You think Matt Drudge is just being hysterical in that screenshot above? With that ALL CAPS headline about the IRS?
Being hysterical, while trying to sell you chocolate covered strawberries for Mother's Day?
Well guess again, because you know this is seriously crazy when even the AP is using all caps for their headline, and filing it under a subdomain called "bigstory":
The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said Friday.
Organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups.
In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.
"That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. That's not how we go about selecting cases for further review," Lerner said at a conference sponsored by the American Bar Association.
"The IRS would like to apologize for that," she added.
Lerner said the practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias. After her talk, she told The AP that no high level IRS officials knew about the practice.
Agency officials found out about the practice last year and moved to correct it, the IRS said in a statement. The statement did not specify when officials found out.
About 75 groups were inappropriately targeted. None had their tax-exempt status revoked, Lerner said.
The IRS admitted it and apologized for it. Apology not accepted. Can someone investigate high level IRS officials instead of just taking a high level IRS official's word that the high level IRS officials didn't know anything about this? Just saying. Who's responsible for that? Can we get the ACLU on this? Government harassment of a group for the way they describe themselves in the form of speech?
The Tea Party's critics will paint them as paranoid that the government's out to get them. But is it paranoia when the government-- actually is-- out to get them-- just for using a certain label to describe themselves? And here's a nb: who's really acting paranoid?
#DEFCAD has gone dark at the request of the Department of Defense Trade Controls. Take it up with the Secretary of State.
— Defense Distributed (@DefDist) May 9, 2013
3. Click the magnet icons under the Liberator printable gun link and the most recent version of the DefCad Mega Pack link. Use uTorrent to download BOTH of these!
This is important! This is urgent!
This isn't even about the Second Amendment anymore.
This is about the First Amendment.
No, it's not even about that.
It's about: are you afraid of the Washington regime, or are you laughing at it? UPDATE:DefCad.org is back up with a notice at the top:
"DEFCAD files are being removed from public access at the request of the US Department of Defense Trade Controls. Until further notice, the United States government claims control of the information."
The United States government claims control of the information?
Show them who really controls the information.
Follow the steps above and download those files!
I want Pirate Bay to be able to come out tomorrow and say their traffic spiked to unprecedented levels and that some truly revolutionary number of brave human beings downloaded the information that the government says it controls!
'The first thing we wanted to know is if he’s worried about a possible stretch as a guest of the the federal government in one of their high security greybar hotels. Cody’s response: “I’m looking forward to it. It’ll give me time to catch up on my reading.”
As far as he’s concerned, the government might get him on any number of technicalities. Cody started listing the ways that Uncle Sam could justify putting him away, almost as if they were badges of honor — thumbing his nose at their attempts to control the proliferation of firearms. It fits well with the “crypto-anarchist” persona that he’s developed as his efforts with 3D printing have progressed.
Robert was concerned that Cody didn’t have a lawyer already on speed dial in the event of his arrest. We started spit-balling lawyers that might be interested in taking his case, and Cody wasn’t too impressed with any of them. Alan Gottleib was definitely a no-go. “Didn’t he support that Toomey-Manchin background check bill? No, f*** him.”'
You get the feeling that Cody is so real, the state's walls and guns and threats, all based on lies and fictions in the end, have no power to intimidate or concern Cody. Observing him in so many videos, and the way people react to him, it seems Cody is just more real than most of the people around him, so truly alive and healthy, like Ayn Rand's character, Howard Roark.
Here's another gem from that interview write-up:
'“I’ve talked to people who have walked into hacker spaces and seen a row of printers all printing Liberator parts,” Cody said as his roasted chicken dish was being placed in front of him. Hacker spaces are collaborative locations where exceedingly nerdy people get together, pool their money to buy equipment and space and experiment with technology, usually including 3D printers. Hacker spaces have popped up in cities across the world, including New York, Washington, D.C., London, Helsinki and Lisbon.'
Talk about something that seems like it came straight out of a book! We are living in sci-fi times, I am telling you.
