No matter how much you feed a wolf he will always return to the forest.

 

"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free."

Edward Gibbon

 

The tragedy in Waco is part of a larger story about the deregulation of business in
the name of pocketing massive profits.

by Jim White

'Free Market' Ayn Rand Ideology Was a Root Cause of the Horrific Explosion in Texas | Alternet

 

Wow, quite a stetch in your quoted thesis. Tagants and weapons registries only work if the buyer and seller are known to start with, homemade or black market stuff does not give you anything to go on. There are a great many ways to make explosives at home safely, cheaply and quickly with many common ingredients.

The root cause was muslim extremists, but I can well understand why free markets must be blamed for everything in your thinking.

In addition to all the other facts that have surfaced, apparently on CNN last night, their mother said the following:

“If they are going to kill him. I don’t care. My oldest son is killed, so I don’t care. I don’t care if my youngest son is going to be killed today. I want the world to hear this. And, I don’t care if I am going to get killed too. And I will say Allahu Akbar!“


May we be granted the wisdom to make their wish come true.

 

YES! I'm sure there is no shortage of people who'd line up to do the deed.

I wonder if she'll come here to visit her precious son in the hospital as there is an outstanding warrant out for her arrest for a shoplifting charge to the tune of $1,600 from Lord & Taylor.

 

Word for the day: Deodand-in primitive thinking objects were often seen as evil, most of us find this concept amusing today.

Deodand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"In this [statist] worldview, people’s weak wills and eccentricities make them prey both to shameless hucksters and to their own strange psychological traits. Ironically, however, [this viewpoint] fails to explain why the irrational and impulsively childlike people who are apparently the nation’s citizens will elect a government that is itself not irrational and impulsive—or why government officials won’t exploit, for their own corrupt ends, the people’s cognitive weaknesses."

Don Boudreaux

 

"Mans inhumanity towards man knows no boundaries".

 

Parasites don’t usually like the idea of their hosts being able to escape into freedom.

Yevdokiya Zagumenova

 

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

F.A. Hayek