Re: Overheard on the scanner

mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> But get a touch tired of Keith explaining how he just wants
> government to leave him alone without, apparently, even attempting
> anything that might achieve the result.

> Perhaps, for instance, moving somewhere in Outer Montana and live a
> complete hermit's existence.

Do you react the same to people who complain about crime?

I like to be near friends, family, employment, shopping, fandom, and
lots of other stuff not typically found in the wilderness.

> Or joining the Libertarian Party.

If I thought it had any chance of winning major office, and of causing
the government to behave as described in high school civics books rather
than as a criminal gang if it did win major office, I probably would.

After decades of study, I reluctantly came to the conclusion that
government can never be anything but a criminal gang, and that I
therefore should not do anything which implies that it has any
legitimacy.  Are you saying that is not merely a mistaken attitude,
but somehow impermissible, contradictory, or illegitimate?  That's
what your suggestion that I should either join in the political
process or have nothing to do with any other human being ever again
seems to imply.
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