Anyway, for those of little faith like me, the idea of Cody Wilson in jail isn't a welcome one. I know their aim is to discipline and punish the soul, and that most of us (including myself, I continue to discover to my horror, the deeper I dig into the nature of power and control) are in jail already, and that it is impossible for the state to truly jail a Cody Wilson. But still, the idea of his body in a cage, at the physical mercy of his spiritual and mental inferiors, men with guns and nightsticks telling Cody when to stand up, when to sit down, when to eat, what to wear, how to stand in line next to someone that beat up their wife. It's infuriating in a way that fills me with desperate hate.
On April 25 in Washington, D.C., supporters of gun control held a "Stop the NRA Rally and March." Designed to counter what organizers feel is the outsized influence of the National Rifle Association and other pro-Second Amendment groups, the march was widely recognized as a bust, with a stunningly low turnout.
But it wasn't just a disappointment in terms of sheer numbers. The protesters who did show up had an amazingly weak grasp of basic trends related to the number of mass shootings, the effectiveness of assault-weapon bans, and the use of firearms in violent crime.
Reason TV's Amanda Winkler and Joshua Swain attended the rally. Here's what they found.
You're being governed by the uninformed anxieties of people who still watch television (and actually think it's real life). #democracy
Sen Majority Leader Harry Reid called Cruz a "schoolyard bully" Monday for warning the American people of the senator from Nevada's machinations and standing in his way:
"My friend from Texas is like the schoolyard bully. He pushes everybody around and is losing. And instead of playing the game according to the rules, he not only takes the ball home with him, but changes the rules. That way, no one wins."
Here it is on video:
Schoolyard bully? Senator Reid, you've made an entire career out of being a bully to the American people and pushing them around.
Sen Cruz took to the Senate floor Tuesday to address the name-calling senator from Nevada:
Senator Cruz is starting to make some waves in the Senate. Yesterday, Judge Napolitano even updated his Facebook page asking, Rand Paul / Ted Cruz 2016? I don't know, but in the meantime, you might want to stand by with the hashtag #TreadWithTed in case of epic filibuster.
Oh yeah, and there's a bunch of rabble-rousers tweeting with the tag: #HowTedCruzBulliedHarryReid right now:
#HowTedCruzBulliedHarryReid Ted put super glue on a copy of the constitutiondisguised as Dreams from my Father by BO that Harry picked up
— ALS Medic (@ALSTekNY) May 8, 2013
#HowTedCruzBulliedHarryReid He publicly disagreed with him, in a vicious and premeditated manner. Oh the humanity!
— ChicagoRefugee (@ChicagoRefugee) May 8, 2013
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In an early poll conducted in Iowa, the state that holds the first presidential nominating caucus in the country, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul far outpaced his potential Republican presidential opponents.
A poll conducted by Illinois-based pollster McKeon & Associates for Freedom to Choose PAC, a pro-gun group, found Paul with an early lead over other possible presidential contenders.
The poll, provided to The Daily Caller, surveyed 804 registered Iowa voters using phone interviews. 328 usually participated in the Republican presidential caucuses, and 247 said they usually participated in the Democratic caucuses. The poll was conducted on April 18 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
Among voters who said they usually took part in the Republican presidential caucuses, 39 percent said they would vote for Paul if the caucuses were held today. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was in a distant second place with 20 percent. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was at 11 percent, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was at 10 percent, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was tied with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at three percent.
Liberty is popular.
Fist bump: Gage Skidmore, for Rand Paul photo above.
'Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the Democratic nominee for the South Carolina First Congressional District special election, is listed twice on today's ballot. Colbert-Busch is also the nominee of the Working Families party...
"She's been nominated by both parties. There's no prohibition in South Carolina against that," explains Chris Whitmire, director of public information and training at the South Carolina State Election Commission.
All votes for Colbert-Busch "go to Colbert-Busch," regardless of whether the voter selects the Democratic Busch or the Working Families Busch. But tonight, when the votes are counted, Busch's votes will be separated by party, even if it's the cumulative vote count that matters.'
'The Air Force official in charge of its sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping, authorities said Monday.
Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, was removed from his position as head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office pending an investigation, the Air Force said.
