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Perry Willis is the co-founder of the Zero Aggression Project and Downsize DC. He was the National Director of the Libertarian National Committee on two occasions, and ran two Libertarian Party presidential campaigns. He has an extensive background in marketing and fundraising, and has ghost written direct mail appeals for numerous luminaries, including Karl Hess, Ron Paul, Charlton Heston and Harry Browne.

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Posted on August 22, 2017 by Perry Willis(Comments: 0)

Are statists the real isolationists?

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Are libertarians the real advocates of international engagement?

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Tagged cultural engagement, foreign policy, free trade, immigration, international engagement, intervention, isolationism, lexicon, libertarian, migration, military, national security, nonintervention, voluntaryist
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Posted on June 14, 2017 by Perry Willis(Comments: 8)

Why so-called socialism is anti-social

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Fraudulent labels lead to counterfeit opinions

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Tagged aggression, coercion, communism, community, cooperation, free market, left statist, Perry Willis, persuasion, right statist, socialism, society, totalitarian, totalitarianism, zero aggression, zero aggression project
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Posted on June 6, 2017 by Perry Willis(Comments: 0)

Do left-statists own the word “society?”

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Is the free market something apart from society?

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Tagged cooperation, exchange, free market, freindship, left statism, love, money, Perry Willis, profit, relationship, socialism, society, the Left, trade, zero aggression, zero aggression project
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Posted on February 15, 2017 by Perry Willis(Comments: 3)

Why criminal law enforcement does not violate the Zero Aggression Principle

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The surprising consequence of claiming that it does

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Tagged aggression, defensive, evidence, law enforcement, Perry Willis, Zero Aggression Principle
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Posted on January 27, 2017 by Perry Willis(Comments: 0)

Six things left-statists get wrong about Walmart

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Costco and Walmart perform different social functions. Do you know what they are?

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Tagged business models, Costco, employment, high-income, low-income, Perry Willis, social purpose, wages, Walmart, Zero Aggression Principle
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Should libertarians favor foreign intervention

Posted on December 26, 2016 by Perry Willis(Comments: 1)

Do libertarians contradict themselves by opposing foreign intervention?

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It would seem they do, until you look deeper.

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Tagged conflict, defensive force, Foreign intervention, foreign policy, history, initiated force, libertarian, military action, non-aggresson principle, non-initiation principle, taxation, the military draft, war, Zero Aggression Principle
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Posted on December 20, 2016 by Perry Willis(Comments: 0)

Do statists have a p-p problem?

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What the Left and Right have in common is more important than their differences.

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Tagged Jim Babka, left statist, mental lever, Perry Willis, pleasure, profit, prohibition, right statist
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Posted on October 25, 2016 by Perry Willis(Comments: 4)

A new worldview in ten questions and answers

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More powerful ideas in fewer words than you may find anywhere.

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Tagged anti state, consumer, consumer controlled government, crime, Fraud, government, Habitat for Humanity, HUD, initiated force, libertarian, libertarian philosophy, libertarianism, non-violent persuasion, police, pro government, State, statism, statist, taxation, the state, violence based monopolies, violence based taxation, violence-based funding, voluntary cooperation, voter
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Posted on October 19, 2016 by Perry Willis(Comments: 2)

Are elections really a good way to govern?

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Maybe voluntary trade can teach us something about how to do governance.

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Tagged candidates, consumer, democracy, elect, elections, Jim Babka, mental lever, Perry Willis, politics, voter, voting
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Posted on October 12, 2016 by Perry Willis(Comments: 0)

Do sociopathic candidates suggest a sociopathic process?

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Is this election telling us something important about democracy?

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Tagged Donald Trump, empathy, Hillary Clinton, initiated force, Jim Babka, mental lever, Perry Willis, politics, sociopath, sociopathic candidates, sociopathic politics
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