April 2, 2003
Quote of the day
...in what I laughingly call my career, I've bumped elbows with a lot of other writers in the general freedom movement with whom I may agree on this or that point, but with whom I often disagree on a wide range of other issues.
One of them is my lifelong insistence on open borders and absolute freedom of immigration. How the hell can you stop another human being from going freely, wherever he wants to go, without initiating force against him? Yet many an otherwise highly principled libertarian oriented individualist ends up playing a game of Twister with himself and his readers, attempting to have his principles and violate them, too.
...Borders are imaginary lines on a map, put there by the coercive state. As a libertarian, as far as I'm concerned, the state can put them someplace else -- like where the sun doesn't shine. You don't tell another free individual where he can or can't set his feet and call yourself an advocate of freedom. At least not as long as there's somewhere that he (or she) can set them that belongs to everybody and nobody.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at April 2, 2003 12:25 AM | TrackBack