Do you know what is dangerous about punishing someone for a “crime” he did not commit? You practically give him permission to go ahead and do it anyway. Well, why not, he will reason, when he’s already done time for it? That’s free trade of a more karmic nature. Last week, when the employees of the Philippine post office pawed through a present they had no right to touch, inspected a letter they had no right to read, and shook me down for duties they had no right to demand, they unwittingly created a smuggler. That’s right: the direct result … Continue reading A Smuggler Is Born!