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About Mark Jeftovic

I live in Toronto, Canada with my wife and daughter, I'm the founder and president of easyDNS.com - the DNS hosting provider & domain name registrar, a card-carrying Libertarian and former Director to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).

In my copious spare time I blog here about doing business on the internet and play guitar in The Parkdale Hookers, an indie power-pop group who releases all of our music under a creative commons license.

I can be emailed at markjr@myprivacy.ca (requires verification)

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Wednesday, December 5. 2007

He says that like it's a bad thing...

I don't know who Jesse Larner is, I don't own a gun, and I may be the only card carrying libertarian in the world who has never read an Ayn Rand book. But I felt I had to put down my thoughts in response to his "Sinister Folly of Ayn Rand" rant on the Huffington Post. Specifically this comment:

In her insistence that she owed nothing to the state, nothing to any human being other than herself, Rand epitomized the kind of childishness shown by libertarians who insist that they have every legal and moral right to own as many guns as they please, pay no taxes, educate their children at home, and live free of any law except those governing, in the most direct manner, their own security and that of their neighbors. A watered-down form of this nonsense today exists in the platform of presidential candidate Ron Paul...

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Posted by Mark Jeftovic in Personal Liberty at 11:59 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)