The incident happened just after midnight Sunday when a drunken Krusinski allegedly approached the woman in a parking lot in Arlington, Va., and grabbed her breasts and buttocks, according to a police report.
Police said the woman fought off her assailant and scratches can be seen on Krusinski’s face in his mug shot. He was charged with sexual battery.
The charges are "deeply troubling," Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh said Tuesday. The Air Force has requested jurisdiction in the case, which is standard practice.'
Just one more obvious sign that your government is tragically and perhaps irreparably broken.
The report of these tragically ironic charges comes just as the Pentagon prepared to release a report finding that sexual assaults involving military personnel are occurring 70 times a day (h/t: m):
"Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. [chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee], told a committee hearing that a Pentagon report to be released later Tuesday reportedly estimates that, on average, there are more than 70 sexual assaults involving military personnel every day.
...
The Pentagon report says that the number of sexual assaults reported by members of the military rose from 3,192 to 3,374 in 2012, while the department estimates that as many as 26,000 service members were assaulted, based on anonymous surveys, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the report."
The government response was a massive lock down of major cities in the commonwealth of Massachusetts as thousands of heavily-armed, federally-deputized, unequivocally militarized police roamed through the streets and conducted a house-by-house search for the bomber. Eventually, a private civilian found the bomber.
According to the Defense Department, more people are victimized by sexual assault every four days than the number of those who were victimized by explosions in the Boston Marathon bombing, and this happens week in and week out, all year long. And it's happening to the troops. Remember, those people who you are supposed to say you support? Do you really? Where's your outrage?
Another way to put this in perspective: Roman Catholic Church. Since 2002, you haven't heard any news story about the Roman Catholic Church in the mainstream media without an obligatory reference to the sexual abuse scandal. As the media covered it, the recent story, for instance, about changing popes was really a story about the sexual abuse scandal.
With more rampant sexual abuse in the US military, does it face the same media scrutiny? Is every story about a change in the military leadership, about its policies, about its activities-- punctuated with references to the plague of sexual abuse happening in its ranks? Is this consistent or fair? Does something seem off here to anybody else?
Several of Cody Wilson's videos, including 3D printed gun part demos, interviews, and speeches all in one place, here at HumbleLibertarian.com. These are all excellent. Enjoy:
DefDist Printed AR Mag - Part II
DefDist Printed AR Lower - Part III
Shooting over 600 rounds of .223 ammo.
Does not fail from firing stresses:
In his media interviews, Cody Wilson assumes a coy and shifty pose, giving short and often indirect answers to the many questions based on unspoken and-- for most people-- unexamined ideas, ideas that Cody sees straight through and refuses to accept. It's an appropriate and articulate pose. I think Cody does it because he knows his actions speak much louder than his words. His demeanor, which confounds so many of his interviewers, speaks volumes to me. It says, "I can print a gun --I rest my case. What more could I possibly say?"
Yes, actions do speak louder than words, and Cody's actions do speak louder than any words possibly could, including my own. This presentation is therefore my inadequate and comparatively pale attempt to transmit a message that is already loud and clear, already inherent in the very action of "printing" gun parts in the dawning era of the Internet, and-- as Cody has-- vowing to print an entire working gun, which is now an immanently plausible eventuality.
Cody Wilson is a Texas law student who founded Defense Distributed, a non-profit that develops and publishes open-source, 3D-printable gun designs; and DEFCAD, which hosts designs for 3D printable objects without censoring users' uploads to remove misfit objects like gun designs, as other hosts for 3D object designs have done.
Why does all this matter?
The Revolutionary 3D Printer
3D printing is technologically revolutionary because it is so unlimited in its possibilities. The term "3D printing" connotes a very perceptive and exciting way of understanding "additive manufacturing" (Wikipedia article), the more technical and explicitly descriptive name for this exciting new manufacturing process.
Traditional manufacturing machines typically use a "subtractive manufacturing" process, e.g. punching a shape out of a sheet of metal. Such a machine can only produce one kind of object. But-- enabled by computer technology-- a 3D printer can read a digital design for virtually any shape, and by adding successive layers one at a time, can manufacture any object a designer can dream up and model using Computer Aided Design (Wikipedia article) software.
