Prison or Death? A Third Alternative
1. In a Libertarian society there will be full employment. The small numbers of truly non-self-sustaining people will
be kept alive by private charity. Government should not have to placate people who simply refuse to work with "entitlements"
in order to keep them from robbing banks and burning down the cities. A minuscule fraction of this expense can be used to
solve these problems justly and in a way consistent with the principles of evolution.
2. Societies have traditionally designated certain areas within which non-self-sustaining humans are placed to protect
the liberty of productive individuals. Such areas need not necessarily have cell blocks, guards, or even "rehabilitation"
programs, all of which cost others a good deal of money.
3. A prison, if large enough, can be self-sustaining when it's inmates are prevailed upon to make it so. Within the walls
of such a prison, any degree of liberty can exist which the inmates are capable of sustaining. There can be fields, gardens,
livestock, manufacturing, and even smaller prisons. A prison of this sort can be a nine square mile, autonomous, but contained,
microcosm of society. There can even be free trade with the surrounding country just as there is among sovereign nations.
Such prisons can be referred to as "isolation communities." One or two per country would be adequate.
4. A Libertarian, out of deference to the loved ones of criminals, might well stand against the death penalty. There
are some crimes, however, that make such huge breech with humanity that the perpetrators can never again be trusted and, for
public safety, should be executed. The crimes in question are rape, child molestation, kidnapping, human trafficking, snuff
or child pornography, torture, arbitrary and serial murder. If these crimes carry the death penalty even the constitutional
psychopath will avoid committing them simply as a matter of practicality.
Some cases of murder are different and demand specific scrutiny. For example, in some cases, the public might want to
award a good citizenship badge to the perpetrator depending on the victim, perhaps with an admonition against private justice
and a small fine to cover court costs. With murder there can be extensive mitigating circumstances. With the crimes mentioned
previously there cannot.
Victimless Crimes
1. There is nothing worse than a bad cop, and nothing better than a good one. We lament that unquestioning police today
will enforce unjust laws. Remember though, that when just laws are finally enacted, this will be very unpopular in many quarters.
In that time, unquestioning police will be every bit as helpful to liberty as they are detrimental now. There are of course,
limits as to what will be tolerated in the meantime.
"No reasonable citizen with nothing to hide should ever object to having police break down his door at three in the morning
to come in brandishing firearms, bellowing 'Freeze, Dirtbag !' How could we mind having these heroic champions invade our
homes to defile our family memories associated with everything they touch? It's all for our own good, after all. On the other
hand, since I personally don't possess, use, or sell drugs, since it wouldn't be police business even if I did, and since
I will not compromise my liberty at any cost, if any of these 'War on Drugs' morons ever enters my home, there won't even
be enough left of them for their families to bury with a cocaine spoon!" explains Dirk the Sun Warrior embodying a higher
lawfulness, as he polishes his deluxe engraved twelve-gauge shotgun, Pigslayer.
2. Certain areas of individual liberty are so fundamental that those trying to make encroachment need not even be reasoned
with. Such people should be dealt with in the same way that any chivalrous warrior would deal with any other unredeemable
mortal enemy.
3. In a free society anyone over the age of eighteen should be able to go into any pharmacy and purchase a painless suicide
kit without any medical certification at all. People who do not support the right of an individual to decide about the time
and method of his own death are sadistic enemies of human dignity. Their immoral opinions and vile rationalizations don't
matter. Their cowardly religious beliefs and insane scriptures don't matter. Hospital personnel who keep a person alive against
their own will, are nothing more than torturers, even if they are "only obeying orders" from other more important torturers.
Those who aid others in their natural right to die, legally or illegally, are courageous heroic angels of mercy and should
be honored, and whenever possible, rescued from legal oppression by decent liberty loving people everywhere.
"Prostitution should not be, and never should have been, illegal. Besides the false morality of impotent slave religion,
the main reason that prostitution became illegal was because married women resented the competition and made a big fuss at
home. One important reason that prostitution remains illegal is because the police get payoffs, discount rates, or freebies
from the whores. Many other things which make no encroachment against anyone's liberty are also unjustly illegal for these
same kinds of reasons. Any cop who arrests whores is a pee-wee. Any man who thinks of an honest whore, or any other free and
easy woman, as a "tramp" or a "slut" is a misogynist pantywaist. This is usually the same kind of dink who will try to make
a woman dependent on him financially, or who thinks that women should get paid less than men for doing equal work. If any
cop ever interferes with me for going out with a whore, his testicles will end up in a block of polyester resin in my den,
that is if I can find them with my portable electron microscope" chuckles Dirk the Sun Warrior roundly, as he sharpens the
stainless steel castrating tool that he always carries in his boot when he goes to town.
