The Haitian Catastrophe: Libertarian perspectives

From Eric Dondero:

Please visit our sister site Worldwide Liberty, for articles on the disaster in Haiti from a libertarian perspective. We also encourage submissions for that site on the current tragedy looking for other libertarian solutions.

Both Senior Editor Clifford Thies, Ph.D in economics, and I offer a couple articles with our thoughts. Clifford tackles the practicality of the crisis and how the U.S. can best respond immediately, mainly through massive mobilization of the mighty U.S. Military. I look at the long term, and offer a uniquely libertarian view: Expand the U.S. Territory that already exists there - Navassa Island - to cover all of Haiti, making it a possible U.S. Protectorate. Then, turn Haiti into one giant Free Trade Zone; a Hong Kong of the Caribbean.

There has been precious few commentary and coverage of the Haitian crisis within the libertarian movement. Visits to libertarian sites, shows few if any articles or even mentions of Haiti. This obviously has to do with the generally isolationist attitudes of the majority of libertarians, from Cato to Von Mises Inst. to the Ron Paul movement. We here at Libertarian Republican and Worldwide Liberty take a decidedly different - more internationalist view - of libertarianism. Unlike our neo-isolationist counterparts, we advocate spreading liberty worldwide. Thus we offer an outlet for discussion of libertarian alternatives for Haiti.

Worldwide Liberty blog

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