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>From economists perspective. PGC On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:30 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > ...or rather ON a free market basis. > > > On 7 May 2014 22:22, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In New Zealand the government just made "legal highs" illegal, so I agree >> with you, they're just creating a black market for political reasons. >> >> My point was that where do you get cops from if everything is run no a >> free market basis? >> >> >> On 7 May 2014 22:07, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 07 May 2014, at 00:38, LizR wrote: >>> >>> On 7 May 2014 01:40, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> May be. In my conception, free market means that anyone can sell >>>> anything, as long as playing fair. If I sell you a medication, without >>>> warning you on some known side-effects, I should been able to be >>>> prosecuted, for example. >>>> >>>> OK. Who would enforce that? >>> >>> >>> Cops, or members of some commission for the public health, related to >>> the health ministry. >>> >>> My point here is only that the current health ministry lies and have >>> lied since 70 years, and should be fired, perhaps prosecuted. >>> >>> I do not criticize the system. I just explain that the system is sick, >>> for a precise reason: alcohol and cannabis prohibition have been used as a >>> sort of trojan horses by bandits, and we should arrest them, and send them >>> in jail or something. >>> Instead, with the bandits in power, you can see that more and more non >>> violent offenders (peaceful protesters for example), get aggressed and send >>> in jail. >>> Just see here for a typical case: >>> >>> >>> http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/17021367/content/104750220-cecily-mcmillan-s-appearance-on-democracy-now-youtube-video >>> >>> Not to mention pot smokers, or even just people asking for the respect >>> of the US constitution (which are classified as suspect of terrorism by the >>> FBI, and could be send in jail without trial with the NDAA 2012 bill). >>> >>> Capitalism works, but today capitalism simply does not exist. >>> Capitalism, to really work, needs independence of power, and as few messing >>> with civil and commercial life as possible, but since bandits get a large >>> part of the power, we see that the contrary happens. >>> >>> To solve the problem of terrorism, criminality, climate change, ... we >>> have to stop prohibition, but above all we have to understand how >>> prohibition has been made possible, and succeed in making that type of >>> things impossible. >>> >>> To explain and illustrate the logical confusion between p->q and q->p in >>> schools might be enough. >>> >>> Bruno >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> >>> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Everything List" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
