Ugh
Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 01 Apr 2002 12:24:22 GMT
Ugh. I'm sick. Back to bed.
russmo.com via tle - Vacation Pictures - cartoon commetary on the utter uselessness of the modern security state. Too true.
There's a new Libertarian Enterprise Issue: "Ides of March". Articles I liked:
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Disarmament Through Obsolescence by Patrick K Martin - Americans
still have the right to keep and bear arms, infringed though it
is. This may be meaningless in short order when soldiers have body
armor that can deflect a .308 or even .50 caliber rifle projectile at
short range. Scary.
I'm going to assume that the readers of this publication understand that the Second Amendment was designed to insure that the people of this country would always have the means to alter or abolish an oppressive government. The writings of the founders were most explicit on the matter, as anyone who reads the Federalist Papers can plainly see. Thus, the only weapons expressly protected by the Amendment are military ones, and despite an almost seventy-year assault on this principle, we still possess the most basic of all such weapons, the semiautomatic rifle. How long this will remain true is anybody's guess, but recently I began to wonder whether or not it will matter.
- Letter from Julian Morrison - arguments against an insurance-based anarchist society.
- Letter from William Webb - some wisdom from the mouth of Mr. Webb's seven-year-old daughter. Hehe.
- Letter from Jack Smith - hopefully the last word in the recent discussion of L. Neil's non-initiation principle (NIP). And a good word it is, too.
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Medical Care for Free Individuals by William Stone, III -
Mr. Stone describes the horror of surgery he received for his deviated
septum. Then tells us why modern medical care is so bad and so
expensive. Then paints a picture of medical care in a free
society. Well done!
Prior to WWII, costs were so low that my grandparents - whose lifetime income is less than many individuals' annual earnings - could easily afford to pay for hospital care for a month.
That's hospital care for a month for five children.
Think of it. In the early part of the 20th century, dirt-poor cattle ranchers in extremely rural South Dakota - an area that's still unbelievably remote, undeveloped, and poverty- stricken by modern standards - could afford to pay for hospital care for a month for five children and their mother. Neither did they have medical insurance to draw from: they paid out of their own pocket.
Today, anyone paying out of their pocket for a month of hospital care is either independently wealthy or about to file for bankruptcy.
What happened to this kind of care and affordability?
The answer is simple: government. -
Propagandamercial; You and the War On Poverty by Keith Shugarts -
Mr. Shugarts takes on the war on poverty. "All hail our tyrant and
chief, Mad King George."
Since the implementation of the War on Poverty, we the government have stolen nearly 5 trillion dollars from individual Americans. Do you really think private charities, businesses, and churches could do that? Of course not, they don't have guns!
