ARCHIVE OF ISSUES IN FOCUS by Fulton Huxtable |
Before Fulton began publishing a weekly column, he
published four alerts about serious threats to individual freedom. These alerts are
located at Endangered Freedom Alerts.
FROM
LIGHT COMES HOPE, 5-24-98
Why there is hope for the future.
ON
FREEDOM, 5-31-98
What is freedom? Take the test to
see if you know the answer.
THE PARASITE STATE, 6-7-98
Win the sound bite war for freedom.
THE LITMUS TEST OF LAW, 6-14-98
All law must pass a single test.
PREVENTION VERSUS PROTECTION, 6-21-98
Prevention leads to
totalitarianism. Protection leads to freedom.
HATE
CRIME, 6-28-98
Making ideas criminal.
COURAGE,
7-05-98
The lesson of the Fourth of July.
A
BILL OF GOODS, 7-19-98
Patients' bill of "rights"
will desecrate actual rights.
CREATE
A MONSTER, THEN "RESCUE" ITS VICTIMS, 7-26-98
Americans continue to fall for this
statist trick.
FORBIDDEN
WORDS, 8-9-98
America takes yet another step toward
the suppression of freedom of speech.
TURNING
MEN INTO FROGS, 8-16-98
Why statists' incremental approach has
been so successful.
THE
RULE OF MEN, NOT OF LAW, 8-23-98
America is going to reap a terrible
harvest, if it continues to approve of liars.
SPEAK
FOR YOURSELF!, 8-30-98
If you think you are honest, statists
have news for you: you are a liar.
THE
VIRTUE OF VICE, 9-13-98
The worst, not the best, is to be the
new standard of behavior.
PRIVACY
ENDS WHERE DISHONESTY BEGINS, 9-20-98
What is privacy and do you have a right
to it?
CONTRADICTION
MAN, 9-27-98
The ominous acceptance and approval of
contradictions.
TERMINAL
CONTROL, 10-05-98
Statists move to restrict your access
to the Internet.
THE
HUBBLE PLOY, 10-12-98
Planned failure has been one of the
keys to the success of statists.
NOTE: Because of a medical problem with
my wife, no columns were published after October 12, 1998. My weekly column was
resumed December 27, 1998.
AFFIRMATIVE
ACTION FOR CRIME, 12-27-98
Censure of Clinton would be
preferential treatment and establish a double standard.
ONE
NECK, ONE NOOSE, 1-4-99
The creation of the omnipotent federal
government is a key to statists' ultimate goal.
TYRANNY
BY TORT, 1-17-99
Statists prepare to move against gun
manufacturers, a move fashioned after the attack on tobacco companies.
UNEARNED
MONEY, 1-22-99
America's largest welfare program is
well on the way to taking it to the brink.
SOCIALIZED
SECURITY, 2-01-99
Statism's biggest pyramid scheme is a
triumph over self-reliance.
UNBRIDLED
POWER, 2-8-99
Let Senators consider the damage to the
values of truth, honesty and reason an acquittal verdict will render.
IT'S
YOUR MONEY, 2-15-99
This idea attacks the Achilles' heel of
statism and promises to turn the tide in favor of freedom.
DEFEAT
BY SURRENDER, 2-22-99
Giving up isn't a plan for success but
a prescription of failure.
IN
MY DREAMS, 3-1-99
Statists will not state to your face
what they say in public and their victims will not state in public what they think in
private.
SWISH!,
3-8-99
Intel and other computer-related
companies are providing an example of producers providing the rope for their own
hanging--and for yours.
IT'S
THE PRINCIPLE, STUPID! 3-15-99
Regular readers may be tired of my comments
about Microsoft and the antitrust issue. However, a recent development has made it
imperative for me to once again speak out about--and, this time, against--Microsoft.
HELPLESS
IN FREEDOM 3-22-99
What happens to the helpless in a free society?
