21 Mar 2009
Enemies of What State?

Kevin Carson of the Mutualist Blog has a fine essay posted the Center for a Stateless Society:

There are all too many people in American politics whose real concern, concealed behind all the “free market” rhetoric, is not so much “statism” per se as statism that benefits the wrong class of people. A good example: it was quite amusing to hear some Republicans, during yesterday’s Congressional hearings on the AIG bonuses, wringing their hands over the prospect of “interfering with the management of private business” and “altering the terms of contracts.” Last night Rachel Maddow ran clips of some of the very same people, last December, crowing about how they were forcing the UAW to renegotiate it’s contract and accept lower wages in return for bailout loans to the auto industry.

Spot on, Kevin! It's these kinds of imbeciles and charlatans that make me cringe when identifying my political proclivities as "libertarian"... 'cause they'd say the same thing, and they wouldn't know Liberty if she ran over them with a dump truck.

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