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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4641)	11/13/2024 8:14:13 PM
From: Maple MAGA	3 Recommendations Recommended By longz Mick Mørmøny Thomas M. Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4940

Quote of the Day for November 13, 2024 From “Consumerism” There is no such thing as “consumers’ rights,” just as there can be no “rights” belonging to some special group or race and to no others. There are only the rights of man—rights possessed by every individual man and by all men as individuals. The right to be protected from physical injury or fraud belongs to all men, not merely to “consumers,” and does not require any special protection other than that provided by the criminal law . . . If a businessman—or any other citizen—willfully and knowingly cheats or injures others (“consumers” or otherwise), it is a matter to be proved and punished in a criminal court. But the precedent which [the “consumer protection” movement] is here attempting to establish is the legal hallmark of a dictatorship: preventive law—the concept that a man is guilty until he is proved innocent by the permissive rubber stamp of a commissar or a Gauleiter. What protects us from any private citizen who may choose to turn criminal and injure or defraud us? That, precisely, is the proper duty of a government. But if the government assumes a totalitarian power and its officials are not subject to any law, then who will protect us from our protectors? What will be our recourse against the dishonesty, vindictiveness, cupidity or stupidity of a bureaucrat? If matters such as science are to be placed into the unanswerable power of a single bureau, what will guarantee the superior wisdom, justice and integrity of the bureaucrats? Why, the vote of the people, a statist would answer—of the people who choose the ruler who then appoints the bureaucrats—of the same people whom [he] does not consider competent to choose electric toasters, credit contracts, face lotions, laxative tablets or canned vegetables. “Who Will Protect Us from Our Protectors?” The Objectivist Newsletter, May 1962, 20

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4641)	11/14/2024 10:08:50 AM
From: Tom Clarke	1 Recommendation Recommended By Thomas M. Respond to of 4940

You hated him 4 years ago and still do now. Despite the hate, he's a consistent winner and overachiever. Call it jealousy or envy, some people can't handle his success and wealth. There have been scandals, lies, and twisted truths, but he proves his haters wrong time and time again. You may not have wanted him in this job, but there's nothing we can do about it. I know it might get worse over the next several weeks, but like him or not, Tom Brady is doing a great job as an NFL sportscaster.