Posted On: July 27, 2007, 8:04 pm CDT

Posted By: memo from turner

"If the "private" industry would stop raping people then government would not have to step in."

You're right in putting quotation marks around private. Many industries that present themselves as "free market" receive massive subsidies from government. But in order to do that, the industry must first meet several key requirements: they must be large; they must have sufficient cash reserves to bribe government, they must be able to spread their propaganda throughout the mainstream media, and they must be good politicians themselves.

Now, the thing to consider is if government stopped raping people then...well, then all sorts of terrible things would happen (that prior remark is made sarcastically): like, people would have more money to spend on themselves and their families; people would stop getting thrown in jail and gang raped for "crimes" in which there is no one at all who is damaged or suffers loss; we wouldn't be forced to bear a CIA and other "intelligence" agencies giving drugs to unwilling subjects and killing people at random (that CIA is a fun loving bunch; google "The CIA's La Dolce Vita Lew Rockwell" (no quotation marks) for a minor tip of the iceberg on this); and we wouldn't have FBI agents/murderers who shoot teenage boys in the back while they're running away. All of the foregoing is made up of course, I know that government has never done anything wrong and indeed is incapable of doing wrong.