Australian Government's response to Online Punting

[LysanderSpooner]

Fred, sometimes Ayn Rand can be a little too right wing for my tastes (she once referred to libertarians as "right wing hippies"). Murray Rothbard and Lysander Spooner (www.lysanderspooner.org) are 2 of my favorite individualist anarchist libertarians.

I think there are a lot of good libertarian Republicans like P.J. O'Rourke and Milton Friedman. There is also always hope amongst the religious part of the Republican party because the more that they are persecuted by Big Government, the more they learn about how no-body's rights should be violated, not even the rights of those that they hate. For example, in the recent primary debates, religious rightist candidate Alan Keyes was sounding extremely libertarian--even on personal liberties issues. Keyes even jumped into the mosh pit at a Rage Against the Machine concert.

[LysanderSpooner]

I couldn't resist adding one more post to this thread. Today (3/22/00) at the top of the Wall Street Journal's back page (A24), the headline reads:

"Million Mom March on Gun Safety is Scheduled For Mother's Day as Event Focuses on Children"

[reno]

It never ends with Big Brother. If a sportsbettor ever happens to fall off his chair after a bad beat and crack his head on the floor, in no time someone will be pushing for legislation to make sure that sportsbettors have to wear helmets and seatbelts while watching games.

Libertarianism is just too radical for most people. The average person prefers security to freedom. The majority of people (read: government addicts), for example, would rather pay taxes and keep Social Security. Surveys show that rather than hold and invest the money themselves, they prefer that Uncle Sam do it. On a parallel note, consider the trend, at least in So. Cal, of "planned communities." You pay $500,000 for a tract house, and if you want to plant a tree or do anything to improve your home, an association has to approve it. It is beyond me how anyone would throw down 1/2 million to live in "upscale army barracks" (which is what I call these cheap, look-alike houses with postage-stamp size backyards and only 6-ft.separation from the next-door neighbor.)and tolerate association control, inspection, and approval. I always tell these people that they could save a lot of money and maintain the same type lifestyle by simply joining the military.

[Fedya Fussball]

Big Brother is still trying to a grip of this medium as the Inter'nyet....



The biggest motivation is how to tax people for its use, especially in the field that we're in right here.



Phenomenal growth in 'Nyet gambling and most of it going to super secretive former buccaneer and pirate hideaways. It is only fittening that these rogue locations take their vitasl position in the global economy.



I wonder how long will it be before the US
starts invading these prospering island recluses and making the new added states to
the US.



I just can't see how they are gonna get a hold of all these diverted tax dollars which
used to be part of the "old economy."



Fedya Fussballenko