Sometimes people accuse anarcho-capitalists of dreaming of a world of "liberty without law" as if liberty comes from the legislative powers of government. There is no reason to think that there would not be law in a market anarchist world, and, in fact, as law is so fundamental to human affairs, it would probably be of central focus in such a society. The demand for a means of arbitration between disputes will exist in the absence of government and that demand is a big reason why we put up with this thing called government in the first place.
Take, for example, medieval Iceland. Here is a quote from Rockerick T. Long's article:
"The fact that the provision of 'governmental' services was a competitive rather than a monopolistic enterprise was arguably one of the Free State’s greatest strengths; just as in any other market, the competitive discipline imposed by the fear of losing clients to rival service providers served as a check on inefficiency and abuse of power. Icelandic law owed its resilience and flexibility to this decoupling of authority from geography."
Government has to be viewed in economic terms to understand its true effect on society. The whole legitimacy of government rests on the widespread myth that the State must exclusively provide for certain "services" that would otherwise be absent, or that should exclusively be carried out by people chosen through a mechanism that ignores demand, competition, or the plight of the customer. If there is a demand for these services there will be a reaction in the market and those voids will be filled with competitive solutions.
With respect to law, government has both the power to legislate and to enforce those decrees. The combination of a monopoly on law and on enforcement has bred something ugly. Without a competitive market, government has no incentive to improve its "services", and in fact may even find it beneficial to lie and deceive in order to expand their powers of force and theft. And that makes you wonder about anti-trust laws. Laws against monopolies created and enforced through a monopoly? Bureaucrats, even the most sincere (although these are total anomalies in nature), are part of a cartel, a monopoly, a cabal of people who have the sole privilege of being above any common sense moral conventions.
And this is exactly what we see from politicians. McCain loves "spreading democracy" but supports perpetual war. Al Gore hates carbon but loves private jets. Bush fears terrorism but loves open borders. The system breeds a labyrinth of interconnected liars, thieves, hypocrites, and total leeches who work together to deceive, plunder, and in some cases murder anyone they please. What would you think if a private band of thieves broke onto private property and kidnapped hundreds of children, moved them into unbearable conditions, and then decided whether or not they were going to keep them from their mothers indefinitely? Your common sense would tell you that this is absolutely outrageous. But the State can do it with impunity? I never understand the people who whine about making profit as being "cold" and "inhumane." The the result of government is total confusion and chaos, theft and violence. I'd say that is far more cold and inhumane. True order can only be created spontaneously from the market.
Bearing all this is mind, look at how ridiculous legislation is. Bureaucrats simply make decrees as though words translate into the proper action. There are several barriers to prevent this from ever occurring.
Firstly, even if the politicians are sincere, legislation either seeks to alter or regulate a certain form of human action that is already occurring or one that they believe should occur which otherwise would not. We can already eliminate the latter case as ever being beneficial just upon face value. If this sort of action would not otherwise be enacted through a market system then it is arbitrary because it occurs in the absence of demand. In the former case, if the legislation regulates some sort of action already occurring, the theory is that words will seamlessly translate into the desired effect that the words imply. In reality, the exact opposite generally occurs.
The media will paint success stories of government legislation, but they never mention that those successes occur in a background of massive failures. Ever hear the phrase, "broken watch that's right twice a day?" Intervention from the power of a monopoly on force results in disorder.
Secondly, there is absolutely no feedback mechanism for creating effectiveness, respect for demand, or overall benefit. Without the wonderful market forces, legislators are completely lost, manifesting arbitrary social experiments like mad scientists.
Thirdly, the politicians are generally not the law abiding Christian public servants that the media makes them out to be. The laws oftentimes are legislated for political reasons, to award a special interest, or to enhance the politicians' power to manipulate people. In a libertarian society, there is no institutionalized arbitrary coercive force used to carry out the decrees of such a group.
Fourthly, how often do people follow the positivist laws (positivist as in those beyond what a pure market system of law would see)? People still do drugs, people still use prostitution services (I hear that industry is booming in DC), fat kids in school still obtain illegal candy from the black market. And those that do follow the laws are generally disadvantaged: only the law abiders are affected by gun laws, IDs, regulations in businesses, etc.
From a strictly economic viewpoint you can really get a good view on the true nature of government. Here is a quote from Murray Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State,
"There are no such things as ends of actions by 'groups,' 'collectives,' or 'States,' which do not take place as actions by various specific individuals. 'Societies' or 'groups' have no independent existence aside from the actions of their individual members. Thus, to say that 'governments' act is merely a metaphor; actually, certain individuals are in a certain relationship with other individuals and act in a way that they and the other individuals recognize as 'governmental.'"
The government cannot be said to be separate from the market. The government exists well within the marketplace of human action and is merely a massive distortion which causes malinvestment, inefficiency, and overall disorder. Free market law is not only possible, but would be highly preferable to the State's monopoly.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Ushering in the Golden Age: How to Abolish Government in America
Firstly, lets be clear on several things. Anarcho-capitalists are often accused of dreaming about some ideal Utopian society. However, it is the anarcho-capitalists who are the most realistic. We recognize the self-serving nature of human individuals as a universal feature of mankind. It is the statists who believe that bureaucrats are somehow superhuman, devoid of any selfish desires, wholly committed to "public service." It is the anarcho-communists who think that man can usher in an age devoid of property ownership, where it will be a universal feature of mankind that every individual will be wholly committed to the well-being of others. It is the advocates of democracy who believe that the majority should be allowed to initiate coercive decrees upon the minority. All of these systems are bankrupt ideologies, fantasies, and complete rejections of all the empirical observations regarding human action. Anarcho-capitalists know that man is self-serving, and that within a non-coercive system of private property and voluntary association, society will experience a spontaneous ordering that results in peace and prosperity. The historical examples of not only the success of a market economy, but also the failure of statism, in any facet of human affairs, are overwhelming.
Secondly, do not let the statist depiction of anarchists as violent revolutionaries enter your mind here. In my humble opinion, violence must be reserved only for defensive efforts, as preemptive violence can only work against the final goal of a libertarian society. My picture of how to abolish the government will not necessarily require any violence whatsoever.
