Posted on 07/08/2016 5:00:12 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Uh yeah. We unilaterally and illegally overthrew Libya and Egypt. We used the chaos to arm AQII aka isil aka isis aka IS US.
Russia is the only reason we didn't overthrow Syria.
Russia is the only reason we didn’t nuke Belgrade.
Brilliant analysis...
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. IT IS NOT THIS KIND OF PLUNDER THAT SYSTEMATICALLY THREATENS THE FOUNDATION OF SOCIETY. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
"The Law" - Frederic Bastiat
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