Only thing Ron Paul has said or done that I agree with.
That's a rather shocking admission on your part. So, do you want the USA to continue to dig a financial hole by fighting endless undeclared wars? How about continuing to imprison people for non-crimes like smoking pot? Or did you mean that you're in favor of holding people in prison without trial, or even keeping them in prison after an acquittal on the president's command alone?
These are all things that Ron Paul does his best to work against.
No law of the United States shall be construed to confer any immunity for a Federal employee or agency or any individual or entity that receives Federal funds, who subjects an individual to any physical contact (including contact with any clothing the individual is wearing), x-rays, or millimetre waves, or aids in the creation of or views a representation of any part of a individual’s body covered by clothing as a condition for such individual to be in an airport or to fly in an aircraft. The preceding sentence shall apply even if the individual or the individual’s parent, guardian, or any other individual gives consent.
Since this bill explicitly forbids any kind of immunity for the TSA goons, if one of them grabs your crotch, you call a real cop, and file a criminal charge just like you would against anyone else who committed a sexual assault.
do libertarians seem to believe that it's better to be abused by a corporation than by the government.
It's better not to be abused at all. If you believe that government protects us from corporations, then avoid bridge salesmen and offers to join poker games.
He is a Republican who actually BELIEVES in smaller government,
The way I usually put it is, he's the conscience of the Republican party; the only one who votes consistently in accord with their own platform, and who by his example continuously reminds the Lindsey Grahams and John McCains of the world what appalling hypocrites they are.
. From a libertarian perspective desired regulation would be something like transparency in banking and finance.
The canonical example would be enforcement of contracts.
The general minarchist libertarian position is that government has some legitimate purposes, such as national defense (which does not mean keeping our troops stationed in foreign countries for decades on end), criminal justice (which does not include prosecuting anyone for "crimes" that have no victim, like smoking marijuana), and civil courts to administer tort law and resolve other disputes.
Personally, I'd say that Frederic Bastiat covered it very well in his book, The Law. In this book, he makes the case that all legitimate government power is a delegation of rights of the people, and that there is nothing that is wrong for an individual to do, that becomes right when a group (or government) does it.
It's way too easy for Bernanke to shit out another trillion bucks whenever he feels like it. One of the greatest advantages of gold is that it's pretty damned hard to inflate it. There aren't any more major continents to discover, after all.
They sure do. The reason we all get that spam claiming to need our help moving millions of dollars into the US banking system is because there are enough suckers out there to keep the spammers in business.
I don't have an issue with Bill Clinton banging the fat chick, or Elliot Spitzer cheating on his wife with a hooker, or Fluffy the Trial Lawyer knocking up some over-the-hill political groupie. That's between them and their wives, as far as I'm concerned. What I do have an issue with, is Bill Clinton lying under oath, Elliot Spitzer having prosecuted other people for the same thing he was doing himself, and Fluffy spending campaign money on covering up his sordid tryst.
Where's the line between a DDoS against a political site and "protected free speech"?
I'd say the line is the use of other people's property without their consent. This is the same issue as spamming. His right to express himself doesn't include a right to use anyone else's property to do so.
Ignore the political aspect, and he's just a vandal.
I concur. Like a spammer, he should suffer a penalty proportional to the crime. So, how many computers did he use in the DDOS attack, and what's the statutory penalty for fraudulent/unauthorized use of a computer?
Add them up, and he should probably do a couple of centuries of jail time.
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If you believe that governments protect you from corporations, you're out of your mind.
-jcr
You should look up Shapiro's work on EROS, and read up on its predecessor, KeyKOS. The problems you list above have been solved, decades ago.
-jcr
So, THE only way to prevent terrorism is to have a police state.
That doesn't prevent terrorism, it just puts the terrorists in uniform.
-jcr
It is such a shame that Nixon didn't die behind bars. Watergate was the least of that SOB's crimes against this country.
-jcr
Only thing Ron Paul has said or done that I agree with.