Law Enforcement
1. Offensive behavior becomes increasingly fashionable as human societies decline. The vile culture of excess posture
is fast becoming a societal norm. On television we see insubstantive young people trying to be very "in your face" by coming
right up to the camera lens. In person, someone coming into another's life space this way, would normally be pushed away or
struck, as a perfectly natural reaction to what would be an act of aggression. In advertising, we see those who act threatening,
yelling out their message, sometimes filling the entire field of view with a cruel, tough-talking mouth. In music videos,
we see wishful individuals standing over us putting their shoes on our face or neck. Products using advertisements which show
all this Hellish behavior, glamorizing unjust aggression or unnecessary violence, should be boycotted by good people.
2. There is today a terrible tendency to over psychologize. In discussing criminal behavior, people seem almost embarrassed
to speak about good or evil. Psychology is so much more fashionable. We are so much more "educated-sounding" and humanitarian
if we call a criminal "sick." We are insensitive and ignorant if we call him evil. All this stems from the popular misconception
that evil and sickness are the same thing. Sickness can be cured. Evil can not. If the criminal's behavior were not evil,
we would find no need, nor would we have any right, to try to change it in the first place.
3. Sometimes an evil person is also sick. Curing the sick part is often easy and may get rid of a bizarre impulse, but
not necessarily the evil which allowed the criminal to make the volitional choice to act upon the impulse to the detriment
of another. Explaining that a criminal became what he is because of an unhappy childhood does not suddenly transform him into
other than what he was before the "explanation," nor does it place any contractual obligation upon anyone not personally involved
in creating his "unhappiness."
4. It is perfectly natural for a person, even of Libertarian morality, to sometimes develop a Fascist attitude towards
criminals, welfare bums, greedy jeering masses, and decadent Socialist pseudo-intellectual phonies who have continually deprived
him of his own liberty. Fascism is simply a normal moral reaction among healthy, but ignorant, adults to the deeper immorality
of Socialism, which itself is a cancer of the soul, stemming from a desire to live parasitically at the expense of others.
The key here is never to nurture Fascist attitudes, because such methods don't work in the long term, no matter how tempting
they may seem in the short term.
5. The relative "deterrent" value of various criminal penalties makes little difference to the criminal who has little
or no expectation of being caught. Conversely, the criminal will almost never commit a crime no matter how small the legal
penalty, if he has a high expectation of arrest. If potential victims are generally known to protect themselves, criminals
planning coercive action will know that they run the very real risk of being killed, hurt, or arrested. An increase in the
expectation of effective resistance will produce a proportional decrease in crime. There cannot be one policeman to protect
every civilian. People must relearn the natural tendency for self-protection that they relinquished to "civilization" so long
ago.
The Right to Bear Arms
"Lately I have been encountering incredible numbers of people in the streets who hurl insults and make threats of violence
without any provocation at all. Usually they are in groups, not all young, some even middle-aged. Many will soon find that
neither their numbers, size, strength, nor the false bravado given by drugs will render them bullet proof. This is my country
too and I am not going to be intimidated by these people or by the Socialist pigs who rob us to protect and sustain them"
urges Dirk the Sun Warrior enthusiastically as he loads a hundred rounds into his Thompson rotary magazine machine gun.
1. In a free society the individual has the legal right to own or carry abroad any weapon he chooses, except the intrinsically
unsafe weapon. This is one that cannot possibly be used without injury to innocent bystanders. Even governments have no right
to own a weapon such as that. The popular objection that an "assault" weapon is designed to kill people misses the main point.
What else, other than hunting, would any liberty loving person want a weapon for? To kill flies? It is not flies who invade
countries and private homes to rape, torture, and murder. It is people who do that.
2. The individual has the natural right not to be treated as a criminal before the fact of committing a crime. Owning
a weapon is not evidence of intent. In a free society it is up to the individual to decide what measures he will enact to
insure the safety of his own person or home. These decisions must be made based on his individual expectations about other
people and the future of his country, and must not be usurped by "optimistic" pacifists who would slavishly thirst to lick
the boots of an invading enemy rather than to ever resist anything. Observe that these cowardly collectivist life managers
would gladly see their oppressive confiscatory laws enforced using deadly coercion if necessary, by government bully-boys
with guns. Learn well the names of the true enemies of liberty who reside within your own country.
3. Any individual advocating the confiscation or undue regulation of safe weapons in the hands of responsible citizens
is a clear traitor to the country in which he lives. Such a person is guilty of treason, and will by liberty loving individuals,
be dealt with as such immediately, using whatever means are available. Any government attempting to deny it's citizens the
right to purchase and bear arms has been subverted and will, by courageous spirited people, be thrown down immediately, using
any degree of force necessary.
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