[e-gold-list] Re: ADL & E-Gold - a philosophical query

[Steve Schear]

Sorry George but I've got to oppose your statist views in this case and side with the others. Despite the propaganda of altruism, I find more of the activities of the Nation States against my short- and long-term interests than those who seek to keep their personal interests private. I value the liberty to conduct my affairs, which do not cause direct harm to others, more than I value the lives of those who seek to restrain those activities. The right to be left alone is a cornerstone of liberty and those who seek to undermine it are tyrants, no matter what their exposed motives.

Thomas Jefferson was quite clear on what patriots should do with tyrants. I think my .sig goes to the heart of the matter.

At 05:10 PM 1/25/2003 -0500, George Matyjewicz wrote:

At 12:05 PM 1/25/2003 +0200, Arik Schenkler wrote:

> In Germany they first came for the Communists,

> Then they came for me --
> and by that time no one was left to speak up.
>
>                    --- Pastor Martin Niemoller

Meaning, that we need to oppose government activities?

Nope. That was in answer to...
"Maybe nothing. Perhaps at some point people just need to realize that they can't control everything. If bad people use money, cell phones, cars, guns, the internet, ....

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the
government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert
to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest
dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal,
well-meaning but without understanding.
-Louis Dembitz Brandeis, lawyer, U.S. Supreme Court judge, and writer (1856-1941)




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