tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260650864974891402011-10-02T03:25:46.603-07:00I didn't invent the term "Anarcho-Objectivist", but I think it best encapsulates the idea that a stateless society based on voluntary relations necessarily follows from a philosophy that places reality above whim, reason over faith, rational self interest over self-sacrifice, and individual rights over the initiation of force.The Anarcho-Objectivisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07300948679655280562noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-226065086497489140.post-74189582569533598542011-03-13T22:06:00.000-07:002011-03-13T22:07:18.819-07:00

Check it out here...

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You would think that anyone who appreciates Dennis Leary's wit on the absurdity of social engineering could also appreciate the wider point about the ultimate futility of cigarette prohibition. But instead, in lockstep with industrial tobacco and the retail lobby, Kalvin Reid ("Serious tobacco plan should start with illegal cigarettes" – Jan 4) asserts that "We have a responsibility as a society

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Apparently, US officials have widened their investigation of Julian Assange, informally accused of espionage, to include the web administrators of NORAD, for leaking the whereabouts of Santa via GPS. A press conference is scheduled shortly where it is expected that Rudolph the Red Nosed reindeer will be sought for questioning in the unauthorized disclosure of Santa's itinerary, prompting

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Monte Sonnenberg’s piece on Wikileaks (“With friends like these, who needs enemies?”, Dec 7) walks a curious tightrope. More people have laid eyes on the leaked diplomatic cables through The Guardian, The New York Times and the Washington Post than through the original Wikileaks site itself, but he is not calling for their chief editors to be waterboarded at Gitmo. What gives? The howling and

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Take some paid time off work (it's the law).Make this your chance to begin measuring toenail growth..Visit the polling station in your area, and take your ballot into the booth. Exit the booth repeatedly, complaining that you can't make up up your mind. Ask the staff some very specific political questions and debate the answers they give. They will appreicate your commitment to

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A court ruling has (for now at least) unloaded some of the contradictions in this country’s prostitution laws. It goes without saying that, typically governments respond in two ways when it comes to civil liberties, criminalize it or subsidize it. This court decision seems to have been heavily influenced by the premise that women are victimized by the lack of protections resulting from

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Mr. Horsnell's letter ("Concerns over eco fees", July 16) has its heart in the right place, but he makes the problematic claim that the "eco fee" is not a tax. If the government compels payment to itself, we call it a tax. When a government takes from Peter to give to Paul, we call the compelled payment a tax. If the government compels Peter to pay Paul directly, what has happened here?

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Myth: The south side fell victim to neglect and disrepair. Building code standards for fire and safety were not upheld, and a general blight fell over the south side, detracting from the advances made in urban renewal by the municipal government for the surrounding area. Fact: According to a recent news report, almost all of the bylaw and property standards citations issued against the owners

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If you live and own property in Brantford, and it has trees on it, city council is going to consider a proposal this June that would amount to conscripting your trees (namely the big ones) and pressing them into service maintaining the city's tree canopy. This is meeting some pretty fierce resistance, which is good. The bad part is that the opposition is severely hampered because it agrees with

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 In a rare and uncharacteristic show of concern for property rights, city council is reconsidering an expansion of the site alteration bylaws that could further prevent you from cutting down a tree on your own property.Hopefully, by "private property", they don't simply mean the interests of large developers. We'll see. I love trees as much as the next guy, but frankly, those on public property

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According to the Brant News today, 16,000 people in Brantford were detained and searched without a warrant this month…impressive. Of course, that’s not exactly the wording of the original article. We certainly have short memory spans. As recently as 40 years ago, any kind of “seat belt law” was considered an obnoxious invasion of liberty. But under the guise of “safety”, we have become very

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Submitted today to the Brantford Expositor___ Every once in a while, an editorial such as Christina Blizzard’s rants about the “dangers” of black market cigarettes (“Revenue and lives up in smoke”, April 10). The motives are usually easy to discern, if not the logic. It’s not about native sovereignty; it’s about nicotine addiction among young children, she claims. Somehow, it is believed that

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Of course, it won't be satisfying to those with a vested interest in altering the balance of government power and the redistribution of wealth and real estate, but it strikes at the heart of the matter and is the only way of "resolving" the issue to the least detriment of all innocent parties concerned.1. Abolish the racist Indian Act.2. Dissolve the Department of Indian and Northern affairs and

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Monday morning, the legal teams return to court to seek a ruling on whether there will be an injunction on native "protests" at development sites in Brantford. Of course, we have had essentially an interim injunction for some time now, largely unenforced, to address these protests. And in March last year, we had this strange impasse:Justice Harrison Arrell issued an interim order telling

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Brantford’s most cherished myth. The “rebirth” of the core brought by the University complex seems to have taken on the status of a legend. It’s one of those things you have to convince yourself of, through a desperate ritual. The ritual has to do with confusing causes with effects. You pour money into a big whole, so a crowd of people come and scoop it up. So you dig deeper and throw more money

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Tim Hortons has posted notices that it will participate in Earth Hour by reducing it's energy consumption during that hour. So by all means, don't expect toasted bagels, and do expect to nuke your lukewarm coffee when you get home. I'm sure the cash registers will be running on full though, with backup power if needed.

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You know, that myth that Hoover sat by and did nothing to prevent the great depression. Very wrong.Well of course, we have our own municipal version of the Hoover Myth, and it goes something like this. Despite the (heroic at best and misguided at worst) efforts of successive city councils, the private sector allowed the south side to deteriorate, and government must come to the rescue.Like me,

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I understand and sympathize with the idea of reinvigorating the downtown. My only criticism, and a very general one at that, is that cultural rebirth cannot be combined with the *decivilizing* influence of political pandering and reliance on civil authorities for implementation. There is a feedback loop between creativity and prosperity, which has been interrupted by the unlimited state and its

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Much has been made of a remark by Councillor Ceschi-Smith to the effect that the bald eagles are "a nuiscance". Blogger Mary O'Grady is fuming about it as we speak.Why is it so beyond the pale of respectable conversation to suggest such a thing? I didn't actually hear the heretical comment myself, and I am more inclined to think of the hubris of those self-appointed "protectors" as the real

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Another "Earth Hour" approaches. Apparently the goal is to make this a monthly affair, with this month's hour of power (or non-power) being Sat. March 27.The objective? To "raise awareness" of the efforts to combat climate change. Think about it, what it would mean *literally* to prevent "climate change". Let's take on planetary rotation and reduce the number of sunspots too.Earth hour has become

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A comment I posted today on a message board regarding Brantfords much beloved "Waterfront Master Plan". <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>

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Government is a monopoly of legitimized violence. Theoretically, democracy opens potential membership in the government to all people, and all people share the same prospects to decide how its violence will be used, for whose benefit and at whose expense. But *actual* political power is a scarce good; it cannot be possessed equally and by everyone at the same time and in the same respect.For this

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The fencing is up, and demolition crews have begun the process of flattening 41 buildings, most of them archeological remnants of an age of spontaneous commercial development, now long gone. Businesses were evicted, landowners have been dispossessed, and over 60 people have been forced from their homes. We are told this was necessary because the buildings, in various stages of disrepair,

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