Former Navy Seal and Director of Strategic Affairs for 912 PAC Benjamin Smith joined “Wilkow!” Friday to talk about Frederic Bastiat’s influence on today’s society and how Bastiat shaped a Navy Seal’s Beliefs. Watch a clip from the show below:
Bastiat’s Influence on Today’s Society
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NoMoMrNiceGuy
Mar. 10, 2013 at 12:52pmI will be obtaining any and all writings from this man and digesting them
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NoMoMrNiceGuy
Mar. 10, 2013 at 1:47pmOnly (7) Posts to this story ? Humph !
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DougHuffman
Mar. 9, 2013 at 7:57amAt last! At last a reference to something higher than today’s demotic media-culture. Too bad it’s in the context of a ‘show’. What is the sense of watching a conversation, of wtching talking heads mouths flap up and down? Wouldn’t audio only, ‘radio” or a video test pattern, be more concise of bandwidth and nonsense? There is no sense in a mouth flapping. Koan, what is the sound of one mouth flapping?
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700P
Mar. 9, 2013 at 7:28amI enjoyed reading his Parable of the Broken Windows. I think there are many in the administration who view of economy and currency as the windows they’re breaking.
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media-bias-steals-elections
Mar. 9, 2013 at 6:53amIf I may dare, he taught about legal plunder, free trade, the “big picture”, and limited government. He had no objection to society improving itself, what he objected to was “legal plunder” (we call them taxes) and was instead in favor of the lead and follow principal, not lead “or else” principal?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat
Oh here’s a good one:
Competition is merely the absence of oppression
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat
I can see the appeal there.
Nice article from theBlaze, and I learned something? A total surprise, like Tinkerbell and Disney?
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nzkiwi
Mar. 9, 2013 at 6:09amThanks Blaze.
The research that I had to do to understand that has advanced my continuing self-education.
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nzkiwi
Mar. 9, 2013 at 6:14amI thought that I should reply to myself as the comment expressing my genuine gratitude looked so lonely sitting there…
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Kerstile
Mar. 9, 2013 at 6:55amNZKIWI, you are no longer “unseen” (hat tip F Bastiat).
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