It should of course be pointed out by one of the more boring contributors to these boxes - myself, perhaps - that most of these fuckers have never done any more suffering than is entailed in having a bad morning after drinking too much the night before.
They have just about the greatest amount of personal liberty in history and they pay (more's the pity) the lowest income tax in fifty years.
Yet to hear them talk you'd think they were knee-deep in a rice paddy with a rifle in their back.
Fucking six-year-olds the lot of 'em.
You stick it to those damn libertarians! They really need taking down a peg or two, what with their massive political influence and electoral support. That's the great thing about satire, the way you can knock the powerful of their pedalstals and really tell it like it is. Why go after the little fish fighting agressive foreign wars and implementing a massive security state, when you can go after the *real* enemy with their naive and selfish notions of so-called "liberty"? Keep up the good work!
Actually that was churlish, it was quite funny. Why is the Google ad above this box trying to sell me Ann Coulter's book? I'm going to bed.
Zoiks, Charles, if I wanted to see somebody mocking libertarians I could go to... eh... well, there must be a website that... oh, well, maybe not.
Of course libertarians are powerless - that was rather the point of the post.
They are, however, all-powerful amongst British bloggers, infesting cyberspace like sweary triffids.
And that's the medium in which we work, isn't it?
I take the piss out of practically everyone - if you'd like to take the piss out of me, much as I deserve it, you have your own blog.
I've read recently that the Roman Empire only ever managed to appropriate 6% of GDP in taxation. That's probably too minarchist even for me.
The Roman Empire, like the British Empire, managed to maintain an infrastructure (as they did not call it then) without present-day taxation levels because works were paid for out of plunder and slave or unfree labour.
Linking the repressive of societies to levels of taxation is one of the most absurd and intellectualy childish of all the rightwing "ideas" doing the current rounds.
Well the Roman Empire did have the help of slaves to keep their costs down.
Even though I am a libertarian I think this piece was pretty durn funny.
Hmmm - I imagine that the Romans could've taxed at whatever rate they liked, since they could send in the legions to decimate the populace if they got uppity.
Much as I love Roman history, there's a reason why Mussolini liked it too.
Damn it, Haloscan is advertising for Ann Coulter, just as people have said.
If it was up to me, I'd bombard them with onagers and ballista, then send in the legion, hitting them in the flanks with cavalry at the critical moment.
could send in the legions to decimate the populace if they got uppity
I was never able to see Roman history in the same light again after learning that Caesar's Gallic Wars wiped out about a quarter of the population of Gaul.
I wasn't unaware that a lot of people got killed, but I'd never realised it was on that sort of scale.
Still, at least you never got any libertarian nonsense out of the bastards. They were well aware that we weren't all independent individuals selling our skills on the market and trying to contribute as little as we can to the common weal.
They were well aware of common interests, especially the one that involves wealthy people acting in concerted (and dramatic) fashion as soon as their income or property appears to be under threat.
Not much individualism when you're being nailed up along the Appian Way.
If you want nightmares, Justin, you could read about what happened when the Helvetii tribe decided they wanted to capture land that Caesar had already conquered.
Also, everybody knows what happened to Carthage - not many know about Corinth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cor...rinth#Roman_era
Not very surprisingly: During the 2006-2007 season, the team played in the Greek Fourth Division's Regional Group 7.
Mind you, how are Carthage getting on?
I am quite certain that the massed ranks of braying Sociofascists protecting their unearnt power or counting their similarly unearnt pieces of silver wish to nail every Libertarian on a cross.
"Forgive them, for they know not what they do".
As someone said, people who are not Libertarian, haven't understood it yet.
braying Sociofascists... nail every libertarian to a cross...
Mr. Frei, you are a comical genius.
I salute you, sir.
Heh. You seen the website? It's another Victim of Oppression.
Send him to bed early and no telly for a week.
Dammit Rodent!! I told you about this last week. I've got several Ann Coulter tomes already, why would I want more? I'm keeping them for the upcomoming holocaust, when bog paper will be at a premium.
Can I hire out Libertarian Jesus?
1. And lefty Jesus said, yea, render unto Caesar all that is Caesar's, including what you will eat, drink, smoke, what colour you will paint your dwelling thereof; what words ye will say and even what ye will think; and if ye disobey there will be much slaughter thereof.
2. And whoever hath nailed me to this cross hath not filled in the correct forms and hath not followed that latest health and safety directives on crucifixions, or the latest Euro directive; so will there be much wailing and gnashing of teeth and turning to libertarianism from Caesar's slaves, when they come to their senses.
...apart from those slaves who did not have much disposable income, since they could not see what might be in it for them. And they were surely right.
Wish you'd been the preacher who gave the sermons in my childhood. Then again, you'd have to have been a ghost, so better not.
You were preached to by a ghost?
This sounds a much more interesting topic of discussion than internet libertarians.
tremendous as usual
Justin, No "victim", but it seems you have long since submitted.
I know.
When you pay your taxes it's like the Borg.
What? Tight shorts and an unorthodox backhand?
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Give the prize to Sean- that was bloody brilliant!
Shire Tory Jesus would be a good one for next time. He could go on about how much better things were before all those Italian immigrants arrived and how even though under the thumb of Rome the Jews still controlled everything.
That corinth story sounds like Iraq.
Thank God we have Emperor Bush.
I was reading this post quickly and for some reason read "Librarian Jesus" which really rather confused me.
Completely OT, but this link seems to be up Flying-Rodent-Strasse. At least it mentions badgers.
Librarian Jesus?
Blessed be the quiet page-turners, for they shall inherit the whole newspaper.
And blessed be those who return the book by the due date, at the branch where it was issued.
And blessed be the Dewey numbering. But my father hath created a special cubicle in hell for those who observe the Library-of-Congress system.
Fuck yeah.
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