make no conquests,
b) demand no reparations from anyone but convicted war criminals who were not granted amnesty,
c) protect the establishment of new democratic governments on a voluntary basis,
d) invite the establishment of exterritorial and autonomous communities of volun
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teers, including those of the supporters of the old regime,
e) protect the right of individuals to secede and
f) assure full employment and a stable currency by the introduction of monetary freedom.
Just war aims may not only help to end a war by a revolution (Russia 1917, Germany in 1918) but may
prevent it altogether.
When such war aims have been convincingly propagated then some popular general on the other side
will successfully appeal to the soldiers under his command not to fight against such a peace program
but rather for it and against all those who want to continue or begin an aggressive war.
The troops of the aggressive government would then either join forces with the attacked society, acting
as its ally, or would at least declare themselves neutral. They might then desert, to be treated as neutrals
or, perhaps, remain where they are, but in armed neutrality. They could also negotiate and declare a
separate peace for themselves and demobilize as soon as they could do so safely or they could
reorganize themselves into a militia for the protection of human rights.
When rightful war aims, i.e. aims without any aggressive intentions, have been declared by the people
in the West, then such declarations are likely to be made, sooner or later, by the people and armed
forces under totalitarian or despotic regimes or merely tacitly accepted and acted upon. Even a
dictatorial government would endanger itself if it opposed a popular movement to make such
declarations.
The people could follow up such a declaration with another public declaration, given under oath, that
no order, law or pressure would keep them from realizing this program in a defeated country should
they, unfortunately, become again involved in a war.
The aims proclaimed must be so attractive that the societies described therein, or made possible
thereby, must appear as a vast improvement not only to the people in the totalitarian countries like
Soviet Russia and Red China, but also to those in the Western Democracies.
These aims will be considered feasible only once they are already realized somewhere and be it in the
smallest country of the world. From that moment onwards, this free society would also become the aim
of most rational revolutionaries and military insurrectionists.
Such declarations may well contribute to the prevention of wars by revolutions and military uprisings
which would overthrow the dictatorial regimes and destroy their nuclear arsenal. Alternatively, in case
of war, large scale desertions and therefore a rapid end of the war would become possible and even
likely.
Before the peoples have organized themselves to declare rightful war aims, themselves, publicly and
convincingly, over the heads of their rulers, individual voters, convinced of the necessity for such
declarations, should insist that political candidates clearly declare where they stand on this. The voters
should, at these occasions, leave no doubt that they would not vote for any politician or any party not
taking a rightful stand on this issue.
See: Declarations, Defence, Desertion, Enemy, GovernmentsInExile, Oath, Military Insurrections,
Militia, Negotiations, Panarchy, Peace Declarations, Prisoners, Secret Allies, Separate Peace,
Surrender, Trust, Tyrannicide, Warfare.
WAR CRIMINALS, TRIALS
Anyone keeping or using or threatening to use a nuclear weapon is a war criminal and ought to be
treated as such, that is, he should be subjected to outlawry and execution while he persists in this
activity.
However, seeing the large threat he poses to others, whilst still in power, and armed in this way, he
should also be offered a loophole to escape trial and execution: He should e.g., be offered amnesty, but
only if he surrenders within a certain period and afterwards only if he surrendered or destroyed at least
one mass extermination device. See: Amnesty,
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Asylum, Crime, Dictatorships, Disobedience, GovernmentsinExile, Military Insurrections, Outlawry,
Prisoners of War, Prize Moneys, Resistance, Revolution, Tax Strike, Tyrannicide, War Aims, World
Court.
WARFARE, REVOLUTIONARY & DISCRIMINATING VS. TOTALITARIAN &
INDISCRIMINATE .
Any warfare as wrong as atomic warfare would be, inevitably, or tending to develop into it, must be
prevented. All the steps required for this must be taken.
Limited and quite just police actions must replace war actions. Discriminate fighting must replace
indiscriminate killing and destruction.
Rightful war aims must replace wrongful ones.
A justified definition of the enemy must replace the indiscriminate application of this concept.
Liberation of prisoners, deserters and the enemy regimes conscripts and of other victims must replace
imprisonment, internment, subjugation and mass killings.
Cash payments for all goods and services required by the troops must replace looting, requisitioning
and forced labour.
Volunteer militias for the defence of human rights must replace armies made up of conscripts, career
officers or mercenaries.
Obligatory Disobedience must in certain circumstances replace military obedience.
Elected officers must replace appointed ones.
Weapons which can be used selectively must replace those which cannot be so used.
See: Air Raids, Carpet bombing, Civilians, Collective Responsibility, Declarations, Defence,
Desertion, Destruction, Deterrence, Discriminating Warfare, Disobedience, Hostages, Immorality,
Liberation War, Military Insurrections, Military Program, Militia, Morality, Noncombatants Nuclear
Strength, Oaths, Peace Declara
ions, Police Actions, Prisoners of War, Revolutionary Warfare, Scorched Earth, Secret Allies, Separate
Peace, Soldiers' Rights, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims, Weapons.
WAR, NUCLEAR
Everything that makes for war in general does also tend to make for nuclear war, especially territorial
power politics. Among the factors which more than others make for nuclear war are those which are
listed under the following headings: Authoritarianism, Collective Responsibility, Centralization,
Compulsory Membership., Decision, Enemy, Frontiers, Intolerance, Immorality, Motives, Nationalism,
Territorial Organization, Totalitarianism, Taxation, Unemployment, War Aims, Weapons Monopoly.
See also Appx. 2 & 3.
WEAPONS MONOPOLY, RIGHTFUL VS. WRONGFUL
Peace is unwilling to be married to nuclear weapons. You will have to tempt her with other lovers.
To protect freedom and peace only rightful weapons must be used, and this only in limited wars,
against genuine enemies or war mongers only, not imagined ones.
Atomic weapons are not weapons. They cannot be used against a welldefined, i.e. individualized
enemy. They are more or less only a "devil's" all too dangerous "toys".
They are the symbol of the modern State, They represent its essence: indiscriminately destructive force.
Who gave a licence to governments to build and keep nuclear and similar mass murder weapons?
Ordinary arms are superior to them. With them nuclear weapons can be captured on the ground and
rendered harmless
If there is an inevitable accidental danger associated with the possession of fire arms then governments
should certainly not have nuclear arms in readiness.
If having ordinary fire arms makes people bad and dangerous then governments should certainly not be
exposed to being totally corrupted by the possession of nuclear destructive
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power.
As long as men in power believe that nuclear devices are powerful weapons, it will be absurd to
petition them to disarm. Even if a formal disarmament agreement were signed, due to this frame of
mind, the rulers would be willing and powerful enough to hide at least some of their nuclear arsenal
from any agreed upon control measures. If, on the other hand, the danger of owning nuclear devices
were fully realized by their owners, then they would be the first to insist upon their destruction.
Due to their thinking being tied along the lines of destructive power and territorial enemies and targets,
they are unlikely ever to fully realize this danger.
Power against nuclear weapons comes out of the barrels of ordinary guns The nuclear war threat results
largely from the conviction that ordinary people cannot be entrusted with firearms but that rulers can be
safely entrusted with nuclear weapons. In spite of the governments' inability to protect us with their
ABC weapons they insist that their citizens do not resort to selfhelp, least of all against the
governments threatening them (including threats to "defend" them with such devices).
Governments see to it that their subjects remain disarmed with regard to firearms and unorganized with
regard to military organization.
The weapons monopoly of governments is an enormous criminal conspiracy of rulers against their
subjects.
It totally fails to achieve its pretended objectives. But it does achieve all too much victim disarmament.
Nevertheless it is defended by hundreds of myths and apologetic arguments which cannot be dealt with
here.
Free and rational men do have the right to bear rightful and discriminating arms and organize and train
themselves in their use but only for the protection of human rights.
With such arms and rightfully organized and trained, they could easily wrest all nuclear mass
extermination and mass destruction devices from their governments and render them harmless.
All those willing to obey orders for nuclear strikes should also be disarmed, even of ordinary firearms.
More ordinary firearms are needed in the hands of ordinary people who want to survive. The weapons
monopoly of policemen and soldiers must be repealed, if necessary by a referendum or even by
revolutionary force,
All people but mental cases, totalitarians and other criminals, drunkards and other addicts, and small
children, do have the right to own and bear arms which can be used discriminately, either for sports
purposes or for the defence of human rights.
If the Russian people had been armed and properly organized and instructed, then they would have
overthrown the Soviet dictators long ago and would have destroyed their nuclear weapons stores. In the
few countries in the West which would not follow suit, with their nuclear disarmament, the armed
people could and should also take matters into their own hands and destroy the remaining nuclear
weapons and factories (including the nuclear reactors).
As it is now, all governmental nuclear these institutions can be protected by a handful of selected and
armed men against tenthousands of unarmed demonstrators.
Naturally, weapons alone are not enough. The people must also be militarily trained and organized and,
most important, they must be rightfully motivated.
All lethal bacteriological and chemical. weapons must also be completely destroyed. All factories and
facilities for their production must be either destroyed or closely supervised. We can no longer afford
to have any secret war laboratories.
Seeing the vast number of myths and prejudices on this subject this summary must suffice. To answer
all of them would require a book.
See: Control, Defence, Deterrence, Disarmament, Enemy, Exterritorial Imperative, Immorality,
Indiscriminate Warfare, Licensing, Militia, Monopolies, Nuclear Strength, People, Publicity, Research,
Targets.
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WEAPONS, THE QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Nuclear devices are not only quantitatively but qualitatively different from conventional weapons.
Even with the best intentions they cannot be used with sufficient discrimination to serve as weapons
hitting only the enemy and leaving the user and his secret allies on the other side unharmed. They are
not really weapons. They endanger more than they do protect. They are just mass murderous, mass
destructive and masssuicidal devices.
"There are weapons which are too heavy for the hand of man," Benjamin Constant.
See: Collective Responsibility, Defence, Enemy, Immorality, Indiscriminate Warfare, Individual
Responsibility, Secret Allies, Targets, War Aims, Weapons.
WELFARE STATE
The Welfare State makes for the kind of irresponsibility and centralism of which the worst instance is
the monopoly of nuclear decision making and its inherent threat of nuclear war.
The extreme and final effect of the Welfare State, when practically everything is done for and nothing
independently by individuals, would be to extinguish the will to life itself. Tax men 100% and you will
see what I mean. Not everyone wants to live as a slave or as a subject of a totalitarian State.
With 50% taxation you do have already halved financial responsibility. And with all war and peace
decisions monopolized by the State you get a corresponding irresponsibility among the subjects on
international affairs.
See: Capitalism, Death Wish, Decision, Economic Freedom, Employment, Human Rights, Laissez
Faire, Monetary Freedom, Responsibility, Selfdetermination, Selfhelp, Slavery, Social Security,
Taxation, Voluntarism.
WINDPOWER
Wind power should be further developed as an alternative to nuclear power. If, due to shortage of
power sources the price of energy were allowed to rise freely, wind power would soon become
economical. In some instances it already is.
WORLD COURT
Has the court system even successfully coped with local criminals? One should keep in mind here that
local criminals (politicians excepted) have no political power and have also not as many popular
prejudices in their favour.
Nothing less than a 100$ conviction rate and 100% discovery rate would suffice to prevent nuclear war.
Is that obtainable for the political criminals in the highest positions of power? No governmental court
system is likely to achieve that.
Nothing could replace unilateral nuclear disarmament and the replacement of territorial warfare States
by a variety of volunteer communities that are only exterritorially autonomous and, as a consequence,
peaceful rather than aggressive.
Once nation states have no longer exclusive national territories and powers then, quite obviously, world
courts and world police forces would no longer be required to counter these excess powers. Only
competing voluntary arbitration systems would develop, some of them worldwide.
To preserve justice in general not the size of the court but its justice and authorization are decisive. Let
each man select his court or arbitration system in advance.
See: Arbitration Courts, Control, Crime, Disarmament, Exterritorial Imperative, International Law,
Justice Nationalism, Outlawry, Sovereignty, Tyrannicide, Unilateral Nuclear Disarmament, War Aims,
War Criminals.
WORLD FEDERATION
If a government cannot even run a national currency properly then it could far less run an international
one. If a government cannot run internal trade better than the market does, then it could far less run all
international trading properly.
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If a national government cannot cope with its rising crime rate, then how in the world could any world
government hope to cope with worldwide crime, and with international wars?
Is there any ruler in the world who rules himself optimally in every respect? And yet each of them
imagines to be able to rule millions and thousands of millions of other individuals better than they
could.
The very notion of someone that he could do so does already indicate a degree of power madness in
him.
There simply are no necessary and rightful tasks which only a territorial government a world
government could fulfil.
National territorial sovereignty is indeed definitely wrong. But this requires its abolition and not
another vain attempt to create a worldwide counterforce.
Wars would then still occur in form of civil wars and although a powerful and monopolistic world
federation might always win. that would not mean that freedom would not always win and the other
prices paid for such a victory could very well become too high as e.g., WW I, WWII, the Korean and
the Vietnam War showed.
Whereto could one escape from a dictatorial or corrupt world government?
Let us, instead, have a multiplicity of all kinds of world federations, all of them set up and maintained
only on a voluntary basis and all of them without any territorial and exclusive powers. Then, like
national governments, they would become rather harmless. Then they would even help to break down
the nationalistic territorial borders.
Every exclusive and territorial world federation, with monopolistic and worldwide sovereignty, would
only compound the errors and wrongs of territorial nationalism and its national and collectivistic
sovereignty.
See: Coercion, Exterritorial Imperative, International Law, Laws, Madness, Nationalism, Rulers,
Secession, Selfhelp, Sovereignty, State, Territorial Organization, Voluntarism.
WORLD LANGUAGE
World language is no solution on its own. Think of the numerous misunderstandings and arguments
carried on in English. Isn't every conceivable error and misunderstanding already and still expressed in
English? Moreover, there was never a real communication gap between e.g. the English and the
Germans during WW I & II nor is there any between the Irish and the English. The only significant use
for a common language, that I can see, is its use by common soldiers and by officers when used to
induce desertion from the other side. But even here much can be achieved with the help of numerous
translators. All broadcast and leaflet appeals to soldiers, citizens and tyrants (amnesty offers and
tyrannicide threats) should also be offered either in a common language or in their own. The languages
of all foreign conscripts, who might one day be sent against us, should also be studied by many militia
soldiers and farseeing civilians.
See: Appeals, Declarations, Desertion, Enlightenment, Military Insurrections, Peace Declarations,
Propaganda, Separate Peace, Tyrannicide, War Aims.
WORLD LAW
People who have still not realized that the imposition of national laws on national territories , on all
their inhabitants, created most of our troubles, want to compound this popular prejudice and wrong by
imposing World Law. All this under the fiction that national territorial laws as well. as world law
would be based on "consent". The only world law which would make sense would be a universal
declaration of individual human rights and of the rights of minority groups, one very different from that
of the 1948 declaration of the U.N., combined with an agreement between exterritorial and autonomous
communities of volunteers to settle whose laws are to apply when members of two or more
communities are involved. Parliamentarians and other politicians appear to be the least likely persons
to compile and agree upon such a law. Their territorial prejudices are part of the problem, not of the
solution.
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Jerome Internoscia"s "New Code of International Law", International Code Co., N .Y., 1910, has
perhaps gone furthest in developing minority rights and could be applied in the transition period. All
deviations from this code should then be sufficiently and publicly justified,
See: Consent, Exterritorial Imperative, Human Rights, International Law, Laws, Uniformity, Unity,
Secession,
WORLD RELIGION
Almost all religions attempted to become world religions and see where it got them and us. We do
still have at least partly religious wars, e.g. in the Middle East and in Africa, and religiously motivated
violence e.g. in Indonesia, quite apart from the violence caused by worldly religions or ideologies.
Only to the extent that the faithful have finally subscribed to religious liberty or religious tolerance, did
religious wars between them finally end.
The only unifying belief that I do look forward to is a belief in individual human rights and in the
harmonious functioning of a free market. Even here I would be satisfied with nonaggression and
tolerance towards those who know, appreciate and practise their human rights among themselves and I
do hold that these people ought to be similarly tolerant towards all those who practise their selfchosen
restrictions of their human rights among themselves. E.g, capitalism as well as socialism but both
only among consenting adults.
Is there any religion which clearly declares it to be a duty for every rational being to work towards the
establishment of a just and peaceful society? They are usually more interested in trivial cult actions and
private sexual mores, in rituals and in their kinds of "social" injustice.
People who want to fulfil some religious yearning should study the ideology of individual rights, the
harmonies of a free society, the creative powers of free men, Thus they could find something
worthwhile believing in, something that is empirically good, philosophically right and also emotionally
satisfying.
See: Capitalism, Coexistence, Communism, Exterritorial Imperative, Harmony, Human Rights,
Individualism, Libertarianism, Religion, Tolerance, Voluntarism.
WORLD STATE
A world state is always open to territorial secession attempts and is thus likely to lead to secessionist
wars. Its mere size makes civil wars more likely than within the conglomerate of minorities called
nations. Just compare how unpopular a world power like the U.S. already is. A world government
would rouse even greater animosities and resistance, including many terrorist acts, some perhaps with
ABC mass murder devices.
Moreover, civil wars are often the bloodiest wars. The American Civil War was probably the most
costly American war in terms of human lives lost.
A world government, armed with nuclear devices, would be righteously inclined to use them against
territorial secessionists. The very bitterness and fanaticism with which civil wars are fought, for
territorial control and domination, make their use likely, if it comes to a separation along frontlines, as
e.g. during the American Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Korean War and the War in Vietnam.
Even if one would have to concede that, in balance, a world government would be less likely to use
nuclear weapons than a number of territorial governments and other terrorist groups are now, this
would not yet offer a sufficient security against nuclear war.
Furthermore, there are likely to be struggles about what kind of world power or world state system is to
predominate. Compare the East/West or Liberal Democracy versus open State Socialism conflict. Such
disagreements could be peacefully settled only by individual secessions and the establishment of
exterritorially autonomous and freely competing world States or world federations, all with an
exclusively voluntary membership only and each putting its bets on the own horse at their own risk
and expense.
See: Exterritorial Imperative, Secession, Tolerance, United Nations, World Federation, Voluntarism,
War Aims,
WORLD WAR III
One could make an interesting list of the predictable mistakes of World War III. It might help avoiding
these mistakes and with the precautions to be taken, to avoid these mistakes, one might even help to
prevent WW III altogether. According to Clausewitz, war is nothing but the continuance of politics
with other means.
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Here are some suggestions for such a listing:
Among the predictable wrongs and mistakes are their finance by taxation, confiscation, forced loans
and inflation, also by attempts at wage, price, rent, and foreign exchange controls, rationing,
centralized planning and general dirigism. Measures of this kind make wars possible and likely in the
first place.
Conscription of manpower, wrongful, vague war aims or none at all are further warpromoting and
warprolonging factors. So are demands for unconditional surrender, the use of scorched earth policies,
area bombing and mass extermination devices. Likewise the treatment of deserters and prisoners as
enemies and POW's.
Imprisoned soldiers are more or less treated and exploited as slaves. No systematic tyrannicide
attempts. No serious attempts to induce soldiers of the other side to desert. No rightful attempts to
induce military insurrections on the other side. No attractive governmentsinexile set up and
recognized. Use of misleading war propaganda. Suppression of civil liberties. No separate peace
treaties allowed. Opposition members prosecuted as traitors. Conscientious objectors executed or
imprisoned. Indiscriminate methods of fighting. Use of indiscriminate weapons and warfare methods.
No elections and recalls of officers. Obedience rigidly enforced. Soldiers allowed practically no basic
rights. Decision making by rulers only. Seniority system of promotion. Rights of neutral groups and
individuals not respected. Economic warfare. Psychological warfare only in the sense of attempting to
demoralize the opposition. Appeal to nationalistic emotions.
Such a listing could be continued for a long time, To overcome these mistakes we need a proclamation
of rightful war aims and methods. It would be an essential tool in preventing war, shortening it or
reducing it to a police action.
See: Decision, Desertion, Military Program, Militia, Obedience, Police Action, War Aims, Appx. 2 &
3.
RADIATION HAZARD OF RADIOACTIVE DIALS ON WRIST WATCHES
People who for the sake of appearances and minor convenience exhaust already about 50% of the
official tolerance dose for hard radiation (there is no quite safe dose), simply by wearing wristwatches
with permanently luminous dials (due to a small quantity of radioactive isotopes mixed in with the
fluorescent paint), will be largely immune to thoughts on the prevention of nuclear war and its
radiation hazards. A journey of a 1000 miles begins with a single step. Have you taken it yet?
See: Atomic Energy, Peaceful Use, Radiation Hazards, Television, Tests, Xrays.
XRAYS
People ignoring or belittling the radiation hazard involved in medical Xrays and exposing themselves
to this risk for all and sundry minor ills and complaints, are unlikely to take the whole radiation risk
serious enough, This particular risk probably far outnumbers, in most instances, that posed by all
nuclear tests so far. Nevertheless it is considered acceptable. Becoming aware of this danger helps to
become aware of the whole radiation risk and promotes resistance against nuclear war preparations.
Individual action to reduce this particular risk is possible immediately.
See: Atomic Energy, Peaceful Use, Radiation Hazards, Television, Tests, Xrays.
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NOTHING IS WORTH A NUCLEAR WAR.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE NOT ANTITYRANT BUT ANTIPEOPLE WEAPONS.
NUCLEAR POWER IS USELESS IN THE DEFENCE OF FREEDOM, IT MEANS CREATES AND
PRESERVES THE OPPOSITE OF FREEDOM.
DON'T JUST BAN THE BOMB, DESTROY IT!
WITHOUT INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY IN ALMOST EVERY RESPECT, INCLUDING FREEDOM
NOT TO BE FREE ACCORDING TO ONES CHOICE, NUCLEAR WAR CANNOT BE
PREVENTED IN THE LONG RUN.
OPT OUT OF ALL BELIEFS AND INSTITUTIONS MAKING FOR NUCLEAR WAR.
SECEDE FROM ALL NUCLEAR POWERS!
WITHOUT TERRITORIALLY ORGANIZED TARGETS THERE REMAINS NO NUCLEAR
THREAT!
PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR IS EITHER YOUR RESPONSIBILITY OR NOBODY'S.
"You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you
that what's left will be human." J. Robert Oppenheimer, CBS program, to Ed Murrow, Jan. 4th. ,1955,
quoted by George Seldes, The Great Quotations.
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APPENDIX 1
A SHORT PROGRAMME FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR
Peace in freedom and especially the prevention of nuclear war rest mainly on the following seven
points which are more specified below
1. INDIVIDUAL HUMAN RIGHTS: Recognition and realization of all these rights by and for all
people
appreciating them, and to the extent that they do.
2. EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY: For all volunteer groups, especially minorities, based on
individual
secession.
3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM: Resting on property rights, free trade, free migration, monetary freedom
and equal
access to natural resources, all introduced on a voluntary basis.
4. ENLIGHTENMENT: Greatly speeded up by a genuinely cultural revolution which uses free market
techniques
to maximize expression and information opportunities.
5. DIRECT DEMOCRATIC DECISIONS, by the people themselves, over the heads of their rulers, to
preserve
their own lives and protect their rights.
6. VOLUNTEER MILITIAS, of the ideal type, locally organized and internationally federated, to
forcefully defend individual human rights with rightful weapons and methods against all aggressors,
internally and externally, while respecting the human rights of its own members and even those of
subjects of an enemy regime.
7. REVOLUTIONARY LIBERTARIAN DEFENCE: Largely nonviolent, to get rid of all tyrants and
tyrannical
systems and establish peaceful, because panarchic, societies, fully based on individual consent.
SOME COMMENTS TO THESE SEVEN POINTS
1. INDIVIDUAL HUMAN RIGHTS
A new declaration of individual human rights ought to be compiled, published and realized. It must be
comprehensive and without the contradictions of past and mainly governmental declarations.
Each of the rights formulated must be in harmony with the idea of right as the harmonization of the
arbitrary actions of one with the arbitrary actions of others according to a general law of freedom.
Among its general clauses there would have to be the following:
a) The right to life and physical inviolability, This includes the right to unpolluted air, water and food
and the right to sue and resist polluters, also those who cause radioactive pollution
b) The right to individual sovereignty, a right which all nonaggressive rational beings can claim
without restrictions.
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c) Right to freedom of contract, allowing e.g. freedom to opt out of laws, free trade agreements
between citizens and international treaties negotiated by the people themselves, over the heads of their
rulers.
d) Right to freedom of action to complement freedom of expression and information.
e) Right to experiment in the social economic and political spheres, at ones own risk and expense,
regardless of majority supported Laws.
f) Right to dissociate oneself or secede as an individual from all coercive institutions, even States,
armies and unions, without leaving any territory or losing any human right.
g) Right to associate in autonomous and exterritorial communities of volunteers, applying personal
laws among the members.
h) Right to remain neutral or to conclude separate peace treaties in all international clashes.
i) Right to selfhelp measures in all spheres.
j) Right of all nonaggressive and rational beings never to be held collectively responsible but only
individually.
k) Right to freedom of expression and information, also in broadcasting media, restricted only by the
privacy and property rights of others.
In short, tolerance for all tolerant actions. Wars conducted with ABC weapons and any preparations for
them are the greatest threats to all these rights and the suppression of even one of these rights brings us
closer to nuclear war.
2. EXTERRITORIAL AUTONOMY
Exterritorial autonomy for all volunteer groups, especially minorities, is based on the right of
individuals to secede and on other rights stated above. It would mean the gradual replacement of
territorial states by a great and panarchic variety of autonomous communities of volunteers, which, by
their very nature, could peacefully coexist. It would establish a system of alternative institutions,
parallel or competing governments, a number of genuinely pluralistic societies, each doing its own
things for and to its members, with their unanimous consent. Subjection would be exclusively to self
imposed or chosen personal laws only, unless one committed an act of aggression against members of
another community and then, as a rule, the law of the victim would be applied.
New arbitration courts would be required for internal and external disagreements.
Due to the separation of interests, on a voluntary basis, there would be relatively few disagreements.
The minimum common agreement between all exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers
would be one to respect at least the human rights of members of another exterritorial community, no
matter how much one voluntarily restricted these rights in one's own community.
Exterritorial autonomy on a voluntary basis would imply, among other things, voluntary taxation,
monetary freedom, free trade, free migration and volunteer militias.
Due to its individualistic and voluntaristic basis it would introduce a genuine selfdetermination or rule
by consent only, making a decentralized, tolerant, harmonious coexistence for all the diverse groups
possible, thus eliminating the risk of nuclear war.
Live and let live even if both of you use the same territory.
Only exterritorial nationalism is designed for continuous harmony.
"If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races,
nations, or peoples, there can be no peace." Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government, page 15.
