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Tag: crime
Person of the Year
The decision by Time Magazine to select Pope Francis as its “Person of the Year” instead of whistleblower Edward Snowden is quite frankly, unsurprising. Even as Snowden continues to reveal the heinous crimes which are being daily committed by the world’s most powerful statist regimes, the Pope is using his platform to call for a…
Crime and Punishment in a Free Society
Would a free society be a crime-free society? We have good reason to anticipate it. Don’t accuse me of utopianism. I don’t foresee a future of new human beings who consistently respect the rights of others. Rather, I’m drawing attention to the distinction between crime and tort — between offenses against the state (or society) and offenses against individual persons or their justly held property.
On Honor and Edward Snowden
Honor, to me, is keeping your promises and staying true to your principles. Honor does not seem to be a very important part of the lives of Westerners. I only ever heard the term growing up in movies and, more recently, in book series like John Carter, Narnia, and the Lord of the Rings. If…
80 Years Later, the Horrors of Prohibition Continue
Exactly 80 years ago today, America’s disastrous experiment with prohibition on alcohol came to its long-anticipated conclusion. At the time there was widespread rejoicing — and rightly so. The termination of prohibition not only brought an end to the unnecessary persecution and prosecution of tens of thousands of innocent individuals who had harmed no one…
A Jury of Slaves
The DeKalb County Court in Georgia made headlines this week when it was reported that its online questionnaire for jurors included “slave” as an option for occupation. While the term was quickly scrubbed from the website, I believe that it was actually quite appropriate because the American system of compulsory jury “service” is in fact…
Top Winnie, Around Town, The Ring
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. In this…
Re: Assassination Politics
Alex, where to start? While I would much rather see state leaders assassinating political opponents than invading their country, thereby preventing mass murder, I have a hard to time with something that ignores due process. That being said, if one were found guilty in a private court of some crime and justice demands the perpetrator…
Assassination Politics?
According to no less than Forbes magazine, an anonymous individual (naturally) has decided to move forward with this 1990s idea. What is everyone’s take on this, especially now that it’s actually here? ~ Alex
On Mass Murder II
In my last post, I wrote several names of individuals that I consider to be mass murderers. Becoming a mass murdering political “leader” can happen one of two ways: 1) they send the individuals that they command to invade an area presided over by an individual or group of individuals they consider to be criminals…