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 "He was a devout Catholic and a passionate conservative, not a liberal, much less a libertarian. Today, with the whole "civilized" world waging wars on drugs and suicide, few people agree with this statement.
Physicians, especially psychiatrists, have been waging war on autonomy for more than 200 years. As medical professionals acquired more knowledge about the human body and its diseases, they sought increasing control over it. Physicians attacked autonomy along three fronts, corresponding to three basic human urges—sex, drugs, and death."- Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) "After Singer's controversial appointment to an endowed chair of bioethics at Princeton in 1999, Nat Hentoff, the noted secular civil libertarian, wrote: But some of us wondered why Princeton chose this renowned apostle of infanticide and certain forms of euthanasia for so influential an endowed seat at, of all places, the university's Center for Human Values. Professor Singer often claims that his views have been misquoted, so I am quoting directly from his books. From "Practical Ethics": "Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
 "Alan Greenspan was famously against paper money that was not backed by gold when he was a libertarian intellectual. When he became a government functionary, his views conveniently changed. He came to believe what he had to believe in order to be the head of the American empire's central bank: the Federal Reserve. The empire needs almost unlimited amounts of credit to carry out its foreign wars, while making bread and circuses available at home. Alan Greenspan makes sure it gets it."- William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.) |
 "A right-wing libertarian, she has a long history with the Institute of Economic Affairs and, at the time she retired from the House of Commons, she was Director of the Freedom Association.8 On her retirement from the Commons, she suggested that she might like to travel to North America and set up businesses there.
6 Conservative MP Teresa Gorman was born in London in 1931. She was affiliated to the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Adam Smith Institute and the Centre for Political Studies. Mrs Gorman stood as Conservative Parliamentary candidate at Lambeth and Streatham."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
 "So if you're on the road for the American portion of your Safe Trip, you might want to visit the Sun Frost factory, which is 275 miles north of The Republic of San Francisco on California's Redwood Coast in the town of Areata.
My libertarian and neoconservative friends tell me government is bungling and inefficient, an evil intrusion into our lives, and that the nine most fearful words in English are, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Okay, they are right a lot of the time."- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "He was a longstanding member of the Federalist Society, an organization of conservative and libertarian attorneys who — via a close reading of the Founding Fathers — favored strict limits on federal regulation of industry. Among liberals, of course, Troy was vilified. Among conservatives, Troy was a new star, unintimidated by prevailing D.C. sentiment and willing to take on powerful institutions of government that inhibited free enterprise and impinged on commercial — and by extension private — liberties."- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "For example, the libertarian Cato Institute insists that:
Ad bans have failed everywhere they've been tried. So far, the list includes Sweden, Quebec, and Norway. None of these places have shown comparatively significant reductions in child obesity. In Sweden, the restrictions have been in place for a decade, yet the country's childhood obesity rates are in line with the rest of Europe's.32
This disingenuous argument is handily countered by Neville Rigby, director of policy and public affairs for the International Obesity Taskforce."- Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) |
 "CEI has launched a recent campaign to defend the biotech industry against bad press and activist and scientific critics, and is well funded by libertarian free market and anti-regulatory lobbies including the Hudson, Cato and Hawthorne Institutes and Consumer Alert. Monsanto's strategies are also powerfully supported by major mainstream institutions including the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society, and the Geneva-based Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives—an advisory group to the Codex Alimentarius Commission."- Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) |
 "The most famous recent case of argyria was that of Montana's libertarian Party candidate for rhe U.S. Senate in 2002. He had taken his silver in preparation for what he anticipated to be Y2K millennial disruptions leading to antibiotic shortages.14 After the opening of 2000 passed, the anthrax scare proved the next boon to silver loading, as an alternative, preemptive defense against biological terrorism.15
As the variety of these new outbreaks of intoxication makes clear, predicting where the next toxic hot zone will be is difficult."- Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) |
 "In states in which gay activists were vocal and well organized, the toughest civil libertarian restrictions were put in place. And in states with little vocal gay activism, civil libertarian protections were typically far weaker. Jesse Helms's home state of North Carolina, for example, kept records by name of all HIV-infected individuals and their sex partners. This meant that it was easiest to track the unfolding epidemic in states with the smallest HIV-positive populations."- Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) |
 "A middle-aged woman on the West Coast, Mal-vina Reynolds, wrote and sang songs that fit her socialist thinking and her libertarian spirit, as well as her critique of the modern commercial culture. Everybody now, she sang, lived in "little boxes" and they "all came out just the same."
Bob Dylan was a phenomenon unto himself: powerful songs of protest, personal songs of freedom and self-expression. In an angry song, "Masters of War," he hopes that one day they will die and he will follow their casket "in the pale afternoon."- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) |
 "Morozov joined the libertarian Narodnaya Volya movement. In 1881 he was sentenced for incarceration in Schliesselburg for life, where he had studied chemistry, physics, astronomy, mathematics and history, all on his own. In 1905 he was let free, having spent 25 years in gaol. After having received his freedom, he had immersed himself in a vast body of scientific and pedagogical work. His Memoirs are of the greatest interest, see fig. 1.22. Many authors wrote about N. A. Morozov - his literary biography, for example, was written by M. A. Popovsky ([675])."- Anatoly Fomenko, History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Get the book.) |
 "By the very nature of their age, those in power in the 1990s graduated from universities in the libertarian 1960s and in 1992, the first postwar baby-boomer was elected President of the most powerful, but also a very drug-ridden, nation. The President who had not inhaled then set forth as a White Knight to free his people from drug dependency, choosing to do so by interfering with drug supply. This, as everyone knows, has the immediate effect of raising street prices."- Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.) |
 "But except for libertarian extremists and The Wall Street Journal, who could possibly want that? Which of us would pretend that the free market can decide whether drugs and medical devices are safe and effective? Do you really want your doctor to rely on the word of drug companies that the antibiotic prescribed for your pneumonia will work? Doctors are not wizards, and they have no way to know whether drugs will work well unless they can rely on an impartial agency like the FDA to review the scientific data."- Marcia Angell, M.D., The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It (Get the book.) |
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