The nationalist Convergence and Union party(CiU) inflicted a heavy defeat on the ruling Socialists in regional elections on Sunday, dealing a blow to embattled Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. CiU, which seeks autonomy for Catalonia, will create problems for Zapatero by pressing for more control of its own tax revenue. Catalonia is the richest province of Spain.
CiU attracted 38 percent of votes to win 62 seats in the 135-seat Catalan Parliament. CiU leader Artur Mas is to take over from his Socialist counterpart, Jose Montilla, as president of the regional government, although his party fell short of the 68 seats needed for an absolute majority.
Downsizing a country makes a lot of sense. Small is beautiful and efficient. The best State is the city-state. A city-state is an independent country whose territory consists of a city. The city-states of ancient Greece, such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth, have shown that the smaller the state, the better it is.
The entropy of an organization drastically increases with the size of the organization. The Greek government does not need more than five ministers, but it has fifty ministers! No wonder Greece goes bankrupt. Greek ministers enjoy full impunity, no matter what they do. And they do many stupid things! On October 18, 2010, a minister locked an innocent dissident blogger in jail for allegedly making fun of her! Moreover, brutal cybercops confiscated his computers at home and office, and leaked false accusations to the media, ridiculing the dissident all over Greece.
In reality, another unknown blogger, a fan of the dissident, made fun of the minister. Nonetheless, the dissident had to resign from his job, and his life has been destroyed. His life has been stolen by a stupid minister. Is Premier Papandreou proud of her? The Greek government has neither restituted nor apologized yet for this freakish behavior. On the contrary, the dissident is still tortured with courts, perjurers, and freakish accusations such as treason! American patriot Patrick Henry famously said that if this be treason, make the most of it!
The Principality of Monaco is an independent city-state. Monaco-Ville, the ancient fortified city and Monaco's well-known area Monte Carlo are districts of a continuous urban zone, not distinct cities. Singapore is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. About 5 million people live and work within 700 square kilometres, 270 sq miles. Vatican City is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome.
Now, Catalonia wants independence from Spain; California, Texas, and New York City want independence from USA; Europeans want independence from Fourth Reich(EU); England, Scotland, and Wales want independence from UK; Athenians want independence from Graecokleptocrats!
The smaller the state, the better it is. The ideal limit is the one-person state, aka anarchy! The recent financial crisis confirms that anarchy is much better than democracy. Only kleptocrats and looters do better in democracy. Wars, terror, massacres, and misery are instigated by governments, not people. Anarchy is an ideal limit; the closer a system is to anarchy, the better it is. We should all strive for anarchy.
The cradle of democracy has become the cradle of kleptocracy. Since democracy has deteriorated to kleptocracy, especially in Greece, the most corrupt country on Earth, citizens now consider anarchy. Murray Rothbard defines the state as that institution which possesses one of the following properties: it acquires its income by the physical coercion known as taxation; and it asserts and usually obtains a coerced monopoly of the provision of defense service over a given territorial area.
Anarchist society is one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of an individual. Anarchists oppose the state because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.
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