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Bureaucrash is a project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), aneoliberal think tank based in Washington DC.
At the time that the group's website first appeared in December 2000 there was no disclosure as to who was funding the group.[1] Bureaucrash described itself in 2002 as "a decentralized, umbrella network of guerilla activists dedicated to the idea of a free society."[2] The lack of disclosure about who was funding the group persisted for over six years. In March 2006 an article on CEI's website stated that "In March, Bureaucrash and CEI formed a new strategic partnership to combine the strengths of each organization to help spread the ideas of liberty."[3]
The last version of the group's website indexed in the Internet Archive, dated July 2007, did not mention the role of CEI.[4] The lack of disclosure led to Bureaucrash being described as a front group for the CEI.[5]
As of February 2008 the group's website states that "Bureaucrash is sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute." No other sponsors are listed.[6]
Contents
- 1 About Bureaucrash
- 2 "Information War"
- 3 Funding
- 4 Personnel
- 5 Contact Details
- 6 Articles and Resources
About Bureaucrash
Initially Bureaucrash pitched itself as "a network of guerilla activists who oppose the growing disease of the bureaucratic state" and emphasizied that "we come from all backgrounds and ideologies, but share in common a conviction that the bloated administrative government is the greatest threat to our freedom, creativity and sense of choice."[1] The following year the group's website was more explicit about its political slant stating that it "develops full scale campaigns and web resources for libertarian guerilla activism." [2].
On its website Bureaucrash stated that it was "dedicated to fighting the increase of government control over our lives. Our international network of pro-freedom activists works to change the political ideology of our generation through creative activism. While most youth politics supports the growth of the already bloated government bureaucracy, we fight for personal freedom, free trade and limited government." [4]
Bureaucrash has been described as "a website which provides resources and support for young right-wing activists in campaigns against public services and progressive non-governmental organizations."
"Information War"
The Bureaucrash website describes its purpose as "Information War". It argues:
"The political war of the 21st century will be war of ideas and images. An information war. The defenders and developers of the machine state and its sprawling bureaucracy have initiated this war. Bureaucrash is a way of fighting back in this guerrilla war of ideas." [4]"We want to encourage and aid the development of weapons for this information war. Flyers that can be plastered in public spaces. Images that can capture an idea. Reports on demonstrations and activities that can inspire other activists. Designs that can transform a public computer into a kiosk for political information. Words and images that can spread like a virus through cyberspace." [4]
Funding
Bureaucrash was established in 2001 with funding from the now-defunct Henry Hazlitt Foundation. In March 2006 an article on CEI's website stated that "In March, Bureaucrash and CEI formed a new strategic partnership to combine the strengths of each organization to help spread the ideas of liberty." It is now funded by the CEI.[7] As of February 2008 the group's website states that "Bureaucrash is sponsored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute." No other sponsors are listed.[8]
Personnel
- Pete Eyre (Called the "Crasher-in-Chief" by the website)
Contact Details
Website: http://www.bureaucrash.com
Articles and Resources
Sources
- ↑ ^Jump ^up to:1.0 1.1 "Bureaucrash", Bureaucrash, December 12, 2000. (This is a copy archived in the Internet Archive).
- ↑ ^Jump ^up to:2.0 2.1 "Bureaucrash: What is Bureaucrash?", Bureaucrash, August 4, 2002.
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:↑ "Q&A With Jason Talley: The Leader of the Bureaucrash Activist Network on Spreading the Ideas of [sic"], Competitive Enterprise Institute, March 17, 2006.
- ↑ ^Jump ^up to:4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Indoctrination", Bureaucrash, July 8, 2007.
- :{Jump up:(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:↑ "IPN Climate Skeptic meeting ends in chaos", UK Indymedia, November 30, 2004.
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ABOUT BUREAUCRASH
Bureaucrash is dedicated to fighting the increase of government control over our lives. Our international network of pro-freedom activists works to change the political ideology of our generation through creative activism. While most youth politics supports the growth of the already bloated government bureaucracy, we fight for freedom.
Our activists are of all political persuasions united by the belief that sprawling governments and the bureaucrats and politicians who control them ought to be mocked. Mercilessly.
