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On the state as prosecutor of the state:

Article by Lew Rockwell:

I'm not claiming that Saddam wasn't so bad after all. I'm pointing out that if he is only guilty of fighting off the competition, he was acting as all statesmen act with various degrees of intensity. The main impetus behind government-provided protection services is precisely to protect the government. There is nothing necessarily scandalous about this. It is what governments do.http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/states-on-trial.html