[extropy-chat] how sleep deprivation skews perception

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Sean Diggins  <sean at valuationpartners.com.au> wrote:

>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lorrey
> 
> As I've said before: if a nation fails to develop (running water,
> among
> other things) it is because that nation fails to or refuses to
> establish institutions that protect private property rights. It is no
> fault of ours.
> 
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> You really ARE a true libertarian Mike. No grey/gray areas for you.
> It's ALL clear as day.
> That last sentence....what a wonderful thing to be able to say that
> to the mirror each morning.
> I'm with you, Mike.  

You're not that good at sarcasm, Sean, any more than Penn is. 

> 
> Third world thugs would rather spend their meager resources, and
> whatever aid they can beg, borrow, or steal, for weaponry and more
> thuggish underlings, to subject their citizens and expand their
> tyranny. Typically this is with the assistance of so-called
> 'liberation' forces backed by socialist/communist causes.
> 
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> 
> And you, as a wise, informed "Vice Chair" (still one rung to go eh?)
> have personally witnessed this "backing by socialist/communist
> causes"?

You are new here, so I won't get ticked at your ignorance.

> But somehow, during your travels, you missed all the backing by
> manifestly corrupt, cynical capitalist administrations of various
> western democracies?

What makes you think they are capitalist administrations? Most of the
western democracies are quite socialized, even most of the US. The US
as a whole is not capitalist, it is mercantilist.

> Or the fact that a large proportion of your so called "third world
> thugs" are actually stooges? 

Stooges for who? Yes, I know who in quite a few cases.

> And just which socialist/communist causes around the place today have
> sufficient resources to be backing up thugs, despots and dictators?
> Maybe Castro is their banker, eh?

Chinese Communist Party, Peoples Revolutionary Army (the largest
business owner in China), The 5th ComIntern (profits from the looting
of the USSR, and operatives from the former-KGB), the US and EU labor
movements. As well as FARC.

> 
> Sooner or later, it all comes down to plundering. Who are the
> plunderers?
> Communists?

Who is the biggest cocaine trafficker right now? FARC, a communist
organization, with revinues in the billions. They could be a Fortune
500 company if they wanted to be. What would happen to them if the US
ended the drug war? FARC would lose hundreds of millions, if not
billions, of dollars in profits. Why would the US administrations allow
them to earn so many profits?

> 
> Sheesh...and you tried to paint me as being bonkers.
> 
> I gotta say though, I like the new title to the thread. Certainly
> applied to some of my previous posts.
> You been awake too long also?

Not physically. Philosophically, politically, and mentally I've been
awake for several years now.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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