Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!mcewan From: mcewan@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Comments on the Libertarian Platform Message-ID: <29200172@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 18:37:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.29200172 Posted: Tue Dec 11 18:37:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 00:47:56 EST References: <2775@ucbcad.UUCP> Lines: 41 Nf-ID: #R:ucbcad:-277500:uiucdcs:29200172:000:1731 Nf-From: uiucdcs!mcewan Dec 11 17:37:00 1984 > > How often does the government kill people? Certainly you don't > > get killed if you don't pay taxes. You just get dragged to jail > > and locked up, at worst. > > Normally this is true, but only because they don't need to flaunt power > that everyone knows is there. Whether you're killed or not depends on > how far you want to take things. Consider what would happen if the IRS > decided that you owed an extra $1,000 in taxes; you disagree and decide > to stand up for your principles: > > GOV: You owe us $1,000. > YOU: No I don't, and I'm not going to pay it. > GOV: Since you didn't pay your taxes, we'll give you a last chance to > pay the $1,000 plus penalty and interest. > YOU: I didn't owe you the money in the first place. > GOV: Very well, you're going to jail. Report first thing in the > morning. > YOU: I will do no such thing. > GOV: OK, we'll send some men to take you to jail. > YOU: I will resist them, since I never owed any money. > GOV: BANG! > YOU: > > The record will show that you were killed for resisting arrest. This, > however, is only the last in a chain of increasing punishments. So the > question is, at what point do you give up? Most people give up before > being killed, because they know that the consequences only get worse as > you go along. You left out the part where the police officer is arrested and charged with murder. It may come as a shock to you, but the police (or anyone else, for that matter) can't legally execute someone for resisting arrest. I hope I didn't ruin your day by introducing a little reality into your paranoid fantasies. Scott McEwan {ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!mcewan Just because something is obvious doesn't mean that it's true.