Dan, now you're quoting the Cato Institute? My observations, after spending 6 months this year in China, are a bit different. To a great extent in China it is a problem of personal integrity, not government intervention or non-intervention. People get away with whatever they can get away with in the pursuit of personal wealth. This was going on internally in China long before it opened

News & Views for Anarchists & Activists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo [It's also worth keeping Zenarchy in mind: http://www.impropaganda.net/1997/zenarchy.html --DC] http://tinyurl.com/yqsxof The Case for Market Taoism By James A. Dorn Published 9/24/2007 12:07:25 AM Lao-tzu, thought to have been an older contemporary of Confucius, may have been the first libertarian. In the

Joseph K. wrote: And I still disagree. Check out this one: all religions claim that the supernatural exists. It isn't broad. It's very precise. Can you disprove it? Zenarchy: http://www.impropaganda.net/1997/zenarchy.html -- Dan Clore My collected fiction, _The Unspeakable and Others_: http://amazon.com/o/ASIN/1587154838/ref=nosim/thedanclorenecro Lord Weÿrdgliffe & Necronomicon

*Anarcissie* wrote: [This is probably much too long for the limited attention-span of Usenetters, but is does give an interesting overview of the counteroffensive against religion, especially fundamentalist religion, now being effected by various parties, and does raise the problem of what will replace religion if and when it retreats or falls. I disagree with the conclusion.]