Freedom matters
DEMOCRATS VS REPUBLICANS: WHOEVER WINS, WE LOSE:
People say they want government to make things fair and equal and to protect them. Government always creates a massive power imbalance where a handful of people have power, control, and money. Everyone else is forced to obey and fund the ruling class or be fined, caged, or killed if you resist them.
Politicians are masters at using fear to pit different groups against each other until the people are begging for more laws and regulations. Those in power tell us what we should worry about, what we should fear. There solution is more government power, more control, more laws, more wars, more regulations, more people in prison, and less freedom for you.
By dividing people into different groups like democrats and republicans, rich and poor, young and old, black and white, etc... The people can be tricked into being angry at each other. While politicians on both sides benefit. People don't realize that all politicians agree that they should take your money and control your life. Politicians use the tactic of divide and conquer to keep the people at war with each other, so we do not identify the real root of the problem. Which is government and the politicians who seek to rule and rob us.
Politicians try to make it seem like there only here to serve you. But when it comes down to it, everyone knows what will happen to you if you do not pay there taxes or obey there laws. The situation really is rulers and subjects, masters and slaves. Free people don't need rulers or masters to tell them what to do. Free people do not need to be ruled. Free people are allowed to think for themselves and make there own decisions and are responsible for there own actions, good or bad.
Big government does not come about by power hungry people talking about there evil intentions. Big government comes about by power hungry people faking good intentions and winning the loyalty of good people. Then the people let these politicians create laws, rules, and regulations that they are forced to obey and the people end up losing there freedom piece by piece under the guise that is good for them. Until every industry and activity is monitored, taxed, regulated, and restricted in the name of law. Making the people unable to provide for themselves, unable to be independent, unable to be self-suffient, unable to protect themselves, and unable to trade freely with each other however they see fit.
The primary problem is not that man is inherently evil. It is that so many people are willing to tolerate, advocate, or commit violent aggression when it is done under the name of government or law. Even most good people will comply because they imagine that they have an obligation to obey government. When oppression is legalized the proud law abiding tax payers will not only tolerate it, but will fund it, condone it, and vote for it.
Government only has power, wealth, and influence because the people give it to them. Stop giving it to them. Vote for freedom by not electing anyone to rule and rob you. You own yourself. You can live your life and spend your money as you see fit.
THE DEMOCRACY SCAM:
Some people may get angry when you talk about democracy being a scam because they see that as attacking freedom or there country. But it is important to not be so blinded by your patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it. Democracy is like a slave who refuses to rebel because he does not think he is a slave.
People today imagine they have an obligation to obey government. This seems to work on most people because they do not realize how unfree they really are. The people are taught the lie that we are given the right to vote so whatever government does to you, it is really you doing it to yourself. Government tries to make this look like you have given your consent when you didn't.
The government keeps taking there money and keeps telling them what to do. They are duped into believing that they are free because they can vote and that is not what freedom is. You can vote between two people who are going to rob you and just because you get to vote for who robs you does not mean your free.
People need to realize that government does not have the right to rule. Victims of this gang called the government imagine an obligation to obey it. Government is an entity that is imagined to have the right to do things that individuals do not have the right to do. Such as steal and they call it taxation. Such as initiating violence and calling it law enforcement. Such as committing murder and calling it national defense.
Democracy is a lie given to people to trick them into believing that they have power when they don't. People have been taught to feel empowered by getting to vote for who is going to be the person robbing them. This does not empower you it empowers your new masters. Democracy is a game, a show that our government puts on so we do not have another revolution and it works. We timidly do what we are told and every four years we push a button to vote for who is going to rob us and nothing changes.
After four years people usually get fed up with the people they elected to rob them. Another guy comes along promising hope and change. So they vote for the new guy to rob them but nothing really changes. You still end up with a government that is stealing your money and telling you what you can do. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
Why not vote for freedom for a change by not electing anyone to rule and rob you. You own yourself. You can live your life and spend your money as you see fit.
The Democracy Scam - Larken Rose
DEMOCRACY VS FREEDOM:
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a armed sheep contesting the vote.
TAXATION IS THEFT (Short Version):
Theft - someone takes my money or property without my permission or consent.
Taxation without consent is theft.
TAXATION IS THEFT (Long Version):
If evil were only committed by evil people then we would not be in that bad of shape. But today almost everybody thinks it is OK for you to be forcefully robbed which is called taxation. People imagine that it is a good thing if done by government. Good people condone evil because they do not recognize that it is evil. But once they realize that it is evil. They will try to stop it instead of voting for it.
Taxation is no different then a mafia protection racket. Where that gang claims to be protecting you but that same gang will harm you if you do not pay up. To steal the money that someone has earned. Is to steal his productivity, his time, and his effort. Which is the same as stealing part of his life. To steal part of a persons life is slavery. Taxation without a persons consent is theft.
Imagine getting a bill from a private business. For services you never asked for and may have never wanted. Imagine that if you do not pay whatever price this business decides. They can empty out your bank account, seize your assets, and throw you in prison. Now if any private business tried to do something like that they can end up going to prison because that would be theft. But for some reason if the government does the same exact thing. It is OK and it is called taxation.
Taxation deprives people of the money they earned, stealing there buying power, reducing there ability to provide for themselves and there families, and making them less able to support things that they care about. Taxation also forces people to fund things that go against there wishes. That conflict with there own values.
