[extropy-chat] Why I am No Longer a Libertarian Either...

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Robert Lindauer <robgobblin at aol.com> wrote:

> Mike Lorrey wrote: 
> >>>Government is clearly a system for screwing the
> >>>poor.
> >>>   
> >>Yes, but it is not supposed to be. 
> >>  
> >Says who? Some piece of paper? They stopped listening to that a long
> >time ago, and only cite it today when it serves their own benefit
> >  
> >
> See Lorrey, you're starting to get it.  Now you just have to
> recognize the essential relationship between economic systems
> and governments and you'll be able to make some useful and
> accurate judgements.

I have a long and established record of commenting that the US economy
is far more mercantilist/socialist than free market, primarily because
the constitutional limitations on government power have been overridden
by decades of legal redefinition of terms by the courts, legislators,
as well as legal dictionary writers.

Unlike some, I recognise the problem isn't the corporations, it is the
governments, and the lawyers in those governments. Castrating
governments will put the corporations back in pandoras box. Attacking
corporations does nothing toward this goal, and corporations that are
attacked are weakened only to the benefit of other corporations.
Corporate power is dependent upon government power, thus one must focus
on government power, to limit it, and thus limit corporations.

> 
> >Today, any kid with a rifle can take out an asshole in government if
> he
> >has the gumption to do so. Enough people know their rights, but are
> >deluded by the media (like the Church of old did) into thinking they
> >are still free. The people who get screwed do so because they let
> >themselves get screwed.
> >  
> >
> It's illegal in the US anyway to even suggest killing an elected
> member of the government, especially a president.

Actually, only the president is protected by that federal law, though
they are trying to expand it (one reason for Waxman's Sniper Weapons
Ban).


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://intlib.blogspot.com


		
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