[lbo-talk] Rockwell: Daylight Savings Time is Totalitarianism!

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 30 14:24:39 PST 2006


On Oct 30, 2006, at 5:05 PM, mike larkin wrote:


> http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/011627.html
>
> Posted by Lew Rockwell at October 30, 2006 02:01 PM
> How wonderful for an early riser to have the former War Savings
> Time ended, at least for a while, and the clock returned to normal.
> This totalitarian intervention began in 1917 for Wilson's war.
> Thanks to popular opposition, Congress repealed it in 1919 over
> Woodrow's veto, but as you might guess, FDR brought it back for his
> war, and today, we think nothing of the leviathan state handing
> down its time edict twice a year.

This is a joke, right? What is "normal" time? It's all a convention. Libertarians can be so funny.

Doug



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