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Prohibition Doesn't WorkSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 2003-01-31 03:27.
[I wrote this letter to the Wall Street Journal on 17 May, 2001. They didn't print it] Yawn. William Bennett's article in the May 15 WSJ repeats the same tired old drug war rhetoric. If we run the Bill of Rights through the shredder just one more time, we can end drug abuse. Prohibition didn't work 80 years ago, and it won't work now. Its primary results are prisons filled with peaceful people, obscenely rich criminal organizations, and corrupt cops and politicians. I own my body. The state has no place telling me what I may or may not ingest. End the war on freedom, er... some drugs. End it today.
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BlogrollFirearm NewsQuotesEvery man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission. -- L. Neil Smith Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents. -- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report (PDF) on gun control laws Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap") "A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim." -- L. Neil Smith Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP" The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war. -- Bill St. Clair TTLB |
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