You don’t own other people
Center for a Stateless Society
by Kevin Carson
08/13/10
A sizable share of people in the criminal justice system is made up of those who ran afoul of some law commanding ‘Touch not, taste not, handle not.’ If you support such laws, there is no ground on which you can consistently do so without believing that other people are your property, or are your inferiors and subject to your command. You may argue that ’society’ collectively decides what to permit and not to permit, based on some vision of the ‘common good.’ But remember those high school civics texts with the stuff about government exercising only powers delegated by the governed, government’s function being to protect the rights of the individual, and all that? Well, you can’t delegate a power you don’t have. And government can’t protect a right, on your behalf, that you don’t possess as an individual...
http://c4ss.org/content/3568
Victimless crime laws: Creating, not preventing, chaos
Libertarian News Examiner
by Garry Reed
08/14/10
When a group of powerful people arrogate to themselves the ‘right’ to create any Law they wish and force it onto others, they become the aggressors and those peaceful ‘others’ become their victims. The Law allows the Lawmakers to do anything they wish. The Law allows white men to own black slaves. The Law allows men to stone women to death because they were raped. The Law allows thugs to commit genocide against Jews. The Law allows gangsters to organize into vast criminal enterprises they call ‘Government’ and commit every sort of unconscionable cruelty imaginable...
http://tinyurl.com/3xp2zbv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Carson
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Garry+Reed
by Kevin Carson
08/13/10
A sizable share of people in the criminal justice system is made up of those who ran afoul of some law commanding ‘Touch not, taste not, handle not.’ If you support such laws, there is no ground on which you can consistently do so without believing that other people are your property, or are your inferiors and subject to your command. You may argue that ’society’ collectively decides what to permit and not to permit, based on some vision of the ‘common good.’ But remember those high school civics texts with the stuff about government exercising only powers delegated by the governed, government’s function being to protect the rights of the individual, and all that? Well, you can’t delegate a power you don’t have. And government can’t protect a right, on your behalf, that you don’t possess as an individual...
http://c4ss.org/content/3568
Victimless crime laws: Creating, not preventing, chaos
Libertarian News Examiner
by Garry Reed
08/14/10
When a group of powerful people arrogate to themselves the ‘right’ to create any Law they wish and force it onto others, they become the aggressors and those peaceful ‘others’ become their victims. The Law allows the Lawmakers to do anything they wish. The Law allows white men to own black slaves. The Law allows men to stone women to death because they were raped. The Law allows thugs to commit genocide against Jews. The Law allows gangsters to organize into vast criminal enterprises they call ‘Government’ and commit every sort of unconscionable cruelty imaginable...
http://tinyurl.com/3xp2zbv
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kevin+Carson
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Garry+Reed
rudkla - 16. Aug, 11:01
