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The Mohawks want to ban guns in their territory. Canadian border agents want to carry them. Details here.
A simple solution: the Mohawks should secede from Canada and the U.S. Next, any gun-friendly Mohawks should then secede from the seceders. There, all solved.
Well, I didn’t say the implementation would be simple ….
Tags: Arma Virumque, Democracy, Left-Libertarian, No Borders, The Thin Blue Line
Although this article on the Free State Project is partly (albeit not entirely) hostile, it still seems like fairly good publicity.
I thought it was amusing that the Globe considers it “bizarre” to protest intrusive government by publicly performing manicures without a license – but doesn’t seem to find it bizarre that there is such a legal offense as performing manicures without a license.
Tags: Arma Virumque, Left-Libertarian
What’s wrong with this story?
Andrea Phillips, the wife of Capt. Richard Phillips of Underhill, Vermont, said her husband had sailed in the waters off Somalia “for quite some time” and a hijacking was perhaps “inevitable.” …
Merchant crews aren’t supposed to fight pirates, short of using high-pressure hoses to try to stop them from climbing aboard, said John F. Reinhart, president and CEO of Maersk Line Ltd. “They (the crews) don’t have any weapons ….”
Tags: Arma Virumque, Left-Libertarian, Terror
Just saw some talking head on tv defending gun control; he said: “People talk about the 2nd Amendment, but the 2nd Amendment doesn’t give you the right to go out and gun down a bunch of people. We need stricter laws.”
You mean it isn’t already illegal to go out and gun down a bunch of people? I did not know dat.
Tags: Arma Virumque, Left-Libertarian
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I’m Roderick T. Long, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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