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** TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020
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If their object had really been to abolish slavery, or maintain liberty or justice generally, they had only to say: All, whether white or black, who want the protection of this government, shall have it; and all who do not want it, will be left in peace, so long as they leave us in peace. Had they said this, slavery would have necessarily have been abolished at once; the war would have been saved; and a thousand time nobler union than we have ever had would have been the result. It would have been a voluntary union of free men; such a union as will one day exist among all men, the world over, if the several nations, so called, shall ever get rid of the usurpers, robbers, and murderers, called governments, that now plunder, enslave, and destroy them.
– Lysander Spooner, No Treason ([link removed]) [1870]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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January 21, 2020
The Absurdity of the U.S. Prosecution of Meng Wanzhou ([link removed])
The U.S. extradition proceedings against Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou only goes to show the utter perversity of the U.S. government’s policy of imposing economic sanctions on foreign regimes and, in a larger context, the perversity of the entire U.S. foreign policy of interventionism and meddling in the affairs of other nations. Meng is the chief ...
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