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Hour 1 - Robert Anthony Peters (Vice President of FIJA) on the upcoming FIJA and FEE Meet and Greet at the AZ Beer House (Tucson) on Monday April 9th, 7-8:30 pm

Hour 2 - Freedom's Phoenix Headline News

Hour 3 - Dr Craig Wilkinson (Surgeon; Author) on the book The Honorable Governor Culbert Levy Olson  Humanitarian. Ex-Mormon. Atheist that he co-wrote with Debra Deanne Olson, the granddaughter of Culbert Levy Olson who was Governor of California from 1939-1943 and was hailed as a Godfather of True Progressivism

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Robert Anthony Peters

Robert Anthony Peters is Vice President of the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA). He sat in on FIJA's 2017 federal trial regarding free speech rights of juror rights educators at the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse in Denver, CO.

Robert completed his BS at the University of Arizona in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, was a Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow in DC, and trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC. A member of SAG-AFTRA, he has been acting, producing, and directing professionally in theater, film, voiceover, and more for over a decade. He has been an active libertarian for even longer. Currently he lectures internationally on the relationship between art and liberty, speaking at several Students For Liberty events, the State Policy Network annual conference, the Bastiat Society, APEE, FreedomFest, Arizona FreedomFest, Coins in the Kingdom, the Hero's Journey Conference, Libertopia, PORCfest, FEE seminars, Institute for Liberal Studies Summer Seminar series, and the Free Minds Film Festival.

He is president of Laissez Faire Media and the Culture of Liberty Institute and a producer with Ozymandias Media – purveyor of top quality web content for freedom-oriented think tanks and businesses. He records audiobooks, is a policy advisor for the Heartland Institute, is on the inaugural FEE Alumni Board, leads discussions for Liberty Fund, and is a contributor to The Freeman. He also manages his family's retail shipping store in Tucson, AZ. Look for his film directing debut with "Tank Man." His website is robertanthonypeters.com.

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FEE and FIJA at the Arizona Beer House (Tucson) Monday April 9th; 7-8:30 pm = FREE EVENT

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Join Kirsten C. Tynan, Executive Director of the Fully Informed Jury Association and Robert Anthony Peters, FIJA and FEE Alumni Board Member, for a meet and greet at the Arizona Beer House!

This event is free to attend, and FEE will cover your first 2 beers! If you are a FEE Alumn or fan in the area, we hope to see you there!

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Hour 3 - Dr Craig Wilkinson (Surgeon; Author) on the book The Honorable Governor Culbert Levy Olson  Humanitarian. Ex-Mormon. Atheist that he co-wrote with Debra Deanne Olson, the granddaughter of Culbert Levy Olson who was Governor of California from 1939-1943 and was hailed as a Godfather of True Progressivism

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Dr Craig Wilkinson

 

Meet the Godfather of True Progressivism : The Honorable Governor Culbert Levy Olson  Humanitarian. Ex-Mormon. Atheist.

Epic new book of the "People's Governor" Penned by Granddaughter Debra Deanne Olson and Dr. Craig West Wilkinson

Governor Culbert Levy Olson is oft called the Godfather of True Progressivism. If you want to know what Progressivism looks like, this is what Progressivism looks like…

So, how did this son of a  Mormon family from Utah defy the predictable politics and become the 29th governor of California? The Honorable Governor Culbert Levy Olson  tells the story of a remarkable statesman, a scientific skeptic and a man of cons cience totally committed to a true progressive agenda.   As early as 1934, he was a supporter of Upton Sinclair's "End Poverty in California" (EPIC). He put Californians back to work by forming cooperatives to take over idle factories and farms. In 1934, he was elected to the California State Senate where he authored the Olson Oil Bill to break up oil company monopolies in California. 

Taking down the business-as-usual politicians is not for the faint of heart. It takes toughness, tenacity and an undisputed moral compass. In 1938, he campaigned to be the Governor on the platform for expanding The New Deal in California. His platform included: Support for Labor, Migrant Farm Workers, Latino Politics, Predatory Lending and Unions, Prison Reform, Reform Mental Health Institutions,Guaranteed Old Age Pensions, Universal Healthcare, Regulation of Public Utilities, and Separation of Church and State. He cut the cord with Big Pharma and Big Oil.  In 1938, Culbert O lson won the governorship in a landslide, becoming the first Democratic governor in 44 years. A contender to be FDR's vice presidential running mate, Olson believed his overwhelming victory was a mandate from the people.  Defiantly, all of his official appointments  were made without discrimination regardless of race, religions, or  gender.

His Inaugural address reflected his humanitarian idealism: "There is none among us who can doubt that the people have voted for a government that shall honestly place human values before material values; that they want a government that will do the human thing, unserved by pressure from any self-seeking group or special interest."

