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The Law

by Frederick Bastiat

Preface

When a reviewer wishes to give special recognition to a book, he predicts that it will still be read "a hundred years from now." The Law, first published as a pamphlet in June, 1850, is already more than a hundred years old. And because its truths are eternal, it will still be read when another century has passed.

Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before - and immediately following -- the Revolution of February 1848. This was the period when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And he explained how socialism must inevitably...

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We humans are a predictable lot; we continually ignore history, are afraid of everything, and act emotionally rather than rationally, especially when it comes to the vexatious and controversial subject of drugs in society. We don’t learn from our mistakes; destined to repeat them over and over on a recurring loop of denial. Wash over some orchestrated religious propaganda and you have a recipe for disaster.

The author of the recently released autobiography; “Cheating the Hangman: True Confessions of a Heroin Trafficker” knows what he’s talking about when it comes to illegal drugs. Wade Agnew has been using them daily for forty years. He started with alcohol, quickly dismissing it after the revelation of marijuana in 1968 while at University. This discovery would dictate the course of...

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Wade Agnew, the author of the sensational autobiography “Cheating the Hangman: True Confessions of a Heroin Trafficker” is an equal opportunity drug consumer. He believes that all drugs should be legal, and the current global obsession with prohibition is very detrimental to society.
“If the aim of the exercise is to stop people using illegal drugs, then the regime is completely counter-productive. Young people especially are by nature inquisitive, and in their teenage years are risk takers. Therefore if you present taking heroin or any illegal drug for that matter, as risky and anti-social, then a good percentage of them will be drawn to it like moths to a flame.”
Wade knows a great deal about consuming illegal drugs. He happily used heroin for twenty five years, and has smoked...

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Wade Agnew probably knows as much about heroin and the law as anyone. He used it for three decades, was a successful heroin trafficker for ten years, and has studied the legal status of heroin continually since first discovering the drug at University in the late 1960’s.
“My affair with heroin has been an on-going one. I fell in love with it the first time I tried it; as a medicine for what ailed me, it was second to none.”
The author of the recently released autobiography “Cheating the Hangman: True Confessions of a Heroin Trafficker” Wade is calling for the immediate legalization of heroin. Heroin trafficking gives you a very unique perspective on its status in society. The ongoing campaign of denigration is orchestrated, widespread and unrelenting. As Goebels said, if you repeat a...

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In the 30’s there was Reefer Madness, now we have the 21st century version; Hydro Hysteria. Marijuana is something that Wade Agnew knows a great deal about. The author of the recently released autobiography “Cheating the Hangman: True Confessions of a Heroin Trafficker” Wade knows what he’s talking about when it comes to illegal drugs; he has been using them for almost forty years, and smoking marijuana on a daily basis since first discovering it a University in 1968. Wade has taken them all.
“It was bad enough in the early days. I was “verballed” by the Australian Police; planted with two roaches; enough to have you jailed for months! It’s laughable when I think about it now. We had to endure this situation for decades, and people around the globe are still being incarcerated for...

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Wade Agnew is a 56 year old Australian, an anarchist, occasional Rasta, and an atheist with Buddhist tendencies. For many years he happily consumed heroin, traveled extensively and ferried various illegal drugs around the world, and successfully trafficked heroin Down Under for over twenty years. During these escapades he studied Architecture, Film Making, Politics and Law, promoting international music into New Zealand and Australia, personally handling the arrangements. With all the terror dissipated, and in a more contemplative stage of life, Wade is ready for the next phase of his heroin affair, writing about the close association for this hostile world in “Cheating the Hangman”.Time has come to spill the beans on all the hair-raising adventures in a 20th century morality tale. Alas...

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Part one of a multi-part series I am working on... Please let me know what you think.

War in the SandBox... - Post details: What Americans Need to Understand About Afghanistan...

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JIHAD: WHAT IT IS

What is Jihad? That is the topic of this paper. Unfortunately, Jihad has become something more than it was originally intended to be. Since we are living in the age of terrorism, – and since most of these terrorists claim to be waging "jihad" – we will take a look at jihad for what it is (not what it was, or should be). Most American newspapers seem to do this quite well. While most honorable Americans are offended by the term "jihad," most militant Muslims nowadays don’t seem to be. Yes, our president has a lot of critics (most of who don’t understand what jihad really has become). It is important to understand where both sides are coming from. It is especially important nowadays, because our president is right.
Let’s start with a definition: ". . . (jihad) means to...

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MELTING HIMALAYAN GLACIER GLOBAL WARMING OR MILITARY ACTIVITIES
Q Isa Daudpota and Arshad H Abbasi

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It is for opinion-makers in India and Pakistan to tell their respective governments to stop ruining the future of our water supplies and our weather system. Bringing their troops down from the inhospitable heights of Siachen would be the first step. This would be welcomed by the troops as well as the mountain wildlife that has been displaced by the war

Back in 2003 one of us (QID) signed an email petition titled the Siachen Peace Park Initiative located at the glacier that bears this name. It had to do with getting India and Pakistan to withdraw from the futile conflict in the mountains and to let nature revert to...

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To answer the question, “Can computers think?” personally I think computers today cannot think. Computers require programs which are compromised of software that include "if and then" statements "else" statements, and so on. The computer is doing its purpose based on the instructions it was given. But that may also raise another question, “Will there be instructions for a computer to think and be conscious?” I will not say it’s impossible, but I do not see this happening in my lifetime.

John Searle’s reading clearly explains how even the most advanced artificial intelligence may never have the ability to think. One particular example that made things very clear was the person who understood English, and was left in a room with Chinese symbols. Comparing the processes the person took to...