That's a rather shocking admission on your part. So, do you want the USA to continue to dig a financial hole by fighting endless undeclared wars? How about continuing to imprison people for non-crimes like smoking pot? Or did you mean that you're in favor of holding people in prison without trial, or even keeping them in prison after an acquittal on the president's command alone?
These are all things that Ron Paul does his best to work against.
-jcr
I can see that you haven't read the bill.
Here's the text of H.R. 6416:
Since this bill explicitly forbids any kind of immunity for the TSA goons, if one of them grabs your crotch, you call a real cop, and file a criminal charge just like you would against anyone else who committed a sexual assault.
-jcr
do libertarians seem to believe that it's better to be abused by a corporation than by the government.
It's better not to be abused at all. If you believe that government protects us from corporations, then avoid bridge salesmen and offers to join poker games.
-jcr
"Scientifically discredited", my ass.
Watch and learn.
-jcr
He is a Republican who actually BELIEVES in smaller government,
The way I usually put it is, he's the conscience of the Republican party; the only one who votes consistently in accord with their own platform, and who by his example continuously reminds the Lindsey Grahams and John McCains of the world what appalling hypocrites they are.
-jcr
. From a libertarian perspective desired regulation would be something like transparency in banking and finance.
The canonical example would be enforcement of contracts.
The general minarchist libertarian position is that government has some legitimate purposes, such as national defense (which does not mean keeping our troops stationed in foreign countries for decades on end), criminal justice (which does not include prosecuting anyone for "crimes" that have no victim, like smoking marijuana), and civil courts to administer tort law and resolve other disputes.
Personally, I'd say that Frederic Bastiat covered it very well in his book, The Law. In this book, he makes the case that all legitimate government power is a delegation of rights of the people, and that there is nothing that is wrong for an individual to do, that becomes right when a group (or government) does it.
-jcr
"Ray LaHood". One more example of a bureaucrat who believes that the government's job is to protect us from ourselves.
-jcr
77 million dead. Mao was no strawman.
-jcr
The left hates China because of their disgusting intolerance of any human rights,
Since when has the left cared about human rights? Those douchebags still praise Mao, for crying out loud.
-jcr
I remember Renderman being bundled with NeXTSTEP. I wish we still had it in Mac OS X.
-jcr
What exactly is your problem with today's money?
It's way too easy for Bernanke to shit out another trillion bucks whenever he feels like it. One of the greatest advantages of gold is that it's pretty damned hard to inflate it. There aren't any more major continents to discover, after all.
-jcr
Do people really fall for these scams?
They sure do. The reason we all get that spam claiming to need our help moving millions of dollars into the US banking system is because there are enough suckers out there to keep the spammers in business.
-jcr
in my experience employees are more or less slaves in the US.
Evidently, you don't know the definition of the word "slave".
-jcr
I don't have an issue with Bill Clinton banging the fat chick, or Elliot Spitzer cheating on his wife with a hooker, or Fluffy the Trial Lawyer knocking up some over-the-hill political groupie. That's between them and their wives, as far as I'm concerned. What I do have an issue with, is Bill Clinton lying under oath, Elliot Spitzer having prosecuted other people for the same thing he was doing himself, and Fluffy spending campaign money on covering up his sordid tryst.
-jcr
Of course not. That would just be multiplying the number of perps.
-jcr
They both got sentences that were far too light. What's your point?
-jcr
Where's the line between a DDoS against a political site and "protected free speech"?
I'd say the line is the use of other people's property without their consent. This is the same issue as spamming. His right to express himself doesn't include a right to use anyone else's property to do so.
-jcr
Two wrongs don't make a right. Any right-winger using a DDOS attack on liberal sites should do time, too.
-jcr
Ignore the political aspect, and he's just a vandal.
I concur. Like a spammer, he should suffer a penalty proportional to the crime. So, how many computers did he use in the DDOS attack, and what's the statutory penalty for fraudulent/unauthorized use of a computer?
Add them up, and he should probably do a couple of centuries of jail time.
-jcr
Lesson for the day: if you're an idiot, then you should at least hire competent legal counsel to advise you on matters of law.
-jcr
Just curious.
-jcr