In 1939, he presented a plan of Universal Healthcare for California that today might have been called "Olsoncare," Under Gov. Olson's plan, all working Californians earning $3,000 or less a year (close to $50,000 today) would have been required to be covered. U nfortunately, the health insurance measure was rejected by the more centrist legislature along with Olson's proposals to raise taxes, regulate lobbyists and make the state's prison system more humane.

Whatever his trials and tribulations, Olson kept persisting amid every obstacle, amid every mountain of opposition. After leaving office, Olson returned to the practice of law and in 1957, accepted the presidency of the United Secularists of America.  Olson ardently pleaded religion must be abandoned as a guiding philosophy,or the world would end in a bloodbath of war. Furthermore, Olson bravely left Mormonism as a young intellectual, at a time when apostasy from the LDS church could be a death sentence, much like some Islamist sects today.

Always one to speak his mind and never to run from controversy, its no wonder the California State Library rec ently acknowledged Olson as the first governor to honor with a digital exhibit. Supreme Court Justice Stanley Moss said of his former boss, "He was the most honest person I think I've ever known"

Proudly, his granddaughter Debra Deanne Olson  continues her grandfather progressive values and ideals. Debra champions The Earth Charter Initiative,  a powerful  framework for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society for the 21st century.  Debra serves on the Boards  of The Coalition for Engaged Education that supports underserved youth  and PeaceChannel.com, an Initiative of The United Nations. She was also the National Senior Advisor and Chief Fundraiser for the Kucinich for President Campaign in 2003.  She designed and implemented the first on-line political fundraising campaigns nationwide. A fierce advocate for gender equality, she has worked as < /span>a consultant and fundraiser for Senators Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein  and Elizabeth Warren.  

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This book should be essential reading for all Americans. I shall be in touch with you shortly regarding review and interview possibilities.

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The Honorable Governor Culbert Levy Olson  Humanitarian. Ex-Mormon. Atheist

Available On Amazon, Biography of A Statesman Ahead of His Time

Title: The Honorable Culbert Levy Olson, Governor of California 1939-1943

420 Pages, 80 Photographs

Authors, Ms. Debra Deanne Olson and Dr. Craig Wilkinson

Please visit www. GovernorCulbertOlsonLegacy.com

 TALKING POINTS  REGARDING OLSON'S SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS

 As a  Utah State Senator Culbert Olson wrote and sponsored many progressive laws in Utah from 1916 to 1920.

Laws that:  

   Regulated public utilities.

   Provided workmen's compensation.

   Limited the use of injunctions in labor disputes and protected collective 

   Bargaining.

   Regulate the issuance of securities.

          HE WROTE AND HELPED PASS THE FIRST CHILD LABOR LAWS IN UTAH

In the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco in 1920  Culbert Olson pleaded for a more progressive party platform without success.  

 As a private California citizen Culbert Olson supported the 

The Honorable Culbert Levy Olson: California Governor 1939 to 1943, Humanitarian, Ex-Mormon and Atheist

Biography of California Governor Culbert Levy Olson. A statesman ahead of his time, he was a progressive democratic Governor of California form 1939 to 1943. Known as "The Peoples Governor", he was a personal friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who considered him a possible Vice Presidential running mate. He left the cult religion of Mormonism at an early age and became one of the only atheists to hold high public office in America. In later life he was President of the United Secularists of America. Both his progressive politics, currently prescribed by Senator Bernie Sanders, and his lack of religion are trending today.

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Authoritarian Sociopathy

August 23rd, 2013   Submitted by Davi Barker

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Many anarchists and libertarians eagerly study the psychology of tyrants in an effort to know their enemy in the battlefield of politics. Getting into the minds of our enemy is regarded as a strategy, a means to our political ends… which is an end to political means. However, I would suggest that the mind of our enemy is the battlefield itself, and politics is merely one of many strategies. We cannot fight the State with votes, or with cameras, or even with rifles, because factually the State only exists in the mind.

Our common definition for the State is a "monopoly on violence." This was originally coined by German political philosopher Max Weber, affirmed by Austrian economist Murray Rothbard in his book Anatomy of the State, and even echoed by authoritarian sociopath Barack Obama while campaigning in 2007. This definition is seldom disputed, even by the agents of the State. However, as surely as a pickpocket can knife you in the ribs, the State does not factually enjoy a monopoly on violence. The missing component is an often overlooked, but all important adjective: legitimate. The State is a monopoly on legitimate violence, and legitimacy is the only thing distinguishing a tax collector from a pickpocket, a police officer from a vigilante, or a soldier from a paid murderer. Legitimacy is an illusion in the mind without which the State does not even exist.

This illusion not only exists in the minds of the authoritarians, it exists in the minds of every subject who accepts their oppression. And every place that this illusion finds safe harbor is a trench in the field of battle. If we want to attack the State, we must attack the mind of the Statists. For that reason, the psychology of obedience and authority is not merely a tool in the activists utility belt, it is a topographical map of the battle field itself. So let's take a look.

