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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
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Posted: Fri Sep 28 13:28:29 1984
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Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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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)

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