The Spirit of Justice!
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 01 Mar 2002 13:56:36 GMT
russmo.com -
Olympic Games Begin - cartoon commentary on "security" in
Utah. Hehe.
There's a new Libertarian Enterprise issue: "Cetius, Altius, Fortius". They're featuring the picture of John Ashcroft standing before the bared breast of the Spirit of Justice. Articles I liked:
- Letter from Curtis Handsaker - Some complaints about tax time. Mr. Handsaker is especially angry about the fact that some of his friends pay negative tax, that's his stolen money going to them.
- Letter from Bob Shock - This would probably mean more to me had I seen the anti-drug Super Bowl ads, but it's still good. Guess what? If you pay taxes, you pay for lots of things atrocities.
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Letter from Kevin Tull - a light-hearted rant about the absurdity
of piling on charge after charge, even for show bomb suspect, Richard
Reid.
How about crimes that already seem questionable like say smoking a doob in the privacy of your home? Let's see that would be using an illegal substance, smoking a marijuana cigarette, using any part of the hemp plant for consumption, using a class 1 narcotic without a prescription, intent to use a class 1 narcotic without a prescription, conspiracy to use a class 1 narcotic with or without a prescription, using a narcotic while sitting, using a narcotic while standing, using a narcotic that doesn't have a narcotic effect on a person.
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Letter from Steve Trinward - a strongly-worded response to "Laura
Haywood's arch-conservative opinion on the inextricable relationship
between having sex and procreation."
You are consigning every woman to chattel slavery, by the mere fact that she is the one who must in your view now submit to 9 months of pregnancy, painful childbirth and 18+ plus years of raising what is now a born child.
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Letter from Citizen Duquesne - an abortion position that appears
to agree with mine.
I consider myself to be both "pro-life" AND "pro-choice", and see no necessary contradiction between the two camps.
Simply, the rights of the host supercede the interests of the parasite. To wit: Mom rules. If she's game for the exercise, then by all means, let her bear young. If not, then not. No one else is qualified to choose on her behalf. A vigorous economy, substantial tax cuts, more liberal abortion laws, and a culture of personal responsibilty will definitely help sway her decision, but in the end, it must be her decision and no one else's. -
National ID: I Just Can't Do It - Part 2 by Joel Simon - Mr. Simon
believes a National ID is coming. He will not submit. He doesn't know
what to do. I agree.
Would you like to hear the most chilling sentence in the English language? I'll share it with you. Sit down.
"If you don't have anything to hide, why would you object?" - A Foolish war -- Protest Song: "I Don't Want To Be A Good Citizen" by Keith Shugarts - somewhat silly song, but his heart's in the right place. I don't want to be a good citizen either. To quote The Prisoner, "I am not a number! I am a free man!"
- The Libertarian Survivalist by Patrick K Martin - why you might want to be a survivalist, i.e. put up some food, gold & silver, low-tech light and heat, and yes, weapons, just in case.
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The Brown Peril by L. Neil Smith - more about open borders in an
anarchist society ending with a proposal to swamp the "Brown Peril"
with the Bill of Rights, "in
Spanish, Samoan, and
every other language that the new Americans grew up with."
As readers of The Probability Broach are aware, the first place my protagonist found himself, when he arrived in a world where every square inch is private property, was in a broad and pleasant park. I don't recall if I ever discussed how it got there, but the unwritten "backstory" is that it was purchased and maintained as a memorial to someone by his family. There will be more of this kind of thing, not less, in a culture where everyone keeps everything he earns -- a point I make repeatedly in the series. There are even public roads, parks, and walks aboard Tom Paine Maru and her sister ships of the Great Fleet.
All this will happen because people will want it to happen, just as they do now. The only difference is that these facilities will be acquired, created, and maintained in ways that don't require initiated force. And similarly, people will be free to come and go as they will, without reference to where they were born, that being the essence of freedom.
Vin Suprynowicz - $116,000 here, $116,000 there ... it's only tax money - part of The Libertarian series. State politics in Nevada is as dirty as everywhere else. People get paid for an appointed government office while they run for an elected one.
