tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post6656707520215959746..comments2024-03-28T07:08:58.221-04:00Comments on Todd Seavey: Me on PJTV for Tea PartyTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-53825992787620750312009-04-15T13:48:00.000-04:002009-04-15T13:48:00.000-04:00I’m all for private solutions but also recognize t...I’m all for private solutions but also recognize the short-term acceptability of government doing the one or two potentially-useful things it’s tasked with doing, such as policing real crime — and that reminds me: if this previously-noted Obama-glorifying action figure represented real life, I guess we’d soon have our answer to the old question about who’s stronger, pirates or ninjas: <br><br><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3-h3lqEIcx0/SXeUVszcOBI/AAAAAAAACsU/PJER7Ob2kSc/s320/obama+machete.JPG" rel="nofollow">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3-h3lqEIcx0/SXeUVszcOBI/AAAAAAAACsU/PJER7Ob2kSc/s320/obama+machete.JPG</a><br><br>Once he took up the katana, the battle with pirates was perhaps inevitable. (This does not make the government itself any less predatory, of course.)Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-18096794827186846252009-04-15T13:29:00.000-04:002009-04-15T13:29:00.000-04:00It’s a fine thing for criminals to be punished, bu...It’s a fine thing for criminals to be punished, but it’s not the U.S. government’s job to fight all crime everywhere on the globe.<br><br>Peter Leeson has actually said a few things about how the Somali pirate situation might be addressed. See <a href="http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2YyYWQ0ZTQwYjQzZTFiZGViMGUzZTZlOWY5ZDgxMTg=" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS120065+13-Apr-2009+BW20090413" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Russell Hannekennoreply@blogger.com