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To: Wildstar who wrote (5543)	10/5/2003 8:03:19 PM
From: doniam	Respond to of 13056

Thanks for the link...very worthwhile site. -Don

To: Wildstar who wrote (5543)	10/5/2003 10:02:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Politics is the only way to change the state other then brute force (revolutions, coups, foreign invasions...) Personally I'd prefer the Democratic process. I think he makes some good points about the difficulties of getting this thing to work and about the temptation politicians have to try to do more, but that's not enough to mean that any other way would be better. If we are going to use "bottom up" methods, those methods would be mainly more or better targeted efforts and convincing people to support libertarian ideas. If too many people try to hard to move "away from and around the state at the individual level." Without libertarian ideas also getting more traction in the political realm then the state will just chase harder after those people and even others who aren't trying to avoid it. The politicians will argue that new powers are needed to deal with the new techniques and technologies that are allowing people to do something illegal or something they wish to bash as very undesirable. Tim