March 28, 2004

Rob:

MANY thanks for the reference to Carl Watner's work. I agree with the voluntaryist insight and all that it entails. Coercion will stop if and only if Americans reject coercion in principle. All politics is coercion, and libertarian politics is no different. If you accept coercion as necessary in some cases, you should not be surprised when someone finds it necessary to coerce you. Ayn Rand and Neal Boortz are, fundamentally, statists. The pursuit of "limited government" may sound like a fine goal, but government should be limited to exerting no coercion whatsoever -- at which point it ceases to be a government at all.

Regards,
Patrick