Re: SAY WHAT? [Hallam-Baker demands more repudiations or he'll write!]

[Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>]

On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Dale Thorn wrote:
> 
> I understood the intent of AP was to take powers the government is 
> already exercising (unconstitutionally), and merely transfer some of 
> them to the people, as it were.
> 
> Isn't this true democracy (if a rather perverse kind)?

Not really- however, no matter what it is, it isn't a Libertarian scheme, 
as libertarian philosophy holds that those powers are the defining 
characteristic of goverment; AP doesn't abolish governments, it creates 
lots of little governments which don't even have to pretend to be 
democracies.

Simon