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Couple Sentenced on Marijuana Charge After Son Turns Them In

Children turning in their parents were officially cheered by the Soviet regime, but even Stalin had enough sense to call one such kid “a little pig” privately. Here’s what happened to a couple in Pennsylvania.

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  • Tourniquet

    Holy hell! That kid needs his ass whipped. Then to have to stand in front of the court and beg mercy. I wonder if the DA told the man to surrender his dignity at the door?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Sedkowski/100001467305337 Paul Sedkowski

    They should write a book on parenting tips…

  • chris

    I loved the comment at the end “Today’s proceedings spared the defendants’ son from having to testify against his parents” meaning that, had the parents fought the charge, the DA wouldn’t have hesitated and force the little bastard to testify.

  • chris

    you mean read one or two ?

  • kirk

    the ‘descent into the maelstrom’ continues, aided and abetted by blood relatives, indicating the very low level to which this nation has descended.

    the soviet homeland is alive, well and metastasized to the u. s., likely a product of the ‘education’ received in the gulags we call ‘schools’.

    i wonder if the little snitch knows his potus smoked (s?) tobacco and pot?

    this is disgusting.

  • Anonymous

    Three more years and they can be rid of this child. Plan a party, celebrate and move without a forwarding address.

  • Evgeny

    People trust government more than anybody else – dream of all dictatorships.

    However I can imagine situation when kid have a moral obligation to tip police in contrary to cover parent’s crime.

    What would you say if that wasn’t a harmless narcotic crime but some kind of a violent crime???

  • Michael Mills

    I say I’d rather side with the entity that commits less crime overall.

  • chris

    that’s a really excellent answer !!!

  • Evgeny

    F.e. you have oppressive state which (for sure) killed millions of people,
    than will you let the murder to walk away from that state officials?
    (lets assume that murder wasn’t connected with fight back against the state)

    Is it right just because govt collectively killed more than that person alone?

    I would like to use one evil to defeat another that doesn’t mean I choose one evil side or another.

  • Anonymous

    This will sound harsh. The kid deserves a life destroyed by CPS. Sadly, the community doesn’t deserve another broken person dependent on an evil system. The only question in my mind is was this kid naturally an egocentric immoral piece of trash, or was it the parents fault? For the record I have never smoked anything at all, much less pot and don’t condone it. But I find any person who would turn in his family repulsive. (unless they are violent of course)

  • Anonymous

    “That kid needs his ass whipped”

    I disagree with that statement, though I understand the sentiment.

  • Anonymous

    Just because something is prohibited by statute doesn’t mean that it is justifiably to be called a crime. Can you please explain to me in reasonable terms what the crime was in this case.

  • Anonymous

    I’m pretty sure that they are rid of him effective immediately. I’d imagine that he will become a ward of the state or at the very least under the guardianship of a relative. I don’t know what the family relationship was before this, but I think it’s safe to say that this family is now forever torn. Depending upon how forgiving his parents are, this child just may have inflicted the greatest punishment unto himself, and it was probably spurred by a very petty disagreement (e.g. curfew, chores, grades, grounding, etc).

  • http://twitter.com/theverylastuser TheVeryLastUser

    Ironically, in a libertarian sense, it is the teenager that is the criminal here (and the state, of course)–at least based on the presented information.

  • Michael Mills

    only if I have to choose… Lol

  • Anonymous

    What a despicable thing to do to those who have nurtured and cared for you your whole life, and over a victimless and harmless “crime” no less. This is what happens when we let government babysitters brainwash our children day in and day out for years. It boggles the mind that there are people in authority who think this is enlightened and compassionate justice. It makes my blood boil.

  • Anonymous

    I would say that you have given us an entirely irrelevant hypothetical. The whole point here is that because of this very misguided kid the parents have been humiliated, traumatized and unjustly punished for doing something that harms no innocent party. Violence against innocent people is an entirely different matter.

  • Evgeny

    But in this concrete example you have to choose – let murder go away or let him to be punished by evil state.

    Other option? Close your eyes and imagine you haven’t seen that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3YU52EINCBVVCOFOD5A5IHOJWA Bruce C

    What a travesty. I think the parents were told to parrot the government line to get a more lenient sentence, as if they were defiant they could throw the book at them. It’s weed, not bombs. I see parents getting drunk at restaurants with toddlers sitting next to them, but Dad smoking pot and growing his own is a big crime. You’d think that of all the things the liberal left would have actually accomplished, it would be decriminalization of marijuana. I think that serves as proof they’re not just pro government, they’re anti-liberty.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3YU52EINCBVVCOFOD5A5IHOJWA Bruce C

    Tip one. Don’t have kids in today’s legal, economic, and cultural environment.

  • Evgeny

    Hmm… My English is probably very bad. :(
    I never stated that I do support criminalization of any drugs. I don’t support conviction in this case as well.

    My reply was related to comment about about hypocritical “little pig” from bloody and cynical dictator.
    What I meant to say: sometime kids getting a tough choice – to betray parents or to conceal disgusting crime.

  • Anonymous

    That’s cool, I’ve had many times where my point didn’t come through as I had hoped. However, there is quite a difference between this case and cases of violence or encroachment.

    I don’t know anything, but if I were to guess I would say that this whole thing is based upon some sort of disagreement between the parents and the child, that this disagreement was very minor, but that the kid got it into his head that he was going to “really get them back”.

    This would not be at all uncommon for a kid his age, and more than likely he has created far more problems for both himself and his parents than he had originally planned.

    Teenager’s time preferences are very short, they don’t see the long term, nor do they see the bigger picture in terms of consequences. I don’t think that this family will ever be the same after this, I only hope that they can forgive and recover. Though I don’t think that that is likely.

    One cannot simply un-forget things by choice (just as one cannot choose one’s own beliefs), the mind doesn’t allow this. In the act of forgiving, people can only do penance for other’s actions, and this is only deepened by the love had for that other person (esp. if it is your own child or kin). Not everybody has the same will for such things … I would say that most do not.

  • Evgeny

    As I said – there is no moral obligations in general to cover parent’s crime.

    In this case I agree: there is no crime committed from my POV and kid was mislead by govt.

  • Anonymous

    The only good thing I see are the comments on that article, no one supports it and they mock drug prohibition. It will just be a matter of time before the drug war is history. Or at least part of it.

  • Michael Mills

    Can do… well not really but you’d be surprised how well the ability to ignore the USA blowing up children translates to possible family member killing someone.

    Trust me blood is still thicker than water and if its all over my clean carpet I know it.

    (I’m making jokes at this point. I’ll cross that bridge if I get to it. I mean what if I really hated the person they killed? OK joking again… or am I? cue scary music)

  • FarSide.Liberty

    “When I get out of jail, you are SO grounded!”

    I think this is a great lesson to all us parents that we need to teach kids right from the start that family is more important than the state, and you don’t rat out your own. (I mean if cops don’t rat each other out about things like murder, assault, fishing for underage girls on chat rooms, etc. then why should we be turning on our own family?)

    Also, we need to be making sure we teach our kids that ‘breaking a law’ is not the same as ‘a crime’

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1124894434 Jason Whittington

    I had that discussion many times with my kids. They know.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1124894434 Jason Whittington

    There is only one time it is EVER okay to snitch your parents out – if they are abusing you or another loved one. Period.