Anthony Checks in on Tunis

You haven't blogged about problems in Tunis and now Egypt too?   I thought for sure you'd say something since it was a free market attempt at starting a fruit stand that sparked retribution from a tyrannical government.  

You know the power corrupts cliché,  what it is in human nature that leads powerful people to become corrupt?   Even with Anarchy,  someone will gain power and start repressing people.   How can the free market be enforced?


Anthony


But of course I have, here, here and here.  I guess by the time  country decides it needs to be more like Hong Kong they have gone too far.  people sell all sorts of things, like fruit juice, in Hong Kong without trouble form the government.  In fact, no one much talks about government or politics in Hong Kong because both have so little to do with life.


The fellow set himself on fire, not unlike the Buddhists in Vietnam of yore.  Now several others in Egypt have done so too.  Frustration at USA injustice is so overwhelming people resort to blowing themselves up and setting themselves on fire.  At some point the USA people have got to tire of seeing our allies fleeing their countries with our billions.  We are watching the world turn away from USA, and our lawyer-led country. All this criminality is designed by lawyers.  It;s time to limit them to the judiciary part of government.


Man was not designed ot have power over other men, the corruption is quite natural; it is the people who enter the voting booth, who elect "leaders" that are to blame.  Even Thomas Jefferson went bad as president.


In anarchy, by definition, no one can gain power.  There is enough violence in a free market to keep the evil ones at bay, and good and dead.  The problem is, unbidden, we seek a leader, a strong man, when we fear for our safety.  See 1 Samuel 8.   Nobody but ourselves to blame.

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