A short but scathing deconstruction of the utter Bullshit and Neo-Feudalist CLAPTRAP that is euphemistically referred to as "Libertarianism".
I challenge any "Libertarian"/PROPERTARIAN to refute this analysis.
Good Luck.
The smarmy Cult of "Libertarianism" (more truthful would be the appellation PROPERTARIANISM), is replete with allusions to "Liberty" and the supposedly odious nature of what you refer to as "governmental 'coercion' ".
Those pronouncing themselves lovers of what they euphemistically call "Liberty", repeatedly assert their loyalty to "freedom from coercion" when demanding that mere voters desist from imposing any community standards re: zoning, electric, water, fire, plumbing, etc., as those standards tend to modify an individual's complete dominion in his property.
But this "reasoning" is transparently flawed.
To Wit:
I have never signed a statement giving my consent to your specific notion of property.
I have not agreed to abide by or even recognize your personal conception of property rights.
For the record, I most assuredly and with absolute certainty do not recognize your absolute, unencumbered, domain over one square inch of this planet.
To the extent that property owners enjoy the license they have for the present, it is only as a result of amiable politics which uses the coercive authority of government to force me to abide to an absurd and dangerous construction of private property "rights" as they are convenient to you.
If any of you smug Propertarians can explain to me why government coercion exerted upon Me to honor Your convenient interpretation of property rights is okay, while government coercion exerted upon you to honor my conception of property rights is not okay, then I would be duly impressed.
The only reason this bogus crackpot baloney is taken seriously by Anyone is due to the lame TALK RADIO Hacks that have given the CATO Boys and their brethren a totally Free Ride for 30 years owing to their lame Ignorance and Laziness.
Jay Diamond
WRKO-AM
Boston
jaydiamond9@aol.com