Fresh Bodies for the State Meat-Grinder

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Children Over 12 Face Jail Time for Trick-or-Treating in Some Towns:
https://abc7ny.com/society/children-over-12-face-jail-time-for-trick-or-treating-in-some-towns/4450665/

Let’s start with a big question: How old is too old to trick or treat?

Some cities not only suggest an age, they will send kids over the “legal” limit to jail for dressing up and going door-to-door looking for candy.

In Chesapeake, Virginia, anyone over the age of 12 who is caught trick-or-treating could be sent to jail for up to 6 months and fined.

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My Commentary: Fresh bodies for the State meat-grinder.

Government Grabbing for Grills

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Allen Turner

A Florida Man Faces Prison for Making Grills Without a License:
http://reason.com/blog/2018/10/09/fla-grills-dentisty-license-arrest-fine

() Dental grills have been around for thousands of years—Vice reports that rich Etruscan women were fitting their teeth with gold as early as the seventh century B.C. The service was not carried out by a dentist but by a goldsmith. But in 2018, a Florida man faces charges for doing something similar without a dental license.

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My Commentary: Making grills without paying for a “license” appears to be more of a crime than straight knocking someone’s teeth out…

Statism is Sadism

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following status update here, posted by libertarian anarchist, Robert Higgs, and originally shared it to my own wall, along with commentary…

Robert Higgs: If you wish to live subject to the domination, extortion, and oppression of dishonest, violent gangsters, and I cannot change your mind about the desirability of doing so, I will accept that my powers of persuasion have failed. Still, I wonder why you must force me to live likewise, and by what right you regard yourself as entitled to do so.

My Commentary: “Freedom is not extreme. Control is. ”

#CheckYourStatistPrivilege #ChooseVoluntaryism#ConsentIsTheCurrencyOfCoexistence

Doublethinking About a Democratically-Elected Government

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following quote, being shared by an acquaintance, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“I don’t trust the average person to make his own choices. I therefore want everyone subjugating his own judgment to that of an external law-making authority. But that authority can’t just be arbitrary and unlimited, so I want the common people–who themselves can’t be trusted–to choose other people to be the authority. That way all the people who would behave like violent, wild animals can select the best and brightest among them to force the rest to behave in a proper manner. Because while I don’t trust the average person to run his own life, I do trust him to choose someone to run everyone else’s life. Because I am a statist. And I haven’t gotten around to questioning all the patently insane bullshit I was taught when growing up.”

~Larken Rose

My Commentary: Doublethink much?

Trump, the Tyrant

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Cop-sucking buffoon bloviates on his desire for an American Police State

Trump Praises ‘Stop and Frisk,’ Calls for Tougher Policing Tactics:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/trump-praises-stop-and-frisk-calls-for-tougher-policing-tactics.html

() President Donald Trump on Monday touted so-called stop and frisk policing tactics, telling attendees at a chiefs of police convention that he has instructed the Justice Department to work toward reinstating the practice in Chicago. The city’s police department voluntarily agreed to rein in its use of “stop and frisk” in 2015.

“‘Stop and frisk’ works and it was meant for problems like Chicago,” Trump said during his speech at the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Convention in Orlando, Florida.

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My Commentary: But, without government, who would seize and molest thousands of innocent human beings in order to catch a few criminals?