On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Natalie Golovin <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes-As a US citizen I care about protecting the liberties & advantages of the “set” known as US Citizens. Nations still exist.
But when that set coexists with other sets in the same geographical space, the state cannot differentially violate the liberties and advantages of one set without acquiring general-purpose powers to threaten the liberties and advantages of all. A guy with a hammer sees everything as a nail. And the militarization of American territory near the border, the police state apparatus required for mandating and checking national IDs, the prison-industrial apparatus required for processing detainees, etc., is one big-ass hammer. Give the government a hammer like that for using against the other "set," even if they're not "one of us," and it just might start thinking we also look a bit like nails. -- Kevin Carson Research Associate, Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto http://homebrewindustrialrevolution.wordpress.com Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Super-Empowered Individuals http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com Organization Theory: A Libertarian Perspective http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2005/12/studies-in-anarchist-theory-of.html