--- In [email protected], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Constitutionville = Libertyville. > > I think you want to go to Anarchy Town. > Actually you are not correct. The constitution still is a step back from liberty as it acknowledges the legitimate existence of an initiation of force - government. > BWS
In a message dated 3/30/2006 5:42:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Of course not Paul. Such a definition would be libertarian. I guess that I am not Libertarian either, and never will be. I do subscribe to the following: THE PROPER ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IS THE PROTECTION OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS A government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of physical force under objective control- i.e. under objectively defined laws. If physical force is to be barred from social relationships, men need an institution charged with the task of protecting their rights under an objective code of rules. This is the task of a government - of a proper government - its basic task, its only moral justification and the reason why men do need a government. Crime has to be rigidly defined as injury to a second party. The retaliatory use of force requires objective rules of evidence to establish that a crime has been committed and to prove who committed it, as well as objective rules to define punishments and enforcement procedures. The fundamental difference between private action and government action - a difference thoroughly ignored and evaded today - lies in the fact that a government holds a monopoly on the legal use of force. It has to hold such a monopoly, since it is the agent of restraining and combating the use of unwarranted force, and for that very same reason, its actions have to be rigidly defined, delimited and circumscribed. No touch of whim or caprice should be permitted in its performance; It should be an impersonal robot, with the laws as its only motive power. If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled. In a rational society all laws should be predicated on these facts. All laws based on other premises will always be unworkable. "Man's rights may not be left at the unilateral decision, the arbitrary choice, the irrationality, the whim of another man." [1] [1]Taken from Ayn Rands "The Nature of Government" Thank You John Wayne Smith, CEO 1000 Planets, Inc. Building a Road to the Stars. A Libertarian Candidate for Florida Governor 2006 203 W Magnolia Street Leesburg, Florida 34748 Phone 352 787 5550 E mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/
