Homebrew Tasting and Informal Legal Issues Discussion

Please join me on Tuesday, January 22 to taste some Auburn Brew Club homebrewed beer and discuss the need to change our legal and political environment with respect to many civil liberties, including our ability to engage in brewing beer for personal use.

We’ll have with us Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, who is the author of works such as The Economics of Prohibition and The Rise and Fall of Puritanical Policy in the United States. I bet Mark will also have some Ron Paul material available if anyone would like some!

The homebrew bill we’d like to get passed in Alabama this year can be found here. This will be very informal and casual, just a bunch of us sitting around talking about these important issues and enjoying the beer. Just like our club meetings, bring a chair, some homebrew and a snack if you like. Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested and to bring a friend.

When: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 @ 6:30
Where: John L.’s basement/dungeon/brewery

Excerpts:

The Economics of Prohibition - “In his final contribution on Prohibition (1930), [Irving Fisher, a champion of Prohibition in the economics profession,] uncharacteristically compromised with the wets by supporting the ‘right’ to home production and consumption. He claimed that legalizing home production would reduce the requirements on law enforcement and eliminate the personal-liberty argument from the public debate. It is unclear whether Fisher used this as a last-ditch effort to save Prohibition or if he realized its futility. He admitted that such a modification would decrease the number of opponents of Prohibition by ‘thousands, if not millions’ and … made one statement admitting the infeasibility of prohibition: …’it is absurd to expect home production to be prevented by enforcement officers’ (1930, 454).”

The Rise and Fall of Puritanical Policy in the United States - “[O]nly a return to the principles of individual liberty can restore the American way of life.”

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