From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 14:23:42 MST
John K Clark wrote:
>...East Timor, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Angola and
>more; the UN and International Suggestions did absolutely nothing to stop
>any of them. Many are found of saying might doesn't make right but they
>forget the UN doesn't make right either.
>
You've sure got that right!
> ...; I want policemen armed with guns. I have even less
>confidence that it will protect me from Osama Bin laden or Saddam Hussein
>because in certain circles their reputation would improve not decline by
>killing a person like me.
>
But do remember that the policeman's first loyalty is to the
organization that pays his salary. And that's probably not you.
>...
>Those who value strength, courage, honesty and peace are wonderful people
>but they are not the ones I worry about, they are not the people who want to
>kill me.
>
> John K Clark jonkc@att.net
>
Thus the problem. There is a tremendous assymetry between destruction
and construction. It's so much easier to destroy. Centralizers always
say that we should put our trust in a central authority, but the central
authority always betrays those who trust it. Unless they have the power
to stop, or at least punish, the betrayal. This is one reason why it is
so apalling that the mass media are owned by such a small number of
corporations. (If you control the information sufficiently, people
won't realize that they have been betrayed.) I don't find it clear
what can be done in the present circumstances to move in the direction
of true libertarianism (as opposed to Libertarianism). The movement
appears to be in the opposite direction. And not slowly.
-- -- Charles Hixson Gnu software that is free, The best is yet to be.
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