Choice is what will unlock your ability to accomplish your most heroic deeds. Discrimination is what will unlock the path you will follow and the battles you will fight. Choose wisely.
Tag: knowledge
Dirty Prosecution Tactic – Flipping the Burden of Proof
This is from a call of shame with a Canadian prosecutor, sorry there is no audio to post. It’s about the very common, though very dishonest tactic of flipping the burden of proof. The burden is on the one making the claim, but when you’re full of crap, you try to flip the burden onto someone daring to question you.
You… Philosopher, You!
I do like thinking. I love to speculate about the nature of the cosmos, time, and gravity and all that. But I know I don’t have the ability to do anything with those thoughts much beyond speculating. If any of my ideas are discovered to be correct, it won’t be due to anything I’ve done. I may never know either way.
Political Power-Lust Thrives in a Democracy
Under democracy, politicians are less candid about their motives; they need us to like them, and power-hunger is not likeable. But given its ubiquity throughout most of political history, can we really believe that the motive of power-hunger is no longer paramount? One of my favorite political insiders privately calls politicians of both parties “psychopaths”–and he’s on to something. Rising high on the pyramid of power is hard unless the love of power fuels your ascent.
Motion Granted Again – Dismissal With Prejudice
A big congrats to Gadsen Viper for not backing down, even after a sham trial, and getting a dismissal with prejudice. And thanks for not only sending me the documentary proof, but calling into the show to report what happened. This is a principled stand against criminals the critics just cannot appreciate.
3 for 3! Scar Gets Another Ticket Kicked Out in Tucson
A big congrats to Scar for getting a third complaint kicked out in Tucson, Arizona. And thanks for the documentary proof below. Scar also discusses this in great detail on the forum.
Question Authority
Ultimately, the questioning of authority is not only a good thing. It is a necessary thing. It is the backbone of freedom. Cherish the right to protest. Cherish the right to be different. Cherish the right to question authority.
Government Doesn’t Serve Community
The best way to serve the community is to do the best job you can, being useful, and not violating anyone’s life, liberty, or property while doing it. Avoiding violations is the bare minimum to qualify as service. Master this and the rest will fall into place, even if you don’t get the same praise and recognition as those who draw attention to themselves.
Free Market Capitalism Saves Lives
It is not only that Free Market Capitalism has raised our level of comfort and given us enormous product variety, but also that many people throughout the world have come to depend on these technological innovations for their very existence. The wealthier society sees technology as luxurious but unnecessary and superfluous. The poorer society sees technology as an oasis in a vast desert.
Anarchism as Constitutionalism
Trying to refute anarchism by pointing to undesirable instances of anarchy is about as bad an argument as trying to refute Bidinotto’s advocacy of government by pointing to the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. Whether a state is horrendous or decent depends in large part on its constitutional structure; whether an anarchic society is horrendous or decent likewise depends on its constitutional structure.