Freedom matters
Police threaten to ticket guy for honking/saying get off phone
REVIEW OF INCIDENT:
If you want to look at the video, this incident starts at the 3 minute point.
Guy on his motorcycle driving in the street. Car in front of him with guy talking on a cell phone. Motorcycle guy beeps his horn so guy on phone will stop talking and start driving. Guy jumps out of car and happens to be a cop. Motorcycle guys says I'm sorry, I did not know you were a cop. Cop tells motorcycle guy that he can give him a ticket for road rage because he beeped his horn and that he can talk on the phone because he is a cop. The cop screams and threatens him for six minutes.
MY ANALYSIS:
All people are so suppose to be equal and treated the same. No one should be above the law. So if it is illegal to talk on the phone when driving then that law should apply to everyone. The cop was the one breaking the law and he starts screaming at the guy who did nothing wrong. The cop broke the law. The cop is talking on his cell phone in his car in the middle of the street, the cop is road raging, and the cop is blocking traffic while he screams at the motorcycle guy who beeped his horn. It seems that this cop does not think the law should apply to him.
According to this cop if anyone beeps there horn they committed a road rage crime. So if it is a crime to beep your horn then why even have a horn on your car.
Why is the cop so upset that someone beeped there horn at him? The reason is that there is a kind of master slave relationship between the government and the people and a slave should never beep his horn at a master.
PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM:
1 - All people are created equal.
2 - All people have individual rights.
3 - All interactions between people should be voluntary.
NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT:
1 - No one has the right to harm you.
2 - No one has the right to threaten you.
3 - No one has the right to steal from you.
4 - No one has the right to violate your rights.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS:
1 - The right to liberty - We can do what we want, as long as we do not violate the rights of others.
2 - The right to self-defense - We can defend ourselves, our property, and our individual rights.
3 - The right to own and carry weapons - So we have the ability to defend ourselves, our property, and our rights.
4 - The right to self-ownership - We own ourselves. No one can claim even partial ownership over you without violating your rights.
5 - The right to free speech - We can communicate our opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship.
6 - The right to privacy - No one has the right to violate our privacy.
Any law that violates our rights is null and void. Anyone that violates our rights is a criminal.
FREEDOM:
Freedom is the ability to exercise your will within your individual rights without the threat of force from anyone else.
If somebody is forcing their will on us, clearly, we are not free. A violation of freedom is an attack on a person by harming them, stealing from them, threatening them, or violating there individual rights. Freedom is not just an ideal state of society, but a moral code for respecting the individual rights of others.
Because you own yourself, it is wrong for someone to initiate force against you or your property. Acceptance of this simple fact is the foundation of a free and peaceful society. This universal nonaggression principle applies to everyone, and it is therefore wrong for someone to harm you, steal from you, threaten you, or violate your individual rights.
LIBERTY IS NOT A BATTLE:
Liberty is not a battle that requires the conversion of others in order to win.
Liberty is won when you accept the fact that you own yourself, that you have individual rights, and no one has the right to violate your rights.
When you accept that you are liberated.
THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES:
The Declaration of Independence condemned authoritarian power and empowered the individual. It argued that all people were created equal. That all people have individual rights. That our individual rights can not be taken away from us. That the main purpose of government was to help secure our individual rights. That government power came from the consent of the governed. That government could not tax us without our consent. When government violates our individual rights it becomes our duty to take away the governments right to govern.
But the revolution is not over. As long as some people claim the right to rule and others claim the right to be free, the revolution will continue. Final victory comes when people embrace the principles of true equality, non-aggression, self-ownership, and voluntarism. That is when people will truly be ready to be free.
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM NEVER ENDS:
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation.
- Ronald Reagan
TYRANNY:
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and
bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM:
There will always be criminals who try to violate our rights.
To remain free we have to be willing to defend our rights.
That is the price of freedom.
