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Another Isolated Incident

July 14, 2008

[Edit: please see Errors & Omissions #1 - the source article from Yahoo! refers to a non-lethal June incident,although there was a lethal taser-related incident in Houston on or about July 14, 2008.]

 
Another death by taser (the “non-lethal” taser) in Houston.
The burglarly suspect attempted to ditch his crack-pipe while fleeing the police. That move [...]

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Comments #18

June 21, 2008

Gilligans Corner has an interesting post: Gresham’s Law Only Works Because of State Violence. I like to see other people who recognize this as fact. I’ve been working on some comprehensive post(s) on money and banking in a free market, and I find that a lot of really smart people think that Gresham’s [...]

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Posted in: American Politics, Blog Reactions, Legalese, Police State, Property Rights, gold bugging, ponderings | 1 Comment


“People should be able to dance where they want”

June 9, 2008

Last week, heavily armed cops dressed in commando-style uniforms burst into the west-side Detroit art gallery. (permalink PDF)
The raid carried out on the non-profit Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit wasn’t a well-coordinated sting operation to bust known
criminals. It wasn’t a mistake; the cops didn’t kick down the wrong door, which I suppose makes the [...]

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Comments on Comments #16

May 20, 2008

Responding to The Rebellion of the Dead, frequent commenter Francois Tremblay says:
That’s a horrible passage. I can’t believe you like it. Instead of showing how even fatalism cannot fade the vitality of the human spirit, they just give into it. If I knew the day of my death, I wouldn’t try to give into [...]

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