Pubdate: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 Source: Valley Voice, The (CN BC) Copyright: 2011 The Valley Voice Contact: http://www.valleyvoice.ca/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1388 Author: Ed Nixon OUR LIVES AND FREEDOMS ARE STRICTLY CONTROLLED Stephen Harper has determined that he wants to spend billions of dollars to build prisons and to fight a war on drugs that is unwinnable. He calls them "unreported crimes" - what can unreported crimes be but vices? In a truly free society, vices would never be considered a crime. You can find an excellent argument for this by Lysander Spooner in the middle of the 19th century and it is more relevant today than ever. You can read this at www.lysanderspooner.org/VicesAreNotCrimes.htm Ed Nixon - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake