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Some Twitter Activists Give State Agents Taste of Own Medicine

The Winnepeg Free Press reported recently on Wednesday that a legislator in Ottowa named Vic Toews is supporting a bill that would give the police and spies access to internet users’ information. In response, one person created Twitter account named @ViciLeaks30 and tweeted:

“Vic wants to know about you. Let’s get to know about Vic,” and then posted a slew of personal information regarding Toews’ divorce. The tweets released this information while reminding readers of the “family values” the politician purports to uphold.

WFP notes that “Within hours, the account had over [6],000 followers [more than the MP himself] and inspired hundreds of comments, photo collages and jokes.”

Link to the twitter feed here.

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Vices =/= Crimes

"Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another. Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property. In vices, the very essence of crime—that is, the design to injure the person or property of another—is wanting. It is a maxim of the law that there can be no crime without criminal intent; that is, without the intent to invade the person or property of another. But no one ever practices a vice with any such criminal intent. He practices his vice for his own happiness solely, and not from any malice toward others. Unless this clear distinction between vices and crimes be made and recognized by the laws, there can be on earth no such thing as individual right, liberty, or property, and the corresponding coequal rights of another man to the control of his own person and property."
Lysander Spooner
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Innovative Inmate Punks State Police

The Burlington Free Press revealed this week that Vermont State Police discovered an image of a pig had been added to their official decal on their cruisers. Who’s responsible? One inmate who is forced to make stationary and license plates for the Vermont State Police is to blame for the imagery. His design apparently went unnoticed as it passed through several agencies of the state before reaching the side panel doors of the police cars.

Rather than embracing the new design, the State Police have spent an additional $800 to order corrected versions. This figure does not include the pay for numerous members of staff who spent hours in the reordering process.

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Don’t Strip Our Rights!

Kelly Voluntaryist and I visited the Manchester Airport today to hand out flyers …in our underwear.

Full video will be posted shortly. Here is a teaser.

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Wonka Meme

Thought this was appropriate to share–I’m sure each of you can relate.

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Hypocrite ‘Lifers’

Hypocrite ‘Lifers’

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