Archive for the ‘Drugs’ Category
It’s not your fucking business
Friday, August 20th, 2010Roger Clemens has been indicted for "obstruction of Congress" because he lied to them in 2008 when he told them, "Let me be clear. I have never taken steroids or hGH." The Imperial Federal Government has decided it can take people's lives, liberty, and property for putting certain substances into ...
Fish in a barrel 2
Thursday, September 17th, 2009California tax officials: legal pot would bring $1.4B. No, you still don't quite seem to get it. If it is TAXED and REGULATED, both of which are restrictions or extortions backed with explicit threats of murder, then by definition it is NOT LEGAL. You mean, "Legal except only in the ...
Fish in a barrel
Friday, June 19th, 2009Here are a few issues or news stories that I've come across recently that I could offer easy and obvious solutions or objections to, or that libertarianism has already provided an easy and obvious answer to: Philip Morris supports new FDA regulations on cigarettes. Why, when they've opposed previous interventions in ...
Right for the wrong reasons
Friday, March 6th, 2009Have you heard about the proposals from, for instance, California and Illinois legislators who want to legalize marijuana to increase their states' tax revenue? God, the predatory and self-serving nature of these thugs knows no bounds! They have no conception of or concern for individual rights—they don't want to decriminalize ...
Michael Phelps and public opinion
Saturday, February 7th, 2009The general public's general reaction to the photographic evidence that Michael Phelps smoked marijuana out of a bong last year (after the Olympics, of course) is very encouraging to me. Despite people's confusion of legality and morality in so many cases and despite their turning to the State to fix ...
South Park on drug prohibition
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008"Whatevah! You don't know me! It's my body; I'll do what I want!"
Michigan ballot proposals
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008I broke down and went to my polling location this morning to vote for one ballot proposal and vote against four of them, and write in "NOBODY" for president, Senate, House of Representatives, state legislature positions, mayor, etc. The ballot proposal I voted Yes on was to legalize medical marijuana ...
Jury nullification protects people from the State
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Prosecutors and judges have an alarming tendency to empower the State over individuals. Tim Lynch of the Cato Institute reports on a juror who was removed from a jury by the judge, against the protests of the defense, for attempting to protest the very law the defendant was accused of ...
Drug War atrocities
Friday, August 15th, 2008Radley Balko blagged about Charlie Lynch, a Californian who smoked marijuana for medicinal purposes, which is now legal in California, but who was arrested anyway by federal thugs and now faces 100 years in prison for violating federal laws. Please read his post; it's short. I can't add much to ...
An anecdotal story about incompetent police and gun control
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008On the WRIF-Detroit morning show I heard a story from a caller about a ridiculous ordeal he went through as a result of his attempts to protect his next-door neighbor's property. He called in response to the show's discussion about Joe Horn, a 61-year-old Texas man (not an Atlanta Falcons ...
Gonzalo Guizan: another death by drug war
Friday, June 13th, 2008Radley Balko writes of another victim of the paramilitary-style drug raids that Republocrats and their myrmidon voters continue to support in the name of protecting our liberties or our morals or some such. On May 18, police in Easton, Connecticut conducted a heavily-armed drug raid on the home of Ronald Terebesi, ...
Democrats support the Drug War
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Semi-libertarian Radley Balko's latest column is about the Imperial Federal Govrernment's Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, which, according to the Department of Justice's website, "is a partnership among federal, state, and local governments to create safer communities." In other words, it is part of the State's grand program ...
It IS happening here
Friday, February 1st, 2008Republocrats currently use fear-mongering on two big issues to garner support for their various State interventions into our lives—terrorism for some, global warming for others. Perhaps it can be said that libertarians also use something akin to fear-mongering in our debate and discussion, though of course I think it is ...