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- From: phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone)
- Subject: Re: The socialist/fascist claptrap item #1: the "Social Contract"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.003944.19095@netcom.com>
- Organization: Generally in favor of, but mostly random.
- References: <1993Jan27.193338.9550@netcom.com> <C1JBDH.7Ky@cup.hp.com>
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:39:44 GMT
- Lines: 66
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- In article <C1JBDH.7Ky@cup.hp.com> runyan@cup.hp.com (Mark Runyan) writes:
- >Phil Ronzone (phil@netcom.com) wrote:
- >>Hey George, did you sign your "Social Contract"? Nope, me
- >>neither. Hey, how about you Tony? Did you? yeah, I've never
- >>seen this "Social Contract" ion any kind of writing either,
- >>much less signed one.
- >>
- >Nope, you didn't sign any piece of paper, nor did you
- >explicitly agree to any form of contract. And yet you
- >continue to use roads, electricity, and water that the
- >government provides you. It is strange that those very people
- >who most often repudiate the analogy of the social contract
- >do so while using the very advantages that their society
- >gives them.
-
- How sad. Do you really believe this? It's the same concept that the USSR
- used in confisticating and then taxing the Jews that wanted to leave. The
- emigrating Jews had to "reimburse" the State for all the "benefits" the
- State gave them.
-
- I am not allowed to build my own roads.
-
- I am not allowed to string my own power lines, nor to take back my property
- that the State stole and gave to the power companies so they could run
- power lines across my property.
-
- I am not allowed to buy water rights and have it shipped to my home.
-
-
- But you know, I bet if I bought a helicopter (and avoided the roads), and
- bought a generator (and avoided the power companies), and collected rainwater
- (to avoid the water companies) I don't think I could stop paying taxes.
-
-
-
- >>What actually happens of course is that some set of people
- >>gain enough control of the means of coercion to force another
- >>set or sets of people to hand over their property at gunpoint
- >>for the first set to dispose of.
- >>
- >And while you make fun of the analogy of Social Contract by
- >asking for a piece of paper, allow me to ask for a picture of
- >the gun pointing at you. :-)
-
- Oh? Stop paying your income taxes or property taxes. The State WILL come
- and take YOUR property away, without your consent. If you resist, they
- will knock you to the ground and place you in jail. If you strongly
- resistx, they will shoot you.
-
- Like that poor kook up in Idahoe -- he used no roads, no electricity,
- no water. And paid no taxes.
-
- And they shot him dead.
-
-
-
- Social Contract? Just another name for the concept of "just lie back and
- enjoy it" during an act of social intercourse rape.
-
-
-
- --
- There are actually people that STILL believe Love Canal was some kind of
- environmental disaster. Weird, eh?
-
- These opinions are MINE, and you can't have 'em! (But I'll rent 'em cheap ...)
-