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3. ECONOMIC FREEDOM
Economic freedom rests mainly on the following economic human rights:
a) Right to support oneself by ones own efforts.
b) Right to own, use and dispose of property.
c) Freedom to issue or invest in securities and trade them freely anywhere.
d) Right to refuse payment of taxes and to hire alternative agencies to supply the services one wants.
e) Right to trade freely, even with people subjected to an enemy regime, but not, in military supplies,
with the enemy regime itself.
f) Right to supply oneself with paid work, without depriving anybody of it, by undertaking all the
organizational, monetary and financial steps required for this.
g) Monetary freedom, based on 3 main features:
1.) Right to issue private noncoercive money tokens,
2.) Right to refuse acceptance of any type of money one has not contracted to accept, including the
present legal
tender money and
3.) Right to choose and use any value standard in one's dealings
h) Freedom to emigrate and immigrate.
i) Freedom to choose ones trade or profession and to practise it nonfraudulently.
j) Freedom to competitively supply or order any "public service", including protection.
k) Right of nonassociation e.g. with trade unions and trade associations, regulatory boards and whole
economic
and political systems.
l) Freedom of contract for all purchase, sale, hire, trade, credit, insurance or labour contracts.
m) Freedom to ask for and pay any price, fee, wage or salary in ones dealings.
n) Right to equal access to all natural resources, realized by the right to establish or join open coops
which exploit
these resources. Even this right is only to be introduced on a voluntary basis and in free competition
with all
other tolerantly practised land reform systems.
o) Freedom to set up or join productive coops or other productive enterprises practising one or the
other
selfmanagement system.
p) Freedom to provide oneself with any desired social security through any private savings, credit or
insurance
arrangements.
All these points could and should be realized on a voluntary basis by people opting out of particular
laws or engaging in a comprehensive individual secession and then voluntarily and autonomously
associating on an exterritorial basis. Once all these rights have been tolerantly and successfully
demonstrated for a while most of the other people would also begin to claim and use them.
Economic freedom is the only natural road to development, wealth, social and general peace. It would
eliminate involuntary poverty, monopolies, coercive exploitation, unemployment, depressions and
inflations.
Only Laissez fare economics is genuine economics.
"Economics is not one means among many, Hayek has pointed out, it is the means to all our ends."
Edmund E. Opitz, The Freeman, 7/73, page 401.
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"Only in a free market can economic justice prevail." Workers Party, Australia, 1975 platform.
"Political freedom is impossible without economic freedom." Ibid.
"If government regulates our economic life, there is nothing to prevent it from regulating every other
area of our existence." Earl Zarbin, The Freeman, 6/73.
4. ENLIGHTENMENT, SPEEDED UP
Freedom of expression and information on their own are not enough. They require numerous cheap
opportunities which are within the reach and means of everybody to maximize their enlightening
effects.
Conventional publishing of books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and dissertations, useful as they
are, does not suffice, either, particularly not in the social sciences. They obviously enlighten neither
politicians nor voters sufficiently and have not even succeeded in enlightening the academics of the
social sciences. To speed up enlightenment numerous steps like the following are necessary, all being
part of a free market education system:
a. Freedom in broadcasting, allowing all noninterfering broadcasts.
b. Freedom in telecommunications,
c. Freely competing postal service agencies.
d. Freedom for open air meetings,
e. Archives and information services for reform, peace and freedom ideas.
f. Directories of associations, at least one for every city.
g. Registers of people with special talents, abilities, training and knowledge.
h. Directories pointing out people with very specialized interests,
i. Directories to research in progress.
j. Meeting calendars in every city pointing out details of coming events.
k. Centres for secondhand bookshops,
l. Idea catalogues in libraries in addition to rough subject and author catalogues.
m. Encyclopaedias of the best refutations to popular myths, prejudices and fallacies.
n. Signdebates and flowchart type discussions,
o. Free enterprise schools and universities.
p. Speakers' pools.
q. Encyclopaedias of definitions.
r. Encyclopaedia of slogans and aphorisms for liberty.
s. Periodicals publishing only letters to the editor.
t. Meeting and discussion centres in every city, including open air speakers' corners.
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u. Contacts between booklovers via library catalogues.
v. Listings of potential listeners and readers according to special interests, for every city. Numerous
and large
private bulletin boards for public use in public places.
w. Freedom of expression and information, assembly and association for soldiers and other public
servants.
x. Tax, quota, licence and regulation exemption for all educational efforts and materials, e.g. for all
mass media
and all minority publications.
y. Full use of microfilm publishing and reading options.
z. Full use of CDROM, CVD, website and email publishing options, especially for profreedom
writings.
Once these and related enlightenment tools are fully developed and used then the necessary degree of
enlightenment, and thereby peace, freedom, justice and rapid development could be reached within a
few months.
5. DIRECT DEMOCRATIC DECISIONMAKING
To preserve their lives and protect their rights, the people themselves will have to make the most
important decisions, in a direct democratic way, over the heads of their rulers.
If one left it to politicians to set limits to direct democratic decisionmaking then they would, as they
have done so far, if they permitted referendum at all, to referendum options on rather trivial questions
only and even these questions would be formulated by them. At the same time they would reserve to
themselves, as they have so far, the authority to decide all important questions, never minding their
inherent incompetence to do so.
To be free and secure a people, with all dissenting groups and communities counted as "a people" as
well, must also be free to decide all important questions for itself, particularly life and death questions,
as are those posed by nuclear armaments, nuclear power production, uranium mining, nuclear alliances
and war in general.
The people have most to lose in any war and most to win in any just peace. Thus they ought to decide
such questions as:
a) Whether, when, where, against whom, under what conditions and with what weapons and strategies
and tactics there is to be war. Alternatively, whether, when, were, with whom and under what
conditions and with what rightful aims there is to be a peace or a separate peace or a treaty. Especially,
what kind of war or peace they are to be. In practice this question would largely be decided by self
mobilizing, selfmanaged, selfmotivated, selftrained and selfarmed volunteer militias, locally
organized and nationally and internationally federated, formed by the people for the protection of their
individual rights and sworn in and trained to defend nothing but these.
From this point all others could be deducted but they ought to be stated separately, nevertheless,
because of their importance.
b) Freedom for the people to negotiate with the people on the other side, as their potential allies or
friends, over
the heads of the rulers and their diplomats.
c) Unilateral nuclear disarmament and destruction of all antipeople ABC "weapons", initiated and
decided upon by the people in referendums and carried out or supervised by the people, under armed
and organized in militias.
d) Proclamation of rightful war aims by the people to the people and soldiers of a dictatorship,
publicized in a way and with assurances they could trust.
e) Appeals and declarations by the people, trustworthy ones, designed to deprive the people on the
other side of any moral and rational motive to fight.
f) Conclusion of separate peace treaties with all or sections of the enemy's forces and subjugated
people.
g) Surrender decision by the people, after prior sufficient revolutionary preparations, in case of nuclear
blackmail.
h) The people are to be armed, organized, enlightened and trained to carry out their rightful and
peaceful intentions, respecting the basic rights of others, especially those of dissenting individuals and
minority groups. (See 6 &7.)
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Due to 100% individualized voting on their political allegiance (assured through voluntary state
membership and individual secession), free people would be living in various economic, political and
social structures, each of them rather uniform within itself and resting on unanimous consent on all
points that are fundamental to such a voluntary community. This would remove the usual wrongs and
disadvantages of majority decisions. Actually, the exterritorial reorganization of society would mean,
in practice, a continuous referendum, one wherein each voter when it pleases him, votes for another
type of community or law. It would be a "referendum vote" or "oneman revolution" that does not have
to please others, one that he realizes for himself and for himself alone.
While within each of these exterritorial and autonomous communities volunteers either direct
democracy or any other political decisionmaking could be practised, to any desired degree, basically,
the new political bodies would all be based on a daily and unanimous referendum with regard to their
continuance. Dissenters would vote themselves out.
In spite of their differences all these communities would have a common interest in the preservation of
their independence and of peace and mutual tolerance between them.
Among the few common organizational forms would be an international militia federation.
It would be aided by agreed upon arbitration facilities, as well as by agreed upon international laws that
are based on respect for individual rights, to the extent that these are claimed by volunteers.
These rights would be upheld and further clarified by an as well defined individual rights declarations
as can be achieved at any particular time.
While a referendum by its very nature is public, the preparations and voting for such a referendum and
for its decisions should be more than ever before publicized, especially internationally, broadcast and
witnessed by foreign observers, guests and all the media. Freedom in broadcasting and large public
open air meetings, well reported, would help in this very important and international trustpromoting
endeavor.
Without trusting us sufficiently, the subjects and soldiers of an enemy regime would not be likely to
destroy its antipeople "weapons". They should come to trust us more than they trust their own rulers
and thus trust should be fully justified.
6. VOLUNTEER MILITIAS
An ideal militia, locally organized and internationally federated, established to defend forcefully, if
necessary, all individual human rights, with rightful weapons and methods fully respecting the rights of
its members and even of people and conscripts on the enemy's side, against all aggressors, would be
essential.
It would rest not only on voluntary membership but on enlightenment on individual rights and liberties
and readiness to fight for them against any aggressors against them. This implies for these citizen
soldiers e.g., the right and duty o disobey all wrongful orders, to resist all incursions against individual
human rights and to bear arms, train and organize for this purpose.
This right is a rightful and necessary corollary of all other human rights. Any right, especially any
individual human right, is associated with the authority to enforce it and, sometimes, must be forcefully
protected. Not everything can be achieved exclusively with nonviolent means only against all kinds of
aggressors.
Here are some hints towards the special characteristics of such militia forces:
a) All militia units are to be exclusively composed of volunteers.
b) The members are all to be selfmotivated and swornin to defend nothing but the human rights and
this in a way which does not offend against any such rights.
c) They are to be well trained for this specific purpose.
d) Even as soldiers, the members are to retain their basic rights, e.g, freedom of speech, press assembly
and association. This feature can well be combined with strict discipline during battles, as Oliver
Cromwell's Ironsides demonstrated. People do not lose their rights by becoming soldiers or public
servants but only by their own activities which attack or threaten human rights.
e) Militiamen are to elect and, if the case justifies it, to recall their officers, or, in extreme cases, openly
resist and even execute them, e.g. in case an office should command that hundreds of POW's should be
executed and there is a danger that, in an emotional situation, e.g. after some militia soldiers had been
murdered, his command might be obeyed by all too many.
f) They are not to be full time but only part time soldiers or citizen soldiers.
g)They would mobilize themselves, almost instantly, using the "ontheminuteman" system.
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h) They would be armed with rightful weapons only, weapons which can be used discriminatingly
against the aggressors only.
i) One of their main tasks, arising out of their function to protect the human rights, would be the
destruction of all mass extermination devices and of the means for their delivery and their production.
j) In peacetime the militia forces would support themselves. In war time they would raise levies from
those who want to be protected and they would also use or anticipate claims against the aggressors and
their supporters and against the property which is to be liberated by the militia's struggle. To facilitate
the raising of these levies, fees or commissions and indemnification claims they would have to issue
their own currency and bonds.
l) As checks and balances for such a military force would serve: voluntary membership, election and
recall of officers, rightful war aims publicly declared, the right and duty to disobey wrongful orders,
training in such disobedience, to make it effective, their oath upon individual human rights, other local
militias and their federations, the right to secede, the right to resist, revolutionary knowledge, their
special training on how to preserve human rights, tyrannicide, freedom of expression and information,
assembly and association of these soldiers and, last not least, the new general societal framework they
would be operating in, a voluntaristic society, instead of a territorial State based on coercion.
Apart from the exterritorial and autonomous organizations of volunteers and the institutions of free
banking and all the direct and indirect effects these two changes would have, the above described
militias would be the most important agencies to realize and protect all human rights and thereby
establish and preserve a lasting peace. The ultimate sovereignty would rest with these armed citizens.
7. REVOLUTIONARY AND LIBERTARIAN DEFENCE
It would be largely but not exclusively nonviolent, aiming to get rid of all aggressive tyrannies and
establish a panarchic and therefore peaceful society which is firmly based on individual consent. The
following would be some of its main features:
a) Transformation of the own side into a society ("metautopia" according to Nozick), allowing full
autonomy to all nonaggressive minorities. As such a society it would have has no enemies but
totalitarians.
An exterritorially organized community does not offer itself as a nuclear target nor would it want
nuclear weapons against other such communities or against coercive societies.
b) Unilateral nuclear disarmament by the people.
c) Declaration of rightful war aims by the people to the people on the other side.
d) Unilateral peace declarations used as revolutionary weapons.
e) Separate peace treaties with units of a dictator's armed forces and with all his minority groups
striving for autonomy.
f) Recognition of and alliances with autonomous and exterritorial and competing governments in exile,
formed by volunteers among the refugees, deserters and prisoners.
g) Appeals to soldiers and citizens on the other side to engage in a military insurrection, as our secret
allies, or to desert or flee (in case they cannot rise or secede successfully), in order to join their rightful
governmentinexile, the one of their own individual free choice, among all the rightful governments
inexile that are allied to us.
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h) Appeals to the enemy regime's conscripts to destroy or surrender the regime's antipeople (ABC)
mass murder devices.
i) Outlawry and tyrannicide of all dictators and of all persons commanding nuclear weapons
combined with attractive amnesty and asylum offers in case they surrender.
j) Prize moneys on the heads of tyrants and for nuclear weapons which were rendered harmless or were
surrendered for this purpose.
k) Incitement to and all but military support for all military insurrections and popular revolutions and
secessionist attempts on the other side provided only that they are in support of individual rights. The
right of the enemy's system to continue as long as it can, in form of a volunteer community, is to be
explicitly and very publicly recognized, as part of the rightful war and peace aim.
l) Destruction by air attacks, commando raids and sabotage acts of the few industries which are all
essential for modern technological warfare, like nuclear installations, ball bearing industries and
furnaces.
m) Prisoners of war, who were volunteers, are to be treated at least according to the standards set by
the Hague Conventions. But conscripts, deserters and converts to the cause of liberty, found or declared
among the POW's are to be welcomed, liberated and treated as friends and allies or at least as neutral
guests. They are to enjoy fully all their human rights. They are also to be offered wellpaying
productive jobs, which would be no problem under monetary freedom. If one considers that most of
them are likely to come from relatively poor and underdeveloped countries and that they are also
offered protection of all their human rights and, moreover, all the national cultural, religious and
ideological independence they desire for themselves, then it will seem feasible to induce mass
desertions from the enemy regime's forces. Such desertions, combined with some military
insurrections, could turn its military strength against it, in a kind of military Jiu Jitsu.
n) Free Trade with the subjects of aggressive dictators. Food and medicine bombs rather than high
explosive ones.
Each a practical separate peace declaration and offer.
o) Organization of tax strikes against the enemy regimes,
p) Organization of a refusal among the enemy regime's subjects to accept its paper money. This could
be rendered practical though the introduction of monetary freedom and the establishment of a
revolutionary militia in the enemy's territory.
q) Avoidance of all wrong and selfdefeating measures like e. g., inflation, requisitioning,
indiscriminate reparations, occupation and domination aims, blockades causing starvation,
concentration camps, scorched earth policies, mass extermination acts, mass destruction, revenge,
terror, arson, plunder, rape, indiscriminate weapons, attacks upon open cities, torture, enforced
integration or segregation. No domination attempt is to take place at all except the one over the
fanatical, aggressive and intolerant enemies of all moral and rational beings.
r) All promises and offers are to be given by the people and in a way that they can and will be trusted
by the people and soldiers on the other side,
s) Full and suitable publicity for these liberating warfare methods and aims is to inspire trust in our
potential allies,
t) A chance for the voluntary ideological supporters of the enemy to preserve and even increase their
independence by offering them as well the freedom to realize their ideas among themselves, a chance
to live according to their beliefs, now without having to fight and keep down an active inside or outside
opposition.
Like all other groups, they are to be subjected only to the criticism arising out of freedom of expression
and information and the check consisting in voluntary membership, with its right to secede from the
association, as well as to the quite free competition from other exterritorial governments and free
societies formed by volunteers and the certain resistance from ideal militia forces should they act
intolerantly once again.
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Because of their past they are likely to have a large debt over their heads, arising out of the
indemnification claims they would have to pay off unless their victims, finally victorious, are
generous when they do, at last enjoy all their liberties fully and for the first time, and thus cancel
claims, seeing that, for a long time, they shared many of their oppressors' prejudices.
Moreover, these ideological groups, because of their past, wold have to be disarmed. However, their
members should be free to apply for membership in the local militias and would be accepted once they
learned to appreciate and respect the basic rights of others.
u) All military defence is to be undertaken only by the militia forces.
v) The militias are to be trained and prepared for revolutions against occupying regimes, together with
the occupying forces in case would have had to surrender officially and militarily, especially in cases
of nuclear blackmail.
In short, defence is to be discriminating, nonlethal, nonviolent and nondestructive as far as possible.
It is to be so reduced in its killing and destruction aspect that it would really be reduce to no more than
a large police action against a criminal gang; an action largely relying on information and support
given by the involuntary victims of that gang (armed and unarmed citizens) who are all threatened and
exploited by the gang. It would be a proper defensive action only against the real enemy. For all others
it would be a genuine liberation effort.
APPENDIX 2
WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR, DOESN'T, BUT
MIGHT START IT?
The following is just a list of some hints to ideas. Most of them are dealt with above under the relevant
headings and in alphabetical order.
Air Raids, Preemptive
Alliances between national governments
Arbitration courts, international
Arms Races
Atomic Energy, peaceful use
Balance of Terror
Ban the Bomb movement
Blockades
Brinkmanship
Brotherhood of man
Bureaucracy
Censorship
Centralization
Civil Defence
Class Warfare
Cobalt Bombs
Coexistence with dictators
Collective Responsibility
Collective Security
Command Economy
Common Sense of Rulers a contradiction in terms
Communism or State Socialism
Conferences between Rulers
Conquests
Control of Disarmament Agreements by bureaucrats
Decisionmaking, centralized & monopolized
Declarations by governments, like: We won't be the first to use nuclear weapons
Democracy, Current Types
Demonstrations
Détente
Deterrence, nuclear
Diplomacy, secret
Disarmament, multilateral, by governments
Discrimination, outlawry of discrimination
Doomsday Bomb
Equality
Failsafe preparations
Federation, worldwide
Foreign Aid
Friendship between governments
Gas Warfare Precedent
General Strike
Governments
Human Rights, UN Declaration
Inspection of Nuclear Disarmament by Governments
International Law
Love
Multilateral Disarmament
Nationalism (unconditional support for the own government)
Nonaggression Pacts
Nuclear Free Zones
Nuclear Strength
Nuclear Umbrellas
Plowshare Programs
Population Planning
Prayers
Preemptive Wars
Promises by governments
Ray Weapons
Recognition of dictators
Religion
Retaliation Preparations
Science, Natural Science
Secondstrike Capability
Shelter Program
Socialism
Strikes
Summit Conferences
Test bans
Treaties between governments.
United Nations
Word Federation
World Government
World Language
World Law
World Religion
World State
The usual mental output that is intended to assure the survival of the human race is rather pathetic.
See under Cultural Revolution on how to overcome such ideas.
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APPENDIX 3
WHAT DOES REALLY MAKE FOR NUCLEAR WAR?
Why should the world be so close to "suicide"?
Because, so far, only the warmaking potential was free to develop, not the peacemaking potential.
"Unless you understand the major threat to our freedom is YOUR lack of knowledge and lack of
desire to gain knowledge and to learn more about yourself, your government, your philosophy your
morality you shall not stop, much less reverse, this movement into the depths of statism."
Anderson/Miles, "A Constitution for a. Moral Government, page 55. Again, I offer here only some
alphabetized hints, many of which are shortly dealt with in the alphabetized main section of this book.
Abdication of individual liberties, rights, powers and responsibilities
Abortions, approval of abortions
Accidents
Aggressiveness of institutions & ideologies
Aircrafts capable of delivering nuclear weapons
Air raids, indiscriminate
Alcoholic drinks
Alien Acts
Anticommunism, the intolerant type
AntiMan attitudes
Antisemitism
Apathy
Arms race
Atomic energy, "peaceful" use
Atomic research
Authoritarian forms of production
Authoritarianism
Automated warfare
Avoidance of discussions of the problem
Balance of terror policies
Betting with one's life
Bombers (planes)
Bomb tests
Boredom towards prevention topics
Borders
Brinkmanship
Broadcasting monopolies
Bureaucracy
Canals, national ownership
Career soldiers
Carpetbombing
Censorship
Central banking, monopolistic
Centralization, coercive
Children, oppression of
China. Red China
Civil defence preparations
Class warfare ideology
Cobalt bombs
Coexistence with dictatorships
Coexistence attempts with the bomb
Collective responsibility
Collective security attempts
Command economy
Common man's powerlessness
Communism, totalitarian type
Competition in who can dominate & coerce most
Compromises
Compulsion in many spheres, especially in State membership, legislation and taxation
Computerdirected warfare
Conquests
Conscription
Consensus, being assumed in majoritydemocratic decisionmaking
Conspiracy laws, subduing minority aspirations
Constitutions subjugating nonaggressive dissenters
Control by government and reliance on it
Credulity, excessive
Criminals, common and political ones
Deathwish
Decisionmaking, centralized & monopolized
Defence, nationalized & as conducted today
Definitions, wrong
Delegation of powers, excessive
Democracy, representative, with totalitarian traits
Depressions
Deterrence policies, nuclear
Dictatorships
Diplomacy, secret and monopolistic
Disarmament monopoly of governments
Disarmament of the population with regard to ordinary firearms
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Discrimination, compulsory, against
Doomsday bomb
Drugs, narcotic
Economic despotism
Economic warfare
Emotional way of life
Employeremployee relationship
Enemy, collective concept
Escalation of nuclear strength & war
Escapism
Espionage, wrongful type
Evil considered as necessary & desirable
Experiments, nuclear, scientific
Experts
Failsafe systems and reliance on them
Fear, justified
Foolishness
Force, reliance on force alone
Foreign aid
Foreign policy, conventional
Frontiers, preservation of
Garbage removal, municipal
Gas warfare precedent
Generals
Genocide, readiness to commit
Glory
God, belief in a God
Governments with exclusive territorial powers
Government contracts
Guilt by association
Hiroshima precedent
High political offices
Honour, collectivist type
Hostage system
Human rights, suppression of
Ideas, wrong
Ignorance
Immigration restrictions
Immorality
Imperialism
Indiscriminate warfare
Inflation
Instincts, unchecked by reason & morality
Institutions, coercive
Integration, compulsory
Intolerance, territorial
Invasions
Isotopes, use of
Israel, territorial approach to solution
Jurisdiction, territorial, uniform & coercive
Land monopoly
Language difficulties semantics
Law and order, conventional system
Laws, territorial
Leadership, old type, political
Licensing Laws
Loyalty, irrational
Madness of rulers
Majority despotism
Mass terror systems
Mercenary soldiers
Middle East situation
Militarism
Military obedience, laws and discipline, conventional
Military organizations, wrongful
Military targets, wrongful
Mining of uranium
Minority despotism
Miscalculations
Monetary Despotism
Monopolies of power, responsibility and decisionmaking
Motives for war, current ones
Myths
Nationalism, territorial, coercive, exclusive
Nationalized defence
National ownership of natural resources
Nations, territorial
Negotiations, international, monopoly
Nth. power problem
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear science and research
Nuclear strength policy
Oaths of obedience and allegiance
Obedience, blind, irrational, immoral
Oil, exclusive possession of
Oppression
Organizations with compulsory membership
Overestimation of the own strength
Overpopulation theory
Parties, conventional type
Peaceful use of nuclear power?
People treated as property
Political order, old, coercive
Politicians
Politics, collectivist
Power, centralized, monopolized, territorial, economic, political, legislative, juridical
Powerlessness of most individuals under the present system
Power urge and addiction
Prejudices
Premises, wrong
Prestige
Prisoners of war, wrong treatment
Programs, false
Proliferation of nuclear "weapons"
Property or chattel concept of citizens
Protection for heads of State
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Protectionism in international trade
Psychological warfare, conventional
Racism, coercive
Radiation hazard, wrong ideas on
Rationalizations
Recognition of dictatorships
Refugee problem
Religious intolerance
Representation, present territorial system
Research, nuclear
Resignation
Restrictions, legal
Retaliation, massive, nuclear threat
Revenge
Risks, popular view of
Rockets
Rulers
Sacrificial lambs, readiness to become
Sanction of the victim
Scorched earth policy
Secession, suppression of
Second strike capability
Secrecy
Secret diplomacy
Segregation, compulsory
Sensual way of life
Separate peace treaties, outlawry of
Sexual repression
Shelter preparations for nuclear war
Slavery
Sleeplessness of rulers
Socialism State socialism
Socialization, wrongful
Social security, State system of
Soldiers as mere tools
Solidarity, wrong type
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
Space research
Space weapons
Spread of nuclear weapons
States, territorial
State membership, involuntary
State secrets
Statism
Status quo preservation, coercive
Stockpiling of nuclear weapons
Stupidity
Subordination
Subsidies
Suicidal tendencies
Suitcase bombs
Survival instinct, primitive
Suspicions, justified
Targets, wrong concept of military
Taxation, compulsory
Technical failures
Television radiation hazard ignored
Territorial integrity
Territorial nation State
Terrorism
Tests, atomic bomb
Time factor
Tiredness of rulers
Totalitarianism
Total warfare
Treason laws
Tyranny
Unemployment
Uniformity in laws & jurisdiction
Union violence
Unity ideal
Universities, nuclear research & lectures
Uranium mining
Valuefree society and science
Victory aspirations, conventional
Violence, initiated
Volcanic explosions
Voting, conventional
War aims, wrongful ones or none
War criminals, present treatment of
Warfare, indiscriminate and totalitarian
Weapons monopoly
Welfare State
Wristwatch dials, radioactive
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WE HAVE TO ATOMIZE ALL THAT MAKES FOR NUCLEAR WAR.
IS IT IRONY OR DESIGN THAT THE OWNERS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS WANT TO
OUTLAW FIREARMS IN THE HANDS OF THEIR SUBJECTS?
THE "AGE OF ATOMIC ENERGY" IS RATHER THE AGE OF ATOMIC DESTRUCTION AND
POLLUTION, GIVING A HANDFUL OF MEN THE POWER TO DECIDE WHETHER MANKIND
IS TO CONTINUE TO EXIST OR NOT.
"AS LONG AS PEOPLE BELIEVE IN ABSURDITIES THEY WILL CONTINUE TO COMMIT
ATROCITIES." Voltaire
"… THE DEVICE EVERY CONQUEROR, YES, EVERY ALTRUISTIC LIBERATOR SHOULD
BE REQUIRED TO WEAR ON HIW SHIELD …. IS A LITTLE GIRL AND HER KITTEN, AT
GROUND ZERO." Poul Anderson, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Oct. 1974. (I heard of his
recent death with great regrets. J.Z., 22.10.01.)
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APPENDIX 4
A LISTING OF WRONG IDEAS MAKING FOR NUCLEAR WAR
Wrong ideas on all of the following terms make for nuclear war. This list lays no claim to
completeness. More are mentioned in this book. Complete it to your satisfaction and send me a copy,
please, My list was mainly compiled to make people aware of the extent to which their own thinking
contributes to the risk of nuclear war.
"The ordeal through which mankind is going in our day is not the outcome of the operation of
uncontrollable natural forces. It is rather the inevitable result of the working doctrines and policies
popular with millions of our contemporaries," Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government,
Arlington House, N.Y., 1969, page 9.
