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James Redford
Sep 11, 2013, 2:22:40 PM9/11/13
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Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, "The Libertarian Case for National Military
Service", Cato Unbound, Sept. 9, 2013.
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/09/09/pascal-emmanuel-gobry/libertarian-case-national-military-service
, http://archive.is/dczNA
The following is my reply to Gobry's foregoing article, which I posted
to the Cato Unbound website circa 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 10,
2013. The blog software stated that my post is being held for
moderator approval. Many other replies have been posted to Gobry's
article that were submitted after mine. Hopefully my reply will also
be posted at Cato Unbound. But even if it does not get posted there, I
can nevertheless post my reply elsewhere.
##########[begin]##########
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry's present article is extremely muddleheaded.
Gobry keeps using the word "libertarian" without ever defining what he
means by the word, while attributing positions to it that are
antipodal to what the leading libertarian theorists--particularly
Profs. Murray N. Rothbard (known by the sobriquets "Mr. Libertarian"
and, while he was alive, "The Greatest Living Enemy of the State") and
Hans-Hermann Hoppe--have explicated as being libertarianism.
Gobry's problem in his article is that to him, libertarianism is just
a vague idea of desiring more freedom, instead of a rigorously logical
system with definite truth or falsity values on the legitimacy of the
entire range of possible human interactions. With Gobry's nebulous
conception, "libertarianism" could be anything, since even the most
totalitarian of governments maintain that their subjects are free
(e.g., "Arbeit Macht Frei"). Furthermore, libertarianism in the sense
of Profs. Rothbard and Hoppe is not only a logically rigorous ethical
system, but one which is apodictically true, in the sense that the
truth of rigorous libertarianism cannot be denied without assuming its
truth in the denial. One who disagrees with rigorous libertarianism is
logically wrong in the same degree as one who argues that they cannot
argue. For more on this, see my following article: James Redford,
"Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science
Research Network, Dec. 15, 2011, doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733.
Nor, contrary to what Gobry states, is the United States a free
country. Currently the US government maintains that it can kill and
indefinitely imprison anyone anywhere in the world based upon nothing
more than the US president's say-so, including US citizens arrested on
US soil. And the US government maintains it can do all of this in
secret. So no such thing as a human right exists in the US vis-à-vis
the US government. Moreover, the US has the highest prisoner
population of any country in the entire world. This is both in terms
of absolute numbers, as well as on a per capita basis (see Roy
Walmsley, "World Prison Population List (ninth edition)",
International Centre for Prison Studies [King's College London--School
of Law], May 2011). Many of these US prisons and jails are hellish
torture-pits where boys and men are gang-raped without condoms for
years and decades on end, and where mutilation and death is an
ever-present reality.
Moreover, the US government routinely mass-murders is own subjects in
staged terrorist attacks in order to have a pretext for usurping ever
more power, such as with the 9/11 attacks, the Gulf of Tonkin
incident, the Pearl Harbor attack, etc. Regarding the US government's
Gulf of Tonkin false-flag operation, some 58,000 US citizens died in
the Vietnam War which directly resulted from said false-flag. This was
nothing less than mass-murder by the US government against these US
citizens, since their deaths were the result of malice aforethought by
the US government: the US president and the US's highest military
leaders involved in staging this false-flag operation cannot
coherently claim that they are not responsible for these US citizens'
deaths, no more than one who throws a person into a lion's den can
veridically claim innocence in the victim's resulting death. Such an
abuser is fully guilty of murder.
For a much deeper examination into the aforesaid three US
government-staged pretext-attacks, see Sec. 8.2.1 of my following
article, in particular pp. 70-86: James Redford, "The Physics of God
and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research
Network, Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011),
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708. This article concerns physicist and
mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the
Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of
Everything; however, it also analyzes the societal implications of
said, particularly the implications of the exponential advancement of
technology and hence also the coming radical life-extension
technologies (i.e., transhumanism) in light of a world dominated by a
callous oligarchy.
##########[end]##########
The following are links to the two articles of mine which I cited in
my above reply:
James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct",
Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp.,
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733; PDF, 118091 bytes, MD5:
e6de8181ad84c9d96400bb9582311c79. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1972733 ,
http://archive.org/download/LibertarianAnarchismIsApodicticallyCorrect/Redford-Apodictic-Libertarianism.pdf
, http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Apodictic-Libertarianism.pdf ,
http://webcitation.org/63xyCLjLm ,
http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/10/redford-apodictic-libertarianism/redford-apodictic-libertarianism.pdf
James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of
Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012
(orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708; PDF,
1741424 bytes, MD5: 8f7b21ee1e236fc2fbb22b4ee4bbd4cb.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 ,
http://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
, http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf ,
http://alphaomegapoint.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/redford-physics-of-god.pdf
,
http://sites.google.com/site/physicotheism/home/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
----------------------------------------
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science
Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001),
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1337761 ,
http://theophysics.host56.com/anarchist-jesus.pdf ,
http://webcitation.org/66AIz2rJw
Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist (a website with information
on Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem and the quantum gravity
Theory of Everything [TOE]) http://theophysics.host56.com ,
http://theophysics.ifastnet.com
Service", Cato Unbound, Sept. 9, 2013.
