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John Gilmore interviewed by Greplaw
mpawlo writes "I have just published another one of those Greplaw interviews. This time, John Gilmore had the courtesy of answering a wide range of questions on various subjects such as terrorism and security, spam blocking, censorship, secret laws in airports and of course - sarongs. Gilmore starts: 'I'm a civil libertarian millionaire eccentric.' Enjoy!"
Last August John Gilmore was on the cover of and interviewed in Reason. Good reading from a great magazine.
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity but they've always worked for me" - HST
See his posting history
'nuff said
I'm a dreamer, the world is my playpen. But hey, I'm a serious person, I can't dream all the time.
"Your "prior restraint" argument sidesteps my argument that transportation on public roads is a priveledge, not a right."
Too bad the "privilege" argument is pure propoganda:
CASE #1: "The use of the highway for the purpose of travel and transportation is not a mere privilege, but a common fundamental right of which the public and individuals cannot rightfully be deprived." Chicago Motor Coach v. Chicago, 169 NE 221.
CASE #2: "The right of the citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city may prohibit or permit at will, but a common law right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Thompson v. Smith, 154 SE 579.
CASE #3: "The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment." Kent v. Dulles, 357 US 116, 125.
CASE #4: "The right to travel is a well-established common right that does not owe its existence to the federal government. It is recognized by the courts as a natural right." Schactman v. Dulles 96 App DC 287,
225 F2d 938, at 941.
Note #3 especially. It specifically precludes the use of prior restraint tactics by government entities. Oh and by the way foidulus, I want to make you wear your SSN on a big white panel over your clothing, so in case you kill someone all the bystanders and any cops can easily identify you. And I don't want to hear that this would violate any of your rights!
You're right that Nixon's drug war emphasized treatment over criminalization, at least compared to the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush drug war. But you're wrong that Nixon didn't see the drug war as a way to bash the hippies. He did, and he said so to his cabinet, as many of his tapes record. They also record that he thought the hippies were in league with the commies and the Jews on this. When you bash the "conspiracy bullshit" coming from the hippies you might at least compare it to the extreme paranoid "conspiracy bullshit" of their main enemy here.