Acuteness of danger
Aggression
Alliances
Anarchism
Anticommunism
Authority
Capitalism
Chaos
Collective Responsibility
Communication
Communism
Consent
Conspiracy,
Control
Defence
Delegation
Democracy
Enemy
Energy Shortage
Espionage
Evil
Force
Freedom
General Strike
Governments
GovernmentsinExile
Greed
Harmony
Human Rights
Individualism
Interest Conflict
Laissez Faire
Land Monopoly
Law and Order
Leadership
Liberation Wars
Liberty
Love
Loyalty
Man
Modern
Monopolies
Morality
Nations
Natural Resources
Necessary Evil
Open Seas
Order
Peace
Politics
Population
Potential of ideas
Potential of individuals
Power
Prestige
Priorities
Productive cooperatives
Profit
Progress
Protection
Race
Radiation Hazards
Recognition of Governments
Representation
Responsibility
Retaliation
Revenge
Revolution
Rights
Scientists
Security
Social Contract
Socialism
Society, coercive
Solidarity
Sovereignty
State
State Secrets
Strength
Subversion
Targets
Tolerance
Treason
Uniformity
Unity
Voting
War
Warfare
Welfare State
This book deals with the problem of how to fight wrong ideas under the following headings:
Cultural Revolution, Broadcasting, Definitions, Education, Encyclopaedia of Refutations,
Enlightenment, Flow Chart Discussions, Ideas Archive, Open Air Meetings, Prejudices.
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To defeat a dictator, less powerful weapons than nuclear weapons are
required. Otherwise his victims may be completely wiped out and he may be
the only survivor.
Nuclear strength is a military weakness.
Nuclear strength means individual powerlessness for most people.
"Destruction is the only end that the mystics' creed has ever achieved. …
They profess to be moved by love, yet are not deterred by piles of human
corpses … " Ayn Rand, in A. S., 971.
The apologists for nuclear strength are MEGADEATH INTELLECTUALS
according to Marcus Raskin.
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APPENDIX 5
UNPOPULAR OR USUALLY IGNORED STEPS WHICH, IN COMBINATION, WOULD
PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR
"Burn what you have believed and
believe what you have burned!"
"You have forgotten that the evils damned by your creed were the virtues required for living, and, you
have come to believe that actual evils are the practical means of existence." Ayn Rand, in Atlas
Shrugged, page 977.
Abdication of rulers and citizens (secession)
Abolition or sufficient reduction of all causes of war as listed in Appx. 3
Abortion, an end to abortion in recognition of its immorality
Action, freedom of action, for individuals and minorities as well as for majorities
Acuteness of danger must be realized
Air raids, very discriminating, against allessential targets only
Alternative institutions, freedom to establish, run and use them
Amnesty, conditional, on deserting a tyrannical regime or destroying its nuclear weapons
Anarchism, individualistic or anarchocapitalistic, on a voluntary exterritorial and autonomous
basis, within a general system of panarchism.
Anticommunism of the tolerant panarchic type
Appeals, made directly by and to the people and over the heads of their rulers
Archive of ideas
Atomic energy, discontinuance of its use
Autonomy, complete, for all minority groups on an exterritorial & voluntary basis
Bases, foreign, nuclear, removal of
Bill of rights improved and completed
Boycotts, limited and individualized only
Broadcasting, complete freedom of
Capitalism, laissez faire in all spheres but on a voluntary basis only. Statists to remain free to
continue their utopias noncoercively, at own expense.
Captive nations, liberation but to the status of exterritorial autonomy only
Causal thinking, as opposed to personal thinking,
Causes of nuclear war must be fully realized'
Children's rights, recognized & realized
City leagues between cities which are nuclear targets across all frontiers
Coexistence, genuinely peaceful, on an exterritorial & voluntary basis
Common sense and uncommon common actions by common men
Communication, improved through additional, free market channels, suitable for minorities
and individuals
Communism, practised only among volunteers on an exterritorial and autonomous basis to
disillusion the communists and enlighten observers
Competition, free in all spheres, but on a voluntary basis only. Dissenters may restrict their
own voluntary members as much as they like.
Competing governments, exterritorial
Consensus, real, individualistic
Conservation efforts, extended to humans
Conspiracy to destroy all nuclear weapons
Constitutional changes in favour of individualism
Contacts, improved, between resisting forces and groups
Contracts, full freedom of
Control measures against nuclear arms, based on citizen participation
Cooperative production and similar alternatives to hierarchical production organization
Cultural revolution opening and using new
and additional channels to improve and speed up enlightenment
Decentralization, territorial and exterritorial
Decisionmaking, individualized
Declarations, public, by the people, to other peoples across frontiers
Defence, individualized, discriminating, revolutionary, liberating
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Definitions, proper
Democracy, individualized, on a voluntary basis
Denationalization
Desertion
Destruction of all nuclear weapons, even onesidedly
Deterrents, real and effective, nonnuclear
Disarmament by the people nuclear
Disarmament nuclear, unilateral
Discrimination in warfare
Discrimination, unlimited, on a voluntary basis
Disobedience to all wrongful orders
Distrust justified, freely expressed in actions
Diversity, unity in diversity
Duties, recognition of individual m
Ecology concern for the human species
Economic freedom
Education on a free enterprise and free consumer choice basis
Election of military officers
Emigration, free
Employment, full, without inflation
Encyclopaedia of prejudices and refutations
Enemy, proper definition of
Energy resources developed as alternatives to nuclear power
Enlightenment, speeded up by a genuinely cultural revolution
Enthusiasm for Lifepreserving policies
Espionage, rightful type
Ethics
Evil, refusal to accept even the lesser evil
Experimental freedom
Exterritorial and autonomous organization of volunteer groups to replace territorial States
Financing rightful and sensible
Flow chart debates
Forceful steps against nuclear war preparations
Foreign policy
individualized not collectivist
Freedom, individual
Freedom of action
Freedom of contract, unlimited, except by rights of others
Freedom, economic Freedom to experiment in all spheres, at own risk and expense
Freedom of expression and information
Free market
Free migration
Free Trade
Full employment for deserters and refugees
Garbage removal, private
Geothermal power, used in lieu of nuclear power
Governments in exile
Guaranties in case of unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Harmony, natural, to be freed from interference
Human rights, individual recognized, publicized and protected for all who want them.
Ideas archive
Ideas, appreciation of the power of
Immigration, free
Individualism
Individual responsibility
Individuals power to
Information, freedom of
Inspection of nuclear disarmament by the people themselves
Institutions with voluntary members only
Interest in one's own affairs
International corporations freed from nationalistic restrictions
International laws of warfare improved and respected
Intolerance towards the intolerant
Investments to be free worldwide
Jiu Jitsu, military
Jurisdiction, exterritorial, voluntary, autonomous
Justice, based on recognition of individual rights
Laissez faire, laissez passer: Let people produce and exchange
Leadership, new type, noncoercive
Legislation, diverse, personal , exterritorial
Liberation wars for individual human rights
Libertarianism
Liberty individual
Liquidation of collectivist governments with monopoly claims
Love of life, real
Majority autonomy but not at the expense of minority autonomy
Markets free
Migration e free
Military disobedience
Military insurrections
Military organizations, rightful
Military targets, rightful
Military training in rightful weapons and methods to protect human rights
Militia volunteer autonomous to protect individual human rights
Minority autonomy
Monetary freedom leading to stable currencies and full employment
Moral instinct, rationally developed
Morality, based on recognition of individual human rights
Motives for war eliminated largely by exterritorial organization
Nationality, on a voluntary basis only
Natural resources, freedom of access to
Negotiations by and with the people, across frontiers
Neutrality
No government (of the conventional type)
Oath to defend nothing but individual human rights
Open air speaking places and meetings to be unrestricted
Open cooperatives to "socialize" natural monopolies
Opting out of all coercive institutions
Options free in all spheres, for all but the intolerant
Organization, freedom of , especially for autonomous and exterritorial ones
Outlawry of tyrants and their helpers
Panarchy
Parallel institutions
Participatory democracy for those wanting it
Peace declarations, unilateral
Pension claims, Loss of
People, free
People, selfhelp
Personal Law
Pluralism
Police actions to rep Lace wars
Political order, new, tolerant one, permitting coexistence of diverse groups
Poverty g involuntary abolition of by freeing the market from all restrictions
Power, decentralized and individualized
Premises, right
Priorities, right
Prisoners of war and deserters, rightful treatment of
Prize money for tyrannicide and the destruction of nuclear devices
Production without antagonistic organizations, to defeat the class warfare ideology
Production of nuclear weapons to be stopped
Propaganda, e. g. for rightful war aims
Property, right of
Publicity, maximum
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Public opinion changes
Purchases of enterprises by their staff
Questions, public, to political candidates
Radiation detectors widely spread
Radioactive materials, collected, controlled and dispersed or otherwise safely disposed of
Reason
Recall
Recognition of rightful governments and communities only, including governments in exile
Referendums on peace aims, nuclear reactors and research, uranium mining, taxation monetary
despotism and international treaties
Refugees, free immigration full employment and free market housing for them
Religious intolerance
Renunciation, public, or nuclear strength
Reprivatization
Resistance against all oppression of human rights
Responsibility, individual
Revolutions, rightful
Revolutionary warfare, rightful
Right and duty to resist & revolt
Righteousness
Rights
Right to life
Safeguards, real, against nuclear threats
Search for hidden nuclear devices by the people themselves
Secession, individual
Secession territorial
Secret allies, encouraged, helped, liberated and protected
Segregation, voluntary
Self defence
Self determination
Self help
Self reliance
Self respect
Separate peace treaties
Separatism
Social contract, properly interpreted
Socialization, rightful, Limited
Social order, new, based on realization of individual rights
Social security program, alternative, libertarian, based on free market possibilities
Society without coercion, voluntaristic
Soldiers' rights
Solidarity, rightful type
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State membership, voluntary
Strength, real
Subversion of nuclear powers
Sun energy, use of
Surrender qualified well prepared for revolutionary resistance
Targets elimination of nuclear by radical decentralization
Tax strikes
Tidal power, use of
Tolerance in the economic, political and social spheres towards all who are themselves tolerant
Treason in favour of individual rights
Trust building between the people themselves and directly
Tyrannicide: outlawry combined with conditional amnesty and asylum offers
Unilateral nuclear disarmament, undertaken by the people
Unity only between supporters of individual rights and enemies of mass extermination devices
Universities, changes in their programs and activities
Uranium mining, stopped by referendum
Values, genuine
Victory through rightful and Limited war aims
Voluntarism, especially in state membership
Voluntary taxation Volunteer armies
Voting, new types more comprehensive and important than the old type
War aims, rightful, and peace appeals, publicly declared, explained and guaranteed by the people
themselves, well in advance of the outbreak of hostilities
War criminals, just and rational treatment
Warfare, revolutionary, discriminating and liberating
Weapons, use of rightful only
Wind power.
WITHOUT INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY IN EVERY RESPECT, INCLUDING FREEDOM NOT TO BE
FREE ACCORDING TO ONE'S CHOICE, NUCLEAR WAR CANNOT BE PREVENTED IN THE
LONG RUN.
APPENDIX 6
THREE STEPS TOWARDS NUCLEAR WAR PREVENTION
1. BECOME TRUSTWORTHY:
End the nuclear strength policy.
Destroy all your nuclear weapons and nuclear potential, including the nuclear reactors.
Transfer war and peace decision making back to the people.
Allow individual secession and autonomous association on a voluntary and exterritorial basis.
Break down trade, immigration and alien restrictions.
Replace your standing army by a volunteer militia for the protection of human rights.
Get rid of the dictatorships and all oppressions on your own side.
Reorganize production to do away with class warfare ideas.
Realize all individual rights in your sphere of influence.
2. CREATE TRUST:
Publicly declare rightful war aims.
Welcome enemy inspection of your nuclear disarmament.
Welcome refugees and deserters and recognize their rights.
Recognize governments in exile formed by them, provided they want to rule only over volunteers.
Declare your peaceful intentions clearly, unmistakably.
Offer guaranties for your peaceful behaviour.
Demonstrate in practice that economic freedom works better than any monopolistic exploitation but
do not threaten to impose this system upon nonbelievers.
Offer full autonomy even to communists as long as they remain nonaggressive.
Use broadcasting freedom to spread appreciation of the freedom solution and to fight prejudices.
Use open air mass meetings to create trust,
3. INITIATE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ON THE OTHER SIDE:
Spread the programs for rightful military insurrections and revolutions.
Offer separate peace treaties.
Organize and reward tyrannicide and combine outlawry threats with amnesty and asylum offers.
Offer prizes for the destruction of nuclear weapons
NOTHING IS WORTH A NUCLEAR WAR.
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APPENDIX 7
FROM PARTICULAR SINGLE STEPS ALL ELSE COULD FOLLOW
A chain reaction preventing nuclear war could be started by any of the following "heavy elements":
The right to secede // Minority autonomy // The right to resist // Monetary freedom // Cooperative
production // Free Market // Free Trade // Freedom of Contract // Free Migration // Cultural
Revolution // Ideas Archive // Flow Chart Debates // Encyclopaedia of Refutations // Broadcasting
Freedom // Bill of Rights // Declaration of just War Aims // Referendums on Nuclear Reactors //
Desertion // Establishment of the 1st. exterritorial & autonomous volunteer community // Revolutionary
warfare respecting individual rights // Militias for the protection of individual rights // Decision on war
and peace by the people // Comprehensive Denationalization // Private enterprise for all services //
Military Insurrections // Disarmament by the people // Program for a Rightful Revolution // Repeal of
all Legal Monopolies // Tax Strike // Voluntary Taxation.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE NOT ANTI TYRANT BUT ANTIPEOPLE WEAPONS.
NUCLEAR WEAPONS ARE THE SYMBOL OF THE MODERN STATE: THEY REPRESENT ITS
ESSENCE: INDISCRIMINATELY DESTRUCTIVE FORCE.
APPENDIX 8
THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE POINT FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUCLEAR WAR
Many seemingly different answers could be given, based, on and expressed in this program. But they
all amount essentially to the same thing, are just different names for the same means and aim:
individual liberty. All have the same consequence: Lasting peace based on liberty and justice. Here is a
by no means comprehensive enumeration:
Alternative institutions
AntiMonopolism
Competing Governments
DeNationalization
Exterritorial Imperative
Free Competition for all peaceful activities
Freedom of Action
Freedom of Contract
Freedom to Experiment
Freedom, individual
Free Market
Free Trade
Individualism
Individualized Decisionmaking
Individual Responsibility
Individual Secessionism
Individual Sovereignty
Justice
Libertarianism
Minority and Individual Autonomy
Noninitiation of Force
Panarchism
Parallel Institutions
Personal Laws
Pluralism
Property Rights based on SelfOwnership
RePrivatization
Revolutions
Individualistic Secessionism
Individualistic SelfDefence
Selfhelp
Selfishness, Rational
Society without Coercion
Tolerance in the Economic, Political and Social Spheres
Voluntarism
Voluntary Segregation & Integration
HOW TO STOP NUCLEAR WAR? ACT FREELY AND BE JUST. APPLY THIS IN EVERY
RESPECT AND YOU WILL DO ALL YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT NUCLEAR WAR.
DO YOU REALIZE ALL THAT THIS ENTAILS? THE SOONER YOU DO, THE BETTER.
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APPENDIX 9
WHAT HAS THIS PROGRAMME IN COMMON WITH
AT LEAST SOME OTHER PEACE PROGRAMMES?
1. An end to NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY. But it wants to replace it with individual sovereignty and
not with any kind of world sovereignty
2. FREE TRADE. But it wants to introduce this even unilaterally and only on a voluntarist basis,
recognizing the right of protectionists to suffer under their own mistakes
3, FREE MIGRATION. But it is uncompromising in this and can afford to be because monetary
freedom, combined with free pricing and free trade, can eliminate involuntary unemployment.
4. RECOGNITION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS. But it recognizes many more such rights than any
other peace program and does not recognize any collectivist ones.
5. ANTITOTALITARIANISM. But in this it goes much further than most and it is at the same time
more discriminating than others.
6. It also makes use of the FRIENDSHIP potential between people. But it develops this much further
than most by replacing all government activities in this sphere by direct democratic and individual
actions
A P P E N D I X 10
IN WHAT POINTS DOES THIS PEACE PROGRAM DIFFER FROM MOST OTHERS?
1. Individual, not national rights, as a foundation for peace.
2. Exterritorial, panarchic autonomy for all volunteer groups, based on individual sovereignty and
secession.
3. Personal law rather than national and international law.
4. Freedom to experiment in the economic and political sphere at the own risk and expense.
5. Voluntary segregation and integration for all who want either.
6. Free economy, including monetary freedom, voluntary taxation, free investments and free access to
all natural
resources.
7. Industrial peace and an end to the class warfare ideology through purchase of enterprises by their
employees and
reorganization as productive cooperatives or through work cooperatives and other organization forms
based on
ownership or selfmanagement.
8. Direct democratic decisionmaking on war and peace, armament and disarmament.
9. Unilateral ABC disarmament, decided upon and carried out by the people or supervised by them.
10.Referendums against the socalled peaceful use of atomic energy.
11. Declaration and publication of rightful war aims by the people to remove most excuses for
"defensive" wars.
12. Separate peace negotiations and separate peace treaties between the people themselves, over the
heads of their
rulers.
13. Unilateral peace declarations towards all but totalitarians.
14. Insistence on armed protection of individual rights and voluntaristic institutions, with rightful
weapons,
rightfully applied.
15. Local volunteer militias for the protection of human rights, internationally federated, as main
military force.
16. Any remaining warfare to be reduced to highly discriminating police actions using revolutionary
warfare
against totalitarian regimes, tyrannicide and military insurrections.
17. Organization of resistance, insurrections & tyrannicide against all nuclear powers.
One could almost ask whether this program has anything in common with other peace programs.
NUCLEAR POWER IN THE HANDS OF A FEW RENDERS ALL OTHERS IMPOTENT.
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APPENDIX 10
SECTIONS OMITTED IN THIS BOOK
A number of related alphabetical entries were intended and prepared for this book. But they were not
included for lack of space and time. They may be included in the next Peace Plan issues. Hints for
more such entries are welcome.
Aggressiveness / Allegiance / Asylum / Atrocities / Choice / Coercion / Collaboration / Collectivism /
Competition / Cruelty / Destruction, discriminating / Disposal Suggestions / Distrust, justified /
Embargoes / Freedom of the High Seas / Furnaces/ God / Hidden Bombs / Immunity against Class
Actions / Independence / Integration voluntary vs. compulsory / Legislation / Membership, compulsory
/ Militarism / Military Obedience / Military Training / Nationalized Defence / Objections /
Oppression / Organization / Overkill / Parades / Peace Programs / Personal Thinking / Private
Enterprise / Public Services / Questionnaire / Refusal to Accept Paper Money / Sabotage / Search for
Hidden Weapons / Selfgovernment / Selfreliance / Selfresponsibility / Separate Development /
Strength / Suspicion / Treaties / Unconditional Surrender / Vhemic Courts.
(Do not ask me where these entries are presently buried in my files. I suppose they will, sooner or later,
turn up again and could be then be scanned and offered as supplementary texts. J.Z., 22.10.01.)
APPENDIX 11
SOME NOTES AND COMMENTS BY ULRICH VON BECKERATH
Most ideas in this book can be traced back to the writings of Ulrich von Beckerath (18821969), his
extensive correspondence and the numerous discussions I had with him between 1952 and 1959. To
give you some impression of his way of thinking I give you here a rough translation of some of the
notes and comments he added to his minutes on a session of a small society to which both of us
belonged, the "Berlin Society of 1952 to fight the causes of unemployment", Session of May, 1st.,
1954:
" .. For a long time we have been aware that at the outbreak of the next war a military insurrection or
strike would not be improbably in the authoritarian states. We have developed a program how these
strikers could finance their strike. We have also considered that such a strike should not be identical
with subordination to the governments of nonauthoritarian states. We would expect that whole armies
of the authoritarian states would organize themselves as autonomous communities. These would then
negotiate, as equals, with governments, especially on the provision, within days, of nonexploitative
employment and support for the millions of members of the new communities.
"Autonomous communities in the form of independent armies are nothing new in the Eastern world.
The Red Army was originally an autonomous community, although in a very primitive form. The
armies rising against the Soviets did also organize themselves as autonomous communities, e.g. the
armies of Denikin, Judenitsch, Wrangel, Machnow and others. Also the Czarist army retreating after
WW I into Serbian territory persisted for a long time as an autonomous community (Among the
thousands of publications on details of the first W.W. and its consequences there is apparently not even
one providing some details.
"The "Belgische Kurier", the organ published by the German Supreme Command for German soldiers,
published in 1916 or 1917 a long article on a petition of the Jewish population of Eastern territories
which sought permission to organize this population as an autonomous community.
"The members know that the German philosopher J.G. Fichte demanded autonomous communities in
1794 (in his work: Contribution to Correct Public Opinion on the French Revolution, page 112 of the
edition by Dr. R. Strecker, Meiner, Leipzig, 1922 ) and that with this demand he did not declare war to
the State as such. Fichte recognized
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everybody's right not to belong to any autonomous community but rather to submit to a State
government.
"Further discussion dealt with the question whether, and if, then in what way the autonomous
community would be suitable to realize the aims of our society even in a world situation like the
present one.
"The first aim was to find out why the numerous conferences of the last few decades, attempting to
reduce armaments and the danger of war, remained without success. The unanimously accepted result
of the discussion was: The delegates and those who sent them were neither worse human beings than
the average man nor were they any more stupid. But the political system of the world, with its division
of the Earth's surface among States, makes world peace impossible. What makes this worse is the fact
that the inhabitants of each State see in it their fatherland, so much so, that a great number of them
and certainly not the worst are prepared to sacrifice their lives. Moreover, almost all inhabitants see in
their State government their rightful representation towards the inhabitants of other States.
"The best result which might be achieved in a peace conference would be a treaty according to which,
on a predetermined day, all States would disarm, render their military installations useless, and oblige
themselves to submit their arguments of all kinds to an international arbitration court for settlement.
Under present conditions it is impossible to achieve such a contract and to carry it into effect.
"First of all it would be impossible to arrange for the beginning of the disarmament in the whole world
at exactly the same moment. It is as impossible as getting a great number of horses in a race to start off
at exactly the same moment. As soon as it would become clear that a single government would have
delayed its disarmament, and be it only for some hours, the other governments would immediately
cease with their disarmament and accuse this government of breach of its treaty obligations.
"One of the reasons why the disarmament, particularly in the big States, cannot be started punctually, is
the political motivation of a great part of the army, the public service, the youth and of the people in
general. All these groups consider the destruction of weapons, the dissolution of troop units etc, as an
attempt to make the fatherland helpless. They would consider it as their patriotic duty to counter any
such efforts. Thus the disarmament would be sabotaged by these groups. These groups would also
attempt and to some extent succeed in hiding weapons, especially nuclear weapons. At the same time
they would be likely to accuse the governments of other States of hiding atomic weapons. Such
accusations would very soon bring disarmament to a standstill. The political atmosphere of the world
will then be much more loaded with tension than it was before,
"Already when the League of Nations was established it was realized that contractual agreements, with
no other base than the good will of the contracting governments, could not prevent any war whenever
influential and in the old sense patriotically (better: nationalistic) groups seriously expect an attack by
other governments. Thus right from the beginning there were talks on the possibility of organizing an
armed force under the exclusive command of the League of Nations. But nothing more than this
discussion took place and could take place. One cannot expect any government to help organizing a
power which one day might restrict that government's freedom of action in any important affair. On the
other hand, it is clear that without the organization of a positive force, superior to that of single
governments of today, world peace cannot be achieved and the nuclear weapons, especially, could not
be destroyed without it.
"Only one way out remains: The appeal should not longer be directed, as was usual so far, to the
governments but to every single human being, who is seriously willing to save himself, his fellow
citizens and also his State, and who understands that this is impossible under the present system, even
if one could reckon on the good will of governments.
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We are in a situation more dangerous than that of Holland during the high tide of last year, An appeal
was made: Everyone who has eyes and hands to the dikes! It was not made in vain. Everyone who
could help did help and today Holland has the areas which were then flooded again under cultivation.
The utilitarians of the world suffered a great defeat. This defeat was further enlarged through the action
of the Dutch people, who, in the middle of their own catastrophe, sent the greater part of the food,
clothing and blankets sent to them from many countries on to Berlin, asking to provide the refugees
from the East with them, as the Dutch people were aware that these were still worse off than they were
themselves. The world has not experienced a greater example of international solidarity. It was proof of
the awakening of a new spirit in mankind.
"Therefore an appeal should be directed to all friends of peace in the whole world to organize
themselves into an international militia which would make all preparations necessary to make the next
war, and especially nuclear war, impossible. To make a start sections of the militia should organize
themselves as autonomous communities. An international association of Lawyers could already now
organize itself as an arbitration court for autonomous communities, in a suitable locality, perhaps in
Hague.
"Afterwards some principles were discussed to which the international militia would have to commit
itself. Some of these are:
1. The militia recognizes the principles of the Hague Convention on Warfare.
2. The militia will not use any weapons or tolerate the production of weapons which cannot be used
without endangering noncombatants.
3. The militia declares that it considers the inclusion of women and children in fighting units or their
use for the fabrication of war materials as contrary to international law. It appeals to the women of the
world to refuse such war services. Misguided women, who were fighting and then captured, will be
immediately released by the militia, provided they promise that henceforth they will only engage in
peaceful labours.
4. The international militia will prepare organizations in all countries which will make it possible for
all those refusing to serve in the armed forces to find labour which will support them.
"It was confirmed that our society does not have to fear being accused of involvement in any
communist conspiracy On the contrary, its program offers the only really effective weapon against the
Soviet system, economically as well as militarily. Instead of referring the peoples captured by the
Soviet system to the atomic weapons of the West as means of "liberation", it refers these peoples and
every one of their members to their own strength and also shows them how to use it ..."
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"The governments that insist on continuing atomic tests, or on subsidizing further atomic development,
must be publicly branded (even if the countries are our own) as the criminals they are in fact ..." Mary
Hays Weik, Window on the World, 9/73.
What is usually called "nuclear strength" is nothing but a scientific preparation for mass murder.
"The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical
infants." Omar N. Bradley, address on Armistice Day, 1948.
"My God, do they really believe there will be anybody around to either pay or collect pensions if the
big boys press the buttons?" G. H. Smith, The Coming of the Rats, Priority Pocketbook 1082, Israel,
1974 (?).
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A P P E N D I X 13
A SHORT LIST OF RELATED SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS
The following is a bibliography with a difference: Be entertained while you consider the danger and
contemplate right actions to end it.
Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination, or: Tiger! Tiger !, Sidwick &Jackson, U. K. , 1956.
Paul Brickhill: The Deadline Collins, Sydney, 1962.
Jack Denvers: The End of it All, Heinemann, London 1962.
Madeleine Duke: Claret, Sandwiches and Sillk, Four Square Book, 1966.
Alan Gardner: The Escalator, World Distributors, London, 1963.
Rex Gordon: Utopia 239, William Heinemann, London 1955.
