They Want You Dead
Posted by Jay Manifold on October 16th, 2006 (All posts by Jay Manifold)
All of you. Dead, dead, dead. It’s On The Beach, without the nukes.
(Hat tips: Rob Read; Tim Blair; Glenn Reynolds; see Neolithic Boyz for lengthy commentary on this phenomenon.)
October 16th, 2006 at 11:50 am
The colophon of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government quotes Cicero: “Salus populi suprema lex esto” [The welfare of the people is the highest law].
No theory that negelects this maximum can qualify as a theory of politics. This is why enviromentalism which looks forward a world without men can never be a political theory.