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Re: Rush: "Lego is a Tool for 4 year olds"
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Fri, 4 Feb 2000 02:55:31 GMT
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Frank Filz wrote:
> > I would offer two things: first, we need to go and undo the most
> > egregious usurpations of property where we can untangle what was done,
> > and second, we need to allow Indian nations to BE soverign nations as we
> > promised. That means that if an Indian nation comes up with an
> > innovative way to raise money such as enabling casinos, selling cigs
> > free of tax or any one of a hundred other mechanisms, our current
> > approachs of allowing only some and regulating the rest must be replaced
> > with a hands off approach.
>
> Of course in Libertopia, one would be able to run casinos, sell cigs, or
> whatever without government regulation. I suspect many Native Americans
> would end up chosing to be part of the US if we were a Libertopia.
Maybe, and maybe not. If they wanted not to be that would be OK.
But in my paragraph above I was talking about things that we need to do
right now, and that we need to do whether or not we are transitioning
toward a libertopia or not... because we have really been jerks when it
comes to honoring our agreements with the sovereign nations on this
continent that we displaced.
That's my opinion, anyway.
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| Larry Pieniazek wrote in message <389A0E53.92149830@v...er.net>... (...) Of course to some extent, private enterprise would probably end up involving itself if a another Hitler (oh well, we've lost the debate again) came along and a Libertopia (...) (27 years ago, 3-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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