[e-gold-list] Re: e-gold's "moral" attackers

[Jim Davidson]

> Well, I'm here, and I'm also old enough to have been there -- the 60s, which
> is what I presume you're referring to.

I remember ROTC buildings in Manhattan, Kansas being burned to the
ground by protestors in the 1960s.  I also remember race riots in
the 1960s.  I also remember protests in the 1970s and in the 1980s.
Lately, I've seen very little that I would call a self-respecting
protest.  Perhaps the revolutionmarch.com or the revolution4freedom.com
events would change some of that, I don't know.

>  The difference I see is The Draft.  

It is a significant point, but taxes, as Wesley Snipes has discovered,
are actually both mandatory and confiscatory.  Mandating that everyone
pay for the butchering of Iraqi women and children seems to me to be
little different from drafting people's bodies to go and butcher
Vietnamese women and children.  The fact that there continue to be
a great many volunteers willing to go fight and bleed and die for
the authoritarian filth who run the USA government isn't really a
surprise to me.  I knew a great many individual jocks and frat boyz
in college whose combined mental energies seemed to short circuit
at any idea more complex than "blood makes the grass grow, kill,
kill, kill."

> first.  You don't want to shoot and kill the sons and daughters of people
> with money and privilege right on campus and right on the six o'clock news.

Me, not much.  And not often.

> the last year or two.  Bush bought some time by sending out little scraps of
> money

It seems to me to be yet another inflationary move, exacerbating the
other inflationary problems.


> What's really scary about this scenario is that people have, historically,
> rallied around even worse tyrants when they find themselves in dire straits.

Hitler, Mao, Lincoln, and Napoleon are a few examples, yes.  However,
there are as many answers to hyperinflation as there are examples.

> Meaning people will stop even giving lip service to the Constitution and
> just follow whatever Great Leader steps up to promise what they want to
> hear.

Barack Obama promises "change we can believe in."  I think he is
offering to be a "great leader" and change whatever gets in the way
of making things in the country generally as authoritarian and
corruptly allocated as they are in Illinois, and in Chicago in
particular.

> Those of us who care about the ideas of indivdual liberty and responsibility
> have a big job ahead of us.

Only if you make the rather absurd assumption that my liberty
requires the approval of the majority, or that I have any
responsibility to safeguard the liberty of others.  I do
not make either assumption.  The most I'm willing to accept
an obligation to do is whatever I think is the right thing
to do.  I believe that taking no part in a slave society is
consistent with that basic principle.

Regards,

Jim
http://indomitus.net/  

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