-- James A. Donald
As governments were created to smash property rights, they are always everywhere necessarily the enemy of those with property, and the greatest enemy of those with the most property.
Steve Thompson
Uh-huh. Perhaps you are using the term 'government' in a way that is not common to most writers of modern American English?
Justin <justin-cypherpunks@soze.net>
I think it's fair to say that governments initially formed to protect property rights
Where we have historical record, this is not the case. Romulus was made King in order that the Romans could abduct and rape women. William the bastard became William the conqueror by stealing land and enserfing people. After George Washington defeated the British, his next operation was to crush the Whisky rebellion. You could say that he defeated the British in order to protect property rights, but his next military operation was to violate property rights, not uphold them. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG h5r7X0d4z7lq2vVpAOdecOCy2txrOnv9O/ymDY+3 4VE2saGBeSH+48fFJ9nuHVOypb45jH6pBBteu3f+Z