tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post4869919023018863465..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Getting more for their taxpayer dollar...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-47876788316685068232009-11-29T20:24:52.792-05:002009-11-29T20:24:52.792-05:00I love good cops. Maybe it means I'm a bad lib...<i>I love good cops. Maybe it means I'm a bad libertarian, since, well, even good cops are representatives of the state, and good libertarians aren't supposed to like the state, but there you have it.</i><br /><br />Depends on what type of libertarian you are. If you're an anarchists, then yeah, police are bad. If you're a minarchist, then not so much. <br /><br />Personally, I'm a minarchist; I only dislike government action where it is unnecessary, and I don't believe that police are an unnecessary function of government. I do dislike a vast portion of the law that they enforce, but that isn't really their fault so much as the legislature's.Regolithnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-23917023302601728152009-11-29T17:42:53.711-05:002009-11-29T17:42:53.711-05:00You're too kind.
Cossack said:
"I love...You're too kind. <br /><br /><b>Cossack</b> said: <br /><i>"I love good cops. Maybe it means I'm a bad libertarian, since, well, even good cops are representatives of the state, and good libertarians aren't supposed to like the state, but there you have it."</i><br /><br />I couldn't have put it better myself. I feel similarly, and I <i>are</i> one.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-41520037185853702842009-11-29T16:03:08.251-05:002009-11-29T16:03:08.251-05:00Welll, I suspect not everybody on his particular p...Welll, I suspect not <b>everybody</b> on his particular patch of Tejas, else he would have no beat at all, would he? :)<br /><br />Your point is well taken though; sadly, I don't think he'd last too long in these here parts. Entirely the wrong attitude don'cha know?Will Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13454533450309633627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-88118567436445153712009-11-29T08:41:08.175-05:002009-11-29T08:41:08.175-05:00I love good cops. Maybe it means I'm a bad li...I love good cops. Maybe it means I'm a bad libertarian, since, well, even good cops are representatives of the state, and good libertarians aren't supposed to like the state, but there you have it.<br /><br />I love cops that remember that whole "to protect and to serve" thing, that aren't time punching drones, that still love their neighbors and their town and their country.<br /><br />We need more of them. <br /><br />I love Matt's tag line: I think that there's bound to be a way to serve myself, serve my community, and not take freedom away from good people.Hunsdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05188706369004532171noreply@blogger.com