Well, that’s not very libertarian
A while back, I predicted Libertarian Girl would be a popular blog. I decided today to check back in on her. I was right. For a newer blog, she’s doing quite well and I played a small part in that. Kudos to her.
But this isn’t a post about that, this is a post about this:
This post is incredibly dumb.
So Miami Beach has a regulation against roadside vendors (and for purposes of this post their shall be no discussion of whether or not such a regulation is a good idea). Someone calls up and asks how to sell stuff on the roadside. Person answering the phone says you can’t.
But Michelle Malkin says the regulators are “boneheaded” because they should have seen how deserving the caller was of being given an exemption.
Then she calls Malkin a bonehead. I think that, as a Libertarian, her primary concern would be whether or not such a regulation is a good idea. Maybe I’m crazy, but I’m not so certain she’s a Libertarian. Of course, this being the blogosphere and all, I’m not so certain she’s a girl either (coincidentally, the Gender Genie is, though the score is close).
January 12th, 2005 at 12:26 pm
It’s possible to believe a particular law is a bad law, but that as long it is a law it should be equally enforced.
Her point seems to be that, leaving aside for the momment the debate over whether the law is good or not, that there’s something wrong with the idea that certain people should get to ignore it because they’re “deserving” while others have to obey it.
I don’t see how that contradicts libertarian principles.
January 12th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
Stormy: I’d say that’s definitely a libertarian principle: if the law is on the books and could be used against those the people in government dislike, it definitely should be enforced against those in government and their pet projects…
January 12th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
>I don’t see how that contradicts
>libertarian principles.
that == Libertarian Girl’s point that laws, even bad ones, need to be uniformly applied
January 12th, 2005 at 8:04 pm
But she’s a girl…
So Libertarian Girl has been accused of not being a girl. Well of course she is – it’s right there in her name. Someone used a tool called Gender Genie in an attempt to ascertain her gender. It’s interesting that…
January 12th, 2005 at 11:50 pm
I don’t think there’s anything liberatarian or unlibertarian about calling Michelle Malkin a bonehead for calling a regulator a bonehead for answering a girl’s question accurately. It’s just a matter of common sense.
Here’s a more accurate heading for this message: “That girl should be like you and me, only better. Dammit!”