Sell Matches or Rescue a Drowning Man: Go to Jail

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT
# I finished Butler Shaffer's Calculated Chaos yesterday. Spent most of the day sick in bed. Read during my awake periods. I was disappointed in the second half of the book. Lots of words saying that you have to set yourself free. Once you realize that institutions are the problem, you have to deprogram yourself from your belief in them, and walk away. No ideas about what to do when they come after you. Still, worthwhile book if you aren't already convinced that institutions are the cause of exactly the problems they pretend to fix. Sunni predicted yesterday in a blog comment that I'd be posting lots more quotes from the book. Well, I found a few interesting paragraphs, but none that hit me strongly enough, as yesterday's quotes did, to sit up to type them out.

# Associated Press via at North Carolina News - Workers indicted for selling matches used in meth manufacture - sell matches, go to jail. Insanity reigns. [clairefiles]

"Those who facilitate meth manufacture are on notice: the United States Attorney's office intends to use applicable federal statutes to address criminal activity," Gretchen Shappert, U.S. attorney for the state's western district, said in a statement.

# Associated Press at The Houston Chronicle - Houston swimmer's rescuer ends up in jail - save a man from drowning, spend the night in jail. Even more insane. [lrtdiscuss]

# Ryan McMaken at LewRockwell.com American Foreign Policy Explained - why Wag the Dog is as relevant today as it was when released in 1997, maybe moreso. [lew]

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