There were Quaker colonists in PA during the late 17th century who
lived without a state governing them.
$
--- In [email protected], "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> How about every attempt at anarchy that has ever been made during
the
> entire history of the planet earth? Is that good enough for you?
> This of course includes the non-anarchy in iceland that anarchists
> claim was a paradise, and it includes more recent examples of
> oppression, chaos, murder, rape, theft, and warlords fighting each
> other to control people like Somalia.
>
>
>
>
> --- In [email protected], <boyd.w.smith@> wrote:
> >
> > From: Paul <ptireland@>
> > > Any form of anarchy refers to the absense of the formal
state. This
> > > has resulted in brutality, lawlessness, murder, rape, theft,
> > > oppression, vigilante justice (aka lynch mobs), gang warfare,
chaos,
> > > widespread injustice, the strong victimizing the weak, and the
most
> > > violent and vicious thugs running things for decades before
the people
> > > finally stand up and form a government (formal state) to
protect thier
> > > freedoms, to protect the weak from the strong, and to offer
security
> > > and tranquility among the population.
> >
> > Really? And you have evidence of this or an example? A true
> example? And examples of where there was zero initiation of force
> with a formal aggressive state? Or the existence of a formal
> aggressive state that did not initiate force or practice theft or
> restricted liberty arbitrarily? Name one example of any of these
that
> holds up to examination.
> >
> > BWS
> >
>
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