Watch closely, Obama actually says, “You are privatizing something that is what essentially sets a nation-state apart, which is the monopoly on violence”.
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May 20th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I agree 100% How can there be legit private armies? Whats to stop them from doing anything and how are they accountable to anyone? Craziness if you ask me.
May 21st, 2009 at 12:18 am
Great find. Obama’s phraseology makes it less clear, but he is admitting that the State has a monopoly of Force. Or to use his words, the monopoly on violence is what sets a nation-state apart.
May 21st, 2009 at 8:01 am
Chaz, how can there be a legit use of the initiation violence against anyone?
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May 25th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
Somebody better warn him that his Freudian slip is showing.
June 27th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Wow, I wonder if Obama has been reading about libertarian philosophy, because his statement is almost identical to Rothbard’s definition of the state!