Sunday, October 23, 2005

# Vin Suprynowicz at the Las Vegas Review-Journal - Nature cult's devious tactics exposed - one rancher struck back, in court, against the envirowhackos, and won, big time. Far out. [root] Mr. Chilton said he would have been happy with the vindication of a $1 damage award. But the Tucson jury was not so forgiving, awarding $600,000, including $500,000 in punitive damages against the lying anti-human green extremists, whose co-founder now says the jury award could financially devastate the group. Let's hope so. The real goal of these fruitcakes is to remove all human activity from vast swatches of the rural West (turning most of it back into an untended desert), whereupon they seem to imagine only they and their closest friends will be handed picnic permits. And the Center for Biological Diversity is actually among the more litigious of these gangs; a third of its $3 million income in 2003 came from court awards and settlements, according to the Journal. Live by the sword, die by the sword? [End the War on Freedom] Jim Carlton of the Journal reports the Chilton case "if upheld, could spark a legal uprising by ranchers against environmentalists, experts say." The lawsuit "has given hope to a lot of ranching families," agrees C.B "Doc" Lane, executive vice president of the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association. comment () trackback ()  4:09:44 PM     Simon Says You Do Not Own Your Organs. Laws fail to stop India's organ trade: India has a flourishing illegal trade in human organs because no one feels they benefit from the laws that govern transplants, a new report says INDIA has a flourishing, and illegal, trade in human organs. And the legislation designed to prevent it is failing. That is because no one feels they benefit from the laws that govern organ transplants, be they people requiring a new kidney, donors who sell theirs for cash, or even the hospitals and policy makers who should regulate the practice. That's the conclusion of the first investigation into why India's 1994 Transplantation of Human Organs Act, which banned commercial transplants, is not working. It says the law could be tightened up to remove ambiguities and loopholes. Or the government might wish to take the pragmatic approach and legalise the trade once more, and control it. I guess people in India do not own their body too. I suppose the real question is, does anyone? Or better yet, is there a way you can own your body? More on owning your organs: 1 2 3 4 5 6 [Mises Economics Blog] What I find interesting is the implication that Indians actually did own their bodies prior to 1994. That gives them a more recent history of freedom than Americans have. comment () trackback ()  12:56:54 AM     The Right to Set Your Own Price. Price caps violate the property rights of owners of scarce resources, such as gasoline, writes Chris Westley. The gas station owners, not public authorities, are the ones who risk their capital in order to satisfy customers. They are the ones who hire labor, set contracts with suppliers, and organize resources so as to provide goods to customers via voluntary exchange. They should be able to charge whatever prices they want. FULL ARTICLE [Mises Economics Blog] The article contains a link to a news story about a heroic businessman arrested by the Alabama Gestapo for standing up to fascism. comment () trackback ()  12:52:37 AM

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