Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!pertec!kontron!cramer
From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Libertarianism and the Police
Message-ID: <427@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 13:16:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: kontron.427
Posted: Tue Jul 30 13:16:13 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Aug-85 22:23:03 EDT
References: <55@umcp-cs.UUCP> <inmet.7800338> <1594@dciem.UUCP>
Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA
Lines: 21

> 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.

Gee, seems to me that's how all totalitarian regiemes get their start ---
lazy people decide that if A can be trusted with one thing, A can be
trusted with all things.