On biting off of finger tips
By now everyone’s heard about the incident at a MoveOn.org rally in favor of Obama/Pelosi/Marx/KennedyCare in which a “healthcare reform activist” (that’s the media’s term for what I like to refer to as “supporters of state violence”) bit off a counter-demonstrator’s finger tip. In addition to the hilariously inappropriate remark by a commenter on the LA Times blog that “at least we know there are still meat-eaters on the far-left,” I think there are a couple of things of great interest here.
First, it seems fitting that such a vicious aggression would be committed by one of those who are advocating an escalation of the use of violence by the government to confiscate and redistribute wealth and inflict greater restrictions on the ability of individuals to engage in voluntary production and exchange in the area of health care (which they are hoping to do in order to increase their own power as the ruling political class, enrich the business interests allied with them, and appease a bunch of apoplectic voters with big hearts but a tenuous grasp of morality and basic economics).
Second, there was this:
“While we do not have any more facts about what happened than what we saw in press accounts, MoveOn condemns violence in all forms,” Hogue said.
All forms? Really? Your rally was in support of a gross initiation of violence by the state against the productive members of society. Your organization is one of the biggest advocates of the expansion of the state and the violence by which it works. I fear a basic failure to properly define terms has led a great many people to think as this man does–that violence, when committed by an entity with a monopoly on the legal use of force, is somehow not actually violence and not actually wrong.
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