So, how do we go about abolishing government in America?
Phase One: Return to the Constitution. This is the only phase in which violence may be exercised by government upon patriots, and in such a case those patriots will be forced to defend themselves. The Constitution is supposed to be the law of the land, and any such deviation from its law is nothing short of treason by the government. Thanks to Ron Paul and his dedicated revolutionaries, there is now a growing political movement within the GOP to overthrow the neocons and return to a strict constructionist platform.
But why not just go straight to anarcho-capitalism? Well, among the many reasons, people can easily attach themselves to the Constitution. It supposedly lies at the heart of America, and every American can identify with that tattered piece of paper which has "We The People" written on it in big bold letters. It is who we are, it is where we have come from, it is a legacy secured and handed down to us by our forefathers which has been squandered, and which we must now fight for once again.
Looking at our current situation, it seems that about 6-9% of the population is relatively informed about the true nature of our current government, and they are ready to return to the Constitution. America as a whole, however, is still fumbling around in the darkness, pointing fingers in every direction, completely oblivious to the real source of the problems. And why should they be informed? They are lied to again and again, every day, via the six conglomerates which own 95% of the media in this country.
But, as we stand now on the precipice of an economic crisis that could likely dwarf the Great Depression, it is possible that those people will be finally forced to abandon their "leftist" or "rightist" religions and come together to defend the only noble cause ever held by humans: the cause of liberty. With their lives completely interrupted, maybe they will finally start asking some real questions, and will begin to see the big picture rather than the tiny, fractured picture deliberately painted by the State and the media. My hope is that the critical number of informed Constitutionalists has been reached, so that when the storm does finally hit, a mass awakening will ensue as people become more open to the reasonable and obvious explanations of the Constitutionalists.
This will be a dangerous time. The elites will bring about a full propaganda assault upon the people in a desperate attempt to retain control over them. Potential food and water shortages could cause massive riots and violence. Martial law will likely be implemented, and many could be drug from their homes into FEMA concentration camps. They will likely attempt to target political dissidents, they will hire agent provocateurs to create violence, and then blame it on the Constitutionalists who are trying to save the country from absolute tyranny. Luckily the Constitutionalists are generally the most prepared, they know what is happening, and they have taken the necessary steps to ensure that they can operate independently and protect themselves.
Who knows what the eventual outcome will be. Ron Paul has gotten the most donations from military personnel, so hopefully there will be large defections onto the side of liberty during martial law. Many Constitutionalists are attempting to take over local governments through the grassroots, and when federal and state governments break down, they may be left in control of a majority of the country. I cannot imagine what the size or scope of the resistance will be, nor the size or scope of the martial law that will be implemented. Hopefully if people start getting drug off into concentration camps the majority of Americans will wake up and realize that it's time to overthrow the Nazis. But again, this will be such a volatile period that it is difficult to know what the true outcome will be. My hope is that Americans, with a renewed disgust for despotism and statism, will reject further government "help" and will demand a return to Constitutional law. If we can pass through this phase and return to the rule of law then we can readily move onto phase two.
Phase Two: Intellectual revolution. Thankfully, the LRC has already educated many as to the folly of statism and the benefits of an Austrian economics worldview. We should target the original Constitutionalists as they will be the most open minded and knowledgeable on the subject of libertarianism. We need to show them what true liberty means, and how the Constitution, although a giant step in the right direction, still plants the seed for future devolution into oligarchy. We need to educate people on how all human affairs, including police forces, defense, law, arbitration, money, etc., can be more efficiently handled by a market economy. We need to ferment a second political revolution that will be aimed at accomplishing phase three.
Phase Three: Ending government monopolies. This will be a smooth transitional phase from limited statism to true freedom. The political revolution here will be aimed at demanding the end to government monopolies, not the abolition of government itself. For example, take the protection of property. Government gives you a deed, which is supposed to be a promise that they will protect your private property so long as you agree to pay property taxes. In reality this is a government monopoly on protection of property, you are forced to use their "service" if you wish to "own" property. We should demand that people be allowed to voluntarily opt out of this system, and to pay for their own private police protection. This same model should be applied to all other government monopolies. If you don't like government arbitration in the courts, you should be able to opt out and pursue criminal trials in private courts of law. If you don't like the government currency which is constantly being inflated and devalued, you should be able to opt out and use gold or other competing currencies. Basically any service that the government "provides" one should be able to opt out of in favor of services handled by the market economy. Local governments, through the people, may eventually find it much more beneficial to award government owned lands to the highest bidders so that roads can actually be serviced, and so that government means of traffic regulation can be handled more efficiently by the market, i.e., by getting rid of traffic regulation altogether. I am so confident that the market will handle these affairs so much more efficiently that over time every one will eventually opt out of the government system in favor of the market economy system. People generally prefer to have choices, and will most likely prefer the high quality and low price of a competing market system rather than being stuck with the stale taxation system of government. People would rather use the service of experts rather than elected representatives. And at last, government will dwindle away and die, and without violent revolution!
Phase Four: Party time. No more taxes, no more arbitrary laws, no more government goons using force against people, no more state lies, no more state initiated wars, no more bloated politicians, etc. Liberty, for the first time, real, tangible liberty. And how sweet it would be.
This is certainly just a general outline, but it is not completely unrealistic. Ending government monopolies seems to me to be the best way to end government all the while avoiding violence, which would probably work against these ends anyway. If we can accomplish these ends then I don't see government ever rearing its ugly head again in America. And, who knows, maybe the peoples of other countries, after seeing our success, will rise up and do the same in their respective homelands. It's not Utopian, it's just a great and natural way of dealing with human affairs that, from spontaneous order, gives rise to peace and prosperity without the need for coercive force.
Secondly, do not let the statist depiction of anarchists as violent revolutionaries enter your mind here. In my humble opinion, violence must be reserved only for defensive efforts, as preemptive violence can only work against the final goal of a libertarian society. My picture of how to abolish the government will not necessarily require any violence whatsoever.
So, how do we go about abolishing government in America?
