Starchild wrote: SC) "A government which fails on a systemic basis to respect individual rights and instead habitually rules by initiation of force is illegitimate, therefore any individual or group of individuals whose aim is to replace its rule with something significantly more libertarian have the right to subvert or overthrow it by any means generally consistent with such an aim." (SC
I wouldn't agree that all states are by definition always subject to just revolution. I say "by definition" because I agree with Roy Childs that zero-aggression absolutism implies anarchism: http://libertarianmajority.net/does-zero-aggression-absolutism-imply-anarchi sm I prefer the Jeffersonian language about revolution used in http://ecolibertarian.org/manifesto However, I prefer your language to the individual-secession language from the 2004 platform, about which I'm surveying our presidential candidates: http://libertarianmajority.net/local--files/start/POTUSPlatformSurvey.pdf A few days ago in Vegas we on the Platform Committee proposed a restored secession plank called "Self-Determination": http://libertarianmajority.net/pure-principles-platform This morning I discussed the PlatCom's draft on Steve Kubby's show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SteveKubbyShow/blog/2008/02/20/Leading-from-the -Front-Lines
