Via Liberty.me: The status of the police is bound up with the perception of the value of the entire public sector. The police are the “thin blue line,” long perceived as the most essential and irreplaceable function of the state. Now that this perception is under pressure from public opinion over what happened (and is happening) in Ferguson (and many many other places around the country), a shift in intellectual opinion that's been developing for decades is gaining traction.

What’s at stake here if not the very foundation of public order as we know it? If government can’t do this right -- if the police are accomplishing the very opposite of what they claim to accomplish, namely, to "protect and serve" -- if they are, in fact, undermining the public's security rather than providing for it, (and this is widely understood to be the case, time and time again), then we have the making of not only an ideological revolution, but an authentic turning-point in the history of politics.

Security is not the most essential function of the state; it is the most dangerous one, and the very one that we should never concede lest we lose our freedom altogether. The "night watchman" is the biggest threat we face because it is he who holds the gun and he who pulls the trigger should we ever decide to escape from their "protections" and provide for ourselves.

When he came upon him in the brush I expected the ram to be taking liberties with the bag.

For me, it's about negative 15 years....and I thought I was being generous giving deniers more than long enough to actually READ the science themselves and see it's simple and clear. I have thought they deserved ridicule for over 20 years, but I held off, knowing some are just slow learners. Now I see that far too many are simply not learners at all, and deserve ridicule when they spout ridiculousness. I often oblige.

...and you left out 9/11 hoaxers/inside jobers and the newest....Ebola is an intentional Obama plot to announce martial law and take your guns an liberty. (Yes, a relative actually said that to me 2 weeks ago, and was 100% serious about it.)

Close...."Those who would sacrifice essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither." is how I've read it repeatedly.
I found it most telling that, when a citizen meeting with a cop ends in a killing, it's 10 times more likely that the cop kills the citizen than it is the citizen might kill the cop. Cops kill over 10 times more citizens each year than there are cops killed, and the ratio of injury is even greater. That's a problem.
EDIT:worse, I saw a report last night that said there's no database anywhere of innocent victims of cops, either by shootings or other physical attacks. This should be publicly available information, both locally, by county, state, and country.

Though I'm surely forgetting some more obscure work, I certainly can't think of any Aisimov novel or short story that has ever been transitioned into a decent film.

It's possible, as ChaosEngine alluded to, that the Foundation "trilogy" could make a decent film trilogy or miniseries, but it would require an exceptionally good screenwriter and director to make it work--and a LOT of creative liberties. It just covers too great a timespan, too many characters with complex and cross-generational relationships, and frankly very little of real significance happens during reasonable spans of time. Frankly, and though I can't claim to have read all of his works (though probably most), Asimov is probably best left in the realm of literature.

What we really need is a film version of the damn Sprawl Trilogy. I mean, that's just begging to be made into a trilogy of films. The screenplay would almost write itself. I'd say Joss Whedon should direct.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Ludwig-Von-Mises-Liberty-and-Economics
*related=http://videosift.com/video/Hayek-on-Scialism-3-23

I don't applaud Hamas, I think their actions are as deplorable.

But I understand them.

Similarly, I understand the French Resistance. Or the American "terrorists" (Son's of Liberty) that started the resistance against the British which eventually led to the War of Independence... Of course, those are terrorists that we agree with because they were on the side of good. So we call them a resistance or patriots. The people they killed were obviously all evil ne'er-do-wells who deserved it, innocents were never harmed... /eyeroll

I had a good laugh at the "50% of the kids have PTSD". Oh the poor dears, perhaps their government shouldn't have zoned their houses in a fucking warzone. At least they have bomb shelters, a warning system, Iron Dome ffs...

But you'll have to remind me, where are the bomb shelters in Gaza when Israeli artillery and guided munitions come a knocking? Where's the automated missile defense system shooting down incoming strikes, or the warning system to tell people an attack is imminent? Who's supplying them with first class military equipment?

Have you ever seen one of Hamas' vaunted "rockets"? A home built, hand machined dumbfire which uses ammonium nitrate and sugar as it's propellant, and mostly low grade explosives as it's payload. No guidance, just launch and hope it hits something. Yup, it'll kill you if it lands on you, but they are weapons of desperation, not a serious threat. The 600 to 30 kill ratio at the moment speaks to that.

