L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith should not be confused with J. Neil Schulman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth12 May 1946
CountryUnited States of America
trials process due-process
I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings.
rights government bills
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
law differences bigs
There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.
uncles war fiction
My current novel, Pallas , is all about that culture war - in fact it's been called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Sagebrush Rebellion - and yet what I hear all too often from libertarians is that they don't read fiction.
fun dirty social-values
Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun . When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.
internet strive
The only hope we have is the Internet. We must strive to keep it free.
groups sometimes individual
Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.
mistake government people
Even if drugs are fully as destructive as they are usually claimed to be, it is morally wrong and demonstrably more destructive for government to deprive people of their unalienable, individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to make an utter mess of their own lives. Since human beings are inclined to learn more from the mistakes they make, rather than from their triumphs, the right to fail, for individuals and groups alike, may be even more important than the right to succeed, and it must be fiercely protected at almost any cost.
law america drug
America didn't have a drug problem before it passed drug laws.
party libertarian beloved
Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
states collectives incapable
Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
successful light sight
The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.
bravery goes-on capacity
And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.
teacher kids exercise
Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they died from too few. I'm not suggesting that the teachers should have carried guns not as franchised agents of the state. They should have carried guns as ordinary individuals, exercising a sacred right, and in performance of a solemn duty to protect the young lives that were placed very foolishly, as it turned out in their hands.