----- Original Message ----- From: "uncoolrabbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Because we live in reality Boyd, and I am not afraid to say this. I > reject the notion that this is not libertarian and I stand by it > firmley. > > It is about the greatest liberty for the greatest amount of people. > I already suggested this to you. What is the greater travesty > against liberty, searching of suspicious vesseles, or violent > assault and pillaging by a pirate. You also carelessly linked > siezure and searching, siezure only comes when they do appear to be > pirates, or when they do things such as fire guns at the authorities. > By this reasoning, you don't oppose police checkpoints? > We have war ships so that every cruise ship on international water > doesn't need heavy artilery and armour. Defense is not a myth and > the victims of Somalian anarchy are a modern proof. > We have a navy so that the rich can take cruises? I don't think anybody would care if "Carnival" employed a private firm (Pinkerton, Blackwater, etc.) to protect the rich on their frivolous vacations. That would be one example of a libertarian solution. PEACE Steven R. Linnabary, Treasurer Franklin County Libertarian Party (614) 891-8841 P.O.Box#115; Blacklick, OH 43004-0115 "When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
