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>Should the Pope Excommunicate All Catholic Politicians?  - Tom DiLorenzo - lewRockwell
DiLorenzo makes the case for politicians as thieves when coercive taxation is in place. Unfortunately he would say the same even if we had no taxation. You see, DiLorenzo is that specie of thinker who believes in no government at all -- which, history shows, leads to unending mayhem, and rule by the strongest clan.

Then DiLorenzo goes from semi-sane to inane with the following quote from Rothbard which he agrees with: "Murray Rothbard pointed out in his essay on “Just War” that the American Revolution and the South during the Civil War” were the only two just (defensive) wars in American history that are consistent with the kind of Catholic just war theory initiated by St. Thomas Aquinas."

So the South defending the slavery of human beings was a "just war"???????????????????


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Beginning of the headline :“If . . . taxation is compulsory, and is therefore indistinguishable from theft it follows that the State, which subsists on taxation, is a vast criminal organization far more formidable and successful than any ‘private’ Mafia in history.” –Murray Rothbard, “The Nature of the State” “There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”  –H. L. Mencken Pope Francis recently excommunicated (i.e., kicked out of the Catholic Church) all members of the Italian Mafia, denouncing the... Read More
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