Brennan: "we gotta stop these libertarians"
I've noticed it with federal investigations too. I've often cited Dwight Armstrong for leading himself and 5 other communist terrorists in blowing up the Sterling Hall building at the University of Wisconsin with a VBIED. One man was killed. They did this because they claimed that the building was involved in researching Agent Orange. This was a lie among many others. They fled to Canada, and Canada refused to deport them for over a decade. When the US finally promised that they would never face a death penalty charge, they were finally extradited. In the end, Dwight himself was convicted of a lesser charge and given seven years. Everyone else served 5, 3, or 1 year in federal prison. He moved back to Madison, WI and sold hot dogs. In the 90's he was asked if he regretted what he did and he said no, and that he'd do it again.
Compare that to the guy who founded Silk Road, or even Aaron Swartz who uploaded scientific papers, and then was persecuted to the point that he killed himself rather than risk the 40 year prison sentence he was facing.
You can blow up buildings, kill normies, shoot cops, and rape kids and the government will be miffed, and interested in seeing if you would like to be an informant. But, if you threaten the government's potential access to money, you're as good as dead.
Game theory means at least one group of authoritarians arise if only to stop others.
I'm willing to accept that, but that's why I'm not an Anarchist. I think law, morality, tradition, and culture are all good mechanisms to, not prevent it from happening, but allow it to be perpetually challenged so that even if you lose ground, you don't lose the game.
Brennan: "we gotta stop these libertarians"
I've noticed it with federal investigations too. I've often cited Dwight Armstrong for leading himself and 5 other communist terrorists in blowing up the Sterling Hall building at the University of Wisconsin with a VBIED. One man was killed. They fled to Canada, and Canada refused to deport them for over a decade. When the US finally promised that they would never face a death penalty charge, they were finally extradited. In the end, Dwight himself was convicted of a lesser charge and given seven years. Everyone else served 5, 3, or 1 year in federal prison. He moved back to Madison, WI and sold hot dogs. In the 90's he was asked if he regretted what he did and he said no, and that he'd do it again.
Compare that to the guy who founded Silk Road, or even Aaron Swartz who uploaded scientific papers, and then was persecuted to the point that he killed himself rather than risk the 40 year prison sentence he was facing.
You can blow up buildings, kill normies, shoot cops, and rape kids and the government will be miffed, and interested in seeing if you would like to be an informant. But, if you threaten the government's potential access to money, you're as good as dead.
Game theory means at least one group of authoritarians arise if only to stop others.
I'm willing to accept that, but that's why I'm not an Anarchist. I think law, morality, tradition, and culture are all good mechanisms to, not prevent it from happening, but allow it to be perpetually challenged so that even if you lose ground, you don't lose the game.
Game theory means at least one group of authoritarians arise if only to stop others.
I'm willing to accept that, but that's why I'm not an Anarchist. I think law, morality, tradition, and culture are all good mechanisms to, not prevent it from happening, but allow it to be perpetually challenged so that even if you lose ground, you don't lose the game.