Phase One: Return to the Constitution. This is the only phase in which violence may be exercised by government upon patriots, and in such a case those patriots will be forced to defend themselves. The Constitution is supposed to be the law of the land, and any such deviation from its law is nothing short of treason by the government. Thanks to Ron Paul and his dedicated revolutionaries, there is now a growing political movement within the GOP to overthrow the neocons and return to a strict constructionist platform.
But why not just go straight to anarcho-capitalism? Well, among the many reasons, people can easily attach themselves to the Constitution. It supposedly lies at the heart of America, and every American can identify with that tattered piece of paper which has "We The People" written on it in big bold letters. It is who we are, it is where we have come from, it is a legacy secured and handed down to us by our forefathers which has been squandered, and which we must now fight for once again.
Looking at our current situation, it seems that about 6-9% of the population is relatively informed about the true nature of our current government, and they are ready to return to the Constitution. America as a whole, however, is still fumbling around in the darkness, pointing fingers in every direction, completely oblivious to the real source of the problems. And why should they be informed? They are lied to again and again, every day, via the six conglomerates which own 95% of the media in this country.
But, as we stand now on the precipice of an economic crisis that could likely dwarf the Great Depression, it is possible that those people will be finally forced to abandon their "leftist" or "rightist" religions and come together to defend the only noble cause ever held by humans: the cause of liberty. With their lives completely interrupted, maybe they will finally start asking some real questions, and will begin to see the big picture rather than the tiny, fractured picture deliberately painted by the State and the media. My hope is that the critical number of informed Constitutionalists has been reached, so that when the storm does finally hit, a mass awakening will ensue as people become more open to the reasonable and obvious explanations of the Constitutionalists.
This will be a dangerous time. The elites will bring about a full propaganda assault upon the people in a desperate attempt to retain control over them. Potential food and water shortages could cause massive riots and violence. Martial law will likely be implemented, and many could be drug from their homes into FEMA concentration camps. They will likely attempt to target political dissidents, they will hire agent provocateurs to create violence, and then blame it on the Constitutionalists who are trying to save the country from absolute tyranny. Luckily the Constitutionalists are generally the most prepared, they know what is happening, and they have taken the necessary steps to ensure that they can operate independently and protect themselves.
Who knows what the eventual outcome will be. Ron Paul has gotten the most donations from military personnel, so hopefully there will be large defections onto the side of liberty during martial law. Many Constitutionalists are attempting to take over local governments through the grassroots, and when federal and state governments break down, they may be left in control of a majority of the country. I cannot imagine what the size or scope of the resistance will be, nor the size or scope of the martial law that will be implemented. Hopefully if people start getting drug off into concentration camps the majority of Americans will wake up and realize that it's time to overthrow the Nazis. But again, this will be such a volatile period that it is difficult to know what the true outcome will be. My hope is that Americans, with a renewed disgust for despotism and statism, will reject further government "help" and will demand a return to Constitutional law. If we can pass through this phase and return to the rule of law then we can readily move onto phase two.
Phase Two: Intellectual revolution. Thankfully, the LRC has already educated many as to the folly of statism and the benefits of an Austrian economics worldview. We should target the original Constitutionalists as they will be the most open minded and knowledgeable on the subject of libertarianism. We need to show them what true liberty means, and how the Constitution, although a giant step in the right direction, still plants the seed for future devolution into oligarchy. We need to educate people on how all human affairs, including police forces, defense, law, arbitration, money, etc., can be more efficiently handled by a market economy. We need to ferment a second political revolution that will be aimed at accomplishing phase three.
Phase Three: Ending government monopolies. This will be a smooth transitional phase from limited statism to true freedom. The political revolution here will be aimed at demanding the end to government monopolies, not the abolition of government itself. For example, take the protection of property. Government gives you a deed, which is supposed to be a promise that they will protect your private property so long as you agree to pay property taxes. In reality this is a government monopoly on protection of property, you are forced to use their "service" if you wish to "own" property. We should demand that people be allowed to voluntarily opt out of this system, and to pay for their own private police protection. This same model should be applied to all other government monopolies. If you don't like government arbitration in the courts, you should be able to opt out and pursue criminal trials in private courts of law. If you don't like the government currency which is constantly being inflated and devalued, you should be able to opt out and use gold or other competing currencies. Basically any service that the government "provides" one should be able to opt out of in favor of services handled by the market economy. Local governments, through the people, may eventually find it much more beneficial to award government owned lands to the highest bidders so that roads can actually be serviced, and so that government means of traffic regulation can be handled more efficiently by the market, i.e., by getting rid of traffic regulation altogether. I am so confident that the market will handle these affairs so much more efficiently that over time every one will eventually opt out of the government system in favor of the market economy system. People generally prefer to have choices, and will most likely prefer the high quality and low price of a competing market system rather than being stuck with the stale taxation system of government. People would rather use the service of experts rather than elected representatives. And at last, government will dwindle away and die, and without violent revolution!
Phase Four: Party time. No more taxes, no more arbitrary laws, no more government goons using force against people, no more state lies, no more state initiated wars, no more bloated politicians, etc. Liberty, for the first time, real, tangible liberty. And how sweet it would be.
This is certainly just a general outline, but it is not completely unrealistic. Ending government monopolies seems to me to be the best way to end government all the while avoiding violence, which would probably work against these ends anyway. If we can accomplish these ends then I don't see government ever rearing its ugly head again in America. And, who knows, maybe the peoples of other countries, after seeing our success, will rise up and do the same in their respective homelands. It's not Utopian, it's just a great and natural way of dealing with human affairs that, from spontaneous order, gives rise to peace and prosperity without the need for coercive force.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
COMPLY OR RESIST
“Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as internationalists and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure, One World if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty and I am proud of it.” -David Rockefeller
“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” - David Rockefeller
For those who still believe that the US government is one of the people, it is time to lay down those long held sacred beliefs. If we are to truly care about liberty, now is not the time to cling to falsely held notions of freedom, to create excuses in our minds that attempt to explain away all the evils around us. The Founders would be appalled at what we have become, and there is nothing now more patriotic, more in tune with the Founders' visions, more noble than seeking to understand exactly what has happened to our beloved freedoms, our people, and our Country.
