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Comment on As expected, CISPA will pass and violate our online privacy by Social Gumbo » Stop CISPA

Social Gumbo » Stop CISPA — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:09:13 +0000

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Comment on How long will the SOPA protests be successful? by Blagnet.net » As expected, CISPA will pass and violate our online privacy

Blagnet.net » As expected, CISPA will pass and violate our online privacy — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:36:21 +0000

[...] 3523), is gaining support in the House of Representatives and seems likely to pass there. I had little doubt this would happen, but the quickness with which Congress has jumped from SOPA to CISPA is alarming. It's also [...]

Comment on The Hunger Games and other dystopias by John

John — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:48:51 +0000

It was neat to see Sam Staley make a similar point to mine in this blag post at The Beacon:

Most baby boomers have a contemporary understanding of the brutal realities and efficiencies of totalitarian states embodied in the Soviet Gulags, Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Cambodia’s killing fields, Rwanda’s tribal massacres, and the terrorism of dictators such as Uganda’s Idi Amin or Augusto Pinochet in Chile. The terrorism embodied in the intentional cruelty and oppression of the Capital District is not a fantastical abstraction of something left to the stuff of science fiction.

Most of his post is about a different issue: the movie's watering-down and near omission of the book's prominent theme of liberty and individualist resistance to State oppression. He hopes that the financial, popular, and critical success of the first movie will give the screenwriters more liberty to focus on liberty in the movie sequels.

Comment on The Hunger Games and other dystopias by Kendra

Kendra — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:01:59 +0000

No doubt close to 100% of the people watching the movie will say it was wrong to put the kids through that.

Yet if you said the existing US government was going to do that, but have the contestents be "terrorists" you'd have a large majority saying yea let's do it!

Comment on Incrementalism and agorism by Blagnet.net » How much good have Ron Paul’s presidential campaigns done?

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:02:21 +0000

[...] to the cause of liberty. That could hold some water, but I remain firm in my current opinion that agorism is sort of incrementalism and that the two don't have to be mutually [...]

Comment on Authoritarian law engenders conflict, discourages voluntary interaction by Blagnet.net » Paul Butler: Jurors need to know that they can say ‘No’

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:41:52 +0000

[...] ever more people to the depredations of the State under ever more petty and aggressive laws. Statist law is also likely to change faster and be less predictable because it need only be accepted..., whereas customary law (which must usually or always embrace jury nullification) changes more [...]

Comment on Misconceptions about libertarianism and Statism by Roderick Long | Corporations versus the Market; or, Whip Conflation Now | The Murph Report

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:02:40 +0000

[...] Blagnet.net » Misconceptions about libertarianism and Statism says: August 31, 2009 at 11:48 pm [...]

Comment on Maybe free speech is less popular than I thought by Jason M

Jason M — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:24:09 +0000

THAT is a beatdown.

Comment on Two recent political sports stories by Blagnet Net Two Recent Political Sports Stories

Blagnet Net Two Recent Political Sports Stories — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:00:05 +0000

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Comment on Toy lead-content regulations hurt small toy makers by Blagnet.net » Misconceptions about libertarianism and Statism

Blagnet.net » Misconceptions about libertarianism and Statism — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:30:59 +0000

[...] themselves. See, for instance, this masterful essay by Roderick Long, this Kevin Carson column, and this post of mine. Maybe my fellow libertarian blaggers can leave some more links in the comments; there must surely [...]