Government


Do You Have A Right To Work?

You might agree with Justice Douglas who in dissent said:

The right to work, I had assumed, was the most precious liberty that man possesses.

This, though, is not the case in the United States where, for example, in California you can’t help folks keep pigeons off their roofs with spikes without spending two years learning about pesticides.
A constitution that does not protect the right of consenting humans to employ or perform work for others is no constitution at all. Governments that use their monopoly power to protect one class of people, absent fraud or force, from competition by another class of people has no legitimacy. Its agents, the courts, elected officials and hirelings who enforce such practices are perpetrating crimes against humanity.

Via The Volokh Conspiracy.


The Real Purpose of Censorship

…it is not to prevent our enemies (real or imagined) from acquiring certain information, since they very often manage to do so anyway, but it is to keep the domestic population under control and in line. It is to prevent any sort of widespread challenge to or disbelief in the endless propaganda that governments always spew, but never more so than during a time of war. It is to ensure that the government’s version of the “truth” — that is, the government’s neverending propaganda campaign — maintains a monolithic grip over the majority of information that reaches the public.

As Arthur says, The Truth Is Still Out There.


Midwest Mob Announces New Scam

The Iowa and Kansas lotteries announced a joint effort to fleece folks of $3.12 million: an instant-scratch lottery game called Midwest Millions. 1.2 million scratch tickets will be sold for $10 each:


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What are your chances? 64.7% of the tickets will get nothing. The other 35.3 % will share the 74%, $8.8 million, payout. The mob rakes in a cool $3.12 million.

Hey, if this isn’t theft or fraud perhaps we should set up a private business to operate a few of these upstanding scratch ticket games?