Thus said Steve on Wed, 14 Sep 2005 03:28:57 MDT: > All I'm saying is this, no government can exist without the consent, > whether explicit or implicit of those being governed. If a government > comes to power, which in time becomes too oppressive, then the people > will shake it off and find something they find to be newer, better and > shinier than the old government, or fall into anarchy. Most times both > things happen, a government falls and for a time it's people fall into > a state of anarchy, until reason prevails and they once again make a > new government by which at least most of the people can consent to.
You mean, like what happened in pre-Declaration of Independence America: [Pennsylvania's Anarchist Experiment: 1681-1690] http://www.mises.org/story/1865 Andy -- GnuPG ID 0xA63888C9 (D2DA 68C9 BB2B 26B4 8204 2219 A43E F450 A638 88C9) [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] 11:15am up 85 days, 19:53, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
