Assange's Case

[jim bell]

 On Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 10:52:50 AM PDT, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
 
 On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:15:42 +0000 (UTC)

professor rat <pro2rat at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>> Okay - Jim Bells hatred for the USG has reached the lunatic stage 

> bell is a right winger, just like you. His 'hatred' of the US govt very very selective.

Then it's odd that I've managed to score 100/100 on the Nolan Chart ever since 1975, when I first realized that I'd always been a libertarian.  (See also World's Smallest Political Quiz).
I support BOTH the "individual freedoms" traditionally defended by the Left (or, at least, they way the Left stereotypically defended them in the 1970's and before), AND the "economic freedoms" traditionally defended by the Right.
Indeed, when I first saw the Nolan Chart, it was obvious why to a leftist, a "libertarian" looked like a "conservative", while to a conservative, an "libertarian" looked like a leftist.  
>From their individual standpoints, they were ignoring the similarities, but paying attention only to the differences.  
And while I classified myself as a "minarchist" from 1975-1994, it was only because I could not figure out a logically-consistent way to get rid of the last bit of government. And although I wasn't aware of his book, see David Friedman,  David D. Friedman  ,his 1973 book "The Machinery of Freedom",  The Machinery of Freedom  chapter "National Defense:  The Hard Problem". 

http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

The problem, briefly stated, is "How do you defend a country based on anarchistic or libertarian principles, if they cannot tax themselves to put on a defense?".


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David Friedman couldn't figure out the solution, I only learned decades later.   Without knowing of David Friedman's existence, nor that of his book, or that chapter, (until probably late 1995 or even 1996), I independently realized in about 1975 (or a few years after) that creating or maintaining a stable anarchy would be impossible unless you could solve that problem.  THAT was why I called myself a 'minarchist'.   It wasn't that I wanted some residual amount of government to exist, I couldn't figure out how to eliminate that government, and yet protect that region from other, hostile regions elsewhere.
Why would I invent my AP (Assassination Politics) idea, and publish it, if not to achieve the eventual destruction of all governments on the face of the earth?
https://cryptome.org/ap.htm

And, over 26 years later, nobody that I am aware of has been able to 'disprove', or find a fatal flaw in, my original idea.  
             Jim Bell





  


  
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