Negative Space: terrorism
- Bush: We should live by our principles
- President Bush compares Al Qaeda to the mafia, without apparently realizing that, as during alcohol prohibition, it is our prohibition laws that fund criminals.
- But the rhetoric’s so much better here under the tragedy!
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Want to stop domestic terrorism? Take seriously those who say they want to kill. Want to stop the oppression of women and the gay community? Take seriously those who say they want to literally enslave women and kill gays.
- Drug war undermining Afghan, Iraqi peace
- Prohibition continues to fund terrorist organizations, and we continue to pour money into maintaining prohibition. Prohibition is, as it has always been, one of the best and easiest means for criminal organizations to grow.
- Europe, the West, and the graphs of destruction
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The solution to the graphs of destruction is the graph of freedom.
- Exclusive: Garland gunman’s Fast & Furious firearm form
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Garland, Texas, gunman Nadir Soofi purchased at least one firearm through the Obama administrations Fast and Furious program for arming drug lords, according to Justice Department sources.
- Hangover on Miracle Monday
- “There is a right and a wrong in the Universe.” So, yeah. Good morning to you, too!
- The one true gun law loophole
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The only true gun law loophole is that criminals are willing to break the law. Law-abiding victims are not. Gun laws disarm victims but do not disarm murderers.
- The Price of Prohibition
- If we wish to maintain prohibition, we have to understand that we are funding and nurturing terrorism.
- Use intelligence more intelligently to stop terrorism
- In 1996, Peter McWilliams pointed out that the law enforcement effort dedicated to enforcing laws against plants would be better put to use tracking terrorists.
More Information
- Parade of the Red Flags
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“This mosque has just 130 members. Two of them committed terror attacks. During this probe, ‘an informant told the FBI that Mateen had mentioned watching videos by Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist and al Qaeda recruiter who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011.’ This was the same radical cleric who exchanged messages with the Fort Hood shooter.”
- Men Without Chests: How C.S. Lewis Predicted Charlie Hebdo Censorship
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“History, theology, and even grammar must bow bow before the altar of terrorism.” (Memeorandum thread)