Nobody asked but … I saw a really good question come out of the recent event wherein a public university LEO (*) shot and killed an unarmed driver after a minor registration stop. How many lives of citizens and LEOs will we continue to expend for government revenue generation? It is interesting to note that…
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Mission Creep, Founding Voluntaryists, Rigor
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. There are…
Bridging Sanctity of Marriage and Marriage Equality
Marriage is often defined as the “legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife, and in some jurisdictions, between two persons of the same sex, usually entailing legal obligations of each person to the other…A similar union of more than two people.” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com) Throughout U.S. history until the the turn of the…
Islands
Nobody asked but … BI Southeast BI North Prison islands and kidnapper retreat islands excepted, going to an island is supremely voluntaristic. My wife and I are celebrating Mother’s Day/our 49th Anniversary on Block Island, Rhode Island. Although the range of freedoms we may take are bounded by the sea (until our return ferry sails…
The Rich, Spooner #16, Godwin’s Law
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. It is…
Four Cents 015 – On Free Range Kids (0h15m)
Four Cents 015 is a chat on the concept of “free range kids” and the recent controversy over the police and CPS kidnapping two kids, 10 and 6, walking home alone in accordance with the free range kids philosophy. Lenore Skenazy blogs about the incident here at skyler.link/frkmeitivs. Listen to Four Cents 015 (0h15m, mp3,…
Linguistics #1: Dictionaries, Spooner, Recency
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. Although each…
On the Police
Police cars used to display – and some may still – their supposed purpose, something to the effect of, “To Serve and Protect”. Naturally, when people read this, they assume it means to serve and protect them. Actually, they’re wrong. The police are not security for the people. Rather, they are law enforcement. Their mission…
Questions on a Voluntary Society
A cousin sent me a message over Facebook with a few questions he had regarding voluntary societies. I reproduce his questions below (italicized), each followed by the answer I sent him. There are a few real world concerns that I have for a complete voluntary system.1. Most people don’t value having the strongest army in…
It’s More Complicated Than That
Nobody asked but … Today, the organization, Police the Police, posted the graphic below on Facebook: along with the caption, “It’s no secret institutionalized racism exists and is prevalent within ‘law’ enforcement. What can we do to stop it?” It’s More Complicated Than That. I would say that economic determinants play a major role here…