Anthony Gray: The Penetrators, A Mayflower Dell paperback, 1967.
Robert Heinlein: "If this Goes On…", in: "Revolt in 2100".
Freder van Holk: Die Erde Brennt, Non Stop Buecherei, Berlin, 1951.
John Iggulden: Breakthrough, Four Square Book, 1963.
Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II: Seven Days in May, Transworld Publishers, London, 1962.
Richard Koch: Anti Atom D 172, Gebrueder Weiss Verlag, Berlin Schoeneberg.
John Mantley: The 27th. Day, Michael Joseph Ltd., 1956.
Colin Mason: Hostage, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1973.
Walter M. Miller, Jr.: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Transworld, London, 1959.
Walter Mondy: No Man on Earth, Corgi Books, 1964.
Julius Newton: The Forgotten Planet, Bill Ewington Books, Sydney.
Lauren Paine: This Time Tomorrow, World Distributors, London 1963.
Tom Purdon: Reduction in Arms, Berkeley Publishing Corp, 1971.
Mordecai Roshwald: Level 7, Heinemann, London, 1959.
Nevil Shute: On the Beach.
Leo Szilard: The Voice of the Dolphins, Sphere Books, London, 1961.
William Tenn: Of All Possible Worlds, Mayflower Dell, 1963, UK, 1956.
Anthony Trew: Two Hours to Darkness, Collins, Fontana Books, 1963.
John Wyndham: The Day of the Triffids, Penguin, 1951.
The above are just a few samples of books dealing with mass extermination wars, their danger or their
aftereffects and with some simple and usually insufficient suggestions on how to prevent them. Any
SF Fan can probably quote you more. A large part of all SF stories written since 1945 deals with the
possibility of genocide and of the end of man, due to mass extermination weapons. None, alas, have to
my knowledge fully developed any of the ideas in this book.
I can only hope that in the near future some SF writers will use some of this material as effectively as
Ayn Rand used some basic ideas of individualism and free enterprise capitalism.
(Since I compiled this short list, I have read and collected dozens of other such titles. But the main
point made is already sufficient: Numerous serious writers have envisioned the nuclear war hazard as a
real possibility and tried to induce us to do something against it. So far, obviously, largely in vain.
J.Z., 22.10.01.)
APPENDIX 14
SOME OF THE RELATED PEACE PLANS SO FAR PUBLISHED IN THIS SERIES
Of the plans so far published in this series, the following dealt more specifically with nuclear war
prevention. Titles up to Peace Plans No. 12 were listed in that issue: 6, 7, 11, 13, 1618, 20, 25, 28, 32,
34, 36, 50, 52, 54, 56, 59, 61, 68, 70, 77, 80, 82, 88, 95, 96, 99, 160, 101, 104, 144, 147, 148, 152, 161,
164, 169171, 174, 177, 178, 183, 186189, 211, 216, 218, 221, 228, 233, 234, 239, 243, 247.
Many of the other plans, although not making direct reference to the nuclear war threat, do nevertheless
elaborate on the points made in this compilation.
(Later PEACE PLANS issues contain many more peace plans. But I did no longer number and abstract
them separately but, instead, on microfiche, reproduced whole texts containing them and numbered
only the PEACE PLANS issues in which they are contained. Some, by far not enough, cross references
are offered in my literature list, on my website. J.Z., 28.10.01.)
(I did not scan in again the following article, from pages 223 233 of the primitively printed book but
simply used a later version that I had already digitized. J.Z., 22.10.01.)
APPENDIX 15
File: PuydtPED699 Somewhat corrected in June 1999.
PANARCHY
by P. E. de PUYDT,
First published in French, in the REVUE TRIMESTRIELLE, Bruxelles, July 1860.
April 1998 version of the English translation by Adrian Falk, based on a transcription of appendix 15 in
PEACE PLANS No. 1618, with some of the editorial improvements provided by David Taylor, in his
edition, which was reproduced in PEACE PLANS 873. David Taylor, deceased, had put it on an
electronic bulletin board years ago. I do not know whether he ever got a response to it. Nor do I have a
copy of his digitized version, which he had compiled on his Amiga system. Since I had still been
unable to connect my small scanner to the all too small system used here, I had to keyboard the whole
text in. In this process I made some minor changes or corrections.
At first my wife and I produced a rough translation. Then Adrian Falk and, perhaps, his sister, put it
into a better shape. It was then first reproduced in PEACE PLANS 4, with some comments by me and
a draft of individual rights. Later it was reproduced in RAMPART JOURNAL OF INDIVIDUALIST
THOUGHT, Fall 1966, of which, unfortunately, I do no longer possess a copy, and in PP 1618 & 61
63 and in German in PP 399401. Its discussion has barely begun and I reproduce it and similar ideas in
my ON PANARCHY subseries.
Max Nettlau reviewed this essay favourably and Gustav Landauer reproduced his review.
Both of these articles can be found on my main website.
I readily accept the blame for all remaining punctuation, style and typing mistakes. If you were to point
them out to me then I could change them at least in the digitized version.
Gian Piero de Bellis, with his somewhat panarchistic POLYARCHY website, has placed an improved
German and English translation, as well as the original French one and his own Italian translation on
his website, which is, like two sites by Christian Butterbach, intended to reproduce much panarchistic
material and to help towards the reproducition of all relevant texts on a CDROM. J.Z., 28.10.01.
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I
Preface
A contemporary has said: "If the truth were in my hands, I should be careful not to open them." This is
perhaps the saying of a savant, certainly that of an egotist. Another has written: "The truths which one
least likes to hear are those which most need to be pointed out."
Here then are two thinkers whose views differ widely. I would rather agree with the second, although
in practice his outlook presents difficulties. Wise men of all nations teach me that it is not always best
to tell the full truth. However that may be, the problem is how to discern the truth. Moreover, the
Scriptures say: "Hide not your light under a bushel."
Thus I am now confronted with a dilemma: I have a new theory, at least so I believe, and I feel it my
duty to expound it. Although on the point of opening my hands, I hesitate; for what innovator has not
been persecuted a little? The theory itself, once published, will make its way on its own merits, for I
consider it advanced. My concern is rather for the author: Will he be forgiven for his idea?
There was once a man who saved Athens and Greece, who, in an argument following a discussion, said
to some barbarian who was lifting a stick against him: "Strike but listen!" Antiquity abounds with
such good examples. Thus, in the matter of Themistocles, I set out my idea, saying to the public: "Read
it to the end. You may stone me then if you please."
However, I don't expect to be stoned. The barbarian I spoke of died in Sparta, 24 centuries ago, and we
can all see how far humanity has come in 2,400 years. In our times ideas may be freely expressed; and
if occasionally an innovator is attacked, it is not done physically, as in former times, but by calling him
an agitator or utopian. Reassured by these thoughts I proceed resolutely to the thesis.
II
"Sirs, I am a friend of all the world." Sosie, a double, in Moliere's writings.
I have a high esteem for political economy and would that the world shared my opinion. This science,
of recent origin, yet already the most significant of all, is far from reaching fulfilment. Sooner or later
(I hope it is sooner) it will govern all things. I am justified in this opinion, for it is from the works of
the economists that I have derived the principle whereof I propose a new application still farther
reaching and no less logical than all others.
Let us first quote a few aphorisms whose connection will prepare the reader for what follows.
"Freedom and property are directly connected one favours the distribution of wealth, the other makes
production possible."
"The value of wealth depends on the use to which it is put."
"The price of services varies directly with demand and inversely with supply."
"Division of labour multiplies wealth."
"Freedom brings about competition, which in turn generates progress."
o Ch. de Brouchere, Principes generaux politique.
Thus there is a need for free competition, first of all between individuals, later internationally freedom
to invent, work, exchange, sell, and buy, freedom to price one's products and simply no intervention
by the State outside its special sphere. In other words: "Laissezfaire, laissezpasser!"
There, in a few lines, is the basis of political economy, a summary of the science without which there
can be nothing but faulty administration and deplorable government. One can go further still, and in
most cases reduce this great science to one final formula : "Laissezfaire, laissezpasser!".
I recognise this; and go on to say: In science there are no half truths. There are no truths which are true
on the one side and cease to be true under another aspect. The system of the universe exhibits a
wonderful simplicity, as wonderful as its infallible logic. A law is true in general; only the
circumstances are different. Beings from the most noble to the lowest, from the living plant, even down
to the mineral, show intimate similarities in structure, development and composition; and striking
analogies link the moral and material worlds. Life is an entity, matter is an entity; only their physical
manifestations vary. The combinations are innumerable, the particulars infinite; yet the general plan
embraces all things. The feebleness of our understanding and our fundamentally wrong education, are
alone responsible for the confusion of systems and inconsistency of ideas. Of two conflicting opinions
there is one true and one false, unless both are false; they cannot both be true. A scientifically
demonstrated truth cannot be true here and false elsewhere; true, e.g. for political economy and false
for politics. This is what I want to prove.
Is the great law of political economy, the law of free competition, "laissezfare, laissezpasser",
applicable only to regulate industrial and commercial affairs or, more scientifically, only to the
production and exchange of wealth?
Think of the economic confusion which this law has dispelled: the permanently troubled condition, the
antagonism of conflicting interests, which it has resolved. Are not these conditions equally present in
the domain of politics? Does not the analogy indicate a similar remedy for both cases: "Laissezfaire,
laissezpasser!"?
We should realise though that there do exist, here and there, governments as liberal as human weakness
actually permits, wrong only in assuming that all is for the best in the better republics. Some say: "This
is precisely because there is too much freedom"; the others: "This is because there is still not enough
freedom." The truth is that there is not enough of the right kind of freedom, the fundamental freedom to
choose to be free or not to be free, according to one's preference. Every man is a selfappointed judge,
and settles this question according to his particular tastes or needs. Since there abound as many
opinions as individuals, "tot homines, tot sensus", one can see what confusion is graced by the good
name of politics: The freedom of some denies the rights of others, and vice versa. The wisest and best
of governments never functions with the full and free consent of all its subjects. There are parties,
either victorious or defeated; there are majorities and minorities in perpetual struggle; and the more
confused their notions are, the more passionately they hold to their ideals. Some oppress in the name of
right, the others revolt for the sake of liberty, to become oppressors in turn, as the case may be.
"I see!" the reader might say. "You are one of those utopians who would construct out of many pieces a
system wherein society would be enclosed, by force or consent. Nothing will do the way it is, and your
panacea alone will save mankind. I cannot accept that!"
But you are wrong! My problem is quite a general one. I differ from no one except on one point,
namely, that I am open to any persuasion whatsoever; in other words, I allow any of the forms of
government at least all those that have some adherents.
"I do not follow you."
Well, allow me to go on. There is a general tendency to push theories too far; but does it follow that all
the elements of such a theory must be wrong? It has been said that there are perversities or foolishness
in the exercise of human intelligence; but to declare one does not like speculative ideas and detests
theories, would that not mean a renunciation of our reasoning powers? These considerations are not my
own; they were held by one of the greatest thinkers of our time – Jeremy Bentham.
RoyerCollard expressed the same thought with great succinctness : "To hold that theory is good for
nothing and that experience is the sole authority, means the impertinence of acting without knowing
what one does and of speaking unaware of
what one is talking about." Although nothing is perfect in human endeavours, at least things move
towards an ultimate perfection; that is the law of progress. The laws of nature alone are immutable; all
legislation must be based on them. for they alone have the strength to support the structure of society;
but the structure itself is the work of mankind.
Each generation is like a new tenant who, before moving in, changes things around, cleans up the
facade, and adds or pulls down an annex, according to his own needs. From time to time some
generation more vigorous or shortsighted than its predecessors, pulls down the whole building,
sleepingout in the open until it is rebuilt. When, after a thousand privations and with enormous efforts,
they have managed to rebuild it to a new plan, they are crestfallen to find it is not much more
comfortable than the old one. It is true that those who drew up the plans are set up in good apartments,
well situated, warm in winter and cool in summer; but the others, who had no choice, are relegated to
the garrets, the basements or the lofts. So there are always enough dissenters and trouble makers, of
whom some miss the old building, whilst some of the more enterprising already dream of another
demolition. For the few who are satisfied there is an innumerable mass of objectors. We must
remember however that a few are satisfied. The new edifice is indeed not faultless, but it has some
advantages; why pull it down tomorrow, later, indeed ever, as long as it shelters enough tenants to keep
it going? I myself detest the wreckers as much as the tyrants. If you feel your apartment is inadequate
or too small or unhealthy, then change it that is all I ask. Choose another place, move out quietly; but
for heaven's sake don't blow up the whole house as you go. What you found unsuitable might delight
your neighbour. Do you understand my comparison?
"Almost, but what are the consequences of this? To have no more revolutions would be fine. I feel that
nine times out of ten their costs outweigh their achievements. We prefer to keep the old building, but
where can you accommodate those who move out?"
Wherever they like, this is none of my business. I feel that this way liberty is best preserved. This is the
basis of my system: "Laissezfaire, laissezpasser!"
"I think I understand: Anyone, not content with the government as it is, must look elsewhere for
another. Actually, there has been a choice, from the time of the Marocain empire right up the republic
of San Marino, without mentioning all the other empires, from the City of London to the American
Pampas. Is that all your theory amounts to? It is nothing new, I can tell you."
It is not a matter of emigration. "A man does not carry his native land on the soles of his shoes." As for
the rest, such colossal expatriation is and always will be impracticable. The expense involved could not
be met by all the wealth in the world. I have no intention of resettling the population according to its
convictions, relegating Catholics to the Flemish Provinces, for example, or marking the liberalist
frontier from Mons to Liege. I hope we can all go on living together wherever we are without this,
however one likes but without discord, like brothers, each freely holding his opinions and submitting
only to a power chosen and accepted by himself.
"I do not understand this at all."
I am not at all surprised. My plan, my utopia, is apparently not the old story you first thought it to be;
yet nothing in the world could be simpler or more natural. However, it is common knowledge that in
government, as in mechanics, the simplest ideas always come last. We are coming to the point: One
can found nothing lasting except on liberty. Nothing that already exists can maintain itself or operate
with full efficiency without the free interplay of all its active parts. Otherwise energy is wasted, parts
wear out rapidly, and there are, in fact, breakdowns and serious accidents. Thus I demand, for each
and every member of human society, freedom of association according to inclination and of activity
according to aptitude. In other words, the absolute right to choose the political surroundings in which to
live, and to ask for nothing else. For instance, suppose you were a republican...
"Me? May heaven help me!"
Just suppose you were: Monarchy does not suit you the air is too stifling for your lungs and your body
does not have the free play and action your constitution demands, According to your present frame of
mind, you are inclined to tear down this edifice, you and your friends, and to build your own in its
place. But to do that you would come up against all the monarchists who cling to their monument, and
in general all those who do not share your convictions. Do better: assemble, declare your program,
draw up your budget, open membership lists, take stock of yourself; and if numerous enough to bear
the costs, establish your republic.
"Whereabouts? In the Pampas?"
No, truly not here where you are, without moving. I agree that it is necessary, up to the present, to
have the monarchists' consent. For the sake of my argument, I suppose the matter of principle to be
settled. Otherwise I am well aware of the difficulty of changing the state of affairs to the way it should
be and must become. I simply express my idea, not wishing to impose it on anyone; but I see nothing
which might suppress it but the routine.
Don't we know how bad a household establishment the governed and the governments make together,
everywhere? On the civil level we provide against unworkable households by legal separation or
divorce. I suggest an analogous solution for politics, without having to circumscribe it with formalities
and protective restrictions, for in politics previous associations leave no children or physical marks. My
method differs from unjust and tyrannical procedures followed in the past in that I have no intention to
do anyone violence. Those wishing to form their own political schism may be its founders, but on one
condition, that is, to do so among themselves, within their group, affecting neither the rights not the
creed of others. To achieve this, it is absolutely not necessary to subdivide the territory of the State into
so many parts as there are known and approved forms of government. As before, I leave everyone and
everything in its place. I only demand that people make room for the dissenters so that they may build
their churches and serve the Almighty in their own fashion.
"And tell me, please, how are you going to put this into practice?"
This is just my strength. Are you aware of the methods of a civil registry office? It is just a matter of a
new application of them. In each community a new office is opened, a "Bureau of Political
Membership". This office would send every responsible citizen a declaration form to fill in, just as for
the income tax or dog registration :
Question: What form of government would you desire? Quite freely you would answer, monarchy, or
democracy, or any other.
Question: If monarchy, would you have it absolute or moderate..., if moderated, how? You would
answer constitutional, I suppose.
Anyway, whatever your reply, your answer would be entered in a register arranged for this purpose;
and once registered, unless you withdrew your declaration, respecting the legal forms and delays, you
would thereby become either a royal subject or citizen of the republic. Thereafter you are in no way
involved with anyone else's government no more than a Prussian subject is with Belgian authorities.
You would obey your own leaders, own laws, and own regulations. You would pay neither more nor
less, but morally it would be a completely different situation.
Ultimately, everyone would live in his own individual political community, quite as if there were not
another one near nay, ten other political communities coexisting with his, each having its own
contributors too.
If a disagreement came about between subjects of different governments, or between one government
and a subject of another, it would simply be a matter of observing the principles hitherto observed
between neighbouring peaceful States; and if a gap were found, it could be filled without difficulties by
human rights
and all other possible rights. Anything else would be the business of common courts of justice.
"This is a new gold mine for legal arguments, which would bring all lawyers on your side."
I counted on this. These legal disputes could and should interest all inhabitants of a certain district
likewise, no matter what their political allegiance is. Each government, in this case, would stand
politically related to the whole nation, almost as each of the Swiss cantons, or better, the States of the
American Union, stand to their federal government. Thus, all these fundamental and seemingly
frightening questions are met with readymade solutions; jurisdiction is established over most issues
and would present no difficulties whatsoever.
Certainly it will happen that some malicious spirits, incorrigible dreamers and unsociable natures, will
not accommodate themselves to any known form of government. Also there will be minorities too
weak to cover the costs of their ideal States. So much the worse for them. These odd few are free to
propagate their ideas and to recruit up to their full complement, or rather, up to the needs of their
budget, after which all would resolve into a matter of finance. Until then they will have to opt for one
of the established patterns. You must admit that insolvent minorities will not cause any trouble.
This is not all. The problem rarely arises over extreme opinions. One fights more often, one struggles
much harder, for shades of colour than for the national flag. I have no doubt that in Belgium the
overwhelming majority would opt for the flourishing institutions, a few accepted shortcomings
notwithstanding; but would one be more content with their functioning? Do we not have two or three
million Catholics who follow only Mr. de Theux and two or three million Liberals who owe allegiance
only to themselves? How can they be reconciled? By not trying to reconcile them at all; by letting
each party govern itself. Freedom should even extend to the right not to be free, and should include it.
Due however to the fact that only shades of opinion are required to multiply the government machinery
infinitely, one will exert oneself in the general interest to simplify this machinery. One will apply the
same cog to achieve a double or threefold effect.
I shall explain myself: A wise and openly constitutional king could suit both Catholics and Liberals –
only the ministry would have to be doubled, Mr. de Theux for some, Mr. FrereOrgan for the others,
the King for all. Who would hinder certain gentlemen, whom I shall not name, if they convened to
introduce absolutism, letting the same prince use his superior wisdom and rich experience to manage
those gentlemen's business, freeing them of the regretful necessity of having to express their opinions
about government affairs? Truly, when I think of it, I do not see why this one prince should not make a
quite acceptable president of an honest, moderate republic, if one accepts the contrary settlement. Such
a plurality of offices should not be prohibited.
III
"Though freedom has its inconvenience and pitfalls, in the long run it always leads to deliverance."
M.A. Deschamps
One of the many incomparable advantages of my system is to render unimportant, natural, and
completely legal, those differences of opinion which in our time have brought some upright citizens
into disrepute, and which one has cruelly condemned under the name of political apostasies. Such
impatience for change, which has been considered criminal in honest people, which has caused old and
new nations to be accused of wantonness and ingratitude, what is it but the will to progress?
Furthermore, is it not strange that in most cases those, accused of capriciousness and instability, are
precisely those who are most loyal to themselves? The faith one would like to have in one's party, flag,
and prince, is possible if party and prince are constant; but what if they do change, or give way to
others who are not their equals? Suppose I had selected as guide and
master the best prince of the times, I had acquiesced to his powerful and creative will and foregone my
personal initiative, to serve his genius. On his death he might be followed, by succession, by some
narrowminded individual, full of wrong ideas, who little by little squanders his father's achievement.
Would you expect me to remain his subject? Why? Simply because he would be the direct, legitimate
heir? Direct, I allow; but not legitimate in the least, as far as I am concerned. I would not rebel over this
matter I have said that I detest revolutions but I would feel injured, and entitled to change at the end
of the contract. Madame de Stael once said to the Czar: "Sir, your character is your subjects'
constitution and your conscience your guaranty." "If that were so", answered Alexander, "I would
have been merely a happy accident." These words, so lucid and true, completely convey my meaning.
My panacea, if you will allow this term, is simply free competition in the business of government.
Everyone has the right to look after his own welfare as he sees it and to obtain security under his own
conditions. On the other hand, this means progress through contest between governments forced to
compete for followers. True worldwide liberty is that which is not forced upon anyone, being to each
just what he wants of it; it neither suppresses nor deceives, and is always subject to a right of appeal.
To bring about such a liberty, there would be no need to give up either national traditions or family
ties, no need to learn to think in a new language, no need at all to cross rivers or seas, carrying the
bones of one's ancestors. It is simply a matter of declaration before one's local political commission, for
one to move from republic to monarchy, from representative government to autocracy, from oligarchy
to democracy, or even to Mr. Proudhon's anarchy without so much as removing one's
dressing gown or slippers.
Are you tired of the agitation in the forum, the hairsplitting of the parliamentary tribune, or the rude
kisses of the goddess of freedom? Are you so fed up with liberalism and clericalism as to sometimes
confuse Mr. Dumortier with Mr. de Fre, to forget the exact difference between Mr. Rogier and Mr. de
Decker? Would you like the stability, the soft comfort, of an honest despotism? Do you feel the need
for a government which thinks for you, acts for you, sees everything and has a hand everywhere, and
plays the role of deputyprovidence as all governments like to do? You do not have to migrate South
like the swallows in autumn or geese in November. All you desire is here, there, everywhere; enter
your name and take your place!
What is most admirable about this innovation is that it does away, for ever, with revolutions, mutinies,
and street fighting, down to the last tensions in the political atmosphere: Are you dissatisfied with your
government? Change over to another! Four words, always associated with horror and bloodshed,
words which all courts, high and low, military and special, without exception, unanimously find guilty
of inciting to rebellion these four words become innocent, as if in the mouths of seminarists, and as
harmless as the medicine so wrongly mistrusted by Mr. de Pourceaugnac.
"Change over to another" means: Go to the Bureau for Political Membership, cap in hand, and ask
politely for your name to be transferred to any list you please. The Commissioner will put on his
glasses, open the register, enter your decision, and give you a receipt. You take your leave, and the
revolution is accomplished without spilling any more than a drop of ink.
As it affects you alone, I cannot disagree with it. Your change affects no one else that is its merit; it
does not involve a victorious majority or a defeated minority; but nothing will prevent 4.6 million
Belgians from following your example if they wish. The Bureau for Political Membership will ask the
remaining individuals to declare their choice.
What, basically, all preconceptions apart, is the function of any government? As I have indicated
above, it is to supply its citizens with security, in the widest sense of the word, under optimum
conditions. I am well aware that on this point our ideas are still rather confused. For some people not
even an army is protection enough against outside enemies; for some not even a police force, a security
force, a royal prosecutor and all the honourable judges do suffice to assure internal order and protect
rights and property. Some people want a government with its hands full of wellpaid positions,
impressive titles, striking decorations, with customs at the frontiers to protect industry against the
consumers, with legions of public servants to maintain the fine arts, theatres and actresses. I know too
of the empty slogans propagated by governments playing at providence, such as we have mentioned
before. Until experimental freedom has done justice to them, I see no harm in letting them continue to
the satisfaction of their adherents. I ask one thing only: Freedom of choice.
In a nutshell: Freedom of choice, competition "laissezfaire, laissez passer!" This marvellous device,
inscribed on the banner of economic science, will one day be the principle of the political world too.
The expression "political economy" gives some foretaste of it and, interestingly, some people have
already tried to change this name, for instance, into "social economy". The intuitive good sense of the
people has disallowed this concession. The science of economics is and always will be the political
science par excellence. Was it not
the former which created the modern principle of nonintervention and its slogan "laissezfaire, laissez
passer!"? Let us try free competition in the business of government as in all other cases.
Imagine, after the first surprise, the picture of a country exposed to governmental competition that is
to say, simultaneously possessing as many regularly competing governments as have ever been
conceived and will ever be invented.
"Yes indeed, that will be a fine mess! Do you suppose we could extricate ourselves from such a
confusion?"
Surely, nothing is simpler to understand if only one applies oneself to it a little. Do you remember the
times when people shouted religious opinions more loudly than anyone ever shouted political
arguments? When the divine creator became the Lord of Hosts, the avenging and pitiless God in whose
name blood flowed in rivers? Men have always tried to take the divine cause into their own hands to
make Him an accomplice of their own bloodthirsty passions: "Kill them all! God will recognize His
own!"
What has become of such implacable hatreds? The progress of the human spirit has swept them all
away, like the wind the dead leaves of autumn. The religions in whose names were set up stakes and
instruments of torture, survive and live together peacefully, under the same laws, eating from the same
budget. If each sect preaches only its own excellence, then it achieves more than were it to persist in
condemning its rivals. Indeed, has it not become possible in this obscure, unfathomable region of the
conscience (what with the proselytism of some, the intolerance of others, the fanaticism and ignorance
of the masses), is it not possible to the extent that it is practised in half the world without resulting in
unrest or violence? Moreover, particularly where there are divergent creeds, numerous sects exist on a
footing of complete legal equality; and people are, in fact, more circumspect and careful of their moral
purity and dignity than anywhere else. And what has become possible under such difficult conditions
must be all the more possible in the purely secular domain of politics, where the whole science can be
expressed in four words: "Laissezfaire, laissezpasser!"
Under the present conditions a government exists only by the exclusion of some, and one party can rule
only after splitting its opponents; a majority is always harassed by a minority which is impatient to
govern. Under such conditions it is quite inevitable that the parties hate each other and live, if not at
war, at least in a state of armed peace. Who is surprised to see that minorities intrigue and agitate, and
that governments put down by force aspiring political forms which would be exclusive too? So society
ends up composed of ambitious resentful men, waiting for vengeance, and ambitions satisfied men,
complacent on
the edge of a precipice. Erroneous principles never bring about just consequences, and coercion never
leads to right or truth.
All compulsion should cease. Every adult citizen should be, and remain, free to select from among the
possible offered governments the one which conforms to his will and satisfies his personal needs; free
not only on the day following some bloody revolution, but always, everywhere, free to select, but not
to force his choice on others. Then all disorder will cease, all fruitless struggle will be avoided.
This is only one side of the questions; there remains another: From the moment when forms of
government are subject to experimentation and free competition, they are bound to progress and perfect
themselves; that is natural law. No more hypocrisy, no more apparent profundities which contain
merely a void. No more machinations passing for diplomatic subtlety. No more cowardly moves or
impropriety camouflaged as State policy. No more court or military intrigues deceitfully described as
being honourable or in the national interest. In short, no more lies regarding State machinery.
