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Originally posted by Flame Of Liberty@Sep 16 2005, 08:52 AM
Well no kidding... I guess crime is commited only in Somalia...
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But it happens FAR, FAR, FAR more often in Somalia. People are trying to escape. I know many people from Somalia and they would love nothing more than to be able to return to their homeland, but they don't because it's unsafe for them and their families. Given that there is no government agency to keep crime statistics, we can only go by anecdotal evidence from what the immigrants tell us is going on there. Murders happen in broad daylight because the warlord's mercenaries don't really care if people know that they are running around killing people. Actually, they prefer to do it out int he open... that we people will know to fear them. It keeps them in slavery.
Speaking of which, you seem to think that the warlord system works well. Since that is what would happen in your laissez-faire system, the stories I have heard about the warlords is that they have whole towns under their thumbs. If you don't do exactly what the warlord wants, you are executed. Especially women who won't give in to becoming sex slaves. Children get bought and sold. Anyone who tries to take control from the warlord is beaten and/or killed.
That's your dream society. That's what it will end up as. Hell on Earth full of suffering and misery. There are a few at the top of the food chain that are the masters and the vast majority of society live wretched lives of servitude.
I agree with those that suggested the FoL should go live in Somalia to get a first hand look at what his dream society is. I'll agree to pay the whole plane fare if FoL agrees to spend a month touring the streets of Mogadishu. He won't come back.