These, from libertarian economic thinker Dan Mitchell, should sit beside Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics on the required-reading-for-government-worshippers list:
See this essay for links to all their developments. And note, of course, that not one nation on Earth currently respects all three.
Thanks, Fran.
ReplyDeleteI went to the link you provided and read about Brazil, and followed up on some of the others.
But honestly? Before I got on your website this morning, I googled "Malheur and Oregon" to see what had happened with the Hammonds.
The Hammonds - father and son - had peaceably agreed to go back to jail as per the 9th circuit court's order. But the thing that "got me" was all the "news" and comment I saw at the nydailynews and the nytimes websites while I was following the google links.
"Right-wing gunslingers" was only one of the epithets thrown around.
With no background, the Brazil link, the nytimes and nydailynews websites said *whatever they wanted.*
Despicable.