Here is a time elapsed YouTube video of a 3D printer in action:
3D Printer in Action, Time Elapse YouTube Video
Here is a time elapsed YouTube video of a 3D printer in action printing an upgraded version of one of its own parts (most of which were intentionally designed to be 3D printable):
3D Printer in Action, Time Elapse YouTube Video
If the implications of 3D printers printing 3D printers hasn't blown your mind to tiny little pieces, please minimize your browser right now, step outside to go for a walk, and think about what this means for a few minutes...
Coming to a Home Near You
3D printer prices are also dropping rapidly, even as they become more sophisticated all the time.
An obvious parallel is electronic computing. Not very long ago, computers were big, expensive, buggy, and-- by today's standards-- not very powerful at all. Only big corporations, government agencies, or geeky hobbyists owned and used computers. Now computers are small, affordable, user-friendly, and much more powerful than even their most committed enthusiasts imagined-- so small, so affordable, so user-friendly, and so powerful, that you can go to the grocery and see people on food stamps carrying computers in their pockets more powerful than anything NASA had when it sent people to the Moon.
Another parallel is video games. It didn't take very long to go from Pong, Pac-Man, and Galaga-- simple, bulky, expensive arcade games that you had to leave your home to go play-- to The Sims, World of Warcraft, and Mario Galaxy, complex and visually astonishing games that can fit on a single Compact Disc, and which the average consumer can afford to play in their own home.
Consider that the rate of improvement in technology has only increased since the development of computers and video games, and extrapolate: 3D printers will be in every home sooner rather than later, and they will probably be even more sophisticated than even their most committed enthusiasts have imagined. If you don't believe me, check out this Kickstarter project for the RigidBot 3D printer. For just $400, this startup is offering a fully assembled 3D printer to consumers. For just $300, backers can get a kit with everything they need to assemble their 3D printer themselves. The project goal was to raise $31,500. As of this writing, it has raised nearly $700,000.
This is all happening very fast. And it's only going to move faster.
Now There's The Internet
"These 3D printers are hooked up to the Internet. What if they could print, not innocuous things, but relevant things." -Cody Wilson, VICE Podcast interview
"Just how music became software, objects are now becoming software." -Cody Wilson, Alex Jones interview
"The secret is to get it into the Internet in such a way that you can find it anywhere and it can never be stopped." -Cody Wilson, Alex Jones interview
"I don't think we're utopians. I think the real utopia is that you can go back to the 1990s and everything will be perfect forever. All we're saying is no you can't. Now there's the Internet." -Cody Wilson, VICE documentary
The Internet makes 3D printing technology even more revolutionary. Because of the Internet, I can easily and instantly send a copy of information from my computer to your computer. That information could be anything: a business plan, a picture of what I ate for breakfast, music files of songs we both like, these words you're reading right now, and yes, even 3D printable object designs.
Things are changing at such breakneck speed now, that the prohibitionist regime in Washington cannot keep up. Human action is increasing so exponentially in kind and quantity, that the people who want to fight change are simply being left in the dust by those who want to be part of it. The FBI can't even stop millions of people from sharing copies of their music and movies with each other. Short of putting the genie back in the bottle and shutting down the entire Internet, which governments discovered they couldn't even completely accomplish during the Arab Spring, there's no stopping the tidal wave of information. Because of Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed, that information now includes the plans for 3D printable guns.
The 24-min VICE documentary, "Click, Print, Gun," which is embedded at the end of this presentation, chronicles the activities of Defense Distributed, which has worked tirelessly since its inception in the summer of 2012 to engineer plastic 3D printable gun parts that can withstand the forces of a firearm well enough to be a viable tool of self-defense, one that most people will be able to download from the Internet and print in their own homes.
This is a real political act.
