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April
23, 2007 What
Are We Going To Do?
By
Susan Callaway, Editor
We of the freedom community rage at being disarmed, that our children are herded into these "gun free zones" where they can be murdered. We complain about the anti-depressants our children are given, and all the rest. Bitch, whine, complain, blah, blah, blah... But what the hell are we going to DO about it? (Read the rest here)
Libertarian
Commentary on The News, 15
-21 April, 2007 For some people, this has been a bad week. Hoploclasts are worried (sick, I hope) that a madman’s murder of 32 people in a remote Virginia school will help more and more people to realize the utter foolishness of gun control laws – ironic in that Virginian leaders once helped pioneer for the world the idea that God gave us the right to defend ourselves. People are literally making themselves sick by going ballistic over this crime while completely ignoring the fact that the very next day, seven times that number of innocent people in the former land of Iraq died equally violently, because instead of one madman, there are a hundred thousand butchering madmen running wild and claiming that they are killing for Allah and His Prophet. But for some folks, it is a good week, too. A lot of people kept bad things from happening to them or others by using guns wisely and well. A lot more information about various types of government corruption is now public knowledge. And even some well known graffiti got cleaned up in various parts of the world, despite whining by “art-lovers.” Since I could have put the VA Tech incident in several categories (Our right to defend ourselves, government-ruined/theft-funded schools, and stupid people and government tricks), and it did dominate the news (or as my son put it, “got run into the ground 24-7”), I start off with four stories and commentary about it. (Read the rest here) Two full pages again!!
I recently attended a party that reminded me a good deal of my own college-age days. At the party in question, one attendee decided he'd had enough for one evening and fell asleep on the sofa. As soon as his friends were sure he was well and truly unconscious, they broke out the magic markers and proceeded to write and draw on just about every square inch of the young man's exposed skin, including (especially, in fact) his face. Some years ago, we used to do pretty much the same thing to our friends. We called it "Fu Manchu-ing" because the single most popular thing to draw was a long, curled black moustache on the face of the sleeping victim. When I told the story of last weekend's party to a co-worker and mentioned my own past experiences, he laughed and informed me that he and his buddies used to look forward to giving their friends magic marker argyle socks. (Read the rest here)
Government
and Racism The controversy surrounding remarks by talk show host Don Imus shows that the nation remains incredibly sensitive about matters of race, despite the outward progress of the last 40 years. A nation that once prided itself on a sense of rugged individualism has become uncomfortably obsessed with racial group identities. The young women on the basketball team Mr. Imus insulted are over 18 and can speak for themselves. It’s disconcerting to see third parties become involved and presume to speak collectively for minority groups. It is precisely this collectivist mindset that is at the heart of racism. (Read the rest here)
Lynch Mob Fever
at Duke University "Outrageous" is the word that comes to mind that describes what happened to the Duke Three, accused of gang-raping Crystal Gail Mangum during the early morning hours of March 14, 2006. Our country was founded on the principles of rule of law and the presumption of innocence. But what we witnessed in Durham, North Carolina over the last year had little to do with the even-handed pursuit of justice. Except for the absence of ropes and gasoline, it resembled a small-town lynch mob. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives The time has arrived - a designation must be assigned to the increasing number of Americans who are fed up and terrified by the unbelievable and staggering criminal acts perpetrated both domestically and internationally by the Bush gang. Bush and his GOP are targeting and immediately attacking any and all inspirations of accurate journalistic reporting of administration wrongdoing, proving all the more how despotic American government has become. Only days ago, the Washington Post broke the story of secret prisons abroad, and what was the reaction on Capitol Hill? Republican Senate Majority Leader, Bill Frist, was angered not by the illegal activity and the disgrace it brings upon America, but offered instead: “My concern is with leaks of information that jeopardize your safety and security - period. That is a legitimate concern.” If this isn’t a clear case of a simpleton shooting the messenger, I don’t know what is! (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute WASHINGTON—I am fascinated by the similarities between Russia and Latin America. The latest wave of repression against critics of President Vladimir Putin in Russia and the victory obtained by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa in last Sunday’s referendum, which provides a green light toward setting up a constituent assembly that will give him authoritarian powers, remind us that despotic populism is alive and kicking. Last month I co-chaired a seminar at Harvard University’s Davis Center with Russian scholar Tatiana Vorozheykina, an expert on comparative Russian/Latin American studies. Her view of Latin America is more optimistic than mine. For her, Russia is less free because it lacks the kind of civil society that many Latin American nations enjoy, facilitating Putin’s pervasive control. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation To belabor the obvious, murderers do not obey restrictions on gun possession, contrary to the long-repeated suggestion of the gun-control crowd -- that if we simply enact such restrictions into law, murderers will comply with them. As we once again see in the context of the Virginia Tech massacre, a person who intends to break a law against murder isn't going to stop and say to himself, "Oh my, I can't use a gun to commit these murders because the school's regulations prevent me from carrying a gun onto campus." (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Matching
security to risk is a very complicated undertaking, so firms work with
insurance companies to discover the right means. Clearly, a convenience
store in a violent East Coast urban environment is going to need more
protection than even a fancy jewelry store in a Midwest suburb. Customers
would think the owner was nuts if they encountered bulletproof glass in
a 7-Eleven in Sheridan, Wyoming, but this is the norm in the Bronx. Of
course firms make errors, but competitive pressure drives them always
to adjust security to match the facts as they know them. For this reason, it is not enough to say that Virginia Tech ought to ban guns or ought to arm students and teachers. Neither solution is necessarily right. One can imagine that some universities might not want students to carry sidearms. For other places, this might be just great and even essential for putting parents at ease. Which is the right solution? Only when such decisions are left to private owners and the competitive marketplace can we know for sure. One-size-fits-all doesn't work any better in security provision than in clothing. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Members of the control cult have always found themselves attracted to the agency whose raison d’être is to subdue all of humanity to its coercive mechanisms of control: the state. What problem, or catastrophe, or even fear thereof, is not met with the aforesaid chant of bureaucrats: “we will find out what went wrong and fix it, so it doesn’t happen again”? And what members of the boobeoisie – their minds thoroughly indoctrinated in this mindset – do not breathe a collective sigh of relief that their managers are on the job, looking after their well-being? Cho Seung-Hui bought one of his guns on Friday the 13th? Perhaps – with psychics explaining the causal connection – gun sales should be banned on such days! Cho Seung-Hui was bullied and teased as a child? Maybe such behavior can be included under “hate crime” laws and made subject to criminal punishment! In the months following 9/11, the control freaks came forth with their seemingly endless laundry list of additional mechanisms of control with which they promised to fight the “terrorist” bogeyman. More police powers to enter people’s homes – even without their knowledge; more wiretaps; more surveillance cameras in more places; more x-ray cameras; more background checks; more systems for probing into the human mind for motives and dispositions – an area of research now being perfected in England. Any objections offered by the handful of people who see the dangers inherent in police-states were casually dismissed by those who regard all expressions of individual liberty as “loopholes” to be closed by additional legislation. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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