http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/01/oklahoma-restricts-one-less-freedom/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/01/oklahoma-restricts-one-less-freedom/#comment-3257 The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » Oklahoma: Two Steps Forward, One (Potential) Step Back Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:14:34 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/01/oklahoma-restricts-one-less-freedom/#comment-3257 [...] Recently, Oklahoma finally became the last state in the US to legalize tattooing. As I said then, it was a promising sign, but I didn’t think that they were going to understand the wider lesson of it being wrong to ban it in the first place: I’d like to say that this change in the law is Oklahoma’s realization that outlawing behavior that they simply find unappealing, which does not infringe on anyone’s rights, is bad policy. But it’s not. This is them retreating from one restriction of freedom that no longer has a lot of public support. I’m sure they won’t be shy about keeping those restrictions that exist, or enacting new restrictions, as long as the majority supports it. After all, that’s what government is for, right? [...] [...] Recently, Oklahoma finally became the last state in the US to legalize tattooing. As I said then, it was a promising sign, but I didn’t think that they were going to understand the wider lesson of it being wrong to ban it in the first place: I’d like to say that this change in the law is Oklahoma’s realization that outlawing behavior that they simply find unappealing, which does not infringe on anyone’s rights, is bad policy. But it’s not. This is them retreating from one restriction of freedom that no longer has a lot of public support. I’m sure they won’t be shy about keeping those restrictions that exist, or enacting new restrictions, as long as the majority supports it. After all, that’s what government is for, right? [...]

]]> http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/01/oklahoma-restricts-one-less-freedom/#comment-2903 The Bethie Bee » Blog Archive » Tattooing Now Legal In Oklahoma… Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:11:18 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2006/11/01/oklahoma-restricts-one-less-freedom/#comment-2903 [...] As Brad Warbiany of The Liberty Papers explains, It looks like today, one state becomes the last one to finally realize that people are capable of making their own decisions about their body. I do think that a lot of people are surprised by this, though. Not that they’re surprised that Oklahoma is changing the law, but surprised that Oklahoma had the law until 2006 in the first place. [...] [...] As Brad Warbiany of The Liberty Papers explains, It looks like today, one state becomes the last one to finally realize that people are capable of making their own decisions about their body. I do think that a lot of people are surprised by this, though. Not that they’re surprised that Oklahoma is changing the law, but surprised that Oklahoma had the law until 2006 in the first place. [...]

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