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Thank you Reagan- indeed it helps to have liberty friends 🙂

 

Lisa, what a terrible situation. I’m sorry I don’t know anyone to suggest, but I hope just having some liberty friends can help you feel better.

Thanks, Mike- I appreciate your support.

Hey, Lisa.

I’m so sorry to hear you’re being subjected to this. I don’t know of any liberty-minded family lawyers, but Carlos Morales might be able to help you out.

https://carlosmorales.liberty.me/

He knows the system well, and he’s made a bit of a name for himself, so he may know someone who knows someone who can help you.

My heart goes out…[Read more]

Libertarian and law professor John Hasnas writes a lot about tort law and its evolution from customary and common law. I highly recommend reading The Obviousness of Anarchy, What’s Wrong With a Little Tort Reform?, and The Myth of the Rule of Law.

I discuss a lot of this in this talk and some of the articles linked therein:

 

http://www.stephankinsella.com/paf-podcast/kol129-speech-to-montessori-students-the-story-of-law-what-is-law-and-where-does-it-come-from/

On a related note, Louisiana’s Civil Code was a product of Napoleon’s admiration of the Roman legal tradition of codification. Under the Napoleonic Code, Louisiana is the only state to technically reject precedent as binding law.  Here, the only actual law is statutory – codified – because Napoleon’s intention was that any literate person in the…[Read more]

Thanks for posting this Conza. We can all learn more about the application of Mises’ way of seeing to the philosophy of law. It’s inspiring to hear Graf tie together Bastiat,  Mises, Hoppe, and Ridley. I’m always interested in how NAP might play out in particular circumstances. For example, was Jefferson’s decision to form a Navy and attack T…[Read more]

I’ve pretty much always been a libertarian; raised that way.  But when I actually started paying attention to the State was back in the 80s, when a local farmer was busted for marijuana cultivation.  They took his place and most of what he had.  BEFORE the trial.  Once I started paying attention, I was appalled at how often that was happening!  I…[Read more]

By the way, here is a short video that does a great job explaining civil forfeiture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hytkAaoF2k.

 

By the way, here is a short video that does a great job explaining civil forfeiture: <span style=”font-size: medium;”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hytkAaoF2k</span>.