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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:00:00 GMT
Roy A. Childs, Jr at Steve L. Smith's Personal Web Site -
Objectivism and the State, An Open Letter to Ayn Rand: An attempt
to convince Ms. Rand that government must always eventually initiate
force. She never answered it, likely,
IMHO, because she couldn't refute it, but still believed,
irrationally, in the state.
The Daily Telegraph (London) via National Review - Legalize It: Makes the same mistake that Bill Buckley makes about why drugs should be legalized, but at least comes to the right conclusion. The enlightened conservative reasoning is a harm-reduction argument. The proper argument is that no behavior between consenting adults is anybody else's business. [market]
Three new articles in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- {@Urban Redevelopment: Throw out the clowns} - The Las Vegas government has driven resident-centric businesses out of the city center. Now, Mayor Goodman is attempting to force them back in by refusing permits anywhere else. "Gee, why doesn't he simply establish a 'Commissariat of Consumer Services,' handling the problems with 'state stores,' while rounding up and forcibly relocating citizens downtown at bayonet point?"
- Land Use Planning: High court lets an injustice stand - "But do we still have private property in America, really?" Not when San Francisco can charge a modest "permit fee" of $600,000, and the supreme court allows the fee to stand by refusing to review the case.
- Secret Medical Database - In Amerika, doctors are afraid to give enough pain-relief medication to people in chronic pain. Dr. Deitrich Stoermer attempted to buck the tide, and was arrested by federal agents for doing so. He was acquitted of 16 counts of improperly distributing prescription drugs. So the feds cancelled his DEA license. Everything is secret about the database that this little gestapo uses to determine whether a doctor is prescribing too much pain medication. My take: another reason to completely deregulate all drugs. Prescription medicine serves noone but the large drug companies.
