At 05:59 PM 9/8/00 -0400, Jim Choate wrote:

On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Honig wrote:

...

Ultimately law is backed by violence.

And therefore it is bad....yadda, yadda, yadda

Bullshit. That is such a general statement as to be worthless.

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

So this affects the morality/legitimacy of a so-called 'non-governmental' tax-collection agency how?

To then try to portray this as the stem of human abuse of same is simply abusive to the reader.

To imagine that paying GEMA is voluntary is delusional. <snip>

Your thesis is self-referential, inconsequential, and still born.

So you don't like it then?