Curt Doolittle

Category: Law, Constitution, and Jurisprudence

  • Great interview with a magazine today Smart guy. What I heard was that no one wa

    Great interview with a magazine today

    Smart guy.

    What I heard was that no one wants to hear that the fix for Ukraine is to replace the judiciary and then use media and the law to prosecute and constrain corruption to the political sphere. That all governments are corrupt and that the only concern is to remove corruption from the economic sphere.

    That democracy is not a solution. That American conservatives respect rule of law and American progressives democracy and that these two are incompatible.

    That the only way to educate people is to use propaganda. That Ukraine needs a PBS or BBC to stay on message.

    Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-07 05:51:00 UTC

  • Rule. Particularly rule of law. Under property, contract, money, credit – the vo

    Rule. Particularly rule of law. Under property, contract, money, credit – the voluntary organization of production is HARD.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-01 15:44:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/704693701679915008

    Reply addressees: @ForeignPolicy

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/704692931450564608

    IN REPLY TO:

    @ForeignPolicy

    Not all of Bolivia’s indigenous people are happy with Evo Morales, the country’s first indigenous president. https://t.co/0StAWxrcsl

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/704692931450564608

  • “Charles I’s speech in his own defense when Cromwell and the parliament put him

    —“Charles I’s speech in his own defense when Cromwell and the parliament put him on trial” — Colin Laney

    “I would know by what power I am called hither … I would know by what authority, I mean lawful ; there are many unlawful authorities in the world; thieves and robbers by the high-ways … Remember, I am your King, your lawful King, and what sins you bring upon your heads, and the judgement of God upon this land. Think well upon it, I say, think well upon it, before you go further from one sin to a greater … I have a trust committed to me by God, by old and lawful descent, I will not betray it, to answer a new unlawful authority; therefore resolve me that, and you shall hear more of me.

    I do stand more for the liberty of my people, than any here that come to be my pretended judges … I do not come here as submitting to the Court. I will stand as much for the privilege of the House of Commons, rightly understood, as any man here whatsoever: I see no House of Lords here, that may constitute a Parliament … Let me see a legal authority warranted by the Word of God, the Scriptures, or warranted by the constitutions of the Kingdom, and I will answer.

    It is not a slight thing you are about. I am sworn to keep the peace, by that duty I owe to God and my country; and I will do it to the last breath of my body. And therefore ye shall do well to satisfy, first, God, and then the country, by what authority you do it. If you do it by an usurped authority, you cannot answer it; there is a God in Heaven, that will call you, and all that give you power, to account.

    If it were only my own particular case, I would have satisfied myself with the protestation I made the last time I was here, against the legality of the Court, and that a King cannot be tried by any superior jurisdiction on earth: but it is not my case alone, it is the freedom and the liberty of the people of England; and do you pretend what you will, I stand more for their liberties. For if power without law, may make laws, may alter the fundamental laws of the Kingdom, I do not know what subject he is in England that can be sure of his life, or any thing that he calls his own.”

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-29 11:29:00 UTC

  • THE CHURCH AND STATE LIE. THE MILITIA AND JURY DO NOT. ***I suspect that very fe

    THE CHURCH AND STATE LIE. THE MILITIA AND JURY DO NOT.

    ***I suspect that very few people will understand either the central point: that credit money has been used to destroy us in order to justify democratic government.

    And even fewer will grasp the second point: the importance of our western discourse’s specialized languages for religious myth, moral poetry, amoral law, and scientific(truthful) politics and technology.

    Or the third point: that the western ethic has been unique in its predication upon the assumption of truthful speech, and that the success of the west in contrast to the rest was achieved when our truthfulness was not imposed upon by church in the medieval period, or state in the modern.

    Church and state lied. Science did not. And commerce cannot easily do so without defense by the state.***

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-28 08:11:00 UTC

  • (from elsewhere) How do you distinguish between those that should be banned and

    (from elsewhere)

    How do you distinguish between those that should be banned and those that should not? I assume murder, harm, theft, fraud, fraud by omission, fraud by suggestion, free riding, privatization of commons, socialization of losses, conspiracy, conversion, immigration, conquest, and genocide are out of the question. But you are undoubtably asking us about how we damage INFORMATION and BEHAVIOR.

    Public Sphere = in commons = visible

    Private Sphere = @home = invisible

    Personal Capital (body)

    Private Capital (Several Property – ‘things’)

    Private Reputation Capital (options on cooperation)

    Kin Capital (mates, offspring, relations)

    Kith Capital (friends, associates, partners in productivity)

    Physical Common Capital (territory, parks, roads, bridges, libraries…)

    Common Value of Private Capital (industry, business, crafts)

    Territorial and Resource Capital (borders, land, air, water, minerals)

    Monumental Capital (monuments, arts, letters, artifacts)

    Knowledge Capital (information as to what, how and why)

    Normative Common Capital (behaviors, manners, ethics, morals)

    Institutional Capital (laws, courts, governments, banks, money, processes)

    Human Capital (age ranges, education, and skills)

    Genetic Capital (domestication: limited sexual maturity, lower aggression, lower impulsivity, higher IQ, healthier, taller, fairer, stronger, faster.)

    I tend to talk in terms of existential capital. Stuff that exists. Naming specific things.

    All of these things can be measured one way or another.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-22 14:03:00 UTC

  • This is true. It’s why we must use the law to require truth. Because the cost of

    This is true. It’s why we must use the law to require truth. Because the cost of lying is too cheap vs truth.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-18 17:31:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/700372006831845377

    Reply addressees: @johann_theron @amerika_blog

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/700206452015808512

    IN REPLY TO:

    @johann_theron

    @amerika_blog @curtdoolittle What leftists do with x effort, takes us 10x to counter. Bound to lose unless we, use force multipliers

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/700206452015808512

  • All Legislative and Administrative “law” is by definition illegal. At best we ca

    All Legislative and Administrative “law” is by definition illegal. At best we can call it a contract provision negotiated on our behalf.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-16 16:19:51 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/699629272261124097

  • There is absolutely no reason we cannot have full suppression of parasitism via

    There is absolutely no reason we cannot have full suppression of parasitism via the common law. None. Other than monopoly State parasitism.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-16 16:17:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/699628597166927872

  • The only reason NOT to prefer the state is if the law provides retaliation and r

    The only reason NOT to prefer the state is if the law provides retaliation and restitution for all conflicts that create transaction costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-16 16:15:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/699628087047282690

  • If you want to create a condition of liberty, then use the law to eliminate what

    If you want to create a condition of liberty, then use the law to eliminate what creates demand for the state. Statism = Failure of Law.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-16 16:12:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/699627450859393024