Friday, November 19, 2004

# Vin Supryniwicz at The Las Vegas Review-Journal - What do police departments really do? - enforce malam prohibitum laws against peaceful people, that's what. Behavior that only a few decades ago would have gotten them shot and fed to the local hogs. Behavior that still ought to elicit that response. [stanleyscoop] Let us suppose that, magically, there were no police. You are sitting at home of an evening, quietly reading a book. Next door, behind his own locked doors, your 21-year-old neighbor, who inherited some handguns from his grandfather, is spending time with his 16- or 17-year-old sweetheart, whose family is happy to know she intends to marry him and bear his children as soon as she graduates high school. At the moment, the two of them are consuming some of the marijuana they grow in their back yard. If you knew this, would you leap to your feet and race downtown, pounding on the door of the sleeping magistrate, insisting he swear out a warrant so you can rush back to your neighborhood, break into your neighbor's home and arrest him? Of course not. He's hurting no one. [End the War on Freedom] Unfortunately there really are people who would ruin their neighbor's life out of a twisted sense of self-importance and self-righteousness. 10:12:07 PM    comment ()

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