From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 16:50:38 MDT
> I was tired of hearing the raving randian bastards on this list label
> everybody who disagreed with the slightest scintilla of their pet
> dogmas as evil vermin who should be exterminated for the greater good,...
Legislation is violence. No matter how much one pretends that this
isn't true, the fact won't go away. Those who propose and pass laws
are enabling armed police to forcibly detain and imprison people who
violate them, even if they do so peacefully. Sometimes civilized
discourse is not sufficient to point out just how evil some of these
actions really are.
If you advocate legislation, be prepared to back up your opinions
with your blood. You are morally responsible for the violence
used to enforce those laws, and a legitimate target for those who
fight them. I am prepared to take moral responsibility for laws
against violence and theft; if history proves me wrong, I accept
the consequences. I am not willing to accept such responsibility
for laws against peaceful use of technology--be it drugs, money,
or guns--or laws granting "property" status to ideas, and many other
laws that some people favor. I may be wrong, and I'm willing to
entertain discussions on the matter peacefully. But when a bill is
signed into law, the line between discussion and force has been
crossed, and I cannot be silent. No matter how loudly I may "rave",
it is still peaceful discourse compared to the violence of law.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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