Everything is open to scrutiny. The subjects making and comparing observations, the governors will
finally see this truth of economics and politics, that in this world there is only one condition for a solid,
lasting success, and that is, to govern better and more efficiently than others. From this moment on,
forces formerly wasted on useless labour on friction and resistance will unite to bring about an
unprecedented, almost incomprehensible impulse towards the progress and happiness of mankind.
"Amen! Allow me one small objection: When all possible types of government have been tried
everywhere publicly and under free competition, what will be the result? One form is sure to be
recognised as the best, and thus finally everyone will choose it. This would lead us back to having one
government for all, which
is just where we began."
Not so fast please, dear reader. Do you freely admit that all would then be in harmony and that this
would be just as when we began? Your objection gives support to my fundamental principle, in so far
as it expects this universal agreement to be established by the simple expedient of "laissezfaire,
laissezpasser!"
I could seize this opportunity to declare you convinced – converted to my system but I am not
interested in halfconvictions and am not looking for converts. No, we would not revert to having a
single form of government, unless perhaps in the fardistant future when governmental activities will
be reduced by common consent to the simplest form. We are not there yet, not anywhere near it.
It is obvious that men are neither of the same opinion or moral attitude, nor as easily reconciled as your
suppose. The rule of free competition is therefore the only possible one. One man needs excitement and
struggle quietness would be deadly to him. Another, a dreamer and philosopher, is aware of the
movements of society only in the corner of his eye his thoughts are formed only in the most profound
peace. One, poor, thoughtful, an unknown artist, needs encouragement and support to create his
immortal work, a laboratory for his experiments, a block of marble to sculpt angels. Another, a
powerful and spontaneous thinker, endures no fetters and breaks the arm that would guide him. For one
a republic is satisfactory, with its dedication and selfdenial; for another an absolute monarchy, with its
pomp and splendour. One, an orator, would like a parliament; another, incapable of speaking ten
connected words, would have nothing to do with such babblers. There are strong spirits and weak
minds, some with insatiable ambitions, and some who are humble happy with the small share which
befalls them.
Finally, there are as many needs as different personalities. How could all these be reconciled by a
single form of government? Clearly, people would accept it only in varying degrees. Some would be
content, some indifferent, some would find faults, some would be openly dissatisfied, some would
conspire against it. Whatever happens, count on human nature that the number satisfied would be
smaller than the number of dissenters. However perfect a government might be be it absolutely
perfect there will always be one opposition: the people whose natures are imperfect, to whom the
whole structure is incomprehensible, even disagreeable. In my system the most extreme dissatisfaction
would be similar to the marital dispute, with divorce as its final solution.
However, under the reign of competition, which government would allow itself to be overtaken by the
others in the race for progress? What perfection available to one's happy neighbour would one refuse in
one's own house? Such constant competition would work wonders. In fact, the subjects would become
models of perfection too. Since they will be free to come and go, to speak or be silent, to act or to leave
things alone, they would have only themselves to blame if they were not completely happy. From now
on, instead of forcing attention on opposition, they will satisfy their vanity by assuring themselves and
persuading others that their own government is the most perfect imaginable. Thus, between governors
and governed a friendly understanding will grow up, a mutual trust and ease of relationships easily
understood.
"What! You who are wide awake do seriously dream of complete harmony between parties and
political movements? You expect them to live side by side in the same territory without tensions?
Without the stronger seeking to subdue and annex the weaker? You imagine that such thorough
confusion would produce a universal language?"
I believe in the universal language, to the same extent as I believe in the supreme power of freedom to
bring about world peace. I can predict neither the hour nor the day of this universal agreement. My idea
is merely a seed in the wind. Will it fall on fertile ground or on the cobbled road? I can have no say in
this. I propose nothing.
Everything is just a matter of time. Who, a century ago, believed in freedom of conscience, and who,
these days, would dare question it? Is it so very long since people scoffed at the idea of the Press being
a power within the State? Yet now upright statesmen bow before it. Did you foresee this new force of
public opinion, whose birth we have all of us witnessed, which, although still in its infancy, imposes its
verdict even on empires? It is of utmost importance even in the decisions of despots. Would you not
have laughed in the face of anyone daring to predict its rise?
"Now that you are not making concrete proposals, we can talk about it. Tell me for instance how
anyone is to recognise his own government among this confusion of authorities? And if one may at any
time join this government and resign from that, on whom or what could you rely to settle the State
budget and to maintain
the list of members?"
In the first case, I do not suggest one should be free to change one's government capriciously, causing it
to go bankrupt. For this sort of contract one must prescribe a minimum term – say one year. Judging
from the examples of France and elsewhere, I think it might very well be possible to support for a
whole year the government to which one has subscribed. Regularly approved and balanced State
budgets need oblige everyone only to the extent found necessary as a result of free competition. In any
disputes, regular courts would make decisions. Regarding recognition of its subjects, constituents, or
taxpayers, would this really present more difficulties than for each church to account for its believers,
or each company its shareholders?
"But you would have ten or twenty governments instead of one; thus, as many budgets and
membership lists; and general expenses would multiply with the number of government departments."
I do not deny the validity of this objection. Notice though that, due to the law of competition, each
government would necessarily endeavour to become as simple and economical as possible. The
government departments, which cost us (God knows!) our very eyes, would reduce themselves to bare
necessities; and superfluous officeholders would have to give up their positions and take on productive
work.
This way the question would be only half answered, and I dislike incomplete solutions. Too many
governments would constitute an evil and cause expenses if not confusion. However, once one notices
this evil, the remedy is at hand. The common sense of the people would do justice to any irregularities,
and soon only workable governments would be able to carry on. The others would die of exhaustion.
You see, freedom is the answer to everything.
"Perhaps! Do you believe that the existing dynasties, the prevailing majorities, the present corporations
and accredited theories, would retreat and quietly arrange themselves behind the banner of "laissez
faire, laissezpasser!"? You have put it all very well that you are not making concrete proposals, but
that
does not get you out of the debate."
Tell me first of all if you really think they would be so confident of themselves to be able always to
afford to decline such large concessions? I myself would not overthrow anybody. All governments
exist through some kind of innate power which they more or less skilfully use to survive. From now on
they have an assured place in my system. I do not deny that at first they may lose a considerable
number of their involuntary followers; but without considering the chances of it coming about, what
wonderful compensations do result from the security and stability of power! Less subjects, in other
words, less taxpayers; but for compensation they will have complete submission voluntary, moreover,
for the whole term of the contract. No more compulsion, fewer security officers, hardly any police,
soldiers but only for the sake of parades, therefore only the especially goodlooking ones. Expenses
will decrease fast enough not to decrease incomes; no more loans; and no more financial difficulties.
What has so far been seen only in the New World will become reality : Economic systems which at
least would make men happy. What majority would not agree to losing the whole of the minority?
At last you see how a system based on the great economic principle of "laissezfaire" can deal with all
the difficulties. Truth is not only a halftruth but the whole truth, neither more nor less.
Today we have ruling dynasties as well as forsaken ones princes wearing a crown and others who
certainly would not mind a chance of wearing one. Each has his party, and each party is primarily
interested in throwing sticks between the wheels of the coach of State, until they have tipped it up, thus
gaining the chance of taking it over themselves, risking the same fate in turn. It is like the charming
game of seesaw, which the people never seem tired of paying for, as PaulLouis Courier said.
In our system there will be neither any more expensive balancing acts nor catastrophic downfalls, no
more conspiracies or usurpations. The whole world is legitimate and everybody can be himself. One
remains legitimate as long as one can keep it up, and for one's adherents alone. Apart from this, there
will be neither divine nor secular rights, no right except that to change, to perfect one's program and to
make fresh appeals to one's followers.
No exiles, banishments, confiscations, persecutions of any kind! A governor, unable to meet the
demands of his creditors, may leave his palace with raised head, if he has been honest, his book
keeping is in order, and his statutes constitutional and otherwise have been faithfully kept. He may go
out into the country to justify himself in his memoirs. Under other circumstances when ideas have
changed a deficiency is felt in society something in particular is lacking idle capital and
discontented shareholders looking elsewhere for investments..., then one launches one's program
quickly, recruits members, and if one thinks one has got enough, instead of going into the streets, as
one would call it in a rebellion, one goes to the Bureau for Political Membership. One hands in one's
declaration supported by the statutes and a register for members to enter their names then one has a
new government. The rest are internal problems, management affairs about which only the members
need worry.
I propose a minimum fee for entrances and changes, raised for the benefit of the Bureau for Political
Membership: Some hundred dollars for the entrance to establish a government, a few cents to change
as an individual from one to another. The employees would receive no other remuneration, but I
imagine that they would be well paid as I expect these offices to do plenty of business.
Are you not surprised by the simplicity of this apparatus, this powerful machinery which even a child
could handle, which nevertheless would satisfy all needs?
Search, scrutinise, test, and analyse it. I defy you to find fault with it in any particular. Furthermore, I
am convinced that no one will desire any more, such is human nature. It is this conviction, in fact,
which induced me to publish my idea. Indeed, if I do not find followers, this is nothing but a game with
words; and no existing power, no majority, no organisation, nobody whatever he stands for has any
right to denounce me.
"And so you have converted me just by chance?"
Shhh... You might compromise me!
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233, continued:
"WELL, WE'VE GOTTEN USED. WE DON'T TALK MUCH ABOUT IT, QUEERLY ENOUGH
….,"
"THEY'D BETTER MAKE PEACE", HE SAID, THEY'D BETTER MAKE PEACE ...."'
"THE STARS MAY BE TIRED OF US . ...."
"THERE ARE OTHER BEASTS THAT ONLY KILL FOR THEIR FOOD..."
"BUT THEY SMASHED EVERY GOVERNMENT IN THE WORLD ...."
"I REMEMBER COMING COME .... SHE LOOKE AT ME, AT FIRST DIDN'T SPEAK AT ALL,
AND THEN SAID: 'BURN THOSE CLOTHES. TAKE THEM OFF AND BURN THEM OR I'LL
NEVER TOUCH YOU OR SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN.' AND THEN I KNEW I WAS STILL IN MY
UNIFORM..." Stephen Vincent Bent, Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Bent, 1938, Holt, Rinehart
& Winston, quoted in Leo Szilard's The Voice of the Dolphins.
"On several occasions between 1960 and 1985, the world narrowly escaped an allout atomic war. In
each case; the escape was due more to fortuitous circumstances than to the wisdom of the policies
pursued by statesmen."
o Leo Szilard, ibid, page 13.
" … wars, … initially meant the killing of soldiers, but in the end came to mean the wholesale killing
of civilians."
o Leo Szilard, ibid, p. 27.
o
"THE ATOMIC STALEMATE THREATENS TO BLOW ITSELF UP ..." Leo Szilard, ibid p. 41.
One cannot ban or penalize atomic energy. One can do this only to those who used it or threaten to use
it.
"If they come into use it won't be war, as any professional understands it, just plain hell on earth. When
it comes to using the big fusion weapons, you can count me in with the pacifists."
Colin Mason: Hostage, Sun Books, Melbourne, 1973, p. 19.
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A P P E N D I X 16
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY? AND DEFENSIVE
APPEALS
The following is the translation of a letter by Ulrich von Beckerath, to Mrs. V., written on 11/12/1954,
a letter which well integrates some of the ideas in this program:
"… On the possibility to influence governments or the UN to do something to abolish nuclear and
similar weapons: Suppose one succeeded to initiate, as the Soviets proposed, an international
convention in which all governments obliged themselves to destroy the nuclear weapons facilities in
their countries and likewise their stocks of nuclear weapons (something that would not be very simple),
and also to tolerate an international control of this disarmament. Then suppose that a single
government would break this pact and manufacture such weapons secretly and that this fact would
finally be discovered by the international control commission. What would happen then?
The situation would be rather simple. The cheating government would be the master of the world and it
would simply give its orders to the other governments. In case any government would not obey, it
would be destroyed, together with its subjects and then wiped out of the registers of the UN. This is the
situation.
Is there any likelihood that not at least one government would break this pact? Even the small section
of world history which both of us have experienced lets me guess that at least one government would
break this convention
Suppose, furthermore, that either you or I were dictator of any large power. We would, naturally, be
under an obligation to protect our subjects from wrongful attacks and also from dishonesty, contract
breaches and changes in the mentality of governments in our neighbourhood.
Instance: Czar Nicolas II was openly pacifistic at the beginning of his rule and he called for the famous
Hague Conference. But only a few years later this same Czar became quite passive and left the
government to his ministers. The war of 1914 was obviously prepared especially by the Russian
government. I remember very well an article in the Frankfurter Zeitung, in April of 1914, which
pointed out that at least 1.5 million Russian troops were assembled in Poland,
The Russian government did indeed assert that it would have to conduct military exercises in Poland
But for this purpose the territory around the Urals would have been decidedly better. In fact I when the
war began in August 1914, the Russian Army was the only fully mobilized one. (Editor's comment: At
least by that time, some researchers asserted, no fullscale mobilization was ever reversed, i.e., it
always led to war. This has something to do with the railway schedules and the military advantage
given to the side which used this transport facility early.)
Nothing was amiss, If the shots at Sarajewo hadn't been fired the Russian government would have
found some other pretence.
Consequently, we, as dictators, would feel obliged to protect our subjects from breaches of contract by
the governments in our neighbourhood. Could we, in our case, act otherwise than secreting away a
considerable number of atomic weapons and thus evading the nuclear disarmament agreement?
(Editorial note: These attitudes still presume that nuclear explosive devices can be rationally
considered as "weapons" and that the principle of "collective responsibility" is morally acceptable,
furthermore, that military insurrections could not be induced to destroy these mass murder devices, and
that tyrannicide and other libertarian resistance and revolution steps could not be undertaken before it
comes to a nuclear blackmail attempt or even once it happens and is responded to by an official
surrender. J.Z., 24.11.01.)
Wouldn't our supreme rule be: 'Right or wrong my country!'?
Wouldn't we be bad rulers if we didn't accept this as the maxim for our government?
As we would feel obliged to think all governments do indeed think even if they have as much good
will as we can ascribe to ourselves.
What I stated here is nothing new. Wiser men than myself have explained long before me that in the
principle "Right or wrong my country!" lies the impossibility of seriously concluding any
disarmament agreement. (Between territorial governments! J.Z., 24.11.01.) Any ruler who
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would renounce this principle would soon be overthrown whether he openly confesses that he is not
committed to this idea and would rather stick to his contractual obligation or merely showed his
attitude in his actions. (The misguided loyalty of emperor Wilhelm II did cost him his throne which
was already rather wobbly for other reasons also.)
When two important moral principles contradict each other then at least one of them is wrongly
founded. The principle: 'Right or wrong, my country!' presupposes:
I. That the subdivision of Earth into States is morally unobjectionable and does not infringe the rights
of men and
citizens.
II. That the inhabitants of a State's territory are obliged to obey their government unconditionally.
III. That the decision and initiative in all public affairs belongs to the government (including
parliament) and
exclusively to it and that it is the government's business to declare what public affairs are or are not.
IV. That all obligations arising out of nationality take precedence before all other duties, for the head of
State as
well as for all subjects.
All these points have a religious foundation. Apostle Paulus taught:
"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be
are ordained of God. (Romans, Ch. 13.)
These principles were applied for centuries without arousing any opposition, But today, perhaps for the
first time in history, the question arises: Do these principles still apply, even when the existence of
mankind is not only at risk but certainly at an end provided these 4 maxims are any longer applied
when, in other words, the slogan: 'Right or wrong, my country!', is any longer adhered to and when
men continue to accept the present political order as something Godgiven, really selfevident and in
any case irreplaceable? I say: NO!!!
What reforms in political thought (and not only in this) are to take place and how the new thinking is to
be realized, follows today easily from the nuclear war threat. In no other age were the problems
confronting us as clearly revealed as in ours.
When the best, cleverest and most energetic governments, which are at the same time benevolent, are
unable to preserve mankind from extermination through atomic bombs expressly because of their
position as governments then one can no longer appeal to them. No animosity is implied in this
statement. On the contrary: Whosoever would now take a new initiative would also have to feel
obliged to save the governments, especially his own. Even in considerations how to save mankind, he
would have to begin somewhere and the obvious thing would be to begin with that part of mankind
which in the narrower sense embraces his fellow citizens.
(Editorial note: B. always advised to write as if a censor were looking over one's shoulder! J.Z.,
24.10.01.)
What is to be done? I will express myself on this without much ado:
I propose a public appeal by a group to be formed to all soldiers entrusted with the stockpiling of
atomic weapons, an appeal requesting that they destroy these weapons. This group should also contact
the workers in all nuclear bomb factories with an appeal to destroy them.
These appeals should be directed primarily to the workers and soldiers of those coun
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tries whose governments do not recognize the rights of men and citizens and e. g., do not permit
freedom of expression, authoritarian governments, in other words. The workers and soldiers of other
countries should follow suit after havingvisually convinced themselves that these disarmament acts
took place.
The appeal should include a draft for a new international law. This international law should not
recognize any right by conquest. Instead it should expressly negate all such claims. Neither should it
recognize any authority to impose sanctions. Instead, it should expressly deny any such authority. This
new international law could be fully expressed only in a voluminous document. More on its contents
some other time.
The area in which such an appeal could be freely made would already thereby be marked as the natural
home of all those willing to actively help saving mankind from nuclear war death. I would Like
Germany to be this country and Berlin its capital. I would like the German governments and the
Berlin Senate both within their spheres to become active as the political leaders in the fight to save
mankind and that they would be recognized as such if not by other governments then by all ordinary
human beings.
What if the authoritarian governments mobilized their millions against Germany? How to cope with
this I have described to you some time ago. I referred to the example which the most prominent of the
authoritarians has given himself: MaoTseTung. Mao had induced the defection of 2 million soldiers
of Chiang KaiShek and they took their equipment with them. He achieved this by describing in
appeals the undignified and inhuman role to which Chiang KaiShek had condemned them:
'Come over to me', he said in his appeals, 'I will not treat you as prisoners of war and not even as
deserters but simply as my fellow citizens, who want to go home to their families.' And Mao kept his
word.
Many former governments of China had been overthrown through conspiracies of secret societies. Here
for the first time, one was overthrown through public appeals. Mao is today the Stalin of China. Either
he will change his mind or Mao II will deal with him as he dealt with Chiang.
What if the Kremlin would send its troops marching against the insufficiently and not really armed at
all Germany? A public appeal, spread as soon as possible to the Soviet soldiers, would invite them to
form autonomous communities for the protection of their rights and thus cease obeying the Kremlin. A
draft for the constitution of such an autonomous communities would have to be added. Soviet troop
units who wanted to form autonomous communities on German soil, thus setting an example for
others, should be welcomed. The appeal should provide for this.
The most important question is how the autonomous community could provide itself within an hour
with work opportunities and subsistence. This problem can be easily solved as soon as one frees
oneself of the outdated idea that only a government could provide work and thus provide subsistence,
through its central planning system.
A goods warrants system (Warrants, vouchers, certificates, ticket money, standardized and in
denominations like money, using gold weight reckoning but redeeming in goods or services only. The
Ed.) would here be the most important measure and it would prove that the State's methods, using
forced paper currency, are superfluous and harmful. (In my three works published in Geneva, I have
described the details.) ( Editor: See their reprints in Peace Plans 911.)
Permit me another word of clarification: Autonomous communities are nothing new: The churches and
orders were for centuries autonomous communities. In the German
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kingdoms there were likewise, for hundreds of years, autonomous communities, e. g. under the Franks
there were the communities of the Burgundians, the Alemanni, even of the Romans and others. Details
can be found in Gibbon. (Editor: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol, VI,
chapter 38, reprinted as plan 136 in PP No. 6.)
Fichte was probably the first German who represented the idea of the autonomous community (in
1794). ( Editor: See plan 198 in PP 12.)
He pointed out that the Jews in many countries found themselves in a legal situation which, deplorable
as it was in many respects, nevertheless left to themselves the settlement of their own legal disputes.
The Europeans in Oriental countries formed up to 1914 autonomous communities. Consular
jurisdiction was especially developed in Egypt and in Marocco.
The Germans should also, as fast as possible, establish citizen armies and get the permission for this
from the Allied Forces. When e.g. America sees that here is the only real weapon against the Soviets,
then America will do everything to support this movement. America will remember its own militia and
the world historic role it has played. Permit me to leave you with these hints for today ...."
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"'You're a Quaker?' 'No, but I like all of them I've met. They're decent as individuals and also as a
group: which is much rarer. They care about what happens to human beings they don't like murder in
the name of oneeyed ideologies and a lousy, makebelieve sense of duty ...."
"Most people got to feeling it would never happen after all I know I did. But it was a fools' paradise,
wasn't it? If the thing is there, it only becomes a matter of time ...."
"'If I can't see it, it isn't there,' could be the national motto. That and 'don't rock the boat."'
"It's been nearly thirty years since those bombs fell, and a quarter of a century since there's been much
serious debate about the effects of nuclear war. Since then a highlyeffective softpedaling job's been
done almost everywhere. Now a generation has entered into its responsibilities which knows next to
nothing about what would actually happen if there were a major atomic war. All the nasty stuff, those
highlyunpleasant facts about what really happened to the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki I haven't
so much as heard them mentioned for years. People would rather not ."
"Moscow had been predictable. It had given its orders, and he was a man under discipline, pledged to
obey them. It was a great killer of the people, this sense of discipline, he reflected. The mad thought
crossed his mind that he could take NOVGOROD to some neutral port, scuttle her, desert ...."
"Heaven knows he said, it sounds insane but take my word for it, the military planning of the nuclear
age is insane. Once you penetrate the jargon of any modern book on strategy, it all boils down to sheer
illogical horror. Megadeaths, for example. One megadeath means the inevitable, premeditated killing
of a million people, from babies taking their first breath to the aged. The textbooks already list numbers
of megadeaths regarded as 'acceptable' in the case of war…. "
The above are all quotations from Colin Mason's novel: HOSTAGE, on how WW III could start. First
published 1973 by Macmillan, London, Sun Books, 1973. Reprinted by me without permission and in
order to make this work better known. Last not least, in order to give people like Colin Mason a better
chance to survive. A most realistic and thoughtful novel this. Highly recommended by me.
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APPENDIX 17
RAILWAY MONEY AND THE NUCLEAR WAR THREAT. REVOLUTION AND RELIGION
The following is another vision by Ulrich von Beckerath in a letter to Mrs. V., of 16.12. 1954.
It also helps to show some of the basic ideas in this book, in combination.
"It is not my intention to disturb your rest through frequent communications on the nuclear war threat
and war financing. I only desire to justify the enclosed booklet by Zander on the railway money, issued
in Germany in 1933. (Ed.: See plan 192 in PEACE PLANS No. 9.)
Zander shows in his booklet that there is a very simple means to abolish unemployment quickly and
thoroughly: Enterprises suffering from it issue value tokens typified like money. With these they pay
their expenses including wages. These certificates are not to have legal tender. But they will be covered
by the readiness of the enterprises to accept them like cash when anybody buys their goods and
services. The railway is such a productive enterprise. During 1923/4 it has provided work for about
700.000 workers by issuing "railway money". The details are explained in Zander's booklet.
This work cannot be denounced with the objection, common among "practical" men, that it would
contain only "theoretical garbage". This railway money was a reality and these 700.000 workers of the
railway were also a reality. That they worked and had enough to eat was also a fact and not theory. It is
not easy to determine how many employees outside the Railway were also indirectly provided with
work by this measure but I am convinced that there were several million of them.
At that time the railway had permission to issue railway money until Schacht withdrew it. What could
be done when there is no authority for such issues of means of payment?
The answer is that wherever human rights are recognized and thus there exists at least freedom of
expression, one tries in a legal way to obtain the required permission. But wherever human rights are
not recognized, one goes ahead on one's own initiative. This would be a monetary revolution. In the
communist countries one could not proceed without this.
On page 15, chapter III of his work (pages 83 of PP No. 9) Zander indicates shortly that the principle
explained by him can be applied not only by the railway. Indeed it is of universal importance. Every
large enterprise and every large association of small enterprises can protect itself against the need to
dismiss workers by properly applying Zander's principle. Zander did not get around at that time to
describe the application of it to retail shops. He had to solve a more urgent problem: to organize and
finance his emigration and thereby to save his life,
If Zander were in Berlin now he would scarcely fail to explain to his fellow citizens that the principle
of railway money, suitably applied, would also remove the threat of nuclear war.
Let me give you a concrete example: Suppose, the workers of Russian atomic bomb factories want to
strike and declared: We will no longer produce this rubbish. We will instead provide ourselves with
some useful jobs.
What would then happen? At first there would be a repetition of the events in Eastern Germany after
June the 17th, 1953. How was the rising defeated? Russian tanks played hardly a role in this. Their
commander even fled to West Berlin, as you know. The whole unit was "unreliable" according to the
terminology of the Soviets. To shoot striking workers? This they did not like at all! The victor over this
uprising was a lady: the president of the East German Central Bank in Jaeger St., BerlinEast. She
instructed all bank branches in
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the insurrectionist areas to block all wage payments for the time being. With this the uprising was
finished. The few East German Marks which the workers had still in their pockets were rapidly spent
and from then on "General Hunger" fought for the Soviets.
Whether I control a man or the money circulation on which he depends that is one and the same.
Whoever supplies the means of payment is the master of the other and the other must follow all his
orders.
Thus the Russian Central Bank of Issue would no longer issue notes for wage payments in the
revolutionary zones. The next day would be the decisive one for the rising workers, for Russia, for the
world and for the future of mankind. If the workers or some of their leaders know Zander's principle,
then the retention of the State's exclusive paper currency would be received with amusement. After
destroying the nuclear bomb factories, they would spread to the bakeries, other food production
centres, to State farms etc. and initiate the issue of value tokens analogous to the German railway
money and in accordance with the technique described by Zander.
The printing of these certificates could be done within an hour, as was shown by the issue of stable
value currency in Hamburg, in October 1923, and also in the Ukraine, when consumer coops in
Ukrainian towns issued goods warrants and loaned them to the factories, when the money supply from
Moscow faltered through some or the other bureaucratic bungle. All participants were hanged because
of forgery! They had indeed, unintentionally and unknowingly, shaken the very foundations of the
Soviets' power. This happened in 1934.
If in our case and today the West would take a hand and send a message to the workers, inviting them
to witness the destruction of the atomic factories in the West and if, otherwise, the West would declare
that it does not intend to occupy Russia and is ready to conclude a separate pace with every Russian
army, then in a few days, the revolution would become general. In the West also nobody would then be
able to mobilize an army for a war of aggression.
I have spoken here of "the West" but the governments in the West will not recognize the situation fast
enough. They will therefore have to be supported by volunteer organizations, primarily by militias. The
militias would make the first public declarations to the Russian soldiers and workers. The governments
would then merely confirm them. (Editor: Beckerath was conditioned to safely explain his real views,
even under Nazi censorship. He then adopted the stance of the superpatriot. Compare plan 234 in PP
No. 14. Always write as if a censor were peeping over your shoulder was his oft repeated advice.)
