The Hidden Cost of Privacy
R.A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Wed Jun 17 05:56:51 PDT 2009
On Jun 16, 2009, at 11:37 PM, dan at geer.org wrote:
> Speaking for myself, when a government can no longer protect
> its citizens, its last duty is to arm them.
The first axiom of government being force monopoly, and all that.
Maybe the first duty of a citizen is to arm himself against his
government? :-)
An, um, enthusiastic, constitutionalist I was reading this week
somewhere talked about how before the 14th amendment, of all things,
(some :-)) people who lived in the US were US nationals, free people,
and after the 14th, they were "citizens" and thus as much property of
the state as any, say, European. :-)
It's amazing how people think that the use of force is somehow
magically controlled by lawyers and politicians mouthing the proper
incantations...
"Force shits on Reason's back." -- Ben Franklin
Cheers,
RAH
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