Power and Obedience

We've all heard of the Milgram Experiment and the Stanford Prison ExperimentI've written about them before. So as not to waste your time, I'll summarize very briefly.

In the Milgram Experiment participants were divided into "teachers" and "learners" and placed in separate rooms. "Teachers" were instructed to read questions to the "learners" and if they answered incorrectly to administer an elecro-shock of ever increasing voltage. The "teachers" were unaware that electro-shocks were fake. After a few volts the "learner" began to object, to complain of a heart condition, and ultimately go silent. If the "teacher" asked to stop he was told by the experimenter," "the experiment requires that you continue." 65% administered the experiment's maximum massive 450-volt shock. The vast majority were willing to administer a lethal jolt of electricity to a complete stranger based upon nothing but the verbal prodding of an authority figure.

In the Stanford Prison Experiment participants were screened for mental health and randomly assigned as "prisoner" or "guard" to live in a two week long prison simulation. Guards were given uniforms, mirrored glasses, and wooden batons. Prisoners were dressed in smocks and addressed only by their prison numbers. Guards were instructed only to keep a fixed schedule, and that they could not physically harm prisoners. The experiment was halted after only six days because guards began to display cruel, even sadistic behavior including spraying prisoners with fire extinguishers, depriving them of bedding or restroom privileges, forcing them to go nude and locking them in "solitary confinement" in a dark closet. After an initial revolt, and a brief hunger strike, prisoners developed submissive attitudes, accepting physical abuse, and readily following orders inflict punishments on each other. They even engaged in horizontal discipline to keep each other in line. Both prisoners and guards fully internalized their fictional identities.

Ethical concerns raised by these experiments has made it almost impossible to study the authoritarian sociopathy in any meaningful way. Still, there have been some more recent studies that flesh out the findings of these classic experiments. Because of the new ethical guidelines the more recent experiments are not as dramatic, but the implications of their results are no less startling.

Power and Deception

Dana Carney is a professor at Columbia University. She conducted an experiment to discover if "leaders" and "subordinates" experience the same physiological stress while lying. She found that power not only makes lying easier, but pleasurable.

Participants filled out a personality test that identified them as "leaders" or "subordinates." In reality the selection was random, but the fake test created an air of legitimacy to their assignment. Leaders were placed in a large executive office and given an hour of busy work. Subordinates were placed in a small windowless cubical and given an hour of busy work. Then they engaged in a 10 minute mock negotiation over pay.

Afterwards half the participants were given $100 and told they could keep it if they lied and convinced the lead experimenter that they didn't have it. The experimenter did not know who had the money.

For most people lying elicits negative emotions, cognitive impairment, physiological stress, and nonverbal behavioral cues, which can all be measured. Video of the interviews was reviewed to identify behavioral cues. Saliva samples were tested for increases in the stress hormone cortisol. Tests of reaction time were conducted on the computer to demonstrate cognitive impairment. And a mood survey assessed participants' emotional states during the experiment.

By every measure "subordinates" exhibited all the indicators of deception, but liars in the "leader" class exhibited the exact opposite. By every measure "leaders" were indistinguishable from truth-tellers. In fact, they enjoyed reduced stress levels, increased cognitive function and reported positive emotions. Only "subordinates" reported feeling bad about lying.

Professor Carney concludes, "Power will lead to increases in intensity and frequency of lying."

Lying comes easier, and is inherently more pleasurable, to those in power, even fake authority. In other words, power rewards dishonesty with pleasure.

Power and Compassion

Psychologist Gerben A. Van Kleef from the University of Amsterdam conducted an experiment to identify how power influences emotional reactions to the suffering of others. Participants filled out a questionnaire about their own sense of power in their actual lives and were identified as "high-power" and "lower-power" individuals. Then they were randomly paired off to take turns sharing personal stories of great pain, or emotional suffering.

During the exchange the stress levels of both participants was measured by electrocardiogram (ECG) machines, and afterward they filled out a second questionnaire describing their own emotional experience, and what they perceived of their partner's emotional experienced.

You guessed it. Increased stress in the story teller correlated with increased stress in listener for low-power subjects, but not for high-power subjects. In other words, low-power individuals experienced the suffering of others, but high-power individuals experienced greater detachment. After the experiment high-power listeners self-reported being unmotivated to empathize with their partner. In other words, they saw the emotions of others, but they just didn't care. After the experiment, researchers inquired about whether participants would like to stay in touch with their partners. As you might expect, the low-power subjects liked the idea, but the high-power subjects didn't.

