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Here is something for the libertarians on this board
Recently I found this website called the Mises Institute, http://mises.org
a website aimed at "advancing Austrian School of libertarian political and social theory", of the type which teaches "be fat and proud, mr. capitalist, pound the workers with the iron club" etc.named after the austrian Ludwig von Mises, a man of the rarest level of stupidity and odiousness, phenomenally bad-smelling and very ugly, even compared to the rest of the teachers of libertarianism.
Half of the website http://mises.org is dedicated to the liberal utopia in Somalia and how good it would be to rebuild the whole world by their example. Articles like
Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It
http://mises.org/story/2066
Why I still haven't moved to Somalia
http://mises.org/Community/forum…All this because Somalia (at the time when the Mises website was founded) had no government, no taxes, no health care and no education, even no police and no courts.
Instead Somalia had clan organizations, if youre outside the clan, anyone is basically free to rape and kill you -- literally.Libertarians see in this the triumph of libertarianism, because there are no limitations to whatever power structures are actually functioning in the country (islamic fundamentalism, amputation of hands as punishment for stealing etc) -- for normal people in Somalia this is the ultimate hell and ,of course, while for the libertarians -- the most natural paradise on earth.
Im sure libertarianism, minimal government and lawlessness all sound like a wonderful idea, until it reaches all the way around and bites you in the ass. And then it immediately turns out that it is scary similar to Somalia, Nigeria and Russia.
To be a libertarian these days, is equal to taking a trip down to Somalia and start explaining to the locals that they live much better and frier lives than people in the West.
Libertarianism in a nutshell