CCTelander
09-21-2009, 02:49 AM
PIZZACRACY
Majoritarianism Versus
Unanimous Consent
by L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith is many things. Besides being a longtime friend of mine, he is a science fiction author of not inconsiderable renown whose novels have garnered him three Prometheus Awards. He is an indefatigable and outspoken warrior in the fight for the right to keep and bear arms. He is also the publisher of The Libertarian Enterprise.
In recent years he has also become somewhat of a gadfly for political libertarians. In the latter regard, his blistering broadsides against certain LP policies have made him considerably less popular than a skunk at a picnic in some LP circles. One LP luminary angrily declared him unfit to speak before libertarian audiences, and the official party newsletter has on occasion referred to him as a "thug."
Excrement flinging aside, Neil has important things to say – things that are on the cutting edge and will surely enrich the movement. Read on and enjoy. . . . Vince Miller
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For some time, I've meant to write various legislators, bureaucrats, and other sucklers at the public jugular to say, "Congratulations, bird-brains – beginning with the most decent, livable culture in history, in just two centuries you've managed, with taxation, regulation, and conscription, to turn it into a prison whose best and brightest inmates, whatever disagreements they may cherish among themselves, are of a single mind when it comes to escaping from it." Everybody wants out: the condition's so uniform and universal hardly anybody sees it, let alone recognizing anything strange about it.
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For the rest of this excellent read:
http://www.isil.org/resources/libertydocs/pizzacracy.html
Majoritarianism Versus
Unanimous Consent
by L. Neil Smith
L. Neil Smith is many things. Besides being a longtime friend of mine, he is a science fiction author of not inconsiderable renown whose novels have garnered him three Prometheus Awards. He is an indefatigable and outspoken warrior in the fight for the right to keep and bear arms. He is also the publisher of The Libertarian Enterprise.
In recent years he has also become somewhat of a gadfly for political libertarians. In the latter regard, his blistering broadsides against certain LP policies have made him considerably less popular than a skunk at a picnic in some LP circles. One LP luminary angrily declared him unfit to speak before libertarian audiences, and the official party newsletter has on occasion referred to him as a "thug."
Excrement flinging aside, Neil has important things to say – things that are on the cutting edge and will surely enrich the movement. Read on and enjoy. . . . Vince Miller
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For some time, I've meant to write various legislators, bureaucrats, and other sucklers at the public jugular to say, "Congratulations, bird-brains – beginning with the most decent, livable culture in history, in just two centuries you've managed, with taxation, regulation, and conscription, to turn it into a prison whose best and brightest inmates, whatever disagreements they may cherish among themselves, are of a single mind when it comes to escaping from it." Everybody wants out: the condition's so uniform and universal hardly anybody sees it, let alone recognizing anything strange about it.
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For the rest of this excellent read:
http://www.isil.org/resources/libertydocs/pizzacracy.html