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My Body My Choice: Abolish the FDA

by Keith Knight | Dec 17, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized

If you visit FDA.gov you will find a section titled "products we regulate". Such products include: food, drugs, medical devices, tobacco, cosmetics, and vaccines. The word "regulate" in this case translates to "we have a legal monopoly on what consenting adults can sell and put in their bodies. If someone does not obey our arbitrary standards they will be arrested by the police, separated from their families, and shot if they resist the police." I have nothing against voluntarily funded stamp of approval agencies such as Underwriters Laboratory since people can choose to opt out of...

Marco Rubio is Dumber Than I Thought

by Keith Knight | Dec 15, 2022 | Blog

After spending six years complaining about "BigTech Monopolies" Marco Rubio now want's to ban BigTech competitors. It doesn't matter that tens of millions of Americans voluntarily choose to use TikTok, or that thousands make a living using this product. Marco Rubio believes he owns your body, your time, and the property you worked to acquire. The American Declaration of Independence answer to TikTok: If people don't want the app, they have the right not to use it. If people want to use it, they can. My phone my choice, my time my choice, my body my choice, & my money Slavery Lover Rubio....

Mythology That Democrats and Republicans Still Believe! (feat. Dr. Christopher J. Coyne)

by Keith Knight | Dec 11, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/uFZGyyhf03c [T]he state's power to engage in national security policy making is a "master key" because it "opens all doors including the doors that might otherwise obstruct the government's invasion of our most cherished rights to life liberty and property." - Christopher J. Coyne, In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (p. 39) Christopher Coyne is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus...

Putting Massive Unnecessary Obligations on Strangers Does Not Make You a Good Person

by Keith Knight | Dec 10, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized

The true humanitarian rejoices when the people he helps feel ready to assert their independence and to strike out on their own; for isn’t this independence essential to being truly human? - Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Left and Right, pp. 307–08 Government is the very negation of charity, for charity is uniquely an unbought gift , a freely fl owing uncoerced act by the giver. - Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p. 1228 ... it is hardly “charity” to take wealth by force and hand it over to someone else. Indeed, this is the direct opposite of...

Kyle Kulinski Doesn’t Understand Slavery

by Keith Knight | Dec 8, 2022 | Blog, Uncategorized

UBI = Slavery. Social Security = Slavery. Universal Healthcare = Slavery. Wage Slavery = FREEDOM. - Kyle Kulinski (@seculartalk) If "wage slavery" is in fact slavery, Kulinski and the like must advocate abolishing College since it requires thousands of hours of work for $0.00 an hr. My "wage slave owners" voluntarily offer me money, products, and services. My body my choice pal. Kulinski and other taxation advocates believe you and I should be caged and separated from our families by the police if we don't chip in for wars based on lies, schools which after 12 years turn people into morons,...

Cops, Kidnappers, and Assassins Are Just Doing Their Jobs!

by Keith Knight | Dec 3, 2022 | Blog

Imagine a police officer arresting you for the crime of selling "drugs". Later in court, the judge asks you how you plea, to which you respond, "Innocent your Highness! For I am a drug dealer. I was just doing my job. My boss, Pablo Escobar told me to do this. If you guys don't like us doing this, apply for a job at our drug cartel, work your way through our system, and persuade Mr. Escobar to change his policy." This is no different in principle than, "I'm a cop, just doing my job destroying food that homeless people need because politicians or a police chief told me to do so. Don't...

Message to Jacobin Magazine: Economic Suppression is Far Worse Than Voter Suppression

by Keith Knight | Nov 27, 2022 | Blog

Imagine two criminals: Criminal 1: Forcibly stopped a woman from having a 1 in 10 million vote to determine the governor of New York Criminal 2: Forcibly stopped a woman from getting the job of her dreams via occupational licensing regulations even though a willing employer wanted to hire her You are the judge in both trials, which criminal should get a longer sentence? Criminal 1's actions may be offensive, but have no effect on the outcome of the woman's life since a one in 10 million vote will make no difference. Even if by some miracle she happened to be the deciding vote,...

The “Greedy Private Property” Deception

by Keith Knight | Nov 26, 2022 | Blog

A "property right" entitles one party to exclude another from interacting with a scarce part of the universe - i.e. to have a property right in my car entitles me to exclude others from driving it to Dallas when I wish to drive it to Phoenix. There is no principled difference between excluding someone from a car, a computer, a house, or if you start selling things out of the house and it's now a "business" involving a web of voluntary contracts. The (democratic) socialist sees this and assumes: Exclusion exists Excluding X from Y means X will have less "liberty" Private property is...

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