Defending the weak, the powerless and scoundrels
Classically Liberal
by CLS
04/01/08
I think one reason that I find liberty important is that it is so necessary to those people who are weaker or easy targets. The powerful always do well for themselves in a Statist society. Big government helps the powerful. At best the powerless are just the excuse for accumulating more power, but in truth that power rarely helps them — and I don’t think it can help them. I don’t believe compulsion and coercion can help the powerless or less powerful. They are ‘outgunned’ by definition...
http://tinyurl.com/27nfzu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+government
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CLS
by CLS
04/01/08
I think one reason that I find liberty important is that it is so necessary to those people who are weaker or easy targets. The powerful always do well for themselves in a Statist society. Big government helps the powerful. At best the powerless are just the excuse for accumulating more power, but in truth that power rarely helps them — and I don’t think it can help them. I don’t believe compulsion and coercion can help the powerless or less powerful. They are ‘outgunned’ by definition...
http://tinyurl.com/27nfzu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+government
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=CLS
rudkla - 2. Apr, 14:10