Government does not produce any wealth. What it spends it must first steal from the productive people through taxation, fines, civil forfeiture, or the hidden tax known as inflation. We are forced to pay for everything government spends money on including the IRS agents that rob us. Everything of value is created by the productive people and the political class can only steal and destroy. In short the good people have always supported the evil people and will continue to do so as long as they believe that they have an obligation to obey these crooks.
Politicians pretend to be serving you and representing you. But the politicians true attitude is obvious. They don't care what you want and they believe that they have more of a right then you on how the money you earn should be spent. By portraying mass robbery (taxation) as the people paying there fair share of the cost of society. Thieves who have legalized there theft, can convince there victims to be proud of having been robbed and to resent anyone who was not robbed. This is just another example of how politicians use the tactic of divide and conquer to keep the people at war with each other. So they do not identify the real root of the problem. Which is government and the politicians who seek to rule and rob us.
DOES ANYONE HAVE THE RIGHT TO ROB ME:
Can you delegate to another human being a right that you do not have?
Can two people delegate a right to a human being that neither of them have?
Can seven million people delegate a right to a human being that none of them have?
Can someone delegate the right to steal my money to government?
Can seven million people delegate to government the right to steal my money?
Can anyone in government have a right that I do not have?
People can not give away rights that they do not have, therefore government can not have rights that I do not have.
WRONG IS WRONG, NO MATTER WHO DOES IT:
People have the irrational belief that government is allowed to do things that you can't. So the resistance in peoples minds is turned off and they think government authority is OK, logical, and reasonable. But if people would examine the cause and effect of what is really happening. They would say it is logical to resist someone who wants to harm you, steal from you, threaten you, or violate your rights.
No matter how government employees are selected they are only human beings and they have no rights or claims that are higher then those of any other human. No one has the right to harm you, steal from you, threaten you, or violate your rights. We can not give people any rights that we do not have ourselves. Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If something is wrong for you to do, it should also be wrong for government to do. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it.
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE:
The great government lie is that it exists for the good of its victims. To obscure the truth, governments go to great lengths with propaganda intended to change the way we think and thus how we act. The greatest measure of what governments are capable of with propaganda is how much they have convinced us to identify with them so that anyone who challenges their power is seen as an enemy of the people. The most potent weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
A government that violates your rights and commits theft, extortion, and violence, is a criminal organization. Once people realize that. They can rid themselves of the belief that they have an obligation to obey government. Then you can have free people who can decide for themselves what they can do.
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
FREE PEOPLE ARE ARMED PEOPLE:
Free people have the right to defend themselves, slaves do not have rights.
Free people who allow themselves to be unarmed will not remain free for long.
Unarmed people, can only flee from evil. And evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM:
There will always be criminals who try to violate our freedom. To remain free we have to defend our freedom. That is the price of freedom.
VOLUNTARISM:
Interactions between people should be voluntary and free of force, fraud, and threats.
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. 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 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.
VIOLATION OF FREEDOM:
A violation of freedom is an attack on a person by harming them, stealing from them, threatening them, or violating there individual rights.
INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS:
- The right to liberty - I can do what I want, as long as I do not violate the freedom of others.
- The right to self-defense - I can defend myself, my property, and my individual rights.
- The right to own and carry weapons - So I have the ability to defend myself, my property, and my rights.
- The right to self-ownership - I own myself. No one can claim even partial ownership over me without violating my freedom.
- The right to free speech - I can communicate my opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship.
- The right to privacy - No one has the right to violate my privacy.
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 government power came from the consent of the governed. That government could not tax us without our consent. That the main purpose of government was to help secure our individual rights. 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.
LAWS SHOULD NOT VIOLATE OUR RIGHTS:
In 1776, Americans overthrew the government for violating there individual rights.
If we have the right to do something and the law says you can't do it, we still have the right to do it. If the government says we can't do it, we still have the right to do it.
You have no moral obligation to obey a law.
You have a moral obligation to honor and recognize the individual rights of every human being that lives on this planet. No matter what the law says.
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 individual rights. When you accept that you are liberated.
NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT:
- No one has the right to rob me.
- No one has the right to harm me.
- No one has the right to threaten me.
- No one has the right to violate my rights.
- No one has the right to violate my freedom.
DECLARATION OF FREEDOM:
- All people are born free, created equal, and have individual rights.
- Interactions between people should be voluntary and free of force, fraud, and threats.
- We never have an obligation to let anyone violate our freedom.
- We never have an obligation to let anyone commit aggression against us.
FREEDOM OR TYRANNY:
If people live their lives and do not infringe on the rights of others, we have no need for government at all. Sure people will say "but without government who would ....". That is like saying, "if we free the slaves, where would they live and what would they do for a living?" Would they be better off out from under the slave masters yoke and determine that later. If you always say "who would ...", you will never attain true freedom. Freedom is scary as it is uncertain. I'll take uncertainty and self-determination over government tyranny any day.
VOTE FOR FREEDOM:
Vote for freedom by not electing anyone to rule and rob you.
People can seek leaders for themselves but they have no right to force rulers on me. No one has the right to violate my freedom.
People can pay taxes if they want but they have no right to force taxes on me. No one has the right to rob me.
I own myself. I can live my life and spend my money as I see fit.
