[Arkinsaw]

There would be dangers, which we already see among Canadian and American conservatives. It is tempting to increase the power of the state in the name of law and order, but this encourages the state to create more crimes and paper criminals. A related danger--call it "the American danger"--consists in glorifying the state as the sacred, iconic defender of liberty. In a free society, the state should be viewed instead as a humble agency that tries, more or less well, to do what nobody else does and which appears, for the moment, indispensable to social co-ordination.

Wow, this writer has clear vision. A rarity.

[rellimpank]

--great idea--and if non-existent global warming turns on, they'll have a longer growing season---

[Paladin2]

"There's only one good reason to justify Alberta's separation from Canada"

Alberta has great lift serviced and heli-skiing?

[Red Boots]

With more--much more--of the same, Alberta could become the richest country in the world, and a beacon of liberty. The recipe is more economic freedom, tighter constraints on the state, liberalization of financial markets, protection of private property, unilateral free trade (let any Albertan export or import as he wants), and the liberty of adults to consume what they choose--in two words: individual liberty.

If they do this, I'm going; for I fear our own country has gone too far down the road to tyranny to return.

[Alberta's Child]

Alberta ping.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

Neat, but I have to wonder if those nice folks up in Alberta are quite prepared for life in the jungle without a Big Bro' to keep away the things that go bump in the night.

I wonder sometimes how the rest of the world would react if the US announced that we were totally closing our borders, cancelling all debts and treaties and putting our entire military on a hair-trigger alert status?

[frankiep]

but the American state is becoming the model of soft tyrannies in the western world.

After reading this idiotic line, I stopped reading...not that the dumbass writer was making much sense anyway.

[Lancer_N3502A]

Ping for later.