First Post, the Straw That Broke the Camel's Back

"Liberty is the mother, not the daughter, of order." - Proudhon

Well, I've now decided to start a blog. After considering doing this for a long time, I finally caved upon reading this story (hence the camel's back). The point of this blog will be to present the insanity and chaos consistently justified by the State, and to try to dispel all of the false notions that create this monstrosity. WARNING: I am not an expert. Most of these posts will probably be giant rants, and take them with a grain of salt. However, I feel I should at least try to do something given the fact that we truly are living in a Bizarro World. It is my sincere opinion that abandoning this arbitrary monopoly on violence and theft called government will allow mankind for the first time in history to truly break free and become unlimited in our peace, properity, and happiness. The only way this can occur is for people to be educated about all the State's lies (which penetrate so deeply into our psyches that it is difficult to even see just how damaging and crazy they are), and for people to learn about the two basic princples of liberty: private property and voluntary association.

As for these poor Scotsman, can anyone really agree with this overarching bureaucracy creating maximum noise decibel levels?? Let's break down some of the assumptions that are probably already justified in some people's minds. Firstly, the idea that man can "legislate" rather than simply arbitrate what are already recognized as common human laws I find rather ridiculous. The difference between legislation and natural law is that the former can be arbitrary and/or political attempts to justify more power while the latter is based upon basic human intuition. The former can simply be "created" out of thin air while natural law is already defined by human intuition and can only evolve as a result of precedents set from earlier cases. The former creates ignorance and insanity while the latter creates wisdom and sanity. Here is a real expert on the differences.

Here is my basic argument on this topic: legislation, since it is arbitrary and has nothing to do with human intuition, must by definition be constantly reinforced in our psyches (especially the youth since they have not yet been totally brainwashed). This means that through violence or the threat of violence (how else can the State make people follow their decrees without force if people are already doing otherwise and thus the point of the law...?) the State must constantly reinforce these laws. This is why the youth will always revolt, they have not yet accepted the lies used to justify this unnatural and unintuitive thing called government. So, legislation is based upon violence and deterrence. The deterrence in part is also established by the creation of institutionalized criminal factories (i.e., the government cages called prisons), but that is a whole other story. Natural law, on the other hand, is based upon basic human intuition. Even as a two year old you already understand the two basic principles of liberty. The first two words you use are "no" (voluntary association) and "mine" (private property). This means that a society fully based upon these principles will operate totally in line with our every intuition, and so lie after lie will not have to be conjured up in order to justify those laws. Also, there is no need for deterrence or arbitrary force in making people abide by these laws, they will occur naturally to them.

So now that we can put the ridiculous idea of legislation into perspective, take a look at the law itself. There is a maximum of "85 decibels". 85 huh? That is the magic number I guess. They probably spent taxpayer dollars exploring various data relating to noise levels to find that perfect number, the one which will be just in all cases. What about 85.1 decibels, is that illegal now? How will they know how loud a bagpipe is? All measuring equipment has some degree of error, so how do we deal with that? Will they have to measure right next to the bagpiper since it won't be as loud the farther you get? How will they enforce this? Shouldn't they now target other loud equipment too since it is the noise, not specifically the bagpipe, that is the problem? Are they going to go around and arrest bagpipers at random? The idea that the State has the wisdom to create the perfect number is ridiculous for two reasons. One, these are bureaucrats we are talking here, they are more concerned about the political effects for themselves rather than truly trying to make things better. But, lets pretend they are the compassionate angels the media paints them to be. Even then they will not know the perfect decibel level, because there is no perfect decibel level. It is a dumb law to begin with, that is why all those problems arise about enforcement, etc. Again, it is totally unnatural and arbitrary, and it will doing nothing to deter bagpiping or deal with noise problems. Just another precedent set by the EU to pacify the populations into believing that these people have some kind of authority... and thank God someone is there to protect Scotsmen from the rampant chaos of the bagpipers.