"Government - whether voted in peacefully or thrust upon us by force - is essentially the negation of freedom." - Judge Andrew Napolitano

Posted by GaltsGulch 9 years ago to The Gulch: General
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"The essence of humanity is freedom. Government - whether voted in peacefully or thrust upon us by force - is essentially the negation of freedom." - Judge Andrew Napolitano


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  • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
    "The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man’s self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law. But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of man’s deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his."
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    • Posted by edweaver 9 years ago
      Thanks for the explanation. I was confused when I saw your first comment.

      I did not read the post the same as you. I don't see this statement as anarchist as it stands. As I read it, the statement in itself only states the truth. It does not say there's no legitimate purpose for government and had it, I would disagree with it. Personally I believe the only purpose for government is force but it is only legitimate as you state above.
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  • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
    you posted an anarchist POV from an Ayn Rand website. Which I shared and had to massage on FB. This is my fault, I should have read it carefully-I tend to just share these automatically to promote the movies. arrrggghhhhh
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    • Posted by khalling 9 years ago
      why do I lose a point for pointing out the judge made an anarchistic statement here? ! Do we recognize that Rand's Objectivism differs substantially from libertarianism? and anarchy is keystone? I give up!
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