Why Government Must Be Abolished

LewRockwell ^ | 12-08-03 | Brad Edmonds

[Cathryn Crawford]

Brad Edmonds writes from Alabama.

[spoonfork2000]

Are you advocateing anarchy?

[Cathryn Crawford]

Ping...

[MegaSilver]

Hmm...

[MrFreedom]

Welcome to America

[You Dirty Rats]

"Market Governments".

Sounds like Chicago in the Twenties. A real utopia - not!

I hope the steel bars on whatever lunatic asylum this guy is writing from are good and strong. Anarchy as a series argument? C'mon.

[MegaSilver]

I hope the steel bars on whatever lunatic asylum this guy is writing from are good and strong.

You think THIS guy's nuts... have you read Patrick Buchanan's March article titled, "The Case for Torture"?

[patton]

The guy is an unsophisticated neophyte.

[William McKinley]

You lost me at hello on this one. Between the title, which takes an absurd position, and the site, which entirely too often posts garbage, pass.

[Cathryn Crawford]

You think THIS guy's nuts... have you read Patrick Buchanan's March article titled, "The Case for Torture"?

I thought it was a very interesting article. I'm not a fan of Buchanan - usually quite the opposite - but I thought it raised some interesting questions that most people are a bit timid to approach.

[BlueLancer]

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[Cathryn Crawford]

You lost me at hello on this one. Between the title, which takes an absurd position, and the site, which entirely too often posts garbage, pass.

You know me better than that. You should at least read it. LOL

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

This assumes, like Communism, that people are basically good. Communism assumes that everybody will work hard to better society as a whole. This "idea" assumes that every one will behave themselves if there are no rules.

Balderdash on both ideas. Government is not what he is offended by, it's society. The very idea that we as humans need or desire to work with others is anathema to his proposal. He is the anti-Donne, where all men are islands and bridges are shackels.

[RightWhale]

in six months you’ll have a new library, a mountain of empirical evidence to refer to, and a conviction that forcible government must be abolished.

Might be just a teeny philosophical problem arriving at a general rule from a mountain of evidence.

[freeeee]

Chicago in the Twenties

...was brought to you by who? Why our very own government.

AMENDMENT XVIII: Section 1.
After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.

"I'd like to thank the US government for my job security, keep up the good work!"

[Cicero]

The only thing worse than government is no government. Then you are in the state of nature, where, as Thomas Hobbes said in Leviathan (or words to this effect), "Life is poor, nasty, brutal, and short."

[GRANGER]

Yeah real cool. Until a bunch of guys from across the river decide they want to come and take my stuff because it would be too much work to make their own stuff.

[William McKinley]

Actually, I couldn't resist.

"the US Constitution is an irrelevant, ineffective mistake" and "no, we shouldn’t be bombing villages in Iraq and Afghanistan." Readers sometimes accuse me of being a communist of one sort or another when I say something contrary to their Republican Party or neo-conservative assumptions.

While I agree with him that disagreeing with the statement "the US Constitution is an irrelevant, ineffective mistake" is a Republican position, and while it is probably true that neo-conservatives also would disagree with him on it, I don't think that disagreeing with that asinine comment by him makes one a Republican nor a neoconservative.

What a maroon.

[squidly]

Why link this utopian bleating?

[Voltage]

I do not see how we could safely exist in a dangerous world without a military, paid for by our taxes. I doubt that the military would be maintained by voluntary contributions.