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Me and Ashley Judd Are Going to Beat This

Friday, April 18th, 2003

Given my birthdate — which is tomorrow — I suppose I had no choice but to become a libertarian. I’d submit it’s the most significant day for U.S. libertarians outside of July 4. Consider:

1) The first shots of the American Revolution (aka, “the shot heard ’round the world) are fired in Lexington, Mass. in 1775.

2) The first drops of blood are spilled in the American Civil War in 1861.

3) Federal thugs assault the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993 — in what smarter people than I have called “the most tragic police operation in modern U.S. history.”

4) Self-described “libertarian” Timothy McVeigh exacts revenge by bombing the Alfred Murrah Federal Building on the same date five years later in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Also, on April 19, Michael Bolton released “Time, Love & Tenderness” in 1991, and Layne Staley was found dead in his apartment, just last year. Neither of these two items really has any significant impact on liberty, but truth be told, I sorta’ wish neither of them had to happen.

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7 Responses to “Me and Ashley Judd Are Going to Beat This”

  1. #1 |  Old man |  April 18th, 2003 at 7:39 pm

    also Smith’s Hardware in Greenfield is having the grand opening of their Husquevara (sp?) Power Store opening tomorrow, which of course in April 19

  2. #2 |  Sasha |  April 18th, 2003 at 10:25 pm

    Hey kitten, have a good one and have a few on me. Does this make you 28?

  3. #3 |  Frank N |  April 19th, 2003 at 5:20 am

    Well have a happy, always cool to have a birthday on the weekend.

  4. #4 |  old man |  April 19th, 2003 at 6:01 pm

    the Husqvarna display was really nice–a chain saw sculptor, hot dog drink and chips for a MS donation–really nice

  5. #5 |  Alan Sullivan |  April 20th, 2003 at 8:32 am

    Belated Happy Birthday.

    Interesting set of anniversaries on April 19. While Timothy MacVeigh’s shot was also heard round the world, it did more to undermine liberty than any deed of Janet Reno’s, by giving her and successors such useful cover for their future actions.

    On the lighter side, I feel fortunate that I don’t even know who Michael Bolton is.

  6. #6 |  Amy Phillips |  April 20th, 2003 at 11:48 am

    I was also born into my libertarian destiny. I have the same birthday as John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith. Oh, and also Marky Mark, Kenny G, Spalding Gray, and Richard Scarry, but somehow I’ve avoided turning into an underwear model/saxophonist/monologuist/children’s book writer. So I guess it’s not all predetermined from birth after all. :)

  7. #7 |  Nicholas Weininger |  April 20th, 2003 at 2:32 pm

    David Kopel points out in _No More Wacos_ that April 19 is also the birthday of Elliot Ness, the date of the martyrdom of the defenders of the Alamo, and the date of the martyrdom of the defenders of Masada.