Q: DB has no patience for [treating addiction as a disease] so the imprisonment will continue.
DB: Please cite the article wherein we wrote that we have no patience with treating addiction as a disease.
P.S. I am a blogger and Senior Editor for Opednews and I intend to gather up all these comments and publish them there at some point.
Q: To facilitate your labor we have gathered up your statements and our responses. By all means publish them without emendation and let people decide for themselves. You write from an incredibly narrow, pro-government knowledge base and are also difficult to communicate with because when your points are effectively rebutted you simply insist on repeating the same formulaic misinformation over again. No wonder Zarlenga finds you difficult.
Additional pro-Leviathan statements and our responses "
(At this point I have decided not to republish what is basically a rehash of the previous points, only reformatted into a Q&A style)
Leaving the Daily Bell Now
This exchange went on a bit longer, with other commenters jumping in. My point is not to reprint all the comments but to show the kinds of arguments, often incoherent and contradictory, that anarcho-capitalists make. I actually think it is a deficiency of that type of thinking that makes it difficult for them to commit to any kind of specific solution. I never did get a good answer as to why they would not support Local Exchange Traded Systems (LETS). The reactionary retreat to LETS being supported by "Leviathans" like the United Nations is both spurious and not completely true (there are several major member nations that have lately and specifically rejected virtual currencies like Bitcoin, for example, including Russia, India and China, though the U.S. has very tentatively permitted them).
The problem with "comment-based" articles is that they often never end, except by the eventual disinterest of one or both of the commenters -- in this case, mine.
One of the few links that Daily Bell provided which I thought worthy of a response was the Milken Paper, which argues that various and shifting government rules and regulations were responsible for the S&L crisis of the early 1990s. I don't profess to be an expert in this, but I trust Bill Black's thinking more seriously than someone who was convicted of fraud and spent 10 years in jail for it (this seems to be an impossibility in the current too-big-to-fail-or-even-prosecute era).
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