Otherwise, nobody in the West would think of abolishing the governments. On the contrary, the
governments, through their declarations, would appear as the saviours of world peace and really would
be. At most a few Nazis would go mad and would have to be sent to mental asylums.
A great change would furthermore occur, one unnoticed by the masses: All note issue monopolies
would be repealed and the legal tender of all notes would be abolished.
Zander's payment principle: Payment through service, not in the form of primitive tribal barter but
through systematic clearing, would be accepted as a fundamental principle in all constitutions.
If you should know of another means to prevent the destruction of all life on Earth, still within this
century, then please, communicate it to me. There is nothing more interesting for me. Abolition of the
nuclear bomb threat by those threatened and by nobody else, this marks the beginning of a new age, a
new economic order, a new political order and even of a new religion.
Let me add a few words on this. Some days ago I read a leaflet of a Christian Circ
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cle in Darmstadt. In it the Atomic Bomb was declared to be unchristian and Christians were asked not
to participate. It was not said in what form this nonparticipation should be practised, whether e.g,
through a military strike (which the Soviets could defeat rapidly) or how otherwise. This does not
surprise anyone with some know ledga of the religious books of he world. Neither the Bible nor the
writings of the founders of churches, nor the papal proclamations, nor those of Protestant clerics, nor
the Koran, nor the writings of Zarathustra nor of Confucius or Laotse, not even those of the otherwise
venerable Schweitzer, contain the least hint what should be done in a situation like ours. Do you know
any religious writings containing something useful on this ???"
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Let tolerance reign supreme! JZ, 29/4/75.
Foes could become allies with even greater speed than in the recent decades. Reversal of a saying by
Paul Tabori in: "The survivors", Consul Books, London, 64.
"The first order which the UPPR troops broke, in a peaceful and general mutiny, was that of 'no
fraternization!'" Paul Tabori, ibid, p. 47.
"Great and small states alike were making certain that peace should not break out suddenly and catch
them unawares." Paul Tabori, ibid, p. 52.
"The constantly improving armaments were simply threats, blackmailing or menacing instruments. But
if they were never to be used who would ever be frightened by them?" Paul Tabori, ibid, p. 53/4.
"… the rocket stations were activated; the atomic subs cruised around like mad . ..." Paul Tabori, ibid,
p. 61.
"The ordinance factories were working triple shifts to turn out armaments which, all politicians
maintained, would never be used." Paul Tabori, ibid, p. 62.
"Did the politicians really believe that a single murder was a greater crime than mass murder? If they
did not, they gave a pretty good imitation of accepting the double standards." Paul Tabori, ibid, p. 74.
"The Achilles heel of the powerful is their contempt for the weak." Paul Tabori, ibid, p.83.
"I refuse to believe that three hundred million people can suddenly enter into a suicide pact..." Paul
Tabori, ibid, p. 84.
" . Jeff ran into him at the Ministry for Humane Extermination. There seemed to be feverish activity
throughout Whitehall, though Moriarty could not discover what aim it served. He only knew that no
one would take the responsibility of being the one person who would refuse to be responsible for
starting another war." Paul Tabori, ibid, p. 106.
"
If truth is the first victim of a war, confusion is its natural condition." Paul Tabori, ibid , p. 121.
"...And the attacking forces were themselves mostly wiped out in the process. Because of the isolation
and the futility of the struggle, animal fear and animal cruelty became the dominant emotions. Within a
few days the borderline of aggressive and defensive warfare was completely erased... " Paul Tabori,
ibid, p. 122.
"Poison gas, microbe and nuclear dust did not differentiate between enemy and ally." Paul Tabori,
ibid, p. 123.
May his book, belatedly, turn into a bestseller! J.Z., 24.10.01.
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APPENDIX 18
MILITARY JIU JITSU or:
HOW CHINESE SOLDIERS DETERMINED THE LIMITS OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE
The following is an extract of a letter written by Ulrich von Beckerath in 1957, in German, and
translated by the editor:
"Mao Tse Tung applied the following tactic towards Chiang Kai Shek:
He simply asked the soldiers of his opponent not to let themselves be killed or crippled for Chiang but
to declare themselves neutral instead and to desert to him, Mao, bringing their weapons with them, and
to let themselves be supplied with travel expenses and provisions and to go home.
Success justified Mao's policy to an extent which has possibly surprised even him. In less than one year
he conquered an area inhabited by over 300 million people with less ammunition than was usually
used in a single battle in WW II.
Mao followed an old Chinese tradition. As Confucius reported in the LunYii, King Wen did
something very similar. Wen's enemies could not keep their soldiers. They all deserted to Wen because
he kept his promises and, moreover, ruled well, very much better than the rulers opposed to him.
Perhaps Mao himself does not know that he had such a predecessor. It is quite possible that he did not
act in accordance with any principle but merely did what for the time being was the most opportune
thing to do. In any case, it is the task of all peace lovers, who take themselves serious, to clearly
recognize the fantastic example set here, to put into the light the principle on which it rests and to see
to it everyone in his circle that as many people as possible fully understand what has happened in
this respect in China and consequently try to achieve the same in other parts of the world, in areas
where the rulers put weapons into the hands of their subjects and tell them:
'There, now attack each other! I have no other use for you but if you win my advantage will be
great!'
Mao acted upon the following fact: Soldiers in modern wars do not fight voluntarily but under
coercion. If they had a choice to go on fighting or to return to their families then more than nine tenths
of them would choose the latter. Moreover, when those soldiers inclined to fight see that right and left
of them their comrades desist, then even those inclined to continue the fight lose heart and desert
likewise. Furthermore, once the units right and left have deserted, the remaining soldiers must expect to
be attacked, within hours, by superior forces. There was much practical experience with all this in both
World Wars.
Especially during WW I, I could make my own observations. I managed then for 11 months the
library of the military command in F. As I found out later on, it was one of the largest on the Western
front. Only the one at Lille was larger. I had discussions with hundreds of soldiers and sometimes with
officers also. They all trusted me. I was careful not to discuss peace topics with gossips and other
unreliable people. This reading room was only 5 km behind the first trench and thus still in the fire
zone. Anyhow, for all frequenting it, the question existed: Do we desert today or not? Very often
English planes dropped leaflets asking the German soldiers to desert. Good treatment was promised.
Almost daily I had a session with comrades who were considering: Do I make a run for it today or do I
hold out longer?
At that time I dissuaded them from desertion. I told them: Look at these Russians working here in F.
They have to unload ammunition trucks within the fire zone and do many other things which are
expressly prohibited in the conventions on prisoners of war. We have received information that the
Germans on the other side are not treated any better. Supposedly it is a "retaliatory" measure. Anyhow,
if you desert, then you, too, will probably have to unload ammunition in the fire zone and will not be
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better fed than the Russians are by our side.
I have reason to believe that my words were effective. The reply was, of course, almost always: 'What?
Do you expect us to let ourselves be turned into cripples, fighting for these scoundrels? When they win
they will treat us like they treat today the Russian prisoners and when they lose for what will we have
been fighting?' The hatred against those who prolonged the war (Ludendorff, Tirpitz, etc.) was
unbelievable.
And then we realized: Indeed, if we could expect to be decently treated on the other side, if we knew
we would not have to work against our comrades, e.g. by unloading ammunition (these people were all
good Germans with no 'international' inclinations), if we knew also that after the war is lost (only very
few still believed in victory), Germany would be treated fairly then we would not stay a single day
longer. 'Yes, ours are scoundrels and those on the other side, too!' These words I heard often.
Some approached me later on and asked me: Couldn't we stay in touch with each other? and work after
the war for a declaration by all States assuring: We make no longer any prisoners of war. Whosoever
comes to us voluntarily and declares that he fought against us only under coercion, will be treated by us
as a guest and neutral foreigner. After our victory the enemy government will certainly be disarmed but
the country will not be treated worse than our own.
What government would under these conditions still dare to declare a war? The war would be over
within 4 weeks because its soldiers will have deserted. And then the revenge comes: A government
which declared an aggressive war will be treated like a murder syndicate. We will see to that. Any
government which starts a war shall remember that!
I ended up in hospital and lost the addresses of these comrades. The pacifists, whom I met later, had
curiously no interest at all in this idea but merely discussed impractical proposals like: converting the
government to the philosophy of pacifism, establishment of a peaceful world government with the
consent of national governments, etc., etc. You yourself have heard all this very often,
What these peacelovers did not have was the experience of the immediate proximity of the front line,
the continuously dropped leaflets which asked solders to desert, the daily arising question: Is there any
rational sense in continuing?
Man, I mean the average man, depends very much on immediate impressions. Where they are amiss he
is inclined towards obvious but useless fantasies. He does not consider the technical aspects as this
would be uncomfortable. The world is supposed to be something very simple and easily
comprehensible, something that only requires the expression of desires (later, as with the Nazis, the
shouting ) to achieve already half of the aim. But the world is very differently organized.
During the second World War, I spoke with many Nazis on this method applied today by Mao. That
was not very dangerous, as it appeared to the Nazis, first of all, as a proposal made in patriotic
eagerness, as an idea which, although impracticable, was at least meant to promote the final victory.
( Once, indeed, I came to the wrong address.) The answer, particularly coming from the most
convinced Nazis, was in essence always the following:
Such ideas are very contrary to National Socialism. If they spread, they could also influence the
German soldiers. Very many German soldiers are not National Socialists at all and anyhow, they would
rather stay at home than in the trenches. The enemy could only have to apply this method against Hitler
and Hitler would be in a very difficult position. Apart from this, it is the intention of National
Socialism to increase the military spirit in the whole world, to educa
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te men to think like soldiers, that is, to become disciplined and obedient. To draft plans for the whole is
not the concern of just anybody. The Fuehrer appoints for this people he can trust. Thus let us talk
about something else.
The Nazis were quite right from their point of view. I recognized with great satisfaction that Fascism
cannot apply the system which is used today by Mao. Fascism has to despise such ideas and even to
prosecute them for the same reason that Napoleon despised and prosecuted the German 'ideology'. He
saw, rightly, that there was a power much stronger than his great army, comparable to a heap of gun
powder. This may lie, seemingly quite harmless, in some dry and quiet corner, for a hundred years.
Then a single spark falls into it. No totalitarianism can then prevent this powder from exploding.
The system is a kind of political Jiu Jitsu. It uses the enemy's own power against him. Once this
principle has been widely spread, then only those governments could conduct wars whose promises
would be trusted even by the enemy's soldiers and who would simultaneously have propagated a good
peace program.
It is possible to make all preparations for this in peacetime. Better still these preparations can be made
with the knowledge that the enemy cannot interpret them as a hostile act. The advocates of the system
will in their own country be considered as superpatriots who want to lead their country to victory
under all circumstances. Thus they would play a role very different from that played formerly by
pacifists. A danger like that confronting the old peace lovers does not exist for them.
As for myself, I will demand, as far as one will listen to me, that the German Federal Government and
also all German States declare publicly:
In case of war all soldiers of powers hostile to us can call at all our offices and troop units and declare
that they will no longer fight for the enemy regime. We will not treat them as prisoners of war but as
guests and neutral aliens. They can go where they want to go, foreign neutral countries included.
During the first 6 months after their defection, these soldiers should be paid like civil servants, in cases
of doubt like those of the Post Office. In this period the soldiers need not work, if they do not want to.
Afterwards and without any qualifications, the rules for neutral foreigners should apply to them.
When these soldiers want to return home, they should be given sufficient funds for travelling expenses,
enough food, and also a sum of money which would permit them to live on it for 3 months. Officers
should get a still better treatment, in analogous application of the rules of the Hague Convention on
Land warfare.
Should the war not be finished within the abovementioned 6 months, then these soldiers should
nevertheless have claims to the privileges listed here, for up to 6 months after the ending of hostilities
in case they still reside in the republic.
After the victory over its enemies, the republic will endeavor to give the so far hostile countries a
constitution essentially like the own one. Under no circumstances will the republic conduct retaliatory
measures after its victory or insist on reparations. It will leave the punishment of war criminals to those
countries in which they can be arrested.
Such a declaration, above only described in its essentials, would have to be supplemented by
declarations on the payment of weapons brought along by the defectors. It would be simple to compile
such a price list. Weapons handed over would be paid for at the same rates which the manufacturers of
war materials receive. Details would have to be publicized: An airplane: 1 million dollars, a machine
gun: $ 200, a telescope: $10 dollars, etc.
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For atomic bombs the following rule should apply:
Whosoever surrenders one will thereupon and for the rest of his life receive the same salary as the
president of the republic. Whosoever could prove that he destroyed one before it could do any harm,
should receive the same.
Everyone should promote the inclusion of such clauses in the constitution of whatever country he lives
in. He should also encourage his friends in other countries to insist upon the same towards their
governments. The relevant articles of the constitution should be announced by radio at least once every
week and should be proclaimed in all civilized languages. A few months later on, every man on Earth
will then know how to behave in any future war.
It seems to be that such a procedure promises to be more successful than all petitions to all the
governments in the world to financially support peace efforts. How far all governments are from such
intentions is proven by the fact that the UN is so insufficiently supported that it could not provide
people like the Count Bernadotte with a bodyguard.
The idea described here is in reality a very old one and was often put into practice 2000 years ago by
the Romans. Montesquieu remarked in his 'Considerations sur la grandeur des romains', that it was
always a tactic of
the Senate to constitute immediately, in case of war, a governmentinexile opposed to the enemy
government. With this countergovernment they concluded an alliance. Many enemy soldiers, who
would never have deserted to the Romans, did without hesitation defect to the alternative government.
Something similar was tried even in Europe now and then and mostly with success. During the war
against Napoleon I, in 1814/5, the Bourbons were used as an alternative government. Very many
Frenchmen who would never have deserted to the Prussians defected nevertheless without much ado to
the Bourbons saying to themselves: 'Indeed, they did not rule very well but at least one could live under
them and they are certainly better than the Prussians, Russians and Austrians. (It so happened that the
government of Louis XVIII was the best which France has had up to then, much better than the rule of
the famous Henry IV, France advancing during the 10 years of Louis XVIII in every respect faster than
during any former 10 year period.)
The Jews have for their Passover a special ritual. This is read in the family circle. (The Jews form the
only religious community known to me with such a practice.) Subject of the ritual is the discussion of
the general strike of the Jews during the building of the two towns Raamses and Pithom, under the
wellknown Pharaoh. Families abiding by this ritual are thereby induced to speak at least once a year
on subjects outside of the ordinary household sphere. In the families of other nations, for thousands of
years, only household matters are discussed.
I envision a ritual for use in peaceloving families, read on a great holiday, e. g., the 1st. of May, in the
same way in these families as is the Passover ritual.
Long after I am dead, a better writer than myself will write this ritual."
APPENDIX 19
LET US TURN WARS INTO ELECTION CAMPAIGNS!
The principle of majority rule that the will of the temporary majority, as determined in periodic and
free elections, is decisive in most political affairs
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has often been praised because it avoids unnecessary bloodshed. The majority, as the strongest force,
would have its way anyway but without peaceful elections it could obtain the changes desired by it
only through the use of force.
There are several errors in majority democratic thinking but the basic idea, that elections prevent
bloodshed, is right. (That minority autonomy would further improve this situation is selfevident to
me.)
The problem is how to apply this basic peacepromoting experience to international situations, how to
do this without falling for the world State and world federation fallacies and without suppressing
minority and individual rights.
If there were some kind of world authority, some kind of world police force, to ensure free elections on
both sides or if there existed a general respect among all parties for the principle of free elections
(which does not imply majority rule at all!) then the problem would already be solved. The problem we
are confronted with is: How to apply the principle of free elections, of free choice, for the majorities,
for minorities and for individuals, when this as well as other elementary freedoms are suppressed, in
whole countries, and when citizens and their possessions and earnings are arbitrarily conscripted and
forced to fight us, coerced to sacrifice or at least risk their lives and property to satisfy the aspirations
of their power hungry rulers?
This seems to be a situation where the election principle could not possibly be applied, where we, in
defence, should shoot first and ask questions later.
Nevertheless, even in this desperate situation a totalitarian power forcing its subjects to attack the
citizens of a relatively free State the main idea of elections could still be applied and it could reduce
the use of defensive force to the absolutely required minimum: that required for a true police protection
of the lives and property of all involved, provided only they are basically innocent, even when they are
enemy soldiers, or that they are noncombatants, like women, children and old people.
Only some confused ideas on our side prevent a fargoing application of the election principle.
We are too much used to think only in terms of ballot boxes as a means of voting.
We are used to think of every uniformed and armed member of the enemy's army as an enemy,
ignoring that most likely he is a conscript and that he has no reasons to love his rulers, at least not as
much that he would like to sacrifice himself for them. (The Soviet army has the strictest military
discipline of all!) As an armed citizen he is, basically, as innocent as other citizens, civilians, although,
admittedly, he is potentially very dangerous to us.
We ought to become more aware that he is potentially very dangerous not only towards us but also
towards his rulers, that he is at least potentially one of our natural allies.
What would mean free choice, as opposed to military discipline, for the dictators' soldiers?
An old English proverb answers this question: A dictator can conscript, arm, organize and train his
soldiers and lead them, or rather send them, to the slaughterhouse as one might lead a horse to the
water. But one cannot really make soldiers fight for the same reason as one cannot make a horse
drink.
With some help, though, from our side, a dictator might achieve some fighting spirit among his
soldiers. This is the point where our future "election campaigns" should come in.
As in other elections, the campaign should start as early as possible before election day or the day of
battle.
As normal election methods are not allowed or possible under the circumstances, we should as far as
possible encourage and support alternative methods, like "voting with ones feet" fleeing or deserting
and voting by resistance, military insurrection, revolution, territorial and exterritorial secession,
transfer of loyalty to a right rightful government in exile etc.
Campaign appeals to promote this kind of voting should be publicized as much as possible, e.g. by
broadcasting and leaflet distribution by means of balloons.
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To make sure we get a good turnout of "voters" of this kind, we ought naturally to pursue just policies
like:
a) Rightful war aims no conquests, protection of individual rights.
b) An end to collectivist threats e.g. with nuclear mass murder weapons
c) Realization of the right to obtain asylum.
d) Not only that but realization of the right to migrate freely.
e) Change of our prisoner of war policy so that involuntary soldiers and deserters are treated as allies or
neutral guests instead of as enemies.
f) Recognition of exterritorial and autonomous communities formed by released prisoners, by deserters
and refugees.
g) Recognition of all rightful governmentsinexile.
h) Recognition of and respect for individual rights of the enemy's subjects as well as of the own fellow
citizens.
Civil wars have to a large extent already been eliminated by internal electioneering as far as it can be
done in a nonpanarchic society. In a panarchic society the free choice principle is supreme,
everywhere applied and would eliminate the civil war danger completely, at least in the long run.
Let us therefore perfect the principle of individual free choice or free voting and let us also apply it in
the international sphere. Let each change sides freely and thus vote for the government, nation, or
community of his individual preference and let him be subject only to it. Let each even set up his own
little nation if he wants to and can afford it. Only tolerance for tolerant secession and tolerant voluntary
associations is required.
Most enemies would then be separated by exterritorial and voluntary segregation They would thus lose
their motives and opportunities for making war against each other and would have a rational basis for
peaceful coexistence.
APPENDIX 20
DEMOCRATIC NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT?
Anyone waiting for recognized experts to abolish the danger of an atomic war, to point out a way to
control a nuclear disarmament agreement, to ease the international tensions etc., is up for many
disappointments. People with this attitude only try to find an excuse for not thinking themselves.
Quite apparently, there exist no recognized experts for these problems. Otherwise, a solution would
have been proposed and realized long ago.
People considered to be experts do have no difficulties in getting their opinions and proposals
published and all proposals made so far, by men the men thought to be authorities on the subject,
turned out to be unworkable. There are no experts in this field. Nobody can be an expert with regard to
anything new, be it a new invention or a method to destroy all atomic weapons.
Consequently, you are as much of an expert concerning how to avoid nuclear war as anyone else. You
should, therefore, make use of your own intelligence, without any false modesty and without further
hesitation and you might achieve something. Do not wait until someone else does the necessary
thinking for you. It might be too late then. Your own life and those of your family and friends are at
stake, too.
How much so?
American scientists stated, years ago, and nobody has contradicted them as yet, as far as I know
excepting estimates of shorter periods that atomic war will certainly occur within the next 50 years,
even if we consider only the chances of it being started by accident and by one of the atomic powers.
As there are more and more atomic powers, our life expectance becomes reduced to a smaller and
smaller fraction of 50 years. As most readers see such news complacently, they seem to have lost their
instinct for selfpreservation or their statist religion has blinded them: they wait for their saviour, the
State. They con
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sider themselves unable to find the solution and so they do not make the slightest effort.
Let us, therefore, give it a try right now ourselves. No matter what the outcome of our thinking will be,
it will certainly not be realized straight away and even if it were put into practice immediately, it could
hardly be worse than an atomic war.
There is, astonishingly, one general agreement between all governments and all people, about one
fundamental step which ought to be taken to avoid the immediate danger of an atomic war: a
sufficiently controlled destruction of all atomic weapons. Everybody is expert enough to recognize the
need for this and all governments have repeatedly declared this to be their final aim. But this is as far as
our present knowledge and agreement goes. Nobody, at least among those who are still recognized as
authorities, knows how to achieve this aim.
Technically, the disarmament represents no problem. The atomic weapons can be destroyed. The
critical radioactive mass could be rendered harmless by subdivision and dissolving and thinning it out
and then spreading it from tankers or aircraft, e .g. over the seven seas, by burying it in deep mines or
shooting it with rockets into the sun. Costly as all these disposal processes would be, they would cost
probably far less than the production of these materials which consisted mainly in concentrating and
refining the natural deposits.
The question is only: who is in a position and is really willing and able to carry out this proposal?
The governments are certainly unable to do so. Both sides have repeatedly tried and failed to come to a
disarmament agreement containing provisions for the necessary mutual control and they made no
secret of their failures and their inability although they still feed us with promises.
It would be an interesting discussion to clear up why they cannot possibly come to such an agreement.
Let us, for the time being, simply accept this as a fact.
The governments, being unable to achieve the declared and undisputed aim: destruction of all atomic
weapons, there remains but one group which might be able to achieve it: the people themselves, you
and me, no matter how nonsensical this may sound at first.
I know the objections you will raise. But let us, at least in this discussion, put them aside and give the
people a fair chance in our speculation to do their best to save themselves.
It is one of the oldest pacifistic demands that the people themselves should decide about war and peace.
They have usually peaceful intentions. They would gain most by peace and they always lose most by
war.
The authority to decide about war and peace does naturally include the authority to decide about
armament and disarmament.
Are the people willing and able to destroy the atomic weapons?
I maintain that they are willing to do so, given the chance, for they have nothing to win in an atomic
war. They do not want the power to destroy a whole country or even a whole continent and its
population with a few bombs. They would not have developed and built these weapons in the first
place. They could not afford fallout shelters for themselves, comparable to those for members of
governments. They must therefore expect to be wiped out if it came to war. Irrespective of their
national, racial, religious and cultural differences, the men in the street, in all countries, would not gain
any advantage by the suppression and exploitation of other people. They never really had and
colonialism isn't popular any more.
Would the people be able to destroy all atomic weapons? Citizen participation would mean the best
control possible. It would assure that in the long run all atomic weapons, even those concealed by some
nationalists, would be destroyed. The people are for all practical purposes omnipresent on Earth and
their popular arguments in favour of complete nuclear disarmament would lead rapidly to the betrayal
of every nuclear arms conspiracy attempted.
The actual disarming and dismantling of the atomic weapons would have to be done by
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nuclear technicians and scientists but under the direct supervision, by the people, under the eyes of
TV cameras etc.
Assuming that the people are able and willing to destroy the atomic devices, there remains only the
question whether they are free to do so. In other words, would the governments, which are unable to
destroy the atomic weapons, allow the people to go ahead with this task? So far the governments have
not made a single step in this direction nor have the people anywhere clearly asked for this authority.
Nowhere in the world do governments allow the people to act in such affairs. Being, as they openly
admit, unable to do it themselves, they still hold that it is their monopoly to do so. In democratic
countries they do not even permit a referendum concerning these affairs and in the totalitarian states the
people are suppressed anyhow.
Does this mean that the people too, are now and forever unable to destroy the atomic weapons because
they cannot get the permission to do so by those who at least formally are nothing more than their
servants?
The present condition only implies that before the people can begin to save themselves and the
governments from the danger of an atomic war, they will have to gain sufficient freedom of action
first. In the totalitarian States they cannot influence their governments but have to get rid of them. That
this can be done is proven by the history of revolutions. There were more revolutions in our century
than in any century before.
In the democratic States they can introduce the necessary constitutional amendments through their
representatives in parliament threatening to vote against them or informal if they don't.
Before each election they ought to make the candidates swear publicly that they would introduce and
support such amendments within a specified short period.
Would the people on both sides have to destroy their atomic weapons simultaneously?
Would they have to control each other's disarmament actions?
Governments would have to do this, They have reasons, or at least motives, to distrust each other. But
the people, if only they are free to act, cannot be forced into a war by their governments and they have
reasons to trust each other. Why should they be afraid under these conditions? They do have peaceful
intentions and do not want war. Even the democratic countries can hardly get sufficient volunteers and
raise sufficient money to build up armies strong enough to resist a dictator's attack in a conventional
international war. If there were no external threat then they would not be prepared to waste their time
and money for military purposes Thus, as soon as the people on the other side would get their say then
the military threat which their government posed so far, for us and them, would disappear and the
people on our side would have nothing to be afraid of.
But would not the external threat still remain, as long as the people on the other side are still not free to
act? Most likely, the people in the West would become free to act first and they would then still be
under treat of attack by the rulers in she East.
Furthermore, the communist propaganda, as far as it influences the oppressed people, would still make
them afraid of the West.
The people in the West are not afraid of the people in the East but of their communist governments,
their power over their subjects and what they might do with this power. The people in the East, as far
as they are influenced by communist propaganda, are not afraid of us, the people in the West but of our
governments. They have been taught, more or less successfully, to regard them as imperialistic.
Our own fear of the communist rulers and their power is warranted. The fear of many of the suppressed
people of our governments is at least understandable if we regard the following facts:
Our atomic weapons are a real threat to the oppressed Russians and Chinese people, even without
regard to the danger of an accidental atomic war. Not only a power which actually trespasses against a
frontier or a people is to be regarded as aggressive but any preparation for such aggression. Both sides
have left themselves open to this accusation. Our governments have made even more preparations for
this kind of extremely totalitarian and collectivist type of warfare, atomic warfare, than the
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Soviets have. For some years they relied almost entirely on nuclear weapons. Our elected (never
elected on this issue) representatives, our "servants", have stored up sufficient nuclear devices to
destroy all Russian and Chinese people many times over. Is this nothing to be afraid of? By now the
Soviets have probably caught up with or even bypassed this "achievement".
By threatening all Russians with our stockpiles of nuclear devices, our politicians and generals make
the Russian people collectively responsible for the misdeeds of their rulers and drive them thereby into
the arms of their oppressors in much the same way as the indiscriminate air raids against German
cities strengthened Hitler's position and supported his propaganda claim that the Allies intended to
exterminate the German people and destroy all of the country or turn it into grazing lands only, as the
Morgenthau Plan suggested.
