"Nolo Consentire"

Likewise let it be noted that software installation proceeds poorly when the installation files are corrupted on the fly by ancient Windows unzipping software as the files are extracted from the .tar archive file. Following directions closely is of no assistance in this situation.

Doh!

It's time to go read the docs for Moveable Type.

"Get ready....."

It's high time Mr. Bond faced a female bounty-hunter that he just couldn't catch. And, if he did finally net her, wouldn't it be erotic if she talked him out of working for the British government as she seduced him?

Why don't you start working for yourself, James? You can choose your missions, increase your wages, and lose the chains. For all your bravado, you are no more free than a well-trained Doberman-- even your license to kill is a permission slip. Live beyond the license, James. Taste freedom, and then try to tell me you won't spend the rest of your life seeking to taste it again. And again.

Hall said he thought the dog was a pit bull and that he was about to attack him.

"I noticed that it trained in right on me; the dog's coming right at me," he said. "I yelled at the dog as I was backing up. I screamed at it; it kept advancing and barking in an aggressive manner. It's unfortunate what happened after that."

Why are stories like this important? Because police who lie are deeply toxic to liberty. Too many police lie reflexively and automatically, editing their own personal narrative on the fly to revise reality into something that will make them look good (and their "perp" victims look bad) in the courtroom and on the evening news. That's human enough, but it's unacceptable in people who have been given powers of deadly force and arrest. Especially when those people are considered to have special credibility in the courts.

If you can read this, we have arrived at the new server space. Now I have access to PHP and MySQL and all sorts of other scripting stuff I have to figure out so I can turn this thing into a real blog.

Of course, the local cop involved is receiving the full support of his department.

"I haven't made any decisions as to who is going to be vaccinated or not."

-- President George W. Bush (quoted in September 2, 2002 Forbes)

No, Howard, it's not necessary. But the government employees of the First Circuit Court of Appeals were spending your money and mine when they did it, so "necessary" don't enter into it.

"...it [conscription] rests on the assumption that your kids belong to the state. If we buy that assumption then it is for the state -- not for parents, the community, the religious institutions or teachers -- to decide who shall have what values and who shall do what work, when, where and how in our society. That assumption isn't a new one. The Nazis thought it was a great idea."

-- Ronald Reagan in Human Events, February 1979

So, an email has been dispatched to my hosting provider to inquire about upgrading my hosting to a plan that allows server side scripting, which in turn will allow the use of improved blogging software. However, if I actually convert this blog to Moveable Type (which is what needs to be done) it will be my first leap into using that sort of scripting. It will take time.

So please bear with me. In the interim, anybody wishing to comment is encouraged to send email to comments@noloconsentire.com. All comments received will be posted manually, although alas not quite in real time.

Updates as events warrant.

One interesting thing he appears to have discovered is that airport fedgoons and local cops don't appear to have a good working relationship, at least in some places. The local cop was more than willing to take down his assault complaint, and the TSA goon kept trying to shoo the local cop away by explaining that they had no problem with Penn even if he had a problem with them.

Penn's account also demonstrates the civil liberties content of all the careful training the TSA says it has been giving its security screeners. The instructions on respecting the civil liberties of travelers must have been extremely sophisticated:

He [the security screener] said, "Once you cross that line, I can do whatever I want."

Mandatory national service would oblige everyone who lives here to give something back to their country. It would allow teenagers to see firsthand what other parts of America are like, and what their fellow Americans are like. It would allow blacks to work alongside whites, rich alongside poor, and natives alongside immigrants. It would provide a large workforce that could be deployed both domestically and internationally. It would provide manpower for our inner cities and ambassadors to the third world.

Linguistic note: Don't you just love the use of the repeated use of the word "allow" in the above passage as a euphemism for "force"? Or don't we already "allow teenagers to see firsthand what other parts of America are like"?

"It's another way to enhance security for travelers," Immigration and Naturalization Service spokeswoman Kimberly Weismann said.

It will not be greatly surprising to learn that the ACLU does not consider the right of a citizen to come and go without explanation or question to be a civil right.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has criticized many of the administration's anti-terrorism information-gathering efforts, said these rules should not impinge on people's privacy.

"We don't see a huge downside," said spokeswoman Emily Whitfield.

Thanks to the crew over at Reason's Hit and Run for the link.

Explain to me please why getting rid of parasites like these is supposed to doom us all to brutish barbarism?

Thanks to The Mouth for the link.

For some reason, the Mayor and the Police Chief found this offensive, and got very huffy when the personal items from their garbage were arrayed in front of them. (The District Attorney, to his credit, managed to see the irony in the situation.)

It's a delicious idea and a hilarious article. Well worth a read. (Thanks to Unruled for the link.)

Now, as for me, I'm a lawyer, 34 years old, single, self-employed -- oh, wait. I can hear you choking. Yah, you. The guy with no pants on. You are wondering "How, in the name of Thor's middle chariot goat, can this joker be an anarchist and a lawyer at the same time?"

Duncan Frissell ("The Technoptimist" over on the blogroll) wrote an answer for that years ago in a worthy article called "How to Break the Law". As he put it:

There are even anarchist lawyers. As an anarchist law student once said when asked by his friends how an he could be a lawyer, "My father is a physician, but that doesn't mean that he believes in disease."

Which is quite enough on that topic for the nonce.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life." And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a "protector," and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to "protect" those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful "sovereign," on account of the "protection" he affords you. He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.

One more illustration of why government employees shouldn't be entrusted with weapons or other useful tools.

Silflay Hraka is a consistent good read. Check it out.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."

"No attempt or pretence, that was ever carried into practical operation amongst civilized men...embodied so much of shameless absurdity, falsehood, impudence, robbery, usurpation, tyranny, and villany of every kind, as the attempt or pretence of establishing a government by consent, and getting the actual consent of only so many as may be necessary to keep the rest in subjection by force."

--Lysander Spooner, No Treason.

This blog is intended both to explain this manner of thinking, and to explore the limited options available to like-thinking people. For additional entertainment purposes, derision and scorn will also be liberally heaped upon statists and government thugs; it's cheaper entertainment than drinking (taxed) whisky, and there's no shortage of targets.

Please stay tuned.