Comments on: The right to sell lemonade http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/ Proceeding Ever More Boldly Against Evil Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:06:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: John James http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-798899 John James Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:01:18 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-798899 Also:

The War on Lemonade Stands! Nanny of the Month (June 2011)

]]> By: mikey http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-798222 mikey Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:34:16 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-798222 Well in case you havent seen it yet-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXmGC9NMVpU&feature=related

]]> By: Big Brother http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-798156 Big Brother Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:52:55 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-798156 Filming police can quickly be “discouraged”. (“Wherever they can get away with it, police are using wiretapping statutes to prosecute Mundanes who record their public behavior.” Will Grigg)

]]> By: Big Brother http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-798154 Big Brother Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:23:03 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-798154 “3 girls busted for illegal lemonade stand”
Are there any legal lemonade stands left in the U.S.?

]]> By: Michael A. Clem http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-798080 Michael A. Clem Mon, 22 Aug 2011 21:06:21 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-798080 I actually thought about doing a fictional story like this, but then not soon after, ran across the first story I had hear about where the local authorities “busted” a lemonade stand.

Also, isn’t this an excellent example that licensing restricts competition? The girls would have had to make enough money to pay for the license before they could even think about covering their expenses and then fees for the water park.

]]> By: Dave M http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797943 Dave M Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:38:25 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797943 When I was young I wondered how people could possibly be concentration camp guards and let some of the horrors continue day after day.

Now that I understand humanity a bit better I have realized there is a large segment of the population that are sociopaths and given the power will act in a sociopathic way. Statism fosters sociopathic behavior which enforces the states power.

]]> By: Dan http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797937 Dan Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:35:02 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797937 “Are you really suggesting that police officers should make individual decisions about which laws they will and will not enforce?”

Actually police officers do this all the time. Back in the early ’90′s, I dated a girl whose brother-in-law was a police officer in Virginia. I watched selective law enforcement in action quite regularly. My girlfriend routinely broke laws with impunity, knowing that she wouldn’t be stopped or given a ticket. I can remember driving 50 mph in a 30 mph zone and merely getting a friendly wave from the cop on the side of the road with the radar gun.

Please don’t even begin to suggest that police officers don’t protect their own and their friends. That is selective law enforcement at its finest.

]]> By: spirit splice http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797871 spirit splice Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:03:12 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797871 Apparently you seem to think that conscience is useless for a police officer. Nullification apploes just as much to police as to jurors. “Just doing our job”, the excuse of Nazis and legal cultists everywhere. Apparently you seem to think that legal = moral/right/just/correct. Usually the opposite is the case. In a free society you must cause injury, in a permission based society, you lick the boots and kiss the ring before doing anything.

]]> By: Dagnytg http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797864 Dagnytg Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:48:41 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797864 “Are you really suggesting that police officers should make individual decisions about which laws they will and will not enforce?”

Yes…that is exactly what I am suggesting…(see letter of the law vs. spirit…)

In regards to your last sentence…it crossed my mind that some bitter and depressed neighbor might have called the police…but there was no mention of a complaint by the police chief.

]]> By: Franklin http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797859 Franklin Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:24:33 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797859 Many hypocrites on the Midway sidelines, I suspect. The Savannah journalists will feign distaste at such nonsense, all the while swinging by great places like Pearl’s Saltwater Grille with the comforting knowledge and expectation that the zoning and health inspectors ran their fingers through the place. Damn straight.
Never connecting the dots.
Never cognizant, never consistent.
They created this mess, and now complain about it.
And the cop, robot mentality and all, provided the ammunition, like Eliot Ness – the law is the law.
… “what are you prepared to do?”…

]]> By: geoih http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797848 geoih Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:31:35 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797848 The parents should have dared the police to come in and physically take down the stand, and filmed the whole thing. Then everybody would have gotten a perfect lesson on what the state is.

]]> By: Guy Jean http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797835 Guy Jean Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:26:35 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797835 “there are police officers willing to lower themselves and enforce these laws on a neighborhood lemonade stand. ”
But they’re just doing their job. Are you really suggesting that police officers should make individual decisions about which laws they will and will not enforce? Great police force that would be.
A case could be made that, in fact, this enforcement of the law against child lemonade-sellers IS selective, i.e. that someone somewhere for some obscure reason is deliberately targeting these young people or their parents. But no-one here has yet made that case.

]]> By: Jeffrey Tucker http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797808 Jeffrey Tucker Sat, 20 Aug 2011 02:00:34 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797808 I had some tonight for dinner: $2.50 per pound

]]> By: tlpalmer http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797799 tlpalmer Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:35:48 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797799 How many years of training does it take to make someone as evil as the officer in the clip? Disgusting.

]]> By: Tyrone Dell http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797796 Tyrone Dell Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:13:14 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797796 Wow. What the hell.

]]> By: Inquisitor http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797786 Inquisitor Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:36:12 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797786 Hopefully these girls will learn a valuable lesson from this and hate the state.

How stupid do you need to be to require “protection” from a bunch of girls selling lemonade? Fucking nanny state, fit for dribbling buffoons. You reap what you sow, alas.

]]> By: Ned Netterville http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797784 Ned Netterville Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:22:20 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797784 Jeff, Your ferreting out of such stories is greatly appreciated. I was looking for one of your articles so that I could let you know that I found and bought some Vietnamese catfish under whatever name it was labeled (basa?) by the producers to avoid a run-in with the American catfish cartel and its government-enforcement thugs. Price per pound: under than $3.00. Quality and flavor: excellent. Much more flavorful than those Purina-catfish-chow-fed bullheads that bottom-feeding Americans produce with the aid of their government’s forcible protection against competition.

]]> By: Hack http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797749 Hack Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:29:42 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797749 Good luck even getting one in a residential zone.
It’s also illegal to pay them to do chores, under age labour and all that.

]]> By: Dagnytg http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797747 Dagnytg Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:09:34 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797747 You know what amazes me…not that these laws exist, but there are police officers willing to lower themselves and enforce these laws on a neighborhood lemonade stand.

What ever happened to that saying…”It’s not the letter of the law but the spirit of the law.”

No wonder many of us have no respect for the police.

Note:
You know, of course, if the lemonade stand had been run by big ugly looking dudes with tattoos, sporting Bowie knives from their hips, and wearing Hell’s Angel jackets…they would have just driven on by.

]]> By: Joshua http://archive.mises.org/18142/the-right-to-sell-lemonade/comment-page-1/#comment-797737 Joshua Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:20:48 +0000 http://blog.mises.org/?p=18142#comment-797737 “the law is the law”. What nonsense! The law isn’t an end unto itself. These mindless drones that work for law enforcement make me appreciate peace officers that actually use common sense.

The licenses were $50 a day! What!?

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