On 01-05-98, JOHN BOONE declared to ROBERT PLETT:
JB>  I started reading Fredrick Bastiat's "The Law" and
JB>read something about education that I thought you would
JB>enjoy.
JB>  Here it is page 31:
JB>        In this matter of education, the law has only
JB>        two alternatives: It can permit this transaction
JB>        of teaching-and-learning to operate freely and
JB>        without use of force or it can force human wills
JB>        in this matter by taking from some them enough to
JB>        pay the teachers who are appointed by government
JB>        to instruct others, without charge.  But in in
JB>        second case, the law commits legal plunder by
JB>        violeting the liberty and property.
JB>  I thought you might find this interesting.
What's sad is the inability of so many in our time, including too many
who consider themselves conservative, to see the obvious, which is all
Bastiat was expressing there.  Those who can't or who refuse to see it
that way, also cannot comprehend it as the evil it is.
JB>Another, item, do you have any information in the New Test that
JB>suggests we such be individually responsibile.
I presume you're alluding to a national testing proposal of some sort,
in which case you gotta be kidding - right?
Bob     /\-/\   - proud Ilk   homebody@galstar.com
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 * SLMR 2.1a * Socialism: Supporting you by stealing from your neighbor.
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