Jarret B. Wollstein

Jarret B. Wollstein works as an independent writer and direct-mail marketing specialist. He is a founder and director of the International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL), an international human-rights and free-market networking organization with members in over eighty countries. He is the author of hundreds of articles and four books, including Society Without Coercion (1969).

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Police Forces

Big GovernmentThe Police State

03/18/2010Mises Daily ArticlesJarret B. Wollstein

If a person has a right to his own life, liberty, and property, nothing can justify forcing him to subsidize another person for any purpose, including for the purpose of police protection.

Police Forces

Free MarketsEntrepreneurshipPhilosophy and MethodologyPrivate Property

02/09/2010Mises Daily ArticlesJarret B. Wollstein

In a free market of justice, police making many errors would thus quickly be eliminated by bankruptcy.

Arguments Against Anarchy

Free MarketsMedia and CultureThe Police State

02/09/2010Mises Daily ArticlesJarret B. Wollstein

The belief that government is necessary to ensure social order is a pure superstition, based upon a psycho-epistemological process different in no important respect from the belief in goblins and witches....

The Nature and Morality of Government

Big GovernmentMedia and CultureThe Police StateWar and Foreign Policy

02/02/2010Mises Daily ArticlesJarret B. Wollstein

Limited government is inherently immoral and must be rejected by any advocate of human freedom and justice in favor of competing agencies of retaliatory force.