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April 11, 2011 Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2011 Home front
Newark Police Illegally Detain Honors Student Over Cellphone Footage (ACLU) The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey (ACLU-NJ) and the Seton Hall Law School Center for Social Justice (CSJ) filed a lawsuit today against the Newark Police Department for illegally handcuffing and detaining a Newark high school honors student who captured video footage on her cellphone of officers responding to an incident on a New Jersey Transit bus. The lawsuit (61k PDF), filed in United States District Court in Newark, New Jersey, alleges officers violated the constitutional rights of Khaliah Fitchette, 17, by arresting her, seizing her cellphone, and deleting the video footage. The search and seizure was illegal and violated the student’s right to free speech. This is one of a half-dozen stories related to the increasingly brutal and atavistic behavior of various members of the occupation force we jokingly and stupidly call police forces that are part of the growing mob of government employees that infest the body politic. People, often young, are arrested, intimidated, beaten, driven off, and harassed by cops for taking pictures, making recordings, or even daring to question the jack-booted thugs who are convinced that they and only they have any “right” or “power” to do anything - and indeed, can DO anything they please, law or not, moral or not. Lawsuits like this, at best, cause one or two of the thugs to worry and perhaps be a bit more cautious. But it won’t stop them or others just like them from doing it to someone else, somewhere else. And somehow, having to pay a few thousand dollars to a hundred or so people whom you brutalized five or six years ago (the protesters at the Bush 2005 inauguration, for example) is NOT a disincentive. An armed and alert people, willing to help respond to unwarranted aggression by ANYONE at ANY TIME, is the only cure. (Read
the rest
here)
Freedom
for All is the Product of Self-ControlIs
Nuclear Power Economically Viable?
By Nathan Barton © 2011 Concerning nuclear power plants, the claim is
that nuclear power piles
exist only because (1) the government developed them for military
applications during WW2, and (2) that the government subsidizes their
construction, operation, and further research and development for
military purposes.
The claims of government development are true, as far as they go: without the Manhattan Project of WW2, it might have taken a decade or two longer to have developed self-sustaining, power generating piles because a peaceful and government-free society did not exist, and there was no great significant benefit in using nuclear power instead of coal- or oil-fired power (or hydro-) in the Anglosphere in peace that would have warranted the investment in developing nuclear piles, during that 1940-1960 era. (Read the rest here) Looking
For Health - Naturally
By Susan Callaway, RN Recent renewed interest in health and wellness
issues have prompted me to renew this column. Please feel free to write to me
if you have questions or suggestions for articles.
Looking For Health will include information of interest gleaned from my extensive reading, with my personal and professional experience added to help readers understand and use this information to build better health and wellness for themselves and their families. I'm not a doctor or researcher; I'm just a nurse who knows that some people don't have time to search the Internet for the health information they need, and who often don't really understand much of what they do find. So, where to start? It would probably be most helpful if I
outlined my personal philosophy for health and wellness first. External Articles By Debbie and Carl One point made in this article is that the
government can’t force you to do anything; you are ultimately the only
one who can control yourself. This can be hard to understand at first.
Many people hear this and think, “That’s not right! The government (or
anyone else who uses violence or threats of violence) is forcing me to
do x. I don’t want to do x, they are forcing me.”
But this is not true. You always have choices. It’s just that those who threaten violence against you can limit your choices. Severely. But only you can act on those choices and you make your choice by weighing the consequences. Many of us don’t want to go to jail or get killed of course and we accept another choice. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) Capitalism
at the Farm Stand
by Stefano R. Mugnaini To join a Community Supported Agriculture
program, you buy a share of the farm's produce each season, which
entitles you to a weekly box of locally grown vegetables and fruit. In
a sense, members are not purchasing produce per se, but the rights to a
certain proportion of produce should it be successfully delivered. It
is more analogous to buying mineral rights or investing in stock for
the dividends.
Most CSAs endeavor to grow without a lot of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, which makes CSAs extremely popular with environmentalists and others of the Left. They think they are doing battle with capitalism and corporate greed; I say it is a pure and beautiful example of a market exchange. They are acting like capitalists, even if they don't know it. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) National Gun Rights Examiner “A man believed to be a former student opened
fire in a school in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, killing 12 people and
wounding 22 others before taking his own life,” AFP is reporting. Libertarian
News Examiner
The Drug War is a Race War By Garry Reed Libertarians need to keep pounding on the fact
that the Drug War is a government instituted race war. Criminalizing
drugs has always been a means of targeting and controlling racial,
ethnic, and social minorities.
The Chinese laborers who came to California to build the Transcontinental Railroad smoked opium. Negroes in the old south sniffed cocaine when it was cheaper than alcohol. Mexicans brought their marihuana with them when they migrated into the Southwest. And, according to Smack: Heroin and the American City, heroin was "Originally popular among working-class whites in the 1920s." (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return) Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2010
Some
Problems With the Farm Analogy
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