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Your quote only shows what blowhards the Rothbard type faux-intelligensia are. Is he entirely ignorant of the fact that we are a constitutional republic? Its an important distinction. His whining about democracy and the tyranny of the majority was fully addressed when this nation was created. If this quote represents a central thesis in his writing then it only goes to underscore the ignorance in America of what Rights are and what our form of government is.

We are the sovereigns of this nation. When government, the servant, acts outside of its Constitutionally defined realm of authority, whether it oppresses someone or not, it is the servant rebelling against its master and has earned any retribution we see fit. It has no license to kill Jews or anyone else regardless of the percentage of us that theoretically might wish that action to be taken. Anyone who does not understand that at the core of this nation is our individual sovereignty and Rights has already silently and likely unknowingly acted to overthrow our rightful form of government and gets whatever they historically deserve.

It is because we have lost this proper focus that our nation is in the straights that its in.

If you understood the constitutional republic as you claim, you wouldn't be calling Rothbard names. The Declaration of Independence says that the state becomes immediately illegitimate when it stops serving it's master the people.

That stopped happening 100 years ago or more.

"Is he entirely ignorant of the fact that we are a constitutional republic?"

No, but our elected officials (and, I dare say, most citizens) are ignorant of that fact. If they weren't, the 2nd and 10th Amendments would actually have some meaning.

"When government, the servant, acts outside of its Constitutionally defined realm of authority, whether it oppresses someone or not, it is the servant rebelling against its master and has earned any retribution we see fit."

What do you think of secession? The South tried it once and Lincoln sent 620,000 men to their deaths because of it. In my humble opinion, if the servant (the government) is indeed rebelling against the master (the citizenry), do we continue to take it or do we stage another revolution?

Anyone who does not understand that at the core of this nation is our individual sovereignty and Rights has already silently and likely unknowingly acted to overthrow our rightful form of government and gets whatever they historically deserve.

You mean, like the government we are forced to deal with today? No, I guess they are KNOWINGLY doing it.