X-Message-Number: 23203 From: Subject: Libertarianism vs Statism Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:03:36 +0000 LIBERTARIANISM Monterey County (California): County residents are now $250,000,000.00 richer thanks to a successful Libertarian effort to defeat Measure Q. This statist attempt at robbery would have boosted the county sales tax from 7.25% to 7.75%. to bail out a government hospital. STATISM Las Vegas (Nevada): A bank customer and her fellow H.O.A. board members were ask by the bank for their Social Security and driver's license numbers and dates of birth. The bank cited the Orwellian...oops, the U.S.A. Patriot act. "They said they had to check us against a terrorist List," said the customer. A week earlier, the FBI in Las Vegas acknowledged agents used Patriot Act authorization instead of the grand jury to investigate a striptease club owner and several elected officials (personally I don't give a damn what the FBI or anyone else does to "elected officials"...they created this monster and deserve to be "investigated"). Incidents like this has produced a ground swell in Nevada for calls to repeal the act. Sounds good to me!! Jerry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23203