“That men may rightfully be compelled to submit to, and support, a government that they do not want…No principle … can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political freedom … a man, thus subjected to a government that he does not want, is a slave. And there is no difference, in principle — but only in degree — between political and chattel slavery. The former, no less than the latter, denies a man's ownership of himself and the products of his labor; and asserts that other men may own him, and dispose of him and his property, for their uses, and at their pleasure.” Lysander Spooner
December 5, 2006
Happy Repeal Day
by Doug Mataconis
It was 73 years ago today that America’s thirteen year history with alcohol prohibition came to a merciful end.
Unfortunately, it appears that we’re still far away from the day when we’ll be able to celebrate even the first anniversary of the end of America’s other insane war on (some) drugs.
H/T: Outside The Beltway and The Club For Growth
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