Libertarianism

Tired of the Recall Election

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Mark Morford has some recall suggestions. Things that you can do without a million bucks. For example, a mild one from the middle of the list:

Recall the idea that if your ass isn’t making a permanent indentation in your $149 Ikea couch every Sunday for six hours straight during NFL season, you are somehow betraying the very notion of manliness and testosterone. This is your choice. You are the only voter that matters. Do you sense your power now?

If this is you get started. If it isn’t you go read the rest. You’ll find at least one or two that apply to you. Take back your life now.
NB: Some of Morford’s suggestions will surely offend some of you. You know, all the taboos: language, sex, politics, religion,….

Should YouTrust Big Brother

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Jeralyn Merrit wonders:

We don’t know why people aren’t screaming bloody murder about this.

The this is CAPPS II, the new airline passenger screening system currently under development.
Yes, why aren’t we up in arms about this? Go read Jeralyn’s post and the related links. CAPPS II looks like Total Information Awareness is alive and well not something 5 years away as Fox News argues:

Any real development of TIA technology is more than five years away, so concerns that the technology will be abused are speculative, at best.

Well, since Fox’s 5 year forecast is clearly speculative why would we expect it not to be abused.
Gosh, just imagine, you are headed to New York next summer to provide peaceful input to the GOP convention but, oops, your color is red and you don’t get to go. What set of data in the fed files might cause this to happen?
Even though the absence of information may be as problematic as the information the feds have you just might want to start making yourself a little less visible by learning how to use cash again.

Libertarian on Bush

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Lew Rockwell is a libertarian but I wouldn’t call him a conservative as does Ken Macleod. Ken is right, though, in saying that this is a pretty radical essay:

There is something grossly immoral about a regime that saunters into town, bankrupts its host country and destroys a few others in the process, making mess after mess and still not being held accountable for it. Making matters worse is the reality that it and its friends in industry will take off with all the loot. After all, all this money is going somewhere, and it isn’t to average Iraqis!

Rockwell chews the bushite actions and policies and spits them out in little pieces.
Some of you may not like everything he says but you should, nevertheless, read the entire piece!

Aiding and Abetting?

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rumsfeld tells the world:

… opposition to the U.S. President was encouraging Washington’s enemies and hindering his ‘war against terrorism’.

Is he accusing the opposition of aiding and abetting the enemy? And will this prompt another round of talk show blathering about critics of bush policy being treasonous?
According to that great upholder of civil liberties ashcroft:

Peaceful political discourse and dissent is one of America�s most cherished freedoms, and is not subject to investigation as domestic terrorism. Under the Patriot Act, the definition of �domestic terrorism� is limited to conduct that (1) violates federal or state criminal law and (2) is dangerous to human life. Therefore, peaceful political organizations engaging in political advocacy will obviously not come under this definition. (Patriot Act, Section 802)

Just how big a step is it from rummies words to the FBI knocking on your door.
It must be time to step up the dissent even more.
Via a Scott at The Gamer’s Nook.

Punishment and Release

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I chuckled when I read Moira Breen discussing appropriate penance for telemarketers and Natalie Solent’s proposed ditching dialogue:

“Hi, my name is Shelley and I’m calling to ask if you’d be interested in a new service offered by British Orangecom.”
[Very enthusiastically] “Yes!”
“Wo-? Um. It’s about ‘Friends & Family 2003’, a new call tariff that–”
“Yes. Oh yes.”
“A NEW CALL TARIFF THAT OFFERS-”
“Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh, oh, oh yes!”
[Click.]
See, it is quite possible to dispose of these creatures while maintaining an entirely positive attitude.>

’nuff said.