More reasons to love Koch Industries

[ninboydean]

http://www.observer.com/2010/slideshow/131739/eminent-domain"How did the Kochs manage to build up a pipeline network of this magnitude? By getting the government to use its tyrannical powers of eminent domain forcibly seize private property on Koch Industries' behalf

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Attacking the Koch brothers is an indictment of government, not property

[montecristo]

[F]orce is one of the most efficient and valuable business models and it wont disappear if you give greater power to the few people that have capital, land, improvements and other assets.

The fact that Koch industries shamelessly uses the government's monopoly on the initiation of force for its own benefit is not an argument against libertarians. It does point out that the Koch brand of "libertarianism" is a hypocritical kind of Republican fascism-lite. Surprise, surprise.

You're showing your colors with this post, whether you realize it or not. You really believe in the efficacy of force. It doesn't work that way. Force is not really efficient, except for a very few, who capitalize on its use at the expense of dupes who agree to be cannon fodder for the force initiating party.

Libertarian capitalist anarchists are in favor of reducing the scope and power of the government, an agnecy claiming the authority to initiate force. We say that without the government, an agency supported by the religion of patriotism, corporate enterprises would not be able to grow to such bloated size and have the power that they do now. So-called "Left-libertarianism" is a confession of cowardice. You believe that when people are free to use and trade property, the ones who initiate force and fraud will ultimately succeed and thrive better than those who respect rights and deal honestly. This is a sad, sad worldview, and is irrational.