{"id":24939,"date":"2014-04-01T08:32:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24939"},"modified":"2014-04-01T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T13:34:15","slug":"libertarian-police-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/01\/libertarian-police-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Libertarian Police Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/shouts\/2014\/03\/libertarian-police-department.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tom O&#8217;Donnell<\/a> goes on the road with the hardworking cops of the LPD:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was shooting heroin and reading <em>The Fountainhead<\/em> in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad news, detective. We got a situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorse. Somebody just stole 474 million dollars\u2019 worth of bitcoins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. \u201cWhat kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot yet. But mark my words: we\u2019re going to figure out who did this and we\u2019re going to take them down\u2026 provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEasy, chief,\u201d I said, \u201cAny rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He laughed. \u201cThat\u2019s why you\u2019re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019m on it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Walter Olson:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The New Yorker correctly tagged this as libertarian satire, Salon would have run it as a documentary [h\/t D.H.] <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/oZa3SLVCMg\">http:\/\/t.co\/oZa3SLVCMg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Walter Olson (@walterolson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/walterolson\/statuses\/450981001465180161\">April 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The New Yorker, Tom O&#8217;Donnell goes on the road with the hardworking cops of the LPD: I was shooting heroin and reading The Fountainhead in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief. \u201cBad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,10],"tags":[899,550,463,98],"class_list":["post-24939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-liberty","tag-bitcoin","tag-libertarianism","tag-parody","tag-police"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6uf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24942,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24939\/revisions\/24942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}