Category Archives: politics

zero tolerance

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 27 by Anton

Darth Vader’s War on Terror.

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Freezerbox: This Is American History On Drugs California now imprisons more people than do France, Germany, Japan, Singapore and the Netherlands combined. It has more people in jail for drug offenses than were in jail in the entire United States … Continue reading →

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your tweezers, please

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 26 by Anton

Security can be more about power trips than safe travel. Hooray, we cranks are not alone in saying it. (Link from Monty Solomon.)

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sovereignty ≠ liberty

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 24 by Anton

USS Clueless defends American unilateralism again: [quoting a British paper] “a disdain for any treaty that might, even marginally, tie the administration’s hands”. We in the US refer to that as “liberty”. I know it’s a foreign notion in Europe, … Continue reading →

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my kinda governor

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 24 by Anton

Jesse Ventura (according to Rich Hailey) opposes mandating the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, for exactly the right reasons; looks like his libertarian streak is wider than I thought. 2010: newer link

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feel safe?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 19 by Anton

What Went Wrong, an article about last summer’s Intelligence failure. (Old link dead; two new links) “If I were an average citizen, I’d be pissed at the whole American government,” says a senior official who has worked on counterterrorism. I … Continue reading →

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RKBA in an unusual place

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 14 by Anton

How about that loon Ashcroft, eh, going against a grand old tradition of squeezing the Constitution for every drop of authority it could be construed to grant to Washington. The nerve! You’ll probably hear it repeated, if you haven’t already, … Continue reading →

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