At 10:26 AM 3/25/04 -0500, Tyler Durden wrote:
I also think that some cypherpunks mistake the Corporate State for what has been described as Crypto-Anarchy.
In fact, it's easy to argue that the current Oil Crusade in Iraq is precisely for the purpose of protecting a set of dinosaur industries in the US. That's not the kind of capitalism I
Get this through your head: a corporation can't initiate force against you. You may not like their product, practices, or price, but no one is coercing you at gunpoint. The state, on the other hand, is entirely based on coercion. If you can't appreciate this, you'll be hopelessly inconsistant. PS: you are a corporation, I am a corporation, together we could be a corporation, with 100K others we could be too. Doesn't matter; all have the same rights to act, and be left alone. think
most Cypherpunks espouse.
The state can legitimately only use taxpayers' armies to defend citizens in the country, not other countries, not its perceived-by-some self-interest, not corporations. All the oil colonialism is illegitimate for that reason, as well as illegal as Congress has not declared war.