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	Response to Mike Huben’s “Critiques of Libertarianism”
		A second mistake in the quoted sentence is that it identifies being a libertarian with holding the political goal of a perfectly libertarian society.
		Libertarians would respond that nobody has the right to buy something that the owner does not wish to sell, and that the ACLU was actually attacking the right of an owner to decide whom he would rent or sell his property to.
		Thus he attacks particular libertarian arguments on the grounds that there exist some anti-libertarian arguments to which that particular libertarian argument is irrelevant, without noticing that those are not the ones it is aimed at.
	www.daviddfriedman.com /Libertarian/response_to_huben.html (5572 words)

	My reply to Jonathan Andras' reply to my reply to Mike Huben
		Iceland wasn't a village society--so far as we know, there was not a single village on the island.
		If no libertarian society has ever evolved outside of fiction, then it is surely a utopian movement that has not even succeeded at creating a libertarian island or suburb or any community.
		DF goes to the heights of absurdity to claim that libertarians achieved the "abolition of slavery, the institution of large scale free trade, the destruction of guild restrictions on employment--most of the progress of the 19th century".
	www.daviddfriedman.com /Libertarian/rerebutal_re_huben.htm (6304 words)

	Iceland: A Libertarian Model?
		Iceland was populated by people escaping the political chaos in Denmark, Norway, and maybe England and Ireland.
		The people of Iceland made their seminal mistake by adopting domestic taxation within six-generations of their settlement and it took one and a half centuries of civil war to result in the end of their independence from a centralized state.
		If human society is to endure beyond our "time of troubles," as Toynbee called such times as we live in today, the one concept or organizing principle we must supersede is political government.
	www.lewrockwell.com /klassen/klassen14.html (762 words)

	The Icelandic Sagas and Social Order \| Turnabout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The history of the libertarian farmers’ republic that was medieval Iceland, and the vivid picture of that society presented in the Icelandic sagas, gives a fresh view of these issues.
		It was a society of men rather than material conveniences, built on personal loyalties and demanding standards of conduct, that stands in stark contrast to a modern world governed by abstract principles and faceless markets and administrators.
		Traditional Icelandic qualities continued in new guises, as pagan stoicism became Christian resignation and a Christian coloration was given to ideals of courage in the face of defeat, suffering and death.
	jkalb.org /node/22 (4849 words)

	The Decline and Fall
		Every Icelander was attached to a Chieftain, either directly, by being an Assemblyman, or indirectly, by belonging to a household headed by an Assemblyman.
		Iceland, a resource-poor country without an army, and for whom the powerful and wealthy Norway was an indispensable trading partner, had to take the King's threats seriously.
		Iceland saw its first full-scale battles as power struggles among the elite families and their respective supporters erupted across the land.
	libertariannation.org /a/f13l1.html (2238 words)

	Jonathan Andreas' Response to David Friedman's Critique of Mike Huben's Anti-Libertarian Faq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thus, libertarians are utopian in the sense that they are promoting an imaginary society that they believe is more perfect than any other on earth, but that nobody has ever been willing or able to create.
		Society has changed in the last 300 years and institutions that worked in hyper-religious pre-industrial village society probably would not work in today's gun infested urbanized society.
		DF goes on to say that libertarianism, "has a historical track record unmatched by any alternative in recorded history." However, I still have yet to see a working example of a libertarian society that is more than an overly nostalgic interpretation of some pre-industrial society.
	world.std.com /~mhuben/andreas.html (5723 words)

	Medieval Iceland and the Absence of Government - Mises Institute
		Icelandic settlers held similar ideological and philosophical ideas toward the state and the law as where held by the founding fathers of the United States, including distrust of a strong central government.
		The main reason the Vikings moved from Norway to Iceland in the first place was to avoid the feudal relationship between the king and his lords and serfs and thus the Icelandic settlers developed a decentralized system of governance.
		Iceland collapsed in the year 1262, 290 years after it was founded.
	mises.org /fullstory.asp?control=1121 (2024 words)

	If Libertarianism Is So Great, Where Are All of The Libertarian Civilizations? [Free Republic]
		Notwithstanding the fact that history has always served as either the caretaker or graveyard of such boasts, I challenge the libertarians to advance their arguement by producing documentation of civilizations and/or nations that were built purely on a libertarian philosophy and has prospered, unchanged to this day.
		I challenge the libertarians to advance their arguement by producing documentation of civilizations and/or nations that were built purely on a libertarian philosophy and has prospered, unchanged to this day.
		Libertarianism is one of those things that if you don't understand it or are against it then you're too far gone to matter.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b6357d122dd.htm (4170 words)

	Neologism Mineticnoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Libertarians consider that there is an extended domain of individual freedom defined by every individual's person and private property, and that no one, whether private citizen or government, may under any circumstances violate this boundary.
		libertarian socialists, who are usually considered not to be libertarians at all (the feeling is mutual; anarcho-socialists and libertarian socialists claim that capitalism is incompatible with freedom, and thus libertarian/anarcho-capitalists cannot be considered libertarians at all).
		Indeed, many libertarians consider that governments exist and will exist in the foreseeable future, up to the end of their lives, so that their efforts are better spent fighting, containing and avoiding the action of governments than trying to figure out what life could or couldn't be like without them.
	dks.thing.net /Neologism-Mineticnoir.html (5451 words)

