Night is falling in America
Night is falling
The Libertarian Enterprise
by Jim Davidson
04/19/09
There is an old saying that it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. Night is falling in America. The government is increasingly authoritarian, and increasingly bold about stealing property, thwarting individual liberty, occupying foreign countries, massacring women and children. Concentration camps are not a new thing in this country.
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle515-20090419-05.html
Bullies bearing badges
Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed
04/19/09
Politicians. Bureaucrats. Civil servants. Once upon a time these public poobahs knew their place; they worked for government and performed a service. Today they see it as their mission to rule, regulate and run absolutely every aspect of human existence. Politicians promulgate thousands of new laws every year. Bureaucrats relentlessly bombard us with regulations. Civil servants everywhere compel us to cope with a multitude of meaningless minutiae simply because they can. Rules, regulations and laws are meaningless unless they are rigorously enforced. And so the Thin Blue Line becomes the Thick Brute Slime and the Free State of America turns into the Police State of the political classes...
http://tinyurl.com/dbg3pp
Is government preparing us for censorship?
Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan
04/19/09
The idea that thought and speech are major obstacles to doing what is right isn’t new at all. As recently as the 1980s the one liberty that liberal statists could be counted on defending, at least in the United States of America, is the one spelled out in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Alas, this was challenged some time ago by Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon of the University of Michigan school of law, in her short but prominently published book, Only Words (Harvard University Press, 1983). In it the good professor argued that words do not deserve the legal protection afforded them by the Constitution since insults and put downs, including jokes, can injure people good and hard. And such injuries should not be protected. The victims would have to pay too high a price for the fact that the law treats such injuries as ‘only words’...
http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!826.entry
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=censorship
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=concentration+camp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Davidson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Garry+Reed
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan
The Libertarian Enterprise
by Jim Davidson
04/19/09
There is an old saying that it is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. Night is falling in America. The government is increasingly authoritarian, and increasingly bold about stealing property, thwarting individual liberty, occupying foreign countries, massacring women and children. Concentration camps are not a new thing in this country.
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle515-20090419-05.html
Bullies bearing badges
Dallas Libertarian Examiner
by Garry Reed
04/19/09
Politicians. Bureaucrats. Civil servants. Once upon a time these public poobahs knew their place; they worked for government and performed a service. Today they see it as their mission to rule, regulate and run absolutely every aspect of human existence. Politicians promulgate thousands of new laws every year. Bureaucrats relentlessly bombard us with regulations. Civil servants everywhere compel us to cope with a multitude of meaningless minutiae simply because they can. Rules, regulations and laws are meaningless unless they are rigorously enforced. And so the Thin Blue Line becomes the Thick Brute Slime and the Free State of America turns into the Police State of the political classes...
http://tinyurl.com/dbg3pp
Is government preparing us for censorship?
Tibor's Space
by Tibor R. Machan
04/19/09
The idea that thought and speech are major obstacles to doing what is right isn’t new at all. As recently as the 1980s the one liberty that liberal statists could be counted on defending, at least in the United States of America, is the one spelled out in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Alas, this was challenged some time ago by Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon of the University of Michigan school of law, in her short but prominently published book, Only Words (Harvard University Press, 1983). In it the good professor argued that words do not deserve the legal protection afforded them by the Constitution since insults and put downs, including jokes, can injure people good and hard. And such injuries should not be protected. The victims would have to pay too high a price for the fact that the law treats such injuries as ‘only words’...
http://tibikem.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!B2FD693F4B9A5746!826.entry
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=censorship
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=concentration+camp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jim+Davidson
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Garry+Reed
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tibor+R.+Machan
rudkla - 21. Apr, 10:54
