Posted on 11/26/2001 2:45:19 PM PST by Texaggie79
The Foreign Policy Analogy
| In a poor neighborhood, in some run down projects, a street gang has taken over part of the building to create a crack house. Within this building lives poor families with kids, as well as the family and kids of the gang members. This gang routinely terrorizes innocent citizens in areas all around the projects. They have been known to even shoot and kill people for money. Their crack house contains homemade chemical equipment to produce the product. This equipment is very dangerous and could cause massive amounts of damage to the entire building if an accident occurred. We, however live far off from this place and never see it in person. It is not even in our town. Below are the actions that each type of ideals would take to attempt to solve the problem. Democrat Liberals Democrats would send these gang members money, because they know that the mean 'ole capital system has put them in this situation. Giving them money would hopefully take away their motivation to do such things, and everyone can live in harmony. Green Party Liberals The Greenies would go over to these projects to tell the gang members how much of a threat they are posing to the environment with their chemicals and equipment. But since this gang is not a large bullying corporation, they would see nothing wrong with their activities except for the way they threaten the environment. They would not want to provoke any conflict because violence is just evil, no matter what. Harry Browne (or Lew Rockwell) Libertarians and Pat Buchannanites Since this gang, in no way, threatens them personally, they see no reason to intervene. To go over there and do something would provoke other gang members to hate us and possibly attack us here at our home. Also to attack this gang financially would be wrong as well, because the members might blame us for them not having enough money to feed their kids, and that would create a hatred for us that could result in an attack on us. We want to take Switzerland's example and mind our own business. Conservatives Conservatives would go in and root out the gang. Retake the building and give it back to it's original occupants. They would help out they families effected by the gang, but kill the murdering gang members. So what if other gangs and gang members hate us for this, if they threaten or attack us, we will take care of them as well. Sitting back would be the last option on conservatives' list.
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Since the gang shoots people and commits other forms of unprovoked violence on others, the residents there are authorized to return force. They are encouraged to be armed, including by gifts of weapons, ammuntion, and training from private charities that really do care about the well-being of children when they can't afford these things without assistance. This tempts some, but not all, of the gang members to go elsewhere in search of a safer working environment.
Furthermore, some members get fed up with the violence and set up watches. If one of the good guys is threatened with deadly physical force by a gang member within sight of a watchman, the members-on-duty kill the gang member, and since the watches move around, this could be anywhere. This takes care of almost all of the gang members that didn't move away at first.
The remaining gang members scale back considerably, and stop assaulting others for fear of being killed. And since business has dropped, the amount of hazardous chemicals they need to support their business subsides considerably, which places the other occupants, and the environment, in much less danger.
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