I saw a sheriff texting and driving today.
And that’s why I’m a voluntarist.
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[Fears about 4th Amendment encroachments, privacy, and infringements on individual liberty] are not, as the Court would have it, solely the lot of the guilty. To be law abiding is not necessarily to be spotless, and even the most virtuous can be unlucky. Unwanted attention from the police need not be less discomforting simply because one’s secrets are not the stuff of criminal prosecutions.
Moreover, those who have found - by reason of prejudice or misfortune - that encounters with the police may become adversarial or unpleasant without good cause will have grounds for worrying at any stop designed to elicit signs of suspicious behavior. Being stopped by the police is distressing even when it should not be terrifying, and what begins mildly may by happenstance turn severe.
Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting. Michigan Dept. of State Police v. Sitz, 496 U.S. 444 (1990).
This is relevant in light of today’s discussions on the passage and impending presidential signing of the NDAA.
(via statehate)
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (via hipsterlibertarian)
(Source: a-la-maquina)
Jack Donaghy gets it.
It's pretty telling that the loudest applause of the night seems to be for Rick Perry killing people.
If only he had bragged about the stay of execution he denied to an innocent man, he certainly would’ve gotten a standing ovation.
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I do not believe in the death penalty. 68% of the time they make mistakes — and it’s so racist too. More than half the people getting the death penalty are poor blacks. This is the one place, this is the one remnant of racism in our country: the court system, enforcing the drug laws, and enforcing the death penalty. I don’t even know, but I wonder how many people have been executed — over 200? — I wonder how many were minorities. If you’re rich, you usually do not get the death penalty. And the DNA evidence now has proven people innocent. I don’t think it’s a very good sign for civilization to still be invoking the death penalty.
Ron Paul
Tumblr’s left-wing hacks won’t reblog this because it doesn’t fit the trite narrative of Ron-Paul-is-a-white-supremacist-lol. Also because they seem to not give a shit about anything that actually matters.
(via statehate)
