Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guarantee; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained. True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth. The only way organized authority meets this grave situation is by extending still greater privileges to those who have already monopolized the earth, and by still further enslaving the disinherited masses. Thus the entire arsenal of government--laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons,--is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society.
The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation. Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.
2007-03-16 01:06:23
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answered by prole1984 5
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It's just political spin. When you are trying to sway an election, you gotta discredit the other guy. Ethics be damned (since when do ethics matter to anyone running for national office). BOTH parties are guilty of it. All you gotta do is get it out there. There are plenty of folks that will believe anything based on where it comes from.
Edit: See, the guy below just proved my point. Worded his response just like something out of a cheap B grade spy movie...or a 60's protest manifesto.
2007-03-15 23:24:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Good ole Al is Cheney's lap dog. Whatever Dickie says it does. The A.G. is supposed to be a servant of the people not an apologist of a corrupt administration.
2007-03-15 23:25:58
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answered by emiliosailez 6
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