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1996-09-26 - Re: SAY WHAT? [Hallam-Baker demands more repudiations or he’ll write!]

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From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-09-26 01:43:36 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:43:36 +0800

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From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 09:43:36 +0800
To: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Subject: Re: SAY WHAT? [Hallam-Baker demands more repudiations or he'll write!]
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On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
> 
> I understood the intent of AP was to take powers the government is 
> already exercising (unconstitutionally), and merely transfer some of 
> them to the people, as it were.
> 
> Isn't this true democracy (if a rather perverse kind)?

Not really- however, no matter what it is, it isn't a Libertarian scheme, 
as libertarian philosophy holds that those powers are the defining 
characteristic of goverment; AP doesn't abolish governments, it creates 
lots of little governments which don't even have to pretend to be 
democracies.

Simon

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