Via Jesse Walker, Reason
Marcus Raskin, Notes on the Old System, 1974 - Since 1933, the United States has been in a declared state of national emergency and crisis. During this period Congress delegated, through 580 code sections, discretionary authority to the president "which taken all together, confer the power to rule this country without reference to normal constitutonal processes."...Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may seize properties, mobilize production, seize commodities, institute martial law, seize control of all transportation and communications, regulate private capital, restrict travel, and—in a host of particular and peculiar ways—control the activities of all American citizens.
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All of that is true, but never forget that Reason magazine denied the Holocaust in the 1970s: https://pando.com/2014/07/24/as-reasons-editor-defends-its-racist-history-heres-a-copy-of-its-holocaust-denial-special-issue/ (Mark Ames wrote the article that links to.)
Strelnikov, I looked at your url. What I saw was a lot of claims not supported by the actual texts being complained-about. I think you ought to support your thesis with some solid -not "interpreted"- quotations from Reason. Or withdraw your claim about denial.
(I hold no brief for Reason and CERTAINLY none for "Libertarianism". But I do prefer truth over rubbish.)
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