“Yet how can there be better protection for A and B, if S must tax them in order to provide it? Is there not a contradiction within the very construction of S as an expropriating property protector? In fact, is this not exactly what is also–and more appropriately–referred to as a protection racket? To be sure, S will make peace between A and B but only so that he himself can rob both of them more profitably.”
–Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Democracy: The God That Failed
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A=The United States
B=The United Kingdom
S= France
Context: Revolutionary War
I ‘ve started reading Prof. Hopped ‘s book. It getting very good. I think of Prof. Hopped as the king of logical deduction.
In 1932 security forces in El Salvador murdered 25,000 peasants and workers. Between 1978 and 1991 the Salvadoran government killed an additional 50,000 civilians. Death squads maimed and tortured their victims, who included labor organizers, priests, and teachers. By the later months of 1980, government forces were slaughtering 1000civilians a month. Most of those killed were poor or worked with the poor. In per capita terms Salvadoran state terror was among the worst in the hemisphere.