Thursday, February 07, 2002

Thought for the day: If you're a politician, bureaucrat, or cop whose livelihood depends on the drug war, you're fully as contemptible as any pusher, smuggler, or cocaine baron--more so, because, unlike them, you profit directly by destroying what was once the greatest freedom ever known to humankind. Mirelle Stein, The Productive Class comment () trackback ()  10:40:12 PM     Terror Tactic: The government blames drug users for the violence created by its disastrous policies. In other words, the murdered families, the kidnapped fathers, the homicidal children, the dead policemen, the terrorist bombs, the assassinated judges, and the devastated buildings that the government wants to blame on drug users are all predictable consequences of its own disastrous policies. If any group, aside from the perpetrators themselves, bears responsibility for "narco-terror," it's the politicians and bureaucrats who insist upon using force to stop people from altering their consciousness in unapproved ways. [Reason] comment () trackback ()  10:33:02 PM     Symantec stock has dropped to [Macro error: The server, 127.0.0.1, returned error code 7: Can't evaluate the expression because the name "getQuote" hasn't been defined.] /share, which is well under my option price. It was kind of weird for my options to be worth something, even if it was only a few days. I guess I should have tried to exercise them, but I've gotten so used to them being worthless I didn't really think about it that way. comment () trackback ()  10:13:20 PM     Argentine judges face corruption probe. Argentina's Congress investigates the Supreme Court over rulings including lifting a ban on cash withdrawals from bank accounts. [BBC News: world] Apparently the government of Argentina thinks that allowing people access to their own money is "corruption." It's hardly surprising that the economy is in such bad shape, when the rulers have an attitude like that. comment () trackback ()  5:48:25 PM     Symantec sponsors cyber security awareness campaign. Symantec will give the first of the campaign's series of six online presentations that can be accessed at the campaign's Web site. Entitled "Protect Your Computer, Protect Your Country's Cyber Infrastructure," by Stephen Trilling, senior director of Advanced Concepts for Symantec, the series will focus on how consumers and small businesses can protect the nation's critical infrastructure by making sure their computers and networks have the proper Internet security precautions installed to defend against viruses and worms or having their computer used without their knowledge to launch cyber attacks. [MacCentral] "Buy our products, it's a matter of national security!" comment () trackback ()  5:42:20 PM     John-Erik's Airborne Adventure. John-Erik Moseler at Silent Planet - John-Erik's Airborne Adventure - the story of a trip from central Florida to Wisconsin to pick up a car. The trip back in the car was faster than the trip there in the airplane thanks to airport "security". [safeskies] [End the War on Freedom] For my next planned trip, to San Jose, I'm planning to skip flying and just take the train. Amtrak may be slow, inefficient, and overpriced, but at least it doesn't require a side trip through Nazi Germany. comment () trackback ()  10:15:13 AM     The Nazi Mind-set in America: Part I. Jacob G. Hornberger at The Future of Freedom Foundation - The Nazi Mind-set in America: Part I and Part II - a classic from way back in 1994. Still right on target today. Free Republic copy and discussion here. My mirror here with the FFF's permission. [freerepublic] What American objects to these principles of the Nazi economic system? Don't most Americans favor the planned economy, the regulated economy, the controlled economy? Don't most Americans favor the type of economic controls, and the right of government to institute such controls , that characterized the Nazi society: wage and price controls, high taxes, government-business partnerships, licensing, permits, and a myriad other economic regulations? The truth is that Hayek's warning was ignored. Having defeated the Nazis in battle, Americans became ardent supporters and advocates of Nazi economic policies. [End the War on Freedom] I'm not convinced that most Americans do support Nazi economic policies. Certainly the politicans controlling the Dempublican party do, but most Americans don't even bother to vote. Why should they, when the Republocrat candidates don't represent them, and other candidates aren't allowed to participate in the campaign? comment () trackback ()  9:29:49 AM

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