In 2013, Microsoft refused to turn information from a customer’s email account over to law enforcement pursuant to a warrant in a narcotics investigation. The information, Microsoft noted, was stored on a server in Ireland. Ireland, as you may have learned in elementary school, is neither one of the fifty states nor a US territory. It’s a sovereign state with its own laws. US search warrants carry no weight there.
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Socialistic Theocratic Statism
All statism is socialism. The only disagreement among the socialists is how to impose socialism on each other, and on the few of us who aren’t socialists.
Danilo Interviews Nelson Chartrand (46m, Spanish) – Peaceful Anarchism 025
Peaceful Anarchism 025 features an interview of Nelson Chartrand, anarcho-capitalist and founder of the Libertarian Party of Cuba, by Danilo Cuellar. Topics include: his journey to anarcho-capitalism, Hayek, Rothbard, Bastiat, Larken Rose, Cuba at present, socialized medicine, imprisonment of freedom lovers, food in Cuba, and much more.
The Destruction of Property Norms
Private borders are not in dispute, except as straw men, or by Marxists. Bordertarians fail to recognize that many Real Life private borders are “open” for good reason.
POTUS and the Fantasy
It came to me with sickening suddenness that the misadventures of POTUS, all of them but now particularly, resemble the fantasy quest of a hormone-driven teenaged boy. It seems a world in which everything is viewed as a centerfold, and an opportunity to gain a prodigious rush.
Cowardice is Not a Virtue
First and foremost, pushing a “legislative” solution always amounts to condoning a violent solution. “Laws” are not polite suggestions; they are threats of force. “Gun control,” while usually framed in vague, euphemistic terms by its proponents, is gun violence. It is politicians threatening to send men with guns after any mere peasant who possesses something that the masters say they are not allowed to possess.
Kidnappers and Dangerous Psychopaths
If I ran someone off the road, forcibly pulled them out of their vehicle, put them in shackles, threw them in my vehicle, and transported them to a cage where I locked them up, I would rightly be regarded as a kidnapper and a dangerous psychopath.
Process Eats Product
There is no music that is free of the instrument. Interface dictates product. Consider this quote, “An elective despotism is not the government we fought for” from James Madison.
Words Poorly Used #110 — Integrity
It turns out that America’s agreements are not worth the paper on which they are written. But that was something that native peoples could have told us a long time ago. Integrity is just another weasel word.
Is Secession by Referendum Libertarian?
My concerns about group (not individual) secession are over the process of peaceful separation, namely, the referendum. Libertarians have long criticized political democracy — that is, the settling of “public” matters by majority vote either directly or through so-called representatives — as inherently violative of individual rights. By what authority does a majority lord it over a minority? Well, doesn’t this critique apply to referenda on secession?