[66453] in Cypherpunks
Re: SAY WHAT? [Hallam-Baker demands more repudiations or he'll write!]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Wed Sep 25 12:42:11 1996
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:06:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <3248DE04.5363@gte.net>
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
>
> I understood the intent of AP was to take powers the government is
> already exercising (unconstitutionally), and merely transfer some of
> them to the people, as it were.
>
> Isn't this true democracy (if a rather perverse kind)?
Not really- however, no matter what it is, it isn't a Libertarian scheme,
as libertarian philosophy holds that those powers are the defining
characteristic of goverment; AP doesn't abolish governments, it creates
lots of little governments which don't even have to pretend to be
democracies.
Simon
