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Monday, June 2, 2008
One Giant Step Backward For Mankind
On June 12th Ireland will vote on a referendum that decides whether or not they will ratify the new EU Lisbon treaty. The treaty is a massive power grab by the elites in the EU, and what is more stunning is that only Ireland will be holding a referendum; all 26 other signatories refused to let the people of their respective countries decide.
The first EU treaty was soundly defeated because people knew that it was the end of their national sovereignty and of their civil liberties. The new Lisbon treaty, which contains 438 of the 440 provisions held in the first EU treaty, effectively ends all national identity beyond geographical location and name.
Here is a quote from an interesting article, "The Reform Treaty paves the way for the creation of a European Union foreign minister (high representative) at the head of an EU foreign service (with its own diplomatic corps) as well as a long-term EU president; both positions are trappings of a fledgling superstate. As European Parliament member Daniel Hannan has pointed out, the treaty will further erode the legal sovereignty of European nation-states, entrenching a pan-European magistracy ('Eurojust'), a European Public Prosecutor, a federal EU police force ('Europol'), and an EU criminal code ('corpus juris'). In addition, countries such as Britain will sacrifice their veto right over EU decision-making in 40 policy areas."
The European Constitution would actually trump the constitution of every nation-state. This Lisbon Treaty will create an oppressed and Orwellian Europe, it won't be long before the "Europols" are out of control.
If it is one thing that the Founders taught us, the one thing they really concentrated on, was that centralized power breeds corruption. That is why we separated from the corrupt British Empire, we were tired of their Redcoat troops running around the colonies and abusing the people.
Certainly their advice was correct. Look at the incredible corruption in Washington, but that is what we should expect from the amounts of money that go through there and the extraordinary powers they have. FEMA is already frantically federalizing and militarizing the police, and look at how much safer we are. Thanks FEMA.
Both the US and the countries of Europe have police states springing up around them, and the new "War on Terror" was the spark that set all this madness in motion. Our decline into totalitarianism is moving at unprecedented rates. The introduction of the EU federation will only allow elites to brush aside the tediousness and time-consuming political effort of convincing all the member countries to submit more and more of their individual freedoms in the name of the "common good." Now they can pass all sorts of juicy police state legislation as they move to control Europe.
If Ireland fails to defend its national sovereignty and foolishly plunders Europe into tyranny then it may actually end up having some positive effect. The Europeans may finally realize that they are under direct threat and must secede from this EU superstate before it is too late (hopefully the elites won't decide to use their EU troops in a Lincolnian power coup to "save the Union"). The fact that 26 countries did not hold referendums will infuriate the masses as soon as the reality of the police state dawns on them. They may also provide a good example for Americans who are still not realizing the current threat to our freedoms.
If Europe wishes to remain free they will demand referendums and VOTE NO. Maybe this will finally let the elites know that the European countries aren't going to give up national sovereignty to some artificial "superstate" which is nothing more than a cabal of people foaming at the mouth fantasizing about hijacking Europe's destiny for their own grandiose visions of domination and control.
All I know is that these elites, who are a plague upon mankind, are just people of flesh and blood. They project immense power but are not infallible, and in fact are far from it. Their hubris and power lust will get the best of them, and there will be a huge backlash somewhere along the line as they consolidate Europe's power structures into ever more centralized hands. This could be the final kicker in setting off a massive reaction, especially since only one country out of 27 will hold a referendum.
The South American Union has already been created and it is only a matter of time before they head down the same track as the European Union. If Europe does fall, and the people there subject themselves to the police state, then America will be the last line of defense in preventing the whole of the West from falling into tyranny. That power will not lie in our military or police forces, but in the resolve of patriots to defend against any similar surrender of national sovereignty into the hands of a group of NAU bureaucrats.
It will be interesting to see how the Irish vote, but either way, it could finally be the catalyst that wakes people up around the various nations to the plans of the "superclass." I always thought of the Irish as wily and independent, hopefully they stay true to that stereotype.
The first EU treaty was soundly defeated because people knew that it was the end of their national sovereignty and of their civil liberties. The new Lisbon treaty, which contains 438 of the 440 provisions held in the first EU treaty, effectively ends all national identity beyond geographical location and name.
Here is a quote from an interesting article, "The Reform Treaty paves the way for the creation of a European Union foreign minister (high representative) at the head of an EU foreign service (with its own diplomatic corps) as well as a long-term EU president; both positions are trappings of a fledgling superstate. As European Parliament member Daniel Hannan has pointed out, the treaty will further erode the legal sovereignty of European nation-states, entrenching a pan-European magistracy ('Eurojust'), a European Public Prosecutor, a federal EU police force ('Europol'), and an EU criminal code ('corpus juris'). In addition, countries such as Britain will sacrifice their veto right over EU decision-making in 40 policy areas."
The European Constitution would actually trump the constitution of every nation-state. This Lisbon Treaty will create an oppressed and Orwellian Europe, it won't be long before the "Europols" are out of control.
If it is one thing that the Founders taught us, the one thing they really concentrated on, was that centralized power breeds corruption. That is why we separated from the corrupt British Empire, we were tired of their Redcoat troops running around the colonies and abusing the people.
Certainly their advice was correct. Look at the incredible corruption in Washington, but that is what we should expect from the amounts of money that go through there and the extraordinary powers they have. FEMA is already frantically federalizing and militarizing the police, and look at how much safer we are. Thanks FEMA.
Both the US and the countries of Europe have police states springing up around them, and the new "War on Terror" was the spark that set all this madness in motion. Our decline into totalitarianism is moving at unprecedented rates. The introduction of the EU federation will only allow elites to brush aside the tediousness and time-consuming political effort of convincing all the member countries to submit more and more of their individual freedoms in the name of the "common good." Now they can pass all sorts of juicy police state legislation as they move to control Europe.
If Ireland fails to defend its national sovereignty and foolishly plunders Europe into tyranny then it may actually end up having some positive effect. The Europeans may finally realize that they are under direct threat and must secede from this EU superstate before it is too late (hopefully the elites won't decide to use their EU troops in a Lincolnian power coup to "save the Union"). The fact that 26 countries did not hold referendums will infuriate the masses as soon as the reality of the police state dawns on them. They may also provide a good example for Americans who are still not realizing the current threat to our freedoms.
If Europe wishes to remain free they will demand referendums and VOTE NO. Maybe this will finally let the elites know that the European countries aren't going to give up national sovereignty to some artificial "superstate" which is nothing more than a cabal of people foaming at the mouth fantasizing about hijacking Europe's destiny for their own grandiose visions of domination and control.
All I know is that these elites, who are a plague upon mankind, are just people of flesh and blood. They project immense power but are not infallible, and in fact are far from it. Their hubris and power lust will get the best of them, and there will be a huge backlash somewhere along the line as they consolidate Europe's power structures into ever more centralized hands. This could be the final kicker in setting off a massive reaction, especially since only one country out of 27 will hold a referendum.
The South American Union has already been created and it is only a matter of time before they head down the same track as the European Union. If Europe does fall, and the people there subject themselves to the police state, then America will be the last line of defense in preventing the whole of the West from falling into tyranny. That power will not lie in our military or police forces, but in the resolve of patriots to defend against any similar surrender of national sovereignty into the hands of a group of NAU bureaucrats.
It will be interesting to see how the Irish vote, but either way, it could finally be the catalyst that wakes people up around the various nations to the plans of the "superclass." I always thought of the Irish as wily and independent, hopefully they stay true to that stereotype.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Legislation and Government Monopoly
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.
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.
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.
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