30 years ago in reason."For government officials ... there should be no right to privacy or confidentiality whatever. And so: no bugging and no compulsory testimony for private citizens; but strip our rulers bare." --Murray N. Rothbard, "Privacy, or the 'Right to Know'?" "It is the existence of laws and regulations ... that gives politicians their license to peddle influence. We shall have corruption as long as these powers remain in the politicians' hands." --Robert Poole Jr., "Corruption in Government" "During the first few decades of its existence, the ACLU ACLU: see American Civil Liberties Union. took no notice of psychiatry and involuntary mental hospitalization hospitalization /hos·pi·tal·iza·tion/ (hos?pi-t'l-i-za´shun) 1. the placing of a patient in a hospital for treatment. 2. the term of confinement in a hospital. . Once it did ... the Union's immediate response ... was to embrace it as a heaven-sent--nay, science-sent--answer to the problem of social deviance and social control." --Thomas Szasz, "The ACLU's 'Mental Illness' Cop-Out" "The containment theory offered no radical or noncontradictory alternative to communism, because to do so ... would be to repudiate TO REPUDIATE. To repudiate a right is to express in a sufficient manner, a determination not to accept it, when it is offered. 2. He who repudiates a right cannot by that act transfer it to another. the existing statist stat·ism n. The practice or doctrine of giving a centralized government control over economic planning and policy. stat  ist adj. power structure in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ."
--Raymond Welch, "Containing Communism" |
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