Snowden on the Twitters

Juan juan.g71 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 16:40:16 PDT 2015


On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 22:01:29 +0000
Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> 
> OPEC recently invited Russia to join (they've been 'observer' for
> ages). Putin is holding onto his cards, not in any rush to make oil
> price fixing decisions right at this particular moment in time.
> 
> This all looks like factional wars, rather than 'free' market.


	Exactly. And the western side is composed of very big and
	corrupt business that sometimes quarrel with their eastern
	(states) partners in crime. 



> I agree that the state is the primary creator of monopolies even if
> the state sometimes handles the problem of monopolies.
> 
> Example state created monopolies:
> - copyright
> - trademarks
> - patents
> - licenses
> - ripping up functional train and tram networks to help boost the car
> industry


	and they 'help' the car mafia even to this day

	http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/30/us-autos-gm-treasury-idUSBREA3T0MR20140430


	(not that railways companies originally operated in a
	free-market either...)


> 
> Example types of licenses (you can't do this unless you're licensed,
> only so many licenses are handed out, or the licenses are unduly
> expensive thereby locking out small players):
> - manufacturing
> - operating
> - usage
> - service/repair
> 

	Exactly.


> The question is, what's to stop OPEC like cartels in all industries?


	Well, OPEC doesn't even pretend to be a 'private' cartel. OPEC's
	members are all states/governments. 


> Perhaps it doesn't matter - if bullies get too strong, the market for
> assassins would presumably grow, to handle the bullies, and shit,
> perhaps at some point we might even see humans being nice to each
> other.

	Criminal organizations - the government - can always use
	violence and extortion to rule. That doesn't change the fact
	that a free society is a voluntary organization, by definition.
	That a government is a criminal organization, by defintion. And
	that historically the government is the prime accomplice of the
	'entrepreneurs' they pretend to 'regulate' for the 'common
	good' 

	From the horse's mouth 

	http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/opinion/17buffett.html

> 
> 
> > 	So what propagandists do is try to scare people  whith
> > 	tales about how dangerous freedom is and how people starve
> > if left alone - who will feed the children bla bla bla - and how
> > 	their altruistic friends from the state and the 'NGOs' (the
> > 	state) save everybody, and at no cost!
> >
> > 	Isn't the state amazing rysiek? It provides endless benefits
> > 	and, it is FREE.
> >
> > 	https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html
> > 	
> > 	"defending the nation"
> >
> > 	Oops. Looks like the retard is both a left-wing AND a
> > 	RIGHT-wing american fascist...
> 
> Thanks to the Greeks and their dang black and white stones, we have
> quite a long history of "democracy", and so most people might, just
> might, be a little fearful of the unknown - in this case market
> freedom.
> 
> Might be RMS has never properly researched (or understood) political
> anarchy - he takes a few days to reply, but he generally answers a
> polite and direct question.
 
> I have found RMS to be consistently forthright, including when he does
> not know something - he's so direct that unedumacated folk have often
> said he is rude, not realising that directness is so far from rude
> it's not funny.


	I wrote to him a couple of weeks ago. Stallman has come to
	argentina to promote his software projects more than a few
	times. 

	He's even come to rosario (where i live), and he's been rather
	friendly towards the worthless sacks of shit known as the
	'socialist party' that has been ruling the city for more than
	15 years, and among other things raised taxes ~ 2000%.
	
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI_GiVEVZ4c

	^^^^^^ stallman with his socialist friends of the city's
	government. 


	(there was another video that I cant find now in which he was
	literally embracing the fucking mayor of rosario)

	
	Now the reason why that is relevant and why I wrote to stallman
	is that his socialist friends have been installing SPY CAMERAS
	all over the fucking city. Oh, the socialist party also
	controls the state government and the police. 


	Yep. It's not  'evil corp' doing the surveillance. It's the
	state that stallman loves so much, and a state controlled by
	fucking commies like him, to boot.

	Do you think stallman showed a shred on intellectual honesty
	and acknowledged that he supports these shitbags because they
	allegedly use his 'free' software, while turning a blind eye to
	the fact that they are totalitarians who favor a police state?
	Of course he didn't. 

	
	I also remarked to him :  

	"One of your arguments for free software is that users
	have the right to control their own computers. 'Freedom' means
	you and your hardware are not being controlled by other people.
	And yet you are no anarchist. I find that really puzzling. " 
	

	Here's stallamns, recursive, content-free, hypocritical reply 

	
	"See stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html for why we
	need a state. Who should control your computers, and my computers, is a different
	question." 
	



J.
> 
> Regards
> Z




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