Ali Hassan Massoud's Writings Archive Page

Too Many Books Makes One...

"I think theory formulation is a fundamental step toward rational action. However, that said, at some point you stop being a genuine radical and become a wanker if you are obsessed with it."

Public Order and Safety Absent a State

"My concerns, judgment, and expense are the only criteria. I cannot foist any of the costs for my fence or alarm system on my neighbors, smokers, beer drinkers, or income earners, by using the extortion processes of electoral politics."

So Ali, If You're So Smart, Where the Hell Is Your Enclave?

"So the choice I am faced with is, should I do it so my family and myself can live free, safe, and secure, or just dig in and try to ride out Leviathan's collapse?"

Real Philanthropy Requires Some Rich Guy's Money

"How much philanthropy is accomplished in dirt poor Third World countries, or dictatorial kleptocracies, theocracies, or other 'slave nations' such as North Korea, Cuba, or Zimbabwe?"

Why I Am Not a Party Animal Anymore

"It is hard sometimes to understand why people just don't see that my opinion about everything is so rational, moral, and just plain cool. Everything and everyone would just be soooo much better off if they'd just follow me and let me make all their personal choices and decisions."

On Herding Cats

"...the "fundamental premise of classical liberalism is an assumption that people are basically rational and wise. Yet this flies right in the face of the most common libertarian lament--that those idiots out there keep electing statists and every resulting policy has been just plain awful."

People Who Live in a Fishbowl

Often don't make good choices. Column by "Chemical Ali" Massoud on popular culture.

A True 'Survival Rifle'

It depends on what you're trying to survive.

Japantown, R.I.P.: An American Holocaust

"The death of Japantown is why I will never trust a constitution, laws, or any politician's promise that if things get ugly, not to worry. I know better. It can happen here. It did happen here."

How Can Terrorism Ever Be a Rational Choice?

"Terrorists are created because a situation they find intolerable persists without recourse. Terrorism as a tactic it is practiced because it can and does often work."

Please Don't Call Officer Charles a Pig!

"Cops scare me more than they reassure me. I can honestly say I've never had a positive experience with them."

Hate the Game, Not the Player

"Coming as I do from the Great Lakes area, I know full well that college football is about as close as we come to having an official State-sanctioned religion."

Some of My Best Friends Are Libertarians. No, Really.

"Some of my friends vote. And I say that with the same heavyheartedness as if I was admitting that some of them smoke cigarettes, cheat on their spouses, drink too much, or spend the rent money at the racetrack."

Thoughts on Race, Enclaves and Kicking Sleeping Dogs

Column by "Chemical" Ali Massoud.

On Being Hated in Your Own Home

"'Amen to that bro,' someone I didn't see chimed in. I heard others, total strangers endorsing his call for revenge and genocide. I didn't look up to see who said what and who 'amened' it. I just wanted out of that coffee shop. Right then and forever."

What I Mean by 'Anarchy'

"So when I refer to anarchy or anarchism, it is in this context. A society that is absent a large, controlling entity regardless of what this entity happens to be: corporations, religious institutions, political parties, criminal gangs, military forces, wild, leaderless mobs or anything or anyone else."

The Awareness of Freedom

Column by new Root Striker "Chemical" Ali Hassan Massoud.

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