Power and Hypocrisy

It has become almost a cliche that the most outspoken anti-gay politicians are in fact closet homosexuals themselves, and the champions of "traditional family values" are engaged in extramarital affairs. Nothing is more common than the fiscal conservative who demands ridiculous luxuries at the taxpayer's expense, or the anti-war progressive who takes campaign donations from the military industrial complex. Well, now it seems there's some science behind the hypocrisy of those in power.

Joris Lammers, from Tilburg University, and Adam Galinsky of Kellogg School of Management conducted a battery of five experiments to test how power influences a person's moral standards, specifically whether they were likely to behave immorally while espousing intolerance for the behavior of others. In each of five experiments the results were about what you'd expect. Powerful people judge others more harshly but cheat more themselves. But in the last experiment they distinguished between legitimate power and illegitimate power and got the opposite results.

In the first experiment subjects were randomly assigned to as "high-power" or "low-power." To induce these feelings "high-power" subjects were asked to recall an experience where they felt powerful, and "low-power" subjects were asked to recall an experience where they felt powerless. They were asked to rate how immoral they considered cheating, and then they were given an opportunity to cheat at dice. The high-power subjects considered cheating a higher moral infraction than low-power subjects, but were also more likely to cheat themselves.

In the second experiment participants conducted a mock-government. Half were randomly assigned as "high-power" roles which gave orders to the half randomly given "low-power" roles. Then each group was asked about minor traffic violations, such as speeding, or rolling through stop signs. As expected, high-power subjects were more likely to to bend the rules themselves, but less likely to afford other drivers the same leniency.

In the third experiment participants were divided as in the first experiment, by recalling a personal experience. Each group was asked about their feelings about minor common tax evasions, such as not declaring freelance income. As expected, high-power subjects were more willing to bend the rules themselves, but less likely to afford others the same leniency.

In the fourth experiment participants were asked to complete a series of word puzzles. Half the participants were randomly given puzzles containing high-power words, and the other half were given puzzles containing low power words. Then all participants were asked what they'd do if they found an abandoned bike on the side of the road. As in all experiments, even with such an insignificant power disparity, those in the high-power group were more likely to say they would keep the bike, but also that others had an obligation to seek out the rightful owner, or turn the bike over to the police.

The fifth and final experiment yielded, by far, the most interesting results. The feeling of power was induced the same as the first and third experiment, where participants describe their own experience of power in their life, with one important distinction. This time the "high-power" class was divided in two. One group was asked to describe an experience of legitimate power, and the other was asked to describe an experience of illegitimate power.

The legitimate high-power group showed the same hypocrisy as in the previous four experiments. But those who viewed their power as illegitimate actually gave the opposite results. Researchers dubbed it "hypercrisy." They were harsher about their own transgressions, and more lenient toward others. This discovery could be the silver bullet we've been looking for. The researchers speculate that the vicious cycle of power and hypocrisy could be broken by attacking the legitimacy of power, rather than the power itself. As they write in their conclusion:

"A question that lies at the heart of the social sciences is how this status-quo (power inequality) is defended and how the powerless come to accept their disadvantaged position. The typical answer is that the state and its rules, regulations, and monopoly on violence coerce the powerless to do so. But this cannot be the whole answer… Our last experiment found that the spiral of inequality can be broken, if the illegitimacy of the power-distribution is revealed. One way to undermine the legitimacy of authority is open revolt, but a more subtle way in which the powerless might curb self enrichment by the powerful is by tainting their reputation, for example by gossiping. If the powerful sense that their unrestrained self enrichment leads to gossiping, derision, and the undermining of their reputation as conscientious leaders, then they may be inspired to bring their behavior back to their espoused standards. If they fail to do so, they may quickly lose their authority, reputation, and— eventually—their power."

Those in power are more likely to lie, cheat and steal while also being harsher in their judgments of others for doing these things. They feel less compassion for the suffering of others, and are even capable of the torture and murder of innocent people. What's perhaps most disturbing is that we have seen that the problem is not that sociopaths are drawn to positions of authority, but that positions of authority draw out the sociopath in everyone. But this final experiment offers some hope that authoritarian sociopathy can not only be stopped, but driven into reverse, not by violence or revolution, but simply by undermining their legitimacy. But how?

Reclaiming Lost Ground

Those who attack the legitimacy of the authority by trumpeting the results of the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram Experiment have likely never heard of these  other experiments because they're just less dramatic. Without the shock value the research just doesn't impact the culture. Changes to the ethical guidelines have essentially neutered research on authoritarian sociopathy. It has been relegated to the water cooler banter of academics.

If the illegitimate ethical guidelines of legacy institutions hamstring meaningful research on authoritarian sociopathy then it is time for us to cast off such restrictions, and devise our own guidelines consistent with our own ethics. If court professors will not spread their findings beyond their classrooms and peer reviewed journals then it is time to conduct our own renegade psychological experiments, to show the world beyond doubt that power corrupts absolutely.

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