I am both sad and disappointed in the same way I think Calvin is. Larken is, and has been, such an important educator on the dangers of statism. But this is the blind-spot of anarchy showing up here.

Yes, we don’t want a state in the way we traditionally think of it - in which the rights of individuals are at the behest and decision of the state. But neither too do we want people taking the law into their own hands under any circumstances, whether or not they think they have assimilated all the information necessary to judge a crime by themselves.

The Common Law Trial by Jury Constitution always kept the laws in the hands of the people, was how it was always supposed to operate and is the ‘missing piece’ that the anarchists have not spotted.

Some superb arguments made in this piece by Calvin and I’ll post up on commonlawconstitution.o…

Will