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From: baba@garth.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Businesses and Personal Rights
Message-ID: <365@garth.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 03:44:02 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 11 03:44:02 1986
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In article <1787@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:
>Actually, this is still not blackmail -- just extortion.  Blackmail is the
>threat to make information public to extort a value.  As such, it is
>explicitly *not* a threat of physical force.

Nor is it fraud, unless the blackmailer is bluffing.
Is there a libertarian argument for outlawing blackmail?
After all, it means both state interference in the free
market for services (i.e. silence) and the intervention
of the state to protect individuals from the consequences
of their own actions.

					Baba