> >I consider it a moral duty to hide from and cheat a tyrannical government.
>
> I would agree that it would be the right thing to do to try to evade the
> strictures of a malevolent government (tyrannical or otherwise), but since I
> do not have that opinion of my government, I am content to cooperate with
> it.
If you cooperate with the present US Government to a greater extent than
to protect your own safety (i.e. paying to taxes to stay out of jail is
OK, but buying T-Bills is not), you are morally complicit in the
atrocities committed by that government. One MILLION Americans are
rotting in prison having harmed no person or property; armed agents of
the government routinely confiscate billions of dollars worth of property
without trial or even accusation; thousands of immigrants are collected
and returned to more oppressive governments; if that's not tyrrany, then
what is?
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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