Too bad he didn't have the guts to say this after the Boston Bombing.

He always seems way too amused with himself and way too late on the liberty train.

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So what the comments so far here resemble may be perhaps an example of a sense of doubt based-upon a lifetime of a steady diet of a formulaic and programmed expectation of how reporting should be rendered in order to feed a denial of common-sense equity, and civil liberties being shat upon, then digested, and fed back disguised as a healthy sustenance?

Perhaps if Brian Williams raps it out you can all continue to swallow cheeseburgers after voting in the next major election of cunts who'll straighten-out the foul injustice of unprofessional journalism...

The point is the willingness of the parties involved (which in this case was related to the adult being hot. And I suppose the hotness of the adult made the crew less likely to disregard the stated preference of the young man because they could more easily see themselves in his shoes). The point is that when both people are old enough and mentally competent enough to have sexual desires and fulfill them responsibly, government should stay out of their bedrooms except in cases of violence or coersion. And when in doubt, government should err on the side of liberty over safety.

"... disingenuous for our government to exploit the national trauma that we all suffered together and worked so hard to come through, to justify programs that have never been shown to keep us safe, but cost us liberties and freedoms that we don't need to give up and our constitution says we should never give up."

It's funny that Williams brings up pearl harbor. We over-reacted to that too by forcefully imprisoning tens of thousands of US citizens because of their race alone. Something they've worked hard over the last 60 years to remove from public consciousness.

The idea that they give a fuck about you or your constitutional rights has been proven false repeatedly if they have an inkling of an opinion that you or someone 3 steps removed from you has done something they don't like, illegal or not.

Finally got to see this last night. Wow Jodoworsky's movies are super super trippy and apparently he took a lot of liberties with the story. He even jokes about raping Frank Herbert.

It kinda bums me out that if he had made the movie...I suspect I wouldn't like it.

I saw Lynch's Dune as a kid and I absolutely loved it....so it was really interesting to hear Jodoworsky thought it was horrible. It kinda reminds me of how when the Sci Fi Miniseries was announced, I finally resolved to read the novel and I was blown away how different it was from Lynch's Dune and how the miniseries was closer to the books. So I went through this phase where I absolutely hated Lynch's Dune too...but I got over it.

The industrial age is part of 'economic liberty'.

People were free to make inventions that use coal, or use oil, and were free to market them either as products or services.

That differs from the earlier times/case where folks were obligated to participate only in activities sanctioned by their local lords. Often where they couldn't even travel freely.

Much of the math and chemistry we have comes from centuries worth of largely superfluous [essentially hobbyist at the time] higher education of the privileged classes. (eg. Boyle's/Charles' laws being a foundation of modern internal combustion engines, not used in said form for centuries after written down).

(Note : Which still continues to be the case, what we come up with in a purely theoretical form today, ends up being used in practical application much later. Although maybe it's speeding up. eg. Relativity is used in making GPS work, and that time delta isn't quote as large.)

Once the idea of economic liberty took hold, and people were free to come up with ideas that use the universes natural/physical properties to replace 'manpower', you had the industrial revolution.



The 'honor' part plays a good role too. You can witness this still being an issue today.
You can go to parts of eastern Europe, and talk with people about jobs and respectability.

There are plenty of places where a laborer is scum, and a businessman (eg. owner, who does not himself work, but has people working for him) is highly respected.
In these places, you don't see much work getting done, as a large portion of the typical western service sectors just doesn't exist.
For example, there are ~no house painters. Showing up with paint buckets and overalls would just get you strange stares and mumbles from people around you, and parents would be saying to their kids "See, this is what happens if you don't get good grades".
If you want your house painted, you gotta do it yourself. Few self respecting people are willing to do that job.
In contrast, ask people around the U.S. about who painted their house. Odds are, they hired for it.

The effects on small business are visible too. Lots of shops, the moment the owner can afford to not come in himself, that's exactly what they do.
And on top of that, they take every chance they can get to point out to folks that 'they don't work anymore - people work for them'.

It's a culture where the people responsible for productivity are looked down on, and it has a chilling effect on productivity.

-scheherazade

This video = liberty.org = Institute for Humane Studies = chaired by Charles G. Koch