Subject: War is the life blood of the State . Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 13:20:59 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong I just joined this mail list and caught up on the last couple of= days postings . Among other things , I'm the Manhattan Libertarian DAD , our= Drug Affairs Director . Preston and I have known each other since Dana Beal's= 2000 May Marihuana March . While I see some range of political beliefs here , I do see a= tendency to somehow maintain the socialist fantasy of a benevolent State= if it just weren't for it being dragged around by those horrible free= market corporations . What unanalytic bull shit . The tool of the STATE is FORCE ; the rule of the MARKET is= CHOICE . War is the life blood of the State . War on terror War on (some) drugs War on poverty War on exhaling ( carbon dioxide ) Corporations don't have guns and prisons , those are the= monopoly of State ( with the 2nd amendment our only safeguard ) . Libertarians don't give a damn if the freedom you want to crush is the right to cash on the table between you and who ever you choose to do business with , or what you and your buds do in= private . So long as it is peaceful . We recognise that there is a separate dimension to politics= other than the left - right , economic - social control axis . There= is the Libertarian - Authoritarian dimension . Do you believe in= individual freedom and responsibility - or decision by bureaucratic Force= . Economic Socialism has been such a disaster thru the 20th= century that is it has been greatly subdued . Currently in the US we= see the continuing failure of State monopolies mainly in K-12= education and the double digit inflation in health costs as it becomes= more and more controlled . ( How do those who rail against= corporations , among which there is always choice , think a State monopoly of force will do better ? Does not compute . ) So with economic socialism so constrained , the Authoritarians= have turned to "nanny-socialism" ( and "eco-socialism" ) to justify= their Wars on their fellow citizens . It is the State which profits and swells its ranks on the Drug= War . Here in NYC , while closing fire stations , the State is hiring= at least 22 tobacco-narcs to enforce its extension of the War to= the herb that made America . It is grotesque that people have to claim to be on the point of death to plead for what should be an unalienable right to grow= and use various plants . It is grotesque that a Food and Drug Administration can force its choices on truly terminal patients= . U.S. . US , Land of the Free , Used to be . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Liberty : http://cosy.com/Liberty.htm=09 Newsletter : http://cosy.com/K/CoSy/NL200305.htm Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm=A0 A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A07/11/2003 11:22:23 PM