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  • Friday, May 9, 2008 10:11 PM

    um .. and the whole judicial system ...

    the trouble is, I am not going into that site to look for it. It's probably in the pdf files of "Left and Right" which was a magazine he was involved with some time back in the Vietnam era. When libertarianism is sufficiently wacky, as it seems to have been in his version of it, it's kind of entertaining to look at from afar, it's sort of scenic. But seriously, to call for the privatisation of the judicial system is to attempt to abolish politics altogether in favour of economics. It's the suicide of political thinking as such. It makes me rather angry when I think about the implications for a massively armed global super-power, and I can only thank heavens that the dollar is collapsing at long last. If it was an individual, rather than a state, that was flirting with this sort of thing, I would call it a psychosis.

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