(Update)All Libertarians Only Care About Taxes and White People
By Mona
Everyone “knows” that, right? Well Radley Balko’s Pulitzer-worthy journalism was the sine qua non of this. Or at least, his publicity-generating investigations mean that Cory Maye will now have a superb defense team. (And for those who may not know, Maye is an African-American.)
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Update: Balko quoted at Mississippi’s Clarionledger.com (scroll up a bit past comments):
Radley Balko, an investigative reporter and senior editor for Reason magazine, has written extensively about the case, calling it an outrage.
Tuesday’s decision is the best Maye could have hoped for, he said, but the opinion was lacking because the judges “went out of their way to avoid the more controversial parts of the case,” such as whether the search warrant was obtained fraudulently.
His advice to prosecutors would be to offer Maye a plea that would let him go home to his family.
“The guy has been in prison for eight years, more than half that time on death row,” Balko said. “At worst, he’s guilty of poor judgment under some pretty traumatic circumstances. He had no criminal record, wasn’t a drug dealer and has been a model prisoner. Cory Maye isn’t a threat to society. Let him go back to Monticello to be a father.”
Comment by Mithras —
November 17, 2009 @ 11:35 pm
And pot!
All libertarians only care about taxes, white people and pot.
Comment by Mona —
November 18, 2009 @ 1:50 am
Oh yeah, teh drugs. All libertarians only care about no taxes, white people, and being able to do drugs, especially pot. pffft
Comment by Ray —
November 18, 2009 @ 4:45 am
95% of libertarians only care about taxes, drugs, and white people.
Comment by von Laue —
November 18, 2009 @ 6:46 am
Ray is right!
It’s unlikely that I am one in twenty; shit.
Comment by JDC —
November 18, 2009 @ 6:48 am
Sheesh. I don’t think libertarians care about white people.
Comment by Moe Blues —
November 18, 2009 @ 10:01 am
All Libertarians only care about taxes and white people.”
Gotta admit, that’s a new one on me. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say this, or read where anyone had written it–except for the title of this post.
Comment by Thoreau —
November 18, 2009 @ 12:51 pm
You forgot guns. Libertarians also care about guns.
Comment by Ray —
November 18, 2009 @ 1:59 pm
That’s too broad. (95% of) Libertarians don’t care about the army having guns, or even the police having guns (and SWAT teams having very big guns) – as long as they aren’t being used to collect taxes or arrest (white) people for having drugs.
I mean really, you could just say
(95% of) Libertarians only care about themselves.
Comment by b-psycho —
November 18, 2009 @ 6:49 pm
95% of PEOPLE only care about themselves. That there is no reliable method of barring all but the unique other 5% from political power is at root why libertarianism exists at all.
Comment by von Laue —
November 18, 2009 @ 10:42 pm
Ray and I almost forgot in our hating of the libertarians to be happy that a likely-innocent man is getting a new trial in a much more favorable jurisdiction. Fuck you again for confusing us, libertarians!
Comment by Fraud Guy —
November 18, 2009 @ 10:45 pm
So, amongst their chief cares are weapons, taxes, white people, and drugs?
Comment by Mona —
November 18, 2009 @ 11:20 pm
You’re welcome
Comment by Thoreau —
November 18, 2009 @ 11:29 pm
Don’t forget gold-backed currency. And colloidal silver. And comic books.
See, we care about lots of things!
Comment by matthew h —
November 18, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
But aside from caring about taxes, weapons, white people, drugs, gold-backed currency, colloidal silver, comic books and Cory Maye, what have the libertarians ever done for us?
Comment by Ximinez —
November 19, 2009 @ 12:14 am
…And nice red uniforms.
Comment by Seward —
November 19, 2009 @ 1:46 am
Libertarians are also pretty keen on ending eminent domain abuse. Witness the multiple head explosion over that crappy Kelo decision.
Comment by Ray —
November 19, 2009 @ 4:57 am
“95% of PEOPLE only care about themselves.”
Yes, but only libertarians have thought up a political philosophy to justify that selfishness.
Comment by von Laue —
November 19, 2009 @ 8:01 am
That’s the spirit, Ray!
Comment by Ray —
November 19, 2009 @ 10:02 am
It’s funny because it’s (68%) true.
Comment by b-psycho —
November 19, 2009 @ 11:19 am
You’re thinking of Objectivism, Ray. And I agree that way too many who call themselves libertarians subscribe to such contradictory, unworkable, fantasy bullshit.
No, selfishness is not a virtue, helping others isn’t evil, and anyone who thinks the most persecuted people in modern society are businessmen has the IQ of a fish.
Comment by Seward —
November 22, 2009 @ 9:12 am
Selfishness can be a virtue; it depends on the context. You can do a lot to serve your fellow man by being selfish in fact.