Turn off your TVs. Lay down the newspapers and magazines. American sovereignty is quickly slipping through our fingertips, and the first step towards putting a stop to this madness is becoming informed. The TVs and publications are there to distract you with trivialities, to explain away some of our biggest problems by only offering a tiny fraction of the causes all the while excluding the big picture, and even to create bold faced lies and fantasies in order to convince us that we must bow before the State if we are to be secure. It is time to realize that what happened in Nazi Germany is coming to the US; if you thought the brown shirts were bad, just wait until the anti-humanist green shirts start terrorizing Americans. Wouldn't we all have loved to tell the Germans to "WAKE UP!" in the 1930s? Well, I am telling you now, WAKE UP!, before it is too late.
The fraud called the fractional reserve banking system, enabled by the Federal Reserve, has built an entire financial structure on deceit, a delicate house of cards constructed from a massive pyramid of debt that could collapse at any time. The dollar which Americans worked so hard to create is the reserve currency of the world, and is now backed by nothing but the perception of its invincibility held by investors. The central bankers have destroyed the dollar for their own selfish purposes, namely that of controlling us, dominating us, allowing for unlimited government spending, needless wars, and the creation of a police state which threatens the very liberties upon which this Country was built. The dollar is now only worth 4 cents compared to the strong gold backed dollar which our forefathers made with their blood and sweat. Turn off the TVs. Trash the newspapers and magazines. Now is the time when you will have to make a choice, and to be sure you only have two options: comply or resist. Comply with the real ID and carry your papers like good Germans, or resist. Comply with the coming North American Union, and the end of American Sovereignty and final defeat of the Constitution, or resist. Comply with the Department of Homeland "Security" (Terror), and its treasonous front man, or resist. Comply with the coming martial law, and the confiscation of our guns, or resist. Comply with the bloated traitors in Washington DC, and all their usurpations of power, or RESIST.
Turn of the TVs. Trash the publications. Ignore the propaganda, both left and right. Inform yourselves and others. Prepare. Arm yourselves. Do not believe the lies, do not go to government for help. Civil disobedience will be necessary. Remain peaceful unless they decide to go on the offensive and threaten your Constitutionally outlined natural rights. DO NOT comply with their mandates. DO NOT screw over our descendants and sell them out into slavery. And most of all, resist, at all costs, the final defeat of liberty and dignity in America.
We will be victorious, although many will suffer along the way. I am confident that we will emerge from this better off than we were before, with a new disgust for despotism, and a renewed vision for the future of America. Only then can we have some real open dialogue about true freedom and liberty, and the taking of the final leap from chaos.
“We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” - David Rockefeller
For those who still believe that the US government is one of the people, it is time to lay down those long held sacred beliefs. If we are to truly care about liberty, now is not the time to cling to falsely held notions of freedom, to create excuses in our minds that attempt to explain away all the evils around us. The Founders would be appalled at what we have become, and there is nothing now more patriotic, more in tune with the Founders' visions, more noble than seeking to understand exactly what has happened to our beloved freedoms, our people, and our Country.
Turn off your TVs. Lay down the newspapers and magazines. American sovereignty is quickly slipping through our fingertips, and the first step towards putting a stop to this madness is becoming informed. The TVs and publications are there to distract you with trivialities, to explain away some of our biggest problems by only offering a tiny fraction of the causes all the while excluding the big picture, and even to create bold faced lies and fantasies in order to convince us that we must bow before the State if we are to be secure. It is time to realize that what happened in Nazi Germany is coming to the US; if you thought the brown shirts were bad, just wait until the anti-humanist green shirts start terrorizing Americans. Wouldn't we all have loved to tell the Germans to "WAKE UP!" in the 1930s? Well, I am telling you now, WAKE UP!, before it is too late.
The fraud called the fractional reserve banking system, enabled by the Federal Reserve, has built an entire financial structure on deceit, a delicate house of cards constructed from a massive pyramid of debt that could collapse at any time. The dollar which Americans worked so hard to create is the reserve currency of the world, and is now backed by nothing but the perception of its invincibility held by investors. The central bankers have destroyed the dollar for their own selfish purposes, namely that of controlling us, dominating us, allowing for unlimited government spending, needless wars, and the creation of a police state which threatens the very liberties upon which this Country was built. The dollar is now only worth 4 cents compared to the strong gold backed dollar which our forefathers made with their blood and sweat. Turn off the TVs. Trash the newspapers and magazines. Now is the time when you will have to make a choice, and to be sure you only have two options: comply or resist. Comply with the real ID and carry your papers like good Germans, or resist. Comply with the coming North American Union, and the end of American Sovereignty and final defeat of the Constitution, or resist. Comply with the Department of Homeland "Security" (Terror), and its treasonous front man, or resist. Comply with the coming martial law, and the confiscation of our guns, or resist. Comply with the bloated traitors in Washington DC, and all their usurpations of power, or RESIST.
Turn of the TVs. Trash the publications. Ignore the propaganda, both left and right. Inform yourselves and others. Prepare. Arm yourselves. Do not believe the lies, do not go to government for help. Civil disobedience will be necessary. Remain peaceful unless they decide to go on the offensive and threaten your Constitutionally outlined natural rights. DO NOT comply with their mandates. DO NOT screw over our descendants and sell them out into slavery. And most of all, resist, at all costs, the final defeat of liberty and dignity in America.
We will be victorious, although many will suffer along the way. I am confident that we will emerge from this better off than we were before, with a new disgust for despotism, and a renewed vision for the future of America. Only then can we have some real open dialogue about true freedom and liberty, and the taking of the final leap from chaos.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Politicians, Let Me Be
Our economy is truly what makes us free. Without it we are thrown into a world where something we have depended on our whole lives is suddenly gone. We are forced to fend for ourselves, thrown back into the wild, made to do basic things like find food and water. When the economy is functioning well, we are better off and are able to spend more time doing whatever we want.
The cave man's life pretty much was horrible. No fast food, barely any leisure time, at the whim of nature. Mankind lasted for 2 million years in that miserable condition, don't you think we owe it to ourselves to at least be happy now? But then came the State, and a whole new form of bondage rose up to make us miserable again.
