At 6:26 PM -0500 4/26/00, david wrote: >At 07:40 AM 4/26/2000 -0400, Marcel Popescu wrote: >>Tim, I used to admire you. Sadly, it looks that I'm the only fucking >>anarchist left on Earth. [Even Murray Rothbard advocated *for* copyrights, >>as I understand...] Well, I'm not very certain about David Friedman and >>Walter Block, though if Tim May supports state intervention, everything else >>is fair game... >> >You're not the only one. But I know how you feel. I'm the only real >anarcho/capitalist I know personally. The few people I know that claim >libertarian leanings all support some sort of government intervention. And >the only other person I know who claims to be an anarchist [he has an >anarchist flag on his porch and an anarchist symbol tattooed on his leg] >thinks the government needs to prevent capitalists from exploiting workers. > >It's nice to read the thoughts of others who believe that government >interference in our lives is unnecessary, wrong, and destructive so that I >know I'm not the only weirdo in the world. And you're a nitwit if you let a Romanian One True Believer characterize my views. I've placed him in my killfile, so I don't know what right-deviationist lies he is now spreading. Just so you know, I believe the moral thing for Elian's father to have done was to hire some skilled people--perhaps ex-Spetsnaz--and go in to the Lorenzo and Maryslices home and taken Elian. Once Elian was safely out of the house, execute all those complicit in his kidnapping. However, our society makes this an untenable option. Government has decreed that only they may use force, that only they may rescue kidnapped children. Given us realities, I would then say--were it my child--to government the following: "This uncle and his daughter do not have a right to hold my son. He is six years old. He can express opinions about Hot Wheels and hot dogs and Disney World, but he does not know a single thing about politics. "I am done "negotiating" to get my own son back. His mother is dead. I am alive. I want him back. Crap from this activist community does not transcend my natural rights as a father, whether my political beliefs are Republican, Communist, Zoroastrian, Holy Roller, or Sandinista. "Since government says only it can use force, I leave it to you to go and rescue him. "End of debate." Now according to our Romanian One True Believer, anyone who bows to the "monopoly on force" de facto system is a communist, is not a true believer, etc. I'm tempted to hire some folks in Bucharest to go and seize Marcel's 7-year-old daughter, hold her for a few weeks, ply her with toys and candy and similar inducements, and then video tape record her saying she really does want to be given asylum in some nice Arabic country. Marcel can then remember his words about young children have the right to make life-changing choices as his daughter is turned into a child concubine in one of the satrapies in the sands. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
