Libertarian Paradise?

Our collective memory tends to forget that this is what can happen when government is owned and operated for the elite business class or when government just gets out of the way so free-markets can operate. Those markets tend to be not so free for some of us.

Ludlow Massacre: A look back at Colorado's deadly coal war:

This Sunday marks the hundredth anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre, the day the strike entered into a desperate endgame and became the deadliest labor struggle in American history. A shootout between strikers and members of the Colorado National Guard claimed nineteen lives — most of them noncombatant women and children — and ended in the tent colony being burned to the ground. The strikers retaliated by attacking several mine operations over the next ten days, resulting in dozens more deaths and plunging southern Colorado into chaos.

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The mine owners weren’t interested in negotiating. Their attitude toward their employees was summed up by CF&I executive Lamont Montgomery Bowers, in a letter explaining why he didn’t feel bad about cutting mill workers’ wages. Two-thirds of them weren’t even Americans, he noted, and there were thousands more begging to take the place of any malcontents, “these foreigners who do not intend to make America their home, and who live like rats in order to save money.”

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