The economy itself is just property ownership (property meaning land, goods, your body, etc.). Someone has to own the property in order for society to function, and the owner decides what happens to the property. As a result people generally find it beneficial to set up voluntary agreements whereby they work together with their property. The State is a violation of this utterly basic principle. At the end of the day it is always a violation of property. Whether it is your body, your stuff, the set precedent of being able to use force against you, the theft called taxes, the prohibition of private arbitration for crimes, etc., the State violates property and as a result violates voluntary agreements between individuals. Every justification for the State is a lie, even if the politician spewing it believes what he is saying.
You can literally go through and analyze every government intervention and see how it creates the problem it is vowing to solve. War on Drugs? Promotes gangs. War on Poverty? Creates poverty. War on Terror? Bolsters recruitment. Civil rights laws? Allow for violations of property rather than protection of persons. Patent laws? They hurt innovation. Anti-trust laws? Promote monopolies. Government is always a disservice, a reaffirmation of the social contract which allows them to violate property in the name of "benefiting society." As they leech off society over time they create more and more problems thus providing even more justification for continual growth in both size and power. What is this power? Is it in the guns? In the politician's hands? It is in their ability by social contract to control the manner in which their minions violate property. The politicians don't even violate property themselves. They depend upon a vast workforce of people who do it for them. All politicians do is manipulate the social contract through legislation and use already existing precedents to demand the violation of property. No wonder they become so corrupt, what could be more against intuition than feeding off society by manipulating people and their property. I'm really stressing the property part here.
The corruption spreads out and emanates from the State and infects every corner of society and our psyches. Through its necessary lies required for justification, the State creates a reality that is vastly different from that which our intuitions alone would create. Violations of property destroy the very fabric of natural human society and corrupt the people involved. What could be more innate than property ownership?
The controlled media oligopoly cheapens our culture. Technological development is slowed or resources are diverted for the development of weapons of offensive war. People are needlessly thrown into government cages. Lives are ruined every day by prosecutors. We live in a society which thinks "politicians" are stand up Christians and people in the free market sector are greedy or potentially dangerous and criminal. Another shining example of living every day as opposite day here in State-land.
Government is bondage for every one. We need them. We need basic services which only government can provide, and thus we are stuck with this tax burden. We have to deal with their imperfections because they hold society together. We have to let someone violate property in order to protect it. All lies. Property can only be protected through private protection and private arbitration. Violations will always occur, but at least they won't be institutionalized. If we grew up in a stateless society people would find the idea of government pretty disturbing and insane because that society would be built upon honesty and respect for property instead of lies and an attack on our every intuition.
Now, in the dying days of the empire, we are about to experience severe economic problems which mean severe political upheaval and chaos. A lot of people are probably going to suffer as a result, all because of this unnecessary burden of the State which, by creating the monopoly on money creation called the private federal reserve, has constructed an economic house of cards built on deceit which could collapse at any moment. Maybe that is why they are building concentration camps and buying railway cars with shackles in them. They probably expect massive political chaos and want to make sure that they can oppress us and try to force their "crisis averting" decrees upon us. What will it be? Food shortage? Water shortage? Oil shortage? Are we going to have to live a lower standard of life and ration everything? Are we going to have to give up all property rights we have left? Will the State control every facet of our lives to protect us from the economic shambles they have manifested? That is after all what the State mechanism does, usurp property into State control. Maybe if they got out of the way of the free market we could get on living our lives, is that really so much to ask? The State is sending us back into the wild by killing the economy and will probably prey upon the chaos to usurp more power. Liberty could suffer as a result, but maybe, just maybe, people will wake up and blame can be put in the correct direction. We could even come out from this on top, who knows, maybe people are going to be finally fed up with this thing called the State. It is possible that the critical number of people has been reached by Ron Paul's efforts and others whereby the coming collapse may actually bring about a mass awakening from the confusion of the State-made reality.
The cave man's life pretty much was horrible. No fast food, barely any leisure time, at the whim of nature. Mankind lasted for 2 million years in that miserable condition, don't you think we owe it to ourselves to at least be happy now? But then came the State, and a whole new form of bondage rose up to make us miserable again.
The economy itself is just property ownership (property meaning land, goods, your body, etc.). Someone has to own the property in order for society to function, and the owner decides what happens to the property. As a result people generally find it beneficial to set up voluntary agreements whereby they work together with their property. The State is a violation of this utterly basic principle. At the end of the day it is always a violation of property. Whether it is your body, your stuff, the set precedent of being able to use force against you, the theft called taxes, the prohibition of private arbitration for crimes, etc., the State violates property and as a result violates voluntary agreements between individuals. Every justification for the State is a lie, even if the politician spewing it believes what he is saying.
You can literally go through and analyze every government intervention and see how it creates the problem it is vowing to solve. War on Drugs? Promotes gangs. War on Poverty? Creates poverty. War on Terror? Bolsters recruitment. Civil rights laws? Allow for violations of property rather than protection of persons. Patent laws? They hurt innovation. Anti-trust laws? Promote monopolies. Government is always a disservice, a reaffirmation of the social contract which allows them to violate property in the name of "benefiting society." As they leech off society over time they create more and more problems thus providing even more justification for continual growth in both size and power. What is this power? Is it in the guns? In the politician's hands? It is in their ability by social contract to control the manner in which their minions violate property. The politicians don't even violate property themselves. They depend upon a vast workforce of people who do it for them. All politicians do is manipulate the social contract through legislation and use already existing precedents to demand the violation of property. No wonder they become so corrupt, what could be more against intuition than feeding off society by manipulating people and their property. I'm really stressing the property part here.
The corruption spreads out and emanates from the State and infects every corner of society and our psyches. Through its necessary lies required for justification, the State creates a reality that is vastly different from that which our intuitions alone would create. Violations of property destroy the very fabric of natural human society and corrupt the people involved. What could be more innate than property ownership?
The controlled media oligopoly cheapens our culture. Technological development is slowed or resources are diverted for the development of weapons of offensive war. People are needlessly thrown into government cages. Lives are ruined every day by prosecutors. We live in a society which thinks "politicians" are stand up Christians and people in the free market sector are greedy or potentially dangerous and criminal. Another shining example of living every day as opposite day here in State-land.
