Official thuggery, bad prosecutions, and bad law – Page 11

Talk about not being able to stop the signal!

Published August 1, 2018 7:10 am by Claire

DefCad.com goes dark. Judge’s order. CodeIsFreeSpeech.com rises. With all the same downloadable and perfectly legal 3D-printable firearm plans, not subject to the restraining diktat. What did they expect? How many more mirrors can the grandstanding statist bastards stomp? How many more will arise? Declan McCullagh has details.

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Monday links

Published July 30, 2018 10:22 am by Claire

Pennsylvania is SO twentieth century. They got Defense Distributed to block downloads of 3D-printable gun plans. Lots of verbal hand-wringing. No acknowledgement that VPNs and proxies make physical location irrelevant.

Pity that neither the PA gov nor the Catholic church was so interested in protecting residents against 300 pedophile priests included in an upcoming “nuclear bomb” grand jury report.

We don’t need the future Silicon Valley is selling.

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Final straws

Published July 29, 2018 6:14 pm by Claire

On the light side … have some more straw-ban funnies, courtesy of Len Savage:

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Friday links

Published July 27, 2018 10:03 am by Claire

“Come and Take It.” 🙂 (Via BD and Borepatch)

Kit Perez: Understanding core motivators in human-terrain mapping.

Thanks to a venal cop, a typically flawed roadside drug test, and naivete, a mother of four spends months in jail … for possession of vitamins.

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Thursday links

Published July 26, 2018 5:55 am by Claire

I’m mystified by this week’s hullabaloo about Trump threatening to take over the Federal Reserve. He might make it “political”? But as Rothbard knew, few things are already as inherently political as the infamous Fed.

Murder-for-hire charges against Ross Ulbricht have been dropped. Bet most people who know he’s in prison think that’s what he was already convicted of.

That terrible question we always get: What would happen if the government didn’t handle X, Y, or Z?

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Midweek links

Published July 18, 2018 9:05 am by Claire

Yay for artistic freedom! A Florida government has to make amends to a couple who painted their home to resemble Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.”*

Should a woman with drugs in her system be prosecuted as a murderer for breastfeeding her baby?

Fighting back against FOSTA, the ridiculously broad new law that attacks both consensual sex workers and Internet freedom.

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Weekend links

Published July 14, 2018 6:58 pm by Claire

Wendy McElroy: “Does your money serve the state or you?”

Finally, an “expert” states what We the Peasants have known all along: Even the most innocuous-seeming law is ultimately enforced by violence, even unto death.

Cop who was given multiple breaks after killing an unarmed woman and bragging about it commits a double murder.

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Friday links

Published July 13, 2018 12:03 pm by Claire

Nooooo, minorities can’t be racist. Doesn’t happen. (Scott Greenfield brings his usual good sense to an ugly subject.)

Yes, PayPal, death is definitely not a breach of your terms that can be remedied.

On Friday the 13th, Maggie McNeill urges us all to give very libertarian respect and support to the rights of sex workers.

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Trump pardons the Hammonds

Published July 10, 2018 10:00 am by Claire

Trump today issued a full pardon to Dwight and Steven Hammond. The Hammonds, father and son, are Oregon ranchers whose original “crime” was that a small part of a controlled burn ran onto adjoining federal land. They served time in prison for that (bad enough). Then after they were released, federal prosecutors appealed and managed to get them thrown back into prison. Because terrorism. Yeah, makes sense. Only if you’re a vengeful fed with a hate-on for western ranchers. Is there any more malicious and ruthless occupational group today than fed prosecutors? The Hammonds’ re-imprisonment led to the ill-considered, ill-planned,…

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