Posted on 07/19/2011 4:38:47 PM PDT by Evil Slayer
You say that like it is a bad thing.
The name of this site if “Free Republic.” If you support a free republic, then you are not an anarchist. If you are an anarchists, then you are against a free republic and for a libertarian dystopia.
Problem is...it ALWAYS evolves into THIS.
Read a book that isn’t by Murray Rothbard for a change. People like you are positively dangerous. Yes, I mean it. Anarchists have been trying to infiltrate the conservative movement since Goldwater ‘64. GET OUT, AND STAY OUT!!!
If you want the United States to look like Somalia or be taken over by a foreign dictator, become an anarchist. If not, continue to support our Constitution and seek necessary reform to prevent the overbearing state from happening again. It will happen again, but it’s better to seek reform than go off searching for a radical libertarian utopia.
No such thing as anarchy.
No money to fund it.
Now you just aren’t making any sense whatsoever.
If I weren’t on my phone I could actually link you to an interesting article re: Somalia and anarcho capitalism success story. Nevertheless, most ACs want nothing to do with conservatism or politics in any form so honestly I can’t see legions of them trying to infiltrate. Myself, I am just a conservative growing more and more fed up with the whole racket — maybe it’s evolution. Who knows? The ideas certainly appeal to me.
I am very familiar with the bogus assertions of the foolish anarchists in relation to Somalia. I am one of the top 30 posters on RPF. Reading their screeds about Somalia reminds of the Michael Moores of the world who expound on the wonders of Cuban healthcare and how the USSR wasn’t all that bad. The fact of the matter is that Somalia is so bad that you cannot drive on the rural highways because you’re liable to have a violent militia demand a “toll” from you. Yeah, that’s real freedom right there.
what is RPF?
Exactly.
I believe most of us here desire much less government, but anarchy is a ridiculous and unrealistic concept. It is the domain of utopians who like to think they're "cool."
The name of this site if “Free Republic.” If you support a free republic, then you are not an anarchist. If you are an anarchists, then you are against a free republic and for a libertarian dystopia.
Yes, I am rather hostile about this topic. I am hostile because anarchists seek to infiltrate and radicalize the small government conservative movement. They have been trying to do this since 1964 from what I understand from people who were active back then. Small government conservatism is about preserving liberty, order, and justice under the law, and keeping the state out of what is not its business. Anarchists seek to eliminate any semblance of what can be reasonably considered law and put in its place a world without order.
The anarchist will say order is retained, but this is most certainly not true because there is no objective law in society. The only places in Somalia that retain a semblance of order are those that retain the semblance of law enforced by what might be called a state. In the lands where different militias compete, there is no order, only chaos and fear. There simply is no situation like it in the United States, save, perhaps, in some of the poorer neighborhoods where the police refuse to go. Note: The police do not enforce the law in those places, making it de facto anarchy.
LOL - there are a few liberals in my woodpile as well.
One of them was gushing about Mitt Romney a couple of weeks ago, suggesting that I vote for him.
I laughed and reminded this dear relative that I didn't just fall off the turnip truck yesterday.
If I may ask, what attracted you to Ron Paul’s ideas before you were a “Recovering Paulisto”? Were you just completely lazy and ignorant to politics back then, or did your principles just take a total 180 at some point?
The Gang of Six have proposed the purchasing power destruction of Social Security checks by reindexing the CPI.
They are publicly trying to nudge us into a devaluation crash similar to the CIS Ruble devaluation in 1998-1999.
There shouldn’t be only a handful of politicians, no matter what their label cubbyholes them in to in the MSM, standing up and shouting and doing all in their power to obstruct the political process until the situation becomes apparent to even the dumbest rocks in the country.
What Ron Paul said I would agree with if Babs Boxer said it, if Grassley said it, if Ed Koch said it, if Maria Shriver said it, it is simple truth.
At the time, I thought Ron Paul was the only Constitutional Conservative on the stage, and I was comfortable with his foreign policy views. When I decided to dig deeper after he kept saying stuff that I didn’t like in his latest book and at the launch of his 2012 Presidential campaign, the more I learned the less I liked. He generally votes decently and I think his skepticism with out current foreign policy is warranted, but I don’t like where it comes from. He’s less conservative and more radical libertarian.
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