Click, Print, Gun
"The battle rifle is the birthright of patriotic Americans." -Cody Wilson, Alex Jones interview
"It's just a dim view of human spontaneity: 'because we are so free, everything must be prohibited.'" -Cody Wilson, VICE documentary
"I don't believe in Romney versus Obama. I believe in real politics. That's a real political act, giving you a magazine, telling you that that will never be taken away. That wasn't true maybe, two weeks ago. Now it's a fact of life. It's a fact of history. That's real politics. That's radical equality. That's what I believe in." -Cody Wilson, Glenn Beck interview
"If it's right for one person to have it, it's right for all to have it. This is a fundament of equality. And we think this applies to the firearm as well. If the police can have it, if the military can have it, then you can have it. You are not a different caliber or quality of person." -Cody Wilson, KOBRA, Cody Wilson on Defense Distributed
Here are video demonstrations of rounds being fired from guns with plastic 3D printed magazines and lower receivers designed by Defense Distributed:
DefDist Printed AR Mag - Part II
DefDist Printed AR Lower - Part III
Shooting over 600 rounds of .223 ammo.
Does not fail from firing stresses:
Defense Distributed - The Cuomo Mag
Defense Distributed - The Feinstein Mag
You can download all of these and more, from Cody Wilson's website DefCad.org. The designs are free and open source. Free meaning they are giving this away at no charge. Open source meaning they want you to steal their ideas, improve on their designs, do whatever you want with them. It's not about the money; it's about sending a message.
Being able to download gun designs from other computers on the Internet and then print your own gun in your own home will render gun control irrelevant forever. There will be no need for the Second Amendment any longer. Americans will not have to lobby Congress and hope it keeps the promises the federal government made in the Bill of Rights. It will simply be impossible, short of shutting down the entire Internet, for the government to stop us from being free and possessing firearms. A ban on high-capacity magazines will be unenforceable when manufacturing them becomes decentralized, when millions of people can download and 3D print one of their own.
Help Make Gun Control Impossible
But such a future is not inevitable. You have to do something to make it a reality. On April 1st of this year, Defense Distributed and DefCad went down. Visitors saw a notice from the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announcing that the domain names had been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court, and that their operators had been indicted for violating federal firearms laws. The next day, the websites were back online, and Defense Distributed's blog posted a screenshot of the previous day's notice with the caption: "Real seizure? Fake seizure? It's a joke either way."
This April Fool's joke raised the specter of a threat that has troubled me ever since. As William Grigg wrote that day at LewRockwell.com:
"How will gun-grabbers carry out their confiscations if people can download 3-D printing applications and manufacture their own?
They will simply steal the websites. No need to pass troublesome laws, or to prove accusations in a court of law -- even a federal court, where jurors are criminally credulous and prosecutors are free to indulge their whims.
...
UPDATE -- As suggested above, this is an April Fool's Joke intended to dramatize what could happen if the Regime -- which has indeed confiscated web domains in the past -- decided to shut down Defense Distributed."
So what's the answer? If they can just seize Cody Wilson's websites, it's game over, right? Wrong! The April Fool's Day joke was a challenge to free people everywhere. Cody has done his part. He's created the designs. He's made them available online. But there's nothing he can do if his website is seized. Now you must act to truly make gun control irrelevant and impossible. The solution is simple: Download all the gun designs from DefCad right now.
The Washington regime can shut down one domain, but it can't stop a million of us if we make millions of copies of these designs and share them in decentralized fashion on peer-to-peer networks to propagate them onto millions of computers across the world, onto as many computers as possible! If you want to engage in a real political act, if you want to make a real difference, if you want to send a loud and clear message to those who would take our guns that they'll never be able to, you will download every gun design from DefCad.org right now.
It doesn't matter that you don't have a 3D printer in your home today. You'll have one soon enough. Your urgent task right now is to get a copy of the designs on your computer so the government can never stop this or make it go away, so that it will literally be impossible for the government to enforce gun control. This is a demonstration of what we're capable of, a true and mighty show of force. I downloaded the gun designs from DefCad last month and it was easy. It took only a few minutes. The files are actually not very big.
There is nothing more revolutionary that you can do right now than typing DefCad.org into your browser, selecting "Browse" in the navigation toolbar, clicking on the DefCad Mega Pack graphic, and downloading the gun part designs to your computer. If you're a hardcore revolutionary and understand just how important it is to decentralize and propagate these designs, you'll download and install the free uTorrent application first if you don't already have it on your computer, then use it to download DefCad's BitTorrent version of its Mega Pack files, and start seeding the torrent files using your uTorrent application. This way, even if DefCad is seized by the gun grabbing government, patriots everywhere will be able to download the gun designs they want (and have a right to possess) right from your computer!
