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To: Dead Corpse
You know damn well that libertarian principles center around a free market, anarcho-capitalism style.

Anarchy, like its close cousin Communism, is destructive of property rights.

"It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By an universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common, is the property for the moment of him who occupies it, but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Let this be the distinctive mark of an American that in cases of commotion, he enlists himself under no man's banner, inquires for no man's name, but repairs to the standard of the laws. Do this, and you need never fear anarchy or tyranny. Your government will be perpetual."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Our falling into anarchy would decide forever the destinies of mankind, and seal the political heresy that man is incapable of self-government."
--Thomas Jefferson


95 posted on 09/25/2002 8:40:02 AM PDT by Roscoe
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To: Roscoe
Anarchy, like its close cousin Communism, is destructive of property rights.

You obviously haven't been paying attention again. The LP is all about property Rights. Starting with your body is your property. The products of your labor are your property. You have a Right to keep others from forcibly TAKING your property. Ect... The ONLY just purpose for a government is protection of those Rights from force or fraud. Anarchists don't even believe in that much and are NOT representitive of libertarian thought.

Once again, you display an incredible amount of ignorance. This from a so-called conservative who believe's that it's OK to strip our Rights away as long as the guy doing it has an (R) next to his name.

P.S. That first Jefferson qoute, as has already been pointed out, is WAY out of context. He was decribing the Native Indian view of land-ownership. Not our model for property. If you are going to qoute him, make sure you aren't mangaling the context.

99 posted on 09/25/2002 9:03:29 AM PDT by Dead Corpse
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