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…
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Hazlitt, Balko, “Private Sector”
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Words Poorly Used #8 — Accountability
Think, in 10 words or less, what the word “accountable” means to you — no fair looking in a dictionary, because politicians who promise accountability don’t. Politicians say “someone should be accountable.” This means an unnamed, later to be determined person might be singled out to take the blame for something. If we look at…
Re: Compliance Training
Nobody asked but … Parrish, you are right in that it is sneaking up on us. But the politicians have been running amok with their law and order demagoguery for nearly 50 years. Again, I am reading Radley Balko’s new book, “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces” and the record…
Compliance Training
The government is calling it a “federal survey,” but when cars are stopped at a police roadblock, directed into a parking lot, and asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva, and even blood, I would suggest that there is a lot more than a “survey” going on! American citizens (and indeed, individuals…
Dirk Dickenson
Nobody asked but … When I was in college the first time I was kind of a hippy, although I could often be seen in an Air Force ROTC uniform with a haircut (more or less) to match. That was up through the Fall of 1967. In 1972, I was busy making a home for…
The Liberal Mind vs. the Conservative Mind
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
Re: Donut Fail
Parrish, this is priceless! And that reminds me to tell our readers that I have started on Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. I expect to be posting a few cop fail observations myself, in the coming days. My cause célèbre is the casual shooting of dogs in…
Donut Fail
There is something deliciously ironic about the case of a man impersonating a police officer in an attempt to obtain discounted donuts, and the cops setting up a sting operation to catch him. Aside from the obvious jokes about donuts, there is the fact that being a well-paid state enforcer funded by property coercively expropriated…
Re: the Cops
Parrish, not only should you do everything in your power to avoid calling or involving the police in your life, if you happen to find yourself a target, you must never ever ever ever talk to them. Ever! Skyler.