See Roderick Long’s blogpost Left Cop, Right Cop. In my view, this just gives further support for the contention that we libertarians should associate ourselves with neither right nor left. Both are corrupt and statist.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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Agreed. And whenever one is preaching to “legalize” drugs, combine it with an appeal to “legalize” drug testing and private exclusion of dopers, the promiscious, whomever. In other words, Hoppean exclusion.
That’s one way to look at it. But of all the words in that phrase, I would think “cop” is one that’s instrumental to the subtext of corruption and statism.