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July 18, 2006
ARI Moves Beyond Wog Bashing and Gets Real..
Which sure is a welcome change for them too.
"We gave legitimacy", says the Ayn Rand Institute commentary, "to Hezbollah--just as we did to such enemies as Hamas in the Palestinian Authority and the budding theocrats in Iraq and Afghanistan. These people all came to power through democratic elections promoted by the U.S. But a murderer does not gain legitimacy by getting elected to the ruling clique of his criminal gang--nor does anyone gain it by becoming an elected official of an anti-freedom state."
People as individuals have rights not states, not political parties or factions. And these rights aren't diminished or set aside just because some people voted on it first. There may be hope for the uber statist Randians yet.
Posted by Ali Massoud at July 18, 2006 09:25 PM
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