tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post1745073609918754505..comments2024-03-08T07:09:46.527-07:00Comments on Pro Libertate: Stolen Lives, Protected Criminals: The Wrongful Imprisonment of Christopher TappWilliam N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-2674568270697818632016-02-13T18:32:25.692-07:002016-02-13T18:32:25.692-07:00the definition of hu-man is monster.the definition of hu-man is monster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-48453907664169456382016-02-09T04:58:02.978-07:002016-02-09T04:58:02.978-07:00Consumers?Last I checked I am a HUMAN.
Consumers?Last I checked I am a HUMAN. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-25274199534501223422016-02-04T15:35:09.629-07:002016-02-04T15:35:09.629-07:00Will, Anthony Gregory wrote the perfect companion ...Will, Anthony Gregory wrote the perfect companion piece to your own excellent articles : https://mises.org/library/law-enforcement-socialism I'm sure you have read this but for the benefit of your reader's the link is https://mises.org/library/law-enforcement-socialism. Anthony explains that the judiciary, the assemblage of police, prosecutor, courts, and prisons produce such a horrible product because the judiciary is a socialist enterprise. Political control blocks customer's normal consumer power, their normal ability to vet competing services in a free market subscribing with the good providers while cancelling subscriptions with the bad. In addition to Anthony's great analysis there is also the historical origins of the judiciary. The 'business model' of the medieval European aristocracies was plunder: Organize an army bigger than competing feudal warlords, seize territory, establish yourself as the monopoly plunderer. In time the judiciary replaced the army as a more effective administrator and organizer of plunder in already conquered territories. At the same time in Western Europe the idea of individual rights begins to emerge independent of and adversarially to the judiciary. Magna Carta put restraints on King John's taxation of the barons. Habeas Corpus amounts to resistance to the judiciary. 1776 was a tax rebellion and struggle for enhanced individual rights waged against the British judiciary then operating in the colonies. Now the judiciary was not dismantled in the revolution of 1776. Anthony Gregory's free market justice and security regrettably did not emerge to replace it. Rather its control simply passed from the British monarchy to the victorious American political class. Under control of the American political elite, the judiciary readily went on to enforce slavery, readily enforced and affirmed Jim Crow (Plessy Ferguson SCOTUS 1896), readily fell in line with political classes Prohibition and subsequent War on Drugs. The history of the Judiciary for its thousand year existence has been the history of a subject people under domination of a political elite. And so the articles you write so well are if you like the predictable consequence of a judiciary whose origins lie in the bureaucratization of plunder in medieval Europe. I don't see how one can ever hope to reform the judiciary. Rather its a question of consumers connecting the dots, of grasping that the great material wonders delivered by the free market and private enterprise could likewise be delivered in the realm of security and justice once these services are likewise brought under free market consumer control. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com