During the first hour today, we’ll hear our interview with Hayley Mary, lead singer of Australian “intensindie” band, The Jezabels. We spoke with Hayley a couple days ago and we think you’ll agree, the interview was more than we could have expected or hoped for!
During the second hour we’ll also discuss some of this week’s top stories. See Program Notes, below, for all the stories, etc., we plan to discuss.
Join in live, either by phone or in the chatroom!
The show can be accessed here.
To access the show’s page at BlogTalk Radio, which will allow you to check out a past episode or to subscribe via iTunes and other services, use this link.
To access the iTunes store page for “Don’t Let It Go…Unheard,” where you can find past episodes, subscribe, and leave ratings and reviews (pretty please!), use this link.
Finally, if you would like to support the podcast financially, please donate using your Pay Pal account or Credit Card here.
Program Notes
A D-Day Veteran Politely Declines Obama Invitation
BRUCE: Fragging Bergdahl’s squad mates
Edward Snowden, a year on: reformers frustrated as NSA preserves its power
The Tiananmen Vigil In Hong Kong Is Staggering
One photo reveals big issue with Seattle’s $15 minimum wage
McDonalds and the minimum wage
Fallin signs bill repealing Oklahoma Common Core standards HT Rob Abiera
Sen. Cruz Files Bills to Protect the Individual Right to Free Speech
Don't Let It Go 
La Supremacia Moral del Individuo
——————————————-
The Moral Superiority of the Individual
by José Luis Tapia Rocha ..
http://www.ileperu.org/que-hacemos/difusion/articulos/610-la-supremacia-moral-del-individuo-por-jose-luis-tapia-rocha
[I’ll translate a few paragraphs for you.]
The individual is above the state. The state is his servant and the governors are at the service of the people. The rights of life, liberty and private property put the individual in a position morally superior to the state. In contrast to statism, which destroys without limit, the individual creates and builds wealth in spite of it all.
While under the yoke of the state for centuries, be they monarchies, dictatorships or democracies, individuals have been known to overcome adversity with their talent and entrepreneurial creativity. It is as the Russian philosopher Ayn Rand says: these creators are heroes of capitalism. Although statism has tried to take away your freedom, it has not triumphed in the moral realm.
…
In a free market, benevolence is the opposite of altruism. Benevolence means helping your neighbor to the extent possible. Altruism calls for sacrifice, not love. Benevolence is the consequence of the development of the virtue of love, by means of which comes kindness toward the other. This has always been the custom.
Finally, justice. You cannot be just in a coercive environment. We cannot give to each what he deserves if there is no free choice, only in a voluntary environment can justice exist. Therefore, statism cannot be morally superior to the market because it uses control. Its relations with the individual are not on an equal footing, statism imposes its will by force of law.
The moral authority of the individual is recognized by the [classical] liberals. They place the individual above the state. The free market allows the individual to develop the virtues and the creative capacity of wealth.