For the Children. Yeah, right.
You are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove all the "mine" - that is the veil.
Why ever worry about
Anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world
Is a Magi's brilliant trick, though its affairs are
Nothing into nothing.
You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant
Hole.
Sweetheart, O sweetheart
You are God in
Drag!
(The Gift, Poems by Hafiz, translations by Daniel Ladinsky)
Russell Madden at Laissez Faire City Times - Smoking (Out) Fascists - The increasing fascism of anti-smoking laws and other laws that attempt to define people's "rights" in "public" places.
As I said, there is no logical stopping point once we abandon our respect for property and other rights. However, once we recognize that a "public" space (excluding government "owned" places) is nothing more than private property that the owner allows others to enter given certain conditions, we can resolve all the controversies.Don't like to smell or inhale smoke while you eat, fly, work, or relax? Then don't go where the property owner says smoking is permitted. You have zero "right" to tell anyone what to do with his property as long as he does not coercively make you associate with him. Forcing a property owner to avoid a peaceful usage of his property that he decides is best for himself is the essence of fascism.
Pierre Lemieux at Laissez Faire City Times - Why I Hate Children - Mr. Lemieux doesn't really hate children. He hates the fascists who use children as an excuse to enslave us.
Think about what we have done to protect children from drugs--taking the lead from the mother of all Big Brothers, the U.S. government. The war on drugs has been an excuse of choice for monitoring financial transactions and strengthening border controls, with sniffing customs dogs, and human thugs to open our mail.
Jim Peron at Laissez Faire City Times - Panic Attack: The Green Scare, Part 1: How to Create a Panic in One Easy Lesson: How a public relations firm created the Alar scare out of whole cloth.