Subject: Re: [lpny_manhattan] Re: Reason.com coverage of unauthorized protest Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:55:43 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:03:55 -0000, ursustrader wrote: >=A0Enslavement by unconstitutional Fiat currency as printed by= the >=A0Federal Reserve I think its irrelevant . I think there is a subtle meaning to the Christian's Christ's quote about taxes "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" ie , it's his face on the coins give him his coins . As an asset , dollars are only unique in that they are the "legal tender" the government requires its taxes be paid in . Keep you assets in any other instrument you think will perform better converting to dollars only as needed for transactions including taxes . I think the notion of picking out some particular commodity and trying to peg all other values to it is naive and anachronistic . Furthermore , gold bugs have perennially been wrong . >=A0Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority= has >=A0no right to vote away the rights of a minority; > >=A0"Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the= right to >=A0invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet >=A0Russia, Cuba or any other slave pen. Whether a free nation= chooses >=A0to do so or not is a matter of its own self-interest, not of= respect >=A0for the non-existent 'rights' of gang rulers. It is not a free >=A0nation's duty to liberate other nations at the price of self- >=A0sacrifice, but a free nation has the right to do it, when and= if it >=A0so chooses." She is internally inconsistent here because to attack another= country requires , and is a major excuse for , taking taxes from people= who oppose the adventure . There is no disagreement that "gang rulers" have no rights . I wonder why you support this incredibly destabilizing war . I can see no motivation other than the Bush family vendetta and efforts divert attention from the even more destabilizing= suppression of the indigenous populations of Palestine on theocratic grounds= . Certainly , the very socialistic "constitution" of the new Iraq including registration of guns and all of FDR's and the UN's false freedoms had to be expected . So it seems to me , being for this intervention implies being= for the imposition of socialism for others . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ A WTC vision : http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ Badnarik , Libertarian for President=A0=A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm =A0=A0=A0For Senator from NY : http://www.silbergerforsenator.org/ =A0=A0WHY DOES THE UNITED STATES INCARCERATE A LARGER PERCENTAGE, AND A LARGER NUMBER, OF ITS CITIZENS THAN ANY OTHER NATION ON= EARTH?=A0 =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/06/28 11:26:05 PM