Defense Distributed
Even if you do not own a gun, or do not want to acquire one, applaud Cody Wilson’s resolve and vision. He needs backing from every one of us.
Category Archives: Law and Society
Quarantine concentration camps; Democratic unity
Nancy Pelosi wants to keep her job, of course, but she also focuses on what the party must do to defeat President Trump. You do not seem to think a unified party leads to that outcome.
Power with malice
Government exercises legal, and moral authority only if it observes these limitations. When it operates outside the law, it exercises power with malice. That defines criminal activity.
Cover your eyes when you look at what’s happening at the southern border
In country after country where the government sets up and runs gulags, the state does not have to keep the camps secret.
Concentration camps
They do share the common qualities outlined here: forcible detention of people in one place, to monitor and control them. Whether you call it a reservation, an internment camp, a prison camp, or a concentration camp does not matter. They are all the same.
New legal theory: whistleblowers and accomplices guilty of espionage
The difference between an intelligence apparatchik and a member of a crime syndicate is that the former draws pay from the public treasury, while the latter steals it. Secrecy is essential either way.
ICE appoints itself supreme authority for detainment and deportation
As the sanctuary movement illustrates, federal authority in immigration cases is not welcome in many places. It is certainly not welcome here in Massachusetts.
Vaccination and causes of autism
You cannot force people to put something inside their bodies against their will. You can no more do that than force them to kill themselves.
How would you define “house of horrors”?
No bureaucrat has yet taken responsibility for treatment that, in some ways, is worse than that Louise and David Turpin visited on their sons and daughters.
Political stupidity in the extreme
That’s what I mean by stupid. Comey cannot see his motives or his actions from any point of view other than his own.
Opioid puzzlement: simple solutions, hard to execute
All of the coercive, state-run efforts to reduce opioid use have one thing in common: they don’t work.
Stop & Shop strike
I wish they thought more of me. I do not like to be used as a tool in someone else’s dispute.
