This just in
Xrlq defends libertarians. Well, kind sorta. He has a good fisk of a pro-drug war article. My favorite quote:
Yes, some looneytarians also attack the war on terror, but that’s another issue altogether. If you think you can defend yourself against terrorists as easily as you can against drugs, try “just saying no” to a terrorist sometime.
January 28th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
Problem is that the war on terror isnt calculated to stop terror any more than the war on drugs is calculated to stop drug trafficking or use. They are both expensive exercises in security theater that fund the buildup of the police state.
January 28th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
If a government can invade countries, start wars, torture inmates without trials, eliminate Constitutional restrictions to gather information — all in the NAME of the War on Terrorist. Shouldn’t citizens be able to do a little more then “just say no” when confronted with an actual terrorists?
HOLLOW-POINT TO THE SKULL seems like a good enough answer. Of course that would require our young daughters to be armed with AK’s when going to McDonalds and some adults allowed into our school’s while armed, (such as how Israel stopped school attackers in their tracks).
Just because our government doesn’t ALLOW us to do those things, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done or that the “looneytarians” solution wouldn’t work if some of those chains were removed. And we would certainly stand a better chance then being left defenseless, which our government is pushing us towards VERY HEAVILY, (and worse is yet to come). We are being dished out with an INCREASE in restrictions, plus even more goons on the federal payroll keeping us safe from water bottles at the TSA.
And this numbnuts calls libertarians looney???
January 28th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
I agree with beerslurpy. On the so-called “war on drugs” at least. On the GWOT, I am keeping my cynicism on a short leash.