This speech is based on the following essays by Stuart K. Hayashi:
* "The Invisible Gun"
http://tinyurl.com/hhkrh* "A Distinction Between Freedom and Due Process"
http://tinyurl.com/kf6j6Note: if you Favorite this video, could you please let legendre007 know? We free-marketers need to network and stick together. :-)
This video is not a full endorsement of the ideology of market anarchy, also known as anarcho-capitalism. For a six-part video explaining Stuart Hayashi's position on anarcho-capitalism, one may see Qtronman's six-part series, "Anarchism and Due Process."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd8YFXCKe6gThe book mentioned in this video is *The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey*:
http://www.jonathangullible.comThe chapter of *Jonathan Gullible* mentioning the final resort of law enforcement:
http://tinyurl.com/altyaSome key points:
* Laws are ultimately enforced at gunpoint.
* Due Process of Law does not change that fact.
* For the government to exercise the force of law to imprison someone -- on account of some peaceful action he did with his own private property and with consenting adults -- amounts to government-imposed kidnapping of an innocent person.
* The income tax is a preemptive ransom that you pay to the government so that it won't abduct you.
* Whenever we think, "There ought to be a law about this!," we should first ask ourselves, "Is this something worth threatening violence over?"
Some audio satires by Ken Schoolland about this phenomenon:
http://www.jonathangullible.com/mmedia/Escalati.mp3http://www.jonathangullible.com/mmedia/penaltyc.mp3
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lol Nice one.
I was just a bit curious. I personally admire Hitchen's for his stance on religion. And also because I personally have learned so much about writing by reading his books. However, I can understand why he would decry Objectivism: he was steeped in Marxism for decades. Not that I in any way agree with his assessment.