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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (395444)10/7/2009 7:32:48 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
There's plenty of examples of creeping fascism around, but that particular example is lame Heritage Foundation chit that conveniently avoids the fact that the dude in question is a latter-day Ivory smuggler ...

usdoj.gov

This not quite so lame 'apology' from the Mises Institute at least acknowledges that fact, even while bemoaning that this "thriving" dude was brought down ...

blog.mises.org

Got Mr. Peabody and suchlike?

youtube.com



To: Broken_Clock who wrote (395444)10/7/2009 8:46:28 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
that is just, one word, "evil"
i would think encouraging trade in the orchids would encourage cultivation of same and so accomplish more than any law that puts oldsters in jail for trading such