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Thread #110424   Message #2461033
Posted By: GUEST,Volgadon
09-Oct-08 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Here are some words by Jabotinsky which I rather like. They are equally aprropriate for Wav's grand scheme of a world-regulationism.

For me, as for all lovers of freedom, an ant-heap or a colony of bees cannot serve as an example for humanity. A collectivist* regime, which subjugates the individual personality, is no better than a regime of feudalism or autocracy. The 'equality' and 'justice' of such a regime will be based on organized production, distribution and consumption - all to be coordinated by the government; and if somebody does not conform to this organization, the heavy hand of that government will come down on him, or he may be hanged from a tree - in the name of equality and justice. No: Bakunin was a thousand times right when he told Marx that if the workers succeed in establishing the new regime that Marx preached, it would be no less tyrannical than it's predecessor...
All individuals are equal; and if, in the march towards prgress, some falter by the way, society must help raise them up...
I am not an anarchist: I admit the need for state power. But the difference between me and you is that to me that power is in the nature of a supreme court, standing above parties, groups and personlaities, and not interefering in the economic, public and private life of the citizen's as long as nobody's freedom is infringed - while to you that power is the stick of the policemen, and that stick differs from other sticks in that it will be yielded by you...
To you the end justifies the means, and so everything is permitted."