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[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:02:05PM -0700, Collins Richey took 26 lines to write:
>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:43:42 -0800, Bill Campbell
>> <linux-sxs at celestial.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Often, the difference between a crime and a law is that a majority voted
>> > for the law.
>> > 
>> >   ``But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if
>> >   the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to
>> >   other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one
>> >   citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself
>> >   cannot do without committing a crime.'' -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law
>> > 
>> 
>> I can think of at least one major political party which has
>> incorporated this drivel as its core belief, and they wonder why they
>> are no longer in power! BTW, who is Frederic Bastiat; he sounds like a
>> sane person.
>
>You're gonna hate this, then, because he was an early 19th century
>economist and politician. From France. ;-)

Bastiat may have been French, but he was brilliant!  He had lived through a
multitude of revolutions in France, and fought against socialism while in
the French assembly along with Alexis de Toqueville,

>See http://www.mises.org/content/fredericbastiat.asp

Interesting (although I have a hard time with mises.org's tendency to use
horrible html on their site).  The author of this article, Thomas J.
DiLorenzo, has written several fascinating books himself including ``The
Real Lincoln'' which goes extensively into the economic causes Lincoln
championed.

Bill
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