Subject: Re: [drugwar] War is the life blood of the State .
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:01:25 -0400
To:        <drugwar@mindvox.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>
On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 20:55:29 -0500, Jules Siegel wrote:
>=A0on 7/12/03 8:39 PM, Bob Armstrong at bob@cosy.com wrote:
>
>=A0>=A0No company can start or prosecute a war
>
>=A0You're way back there in the past. Mercenary armies --=
 corporations, not
>=A0isolated bands of armed men -- carry out contract wars.

 Who gave the contract ?  I should perhaps remove the term=
 "prosecute"
 because of course States have often hired armies to prosecute=
 their wars .

> Those are the
>=A0respectable ones. Then we have our beloved right wing=
 paramilitary groups in
>=A0Colombia. When the state withers away, these folks will come=
 and rape your
>=A0special other in front of you as a preliminary to collecting=
 taxes, because
>=A0everywhere will be Colombia or the Congo, only worse.

 As Mao said in his Little Red Book ( popularized by Stokely=
 Carmichael ) :
  Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun . 

 And Murray Rothbard ( http://www.mises.org/mnr.asp ) said :
  The taxing power defines the state in the same way
  that theft defines a robber. 
 
 The question really is : who holds the reins . 

 To me it is clear the real narco-terrorists are the=
 prohibitionists
 generally legitimized and funded by US .
 
>=A0Everything you say is philosophically fascinating but fails=
 because of the
>=A0asymmetric distribution of information and the power to kill.

 The asymmetric distribution of information , intensified in the=
 broadcast
 age , is I believe a major factor in the centralization of power=
 in the
 twentieth century . Now the web is challenging that asymmetry .

> You can talk a=A0lot and even brilliantly, but you can't=
 demonstrate
> a practical way to get=A0from a to b.

 The voice and the vote are our only weapons , and the Leviathan=
 works to
 suppress the first with things like the Incumbent Protection Act=
 and buy
 the second with the Taken Money it calls clean , but we=
 Libertarians are
 a bright and frightened band , and while still callow amateurs ,=
 are
 gaining a few small wins . As we figure out practical ways that=
 work ,
 we spread them on our websites .

>=A0Have a nice day.
>  JULES SIEGEL http://www.cafecancun.com/bookarts/jsiegel.htm
>  Apdo 1764 77501-Cancun Q. Roo Mexico 1[52-998]883-3629

 You too . Your website is impressive . I envy your freedom down=
 in
 Cancun .

--=A0
=A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A07/13/2003 12:13:06 PM