All respect to Mr. Grigg, who is closely connected to Rockwell’s sites, and is a former employer of the John Birch Society, but racists rarely change their spots. The meme going around libertarian circles against immigrants came from another racist promoted by Rockwell, Hans-Herman Hoppe, a man who runs around racist groups in Europe and invites advocates of the the superiority of whites to speak at his conferences.

The Mises Institute, under the right-wing views of Rockwell has been a cesspool and a blight on libertarianism.

An officer is empowered to use force to apprehend a person under arrest. Once that person is under control, the officer is responsible for the prisoner’s safety.

-jcr

The LA TIMES let lew write nasty stuff, so the LA TIMES must therefore be a racist.

Wow. Now that Reason and Cato have taken a pounding for working this horse to death, I see they have moved the poop to their personal blogs. Keep kicking that horse.

Police should use force only to the extent necessary to enforce the law and protect the public. Never to punish.

If my child were molested and I were to beat up the molester, I would be found guilty of battery (more likely malicious assault) and sent to jail (prison).

If a citizen, innocent or not, does not quickly and immediately put his hands behind his back at the request of the police, the police can then beat him and put him into holds that threaten (and destroy) life and limb. Or, even if said citizen does comply but continues to politely ask why he is being arrested, the police can introduce electricity into the citizens system to cause pain and possibly death.

This is an extremely dangerous double standard. The end result of such practices are gulags, pogroms, and death marches.

Police have not been granted authority to punish and cause pain. And no reasonable moral argument can be made to give them such authority. Any desire by police to cause pain to arrestees is itself rooted in immorality, in the desire to hurt and/or dominate another’s will. People with such desires should never be given authority over others.

…As a result, criminals were terrified of the cops, and our streets were safe.

Huh, so… we all must be safer now….

And to TGGP, This may come as a shock to you folks but there are a lot of libertarian leaning military officers out there, me for example. What I find offensive are people who claim they are willing to stand up for the individual and his/her natural born rights but then turn into cowards when the opportunity affords itself for them to put up or shut up. THAT is offensive.

I also don’t think it’s a mystery what happened “after the 50s” or the type of ‘street criminals” ( is that like a black person who tried to walk on the same sidewalk as whites?) the police liked to beat up back in the good ole days of jim Crow.

Bull Connor, libertarian hero!

Right now, soi-disant libertarian “leaders” at Cato are defending (to cite just two examples) aggressive war and fiat currency inflation — the former being nothing other than mass murder, the latter being massive theft through official fraud. SOOooo…. The REAL scandal here is that Lew Rockwell and possibly other friends of Ron Paul wrote some unwise things in 1991?

“In the Rodney King case, the police used stun guns, which had no effect, before resorting to extreme tactics, though, despite appearances, they caused little injury to King. Might this have been a better approach in the Jones case?”

So he’s endorsing a Rodney King-style beating instead of the beating which killed Jones.