The Government Loves To Grab New Powers in the Name of Your Safety

From protests to the coronavirus, it thinks it can protect you from anything.

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The Government Loves To Grab New Powers in the Name of Your Safety

The original line-up of The Reason Roundtable is back! Matt Welch leads Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie through a discussion of shootings and police violence, coronavirus and security theater, and Joe Biden's immigration policies.

Discussed in the show:

01:43: Recent police shootings, gun violence, and the inevitable subsequent unfolding of protests, qualified immunity cases, and tighter regulations.

18:07: How the press covers protests and the coronavirus.

30:38: Biden's refugee cap is no different than Trump's, for now.

45:47: Weekly Listener Question: What should be my greater concern as a libertarian: denying would-be immigrants citizenship, or the ever-growing deficits from the welfare state?

49:37: Media recommendations for the week.

This week's links:

• "Biden Called Trump's Refugee Cap 'Cruel and Shortsighted.' He's Keeping It in Place—for Now," by Billy Binion
• "More Than A Dozen States Are Trying To Nullify Federal Gun Control," by John Osterhoudt (video)
• "Congress Is Closer Than Ever to Ending the Federal War on Weed," by C.J. Ciaramella
• "Police in Minnesota round up journalists covering protest, force them on the ground and take pictures of their faces," by Adrianna Rodriguez
• "Florida's 'Anti-Rioting' Bill Gives the Government New Powers That Have Nothing to Do With Riots," by Scott Shackford

Send your questions by email to [e-mail]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.

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Audio production by Ian Keyser.
Assistant production by Regan Taylor.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve.

What are we consuming this week?

Katherine Mangu-Ward

• A Children’s Bible: A Novel by Lydia Millet

Nick Gillespie

• Jake Paul vs. Ben Askren

Peter Suderman

• Hitman III

Matt Welch

• Maritime Aquarium's 4-D Theater

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[buckleup]

Democrats are so special. Call everyone else a fascist, stick their thumbs up their butts, and hope for the best.

[Ron]

I was hoping they would discuss how both Michigan and Oregon now want the pandemic powers and orders to last forever now. Temporary rules my ass they want mask and lockdowns forever

[JesseAz]

No mean tweets. Thats the important part.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Reason writers love pushing the narrative to allow government power to grow. The Sicknick reporting seems to be their latest attempt to spread lies in support of their perferred reality.

The only people we should consider charging with murder are those who are actually responsible for Sicknick's injuries.

https://reason.com/2021/01/08/what-should-happen-to-the-capitol-invaders/

Just another in a long list of delusions like Trump/Russia collusion, Trump calling for insurrection, Russian bounties on US troops, kids in cages. Meanwhile, also having zero interest in Hunter Biden's laptop, constant rioting and looting by the left (except of Rommelman), or even the slightest investigation into election fraud cases. Reason is offically a garbage tabloid rag.

[JesseAz]

There will be no mea culpa over that storyline there was none over the bounty story. WK, reason, et al will refuse to admit they are the useful idiots of the left and freely help narrative build.

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[TJJ2000]

American dream - Government should protect you in the name of your own Individual Liberty and Justice.

When National Gov-Guns are used for Democratic Social Justice we get 'Hitlers' of National Socialism (def; Nazism).

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[BigGiveNotBigGov]

To our pathetically cowardly police arguing that they need us all denied more rights, especially RKBA rights, or they will murder even more of us and to any tempted to believe their lies or give in to their extortion - “Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.”
— Orson Welles

Those noted in the pod fat, early, defined benefit pensions are the sole passions of their lives for police. Making those subject to civil asset forfeiture to citizens in cases of police misconduct would be both poetic justice and quite effective. Seeing their bad cop buddy living his retirement in a fleabag weekly motel eating cat food, while fighting an endless and futile fight to prove that he isn't / wasn't actually that bad to get part of his extravagant pension back would be a caution missed by few.

[DarrellFranklin]

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