	Research Ethics and Genetics Research, Part 2
		Iceland's Health Sector Database On January 22, 1999, I posted a message on the subject: OT: Decoding Iceland to the Breast-Cancer discussion Group.
		The title is: "Decoding Iceland", and the subtitle is: "The next big medical breakthrough may result from one scientist's battle to map the Viking gene pool".
		This populationwide coalescent analysis of Icelandic genealogies revealed highly positively skewed distributions of descendants to ancestors, with the vast majority of potential ancestors contributing one or no descendants and a minority of ancestors contributing large numbers of descendants".
	members.tripod.com /~ca916/index-8.html (9033 words)

	Fridbjorn Orri Ketilsson
		The Libertarian Society has been very outstanding in the public debate since we have been the only political movement who have in all cases been consistent in our plead for free-market and individual liberty.
		Haukur Orn, chairman of the Libertarian Society of Iceland, will fly to Akureyri tomorrow and give a lecture at the University on tuition fees and why the government should draw back from the educational system and allow private enterprise to do it's magic.
		Geir Ag, member of the LSI board, gave a lecture today on libertarianism at a local college in Reykjanesbær and participated in debates on the Individual Transferable Quotas system (the ITQ).
	www.frjalshyggja.is /orri/en (1917 words)

	Doing Something at Liberty For All - Online Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When one studies libertarian literature one cannot help but notice that most of it is Anglo-American.
		It is important that libertarians all over the world develop their own resources, art and traditions if America loses its reputation as the beacon of freedom.
		They in return have aided them in understanding modern society so their aboriginal property rights can be better defended from the state.
	www.libertyforall.net /2004/oct3/Ganesha.html (1134 words)

	Libertarian Anarchism: Responses to Ten Objections by Roderick T. Long
		But before I start giving objections and trying to answer them, there is no point in trying to answer objections to a view unless you have given some positive reason to hold the view in the first place.
		The history of medieval Iceland, for example, where there was no one center of enforcement.
		The Molinari Society is hosting a session at the American Philosophical Association meetings in December.
	www.lewrockwell.com /long/long11.html (7709 words)

	New Iceland - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board
		Iceland had a semi-Libertarian society for awhile that ultimately declined.
		To get a "new Iceland," some people need to get sick of the state of affairs in Iceland (die-hards fleeing the King of Norway, some dispossessed people from the decline of the Commonwealth, etc), remember the legends of Vinland, and take a big risk.
		It was actually the Danes that controlled the Iceland fishing areas, and were overcharging the British.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=5795 (265 words)

	Personal Pages Society, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Landry, Peter: Blupete The homepage of a libertarian lawyer from Nova Scotia.
		Shameless Self-promotion of the Liberty NutCase Libertarian commentary and analysis of news.
		H+Â¦lmsteinn Gissurarson, Hannes Homepage of a libertarian professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland.
	www.wtcpa.org /d3RfMTc4MzYw.aspx (1310 words)

	Can competitive law work? \| Samizdata.net
		Of course, in the future libertarian society, the basic legal code would not rely on blind custom, much of which could well be antilibertarian.
		Libertarian anarchists do not disagree with this - the very reason they are anarchists follows from their view that there are somethings that people should not be allowed to do, so they are bound to oppose a legal system that would allow such things.
		The question the libertarian anarchist asks, though, is whether or not the state itself would be illegal under a libertarian legal system.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/005097.html (9348 words)

	National Libertarian Party
		And the viewer (at least this one) was not lead to believe that the Libertarian Party, the ACLU and the judge were "anti-christian".
		I have often as other libertarians have said is that the only proper role of government would be to protect people's life, liberty and property of which I add in the absent of private alternatives.
		It is logically inconsistent to be a Libertarian and support a portion of the viewpoints of our forefathers without supporting their actual views as they practiced them in the early U.S. Religion in the public sector was commonplace, and was not rejected by our forefathers.
	www.lp.org /yourturn/archives/000020.shtml (10039 words)

	Libertarian Party of Washington State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		That we judge policies by the intentions of those who promote them, rather than by their actual consequences for American society, is one sign of the unreality of our times.
		The Libertarian Party of Washington State is an affiliate of the Libertarian Party.
		"Libertarian Party"® and "Party of Principle"® are registered trademarks of the Libertarian Party.
	www.lpws.org /issues.htm (11500 words)

	Pragmatic Libertarian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Congratulations to Iceland for being one of the least corrupt countries in the world.
		The Libertarian Party of California has a voter guide for next months elections.
		I will probably (but not necessarily) vote for and against what they have endorsed.
	pragmaticlibertarian.blogspot.com (1933 words)

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