At 09:47 AM 9/4/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
And this is what I think they may try: a global crackdown to try to stamp out the wildfire of anarchocapitalism before it spreads beyond any hope of control.
I think it already too late: A global crackdown, by creating a visible confrontation, would simply accellerate matters. If instead they simply rely on social inertia, it will take a long time for existing institutions to fade away. We have all victories except for one very important one. Money. Now once we take that key bastion, and it is being besieged on every front, everything else will fall in due course, but it will still be a slow process, only unusually far sighted politicians will see and fear what is happening. There is vast inertia in social institutions.
Louis Freeh is no dummy. He understands the power struggle. But he has to speak babytalk to Feinswine and Kyl to let them glimpse what the issues are.
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