Government is bondage for every one. We need them. We need basic services which only government can provide, and thus we are stuck with this tax burden. We have to deal with their imperfections because they hold society together. We have to let someone violate property in order to protect it. All lies. Property can only be protected through private protection and private arbitration. Violations will always occur, but at least they won't be institutionalized. If we grew up in a stateless society people would find the idea of government pretty disturbing and insane because that society would be built upon honesty and respect for property instead of lies and an attack on our every intuition.
Now, in the dying days of the empire, we are about to experience severe economic problems which mean severe political upheaval and chaos. A lot of people are probably going to suffer as a result, all because of this unnecessary burden of the State which, by creating the monopoly on money creation called the private federal reserve, has constructed an economic house of cards built on deceit which could collapse at any moment. Maybe that is why they are building concentration camps and buying railway cars with shackles in them. They probably expect massive political chaos and want to make sure that they can oppress us and try to force their "crisis averting" decrees upon us. What will it be? Food shortage? Water shortage? Oil shortage? Are we going to have to live a lower standard of life and ration everything? Are we going to have to give up all property rights we have left? Will the State control every facet of our lives to protect us from the economic shambles they have manifested? That is after all what the State mechanism does, usurp property into State control. Maybe if they got out of the way of the free market we could get on living our lives, is that really so much to ask? The State is sending us back into the wild by killing the economy and will probably prey upon the chaos to usurp more power. Liberty could suffer as a result, but maybe, just maybe, people will wake up and blame can be put in the correct direction. We could even come out from this on top, who knows, maybe people are going to be finally fed up with this thing called the State. It is possible that the critical number of people has been reached by Ron Paul's efforts and others whereby the coming collapse may actually bring about a mass awakening from the confusion of the State-made reality.
10,000 Years of Darkness
99.5% of human existence on Earth has been without governments. Small groups of 50 to 70 hunters and gatherers used to constantly roam from place to place trying to survive. It is only recently that the concept of land ownership gave rise to an economy and civilization. To demonstrate how tiny modern history is compared to the rest of evolution, I cooked up a few timelines that go all the way back to the creation of the universe. Here they are:
The agricultural revolution forever changed humanity. Instead of existing in small social groups of hunters and gatherers, humans finally realized that they could grow crops and breed livestock. Life just got a whole lot easier.
But, not all was well with the new development. People began settling near each other to form city-states, the concept of land ownership was developed, and with this came possessions and wealth. Somehow the idea government arose, and ever since human history has been a drama being played out between individual property rights and the property violations of the state. Government is simply an artificial idea which everyone in a society agrees upon, and it claims a monopoly on force and theft. Like they say, "Don't Steal: Government hates competition."
For thousands of years this idea called the State has allowed the most incredible human atrocities, total violations of property, and a complete absence of true order. Over the course of this time, societies made futile attempts to form governments that had rules so the State could not claim absolute power, but they always degenerated into oligarchies with total control.
In the Middle Ages, serfdom became a big way of life. The masses were forced to work on the fields of landowners in return for food and protection. Because they had so little to eat, they were generally weak, and could not rise up against the elites who controlled them. The industrial revolution 300 years ago changed all that. Thanks to the diminished influence of government over the free market, this new revolution appeared and changed human society forever. It brought the weak, ignorant serfs out from their peril and created the middle class, which is the only thing that holds fast against the power of elites. Think about it, one man used to have to plow his own field, now a farmer with equipment can feed thousands of people. Instead of worrying all day about getting to that next meal, people were finally free to pursue higher forms of human interaction.
Around 230 years ago the American Revolution took place and for the first time in history a society was founded on the principles of liberty. What resulted was the most peaceful and prosperous society in all of history. Technological development flourished and gave rise to all the great things we enjoy today.
However, America, like every other government, has slowly devolved back into an oligarchy. She still appears to be a Republic, but all the elections are only there to pacify the populations into believing that we are still a free nation. America is now ruled by an elite superclass of bankers and businessmen who use government as an excuse to control various societies around the world. Without government, they would be powerless.
In our current state of affairs, with the influence of government once again so strong, development has slowed and the economy is now receding. Soon it will collapse completely (thanks to the Federal Reserve), and the elites will try to use this as an excuse to grab at more power. They hope to one day con us back into serfdom, and their means of doing so is to create crises and then offer up the solutions. If they can control oil, food, and water then they can create artificial scarcity, panic, and as a result people will willingly give up their rights and do exactly what they are told. This nightmare could be upon us very soon.
The solution? Well, the best thing to do is to fight the information war. If we have enough people knowledgeable about these matters then they will be unable to completely control us. Thankfully, Ron Paul has educated millions about how America is now truly run. As such, I am hopeful that everything will turn out okay.
The phrase "dark ages" is usually used to describe the period between 450 and 1000 AD when cultural and technological development were all but absent. But those ages were only "dark" compared to the other times in human history which have seen less influence and control by the State. The American Experiment, for example, was mostly a complete success, and the only identifiable flaw is that the Founders were still infected with this idea of government. Much like making a river while building a dam, they made a Constitution that attempted to protect rights, limit powers, and slow political development to avoid sudden usurpations of power. Many government fetters were removed, but the government seed that was planted eventually grew up into an overbearing and stagnating force which is now destroying the middle class.
I think humanity is finally ready to leave the 10,000 year Dark Ages and chaos behind, and enter into a new golden age. Hopefully government will be struck into the annals of history forever, and with no new seeds being planted, society will develop without any fetters. If humanity had done this long ago we would have already been so far along culturally and technologically. It is time to do ourselves and all future generations a huge favor by ridding ourselves of this monstrosity through education and political action. Maybe the coming economic collapse will have the opposite effect that the elites foresee and will actually lead to their demise and the end of governments as well (LRC is doing a great amount to convince people that government is always the problem, never the solution). Once we enter into an age of private property, voluntary association, and free markets humanity will look to the skies and begin propagating throughout the solar system and beyond. Poverty, violations of property, and other forms of human suffering will be brought to their lowest possible levels. Every mouth will be fed, and the world peace will finally be achieved (there are only two consistencies in history: the State and perpetual war). Humanity will one day look back at our backwards ways and think, "What were they thinking??" They will read about wars where random groups of people slaughtered each other on a mass scale and try to figure out what in the hell we were doing. We will be viewed as we view earlier societies, as reckless barbarians without any notion of justice who are completely insane. Who knows what the world will look like if we make this giant leap from chaos, but creative human powers will be unleashed unlike anything we have ever seen. This final revolution is long overdue.
