Since the problem of terrorism is on everyone's minds these days, it seems appropriate for those of us in LNF to reflect on how the problem could be addressed...
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F. Marc de Piolenc
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Oct 4, 2001 8:50 am
Defense against terrorism is a non-issue for a country with little or no government, as the target of terrorism is, first, the minds of the citizens, but...
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Jim Davidson
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Oct 4, 2001 2:21 pm
Dear Friends, The fascists responsible for disarming victims of aircraft terrorism and the maniacs responsible for crashing planes into the World Trade Center...
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Joanna Parker
sunnyday@...
Oct 4, 2001 3:42 pm
Thoughtful questions from Roy . . . . At 12:23 PM 10/2/01 -0400, Roy wrote: The noninterventionist foreign policy of a libertarian nation would ...give foreign...
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Roy Halliday
royhalliday@...
Oct 5, 2001 1:47 pm
One advantage a libertarian nation would have compared to the United States is that a libertarian nation would have no laws against discrimination. So the...
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Seth Fehrs
fehrs002@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:05 pm
... In a libertarian nation, terrorists would just buy some rickety old cargo plane and fill it up with fuel. No need for passengers... Pro-active measures to...
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Seth Fehrs
fehrs002@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:10 pm
Theme #1: Civil Liberties Abroad My current understanding is that you are SOL. The US exerts diplomatic pressure at times, but if the Chinese want to toss a...
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Seth Fehrs
fehrs002@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:22 pm
Roy Halliday <royhalliday@...> on 10/02/2001 11:23:09 AM Please respond to libertarian-nation@yahoogroups.com To:...
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Tom Howe
tomhowe@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:47 pm
Seth claimed, ... Not so. I did it and the cost is only about 40 minutes per day. I built an unimposing home in the middle of 16 wooded acres, 8 miles from ...
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Phil Jacobson
wooly@...
Oct 6, 2001 6:03 pm
As the discussion proceeds about "terrorism" and what to do about it, it might be good to define the term. I found an interesting site, for the Terrorism...
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Seth Fehrs
fehrs002@...
Oct 8, 2001 3:13 am
... Uh, sure, take out the hypocritical systems of law, and all initiated force is terrorism -- it's just a question of degree. I think anyone aware of the...
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F. Marc de Piolenc
piolenc@...
Oct 8, 2001 9:15 pm
There are better definitions of terrorism. That used by the Defense Department is: "Terrorism is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated ...
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Phil Jacobson
wooly@...
Oct 8, 2001 10:45 pm
... I'd like to shift the emphasis a bit by pointing out that in each of these examples, the "victim" has entered a foreign juristiction and then violated laws...
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Phil Jacobson
wooly@...
Oct 8, 2001 10:45 pm
... Indeed that is better than the FBI one, if for no other reason than it does not allow nations to declare their own activities "legal" and thus ...
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Tom Howe
tomhowe@...
Oct 9, 2001 2:20 am
On "Theme #1: Civil Liberties Abroad", Seth believes ... Phil replied, ... Oh, sure. No one, not one person ever, came the U.S. knowing all its laws. Today,...
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Tom Howe
tomhowe@...
Oct 9, 2001 2:32 am
Marc de Piolenc reports, ... This is, indeed, a far better definition. I, personally, am not a group, subnational or otherwise, and I am no kind of state...
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Phil Jacobson
wooly@...
Oct 9, 2001 2:50 am
I found the full text of the essay "The State", by Randolph Bourne, a libertarian who died during the influenza plague which followed WWI. Many of you will...
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Phil Jacobson
wooly@...
Oct 9, 2001 3:34 am
... I agree that it would be impossible to know all the US laws before entering. However, it would be similarly difficult to be unaware of the particular laws...
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Seth Fehrs
fehrs002@...
Oct 9, 2001 4:33 pm
... That's an improvement, but I'd remove the word "clandestine". They've conveniently defined away terrorism when the terror comes from *official* state...
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Seth Fehrs
fehrs002@...
Oct 9, 2001 4:44 pm
Tom and Phil both make good points. I think Tom is raising the general anarchist complaint about systems of law, and he's correct, but a Free Nation Citizen...
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Jon Galt
jongalt@...
Oct 11, 2001 3:30 pm
... This reminds me of my reaction a newspaper headline I saw in a store yesterday. It was about refugees in Afghanistan due to the bombing of their country. ...
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Phil Jacobson
wooly@...
Oct 20, 2001 3:50 am
An article by LNF Director Roderick Long, "Equality, the Unknown Ideal" has just appeared at the Ludwig von Mises Institute site: ...
Dear Wayne, ... Not at all. Companies for which I do certain work have been negotiating with land owners in parts of what used to be the Democratic Republic...
Hi, It is time for the social meeting: Where: Food court - discount mall near RDU airport. When: 7 PM - Monday 22 Oct 2001. Unfortunately, I have a conflict,...
Hi, Due to a comedy of errors (everyone showed up at a different time and assumed the others were not coming), we did not meet last week. So Phil suggested...
Jim, I cannot argue, sir, with much of what you wrote! I do have a couple of comments though. Since I have been so long in answering, I'm not editing out the...
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Phil Jacobson
wooly@...
Nov 4, 2001 7:10 pm
At 01:26 AM 10/21/01 +0000, Jim Davidson wrote: Much I agree with. Wayne made a good reply to some of it. But I have some responses, too. ... Two problems....
... In terms of the type of terrorism aimed at the West since about the early 70's, you are correct. In terms of states or statists who don't want an anarchic...
... I wouldn't go quite so far as to predict that we would be left entirely alone. Only that terrorists would have no interest. Established states, on the...
... Why only states, on the other hand? Terrorists and others could well develop an interest if invasion was likely to be unopposed by in the absense of a...
