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Old Sep 12th, 2005, 10:59 AM        Re: Blackwater private security in New Orleans?
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Originally Posted by mburbank
For those of you with Liberatarian leanings, let me put it this way. If this story is true, our govt. is sending a force of privately hired paramilitary into a US city where private citizens are being disarmed and coerced to leave their property. Ho does that sit with you?
But Max, don't you see? there's nothing "Libertarian" about it at all, it's more like para-statism if you ask me. Now, if the private militia hadn't contracted with the state, and instead just went in to disarm everybody (and let's be honest, everybody else is simply a really poorly organized militia), then that'd be okay. It would be the better financed, better trained militia, dealing with the inferior one. Power of the market, my friend.
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