Mechanic: Lemme tell you what you want. You wanna come and go like the wind. Invincible, invulnerable, invisible. Customer: And I want it Thursday at nine. ~ Running Scared, film, 1986 You want to be free. You want to have your property safe from thieves. You want your communications safe from spies. You want your family safe from outrage. You want to be left alone and not be bothered by bullies or hoodlums or busybodies. During the same period that the Internet was coming together there were two growing movements. One was open source software: better and thoroughly verified software that...
Crime and Punishment
“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment The guard closed the door. There was an inch of raw sewage water on the floor, and about twenty men were detained in the holding cell. David Mayer and I had been arrested on charges of felony gambling promotion of a lottery. It was February 1991. Unhappily the standard of proof is no longer what it used to be. Although the state of Texas and Harris County would later sign an agreed injunction dropping the charges, our business would be destroyed by the publicity associated with the arrest. In that...
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...