Jim, STOP the 'people labeling' ('real libertarians') and
'name calling' ('NAPsters') so I don't have to put you on
imposed moderation!
-TLP
--- In [email protected], Jim Syler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:47 PM, Cory Nott wrote:
>
> > Jim Syler:
> >> Umm...Constitutional? Isn't the Constitution an initiation of
force?
> >> Isn't any government an initiation of force?
> >
> > Yes, it is. What is your point?
>
> Well, I'd tell you if you hadn't deleted all the previous
discussion
> below (please don't).
>
> ::grumble grumble::
>
> Alright, there it is:
> > While everyone loves power, libertarians are aware that they
would
> > fall prey to the same issues and once in power would quickly
move to
> > minimize the ability to be corrupt by enacting term limits and
putting
> > the country back on solid Constitutional ground such that even
the
> > most corrupt President could do little in the way of harming the
> > country. Everyone else would be more likely to slide down the
path to
> > totalitarianism if the powers that controlled the state at least
> > agreed with their values to start with.
>
> Umm...Constitutional? Isn't the Constitution an initiation of force?
> Isn't any government an initiation of force?
>
> My point is that how could "real" (in your view) libertarians--that
is,
> NAPsters--work to getting this country back on solid Constitutional
> ground? Wouldn't that be a violation of their principles?
>
> j
>
> --
> The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care
what
> color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only
> cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the
> most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate
one
> another to deal with one another and help one another.
> -- Milton Friedman
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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