Why? Because when governments grow, our freedom to live our lives as we see fit shrinks. Every time a new law is passed, some bureaucrat squirreled away in a cubicle somewhere gets more power to make decisions over us. And because the vast majority of people have no idea of the lives and freedoms crushed every time the government’s power grows.
We believe that, only by spreading information about this absurd arrangement can we leash the bureaucracy and restore our fundamental freedoms.
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We believe that individuals are sovereign and own their own bodies.
We believe that every person has a right to make decisions about his or her own life, as long as those decisions do not directly harm other people.
We believe that no person has a right to use force against another person – to steal what they have earned or threaten their body or property.
We believe that when a government makes a new rule, it threatens to use force against someone (or everyone).
We believe that when bureaucrats and politicians have the power to make arbitrary rules, they steal our choices.
Therefore, we believe that if governments are to exist they should be small and just have the power to protect us from force and fraud.
Because we believe that any other arrangement breeds corruption and gives other people (bureaucrats) power over us. Any other arrangement makes us all slaves to the bureaucrats.
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The **Henry Hazlitt Foundation** was a public interest or advocacy organization founded in 1997 by Chris Whitten, who had been publishing Free-Market.com since 1995. The Foundation was named after free-market economist and writerHenry Hazlitt. In 1997 Free-Market.com became Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network for the express purpose of making the ideas of liberty more accessible and networking with the international libertarian movement. J.D. Tuccille (the son of Jerome Tuccille) served as senior editor for Free-Market.net.[1]
History
The Foundation ran a number of contests, including book of the month,[2] website of the week,[3] and an offline newsletter entitled The Free-Marketeer. They were also responsible for the creation or maintenance of a number of libertarian organizations, such as ifeminists and Bureaucrash. The idea for Bureaucrash came from businessman Al Rosenberg, who partnered with the Henry Hazlitt Foundation in 2001.[4] In December 2002, the Henry Hazlitt Foundation went out of business. Free-Market.Net became part of the International Society for Individual Liberty in December 2004.[5]
Funding
Between 1998 and 2003 the Henry Hazlitt Foundation received six grants totaling $52,500.[6]
References
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The International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL) is a non-profit, non-partisan[citation needed] libertarian educational organization based in San Francisco. It encourages activism in libertarian and individual rightsareas by the 'freely chosen strategies' of its members. Its history dates back to 1969[1][2] as the Society for Individual Liberty,[3] founded by Don Ernsberger and Dave Walter. The current name was adopted in 1989 after a merger with Libertarian International was coordinated byVincent Miller,[4][5] who became president of the new organization. Jim Elwood is the current executive director, with board members includingMary Ruwart and Ken Schoolland. ISIL has members in over 80 countries.[6]
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Activities
The society sponsors an annual international conference which has attracted libertarian, classical liberal, and other political luminaries from Milton Friedman to the President of Costa Rica.[1] It also sponsors a variety of educational materials and member projects from its website, and in recent years has incorporated other libertarian entities such asLaissez Faire Books and the Freedom News Daily.[7]
See also
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References
- ^ :{Jump up to::(style="top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important;-webkit-user-select:none"):}:^a b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Society_for_Individual_Liberty#cite_ref-History_at_ISIL_site_1-1) History at ISIL site
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External links
- http://www.ISIL.org/
- Organizational Profile – National Center for Charitable Statistics (Urban Institute)
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Mr. Talley, 32, leads the Bureaucrash Activist Network, which aims to encourage young people to fight increases in government control — a stance Mr. Talley calls being “pro-freedom.”
“Big government is bad, and personal, individual responsibility is good,” Mr. Talley said, summing up Bureaucrash’s message.
Mr. Talley said Bureaucrash, which joined the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) think tank in March, aims to influence young people for the cause of liberty by “marketing our ideas in a way that would be more interesting than your standard think-tank white paper.” The group swears by viral marketing, a tactic designed to infiltrate markets with a message until it spreads from person to person like a virus.
