“Traditional civil liberties such as freedom of speech and freedom of religion ultimately rest on an individual’s ability to exercise the right of economic ownership over his or her own body. To attack economic rights is to attack civil liberties. And it is not funny when police with guns close down a 4-year-old’s lemonade stand. It is damned frightening.”
http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/7/1/governments-spirit-crushing-hatred-of-lemonade.html
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