Written 2005-05-27 Homeland Security cracks down on movies pirates. I guess that U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act is really paying off… “On Wednesday (May 25), departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced they were shutting down the BitTorrent network know as Elite Torrents after the site became one of the first peer-to-peer networks to deliver “Revenge of […]
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Words Have Lost Their Meanings
I offer further evidence that words have lost their meanings. Yesterday, on July 4th, 2002, I was reading up on wireless Internet technology. I came across the definition of FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum), a method of radio transmission. There I learned that the frequency of the transmission changes in a “… random but predictable […]
Sitting Ducks Are Easy Targets
Easy Targets The extraordinary events of September 11, 2001 require a serious look at the policies that made these horrific events possible. It is now obvious that we should stop treating hijackings as hostage situations and start treating them like terrorist attacks. We can all see clearly now that airliners are weapons, not merely conveyances. […]
September 11, 2001
When I heard on the news this morning that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center, I saw in my mind’s eye a small, private aircraft whose pilot had suffered a heart attack or maybe fallen asleep. When I heard that a second aircraft had hit the towers, I said to my wife, […]
A Response to “Critiques Of Libertarianism”
IBM and General Motors can’t deny citizens their right to a trial by a jury of their peers, only government can and does that routinely. All the corporations in the Fortune 500 can’t kick in my door in the middle of the night based on some anonymous tip; government agents can.
Who passed Jim Crow laws? Government. Who passed anti-Chinese laws? Who turned their collective heads and refused to enforce the laws once racial discrimination became unlawful? Government. Who uses racial profiling to stop people for “driving while black?” Government. Who broke countless treaties with American Indians? Government. And who is even now ignoring numerous Constitutional restrictions? Government.