The Bureaucrash Web site, www.bureaucrash.com, forms the home base for both Web surfers who make 2 million unique visits each year and the 5,000 “crashers” from around the world who have joined the online community. The Web site contains passionate blogs, free, pro-freedom graphics and an online store selling T-shirts, buttons and the like.
In order to use viral marketing, Mr. Talley said, Bureaucrash also makes its graphics available on Facebook, Flickr and the Second Life virtual world and has countless YouTube videos.
“We try to hit whatever is hot,” he said.
Mr. Talley, a graphic artist, helps create the graphics so they appeal to Bureaucrash’s young audience. His designs are bold and simple, making them prime fodder for the teenage and 20-something culture that eats up retro-style message tees.
“I think T-shirts are the best way because, for one thing, people pay you to advertise your ideas,” Mr. Talley said.
He hopes the T-shirts’ appeal will show young activists that they have alternatives to left-wing organizations.
“If I were a college student in 2006 and I wanted to get active and I didn’t know where I was politically, the left would be very attractive,” he said. “What they do is sexy. You feel like you’re making a difference.”
Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, a Bureaucrash intern from Stockholm, added that the romanticism of socialist ideology appeals to college students. “It’s about change, I guess,” he said. “It’s about revolution.”
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Mr. Heller Sahlgren, 21, said Bureaucrash gives young people an alternative to left-wing activism.
“We see all this grass-roots activism against liberty and free trade,” he said. “This is the first one, that I know of anyway, that has actually been pro-free trade and pro-liberty.”
Fred L. Smith Jr., president of CEI, said he founded the think tank with the goal of using left-wing groups’ vertical organization formats, in which they focus on one issue and sponsor both policy analysis and activism on it. Bureaucrash, therefore, fit in with his vision and gives younger people an arena in which to tout pro-freedom principles.
“I’m now 65,” Mr. Smith said. “I’m not going to jump off a building unfurling a flag saying, ‘Economic liberty for the world.’ ”
He said Bureaucrash helps reach a younger generation that right-wing policy groups do not attract.
“We probably do appeal really well to pinstripe-suit people,” he said. “The question is, can we appeal to a wide array?”
Mr. Smith said CEI tends to attract intellectuals, but not necessarily activists. Bureaucrash’s work attracts those interested in action. He hopes Bureaucrash will continue to encourage right-wing activists to start attending protests or political conferences, he said, like those on the left do.
“Often there’s wall-to-wall lefties, so it’s useful to have someone from the other side,” he said. “One candle in a dark room can be very, very effective.”
Mr. Heller Sahlgren said Bureaucrash helps CEI present its ideals to a younger generation. “People who don’t read public policy, think-tank publications and stuff, who actually haven’t developed their ideas and stuff, and Bureaucrash comes along and gives them an alternative,” he said.
The four-year-old Bureaucrash began when retired businessman Al Rosenberg approached the Henry Hazlitt Foundation, named after the libertarian author, about using the Internet to spread pro-freedom ideals. Mr. Rosenberg had been donating books by authors such as Mr. Hazlitt or F.A. Hayek to libraries, but the books did not end up on shelves.
“He was a bit frustrated,” Mr. Talley said. “He heard about this new thing called the Internet,” and Bureaucrash began.
To join the online community, crashers must indicate that they share the beliefs listed in Bureaucrash’s statement of principles. The statement says self-ownership guarantees people the right to make their own choices as long as they do not harm others. Also, big government making the rules always threatens force against a person. Therefore, the statement concludes, only small governments that can protect citizens from force and fraud should exist — and those with additional powers make citizens “slaves to the bureaucratic state.”
Members of the online community have posting privileges and receive e-mails from Mr. Talley about secret protests. Mr. Talley said crashers who get the e-mails make appearances — called “crashes” — at progressive demonstrations or outside bureaucracies to counter the message. For instance, a group recently gathered outside the Department of Agriculture to protest sugar subsidies and tariffs that lead to higher prices.
Mr. Talley said Bureaucrash does not ally itself with Republicans or Democrats, citing reasons that include the Republicans subsidizing businesses and the Democrats’ penchant for big government.
“We don’t take sides,” he said. “We exist to illustrate why freedom is good and how government is at odds with freedom a lot of times.”
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