Disposable
Governments treat their people as slaves, to be disposed of at convenience. The "better government" has only ever been defined by how much inconvenience they’ll suffer before disposing of a person. Never very much, even now.
People don’t like to hear the term "slaves", nor to hear politicians called "masters" - but we are slaves, and they are masters, nonetheless. Governments always treat us as slaves, to be disposed of at convenience. We all know the story of Stalin letting millions starve for his plans. We know what Pol Pot and Mao Tse-Dong did for their reforms. We learned as kids how evil Kings and cruel emperors would yell, "Off with his head", if a man glanced at him, etc.
But that’s only with "bad" governments, right? Wrong. It’s with all governments. In some cases, ours has endured more inconvenience then other governments, and not reacted as harshly. But always with the attitude of people being disposable, and always doing it to some extent.
For where are the Native Americans? Oh, but that was so long ago. Then what happened to the leader of the I.W.W. in the early 20th century? Yes, that’s right, he was killed by our government. So were many other suspected "anarchists" and "socialists", which right or wrong, had a right to think and speak.
What happened to the Japanese-Americans in World War II? Why were Native Alaskans pumped full of radioactive material by the government to see what would happen? Why all the young men drafted for all our wars? Why the Latter Day Saints forced to give up polygamy at bayonet point? Why 58,000 dead in Vietnam? Why 1,500 and rising dead in Iraq? Why a million and one different events, to great to list out, involving stealing, torturing, imprisoning, suspending rights, killing…and on and on and on?
Why, if not that we are disposable?
When even something as small and seemingly harmless as a new minimum wage law is enacted, it is known that some will be thrown out of work, so that the companies can afford to pay the new wage to the rest. The calculation involved is to wait until there are more voters who will benefit then voters who will lose. Then Timmy Frycook and Susan Assemblyworker are unemployed. Disposable, for the sake of the greater number of voters, which is to say, for the sake of our master in office. Must we live in a world where Susan must cry so you can have an extra buck?
Or can we treat people as people, and refuse to dispose of any?
Then we come to the police and courts that many minarchists and constitutionalists feel we need. These most definitely view us as disposable. There has never been a government yet that cared anything about crimes against the people, the way they actually do care about crimes against the masters.
As Henry David Thoreau pointed out, steal from a person and you will soon be through with your punishment, and be free again. Fail to pay your tax, and you will remain jailed until you do. Know that this still applies today.
For it is the case that you can declare bankruptcy and thereby defraud all companies that you owe - but you cannot be excused from back taxes or student loans or any other debt to the government. You may shoplift a $500 TV, and if a first offense get little more then probation. But if you owe $500 in taxes, the amount will skyrocket in fees and fines and penalties, assets will be seized, and you jailed, until it is all, and with interest to boot, paid. In no case will your failure to pay any tax at all be excused with you being on probation for a year. In no case can you save your house with a thirty day jail stay.
Kill my mother, and in many states it’s likely that life in prison is the maximum you may receive. Kill a government official, such as the Secretary of Agriculture, and it is a Federally mandated Death Penalty offense. Guess my mom’s life isn’t as valuable as the guy who stamps "Grade A" on my ground round.
Tell me I’m a bastard, and you hope someone kills me, and our masters smile and say, "Free Speech". Tell someone that the President is a bastard, and you hope someone kills him, and our masters frown and say, "Seize him" - and you are seized.
Every day in every way you see it. All through out history it has been proven. In no case is the government anything more then a master, in no case are you any thing else then a slave.
In all cases you are disposable.
Dean West
People don’t like to hear the term "slaves", nor to hear politicians called "masters" - but we are slaves, and they are masters, nonetheless. Governments always treat us as slaves, to be disposed of at convenience. We all know the story of Stalin letting millions starve for his plans. We know what Pol Pot and Mao Tse-Dong did for their reforms. We learned as kids how evil Kings and cruel emperors would yell, "Off with his head", if a man glanced at him, etc.
But that’s only with "bad" governments, right? Wrong. It’s with all governments. In some cases, ours has endured more inconvenience then other governments, and not reacted as harshly. But always with the attitude of people being disposable, and always doing it to some extent.
For where are the Native Americans? Oh, but that was so long ago. Then what happened to the leader of the I.W.W. in the early 20th century? Yes, that’s right, he was killed by our government. So were many other suspected "anarchists" and "socialists", which right or wrong, had a right to think and speak.