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2013/09/09/pascal-emmanuel-gobry/libertarian-case-national-military-service
, http://archive.is/dczNA
The following is my reply to Gobry's foregoing article, which I posted
to the Cato Unbound website circa 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Sept. 10,
2013. The blog software stated that my post is being held for
moderator approval. Many other replies have been posted to Gobry's
article that were submitted after mine. Hopefully my reply will also
be posted at Cato Unbound. But even if it does not get posted there, I
can nevertheless post my reply elsewhere.
##########[begin]##########
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry's present article is extremely muddleheaded.
Gobry keeps using the word "libertarian" without ever defining what he
means by the word, while attributing positions to it that are
antipodal to what the leading libertarian theorists--particularly
Profs. Murray N. Rothbard (known by the sobriquets "Mr. Libertarian"
and, while he was alive, "The Greatest Living Enemy of the State") and
Hans-Hermann Hoppe--have explicated as being libertarianism.
Gobry's problem in his article is that to him, libertarianism is just
a vague idea of desiring more freedom, instead of a rigorously logical
system with definite truth or falsity values on the legitimacy of the
entire range of possible human interactions. With Gobry's nebulous
conception, "libertarianism" could be anything, since even the most
totalitarian of governments maintain that their subjects are free
(e.g., "Arbeit Macht Frei"). Furthermore, libertarianism in the sense
of Profs. Rothbard and Hoppe is not only a logically rigorous ethical
system, but one which is apodictically true, in the sense that the
truth of rigorous libertarianism cannot be denied without assuming its
truth in the denial. One who disagrees with rigorous libertarianism is
logically wrong in the same degree as one who argues that they cannot
argue. For more on this, see my following article: James Redford,
"Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct", Social Science
Research Network, Dec. 15, 2011, doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733.
Nor, contrary to what Gobry states, is the United States a free
country. Currently the US government maintains that it can kill and
indefinitely imprison anyone anywhere in the world based upon nothing
more than the US president's say-so, including US citizens arrested on
US soil. And the US government maintains it can do all of this in
secret. So no such thing as a human right exists in the US vis-à-vis
the US government. Moreover, the US has the highest prisoner
population of any country in the entire world. This is both in terms
of absolute numbers, as well as on a per capita basis (see Roy
Walmsley, "World Prison Population List (ninth edition)",
International Centre for Prison Studies [King's College London--School
of Law], May 2011). Many of these US prisons and jails are hellish
torture-pits where boys and men are gang-raped without condoms for
years and decades on end, and where mutilation and death is an
ever-present reality.
Moreover, the US government routinely mass-murders is own subjects in
staged terrorist attacks in order to have a pretext for usurping ever
more power, such as with the 9/11 attacks, the Gulf of Tonkin
incident, the Pearl Harbor attack, etc. Regarding the US government's
Gulf of Tonkin false-flag operation, some 58,000 US citizens died in
the Vietnam War which directly resulted from said false-flag. This was
nothing less than mass-murder by the US government against these US
citizens, since their deaths were the result of malice aforethought by
the US government: the US president and the US's highest military
leaders involved in staging this false-flag operation cannot
coherently claim that they are not responsible for these US citizens'
deaths, no more than one who throws a person into a lion's den can
veridically claim innocence in the victim's resulting death. Such an
abuser is fully guilty of murder.
For a much deeper examination into the aforesaid three US
government-staged pretext-attacks, see Sec. 8.2.1 of my following
article, in particular pp. 70-86: James Redford, "The Physics of God
and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research
Network, Sept. 10, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011),
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708. This article concerns physicist and
mathematician Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point cosmology and the
Feynman-DeWitt-Weinberg quantum gravity/Standard Model Theory of
Everything; however, it also analyzes the societal implications of
said, particularly the implications of the exponential advancement of
technology and hence also the coming radical life-extension
technologies (i.e., transhumanism) in light of a world dominated by a
callous oligarchy.
##########[end]##########
The following are links to the two articles of mine which I cited in
my above reply:
James Redford, "Libertarian Anarchism Is Apodictically Correct",
Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 15, 2011, 9 pp.,
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1972733; PDF, 118091 bytes, MD5:
e6de8181ad84c9d96400bb9582311c79. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1972733 ,
http://archive.org/download/LibertarianAnarchismIsApodicticallyCorrect/Redford-Apodictic-Libertarianism.pdf
, http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Apodictic-Libertarianism.pdf ,
http://webcitation.org/63xyCLjLm ,
http://pdf-archive.com/2013/09/10/redford-apodictic-libertarianism/redford-apodictic-libertarianism.pdf
James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of
Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Sept. 10, 2012
(orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 186 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708; PDF,
1741424 bytes, MD5: 8f7b21ee1e236fc2fbb22b4ee4bbd4cb.
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1974708 ,
http://archive.org/download/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
, http://theophysics.host56.com/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf ,
http://alphaomegapoint.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/redford-physics-of-god.pdf
,
http://sites.google.com/site/physicotheism/home/Redford-Physics-of-God.pdf
----------------------------------------
James Redford, author of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Social Science
Research Network (SSRN), Dec. 4, 2011 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2001),
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1337761, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1337761 ,
http://theophysics.host56.com/anarchist-jesus.pdf ,
http://webcitation.org/66AIz2rJw
Theophysics: God Is the Ultimate Physicist (a website with information
on Prof. Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theorem and the quantum gravity
Theory of Everything [TOE]) http://theophysics.host56.com ,
http://theophysics.ifastnet.com
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