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Gary North at LewRockwell.com - How To Win the War on Drugs: a good libertarian solution to the drug problem. [lew]
I'm interested in shutting down the market for illegal drugs. I say that it takes two to tango -- buyers and sellers -- and I'm for shutting down the tango floor.We know where it is. There's one in your town. There are probably more than one. These are dark places of the soul. The users come, desperate to buy a new high or maybe only a way to keep from getting the shakes. The sellers come, greedy for income from the sale of their destructive wares, despite the misery they sow.
And then there are the innocents -- children who have money in their pockets and time on their hands. They come in droves, looking for new thrills in a boring, meaningless environment.
What we need is a clean sweep. We need to send local police, DEA officers, and the news media into these hell-holes and shut them down once and for all.
bob lonsberry - America Should Embrace Nuclear Energy: I agree with Mr. Lonsberry except for one little thing. Nobody has yet figured out what to do with the waste. I read something a while back about a company that had invented a method to bombard it with alpha particles which turned long half-life waste into short half-life waste, but as yet I've seen no news about the commercialization of that technology. I thought I reported this a while back, but I can't find it with editthispage's search engine or with google.
Three new articles in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- The state-established religion of Environmentalism -
state-mandated "environmentalism" has caused a rise in wildfires and
a fall in game species in Nevada. But there are lots of fat coyotes,
ravens, and mountain lions.
Over dinner at the Prospector restaurant in the Ely Holiday Inn, Wilkin -- glancing occasionally at his pager in case he should be called back to the ER -- hands me an invitation to the "Nevada Land Use Summit 2001," being put on by Assemblywoman Marcia de Braga and Sen. Dean Rhoads in Carson City Feb. 23 and 24 (call 775-883-7863), which intends to focus on the interrelated issues of noxious weeds, wildland fires, and Nevada's sagging sage grouse population.
Wilkin points out a section on page 2, underlined by the organizers: "There have been questions about distributing materials other than those provided by the 2001 Summit. We respectfully request (that) NO outside materials be brought in by any individual or group for distribution."
This is so the state wildlife bureaucrats can make sure no one presents copies of studies -- even their own studies -- which contradict the current myths about hunters and ranchers, Dr. Wilkin says.
- "Did Dr. King make the movement, or did the movement make him"? -
Besides speaking and acting for civil rights, Martin Luther King
espoused redistribution of wealth. There's a name for that.
Would the Rev. King have changed, recognized the pitfalls of socialism and the value of black entrepreneurship, and helped to lead the nation in brave new directions in the '70s and '80s? Or would his calls for massive government income redistribution and a "guaranteed income" for members of officially recognized "victim" classes have rendered him increasingly irrelevant, like that other proponent of proletarian revolution, Fidel Castro -- more and more an artifact and curiosity as the years sped by?
- Forces of bureaucratic tyranny seek to purge Bush nominees -
Concerning the problems invented by the left with some of GW's cabinet
nominees. And how the watermelon crowd (green on the outside, red on
the inside) are all in a panic over Gale Norton's promotion of the
idea that the constitution's 'takings clause' means exactly what it
says.
But meantime, score one in the ongoing campaign to deprive Mr. Bush of any advisers or administrators who actively promote even remotely free-market Republican ideals. Next on the intended hit list, obviously, is attorney general nominee John Ashcroft, already subject to prominent "balanced" personality profiles in America's Pravda and Izvestia, the New York Times and The Washington Post, stressing his links to "the Christian Right" in language so thinly veiled one could almost see the red light flashing above the page: "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger: Out-of-Touch Right-Wing Wacko."
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This, then is the "moderate, reasonable" opposition to the "extreme" notion advanced by former Colorado Attorney General Gale Norton, that Americans still retain some kind of "property rights," which protect them from government bureaucrats barging in unannounced at the front door, telling them whether and when they can cut their own grass.
