At 05:16 PM 9/8/00 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:

The 'law' stems from the individual right to self-defence. Law is backed by violence because that is what is is about.

We wouldn't have a problem is it stopped at our individual right of self defense. Unfortunately, taxes, murder, regulation, and kidnapping are not rights of self defense that I possess so I can't delegate them to the state. The state does all those things and therefore cannot be justified under a theory of delegated rights to self defense. DCF ---- You can horsewhip your Gascony Archers. You can torture your Picardy Spears. But don't try that with the Saxons or you'll have the whole brood round your ears. From the highest Thane in the county to the lowest chained serf in the field. They'll be at you and on you like hornets. And if you are wise you will yield. -- Advice of a Norman Baron to his Son -- Kipling