Libertarian extreme

[Anonymous]

I just heard a nationally know Libertarian
who, I think, is too extreme.

I sure would make people happy who dislike
the police.

He states that law enforcement should be reduced to private security.

If you want to be protected hire a security company to look after you.

If not, don't!

[AtomicAnt]

Does he mean private security of the sort that big industrialists paid to break up those trying to form unions? We've been there and done that.

This libertarain also seems to be limiting security those who can afford to pay for it.

Private armies are not a good idea.

[Anonymous]

meet the second largest army in iraq.

There are 50,000 to 100,000 contractors in Iraq, over 20,000 of them providing private security. The legal status of these contractors is vague under both US and international law, acording to Foreign Policy.

from: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0613/dailyUpdate.html

 ::armed::

[Antigen]

Nope, they're not. And I can verify that some ppl who call themselves (L|l)ibertarians seem to have not thought it all the way through. Read The Improbability Broach by L. Niel Smith to get a load of that.

Most of us view the idea as a reductio absurdum and pretty much relegate it to the realm of sci-fi. FWIW, I'm pretty sure Wells would have been a whole lot more careful w/ his recomendations if he had had any idea people would forget that he was a fiction writer and start making laws and book on his musings.

If you believe that people cannot be trusted to govern themselves,
then can they be trusted to govern others?
 
--Thomas Jefferson