The Lone Libertarian

There’s an interesting headline coming from India concerning population control, and gun rights.

Shivpuri district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, an overpopulated area renowned for its machismo culture, has started to offer fast-tracked gun licences for those who agree to be sterilised.

The Indian government fast-tracks those who agree to have vasectomies.  The vasectomy does not guarantee that you will obtain said license, however.  Out of the 15,000 annual applications for gun licenses in this region, only 500 are granted.  Those aren’t very good odds.  However, 139 men have thus far taken that risk.

This is in a district that has a high number of bandits, abductions, and killings.

Let me try and understand the line of reasoning that the Indian government is posing.  There is a population problem in the region and they need the birthrate to decrease.  They offer an incentive for a fast gun license (if you can get it).  Meanwhile the bandits still have guns and could be killing innocent people.  The bandits and outlaws need no license, because they are criminals, thus they keep their fertility.  The bandits make little bandits, and so on and so forth.  The outlaws and the government slow the reproduction rate of the law abiding citizens.

Hey, Indians, this may not be such a good idea.  Just my $0.02 (or my 1 rupee).

From WMC TV (link) Memphis City Councilwoman Janis Fullilove in :

“I listened to the person on your station, Janice Broach, and I’m gonna tell Janice Broach my grandmother always told me, ‘You dig one hole, you better dig two.’ And Janice, you better watch out. You’re hole comin’ baby.”

How professional. I guess Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton gave her a few lessons on how to deal with reporters that just report the facts, unaltered, about publicly elected officials.

The “inflammatory” report by Janice Broach, as well as video, can be found here.

Fullilove’s car T-boned the vehicle of Yolanda McWherter at a Highway 61 intersection in Tunica County on Friday, May 2nd. Seven-year-old Mikayla Gill, McWherter’s daughter, sustained injuries to her liver and spleen.

The fact that she is claiming that she is going to “seek therapy for a medical problem” in the wake of this crash makes one wonder if something happened under the table in order for the Mississippi Highway Patrol to not charge her with anything.

Lets not forget that Fullilove did plead guilty to drunken driving in 1999, before she entered public life, while working as a radio personality at WMC 790 AM.

Let’s also not forget that she was pulled over in March of this year in Mississippi on I-69, and booked for DUI due to refusing a field sobriety test and careless driving. That case is still pending.

Something smells fishy here. The admission to a friend that she had two glasses of wine that evening before driving home is pretty damning.

There’s never a dull day in Memphis, that’s for sure.

It’s official. After many months of speculation and rumors, former Congressman Bob Barr has thrown his hat into the ring. Barr is seeking the nomination of the Libertarian Party, which holds its convention in a few short weeks during Memorial Day weekend.

The audio of his announcement as well as questions fielded by the press can be found here.

Video of the announcement, plus an interview below.

I find this announcement both predictable, and yet refreshing.  Maybe Barr could lend a certain credibility to the party considering he was a Congressman for the 7th District of Georgia in the US House, as opposed to the field of other candidates (past and present), such as a professional sports handicapper and a comedian.

I know that this is probably old news, but I’m just catching it. I know it’s not the candidate that said it, but wow.

It makes one wonder.

Edit: It would seem that I, and much of the blogosphere were bamboozled. The video clip comes from the movie “The War Room” that follows the 1992 Clinton campaign. The statement “How would you like to be a white n*gger”, seemingly uttered by campaign manager Mickey Kantor, was fabricated and edited in. The original clip I posted has been removed, which is telling. You can watch the unaltered footage below. The real meat starts around 4:30.