Why are there so many statists and communists here on this list now?

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 11:29 AM -0700 5/3/03, James A. Donald wrote:
>An anarcho capitalist
>america, while it would have trouble fielding big armies, would
>probably do special forces operations considerably better than
>big government bureacracies do.

They used to be called "privateers". 

Bring back the letter of marque!

:-).

Cheers,
RAH

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