With their nuclear stockpiles or their reliance on those of their allies our governments refute the
claim that they desire freedom for the oppressed people. The only thing they offer them thus is death.
Every one of the West's atomic weapons would, if exploded in Russia, murder many more oppressed
Russians than communist party or government members
The Russian people can rightly assume that our governments must be aware of this. Logic leads them
to conclude that our governments have bad intentions towards them and that there is something true
about the Soviet's propaganda. No wonder then that the Soviets do not find it too hard to persuade
many patriotic Russians that they have to make "defence" preparations against us.
Our governments have often tried to come to an agreement with the Soviet rulers. Never did they try to
come to an agreement with the oppressed Russian people. (The explanation for this is not tack of good
will but an extreme lack of imagination, and ignorance of widely accessible knowledge.) Inevitably,
therefore, many Russians distrust our governments. Appealing to and dealing only with their
oppressors, our governments involuntarily put themselves into the same category. The dealings of one
sovereign monarch with another did never inspire confidence among educated people.
Does not all this prove that the people are or believe to be in the same predicament as the governments,
that there is still not enough trust between them to induce them to commence with the disarmament?
Above I had stated that the people on both sides ought to achieve freedom of action first, as a necessary
condition to create trust and allow them to begin with nuclear disarmament, unilaterally, As soon as
this freedom is achieved they could give each other sufficient formal guaranties of their good
intentions.
Would they have to achieve freedom of action at the same time? Would the side which achieved it first
have to wait with the destruction of its atomic weapons until the other side has achieved the same
liberty? Would not a unilaterally disarmed (with regard to nuclear weapons) West be helpless and at
the mercy of the Soviets, as long as the Soviets are not yet overthrown by the Russian people? Yes,
and No.
Undoubtedly, it would make things easier for us if the Russian people acted before us, overthrew the
Soviet regime and destroyed its nuclear weapons. Our nuclear weapons would at the same time become
obviously superfluous, even in the eyes of extreme nationalists and rulers and people in the West
would then generally be willing to destroy these devices. We certainly ought to work towards this aim
and ought to reduce the time interval between our destruction of our atomic bombs and the overthrow
of the Soviet regime to a minimum.
However, we should also develop and spread an advanced, libertarian and revolutionary program on
how to overthrow a dictatorship in our countries. This would help to effectively deter dictators from
trying to defeat and occupy our countries. We ought also deter them with the threat of tyrannicide, in
case they attack us or continue to threaten us with their nuclear arsenal. We ought to conclude separate
peace treaties with their soldiers. We ought to declare and publicize, in a trustworthy way, so rightful
war aims against their despotic regime that its soldiers would not obey if it came to war, but rather
fraternize with us, desert to us or rise against their regime.
We ought to establish much larger conventional military forces than we have now but on a voluntary
basis only. We ought to induce his soldiers to desert him. We ought to establish and recognize rightful
governments in exile against every dictatorship. In these and similar ways we could
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try to defend us against their ruler without harming them, presently still his subjects. We might fail. He
might succeed with nuclear blackmail before he is killed or overthrown. We would then, if we do not
want to commit suicide, have to surrender as a united national force. But afterwards, if only we knew a
good revolutionary program, we could still defeat him with revolutionary methods, after our country
has been occupied by his conscripts. We could get the support of his occupation army for this and our
revolution could quickly spread to his country. This would be our last resort defence of the last resort.
Would there remain any motive for free people not to destroy their atomic weapons unilaterally?
Would they still have to be so afraid of each other to wish to possess the "strongest" weapons
available?
Even if, because of some remaining distrust, they insisted on a multilateral disarmament, they could
carry it out because they could control it sufficiently. This would help them to come quickly even to
such an agreement with the people on the other side.
However, I am convinced that if they clearly declared and publicly and in a trustworthy way
guaranteed their rightful and peaceful intentions, then they would not have to conclude a formal
multilateral disarmament agreement with the people and soldiers on the other side, on a simultaneous
and step by step controlled destruction of atomic weapons.
Then there would be a strong tendency for both sides (apart from their territorial governments) to
begin, onesidedly, to destroy their atomic devices and to do so as quickly as possible, simply to avoid
the danger of atomic war, last not least, of accidental atomic war.
They would realize that as free people they could not be forced into a war. They would know that they
have no territorial ambitions. They do not want to suppress and exploit other people.
They could affirm this e.g. in public meetings and under oath.
These meetings could be attended by foreign journalists and the meetings and their declarations could
be sufficiently broadcast in all major languages.
It is inconceivable that all citizens of a nation would try to lie and deceive and could get away with it
under such conditions.
Likewise, it would not be possible to deceive all citizens of the nation to which these declarations are
addressed.
Once such declarations can be freely made no nation has to be afraid any more. Consequently people
would not hesitate in destroying their government's atomic devices.
Admittedly, the people cannot act as an unorganized mass and without any leaders or initiators.
I think that the best organization would be a volunteer militia for the protection of human rights, with
elected officers.
This organization would make sure that atomic weapons could not be hidden or defended by small
fanatical or criminal groups.
It would at first formally occupy the atomic weapons stores and factories and supervise the destruction
of the weapons and of all facilities for their production.
As soon as one side has made the above indicated public declarations the other side could begin to
destroy the own atomic weapons without qualms. If the people in the West made this promise first,
they would thereby gain the support of the nationalists in the oppressed countries and would thus speed
up the destruction of the atomic weapons in the East.
Even the most moral and sensible promises would not have to be trusted on their own. The
establishment of rightful governments in exile, by refugees and deserters, aiming for the future,
likewise, only at voluntary membership, would be proof for our good intentions, in combination with
the variety of panarchistic communities that we have already established ourselves.
And a few of our most successful panarchies would thoroughly refute the teachings of totalitarian
communism, while the remaining true believers on our side would be free to continue their sado
masochistic system among themselves, at their own expense and risk. Thus even the fanatic
communists on communist regime's side, would not come to fight desperately against us.
The above is the slightly altered text of a talk prepared in the sixties. JZ.
APPENDIX 21
SOME DETAILS ON NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT BY THE PEOPLE.
As the governments are apparently unable to guarantee peace and to destroy the atomic weapons the
people are our last hope, The question is, which steps would the people have to take in order to prevent
war and to achieve the destruction of all atomic weapons? Here are some of the more important steps :
1.) FREEDOM OF ACTION: The people are everywhere, in the West as well as in the East, so
powerless, that they cannot, now, take any direct action immediately. They have to attain freedom of
action first:
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a) BY REFERENDUMS
For the people in the democratic countries in the West, freedom of action means that they would have
to achieve the constitutional right to decide for themselves and directly, in referendums, about war and
peace, armament and disarmament, and international treaties.
The free people could gain this power e.g., by inviting their parliamentary representatives to large
public meetings, in which they would leave them the choice either to vote within a certain time for a
corresponding constitutional amendment or not to be elected again.
b) BY REVOLUTIONS
There is no peaceful way for the suppressed people in the communist countries to gain the necessary
freedom of action. They would have to overthrow their oppressors first, by revolutions, which ought to
begin with well organized military insurrections.
How to incite, organize and finance such revolutions could fill a whole book or even several. Here it
must suffice to state: The suppressed Russian and Chinese people would revolt as soon as we have
assured them of our rightful and peaceful intentions, left them no nationalistic or ideological motive to
fight us and advised them how to organize and finance a successful democratic revolution, one without
much or any bloodshed.
During, or at least after this revolution, these revolutionaries could and would destroy the atomic
weapons of their former oppressors, in the same way and for the same reasons as the people in the
West destroyed the ones of their "democratic" governments.
Should the people in the East win "the nuclear disarmament race", then the overthrow of all their
dictators and the destruction of their atomic weapons would render our atomic weapons quite
superfluous, even in the eyes of extreme nationalists in the West. Thus almost everyone in the West
would then decide in favour of the destruction of our atomic weapons.
2.) DECISION ON A UNILATERAL DESTRUCTION OF THE ATOMIC WEAPONS OF THE
WEST
Let us presume that the already somewhat free people gained the constitutional right to decide about
war and peace, armament and disarmament, and have taken the necessary steps to further a revolt of the
suppressed people. Should they then wait until the suppressed people actually revolt, gain freedom of
action and destroy the atomic weapons of their former rulers or should the free people destroy the
atomic weapons on their side first, onesidedly?
The atomic strength policy is unjustified and wrong.
It involves the certainty of an accidental atomic war or of an atomic war resulting from the nuclear
arms race, both within the next few years.
The nuclear deterrent is not reliable. If is either too strong to prevent another world war with
conventional weapons or does not deter all men in power sufficiently. Most of the deterrent effect is
directed against the wrong people, the unprotected and suppressed subjects of a dictator and in them it
provokes an undesirable reaction.
We cannot defend ourselves with atomic weapons.
They cannot really be regarded as weapons.
Leaving them in the hands of a few people, who are, after all, but human beings, may cause an atomic
war.
The nuclear strength policy is morally indefensible because it makes the suppressed citizens
collectively responsible for actions of their suppressors.
This policy takes a risk which should never be taken: Extermination of mankind.
Instead of making us strong, it weakens us in many respects.
There are completely justified and more suitable means for avoiding an atomic war and defending
ourselves without atomic weapons even against a government armed with atomic weapons.
We, the free people should therefore decide, in a referendum, to destroy all our atomic weapons one
sidedly and immediately and should ask everybody to help control and supervise this disarmament and
to follow our example.
The slight protection we gained from the possession of atomic weapons would have to be replaced by
the deterrent and defensive measures mentioned below.
3.) ORGANIZATION FOR CARRYING OUT THE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
After the referendum the people would have to organize themselves to carry out its resolution.
The best type of organization would be a militia of volunteers.
It should be established by another referendum.
These volunteer soldiers would have to swear to fight for nothing but the Human Rights and would
have to fight
according to a new strategy based on the recognition of these rights.
They would be armed with rightful weapons only, that is weapons which are not meant for mass
destruction and mass murder but which can be used discriminately.
These soldiers would retain all their Human Rights, especially freedom of speech, press and assembly.
They would elect their officers and,
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if it is justified, recall or resist them.
They would be part time soldiers and would replace the standing armies.
Their "OnTheMinuteMan" system would allow them to mobilize in time to repel any sudden attack.
4.) HOW COULD THE PEOPLE CARRY OUT THE RESOLUTION OF THE DISARMAMENT
REFERENDUM?
The armed citizens organized in the above described militia, would occupy all stores of nuclear
weapons and installations for their production, including most of the nuclear reactors, and would
confiscate all atomic weapons and raw materials for their production.
With the assistance and under the supervision of the militia, experts would then have to take the fuses
of these weapons and dismantle them. The potentially explosive content of atomic weapons consists of
radioactive isotopes. These cannot be destroyed except by a nuclear chain reaction. But these materials
can be rendered harmless by other means. They could e.g. be dispersed to such an extent that they
would become as harmless as the natural deposits of radioactive elements, from which most of them
have been derived and amassed in a long and costly process.
The first step in this direction would be to subdivide each radioactive mass under all necessary
precautions into many equal parts, each amounting to a small fractions of the critical mass, and then
to place each such part into an insulated container. Each container should then be given into the
custody of a local militia unit.
Finally, all necessary preparations made, these radioactive materials would be collected and under
guard and control of the militia, dissolved, diluted, and spread e.g. over the seven seas by tankers or
aircraft. (Now I rather favour shooting them into the sun or into space or onto a useless moon of one of
the other planets. J.Z., 24.10.01.)
The active and voluntary participation of almost all citizens would guarantee that finally all atomic
weapons of the West would be found and destroyed, even those secreted away before or after the
referendum by government officials or high ranking military officers believing in nuclear deterrence or
defence. The people would either find the hiding places or hear about them.
Let us suppose that the folly, danger and criminality of the nuclear strength policy has been generally
recognized and that the vast majority of the people has decided in favour of the onesided destruction
of atomic weapons. Soon afterwards all atomic weapons which could be easily found would be
destroyed. All former army units issued with atomic weapons would be disbanded. Those of their
members who secreted some atomic weapons away, would be forced to take up peaceful jobs and live
among people with other opinions. They would inevitably talk with them about the problems and
dangers created by the hidden atomic weapons. They would thus learn to know and to appreciate
opinions other than their own and under these circumstances some of them would soon recognize the
truth about atomic weapons and would betray the hidingplaces.
5.) PRECAUTIONS AND SAFEGUARDS WHICH HAVE TO ACCOMPANY THE ONESIDED
DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST"S ATOMIC WEAPONS AND WHICH WOULD FINALLY
ACHIEVE THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ATOMIC WEAPONS OF OUR ENEMIES.
a) MILITIA
The abovementioned militia would be a conventionally armed force of a strength sufficient to deter
any attack with conventional weapons or to defend us successfully.
b) TYRANNICIDE
The deterrent power of our nuclear arsenal, a power unreliable but still to a certain degree effective,
would have to be replaced by rightful, more reliable and, for the suppressed people, harmless means.
One of these would be the oaths of thousands of free and responsible citizens, given in large public
meetings, to sacrifice their lives, if necessary, in fulfillment of their duty as human beings and citizens,
to execute, at the first opportunity, every dictator who uses or threatens to use nuclear weapons or who
keeps them in readiness.
In order not to drive such dictators to desperate steps (they are simultaneously threatened by revolution,
war, and competitors for power and may not see a safe way out), we should accompany our deterrent
threat with a serious offer of amnesty, protection
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and even a lifetime pension for every dictator who abdicates and asks for asylum in the Free World,
provided he does this within a certain period. If he destroyed an atomic weapon or handed it over to us,
we should promise to welcome him even after the amnesty period has expired. In a referendum the
people should fix high awards for those who actually execute a tyrant. From such public declarations in
the free countries the idea of tyrannicide would spread everywhere, as ideas do not respect frontiers.
Consequently, the dictators would probably not be executed by those who first made the above
promises but by some of their subjects.
c) PROGRAMME FOR A REVOLUTION
The threat of tyrannicide is less likely to fail as a deterrent than the threat with atomic weapons. But if f
it should fail then the people could help themselves in another way:
The people could learn how to organize and finance a successful democratic revolution against a
dictatorship, a revolution without much bloodshed. This knowledge would be a safeguard in case the
dictator is not deterred by fear of tyrannicide, is not killed or overthrown in time, but prepares an attack
or threatens us with atomic weapons. What dictator would dare to attack us once a sufficient number of
our men had sufficient knowledge of such a revolutionary program? By attacking us he would then
only speed up his own overthrow. We could overthrow his rule as quickly as he could impose it and, as
a consequence of our revolt, our revolutionary ideas would all the more quickly spread in his own
country.
With such a revolutionary knowledge we could simply surrender, unconditionally, as soon as the first
atomic bomb has been used against us or, better still, shortly before it would be used. Afterwards after
our countries are occupied, we could revolt successfully, together with the occupying force of e. g., the
Red Army, against the Soviet rulers. The risk taken would only be that of a temporary occupation.
In order to weigh this proposal one has to consider that at present we run much larger risks. We are in
danger of being defeated with conventional weapons or, worse still, of being annihilated in an atomic
war, started by an accident, as a result of the arms race or the unreliability of the nuclear deterrent
The above proposal would avoid these dangers, avoid most of the sacrifices and destructions of a war
and turn an apparent defeat into an apparent victory.
Such a revolutionary program can easily be compiled and it is not too difficult for reasonably
intelligent and interested men to understand and apply it. This knowledge would spread together with
the ideas in favour of a unilateral destruction of our atomic weapons.
d) OVERTHROW OF ALL DICTATORSHIPS
It is almost selfevident that the free people should not only prepare themselves for a possibly
necessary insurrection against a future conqueror but should incite and support military insurrections
and revolutions now in the suppressed countries. Only in this way could they make sure that in the
future nobody would be able to threaten them with extinction. Once all dictatorships are overthrown,
most of the danger of war would be abolished. Afterwards, almost nobody would hesitate to destroy all
atomic weapons. The revolutionaries would destroy all atomic weapons of their former oppressors.
In order to further this disarmament we should guarantee a high reward for everybody who destroys an
atomic weapon or hands it over to us. But the main incentive and support the free people would have to
give, would be the propagation of a good revolutionary program. We should have the moral sense,
intelligence, incentives, time and energy to develop it. In this book only some hints can be given. In
Peace Plans 6163 the program has already been developed to some extent, waiting for further
improvements by others.
e) SEPARATE PEACE TREATY WITH THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE
Simultaneously with the above measures, the free and democratic people should enter into peace and
disarmament negotiations directly with the suppressed people, ignoring their rulers. We could contact
them by radio broadcasts and leaflets dropped from balloons. It is almost impossible to jam the long
wave transmissions and the ultra short waves cannot be jammed. East Germany spends about $ 8
million a year to prevent East Germans from tuning in. Some 600 jamming stations are at work
throughout the country. In spite of these efforts RIAS, Berlin, estimates that its programs are heard by
70% of all East German radio listeners. One could object that the oppressed people have no
opportunity to answer us and to negotiate with us. They have not even a chance to declare that they
want to accept our offers. But this means only that our offers would have to be of a so attractive kind
that their acceptance could be presumed and that they would not need and written or oral replies or
acceptances. They should induce them to
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overthrow their dictators and destroy their atomic weapons. These actions would be their conclusive
answers.
We should offer the oppressed people our friendship and assistance in gaining the freedom to exercise
all their Human Rights and should offer them a separate peace without conquests, reparations or other
punitive measures based on collective responsibility.
In this offer we should declare
that we consider ourselves at peace with all people who respect the human rights,
that our sole aim is to establish the rule of human rights everywhere,
that we regard everybody who respects the human rights as our friend and ally, no matter what kind of
allegiance or nationality is at present forced upon him.
We should declare that in case their oppressors are not killed in time, as tyrants, or overthrown by a
military insurrection but are temporarily still in power and attacking our countries, then we would be
fighting only against these dictators and their few voluntary followers.
We would make as certain as is humanly possible that no innocent persons would be hurt.
We would instead treat them as our friends and allies, e.g, by not using atomic weapons, by not treating
prisoners and deserters as enemies and POWs, by not making them in any way collectively responsible
for actions of their rulers.
By public declarations to that effect the free people would be able to create an atmosphere of mutual
trust between themselves and the people on the other side.
We would prove our rightful intentions by a corresponding' treatment of refugees in peace time.
The trust thus established would overcome their nationalistic feelings and fears directed against us and
would redirect their national sentiments into the right direction, against their oppressors.
They would come to recognize that they could overthrow their oppressors and destroy their atomic
weapons without endangering their countries.
In other words : The publication of our just war aims and our new strategy, based on human rights, if
only published in time, months, or better still, years before a war, would prevent war because it would
lead to the overthrow of all dictators by their own subjects.
One might object that e.g. the Russian or Chinese people would not believe our declarations and
promises. They would be too much influenced by communist propaganda. This propaganda must be
presumed to be effective to a certain extent. But, it would only have induced them not to trust any
promises made by our governments and to trust all the more promises made by us, the people, whom
they were led to believe are victims of imperialistic and exploitative governments.
Our enlightening propaganda could point out to them that we and they do have a common interest.
Their regime's propaganda would help our efforts, for it presupposes that we are the poor and exploited
victims of a capitalistic and imperialistic system. Therefore, it would not hinder but rather help us to
come to an understanding with the Russian and Chinese people.
Furthermore, there would be several guaranties that promises and declarations made directly by use the
people, could be trusted:
a) One guarantee would be the unilateral destruction of all atomic weapons in the West. Even Soviet
government inspectors, invited to control this disarmament, would confirm this fact.
b) The realization of all human rights in the West would prove that we intend to help them to realize
these rights, too, for themselves, and that our intentions are peaceful.
c) In a referendum we should decide that all of our soldiers should cease to be bound by their military
oath and would be obliged to revolt against our governments in the unlikely case that our
governments would instigate a war for insufficient or suspect reasons e.g., in case a general of the Red
Army begins a military insurrection, destroying the atomic weapons of the Soviets and a Western
government would then give the order to attack and conquer Russia, regarding it as sufficiently
weakened for the time being.
d) All our, promises and declarations would be made publicly and would be sufficiently broadcast. All
interested people would be invited to witness them. A few ministers and diplomats may lie and deceive
others. A whole nation could not do so. Knowing this, the oppressed people would trust us and act
accordingly.
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6.) REALIZATION OF ALL HUMAN RIGHTS
Realization of all human rights in the West would possibly be the most important step. It would create
a just, free, peaceful and wealthy society in the West.
It would mean the abolition of unemployment exploitation, inflation and deflation, monopolies,
housing shortage etc. and of the suppression of racial, national and ideological minorities.
It would deprive even convinced communists of all ideological and national motives for fighting us.
Sooner or later it would force the communist rulers to imitate our reforms because they do not want to
fall too far behind us in economic development. (Compare the adoption of some economic liberties
even in Communist China.) A disparity in this respect would also decrease their relative military power
because it largely depends on productive power. Once they had given their subjects some economic
freedoms, their would demand more and the wealthier they became by these reforms, the more political
freedoms they would demand.
The example set by our realization of all human rights would give them a common aim and a sufficient
motive for overthrowing their dictators and the knowledge of all human rights would also show them
the way how to achieve freedom and peace.
7.) REORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY ON A VOLUNTARIST BASIS
Once the people are free to act and know their human rights, they would reorganize society in a way to
deprive all people, now and forever, of all reasons motives and powers to build, keep and use atomic
weapons, and in a way to give all citizens reasons, motives, and powers to destroy all atomic weapons.
They could do so by applying the experience of the different churches, gained after centuries of
religious wars. This experience can be summed up in two words: religious tolerance.
This tolerance guaranties religious freedom to the adherents of every belief, even to atheists.
Application of the principle of tolerance in the economic, social, and political sphere would mean that
the same change would have to take place with regard to States which has taken place with the
churches.
Formerly they were supreme powers, ruling over certain territories and involuntary subjects. People
regarded as heretics were tortured and burnt, whole sects were exterminated.
Today the churches are no longer confined to any territory. The are more or less exterritorially
autonomous, deciding, to some extent autonomously, their own internal affairs. Membership is
voluntary; consequently they can coexist peacefully and tolerantly. Any remaining arguments between
them are not carried out with swords but words.
Their support could be gained for the desired rightful and sensible constitutional reform, but assuring
them of full exterritorial autonomy as well.
The same condition that religious liberty has achieved between Churches, wherever and whenever it
was seriously tried, has to be achieved for States. Territorial and sovereign States with involuntary
members have to be transformed into exterritorial and autonomous communities of volunteers, each
with its own government, constitution, administration, legislation, jurisdiction and ideology.
Their only common bases would be the human rights, membership in a rightful militia for the
protection of individual rights, and their common interest in preserving their voluntarism and their
exterritorial autonomy.
This new just, and peaceful organization could be achieved by realizing two simple single new rights,
still missing in all official human rights declarations, namely:
1.) the right to leave a State in the same way as one may leave a church and
2.) the right to undertake any kind of social, economic and political experiment at the own cost and risk
among volunteers, without let or hindrance by the majority.
This would mean exterritorial and autonomous volunteer communities established upon these two
rights, all over the world.
Like the similarly organized churches of today, they would possess neither the power nor a motive to
prepare or make war against one another.
Nevertheless, they would still be very powerful allies against all totalitarians.
They would e.g. not think of building and storing nuclear weapons because the explosion of each of
these, wherever it took place, would kill many of their followers
They would be unable to build and store such devices because the other communities, with whom they
coexisted in the same territory, would immediately notice such preparations and intervene.
Because they would depend on voluntary contributions they could not even finance the production of
mass extermination devices.
The people in the relatively free countries would have to be the first to realize this farreaching social
reform. For them it would be much easier to take the initiative. They could introduce the above
mentioned new human rights into their constitutions by referendum.
The theory and example of the new tolerant society would unite all the different movements and
organizations opposing a dictatorial regime. At present, as all too often in the past, they fight often
more among themselves than against the dictator. Every resistance movement
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would realize that, after a dictator is overthrown, no new fight for the supreme power would follow.
None of them would be ruled by the other parties. Each of them card realize its program for its own
followers.
The ensuing frictionless cooperation, free exchange and peaceful coexistence, with full independence
for all, for all their internal affairs, and their common interest in international peace between them,
would help to unite all opposition in common efforts against any oppressive regime and would thus
make it comparatively easy for them to overthrow their common enemy. (Imagine, for instance, each of
the at least 7 diverse ethnic groups in Afghanistan were thus assured of complete autonomy. Would
they continue to fight each other? Only the fear that one of these groups, or an ideological or religious
one, might seize and maintain exclusive territorial powers over all of them, keeps them fighting,
seemingly endlessly. Nevertheless, our politicians and "political scientists" and journalists have not yet
taken this alternative into consideration. J.Z., 24.10.01.)
Moreover; this new tolerant system would prevent the minority of a dictator's voluntary followers from
fighting desperately. They themselves would form a minority which would benefit from the new social
organization. They would have the advantage of not having to spend half of their means, energy and
time to rule over and suppress people with different. convictions and would no longer have to defend
their oppressive system against its external enemies, either.
In other words, the onesided realization of the new human right to leave a State as one may leave a
church, and that of experimental freedom or freedom of action, to establish or join the government or
nongovernmental society of one's dreams, would lead to the preconditions for a rightful and peaceful
society and would contribute much to the overthrow of all dictatorships and to their prevention for the
future.
All the abovementioned peace promoting reforms can be achieved by the people themselves, without
any help from their governments, and even against the will of communist dictators.
The above is the paper for a talk in the early sixties. I only revised it slightly now. J.Z., 24.10.01.
APPENDIX 22
SOME EDITORIAL NOTES
Some of my excuses for this all too belated appearance of three more, combined Peace Plans issues: I
spent almost 2 years building a home and sufficient storage place for my papers and books and
finishing touches remain still to be done.
I was also engrossed in a number of writing, talk, archive, directory and collection projects, got some
of my three sons living with me for prolonged periods and tried, as usual, to do too many things at
once.
I acquired an old offset machine, had to get it to work again and again and it took me a while to get
the hang of it because of my lack of mechanical talent.
Correction of typing errors not immediately noticed would have been too awkward and time
consuming with the offset paper plates. But at least you can't complain about too long an interval
between these issues 16 18!
The price had to go up because the costs more than doubled or rather because the government's paper
money went further down.
Current subscriptions will go on at the old level, New ones are $ 12 for 12 issues.
I am beginning to find out the hard way why authors get only about 10% of the retail value of their
books. It took me much less time to write this one than to put it into this still all too imperfect form.
I hate all the tedious work associated with it when every process is largely manual and singlehanded
but what doesn't one do for one's children, even if they are only brain children and adopted ones at
that?
I live rather isolated in a small country village and meeting new libertarian people is a rare pleasure for
me. Thus travelling libertarians are welcome to stay at my place for a few days: 35 Oxley St., Berrima,
N.S.W. 2577, Australia 2577.
It's about 85 miles South of Sydney, on the Hume Highway.
