[66345] in Cypherpunks
Re: SAY WHAT? [Hallam-Baker demands more repudiations or he'll write!]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Tue Sep 24 15:39:12 1996
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:19:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: attila <attila@primenet.com>
Cc: hallam@vesuvius.ai.mit.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199609241518.JAA08759@InfoWest.COM>
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, attila wrote:
>
> go back to your beloved England and your labour unions
your roots are showing :-) ----^
> NO, I will not outright reject Jim Bell's "Assassination
> Politics."
Assasination politics is impossible to defend from a classical
Liberal/Libertarian position. Bell advocates arbitrary applications of
violence and coercion without restriction. There is no way to justify the
initiation of force without abandoning any pretence of being a
Libertarian (which, to be fair, Bell doesn't claim to be).
