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Some government regulations that are made with good intentions still lead to bad results. The Endangered Species Act is a good example of such a law. In this video, economics professor Don Boudreaux examines the Endangered Species Act, and uses it to explain how policymakers’ good intentions sometimes go awry. While the law intends to preserve threatened animals, it actually has the effect of giving landowners strong reasons to kill any endangered species they find on their property. This phenomenon is known as “shoot, shovel, and shut up.” Boudreaux implores us not to judge a policy by its intentions, but by its results. We can’t assume a policy will be good just because the intentions of the policymakers are good.
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA is but another example of outrageous and unconstitutional government intrusion.
Poet, essayist, and lecturer Ralph Waldo Emerson argued in an 1838 letter to President Martin Van Buren that the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from its land in Georgia to modern-day Oklahoma was wrong. Emerson’s was one of many voices protesting the government’s treatment of the Cherokee people. This extended excerpt from his letter, read by Professor Amy Sturgis, demonstrates that people at the time were aware that what the U.S. government proposed to do was a grave injustice and should not have happened. Emerson’s and others’ protests fell on deaf ears. The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation became known as the Trail of Tears and remains a blemish on U.S. history.
Just because politicians think something is a “good idea” doesn’t make it constitutional.
Giving the federal government the power to arrest American citizens without charge or due process represents a terrifying new low.
In a free society, what can the government keep from us? Tonight: Your employees and their secrecy and their lying.
Originally aired 10/28/11 on “Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano” on Fox Business Network
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What’s so patriotic about the Patriot Act? Tonight: Assaulting the Constitution, and resisting the assaults.
Originally aired 10/26/11 on “Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano” on Fox Business Network
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Tom Woods comments on AlterNet.org’s article “5 Reasons Progressives Should Treat Ron Paul with Extreme Caution,” and takes on the bizarre and twisted priorities on display there.
Many Republicans now call themselves “constitutional conservatives.” Very few of them mean it because very few know what it means.
Tom Woods considers the shortcomings of GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, who has been described as a “Tea Party favorite.”
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Giving the federal government unprecedented and unconstitutional power is the antithesis of American conservatism.
Tom Woods looks at Mother Jones magazine’s super-scary list of “Ron Paul’s 15 Most Extreme Positions.”
The death of Osama Bin Laden is no excuse for defending George W. Bush and big government.
For the Left, the Civil War was not only just about slavery, it must be just about slavery.
In the wake of the Koran burning controversy, Sen. Lindsey Graham was quick to call for limiting free speech but never the wars we fight allegedly to protect these same freedoms.
