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[...] 2-12-10 Steven Horwitz in The Freeman Online “When environmental goals become socialized and trump all others, those making the ‘wrong’ choices will find themselves on the wrong end of a gun.” The Personal Is the Political [...]

By: Personal Finance Bible

Personal Finance Bible — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:21:25 +0000

As government intrudes into and regulates virtually every aspect of our daily lives the informal or black market will become larger and expand ever more rapidly.The fact that we cannot access them ourselves without payment and that we probably couldn’t understand them if we did I’ve come to the conclusion there is actually only one law..
Thank you….

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Johnpeter

By: Christy

Christy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:41:07 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Horwitz, for an excellent article that also inspired some enlightening and entertaining comments. Well done.

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Horwitz on the Green Police | Austrian Economics Blog — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:02:46 +0000

[...] Horwitz explains that every step toward government control, of anything, is a step toward politicizing private [...]

By: John Thomas

John Thomas — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:08:52 +0000

Thank you, Mr. Horwitz, for taking the time to explain.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:57:11 +0000

In response to:
“Comment by Greg Ransom on 11 February 2010:
The other personal side of this is enforcement — the huge mass of petty laws are used arbitrarily to punish and force in line people you don’t like, and the laws are not enforced for friends and those who are allies.”

Given the sheer number of laws, the fact that we cannot access them ourselves without payment and that we probably couldn’t understand them if we did I’ve come to the conclusion there is actually only one law:

Do not offend anyone with prosecutorial powers without access to sufficient legal defense or political power.

Violators will be punished via whatever verbiage can be reinterpreted to involve their immediate circumstances.

By: The Personal Is the Political: Who makes the tradeoffs? | For Freedom's Sake

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:40:52 +0000

[...] By Steven Horwitz • Posted February 11, 2010 on The Freeman [...]

By: DixieFlatline

DixieFlatline — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:28:50 +0000

Happy you finally joined the freedom movement Prof. Horowitz. I was worried that coordination problems might hinder such an alliance.

By: Aron Martens

Aron Martens — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:11:00 +0000

The problem with the plethora of petty rules (I refuse to refer to them as “laws”) is that most of them are unenforceable. What results, then, is the violence experts (aka police) use them only when they want to detain or harass a citizen. This sort of arbitrariness should be anathema to any lover of liberty. True “laws” represent the moral rules by which members of a society choose to live. As such they usually don’t require police harassment. But rules banning incandescent light bulbs, water bottles, fast foods, etc.? All of these are merely attempts by a well-organized group of citizens to govern the rest of us.