The state: Who does it protect?
Center for a Stateless Society
by Darian Worden
05/04/10
Government’s typical answer to security threats is to respond with bigger bureaucracies (more people to share irresponsibility) and more repressive, stronger-looking enforcement. Organizations that exist because of, and in pursuit of, consensual association are generally more flexible, and do not waste time and cooperative potential trying to become the dominant bureaucracy in the power structure. When a bureaucratic mindset conflates the organization’s power with the safety of people it is assigned to protect, the incentive is to consolidate and expand power, not to work with people outside your tribe for mutual benefit...
http://c4ss.org/content/2383
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Why the Left Has No Answer to the Right-Wing Lie Machine
Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers: "What if there were a great debate concerning the nature and future of American society, and only one side showed up? That approximately describes the condition of the US media today."
http://www.truthout.org/why-left-has-no-answer-right-wing-lie-machine59220
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+threat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bureaucrac
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=expand+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=law+enforcement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Darian+Worden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ernest+Partridge
by Darian Worden
05/04/10
Government’s typical answer to security threats is to respond with bigger bureaucracies (more people to share irresponsibility) and more repressive, stronger-looking enforcement. Organizations that exist because of, and in pursuit of, consensual association are generally more flexible, and do not waste time and cooperative potential trying to become the dominant bureaucracy in the power structure. When a bureaucratic mindset conflates the organization’s power with the safety of people it is assigned to protect, the incentive is to consolidate and expand power, not to work with people outside your tribe for mutual benefit...
http://c4ss.org/content/2383
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Why the Left Has No Answer to the Right-Wing Lie Machine
Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers: "What if there were a great debate concerning the nature and future of American society, and only one side showed up? That approximately describes the condition of the US media today."
http://www.truthout.org/why-left-has-no-answer-right-wing-lie-machine59220
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=security+threat
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bureaucrac
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=expand+power
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=law+enforcement
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Darian+Worden
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ernest+Partridge
rudkla - 6. Mai, 10:39
