kwc57
BOHICA Obama
"The only proper purpose of a government is to protect mans rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of mans self-defense, and, as such, may resort to force only against those who start the use of force. The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign invaders; and the courts, to protect your property and contracts from breach or fraud by others, to settle disputes by rational rules, according to objective law.
But a government that initiates the employment of force against men who had forced no one, the employment of armed compulsion against disarmed victims, is a nightmare infernal machine designed to annihilate morality: such a government reverses its only moral purpose and switches from the role of protector to the role of mans deadliest enemy, from the role of policeman to the role of a criminal vested with the right to the wielding of violence against victims deprived of the right of self-defense. Such a government substitutes for morality the following rule of social conduct: you may do whatever you please to your neighbor, provided your gang is bigger than his"-Ayn Rand
where'd you lift that from? on this board, you give links.
as a poitical theorist, ayn rand was a decent novelist.
but it's nonsense.
i guess that whole part of the constitution that guarantees RIGHTS and charges the government with the general welfare of its populace and gives it the right to govern commerce among the several states is a figment of our imagination.
randians are such putzes.
The liberal version of history. A bunch of guys getting ready to sign the constitution that they had labored and argued over suddenly realize that it is too limiting on the government. I know says one, lets just throw in a carte blanche "general welfare" clause that allows the government to sitck it's nose into the private lives of the citizens at will for anything. Everyone else in the room slaps their heads and says, why didn't I think of that!