I’m not a Ron Paul supporter – and his lengthy attack on the self-ownership rights of pregnant women on Piers Morgan’s show tonight didn’t exactly inspire me to change my mind – but I nevertheless have to cheer Jon Stewart’s attack a few minutes ago on the attempted media blackout of Paul’s campaign.
There’ll presumably be a higher-quality version of this available later, but here’s what’s online right now:
Doctor Who starts up again on August 27th. In the meantime, here’s a prequel:
See Charles’ reply to Juan Cole’s tirade against the Ron Paul/Noam Chomsky anarchist axis.
In related news, Charles is going to be a guest blogger at BHL.
Britain’s current PM came to power wrapping himself in anti-big-government rhetoric. No surprise that once in power he talks a bit differently:
In an emergency meeting of the House of Commons, David Cameron indicated that the police could be given powers to shut down social networks during times of unrest, and widen officers’ remit to compel people to remove face coverings.
Remember how the Western political establishment spoke in a unified voice of condemnation when governments in Egypt and Iran shut down social media networks like Twitter in an attempt to prevent protestors from coordinating? Double standard, anyone?
“This is a time for our country to pull together,” said Cameron, praising those who had taken to the streets to defend their communities from thugs.
Cameron’s praise for those who “had taken to the streets to defend their communities from thugs” seems a bit selective. After all, the riots began as protests against murderous thugs in police uniforms; but I doubt that Cameron meant to be praising the protestors – or encouraging his subjects to take to the streets to defend free communication against Cameron’s own thuggish plans for censorship.
Libertopia, the marvelously radical libertarian event where I’ll be speaking again this year (21-23 October, in San Diego; y’all should come!), has a blog for speakers. My first post, Beyond Government, is up now.
Check out some of the other entries too; I particularly like Gary Chartier’s, Spencer MacCallum’s, and Stefan Molyneux’s.