Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pedsgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!petsd!pedsgd!bob From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Libertarianism and the Police Message-ID: <216@pedsgd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT Article-I.D.: pedsgd.216 Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 00:46:23 EDT References: <55@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1594@dciem.UUCP> <1617@dciem.UUCP> <354@kontron.UUCP> <611@cybvax0.UUCP> <380@kontron.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler) Organization: Perkin-Elmer, Tinton Falls, NJ Lines: 17 Organization : Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls NJ Keywords: In article <380@kontron.UUCP> cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: >1. Consumer research groups like Consumers Union stay afloat financially >by making the information available in their magazine. Your statement is >demonstrably false. > Ok, enough is enough. Consumers Union is mentioned over and over by the Libertarians on the net as example of the success of private consumer testing organizations. And yet, in their magazines, CU consistently advocates *MORE* government consumer protection, not less. Therefore, I submit that we should not subscribe to Libertarian consumer protection schemes since CU is against it. And after all, we KNOW we can trust them. Bob Weiler.