Politics

Yeah, it's boring. But sometimes I just get the crap annoyed out of me and have to at least point to a web site that argues my point for me:

The Myth of Libertarian Misanthropy: Technology, Alienation, Society, and Government

The characteristic feature of government is that it considers itself to have the exclusive privilege of initiating force against its citizens with impunity (albeit most modern “legitimate” governments only make this claim with regards to certain specific cases). Something at least in the neighborhood of this picture of government seems to be likely to be correct. Some libertarians have referred to governments as regional monopolies on the legitimized use of force....

...Now the latent despair and debasement of the anti-libertarian position becomes clear. To argue that government is required to achieve certain ends “society” deems essential is to argue that human life requires systematic violence. I see no reason why we should accept this.

Couldn't have said it better. Liberals increase the use, the frequency, the severity, and the intrusiveness of state-sanctioned violence as the primary method of inflicting their "vision" on the rest of us. In short, liberalism not only results in totalitarianism and fascism, but can in itself be fairly called a totalitarian system.

With apologies to Thomas Macaulay, many leftists are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.  The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. Leftist paternalists who, in their elitist superiority, know best for all as well as all totalitarian systems, always style themselves as being in the interest of The People.

And all are actually criminal enterprises which should be resisted with all our strength and by any means at hand.

In Our Next Episode: Why us right-wing, ultra-capitalist, borderline anarchists wanted Prop 19 to pass - "Of Spliffs and States' Rights"