Category Archives: security theater

WorldNetDaily: How often do Americans use guns for defensive purposes?

Posted on Saturday, 2005 September 03 by Anton

An interesting item from Larry Elder: The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s website displays this oft-quoted “fact”: “The risk of homicide in the home is three times greater in households with guns.” Their website fails to mention that Dr. … Continue reading →

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nothing to hide

Posted on Monday, 2005 July 04 by Anton

“Lady Liberty” says it well: So rest peacefully in your assumption that none of the invasive new laws or procedures applies to you because you don’t have anything to hide. You’ll be just fine as long as the police never … Continue reading →

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distributed knowledge wins

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 June 07 by Anton

I’ve heard that Friedrich von Hayek (1899-1992) started thinking about spontaneous order because of an incident in the Great War. Austrian forces were routed in a battle in Italy, and fled leaderless through the mountains; and far more of them … Continue reading →

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items from elsewhere

Posted on Monday, 2005 May 09 by Anton

Ron Paul’s remarks on the war, to the House useful spam-handling plugin for WordPress 1.5 a gag about clashing jargons Sheldon Richman on the “Minuteman Project”: . . . this “citizens’ neighborhood watch along our border” looks for foreigners who, … Continue reading →

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selective violence

Posted on Sunday, 2005 April 10 by Anton

After cataloguing the Brady Campaign’s calls for measures that (even if ideally implemented) would have done nothing to reduce the body count in Red Lake, “Lady Liberty” observes: You see, there’s another fact we’re hearing very little about. Security guards, … Continue reading →

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rule of law, you may have heard of it?

Posted on Sunday, 2005 March 27 by Anton

What I’ve read about the case of José Padilla tends to come filtered by dangerous subversives like Hornberger; so I’m wondering who, other than employees of the Executive Branch, takes the opposite view. Anyone?

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immunizing against immune response

Posted on Saturday, 2005 March 19 by Anton

Carol Moore passes along a column by Harvey Wasserman which contains this: Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman has played the holocaust card for the Republicans, saying “It is hideous, outrageous and offensive for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican … Continue reading →

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