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Someone reacting sensible to me slaughtering the golden cow, hm? Democracy? Law and order?

Don't worry about me injuring myself, last year I dived into the work of Carl Menger and Murray Rothbard, also Hans Herrmann Hoppe, just recently I embarked on the works by von Mises, von Bawerk and earlier this year Kühnelt-Leddhin und Roland Baader, so I am in very good and prominent company and have plenty of intellectual support in arguments and reasoning.

Thus my views on democracy being anything but a favourable form of government (a view widespread and almost commonly agreed on until just 100-130 years ago), and my critical view of our law-and-order system having been terribly perverted, abused, hijacked and thus: failing. when in the US the number of regulations from the early 90s to the first decade of this millenia multiply by a factor of almost 200, then this can hardly be explained by "reflecting complx needs of the real world". It simply is a system that runs amok. The EU and Euro history also are prime examples for it: a series of betrayals, treaty violations, law violations, intentionally misleading lies, ignored criterions and arbitrary decisions made for reason of ultra-short-sighted opportunism without any strategic perspective. All legal rules designed for and during the Euro to design and regulate it: ALL of them have been broken until now. ALL of them. Not much better the relation of the EU bodies to the national states and parliaments, and the power accumulation and the way it is being enforced.

Why politicians do so, and have no reason to act any different, the above mentioned authors explain reasonably, logically and rationally. It is ion their ver yown most prominent interest to act irresponsibly and short-sighted. And history proves these authors right. Beside that, it makes sense and is perfectly rational and reasonable what they say. It is in perfect congruence with reality.

I have summarised it, at least tried to, several times now in postings of the past 3 or 4 weeks. Many have ridiculed the reasons and arguments, laughed about them.

Just being able to actually prove them wrong - nobody was. The golden cow democracy is untouchable. It must not be rechecked. It must not have questions asked about it. It must stand untouchable. Ha! Me - not touching something claimed holy but falling in paralysis in reverence, allowing to get awestruck...? You met the wrong man, brother. I shatter what is claimed holy and then search the pieces for what makes it holy. Never found anything, though.

I recommend to pick some books by the authors above. Of course, my favourite is Hoppe, since he includes the others and founds on their works - and then goes beyond them and leads it even further.

I could also give links for essays, but as to be expected, I prefer to read stuff in German, so German essays linked en masse probably are not welcomed here. So just three links to two German and one English collections of materials.

http://wertewirtschaft.org/analysen/ (German)
Here I especially point out Rahim Tagizadeghan, who has become a favourite scholar of mine recently. Especially his piece on the historical origins of democracy should be an eye-opener for everybody thinking of it as the the best, the greatest, the finest. It isn't.

http://www.misesde.org/?page_id=3064 (German)
Here I recommend the works of Baader, Hoppe, Hülsmann, Mises, Rothbard, and again Tagizadeghan.

http://mises.org/Literature/Authors (English)
The names already mentioned, and probably many more - I have looked in this collection only those names I already knew. As I said, of course I prefer to read in German.

Edit 15-04-2012:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe-arch.html
Another collection of links to mostkly shorter, English essays and articles by Hoppe