<OT> Use a laser printer? You can be traced

[Herb DeLong]

What a surprise to see that the small booklet "The Law" has not been cast
aside by everyone. I went to www.mises.org as you suggested and will be
there many more times in the future.Very interesting site.
Herb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Campbell" <linux-sxs at celestial.com>
To: "Linux tips and tricks" <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: <OT> Use a laser printer? You can be traced


> 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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