The agricultural revolution forever changed humanity. Instead of existing in small social groups of hunters and gatherers, humans finally realized that they could grow crops and breed livestock. Life just got a whole lot easier.
But, not all was well with the new development. People began settling near each other to form city-states, the concept of land ownership was developed, and with this came possessions and wealth. Somehow the idea government arose, and ever since human history has been a drama being played out between individual property rights and the property violations of the state. Government is simply an artificial idea which everyone in a society agrees upon, and it claims a monopoly on force and theft. Like they say, "Don't Steal: Government hates competition."
For thousands of years this idea called the State has allowed the most incredible human atrocities, total violations of property, and a complete absence of true order. Over the course of this time, societies made futile attempts to form governments that had rules so the State could not claim absolute power, but they always degenerated into oligarchies with total control.
In the Middle Ages, serfdom became a big way of life. The masses were forced to work on the fields of landowners in return for food and protection. Because they had so little to eat, they were generally weak, and could not rise up against the elites who controlled them. The industrial revolution 300 years ago changed all that. Thanks to the diminished influence of government over the free market, this new revolution appeared and changed human society forever. It brought the weak, ignorant serfs out from their peril and created the middle class, which is the only thing that holds fast against the power of elites. Think about it, one man used to have to plow his own field, now a farmer with equipment can feed thousands of people. Instead of worrying all day about getting to that next meal, people were finally free to pursue higher forms of human interaction.
Around 230 years ago the American Revolution took place and for the first time in history a society was founded on the principles of liberty. What resulted was the most peaceful and prosperous society in all of history. Technological development flourished and gave rise to all the great things we enjoy today.
However, America, like every other government, has slowly devolved back into an oligarchy. She still appears to be a Republic, but all the elections are only there to pacify the populations into believing that we are still a free nation. America is now ruled by an elite superclass of bankers and businessmen who use government as an excuse to control various societies around the world. Without government, they would be powerless.
In our current state of affairs, with the influence of government once again so strong, development has slowed and the economy is now receding. Soon it will collapse completely (thanks to the Federal Reserve), and the elites will try to use this as an excuse to grab at more power. They hope to one day con us back into serfdom, and their means of doing so is to create crises and then offer up the solutions. If they can control oil, food, and water then they can create artificial scarcity, panic, and as a result people will willingly give up their rights and do exactly what they are told. This nightmare could be upon us very soon.
The solution? Well, the best thing to do is to fight the information war. If we have enough people knowledgeable about these matters then they will be unable to completely control us. Thankfully, Ron Paul has educated millions about how America is now truly run. As such, I am hopeful that everything will turn out okay.
The phrase "dark ages" is usually used to describe the period between 450 and 1000 AD when cultural and technological development were all but absent. But those ages were only "dark" compared to the other times in human history which have seen less influence and control by the State. The American Experiment, for example, was mostly a complete success, and the only identifiable flaw is that the Founders were still infected with this idea of government. Much like making a river while building a dam, they made a Constitution that attempted to protect rights, limit powers, and slow political development to avoid sudden usurpations of power. Many government fetters were removed, but the government seed that was planted eventually grew up into an overbearing and stagnating force which is now destroying the middle class.
I think humanity is finally ready to leave the 10,000 year Dark Ages and chaos behind, and enter into a new golden age. Hopefully government will be struck into the annals of history forever, and with no new seeds being planted, society will develop without any fetters. If humanity had done this long ago we would have already been so far along culturally and technologically. It is time to do ourselves and all future generations a huge favor by ridding ourselves of this monstrosity through education and political action. Maybe the coming economic collapse will have the opposite effect that the elites foresee and will actually lead to their demise and the end of governments as well (LRC is doing a great amount to convince people that government is always the problem, never the solution). Once we enter into an age of private property, voluntary association, and free markets humanity will look to the skies and begin propagating throughout the solar system and beyond. Poverty, violations of property, and other forms of human suffering will be brought to their lowest possible levels. Every mouth will be fed, and the world peace will finally be achieved (there are only two consistencies in history: the State and perpetual war). Humanity will one day look back at our backwards ways and think, "What were they thinking??" They will read about wars where random groups of people slaughtered each other on a mass scale and try to figure out what in the hell we were doing. We will be viewed as we view earlier societies, as reckless barbarians without any notion of justice who are completely insane. Who knows what the world will look like if we make this giant leap from chaos, but creative human powers will be unleashed unlike anything we have ever seen. This final revolution is long overdue.
Friday, May 2, 2008
Free Hawaii
I think I'm going to buy a bumper sticker with that on it (if I only had a car).
Today, some liberty loving native Hawaiians who work at Iolani Palace shut it down and closed it to visitors as a means of protest. They are tired of being an American colony, and want to return to self-rule under their previous monarchy. Of course, we can't let them do that, they would be under the rule of a merciless tyrant rather than our benevolent federal aristocracy!
Just as the state-media complex has reduced our culture to beer drinking football fans obsessed with American Idol, rather than liberty obsessed beer drinking revolutionaries, my only memories of Hawaii are googly-eyed sand dollars and hoola skirt bobbleheads. I was young and we mostly went to the tourist places, but there is much more to Hawaii than that. She's still rich in culture, despite the cheapening influence of the controlled status quo which constantly spews from our televisions telling us, "That's right. Forget where you come from and what your forefathers held to be sacred. This is who you are now." That is why so many Americans are blinded to the giant scam called the federal government. We have forgotten why our forefathers died to conquer this land, so that it could be free. I would love to see our culture abandon this blinding and sheepifying influence which prevents any cultural development, and which prevents us from rising up against the people who are trying to dumb us down so that we don't question their murderous and thieving ways.
