Javier Milei, incentives, Ambrose Bierce, logic, police criminality, the CIA, assassination, conspiracy, and JFK
Notes from my notebook
A few words about incentives
Javier Milei, the libertarian president of Argentina, delivers a lot of wisdom in a few words…
“When you spend your money on yourself, you do it wisely. When you spend your money on others, you minimize cost. When you spend others’ money on yourself, there is waste. The worst is spending others’ money on others. That’s why the state is never efficient.”
— Javier Milei
Ambrose Bierce’s definition of logic
“Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.”
— Ambrose Bierce / (1842–1914) American Civil War soldier, humorist, writer
Does the law protect police criminality?
I saw this frightening summary in an article from the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)…
USA Today has chronicled some of the more egregious examples of qualified immunity protecting police from civil liability for bad behavior, including officers who stole $225,000, a police officer who shot a child (while trying to shoot his nonthreatening dog), a SWAT team that launched gas grenades into a woman’s house even though she had done nothing wrong, and “prison officials who locked an inmate in a sewage-flooded cell for days.”
My question: On balance, does The State foster order or prevent it? I think the evidence strongly skews toward the latter rather than the former. Here’s another case in point…
The CIA issues a non-denial denial about involvement in the JFK assassination.
Rob Reiner’s podcast “Who Killed JFK?” has now been downloaded 7 million times. It asserts (among other things) that three senior CIA officers — James Angleton, William Harvey, and David Atlee Phillips — participated in a conspiracy to murder JFK. Reporter Jefferson Morley, of the excellent JFK Facts substack, contacted the CIA for their response to this allegation. On March 18th the agency issued what I consider to be a non-denial denial. They said…
“The notion that CIA was involved in the death of John F. Kennedy is absolutely false.”
My reaction?
It could be perfectly true that the agency, as an institution, was not involved, but that the three men mentioned, operating without official sanction, were involved. Indeed, my own extensive study leads me to think Reiner is correct. Angleton, Harvey, and Phillips were all conspirators in Kennedy’s murder.
I highly recommend both the “Who Killed JFK?” podcast and Jefferson Morely’s JFK Facts.
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Perry Willis is the co-founder of Downsize DC and the Zero Aggression Project. He co-created, with Jim Babka, the Read the Bills Act, the One Subject at a Time Act, and the Write the Laws Act, all of which have been introduced in Congress. He is a past Executive Director of the national Libertarian Party and was the campaign manager for Harry Browne for President in 2000.
