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Erne Lewis

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Hobart, OK

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Erne's early years were in Hobart, Oklahoma, a small town in the southwest corner of the state. He moved to Seattle after graduating from the University of Oklahoma. His professional life, until 1974, was as an architect in the Seattle area. In 1974 he and two associates began a new aquaculture venture that grew to become a major source of salmon for the Oregon and Washington coast. Erne was its president for many years. In 1990 he and Marti purchased and outfitted a 48 foot ketch and sailed the Caribbean for a year. Erne has been sailing and writing since then.

Philosophically, Erne has been an Objectivist since reading Atlas Shrugged in 1963, and politically a libertarian. He was active in the Washington State Libertarian Party from 1992 u ...more

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An Act of Self-Defense

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SO BIG IT’S DESTROYING US

Most people seem to believe, as does the always uninformed media, that our governments take as much as 25% or 30% from the wealth produced annually by Americans. And most Americans and the media believe that wealth production is fairly … Continue reading →

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“For every moral principle, there’s an equal and opposite government program”
― Erne Lewis

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“A politician in our democratic government is a broker for the use of government force to the highest bidders.”
― Erne Lewis, An Act of Self-Defense

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“I love the Constitution, but it placed ridiculously small limits on the power of the federal government. Taken literally, our total powers include coining money, raising money, budgeting for the various federal departments and agencies, declaring war, controlling federal elections, controlling and taxing imports and exports, and a few other minor things I can’t recall at the moment. We can also regulate commerce. But even that probably just meant making commerce regular between the states—prohibiting tariffs between states, which had been a problem before the Constitution, and establishing standards to be common for all states.” “That’s it?” Harlowe smiled, knowing how this would sound. “Taken literally, almost everything we do here is unconstitutional—education, healthcare, social security, housing, labor laws, minimum wages.”
― Erne Lewis, An Act of Self-Defense

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“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.”
― H.L. Mencken 18801956

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