But back to Hawaii. I would love nothing more than to see Hawaii secede. Indeed, the federal government even admitted error in overthrowing the established Hawaiian monarchy for its own selfish purposes, ostensibly to "free" them from the chains of monarchy. Of course it had nothing to do with all that sugar Hawaii was growing.
Here is Grover Cleveland on the debacle of overthrowing Hawaiian sovereignty over a century ago:
"But for the notorious predilections of the United States minister for annexation, the Committee of Safety, which should have been called the Committee of Annexation, would never have existed. But for the landing of the United States forces upon false pretexts respecting the danger to life and property, the committee would never have exposed themselves to the plans and penalties of treason by undertaking the subversion of the queen's government. But for the presence of the United States forces in the immediate vicinity and in position to accord all needed protection and support, the committee would not have proclaimed the provisional government from the steps of the Government Building. And, finally, but for the lawless occupation of Honolulu under false pretexts by the United States forces, and but for Minister Stevens' recognition of the provisional government when the United States forces were its sole support and constituted its only military strength, the queen and her government would never have yielded to the provisional government, even for a time and for the sole purpose of submitting her case to the enlightened justice of the United States. ... "
100 years after this violation of Hawaii, the federal government finally admitted fault...
From the article:
"In 1993, the U.S. Congress approved, and President Bill Clinton signed, an apology to the people of the Hawaiian islands. The document 'acknowledges that the overthrow of the kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and further acknowledges that the native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum.'"
Well, there you have it. The Hawaiians never abdicated their sovereignty, so we should stop calling them a state. Let them govern themselves and deal with their own affairs. While I personally am against any form of government, at least self-governance, even if under a monarchy, would be highly preferable to having to subjugate themselves to an aristocracy thousands of miles away. But they are free, they get to VOTE for their representatives! Right, since we all know how well informed voters are. And our voting system is completely honest too! Anyway, when your choices are "thief A" or "thief B" you're not bound to make much progress.
As for their tiny peaceful insurrection, it appears the staff of the Palace is going to be arrested. I guess that is what you get for not worshipping the mandates of the empire. Like always, so much of it goes back to the war on drugs, through which the empire claims the right to violate any persons or property so long as they "perceive" some kind of "drug threat." No wonder the cops are so corrupt.
The native Hawaiian protesters are doing exactly what they need to be doing, getting their message out to other Hawaiians and sympathetic Americans. They need to fight the information war, and get enough people on board to elect representatives who will support total secession. Maybe that will give some US states the right idea, it's time to can the federalis.
Today, some liberty loving native Hawaiians who work at Iolani Palace shut it down and closed it to visitors as a means of protest. They are tired of being an American colony, and want to return to self-rule under their previous monarchy. Of course, we can't let them do that, they would be under the rule of a merciless tyrant rather than our benevolent federal aristocracy!
Just as the state-media complex has reduced our culture to beer drinking football fans obsessed with American Idol, rather than liberty obsessed beer drinking revolutionaries, my only memories of Hawaii are googly-eyed sand dollars and hoola skirt bobbleheads. I was young and we mostly went to the tourist places, but there is much more to Hawaii than that. She's still rich in culture, despite the cheapening influence of the controlled status quo which constantly spews from our televisions telling us, "That's right. Forget where you come from and what your forefathers held to be sacred. This is who you are now." That is why so many Americans are blinded to the giant scam called the federal government. We have forgotten why our forefathers died to conquer this land, so that it could be free. I would love to see our culture abandon this blinding and sheepifying influence which prevents any cultural development, and which prevents us from rising up against the people who are trying to dumb us down so that we don't question their murderous and thieving ways.
But back to Hawaii. I would love nothing more than to see Hawaii secede. Indeed, the federal government even admitted error in overthrowing the established Hawaiian monarchy for its own selfish purposes, ostensibly to "free" them from the chains of monarchy. Of course it had nothing to do with all that sugar Hawaii was growing.
Here is Grover Cleveland on the debacle of overthrowing Hawaiian sovereignty over a century ago:
"But for the notorious predilections of the United States minister for annexation, the Committee of Safety, which should have been called the Committee of Annexation, would never have existed. But for the landing of the United States forces upon false pretexts respecting the danger to life and property, the committee would never have exposed themselves to the plans and penalties of treason by undertaking the subversion of the queen's government. But for the presence of the United States forces in the immediate vicinity and in position to accord all needed protection and support, the committee would not have proclaimed the provisional government from the steps of the Government Building. And, finally, but for the lawless occupation of Honolulu under false pretexts by the United States forces, and but for Minister Stevens' recognition of the provisional government when the United States forces were its sole support and constituted its only military strength, the queen and her government would never have yielded to the provisional government, even for a time and for the sole purpose of submitting her case to the enlightened justice of the United States. ... "
100 years after this violation of Hawaii, the federal government finally admitted fault...
From the article:
"In 1993, the U.S. Congress approved, and President Bill Clinton signed, an apology to the people of the Hawaiian islands. The document 'acknowledges that the overthrow of the kingdom of Hawaii occurred with the active participation of agents and citizens of the United States and further acknowledges that the native Hawaiian people never directly relinquished to the United States their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people over their national lands, either through the kingdom of Hawaii or through a plebiscite or referendum.'"
Well, there you have it. The Hawaiians never abdicated their sovereignty, so we should stop calling them a state. Let them govern themselves and deal with their own affairs. While I personally am against any form of government, at least self-governance, even if under a monarchy, would be highly preferable to having to subjugate themselves to an aristocracy thousands of miles away. But they are free, they get to VOTE for their representatives! Right, since we all know how well informed voters are. And our voting system is completely honest too! Anyway, when your choices are "thief A" or "thief B" you're not bound to make much progress.
As for their tiny peaceful insurrection, it appears the staff of the Palace is going to be arrested. I guess that is what you get for not worshipping the mandates of the empire. Like always, so much of it goes back to the war on drugs, through which the empire claims the right to violate any persons or property so long as they "perceive" some kind of "drug threat." No wonder the cops are so corrupt.
The native Hawaiian protesters are doing exactly what they need to be doing, getting their message out to other Hawaiians and sympathetic Americans. They need to fight the information war, and get enough people on board to elect representatives who will support total secession. Maybe that will give some US states the right idea, it's time to can the federalis.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