If you're confused by any of this terminology or any of the technology involved: be curious. Remember you have Google and Wikipedia powers now. Use them!
A Final Note
Defense Distributed's first ever, fully 3D printable (except for a single metal nail for the firing pin) handgun. Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes
Cody Wilson has been promising to release a full, 3D printable gun, not just gun parts, but the entire gun, by the end of April. He's just a couple days behind deadline, but Forbes magazine announced Friday, May 3rd that Wilson has revealed the fully 3D printable handgun (except for a single metal nail for the firing pin), and will demonstrate it sometime next week. Things will move fast when this happens. Cody Wilson is not going to get away with this forever. It's too disruptive. The opponents of change will want to stop him once they comprehend the implications of this project. The federal government will take notice at some point and next week might be it. I encourage you to be vigilant.
Keep checking Cody's websites daily over the next week and as soon as the new designs are available, download them!
And after you've downloaded your guns, if you would, I ask that you please share this article to help spread the news and light the brush fire of freedom! Tell people via Facebook, Twitter, and Email that you've downloaded a gun, and that they can read this article to understand how they can too and why it's so important for them to do so as well.
Cody Wilson Videos
To help this post to load faster on your browser, I've included all the relevant videos I wanted to share in a separate post. Click the link to view: Cody Wilson Videos, Interviews, Speeches, Demos.
An animator's mom hadn't seen (or heard of) the Wachowski's classic sci-fi film The Matrix. They watched the entire movie together and right after she told him what it was all about:
This spring, Young Americans for Liberty hosted 10 State Conventions all across the country for the first time ever!!
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'While patrolling the halls of the CHI 2013 Human Factors in Computing conference in Paris, we spied a research project from MIT's Media Lab called "Smarter Objects" that turns Minority Report tech on its head. The researchers figured out a way to map software functionality onto tangible objects like a radio, light switch or door lock through an iPad interface and a simple processor / WiFi transceiver in the object. Researcher Valentin Huen explains that "graphical user interfaces are perfect for modifying systems," but operating them on a day-to-day basis is much easier using tangible objects.'
At the center of corruption is the Federal Reserve who has gained enormous amounts of control over America’s economy, with disastrous effects beginning to show.
Standing opposite, is the band of Rebels who have vowed to take back the freedom they once knew… and they won’t go down without a fight.
Monetary mayhem. Explosions. Romance. Silver Circle plans to take indie animation to a whole other level.
David Morgan of Silver-Investor.com will be helping put on a one-night event to remember at the Magic Lantern Theater in downtown Spokane.
With a title like that, how could I resist watching this lecture by Professor James Mills at Gresham College? And Mills did not disappoint! Curiously enough, it would seem that the public campaign against marijuana and its eventual prohibition in Britain closely mirror the perverse incentives and series of events that led to the plant's prohibition in America.
Overview:
"In 1800 cannabis preparations were almost entirely unknown in Britain as only the medical men of the period had any interest in them and few had access to samples of the plant. However, by the 1840s cannabis was being touted as one of the wonder-drugs of the age, as doctors out in the Empire reported excitedly that it was a ‘powerful and valuable remedy in hydrophobia, tetanus, cholera and many convulsive disorders’. The Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal seized on these reports and devoted its front-page to the new medicine, and in subsequent decades the plant was used to treat everything from tetanus, to period pains and mental illness. Yet by the 1890s the House of Commons heard that 'The Lunatic Asylums of India are filled with ganja smokers' and the Government of India was ordered to conduct an enquiry into the use there of what one MP called 'the most horrible intoxicant the world has yet produced'. This lecture considers the curious career of cannabis in Victorian Britain and explores the medical entrepreneurs, the moral anxieties and the political agendas behind it."
A former libertarian abandons his dream of a voluntary world and explains the potential worse case scenario after the overnight disappearance of government. The ending will SHOCK you!
