Comments on: Child Rapists Have Military Demeanor, Our Government Must Be Wrong

By: Positive Liberty » Interesting Questions on Children and the FLDS

Positive Liberty » Interesting Questions on Children and the FLDS — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:32:17 +0000

[...] Here’s a fascinating exchange between Kerry Howley and Timothy Sandefur regarding the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (noted previously here and here). I should add that subsequent details about police and court procedure both before and after the raid on the FLDS compound have been very troubling to me, making me doubt my previous, uncomplicated endorsement of the state’s actions. [...]

By: An Exercise in Sanity

An Exercise in Sanity — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:21:02 +0000

Children in a Libertarian Utopia…

Several related topics have come up in just the last couple days that I’d like to clarify my position on. People still seem to labor under the impression that libertarians, in general, should be opposed to government interference in just about an…

By: AMW

AMW — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:40:49 +0000

Shaffer’s post is pretty poor, but I lean toward Steven on this one. Shaffer is trying to draw a moral equivalence between the actions of the U.S. military and the actions of the religious sect. Sandefur’s right, though: it’s pretty stupid to say “the Feds are doing bad things, so how dare State and Local officials be self-righteous in their fight against crime.”

By: Braxton Thomason

Braxton Thomason — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:13:07 +0000

Steven: No, Shaffer is condemming our government for a morally correct action, which is just stupid. Saying that “since Sandefur has a problem with the government, he shouldn’t criticize other people’s criticism of the government” is asinine.

Shaffer is implicitly condoning child rape by saying that the government shouldn’t have retrieved those children.

By: steven

steven — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:27:35 +0000

I think that Sandefur is trying to pull an elephant out of a donkey’s hind end here. Shaffer isn’t trying to condone the rape of children in any way, shape or form. He is condemning our government, which is what I think Sandefur has the problem with.