Punishing Politicians. From Rothbard’s great article, H. L. Mencken: The Joyous Libertarian: In discussing how to punish guilty public officials (“jobholders”), Mencken said, “What is needed is a system (a) that does not depend for its execution upon the good-will of fellow… [LewRockwell.com Blog]
A look at how Mencken’s system might work in practice can be found in H. Beam Piper’s Lone Star Planet.
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