There is nothing anarchistic about capitalism. It's just marketing the same old capitalist crap in a new bottle.

ANARCHO-HUCKSTERS

"From each according to their gullibility, to each, according to his greed."

Capitalists are always eager to put glossy packaging on tired old products in order to put one over on the purchasing public. In this way, they hope to rekindle demand for what is actually the same product they have been providing people in the past.

This is the rationale behind what can only be called "anarcho" chic; that is, the usurpation and appropriation of anarchist forms without anarchist substance, in an effort to create the illusion that somehow, magically, capitalism is about freedom, liberty, and anarchy!

The following terms are generally used by these laissez-faire capitalists to describe themselves:

"anarcho" capitalist

libertarian

libertarian capitalist

anarch

"anarchist"

While we (actual anarchists, e.g., those who oppose rulers) can't claim possession of any term, we have an obligation to point out the glaring inconsistencies in the laissez-faire capitalist use of anarchistic terminology. They use the term "anarchist", but at the expense of their credibility - -why? Because their self-definition doesn't hold up to even the most rudimentary questioning.

"Anarcho" capitalists are, in fact, simply capitalists who object to the State cutting into their own profits by way of regulations and taxation. That is their sole gripe with the State. They see the bureaucrat as the nefarious boogeyman in their lives, motivated solely to enmesh the world in red tape --simply out of maliciousness alone.

"Anarcho" capitalists do not object to private property, to class distinctions, social stratification, concentrated wealth, and other bourgeois trappings in society. Their idea of a utopia is a world of unaccountable, unfettered corporate power where literally everything is up for sale and is negotiable...

http://a4a.mahost.org/huckster.html

At least shooter is just neurotic. Bucky1 is borderline psychotic.

Translation: Because I'm liberal and therefore morally superior.

Jealous much? Can't be easy, being on the wrong side on everything.

Bemused, Bothered and Bemildred?

Svensker:

The thing that always amuses me (wrong verb, but

I'm thinking more bemildewed at this point.

Cheers.

Yesterday I watched a dog shake the living life out of a groundhog. Fur, blood, and fecal matter few everywhere!

I did not think of pleasantries. And gentle Arne can shake the 'ole groundhog out of me. Thanks, Arne, It is the way you say your truth that I appreciate.

To Arne: *He prayeth best who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God (naturally) who loveth us,

Did make and loveth all.

The Mariner, whose eye is bright.

Whose beard with age is hoar,

...He went like one that hath been stunned,

And is of sense forlorn:

A sadder and a wiser man,

The Last line- He rose the morrow morn.

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Cheers,

Arthur Vinton L. James 3rd.

pew! heh.

Oh, for an honest Libertarian who would say "Yes, in Libertopia we'd have rampant quackery, organ-seizure, baby-selling, slavery in all but name - BUT THAT'S FREEDOM!"

Seth Finkelstein

From the Tao Te Ching (6th century BCE):

Chapter 17: "In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them."

Chapter 30: "He who would assist a lord of men in harmony with the Tao will not assert his mastery in the kingdom by force of arms. Such a course is sure to meet with its proper return ... Wherever a host is stationed, briars and thorns spring up. In the sequence of great armies there are sure to be bad years."

Chapter 57: "A state may be ruled by (measures of) correction; weapons of war may be used with crafty dexterity; (but) the kingdom is made one's own (only) by freedom from action and purpose.

Chapter 58: "The government that seems the most unwise, Oft goodness to the people best supplies; That which is meddling, touching everything, Will work but ill, and disappointment bring."

Chapter 60: "Governing a great state is like cooking a small fish."

Chapter 75: "The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine."

Chapter 78: "There is nothing in the world more soft and weak than water, and yet for attacking things that are firm and strong, there is nothing that can take precedence of it."

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Note: added much later was Mao's statement that, "all government flows from the barrel of a gun." ;-)

President George W. Bush: The American president who officially introduced gay raping in the name of the American people.

From today's McClatchy:

While the U.S. presses its war against insurgents linked to al Qaida in Iraq, Osama bin Laden's group is recruiting, regrouping and rebuilding in a new sanctuary along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, senior U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement officials said.

The threat from the radical Islamic enclave in Waziristan is more dangerous than that from Iraq, which President Bush and his aides call the “central front” of the war on terrorism, said some current and former U.S. officials and experts. Bin Laden himself is believed to be hiding in the region, guiding a new generation of lieutenants and inspiring allied extremist groups in Iraq and other parts of the world.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/17387.html

Al Qaida have ALWAYS been in Pakistan. THAT'S WHERE THEY LIVE. We ALWAYS KNEW they were in Pakistan. We didn't attack Pakistan because Musharraf has been one of our very best friends in the whole world (even though Pakistan remains a terrorist nation and is still responsible for the proliferation of black market nuclear weapons technology throughout the area) since right after 9/11 when we got up in his face and basically threatened to bomb him into the stone age (which we ended up doing to Iraq instead). Musharraf doesn't go after al Qaida in his own country (or let us go after them) because his government might be overthrown by Islamic militants who would then have access to Pakistan's nuclear weapons as a result.

Now that's a fine kettle of fish.

This is totally off topic I know, but I thought it would be OK since the last few pages of comments (bebop-o excepted) have been assorted versions of "Jane, you ignorant slut!" (Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin on SNL for those old enough to remember).