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All the Libertarian News you can use for the week of March 6th, 2009!
This news is a few weeks old, but I figured it was worth mentioning. The feds now want all ISPs and pretty much anyone dishing out Internet access (that includes your wifi router) to start keeping logs for the police. How long do they want you keep logs? Two years!
Another recent poll done by Rasmussen found that 59% of those polled point to Government as the problem and not the solution.
This week was the 16th anniversary of the Waco, TX siege. The 51-day ordeal ended with the death of 76 people.
Mish over at Global Economic Trend Analysis has a great piece how Warren Buffet lost his way placing huge bets on derivatives. Buffet's exposure now stands at $10 billion. I guess the temptation was too great even for the Oracle of Omaha.
Confirmed: Citi Group has accepted a third bailout that will give the feds a 36% stake in the bank. In Soviet Russia, Government is the bank.
Publishing house Invisible Molotov has made printable booklets available for download and distribution. Booklets include such titles as "The New Libertarian Manifesto" and "In Defense of Anarchism." Check them out, they are very well done.
I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't actually read it. In Scotland, nanny-state bureaucrats are trying to institute price-fixing for all alcoholic drinks to "curb abuse", they say. Under the new law, specific prices would be set on individual drinks, half-off and buy one/get one promotions would be banned as well as the strict regulation of signage and literature promoting brands in retail outlets. Will the Scottish people put up with such blatant violations? Only time will tell, but the Scottish Nationalist Party, who is behind the new requirements say they will push forward with the plans. Let's all tip our glasses to Scotland and hope these regulations get squashed.
In other nanny-state news, the State of Oregon is trying to pass a bill that would make bicycle registration mandatory with stiff penalties for those failing to comply. And, of course there is a mandatory $54 registration fee. As an avid cyclist, I find this abhorrent. If this passes, its going to hit the poor the hardest. Considering a cheap adult department store bike is around $100-$150, this fee will become a huge barrier to entry. I can't imagine anyone paying this fee for children's bikes which are mostly under $100. I have my doubts that something this misguided would pass in its current form. The largest city in Oregon, Portland is a mecca for cyclists and I don't think they would let something like this pass. At least not in its current form.
Finally, we conclude this week with our 1984 segment. That is to say, Britain's decent into totalitarian bliss. Currently being debated by Parliament is a bill that would allow any Minister to use information collected for one purpose and use it for another. What does that mean exactly? It means that they could use your driver's license info (or any Government data) and share it with whoever they want for whatever reason they want. Nice huh? A group in the UK called NO2ID is organizing an effort to kill the bill.
yours in liberty
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