The Rise of Statism...
October 29th 2009 16:11
President Bush and the Republican Congress expanded government more than any administration in history. They also laid the basic foundations for a future police state. Now, President Obama and the Democratic Congress have . . .
* Retained, and in some cases expanded, all the Bush-era policies -- the wars, the PATRIOT Act, warrantless spying, REAL ID, imprisonment without due process, extraordinary rendition, etc.
* Begun to extend the already existing foundations for a future socialist state with things like direct government ownership of businesses, the health care bill, cap and trade, and a host of other measures big and small.
Put the Bush and Obama policies together, sprinkle in a couple more terrorist attacks, and one or two more state-caused financial calamities, and you have a recipe for . . .
* The destruction of American liberty
* The blossoming of a Leviathan State
Read the signs . . .
We are living through a Statist revolution.
Statism is a mindset that prefers coercion to cooperation. Statists love the State because they are blind to its fundamental nature . . .
* The State is a monopoly that you cannot easily fire, replace, or even control
* Everything the State does relies on coercion
If you decide that . . .
* You don't want to pay for, or be subject to, the new health care plan, or that . . .
* You prefer to buy and sell using gold and silver instead of Federal Reserve Notes, or that . . .
* You want to do, or not do, a host of other things that the politicians either require or prohibit,
* Then eventually a policeman will come to your door and threaten you with a gun, to make you submit
People who advocate expansive State action are really saying, "I think you should be threatened with, or actually suffer violence, if you don't fund my pet schemes, or live the way I think you should."
Such people would never go door to door pointing a gun at their neighbors, but the second-hand mechanism of the State allows them to hide their eyes from the violence implicit in what they profess.
Our government was founded to limit this kind of coercion. The American State was given two main functions . . .
* To punish coercion committed by one citizen against another
* To deter coercion by foreign States
Beyond that, nearly the entire Constitution is devoted to prohibiting State violence. This was the purpose of the divisions of power, the checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights. But now those protections lie in tatters.
Everyone is trying to use the State to live at the expense of everyone else, or to micro-manage their neighbors. Our traditional culture of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and peaceful, non-violent cooperation, is slowly dying. We are nearing a point where it may even die completely, suddenly, when we least expect it. As a result . . .
I am prepared to predict the end of Statism.
The reason is simple. Statism doesn't work. The violence at its heart always . . .
* Destroys more than it creates
* Multiplies its victims, who become increasingly deperate enough to resist
Eventually the Police will point their guns at enough people and they will revolt and start making the necessary changes. You can help make those changes start today by contacting all your elected representatives and telling them you do not support Statism and if they truly represent you then they will stop spreading the government's control. Email them one day, call their offices the next and keep letting them know that you are watching what they do and what you want them to do to truly represent you.
* Retained, and in some cases expanded, all the Bush-era policies -- the wars, the PATRIOT Act, warrantless spying, REAL ID, imprisonment without due process, extraordinary rendition, etc.
* Begun to extend the already existing foundations for a future socialist state with things like direct government ownership of businesses, the health care bill, cap and trade, and a host of other measures big and small.
Put the Bush and Obama policies together, sprinkle in a couple more terrorist attacks, and one or two more state-caused financial calamities, and you have a recipe for . . .
* The destruction of American liberty
* The blossoming of a Leviathan State
Read the signs . . .
We are living through a Statist revolution.
Statism is a mindset that prefers coercion to cooperation. Statists love the State because they are blind to its fundamental nature . . .
* The State is a monopoly that you cannot easily fire, replace, or even control
* Everything the State does relies on coercion
If you decide that . . .
* You don't want to pay for, or be subject to, the new health care plan, or that . . .
* You prefer to buy and sell using gold and silver instead of Federal Reserve Notes, or that . . .
* You want to do, or not do, a host of other things that the politicians either require or prohibit,
* Then eventually a policeman will come to your door and threaten you with a gun, to make you submit
People who advocate expansive State action are really saying, "I think you should be threatened with, or actually suffer violence, if you don't fund my pet schemes, or live the way I think you should."
Such people would never go door to door pointing a gun at their neighbors, but the second-hand mechanism of the State allows them to hide their eyes from the violence implicit in what they profess.
Our government was founded to limit this kind of coercion. The American State was given two main functions . . .
* To punish coercion committed by one citizen against another
* To deter coercion by foreign States
Beyond that, nearly the entire Constitution is devoted to prohibiting State violence. This was the purpose of the divisions of power, the checks and balances, and the Bill of Rights. But now those protections lie in tatters.
Everyone is trying to use the State to live at the expense of everyone else, or to micro-manage their neighbors. Our traditional culture of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and peaceful, non-violent cooperation, is slowly dying. We are nearing a point where it may even die completely, suddenly, when we least expect it. As a result . . .
I am prepared to predict the end of Statism.
The reason is simple. Statism doesn't work. The violence at its heart always . . .
* Destroys more than it creates
* Multiplies its victims, who become increasingly deperate enough to resist
Eventually the Police will point their guns at enough people and they will revolt and start making the necessary changes. You can help make those changes start today by contacting all your elected representatives and telling them you do not support Statism and if they truly represent you then they will stop spreading the government's control. Email them one day, call their offices the next and keep letting them know that you are watching what they do and what you want them to do to truly represent you.
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