Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mit-eddie!lkk From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: gunpoint Message-ID: <2790@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 13:28:29 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2790 Posted: Fri Sep 28 13:28:29 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 09:02:41 EDT References: <542@gloria.UUCP> <29200147@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 Most governments ARE nothing but gangs with guns, these are called totalitarian states. Other governments are at least somewhat responsive to the need of the populace, the U.S. govt. is one of those. GIVEN THAT NATURE ABHORS A POWER VACUUM, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE SHOULD TRY TO FILL IT WITH SOMETHING THAT IS AT WORST BENIGN, LIBERTARIANS, WHO WOULD LEAVE THAT VACUUM WIDE OPEN, ARE MERELY LEAVING THEMSELVES VULNERABLE TO ATTACK FROM NON-GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES, WHICH WILL MOST LIKELY BE MUCH LESS (AT LEAST IN THIS COUNTRY) AFFECTED BY PUBLIC OPINION. -- larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) UUCP: ...{ihnp4, decvax!genrad}!mit-eddie!lkk ARPA: lkk@mit-mc