I wrote this here years ago, but it bears repeating: Libertarianism is the carrying out of fascism by other means. The one thing it precisely does not guarantee is liberty.
Oh, that's so deja vu: George Orwell said the same thing about capitalism after the Spanish Revolution.
So you can see that as the actual retail cost approaches zero, the positive effects of capitalism approach infinity! Unfortunately when the actual cost is zero, it's undefined and your interpretation may vary.
This is utterly naive and ignores the fact that capitalists profit is defined by (cost_I_can_rip_you_off_for - cost_it_actually_takes_to_produce)
To act as if open source software's cost and freedom are a result of capitalism or the free market is so abysmally ignorant or free software history and capitalist market relations that it makes me think that you are a troll.
More accurately what it requires is overwhelming opposition to existing security forces. That's really the difficulty here, in Seattle N30 the anti-globalization movement managed to pull it off - primarily by surprise. But as seen at the Miami FTAA protests, the government wised up and thanks to 'homeland security' initiatives has significantly beefed up its numbers.
The lacking ingredient here is not so much training or arms, its commitment. Mark Rudd put it best when he said that the state has claimed a monopoly on violence, and any violence NOT sanctioned by the state is considered criminal or insane. If you have that viewpoint it doesn't matter how many guns you own.
Anyways, Battle of Athens linksies because it is a REALLY cool story: http://www.constitution.org/mil/tn/batathen.htm
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