Lawyers promote price gouging ideas with Legal Defense Fund

Rex Curry

A new Legal Defense Fund fights laws that ban price gouging during disasters such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Pro Price Gouging Legal Defense Fund (PPGLDF) will provide aid to people who are harassed or charged under anti-gouging laws. News media are asked to inform the public that pro bono help is available to buyers or sellers whenever law enforcement interferes with their commerce.

Criminal defense lawyers are organizing to end shortages caused by the laws and to restore a libertarian free market economy. The laws frighten citizens from offering goods and services to disaster victims, and the laws frighten disaster victims from negotiating for needed goods and services.

PPGLDF attorneys are arranging seminars to teach lawyers the libertarian arguments favoring gouging, its morality, and to train lawyers in defense strategies to assist defendants in court.

The PPGLDF was inspired by my personal experiences with price gouging laws after recent hurricanes in Florida. I am also a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and I help to educate my colleagues about so-called “price gouging.”

Florida's Attorney General Charlie Crist created gas shortages where there were no shortages. After Katrina, Crist created a fear of accusation that caused stations to stop selling gasoline that they had on hand. Crist created shortages, misery and suffering. His behavior could have killed people.

The anti-gouging mentality causes deaths, suffering, shortages, misery, and poverty as it did in the former USSR (62 million dead) and the Peoples’ Republic of China (35 million dead). Anti-gouging laws are another example of how the USA’s police state is growing.

Government schools in the U.S. do not teach basic economics, nor economic freedom, individual liberty and property rights. It is another reason why government schools must end. Charlie Crist is the poster child for ending government schools. His office terrorizes providers. Crist is crucifying everyone.

I also argued the motion to suppress in another victory against Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and against drug dogs. The dog case is presently before the United States Supreme Court. http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/04-1668.htm The Court recently asked for an official response and transcripts in the case, peaking interest in the case. Playboy Magazine’s September issue quoted my comment that “drug dogs are natural libertarians - without constant retraining they lose interest in the war on drugs. Let’s return them to protecting people from violence and theft, which is the only proper purpose of law enforcement anyway.” http://rexcurry.net/drugdog.jpg All anti-gouging laws should be retired for the same reason that all drug dogs should be retired.

As a member of the renowned National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), I help educate NACDL members, the legal community, and the general public about the beneficence of price gouging. http://rexcurry.net/price-gouging-legal-defense-fund.html

The NACDL listserv shows economic ignorance in posts from some lawyers who oppose price gouging. Some NACDL lawyers defended a police-state and stated "Better to have Mussolini than Michael Brown running FEMA," and "Mao more than ever," and "Mussolini .... was, at first, a very good leader" and referred reverentially to the anti-Semitic Karl Marx whose work inspired the worst murderers in history. Marx caused widespread poverty via the same arguments posited against price gouging. Charlie Crist uses similar arguments.

The NACDL is hosting a conference "Defending the White Collar Case: In and Out of Court" at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC on September 22-23.

There is a common misconception that price gouging is only a white-collar crime. Many poor people who desperately need money to buy food, medicine and other necessities are harassed and threatened if they try to sell anything they have to raise needed funds for purchases. The poor are also prevented from buying necessities when police harass and frighten away providers.

Curry speaks against anti-gouging laws on the following upcoming shows:

September 13th 9:00 p.m. - 9:40 p.m. Freedom Works! Radio with Paul Molloy

September 16th at 11 p.m. on AM-1350 WDCF & AM-1400 WZHR
(The WDCF & WZHR show might include a debate)

November 20 at 1:00 p.m. Liberty Watch Radio with Charles Heller

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net