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> taxfree@planeteer.com (Daniel J. Lavigne) wrote:
(snip)

> You voice a concern that my solution, an all out tax refusal 
> leading to thousands of abandoned cities and collapsing 
> property values and non-functioning monetary systems, will 
> lead to total use or total dismantling of all weapons of 
> mass murder.


No, Mr. Taxfree, what it will lead to is mass starvation and a subsequent
descent into the kind of murderous barbarism the world hasn't seen for two
thousand years. Screw the weapons of mass murder. These will just become
incomprehensible relics of a previous era, to be regarded with awe,
perhaps even with religious devotion, by the nomadic primitives that
happen upon the silos.



> 
> The continuing spread of societal malaise as evidenced by 
> the deaths of millions within the past fifty years as the 
> result of small scale warfare is  a harbinger of pending 
> large scale atrocities.


Check your calender, boy. The last war that caused millions of deaths was
WWII, which ended 51 years ago. But I guess your larger point is right.
Before modern times, people never killed each other, and there were never
any wars. Ummm, except maybe that Civil War thing, which killed half a
million. Or the war between England or France that lasted 100 years. Or
the wars of greed by France, England, Japan, Rome, Greece, the Huns, the
Turks, the Vikings, the Catholics, the Protestants, the Communists . . . 




> 
> Society�s acceptance of the instantaneous murder of millions 
> should scream to all that other such plans and mindsets 
> will follow and grow exponentially;


Actually, we are disarming now. Read the paper lately?






> that we have so 
> succumbed to the madness of greed 

Actually, weapons of mass destruction were produced not to obtain wealth
but to win the ideological war of the late 20th century. What kind of
wealth would you get by using nuclear bombs? Everything would be cinders.
People are dumb sometimes, but not that dumb.



> 
> But society remains deaf.

Poor TaxFree. Knows the Truth and everyone ignores him. Wonder why?





> Absent forceful intervention by 
> determined individuals,


A code expression for violence, is it not? Save us from our madness by
killing us? Thank you, Tax Free. Thank you.





> society will sink so far into the cesspool 
> of greed as to finally pray for all-out use of such weaponry.  


The prayer would go something like this: Dear God, my boss didn't give me
a raise. He's soooooo GREEDY!!! Please, let all the nuclear bombs be
detonated by lunchtime tomorrow.



P.S. TaxFree, I really admire your flair for the dramatic, and your
willingness to make absolute pronouncements without the burden of logical
justification. You have an excellent future as a divine chieftain if your
anarchist fantasy ever comes true.