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Rarely do I hear anything from Stefan Molyneux that I can
substantively disagree with, so allow me to jump on this rare
opportunity to take issue with something he said. (I'm hoping this
rant finds its way to him, and I'm betting one of you forwarding it
to him will work better and faster than me trying to find his e-
mail address in my infinite, messy pile of stuff.) In a recent
podcast, where he gave his thoughts on the Joe Stack incident,
Stefan asserted that violence cannot be solved with violence.
Partly true, partly false. Here is the link for that clip:

I think Stefan would agree that the initiation of violence is a
symptom of something not being right in the head of the aggressor.
And it is absolutely true that the root CAUSE of the aggression
cannot be fixed via more violence. However, the EFFECT (or symptom)
of that problem CAN be. As a very simple example, if someone breaks
into my house at night, my 12-gauge is not going to repair whatever

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A while ago, I decided not to talk to the press anymore. They get
so much wrong--sometimes due to incompetence, sometimes due to
dishonesty--that I didn't want them getting it wrong about me. But
recently I decided, I might as well say what I think when they ask,
and then see how badly they mangle it. At least it MIGHT make a
reader or two think about something.

So yesterday I got a call from Jeff Carlton at the Associated
Press, and I told him what I thought about the Joe Stack thing. Not
surprisingly, the piece basically ended up as statist propaganda.
But what was surprising is that he didn't misquote me. So I guess
that counts as a slight improvement. Here's the "story":

What's really ironic is that the mainstream leftist news keeps
trying to link Joe Stack with the "Tea Party" movement. Meanwhile,
I'm bashing most "Tea Party" folk because they still think "working

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. .
. Rest in Peace, Mr. Stack

Earlier today, a victim of the largest extortion racket in the
world struck back, giving up his life in the process. The control
freaks, and their propagandists who pretend to be "reporters," will
no doubt spend the next few weeks demonizing the man, or painting
him as crazy. You can decide for yourself if this was the case. As
best I can tell, today Joseph Stack burned down his house, and then
crashed his plane into the Austin, Texas offices of the IRS. We
don't need to ponder the reason, because he told us why, in a
suicide note, which can be read here:

I found reading the note very disturbing, mainly because Mr. Stack
was obviously far more intelligent, and more in touch with reality,
than the vast majority of Americans. In other words, compared to
the deluded masses of conformists, Mr. Stack was the sane one.
Several statements in his suicide note show that he had overcome

Dear Subscriber,

I hardly ever forward anything to this list that someone else
wrote, but today I must make an exception. This is from Kurt
Tischer--my webmaster, an accomplished musician, and an all-around
swell anti-authoritarian, trouble-making guy. Because of my own
situation, I do a pretty bad job of paying Kurt for all the work he
does on the web site. So whether you want to fling him $5 (or more)
as a "thank you" for making the web site works, or because you want
to help his band (Temple 8) do the touring thing, he and I would
both greatly appreciate it. I realize that people's taste in music
varies widely, and those who prefer classical, or country, or rap,
or whatever, may not "get" the music of Temple 8. Personally, I
love it. But whatever type of music you prefer, keep in mind that
lots of younger people DO listen to "progressive rock," and they
can either be listening to "yeah, baby baby," or they can be
listening to music with a message that actually matters (e.g., self-
ownership). But whether they ever HEAR it might depend upon all of