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Mass. City Health Czar Unilaterally Banned Selling Nicotine To Anyone Under 21

March 3, 2016 Asa J 1895 Views addicts, Attleboro, black market, copblock, copblock.org, Dr. Christopher Quinn, e-cigarettes, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, flavored nicotine products, frederic bastiat, Health Czar, health department, liberty, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Libertarian Party, nicotine ban, nicotine products, Plainville, regulation, Self-ownership, smoking age, smoking age 21, smoking ban, the law, the superhuman idea, tobacco prohibition, Tobacco to 21 Act, under the age of 21, vaporizers, vice laws

The entire premise of government is the assertion that there exists a higher claim over our own bodies and property

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Bernie Sanders Loves The Police

November 2, 2015November 3, 2015 Asa J 1668 Views 2015 Index of Economic Freedom, 2016 Presidential Election, Adam C. Smith, Bernie Sanders, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, capitalism, copblock, copblock.org, Democratic-Socialism, denmark, Dr. Walter E. Williams, Drug war, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, Economic Freedom Index, Economics, Feel The Bern, Feel The BURN, free markets, George Mason University, government policing monopoly, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, heritage foundation, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, ludwig von mises, Lyft, market economy, Mercatus Center, minimum wage, Minimum Wage Cruelty, Occupational licensing, police misconduct, price system, private property, regulation, rent-seeking, ride-sharing services, socalized policing, Socialism, socialist calculation problem, Stewart Dompe, Sweden, taxi medallion, Uber, Upward Mobility Barriers, voluntary exchange, Wall Street Journal

In a retort that drew dumbfounded looks from supporters, 2016 Democratic-Socialist Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders admitted what many critics of

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Stockholm Syndrome: Woman Writes Letter Thanking Cop For Extorting Her

September 6, 2015March 1, 2016 Asa J 1548 Views Alpharetta Georgia, atlanta, automatic license plate readers, Barack Obama, classical liberal, copblock, copblock.org, defense mechanism, denmark, department of public safety, Dr. John Staddon, Drachten, federal reserve, frederic bastiat, Freud, George Bush, Georgia, Georgia Department of Public Safety, germany, Great Britain, Hans Monderman, highway men, inattentional blindness, income tax, Law, legal plunder, Mayor Kasim Reed, Netherlands, Norrmalmstorg bank robbery, Park Atlanta, regulation, Sigmund Freud, speeding tickets, Statistic Brain Research Institute, Stockholm, Stockholm Syndrome, Sweden, the law, Traffic laws, united kingdom, United States, victimless crime, West Palm Beach

In an epic display of Stockholm syndrome, the Georgia Department of Public Safety is gloating about a handwritten “thank you”

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Why Government Policing Monopolies Can Neither Serve Nor Protect You

August 18, 2015May 9, 2016 Asa J 2127 Views anarcho-capitalism, arbitration, barrier of entry, capitalism, common law, competition, contract, copblock, copblock.org, cost-benefit analysis, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, Economics and Knowledge, F.A. Hayek, government monopoly, Hans Hermann Hoppe, knowledge problem, limited liability, ludwig von mises, market policing, monopoly, price signals, price system, private law society, private prisons, private property, regulation, socialist calculation problem, State or Private Law Society, taxation, The Use of Knowledge in Society, victimless crimes, voluntary exchange, voluntaryism, warren v. district of columbia

In 1920, the great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises expanded on what is known as the “economic” or “socialist calculation

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New York Holds Real Guns To Retailers Heads For Selling Toy Ones

August 3, 2015February 29, 2016 Asa J 1069 Views $200, $300, 000 fine, Amazon, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, copblock, copblock.org, Dollar store, extortion, K-Mart, New York, New York attorney generals office, New York toy gun laws, regulation, Rite Aid, Sears, toy gun laws, toy guns, ToyArsenal.com, voluntary exchange, voluntaryism, Walmart, Walmart.com

Ironically, the state of New York is holding the very real guns of government against the heads of retailers like

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Cops: Eating Out The Substance Of Their Own Countrymen

June 10, 2015November 22, 2015 Asa J 2574 Views A Brief History of Slavery and the Origins of American Policing, Abolish Traffic Law, Abolish Traffic Lights, anarchy, atlanta, Atlanta Police, Barack Obama, black unemployment, Brazil, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, China, Civil War, cocaine crazed Negro brain, Coercion, copblock, copblock.org, Corruption, dead hand of the state, denmark, Der Speigel, dollar devaluation, Dr. John Staddon, Dr. Milton Friedman, Dr. Victor E. Kappeler, Dr. Walter E. Williams, Drachten, drone strikes, Drug Policy Alliance, Eastern Kentucky University, Eating out our substance, extortion, federal reserve, frederic bastiat, free society, George Bush, George Mason University, germany, Great Britain, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Hans Monderman, highway men, inattentional blindness, income tax, India, inflation, interracial marriage, law is a racket, legal plunder, license plate readers, lysander sponer, Marriage licensure, Maryland, Mayor Kasim Reed, minimum wage, Minimum Wage Cruelty, Monderman Model, Negro Cocaine “Fiends” Are a New Southern Menace, Negro Cocaine Fiends, Netherlands, New York Times, no victim no crime, Ohio, opium war, Park Atlanta, Police brutality, private law society, Racial Trade-Offs, red light cameras, regulation, revenue generation, San Francisco opium law, SJW, Social Justice Warrior, speeding camera, speeding tickets, Statistic Brain Research Institute, Stop eating out our substance, taxation is theft, thomas jefferson, three felonies a day, traffic fatalities, traffic law make you less safe, traffic-related death statistics, war on drugs, West Palm Beach

Every government employee is morally suspect, this is true. Funded by violent expropriation (taxation), government workers add no net gain

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