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Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything [2010]

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“The more we criminalize conduct that voters dislike, the more we put people who never intended any wrongdoing into the quicksand of criminal prosecution.  With legions of prosecutors who are more interested in making names for themselves than in doing justice, Americans are living in an increasingly dangerous country.  ‘At one time,’ lawyer Gene Healy writes, ‘the common law doctrines of mens rea (‘guilty mind’) and actus reus (‘guilty act’) cabined the reach of criminal sanctions, but those protections have eroded dramatically over the past 50 years. Today it’s possible to send a person to prison without showing criminal intent or even a culpable act…'”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/go-directly-to-jail-the-criminalization-of-almost-everything

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4 Things You Should Know About Mass Incarceration

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“Today’s total American prison population exceeds the estimated amount of citizens detained within the Gulag system under the former Soviet Union. If we include those sentenced but not yet incarcerated, as well as those released upon probation and parole, there are more young black men embroiled in the American criminal justice system than were estimated to be enslaved in America circa 1850. These statistics are not to say that the United States is totalitarian, or based on chattel labor. Instead, these numbers emphasize that, insofar as despotism requires enforcement, our own government is more than capable of imposing serious and pervasive social control.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/4-things-you-should-know-about-mass-incarceration

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Lawrence Reed of FEE on the Expansion of Free-Market Thinking

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“We can’t just make the case for capitalism based on the fact, as indisputable as it is, that capitalism produces more stuff. Even if you convince someone of that, they are vulnerable to the first charlatan who comes along and says it’s not fair, that if we only empower politicians and bureaucracies we can improve things. The case for liberty must ultimately rest upon a deep and abiding moral dimension. It’s right because it’s what humans were made for. We’re not a fleet of homogenous robots that function best when somebody programs us. We’re at our best when we’re free to be ourselves, to be responsible for our decisions without the power to impose our mistakes at gunpoint.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/35546/Anthony-Wile-Lawrence-Reed-on-the-Progress-of-FEE-the-Importance-of-Personal-Responsibility-and-the-Expansion-of-Free-Market-Thinking/

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Jeffrey Tucker: Life Without the McDouble

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“That we were born now and live now to enjoy the massive beneficence of the struggle of thousands of years to bring us things like the tomato, beef, cheese, bread, and to wrap it all up in a tiny package and make that available to us for a dollar in nearly every city in the world, that this comes to us with no work on our part, is a gigantic privilege afforded us by virtue of accident or providence (depending on your religious views). To whatever force you attribute your good fortune, we should recognize it as such.  The McDouble does not appear in nature. That we can laugh at it, put it down, sneer at it, and even denounce the company that brings it to us is a wonderful privilege of the ungrateful.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/life-without-the-mcdouble

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We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State

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“As with most things, if you want to know the real motives behind any government program, follow the money trail. When you dig down far enough, as I document in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, you quickly find that those who profit from Americans being arrested are none other than the police who arrest them, the courts which try them, the prisons which incarcerate them, and the corporations, which manufacture the weapons and equipment used by police, build and run the prisons, and profit from the cheap prison labor.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/were_all_criminals_and_outlaws_in_the_eyes_of_the_american_police_state

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Not Worth a Continental

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“There are many paths by which political leaders may destroy a country’s economy through hyperinflation. But those leaders who follow the standard checklist of the most common components to collapse can generally be assured that the economy will be destroyed.  War (Can be one major war, or, as in today’s world, perpetual small wars); Depletion of gold reserves;  Excessive Debt (Create a debt level that is beyond the ability to repay);  Devaluation of currency (Print massive amounts of currency to diminish debt);  Loss of control of inflation (Inflation morphs into hyperinflation—a state in which citizens actively try to rid themselves of the currency, as it is devaluating so quickly.)”

http://www.internationalman.com/articles/not-worth-a-continental

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Bill Bonner: The God-Like Vanity of Central Planners

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“Large-scale central planning can be effective, but only by pulverizing the delicate fabric of evolved civilized life.  It is a future that practically no one wants, because it means destroying the many different futures already in the works – marriages, businesses, babies, baptisms, hunting trips, shopping, investments and all the other activities of normal life.  Not all central planning produces calamities on that scale, of course. But all, to the extent they are effective, are repulsive. The more they achieve the planners’ goals, the more they interfere with private goals, and the more they retard or destroy the progress of the human race.”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/the-god-like-vanity-of-central-planners/

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Marc Faber on Commodity Cycles and the Wealth Redistribution Craze

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“We have a two-tier economy. We have an economy of well-to-do people from which I have benefited because I’m in the financial sector. My asset value has gone up, I benefit from rising asset prices because I own shares and I’m on the board of companies that own shares, fund management companies and so forth, but I’m not happy about the fact that the typical household and the working class worldwide is not doing well. And what will eventually happen and has begun to happen when you have rising wealth inequality, eventually you have politicians that will not assume personal responsibility for the rising wealth inequality that is largely fostered by monetary policies by central banks.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/35527/Anthony-Wile-Marc-Faber-on-Commodity-Cycles-Monopoly-Central-Banking-and-the-Wealth-Redistribution-Craze/

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The State’s Worst Atrocity

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“Nothing in the world is easier than opposing a war that ended long ago. It takes no real courage to be against the Vietnam War in 2014. What takes courage is opposing a war while it is being fought – when the propaganda and intimidation of the public are at their height – or even before it breaks out in the first place. With the memory of the moral and material catastrophe of World War I before us 100 years later, let us pledge never again to be fooled and exploited by the State and its violent pastimes.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35529/Llewellyn-H-Rockwell-Jr-The-States-Worst-Atrocity/

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Bill Bonner: Never Never Land

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“Bill Bonner’s presentation from The Sprott Vancouver Natural Resource Symposium 2014 held July 22nd to 25th, 2014.”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/never-never-land/

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