On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Natalie Golovin <[email protected]> wrote:
Maybe post less & read more. Start with the most recent “Reckless Endangerment” by Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner-experts in financial journalism not right wingnuts. There you’ll trace through the Affordable Housing story. Irag/Afghan Vets give more money to RP than all other candidates combined. As 2 immigration-RP is in line with the overall view of average Americans-the ones demanding “Democracy Now.” I don’t think left elites really want democracy.
I don't think Paul would compromise human rights based on a democratic majority in any other area of policy. Suppose a majority of average Americans favored the Drug War? A majority has no rightful authority to use the state to exclude people from the territory of the United States, when there is vacant land to be homesteaded, any more than a majority of people on a suburban block have a right to prevent outsiders from moving into a house that doesn't belong to them. The people of the United States, or its government either, don't collectively own vacant land or have a right to exclude people from homesteading it. The central principles of libertarianism are non-aggression, and that no group of people -- including a state -- can rightfully exercise powers beyond the rightfull authority of an individual to delegate. And no voluntary grouping of individuals has a right to fence off a territory. As a practical matter, a border is a mathematical line on a map. There's no way it can be militarized or policed without a substantial degree of militarism and uniformed thuggery on the actual territory of the United States. And unless anti-immigration policy aims to have only the border itself as a single point of failure, it must be backed up by police statism in depth like "papers, please" laws and mandatory national IDs for employment. -- 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