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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey
and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke
Nurev Ind Research wrote:
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NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
Washington DC 20037
World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org
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For release: March 22, 2001
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HA! J2 posting a Libertarian party press release (and
in a favorable light)?! Never thought I'd see the day
In defense, I assume he'll come back with something
along the lines of: even if a fool says the sun is shining,
doesn't mean the moon's out.
It's not in a favorable light. It's merely the truth. Even
Libertarians are sometimes capable of truth. The problem is that
they are incapable of the WHOLE truth. The government is half the
problem. The Rich and their economic system is the REAL core of
the problem.
C'mon. Let me hear you shout it out Libertarians. Capitalism SUCKS!!
"__"
H. I thought so.
Joshua2
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The title of the thread sure seems to hit the nail on the
head. As what's-his-face long ago put it:
"All the great governments of the world - those now
existing, as well as those that have passed away - have been
of this character. They have been mere bands of impostors,
who have associated for purposes of plunder, conquest, and
the enslavement of their fellow men. And their laws, as they
have called them, have been only such agreements as they
have found it necessary to enter into, in order to maintain
their organizations, and act together in plundering and
enslaving others, and in securing to each his agreed share
of the spoils.
"All these laws have had no more real obligation
than have the agreements which brigands, bandits, and
pirates find it necessary to enter into with each other, for
the more successful accomplishment of their crimes, and the
more peaceable division of their spoils.
"Thus substantially all the legislation of the world has
had its origin in the desires of one class of persons to
plunder and enslave others These laws have continued in
force for hundreds, and, in some countries, for thousands of
years; and are in force today, in greater or less severity,
in nearly all the countries on the globe.
"The purpose and effect of these laws have been to
maintain, in the hands of the robber, or slave holding
class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of
all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the
great body of laborers in such a state of poverty and
dependence, as would compel them to sell their labor to
their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be
sustained.
"The result of all this is, that the little wealth
there is in the world is all in the hands of a few - that
is, in the hands of the law-making, slave-holding class; who
are now as much slaveholders in spirit as they ever were,
but who accomplish their purposes by means of the laws they
make for keeping the laborers in subjection and dependence,
instead of each one's owning his individual slaves as so
many chattels.
"Thus the whole business of legislation, which has
now grown to such gigantic proportions, had its origin in
CONSPIRACIES, which have always existed among the few, for
the purpose of holding the many in subjection, and extorting
from them their labor, and the profits of their labor.
"And the real motives and spirit which lie at the
foundation of all legislation - notwithstanding all the
pretenses and disguises by which they attempt to hide
themselves - are the same today as they always have been.
The whole purpose of this legislation is simply to keep one
class of men in subordination and servitude to another."
-- Lysander Spooner (1876)
...and let's not forget that:
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of
men living together in society, they create for
themselves in the course of time, a legal system
that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies
it". Frederic Bastiat
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the
laws." --Tacitus
"The state calls its own violence law, but that of
the individual, crime." --Max Stirner
"Every man is free to do that which he wills,
provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any
other man." --Herbert Spencer
"What, then, is legislation? It is an assumption by
one man, or body of men, of absolute, irresponsible
dominion over all other men whom they can subject to
their power." --Lysander Spooner
"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates
in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus
of judges, police, prisons and
