Comments on: All Laws Have Teeth

By: Jeffrey with hemorrhoid home cures

Jeffrey with hemorrhoid home cures — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:09:33 +0000

Above all, we all need a good leader and should be a goo follower…that’s it

By: Gil

Gil — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:12:48 +0000

There’s nothing stopping that as most countries recognise the concept of the “citizen’s arrest”.

By: Mercuric Oxide criminal

Mercuric Oxide criminal — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:41:18 +0000

And BTW, isopropol alcohol if ingested can kill you. Why not simply replace it with regular alcohol (like found in wine, etc.)? The reason is to discourage people from avoiding the tax on alcohol used in beverages. So, here we have deliberate poisoning of something for pure government taxation reasons. And they are supposed to be protecting us!

By: Mercuric Oxide criminal

Mercuric Oxide criminal — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:32:09 +0000

It’s a topical ointment, one does not inject it. We don’t ban cortisone hemorrhoid ointment because someone might inject it.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:00:32 +0000

What are you saying?

By: jire sekar

jire sekar — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:40:59 +0000

Thanks for this powerful post. It dovetails nicely with your suggested reading of “The Law” which I read on the way home from the Supporters Summit. Bastiat articulates so fluently the difference between justice and the law. I encourage Mises to bring more issues of criminal justice and state regulation into its content, since the criminal justice system and state regulation are the “enforcement arm” of Statism. The federalization of every crime, vague laws subject to generous interpretation, and the increasing deprivation of rights guaranteed in the constitution are a huge and disturbing trend.

By: Fephisto

Fephisto — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:49:06 +0000

Yes, really. It’s people’s own business.

By: geoih

geoih — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:38:43 +0000

Mercuric oxide is highly toxic (LD50 18mg/kg). I think there are far better reasons to not inject it into your body, than what the FDA might think about it.

By: guard

guard — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 07:19:07 +0000

We can suffer through life without pseudoephedrine and still maintain a clear conscience. The most destructive laws are the ones that require us to oppress our neighbors. There is nothing more debilitating than a guilty conscience, making a population easy to control – after all everybody does it, right?
Libertarians would do well to identify those areas where people oppress others, and publish some practical guidelines. For example, willingly collecting taxes from others, or turning others over to police and courts in which ostensibly we do not believe.

By: Nicholas Gray

Nicholas Gray — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:38:55 +0000

Here’s an idea- why not have a citizen’s police force? Any one who volunteers to be a citizen has to do patrol duty, taking their turn to enforce the laws. Instead of permanent cops, we could all be part-time cops! the bad part would be having to give back the tasers at the end of your shift…

By: Mercuric Oxide criminal

Mercuric Oxide criminal — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 05:30:58 +0000

I’m sure most don’t recall that there’s a sty med that used to be sold over the counter. It’s called yellow mercuric oxide. About 10 years ago I couldn’t find my tube of it and had an itchy eye. I asked the pharmacist, a man in his 30s and he never heard of it. Finally I found an older pharmacist who remembered it and told me it’s not been available for years. I finally found an old tube (still works great) and found the old company that made it. I emailed them and they told me that because it has the word mercuric in the name the FDA banned it. Now if you get a sty you get some useless medicine.

It turns out I actually have 2 tubes of it, each over 15 years old, and I still use it now and then. It’s great for any eye infection and soothes a sty.

I plan to will my 2 tubes, to my heirs in the event I don’t ever use them up. I feel like someone in the late 30′s who had a gold coin.

By: Gil

Gil — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:09:45 +0000

Why not? The government long since banned toothache medication (i.e. cocaine).

By: Bruce Koerber

Bruce Koerber — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:21:21 +0000

It is the empirical mindset which focuses on laws instead of justice.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 22:34:55 +0000

“I don’t favor laws against consuming or producing meth…”

Wow, really?

By: Dave Albin

Dave Albin — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:36:34 +0000

Don’t worry – if the state figures out some way to make money off of Sudafed, then they will fully legalize it again. After all, if people don’t pay taxes, throw them in jail! What good are they if they don’t pay up….

By: David Spellman

David Spellman — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 19:41:55 +0000

Twenty years ago I can imagine someone ridiculing the libertarian position and saying “Ha ha! I bet you think the government would even outlaw nasal decongestants and put people in jail for it. You are so dumb!” Funny how as Statism marches onward and downward there seems to be no ridicule so outlandish that it cannot prove true. Reality makes the National Enquirer look sane and respectable.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:56:34 +0000

Oops! It should read:
It’s institutionalized criminality, and criminals like nothing better than to have their cake and eat yours too (and be “morally right.”)

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:15:05 +0000

In my view, at the basic level it’s violent thieving thugs who are the enemy. Sometimes, they are criminals and sometimes the enshrined state. I think what makes the state the enemy in all cases is that it always devolves into (if not starting out as) a band of violent thieving thugs. It attracts those who are criminals due to the power invested in it by the ignorant masses. It’s institutionalized criminality, and criminals like nothing better than to be have their cake and eat yours too (and be “morally right.”)

By: Mama2Hapas

Mama2Hapas — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:43:30 +0000

You didn’t mention the push lately to make this totally unavailable to give to younger kids. It’s the only thing that works to unstuff little noses, too, and it’s almost totally unavailable now. Next thing you know, they’ll be prosecuting parents for giving it to children at all. In reality, Tylenol is more dangerous than sudafed.

By: Dixiecup

Dixiecup — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:19:30 +0000

Meh, these are the last days of the hyperbolic stock market. Everyone from Ron Paul and Hugh Hendry to Goldman Sachs thinks that record economic turmoil is just around the corner. Who knows? The state is a dead husk existing for the sake of itself, and I really doubt it can maintain its current power after the well has dried up. I just like to stay optimistic.