Please let me know address changes. At 48c postage and seeing the cost and labour involved in
producing a single copy, I do not want to lose or misdirect any mailings.
My stack of unanswered letters grows. If I answered them as thoroughly as I would like to, I would not
get around to doing anything else.
One of the reasons for my publishing this series is to avoid having to say the same thing over and over
again in single letters to single people.
Every letter is read and, if thoughtful, does influence my thinking to some extent but I have neither
time nor interest in replying in detail in form of letters. Polite acknowledgments are not my line.
Perhaps, once my archive work is further ahead, I will be largely able to answer with photocopies from
it.
I have finally got myself a secondhand photocopier. To get everything done that I would like to do, I
would need at least 12 lifetimes or 12 likeminded collaborators.
(Since then postage for printed matter has gone up almost prohibitively and my collection has cramped
my space so that I could temporarily host at most only 2 libertarians. My own travelling times seem to
be largely over. There is always too much to do at home and household and gardening chores are much
neglected. J.Z., 24.10.01.)
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I am left here with only one page to express my thanks for lLiterature received in the meantime while
it would take at least 20 to do it some justice.
On a first come, first served basis from a large stack:
Many kept sending their literature for a long time after last hearing from me & some do so still.
Among my favourites are: "The Freeman" and "Notes from FEE", the Foundation for Economic
Education, and Henry Meulen's "The Individualist".
I miss "The Libertarian Connection" for which my subscription has long ago run out and liked
whatever I saw of "reason", "JAG" and "Schism".
But I can hardly afford the books I need to read to keep in touch and rely for magazines mainly on
exchanges. For this I would like the Libertarian Press Association revived under rules fair to
everyone. The one for one exchange was too costly for magazines like "reason". A fair exchange
formula could be developed.
I have always read with great interest "The M. Oliver Newsletter" on New Country developments. But
to consider me as a potential investor you must be kidding! I live largely a handtomouth existence. I
only save ideas.
For years now I have received a complimentary copy of the Canadian Peace Research Institute, a
monthly, which mainly demonstrated only the poverty of new and creative thinking among the
"scientific" peace researchers. Like the Libertarian Connection it is written by and paid for by the
readers: CPRI 514 Chartwell Rd., Oakville, Ont.
For a long time I received "Prevent World War III" by the Society for the Prevention of WW III, 50
West 57th. St., N.Y. 10019. It's full of intelligent observations and articles but accepts, unchecked,
most of the premises of collectivist power politics.
The Intermediate Technology Development Group, 9 King St. Covent Garden, London WC, did put
,out and perhaps does still, an interesting series of Bulletins on how intermediate and relatively cheap
technology could help underdeveloped countries. While it does not deal with the role of economic
freedom in development, e.g. free private investments and monetary freedom, it has much to offer
otherwise. One article e.g. deals with how to start a mimeo newspaper for rural areas on a capital of $
100.
News Digest International, a quarterly forms something like an anticommunist encyclopaedia: PO Box
535, Parramatta, NSW 2150, Australia, $ 3 p a. In a 71 issue it quotes from the Russian Liberation
Army Archives, P.O. 126, Cathedral Station, N.Y. 10025, which publishes material about the Russian
Liberation Movement (O. D. N. R.) established 1956.
I liked what I saw of ELF, put out by Jorj Matiasz, Box 257 Merritt College, U.C.S.C. Santa Cruz
Calif. 95060, a Leftright libertarian journal.
Vonulife, the newsletter for nomadic Libertarians, does, I hope, still exist: Box 458 Cave Junction,
Oregon; 97523, "A vonuan (to us) is someone who lives and lets live, and lives more than half the time
out of sight, sound and mind of those unwilling to let live." $ 4 for 6 issues brimful of smallprint
material.
"Paideia" is an occasional publication of the Hegeler Institute, P.O. Box 10, La SalLe, Illinois 61301
mainly concerned with freedom in education.
I liked "A is A: Directory Issue, Libertarian Periodicals" but it ought to be updated by now. Perhaps the
Libertarian Yearbook planned for 75 will fill the vacancy.
A is A has left.
Agorafund, c. o. Mark Brady , 53 Fife Rd., Kingston, Surry, U.K., promised 15% dividends to
libertarians investing in libertarian enterprises. Does it still operate successfully and has it made now
provision to cover investors against the inflation risk?
For many years I have gratefully received: The Intercollegiate Review, a quarterly journal of
libertarianconservative articles and book reviews of a high standard: Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
14 Sth. Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 19010. "To educate for liberty" is its motto. Free to faculty
members.
Among my unexpected pleasures during the last few years was the receipt of a complimentary copy of
Dagobert D. Runes' "Handbook of Reason", $ 6, from the Philosophical Library, 15 East, 40th. St.,
New York, N.Y. 10016, an encyclopaedia written by a reasonable man against the fads and fallacies of
our time. Not explicitly libertarian but of great value. Afterwards I gladly bought his "Treasury of
Thought", same publisher).
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INDEX OF HEADLINES IN THE ALPHABETICAL SECTION
Abdication
Abortion
Accidental war
Action/freedom of
Acuteness of danger
Aggression
Agoric Revolution
Aircraft
Air raids
Alcohol
Alien Acts
Alternatives
Amnesty
Anarchy
Annexations
Anticommunism
Antiman attitudes
Antisemitism
Apathy
Appeals
Arabs
Arbitration courts
Archive of Ideas
Arms races
Association/freedom of
Atomic energy
Authoritarianism
Automated warfare
Autonomy
Avoidance
Backfiring of nucl. weapons
Balance of power
Ban the bomb
Bases/foreign
Bet/ the ultimate
Bigness/wrong ideas
Bill of rights
Biological warfare
Blackmail/nuclear
Bombmakers & bomb users
Blockade
Bombers
Boredom
Boundaries
Boycotts
Brinkmanship
Broadcasting
Brotherhood
Bureaucracy
Canals
Captive Nations
Career soldiers
Carpet bombing
Capitalism
Causal thinking
Causes of nuclear war
Censorship
Centralization
Chaos
Chemical warfare
Children's rights
China/communist
Cities/alliances
Civil Defence
Civilians
Class warfare ideology
Cobalt bombs
Coexistence
Collective responsibility
Collective security
Command economy
Common man
Common sense
Communication
Communism
Competing Governments
Compromises
Compulsion
Computers
Conferences
Conflicting interests
Conquests
Conscientious Objection
Conscription
Consent
Conservation
Conspiracy
Constitution
Contacts
Contract/freedom of
Control
Control/nuclear disarm.
Cooperative production
Counter terror
Credulity
Criminals
Cultural revolution
Death cell
Death wish
Decentralization
Decision making
Declarations
Defence
Definitions
Deflation
Delegation
Democracy
Demonstrations
Denationalization
Depression
Destruction/nucl. weap.
Desertion
Deterrence
Development
Dictatorship
Diplomacy
Disarmament/multilateral
Disarmament/unilateral
Discipline/military
Discrimination
Disobedience
Diversity
Doomsday bomb
Drugs
Duties
Economic freedom
Economic warfare
Ecology
Education
Election of officers
Elite Emigration
Emotional way of life
Employeremployee relationship
Employment
Encyclopaedia of refutations
Enemy
Energy Resources
Enlightenment
Enthusiasm
Escalation risk
Escapism
Espionage
Ethics
Evil
Experimental freedom
Experiments/nuclear
Experts
Extermination camps
Exterritorial imperative
Extraterrestrial intervention
Failsafe?
Fear
Federation
Financing resistance
Flow chart debates
Foolishness Force
Foreign Aid
Foreign policy
Formosa
Freedom
Freedom of action
Freedom of association
Freedom of contract
Freedom/economic
Freedom of expression
Free migration
Free Trade
Frontiers
Future
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Garbage removal
Gas warfare
Generals
General strike
Governments
Governments in exile
Greed
Hierarchical mode of prod.
Hiroshima
Honor
Hostage system
How? nucl. war prevention
Human nature
Human rights/individual
Human rights /UN
Ideas archive
Ideas/large
Ideas/outdated
Ideas/power
Ignorance
Immigration restrictions
Immorality
Impeachment
Imperialism
Indiscriminate warfare
Individualism
Individual responsibility
Individuals/power to
Individual sovereignty
Inflation
Information/freedom of
Inspection/nucl. disarm.
Instincts/human rights
Institutions/coercive
Interest/in one's own affairs
International corporations
International laws of war
Intolerance/territorial
Invasions
Investments/foreign
Isotopes
Israel
Jiu Jitsu
Jurisdiction
Justice
Laissez faire
Land monopoly
Language
Law and order
Laws
Leadership
Liberation wars
Libertarianism
Liberty
Licensing
Liquidation/governments
Live with nucl. weapons?
Love
Love of life
Loyalty
Madness of rulers
Majority
Man
Market
Mass media
Mass murder
Mercenaries
Middle East
Migration
Military insurrections
Military organization
Military program
Military targets
Militia
Mining of Uranium
Minority autonomy
Miscalculations
Modern weapons
Monetary despotism
Monetary freedom
Monopolies
Moral instinct
Morality
Motives for war
Murder
Myths
Nationalism
Natural resources
Necessary evil?
Negotiations
Neutrality
No government
Non aggression pacts?
Noncombatants
Nonviolent steps
Nth. power problem
Nuclear attack
NuclearFreeZones
Nuclear reactors
Nuclear science
Nuclear strength
Nuclear umbrellas
Oath/human rights
Obedience
Oil
Open Air Speaking Places
Open cities
Open cooperatives
Open seas
Opting out
Options, peaceful
Outlawry
Overestimation
Overpopulation theory
Panarchy
Parallel institutions
Participatory democracy
Parties
Peace
Peace declarations
"Peaceful" use of at. energy
Pension claims/loss of
People/selfhelp
Personal Law
Planning/centralized
Plowshare projects
Pluralism
Police actions/war
Political order/new
Politicians
Politics/collectivist
Pollution
Poverty/involuntary
Power/centralized
Powerlessness/individuals
Prayers?
Precedents
Preemptive war
Prejudices
Premises/right
Premises/wrong
Prestige
Priorities/right
Prisoners of war
Prize money
Production/class warfare
Production of nucl. weap.
Profits
Programs/false
Programs/importance
Progress
Proliferation of nucl. weap.
Promises/government
Propaganda
Property concept of citiz.
Property/right to
Protection
Protection for heads of St.
Protectionism
Protests/nuclear testing
Psychological warfare
Publicity
Public opinion
Purchases of enterprises
Questions/candidates
Racism
Radiation detectors
Radiation hazards
Radioactive materials
Rationalizations
Ray weapons
Reason
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Recall
Recognition/internation.
Red/dead
Referendum
Refugee problem
Religion
Renunciation/nucl. str.
Representation
Reprivatization
Research/nuclear
Resignation
Resistance
Responsibility/indiv.
Restrictions/Legal
Retaliation/massive
Revenge
Revolution
Revolutionary warfare
Right/Revolt
Righteousness
Rights
Right to Life
Risks/popular view
Rockets
Rulers
Sacrificial lambs
Safeguards
Sanction of the Victim
Scientists
Scorched Earth Policy
Secession/individual
Secession/territorial
Secondstrike capabil.
Secrecy
Secret Allies
Secret Diplomacy
Security
Segregation/voluntary
Selfdefence
Selfdetermination
Selfhelp
Selfishness
Selfrespect
Sensual way of life
Separate peace treaties
Separatism
Sexual repression
Shelter program
Slavery
Sleeplessness/rulers
Social contract
Socialism/State
Socialization/right
Social Organization, new
Social security
Society without coercion
Soldiers/health risk
Soldiers' rights
Solidarity/right/wrong
Sovereignty/individual
Soviet Union
Space research
Space weapons
Spread of nucl. weapons
State
State membersh./volunt.
State secrets
Statism
Status Quo
Stockpiling
Strikes
Stupidity
Submarines/nuclear
Subordination
Subsidies
Subversion
Suicidal wargaming
Suitcase bombs
Summit talks
Sun energy
Surprise attack
Surrender/qualified
Survival
Survival instinct, primit.
Tactical nucl. weapons
Talent registry
Targets/wrong concept
Taxation
Tax strike
Technical failures
Television
Territorial integrity
Territorial organization
Terrorism
Tests
Tidal power
Time factor
Tiredness
Tolerance
Totalitarianism
Total war
Treason
Trust
Tyrannicide
Underdeveloped countries
Unemployment
Uniformity in laws
Unilateral nucl. disarm.
Unions/violence
United Nations
Unity
Universities
Uranium mining & exports
Utopism
Value free society & sci.
Victory/war aims
Violence/initiated
Volcanic explosions
Voluntarism
Voluntary taxation
Volunteer army
Voting
War aims/public declar.
War criminals
Warfare/revolutionary
War/nuclear
Weapons
Weapons monopoly
Weapons/qualitative diff.
Welfare State
Wind power
World Court
World Federation
World Language
World Law
World Religion
World State
World War III
Wristwatches
XRays.
"IN THOSE DAYS YOU COULDN'T DESTROY A WHOLE WORLD BETWEEN BREAKFAST
AND LUNCH: . . . " Lauran Paine: This Time Tomorrow, World Distrib., London, 1963, page 7.
"… they were also completely, morally insensible to holocaust." Lauran Paine, ibid.
"I don't believe in this endoftheworld stuff. Listen: people aren't that foolish." "PEOPLE", she said,
"no. Leaders yes." Lauran Paine, ibid, page 48.
"Was it courage that enabled a person to face this Thing?" "It was simply an inability to grasp
complete,
utter destruction." Lauran Paine, ibid, page 55.
"Can't hide. No place to go." Lauran Paine, ibid, p, 62.
SAPERE AUDE: Dare to think for yourself. Kant
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FURTHER EDITORIAL NOTES
Seeing that with this primitive bookgluing process all handcrafted the first and last pages are likely
to come undone relatively easily, I resolved on inserting 2 extra sheets, front and back. Conventionally
they should remain blank. But, to hell with appearances! It goes against my grain and my financial
power to leave them unused. If you really like blank pages insert your own! I got as a windfall some
extra space for matters I would have had to omit otherwise. By the way, if you try to break the back of
this book you will succeed!
(The first two sheets = 4 pages, on the libertarian Australian Workers Party, I have left out for this
digitized edition, as too outdated. Anyhow, I have microfiched much more on this party in my series.
J.Z., 24.10.01.)
In part explanation of what has kept me silent for so long and what you might be hit with in the next
Peace Plans issues, here is a listing of work in progress or at least in the planning stage. The listing in
random order:
Price Control. Refutation of all arguments in its favour, alphabetical. Rough draft.
Free Banking Encyclopaedia. Part written. Collection of material.
The Exterritorial Imperative, history, theory, practice. Material collection, articles.
Compulsory unionism. Alphabetical encyclopaedia of arguments against compulsory unionism, rough
draft. Rights, review of all arguments for and against human & natural rights. Collection.
Secession, review of all objections against individual secession. Material collect.
Slogans, libertarian. Extensive collection for an encyclopaedic publication.
Definitions and Aphorisms, libertarian. Collection in progress.
Revolution, libertarian. Old draft needs rewriting. Collection of material.
Militia, voluntary, for the protection of human rights. Draft, collection of material.
Gold standards, chart survey of types and characteristics.
Exchange media, private survey of proposed types and their characteristics: Chart.
Inflation, review of all arguments espousing monetary freedom as the solution.
Legal Tender, listing of views on LT, historical survey, present importance. Collect. See PP 19 A.
Gresham's Law, survey of revisions amounting to reversal of the popular form.
Libertarian jokes. Collection.
International organization of Libertarians division of labour scheme. Draft prepared. (See PP 20.)
Financing the libertarian movement out of the anticipated results. Draft prepared. (See PP 19C.)
Encyclopaedia of Refutations of Myths, Errors, Prejudices etc., large collection.
File of Libertarian addresses. Much work to be done still.
Why Ending Inflation Need Not Lead To Unemployment. Essay draft finished. See PP 19 B.
Archive of Peace and Freedom Ideas. Extensive rough compilation, finally helped by the acquisition of
a secondhand photocopier.
Flowart type discussions. A few dozen started, some developed. Would like to produce a whole P.P.
issue filled with them. Would need a plate maker first.
Tyrannicide. Material collection.
Development of underdeveloped countries. Free banking approach, Draft essay.
Right to bear arms. Survey of all arguments pro and con, alphabetical. Collection.
Foreign Investments, The case for them. Material collection.
Genuinely cultural revolution. Many short articles.
Financing defence without taxation. Several articles.
Collective Responsibility. Material collection.
Right to Resist. Collection of material.
Zero Government vs. Limited Government. Survey of all pro and con arguments to finally settle this
debate. Material collection & drafted articles. Encyclopaedic.
Alphabetical listing of terms, concepts, ideas and proposals favoured by libertarians & of those
opposed by libertarians in preparation for a libertarian encyclopaedia.
Program for a libertarian centre in every city. Draft finished.
Many of the above are book projects and likely to occupy me for a long time to come unless I get
extensive assistance. Contributions of material are always welcome. I would tike a listing of the
projects other libertarians are engaged in for information exchange. J. Zube.
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John Hospers: LIBERTARIANISM A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow
Years ago I was sent a review copy of the above. The long delay in Peace Plans publication made a
timely review impossible. I had anyhow already ordered myself a copy and the extra one made a friend
happy at a price.
John Hospers is a world famous author and this book will have introduced many to libertarianism who
would otherwise remain immune to hardcore libertarianism. It requires no previous knowledge and
makes a good case for converting anyone from modern liberalism to limited government libertarianism.
My issue is full of annotations and marks, very few of them critical.
I liked best his very long chapter: pp 417464: Is Government Necessary?, in which he reviews the
anarchist position and comes out in favour of limited government. I found this the most objective and
comprehensive treatment of the subject although I came to the opposite conclusion. Anarchists and
Panarchists have so far failed to make as thorough an approach, have not taken the limited government
position as serious as it deserves to be taken. I would like the question once and for all settled with a
comprehensive and encyclopaedic approach based largely on this chapter and find futile the usual
incomplete and partisan articles.
Moreover, Hospers is one of the few libertarians with a serious interest in and understanding of
international affairs and is aware of the dangers posed by totalitarian communism. He has not fallen for
the fallacies of the libertarian revisionist school of historians who see in "American Imperialism" the
greatest and worst danger. His first chapter, Liberty and Government, contains an excellent discussion
of "force".
I could have used many quotations from his book, in this one, e.g.: "Governments and government
alone foments wars, sends men to death camps and labor camps, devises and uses nuclear bombs,
arrests individuals in the dead of night and takes them to where they are never heard from again, and
most frequently of all systematically plunders them of what they have labored to earn." ( p. 60.)
In: "Individualism vs. Collectivism" he well criticizes "public property", saying e .g.: "… you pay taxes
to support it, whether you want to or not, but there is no part of it that you can call yours. What is
'owned by the people' is only paid for by the people, and used by government officials at the people's
expense and occasionally by you under conditions laid down by them. Or in other words, what is
owned by 'the collective' is paid for by one group and used by another." (p. 84.)
My slogan file will benefit very much from this book. I started the file long after I read the book and
have not yet gone through it with this in mind. For instance, a slogandefinition: "Capitalism of course,
is individualism in the realm of economics." ( P. 90.) He does also offer more exact definitions, e.g., on
p. 105:
"… the free market is the very opposite of the 'jungle'. When not involved with government, it is
characterized by peaceful competition." ( p. 115.)
He does not deal with the moral case against abortion and so he comes on page 5 to a wrong
conclusion:
"The major crimes, throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not
by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments as a deliberate policy of those governments
that is by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity."
All their murderous activities are small compared with the sum of killings of unborn children by their
parents with medical assistance. Compare plan 243 in Peace Plans No. 15.
On page 78 he shares, unfortunately, a socialist fallacy when assuming that government pays for
"security" with taxes mostly on businessmen and industrialists. They pay only a small fraction of the
total of income taxes and can largely pass on indirect taxes.
Every freedom Lover should have one: From Nash Publ., Los Angeles, 1971, $10, or the distrib.
mentioned on the next page.
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Richard and Ernestine Perkins, PRECONDITION FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY: RATIONAL
ANARCHY
"Rational anarchy? Isn't that a contradiction? Surely if anarchy means chaos in society there can be no
such thing as a rational chaos! Could we be mistaken about this image of anarchy? After all, if it means
chaos, then we would have to admit that all governmental societies are also anarchistic societies, since
it is indisputable that enormous chaos exists under governments! What then does anarchy really mean?
Anarchy means NO GOVERNMENT, and that is all it means.
"In their incisive work, the authors argue their case from the most basic of natural principles, i.e., non
sacrifice, nonaggression and justice. They discuss the scientific and moral evidence indicating that
governments, because of their nature, constitute a major threat to human survival. Then in a devastating
analysis they logically examine dissect and discard every common argument advanced for the alleged
necessity for government, EVEN IN A LIMITED FORM!
"Of equal importance, they discuss what would replace governmental functions, and show how the
philosophy of rational anarchy maybe applied in a nonviolent way. How would life and property be
nonaggressively secured without government? How would disputes be arbitrated and justice
administered? How would property be registered? What of our ecological problems? And what about
education and the protection of occupational standards? These are some of the provocative questions
discussed in this book, as the authors vigorously advance the principles necessary for lasting peace and
prosperity." 155 pp, Phibbs Printing World, Canada 1971. From an ad in "reason", 3/72. I do not
know whether the suppliers mentioned there still exist or have it in stock but the book is available for $
3.95 from Laissez Faire Books, 208 A Mercer St., New York, N .Y. 10012 & possibly from the
authors: 140 Talbot St., St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. (Address unchanged?)
The reasoning in this book is based on objectivist principles. Ayn Rand would deny this because she
came to other conclusions. To sum up a closely reasoned book like this is difficult to impossible. So
here are just some of its thoughts, out of context:
"Governments continue to exist because the idea that they are 'necessary' is still prevalent among
people," (p. 47.)
"Governments actually are producers of poverty because they can only exist by forcibly taking away
values." ( p. 65.)
"The pretense of government to be benevolent is fraudulent since they possess no morally earned
values to distribute …. no one can morally claim to use the misfortune of some people as a reason to
engage in aggression. There is no such thing as an end which justifies an immoral means." (p. 80)
"A society in harmony with the volitional nature of man's consciousness is one where all human
relationships are based on voluntary, noaggressive agreements; and the contract is man's means of
protecting such agreements. This is the moral. and scientific basis for a rational anarchistic society." (p
76.)
The authors do not appear to be aware that this would lead to a panarchic society, with absolutist
governments for those who want them, constitutional monarchies for those favouring them, all kinds of
mixed economy democracies for those choosing them, limited governments for their advocates and
anarchistic societies for anarchists all peacefully coexisting on the same territory, all internally
administering their own personal laws and having all their external disagreements between individual
members settled tied by predetermined and chosen arbitration systems.
The money section is weak. Nothing is said on legal tender.
No index!
Like most libertarians, who have not read Theodor Hertzka's writings, they still consider land and
natural resources as subject to absolute private ownership, based originally on the "right" of the first
comer.
All in all highly recommendable.
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"ANALOG", the SF science fact monthly, continued its libertarian tradition with a good guest editorial
by F. Paul Wilson, against National Health Insurance, in the 4/75 issue. At the same time it lets another
SF author and Dr., Alan E, Nourse, speak up for it.
"FREE ENTERPRISE"
Since the last Peace Plans issue Australia gained another irregular libertarian periodical: Free
Enterprise, published by some activists of the A.I.R. group who were also instrumental in forming the
Workers Party. Planned originally as a monthly it became soon irregular, naturally. By now only 500
impressions and about 150 subscribers. Distribution was a real problem until the Workers Party
arrived. In desperation it was even sold by pretty girls in pubs a waste of good paper and effort. About
10 issues appeared so far. 8 to 25 pages per issue. Sub. has probably gone up from $ 4 for 12 issues:
Box K 691, P.O. Haymarket, N.S.W., 2000, Australia. I liked especially Blake Alcott's article on
money in No. 1, Patrick Brookes' on Roads in Nos. 4 & 5. Otherwise there are notes & comments,
quotes, reprints, book reviews, some short articles, mostly introductory all newsletter style & some
interviews. Good for introducing people to libertarianism and this is, I think, all that was intended with
it. I have not written for it because I dislike the space limitations but have given them unlimited reprint
rights like any other libertarian journal. I dislike rewriting anything and shortening it just to make it
fit somebody else's concept of an "original and "suitable" contribution.
DeJAN INSTITUTE
Joseph DeJan has through his above institute published a number of interesting libertarian short
pamphlets which he will, I hope, keep exchanging for Peace Plans: "Man, State and the Market", "The
Devil Theory", "'The Mutant", "A Challenge to Modern Alchemists", "From Mythology to Mycology",
each developing a unique libertarian thought & pressing a maximum of information into a minimum of
space.
What is "Mycology"?: "The past heroworshipping was replaced by the new mycology, parasite
worshipping which filled most of our history books life and actions of heads of state, tyrants,
bureaucrats and other nonproducers, creators of wars, decimations, famines and other banes of
humanity."
Single copies: 50 cents. Down to 100 copies for $ 25: DeJan Institute, Inc., 2151 Ridge Ave., Evanston,
Illinois, USA 60 01. Reprint rights are granted, provided author and institute are credited. I would like
to see a collection of thousands of such libertarian pamphlets available in every city and would also
like to see them combined into a libertarian encyclopaedia. Please send all such material to the
Workers Party (see front cover pages). It has presently a chance to get all its printing requirements
done free by a large Australian publisher and could reprint them for its own planned pamphlet series of
which only No. 1 has appeared so far. (For this scanned edtition I have left out the 4 page insertion to
the (somewhat) printed and bound book, which brought an introduction on the then new and by now
perished Australian libertarian "Workers Party", of which only small remnants remain by now, named:
"Progress Party". Some of the PEACE PLANS microfiche bring most of the material I have on this
party. J.Z., 10 October 2001.)
ST. JOHN'S BREAD
73 Market St., Venice 90291; USA, was gratefully received, at irregular intervals. I do not like its drug
inspired spiritual involvement but I get high on its quotes: "Nationalism is a chronic state of Fascism.
Fascism is a state of acute Nationalism." "Fuck celibacy", "Ignore Alien orders", "The fact is that
people do not really need a government at all." "Everything would be alright if only we could wipe out
all those who think that everything would be alright if only we could wipe out..." "Governments tend
to be ignorant and bigoted because only the ignorant believe men can be ruled, and only the bigoted
believe themselves capable of it."
"There are two kinds of governments; the corrupt and the ineffectual." From 1 issue. No.? Date?
Probably you have to be a head yourself to understand and appreciate the rest mainly fairy tale type
stories of this magazine. Poetry, naturally, too.
THE END has come, at least for this book.
Nuclear Holocaust will be delivered later UNLESS YOU REALLY DO YOUR THING!
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This is only the second book that I have scanned. On my own, with my scanning, I can hardly fill a 650
Mbs.
CDROM. HELP!!!!!
Note that unless sufficient interest is shown in this topic and for the last quarter of a century there
wasn't, I will feel under no pressure to update and expand this book. PIOT, John Zube, 24.10.01.
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