From all the studying I’ve done on the issue, it seems to me that the spirit and purpose behind the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution was to preserve weapons parity between “the people” and “the government” in order to prevent tyranny. It doesn’t matter that the weapons back then were less powerful or sophisticated…
Tag: order
Kings and High Priests
Nobody asked but … Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot I agree with Diderot that kings and priests are part of the problem. But I understand how his words might be misused by collectivists. Most of the French revolutionists and…
My Seasonal List
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Re: Violence — Fight or Flight
Nobody asked but … Skyler’s Blog of today, On Violence, called for feedback (so somebody did ask!) This brought to mind the book I am currently reading, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, by Stephen Kinzer. This book describes violence on a massive scale. The Dulles brothers were assassins of…
Hardwired Grammar
Nobody asked but … A good friend and spontaneous order guru shared an article on why humans have grammar — it seems to be hardwired. I think this is implicit also in theories of natural order. We understand ideas by connecting their components serially. If the first order is position, then the second is direction.…
Jazz, Intensification, Prisoner’s Dilemma
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On Big State Libertarians
When libertarians argue that because we live in a statist society we should advocate for the state to perform functions that private owners would in a stateless society – things like border control and crime prevention – what they are in essence advocating is the growth or enlargement of the state apparatus. There is absolutely…
Information, Non-intervention, Hindsight
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On Closed-Border Libertarians
Closed-border libertarians, such as Lew Rockwell and Hans Hoppe are in essence arguing that because the State can’t or won’t keep the loot its stolen out of the hands of immigrants, we should call on the State to send its murderous goons to secure its imaginary border. Further, such a call is a de facto…
Innumeracy, Territorialism, Organized Lying
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