What happened to the Japanese-Americans in World War II? Why were Native Alaskans pumped full of radioactive material by the government to see what would happen? Why all the young men drafted for all our wars? Why the Latter Day Saints forced to give up polygamy at bayonet point? Why 58,000 dead in Vietnam? Why 1,500 and rising dead in Iraq? Why a million and one different events, to great to list out, involving stealing, torturing, imprisoning, suspending rights, killing…and on and on and on?
Why, if not that we are disposable?
When even something as small and seemingly harmless as a new minimum wage law is enacted, it is known that some will be thrown out of work, so that the companies can afford to pay the new wage to the rest. The calculation involved is to wait until there are more voters who will benefit then voters who will lose. Then Timmy Frycook and Susan Assemblyworker are unemployed. Disposable, for the sake of the greater number of voters, which is to say, for the sake of our master in office. Must we live in a world where Susan must cry so you can have an extra buck?
Or can we treat people as people, and refuse to dispose of any?
Then we come to the police and courts that many minarchists and constitutionalists feel we need. These most definitely view us as disposable. There has never been a government yet that cared anything about crimes against the people, the way they actually do care about crimes against the masters.
As Henry David Thoreau pointed out, steal from a person and you will soon be through with your punishment, and be free again. Fail to pay your tax, and you will remain jailed until you do. Know that this still applies today.
For it is the case that you can declare bankruptcy and thereby defraud all companies that you owe - but you cannot be excused from back taxes or student loans or any other debt to the government. You may shoplift a $500 TV, and if a first offense get little more then probation. But if you owe $500 in taxes, the amount will skyrocket in fees and fines and penalties, assets will be seized, and you jailed, until it is all, and with interest to boot, paid. In no case will your failure to pay any tax at all be excused with you being on probation for a year. In no case can you save your house with a thirty day jail stay.
Kill my mother, and in many states it’s likely that life in prison is the maximum you may receive. Kill a government official, such as the Secretary of Agriculture, and it is a Federally mandated Death Penalty offense. Guess my mom’s life isn’t as valuable as the guy who stamps "Grade A" on my ground round.
Tell me I’m a bastard, and you hope someone kills me, and our masters smile and say, "Free Speech". Tell someone that the President is a bastard, and you hope someone kills him, and our masters frown and say, "Seize him" - and you are seized.
Every day in every way you see it. All through out history it has been proven. In no case is the government anything more then a master, in no case are you any thing else then a slave.
In all cases you are disposable.
Dean West
posted by Dean West @ 12:35 AM
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At February 28, 2005 5:27 AM,
Richard said…
Book Review: How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World
by Michael Cloud
HOW I FOUND FREEDOM IN AN UNFREE WORLD: A Handbook for Personal Liberty By Harry Browne
LiamWorks Publishing: 387 pages, $24.95, hard cover. This 1997 edition contains a new Foreword and Afterword by Harry -- both written following his 1996 Libertarian presidential campaign.
Two Libertarian books changed my life -- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and How I found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne.
Ayn Rand and Harry Browne disturbed and perturbed me.
Ayn Rand shook me awake. Atlas Shrugged challenged me to question and re-examine everything I had ever believed.
Harry Browne invited me to confront how I really lived my life -- and the beliefs that prompted my choices and actions. How I found Freedom in an Unfree World doesn't just give you new freedom ideas -- it gets new freedom ideas out of you.
Franz Kafka said, " A book should be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us." How I found Freedom in an Unfree World is such a book.
It's a libertarian self-help book. You know what libertarian ideas and principles would do for our society and economy. In this book, Harry Browne shows you how to use libertarian ideas and principles in your personal, social, and business life to make yourself happier, richer, and freer than you ever dreamed possible.
Every business must run at a financial profit. Are you running all areas of your life at an emotional profit? Personal freedom can make it so.
Freedom is living your life the way you want to live it. But most libertarians are too busy complaining about government to take back their personal freedom.
In this book, Harry shows you how and why libertarian principles and ideas can help you reduce and remove many unchosen burdens, needless restrictions, fictitious duties and obligations, and unrewarding relationships -- not just in your dealings with government, but in every area of your personal, social, and business life.
This book shows you the 14 most common anti-freedom traps -- those unchallenged beliefs and assumptions that keep you from living your life the way you really want to live it.
It shows you how to apply free market and libertarian principles to your own life to become free. And it shows you how to get from where you are to where you really want to be in your life.
This book doesn't require you to "win friends and influence people" for liberty. It doesn't require you to convince others that you are right.
If you had the only copy of How I found Freedom in an Unfree World in the world, you could use it to break free. This book shows you fast, effective, direct alternatives that are entirely up to you.
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