[P2P-F] Libertarians

Tue Oct 18 21:34:57 CEST 2011

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Natalie Golovin <10natalie at cox.net> 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
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