Negative Space: government
- The Antiliquor Response: The Origins of the Temperance Movement
- It wasn’t long before democratic government attracted “stewards”: politicians who “honestly thought that they knew best how to order the affairs of others”.
- Common Sense: Origin and Design of Government
- Common Sense: On The Origin and Design of Government in General, with Concise Remarks on the English Constitution.
- Court cases regarding firearms
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Government/Courts/
- The Federalist Papers
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Politics/United States/Federalist Papers/
- Foreword
- The policy conclusions and recommendations were judged with the same bias as the results of the Royal Opium Commission.
- Government action on firearms
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Government/
- History of Cannabis
- When Congress debated marijuana legislation, the AMA opposed it, and was told to “get out of the way of the Federal Government”. That’s been pretty much the history of marijuana legislation and regulation ever since. Need it to maintain your sight? Go blind. Need it to stay alive? Then die. Get out of the way of the federal government.
- How many businesses want fewer customers?
- Homeland security trolls highlight one of the biggest problems with government services. Alienating customers doesn’t mean going out of business.
- Marihuana and Social Policy
- They noted that, if this were alcohol, we already know that its prohibition is unconstitutional. The right to be let alone is “the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.” Recommendation: personal, private use no longer a crime; casual distribution no longer a crime.
- Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding
- Raymond P. Shafer, chaired. the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. They submitted their official report to Congress on March 22, 1972. Whereupon, like most official inquiries that were given the freedom to investigate, it was completely ignored: it recommended lightening or outright removing sentences for marijuana use.
- Open source value shift at OSCON?
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There is either a value shift occurring, or an attempt to create a value shift, in the open source community here at OSCON. The new heroes are big, resource-hungry government and cathedrals inside the bazaar.
- To The President and Congress of the United States
- Nixon wanted a “tough on crime” report regardless of the evidence. Governor Shafer delivered an honest report, with conclusions based on evidence. At the time Shafer was being considered for a federal judgeship, which, of course, he did not get.
- U.S. Supreme Court firearms cases
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Firearms/Government/Courts/U.S. Supreme Court/
- United States Politics
- Negative Space text archive of files on /pub/Politics/United States/
- When You’ve Got Health, You’ve Got Everything
- Freedom? Five bucks. Health? Five bucks. Inciteful Fiction? Free!
More Information
- Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do
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Peter McWilliams died in defense of freedom: this book, an incredibly well-written and well-researched book about “the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society” was probably his death warrant.
