From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 15:11:03 MST
--- Rafal Smigrodzki <rms2g@virginia.edu> wrote:
> Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> >>
> >> ### Agreed. However, how do you insure the control of immigration,
> >> without some sort of coercive intervention? A system all but
> >> indistinguishable from a state will evolve as soon as there are
> >> enough citizens willing to stop immigration.
> >
> > A fence is not coercive, any more than my sidearm is coercing you
> into
> > not killing me. Georgism is an invalid and dead concept, and should
> > stay that way.
> >
>
> ### Imagine your neighbor starts growing apples on his land, and
> invites a
> few thousands of poor, totally untrustworthy people to work his farm.
> He makes good money, better than you. Soon there is a sizable
> number of farmers, who although initially staunch anarchists and
> libertarians, find having peons on their land is good for business.
> It is difficult for you to
> compete with them, and soon your fence and sidearm are no longer up
> to date.
Your first wrong assumption is that peons can work the land better than
my extropic anarcho-libertarian machinery, so such a scenario would
never occur. Secondly, the fence is only to slow them down long enough
for me to establish a clear field of fire.
>
> One day the peons get restive. The owner of the land which they are
> working
> sits idly as a bunch of them, armed with bigger and better guns,
> cross your
> fence, and tell you to get lost, or else.
>
> Tell me, how is the anarchic society going to prevent this scenario.
I assume you are talking about Zimbabwe. First off, that nation has not
been libertarian or anarchist in decades, its been a socialist racist
thugocracy since the early 1980's. Anybody white who stuck around
deserves what they got.
If you are not referring to it, then in the general scenario, it is
your responsibility to arm yourself in response to the threat.
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