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Dear Friends of Liberty,

as our meetings always seemed a bit too short (totally subjective impression on my part), i rescheduled the meetup to start one hour earlier, at 7:00 PM. I also hope to accommodate everyone who likes to have dinner sooner than 8:00 PM.

Any comments are welcome :-)

Till next Monday!

Bruno

Dear Friends of Liberty,

i wish you a happy Easter Monday !

Our next Meetup is coming up, hope to see you there.

I have good news for those of you interested in Austrian Economics. The Mises Institute has started to record "Human Action", Mises's magnum opus, as an audiobook and is making it available for free on it's homepage: http://mises.org/story/3328 It's only the 30 min. introduction for now though.

Greetings!

Bruno

Dear Friends of Liberty,

the next Meetup is coming up. Did you read about the states that reaffirmed their sovereignty? Pressure on the federal Government is building up, definitely something worth monitoring!

See you next Monday,
Bruno

Dear Friends of Liberty,

we didn't discuss the new location last time as we were few in numbers, so it momentarily stays the same.

The Campaign for Liberty builds up steam in the states and Ron Paul seems to give more and more interviews. It gets interesting

Greetings,
Bruno

Dear Friends of Liberty,

during the last Meetup we gathered ideas for a new Meetup-location. The most promising idea was to look for a Room in the Seidl-Villa in Schwabing, the use would be completely free. But for now, we keep our last Location, the Fai Chi close to the Münchner Freiheit (quite adequate ;-) The Fai Chi is calm and not expensive. Only drawback was that it was a bit cold last time, so remember to dress accordingly.

We also discussed what kind of steps we, as a Meetup, could take to support the idea of liberty in Germany. The suggestions i sent some time ago where to broad for a small group as ours, so we discussed more local actions. The rough idea is to search for and talk to people about the libertarian/liberty ideas that my be interested. How we intend to do this will be the topic of the next Meetup.

Johanna and me explored the ideas on how to reach people a bit further in the subway on our way home: The Meetup would be an excellent instrument for learning on how to convince other people about the ideas of liberty. We already exchange informations, but be can go further. I think some, if not many of us already made the experience of trying to convince someone we know and being faced with all the usual counter-arguments that seem to be a part of the local folklore. Some counter-arguments will be justified but based on a wrong idea of our views, some will be simply a parroting of heard arguments without further reflection on them and some will plunge straight into the entrails of the whole clash of the different political philosophies.

Here is something we can do, and really effectively so too: We can gather these typical counter-arguments and try to develop good refutations for them. This would extend our munition for future conversations, and we would learn to be more convincing. Not only that, we also could then share these refutations with other Meetup groups.

Some arguments against (true/libertarian) capitalism and liberty are so deep-seated that almost nobody seems to question them anymore. There is a strong need for good and catchy refutations and i think we are able to come up with some good ones.
To come up with these refutations we could form two groups during our Meetup and assign one group the role of the "Devils advocate" while the other has to defend our positions. I think this could be fun :-)

Until next week !

Bruno