FOREIGN
IDEALS: PAST AND PRESENT 3-26-99
Part 1 of a three-part series. Our
reckless foreign and defense policy has left America vulnerable to an attack of terrifying
proportions.
FOREIGN
IDEALS: BASIC PRINCIPLES 4-5-99
Part 2 of a three-part series. The basic
principle that should guide our foreign policy is the same principle that should guide our
actions domestically.
FOREIGN
IDEALS: THE MORAL TRIAD 4-12-99
The conclusion of a three-part series.
Without shedding a drop of American blood, the United States can eliminate the only kind
of government that is a military threat to you: totalitarian regimes.
HOW
TO DEFEAT STATISM 4-19-99
The key to defeating statism is simple.
By focusing on a single issue, statists will be put on the defensive and ultimately
defeated.
IDEAS
THAT KILL 4-26-99
As long as this idea remains the common
currency of modern education, we will continue to see students kill others.
CRIME'S
FINAL CAUSE 5-03-99
For those that go over the edge and become
criminals, there is a final idea that must take hold in their minds, a final ingredient
that turns them into depraved fiends.
PUNISHING
THE INNOCENT 5-10-99
For decades, statists have been preaching that
you are responsible for others. Now, this notion is on the verge of taking a vicious
and ugly turn: you are going to be held responsible for the criminal actions of another,
if statists have their way.
FAMILY
FEUD 5-17-99
Why Senate Republicans caved, last week, on gun
legislation. As long as they accept the ideas of statism, they will continue to cede
ground, in issue after issue, to freedom's enemies.
CRIMINAL
KNOWLEDGE 5-24-99
Capitalizing on the hysteria over juvenile
violence in our schools, statists are now proposing new legislation to make it illegal to
disseminate certain kinds of information.
SILENT
SCREAM 5-31-99
A sea change in public opinion has emboldened
statists to go after their ultimate goal: to silence their opponents--and you.
WHAT IS A STATIST? 6-7-99
In their self-arrested state of mental
development, statists seek to impose the worldview from their childhood. You are the
child and the state, run by statists, is the parent.
WHAT
IS A RIGHT? 6-14-99
A right is the sovereignty to act without the
permission of others. Statists have corrupted the actual meaning of a right,
converting into its opposite: into a claim on the life of another.
GUNS
AND RIGHTS 6-21-99
We need gun control, but not the kind you
think.
LOST
CONCEPTS 6-28-99
Lost concepts result in lost rights and
freedom.
COURAGE 7-5-99
Ideas created the possibility of America.
Courage made America a reality.
LICENSES
VERSUS RIGHTS 8-2-99
Take your pick. You can't have both.
DRIVING
IN FREEDOM 8-16-99
In a free society, highways are privately
owned. Here's how it would work.
THE
GOLDEN RULE 8-30-99
The federal government is now providing
funding to certain churches. This is an ominous, new turn in American politics,
threatening the freedom of all.
NONE
OF YOUR DAMNED BUSINESS! 9-20-99
Once again, Congress is set to pass
legislation restricting freedom of speech and forbidding you to spend your money as you
see fit.
STATISTS'
HATED DEMONS 10-4-99
Statists--those self-proclaimed defenders of
minorities and alleged opponents of hate--are demonizing certain minorities in an effort
to eradicate more freedom.
LIFE
ROBBERY 11-1-99
If you want to defeat statism, you must work
for the day when no one has the power to take your money by force.
OUTLAW
THE INITIATION OF FORCE 11-22-99
Force should only be used in retaliation
against those who initiate it. This goes double for the state.
LET ELIAN
BREATHE FREE 2-07-00
No one--not even a father--has the right to
enslave another.
Rx:
REPEAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG LAWS
10-02-00
Prescription drug laws are the real reason for the
high cost of these drugs. These laws need to be abolished.
WHY
I AM VOTING LIBERTARIAN 10-16-00
As long as the debate is just a family
squabble between statists, America's freedom will continue to decline.
AND THE
LOSER IS: FREEDOM 11-01-00
Here are the real results of the election.