1.)
Government is unnecessary - Quotes with sources
To
say that society requires the state amounts to saying that human
social life depends on granting some men the power to kill and enslave
others, rather than on freedom, love, cooperation, and production.
By this logic, the Soviet Union should have been the most prosperous
of societies. But it was just the opposite. Ruling with uninbibited
terror, it killed, enslaved, and improversished millions, never
producing so much as a new egg-beater or can opener. Force is the
mortal enemy of creation. (Joseph
Sobran - The Law Of Force)
Government
is a fraud; it does not protect life and property, on the contrary,
it destroys life and protects robbery. Rich men quarrel and their
governments compel the poor man to do the fighting, where hundreds
and thousands are slaughtered. Is that protecting life? Rich men
steal the earth and make the poor man pay tribute for the privilege
of living upon it, and the government enforces the claim of the
robbers. Is that protecting property? (Jay Fox – Mother Earth,
November 1907) in (Charles
Bufe - The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations, pg 32)
The
problem is not that we have 'the wrong people in power,' but the
fact that the power exists in the first place. As long as the State
remains in place as it is, war, whether military or social, will
continue to be its prime means of expansion, and taxes will continue
to be its reason for being and the means to wage these wars. (Francois
Tremblay - Disengage!)
The
'shepherds of men' are always economically - and usually politically
- superfluous and therefore parasitic. From the economic standpoint
they have become a non-productive ruling class maintained by the
labour of a productive population which would be better off economically
if they were not there. (Arnold
J. Toynbee - A Study of History, Vol 1. pg 206)
The
state is not the foundation of society, it is not the source of
our security, it does not bring about prosperity, and it does not
protect us. Government instead stands outside of society and lives
off its proceeds, and does so for its own benefit and not that of
society. (Lew
Rockwell - The Self-Regulating Economy)
The
most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to
think things out for himself. Almost inevitably he comes to the
conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane
and intolerable. (H.L.
Mencken - A Mencken Chrestomathy, pg 145)
All
government, all violence and all laws are methods of forcing you
to yield money or motive without your permission. If these were
things that truly provided benefit to you, then you would do them
willingly. Welfare and public good cannot be served by extortion.
Only the owner of work can rightfully decide where that work is
redeemed. All else is thievery. All claims of need and public good
that are not met by free will are lies.
(Jeremy
Locke - The End of All Evil, pgs 40, 72)
The
government hoax is probably the oldest, most pervasive and stubborn
of hoaxes. It’s the belief in non-existent "states"
and "nations" and that "government" is both
legitimate and necessary. What exactly is "government?"
While there are varying degrees, "government" is one man
violently controlling the life and property of another man. The
government hoax is that "government," a racket, is legitimate
and necessary. That’s absurd. Maybe if you believe a service
should be provided at the barrel of a gun then yes, you’d
think "government" is legitimate and necessary. If the
service men and women doing business as a pretended "state"
is so valuable, then people will voluntarily accept and pay for
it. (Marc
Stevens - The Government Hoax)
The
great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State, is to leap
from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State. (Murray
N. Rothbard - The Ethics of Liberty)
In
the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis
of poverty and ignorance. In a world where people's needs are met,
and they have the resources to educate themselves, they would sooner
or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and
they would sweep it away.... War is a purely internal affair. It
is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the
object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory,
but to keep the structure of society intact. (George
Orwell - 1984, Chapter 9)
The
US government no longer makes any pretense of representing the people.
Governments at all levels continually pass legislation which is
directly opposed to the best interest of the citizens and which
is detrimental to the welfare of our nation. ... Government has
never been a friend to mankind. The same old tactics of exploitation,
deception, war, taxes and tyranny now represent what Washington
officially calls domestic and foreign policy. ... Government interference
will never solve the problems of of poverty, inflation, crime, poor
education, etc. It only multiplies them. (June
Grem - The Money Manipulators, pg. 11, 12, 14)
I
once defined 'government' as 'a system of murder, rape, extortion,
coercion, theft, intimidation, and terror, the absence of which,
it is said, 'would lead to disorder.' If you doubt this characterization
then confront these hard facts: during the 20th century, governments
managed to kill 200 million men, women, and children in wars, genocides,
and other acts of formalized violence. During that same century,
how many people were killed by individuals acting without political
authority? (Butler
Shaffer - The Individual and the Collective)
Contrary
to Marxist mythology, it is not the entrepreneurs who exploit their
workers. Rather, it is the occupants of the state -- those who most
vocally claim to work for the public good -- who actually live exploitatively
and parasitically at the expense of others. The higher the state
revenue, the better off the parasites are and/or the more parasites
there are. (Hans
Herman Hoppe - Democracy: The God that Failed, Preface)
A
society becomes totalitarian when its structures become flagrantly
artificial; that is, when its ruling class has lost its function
but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. (George
Orwell - The Orwell Reader, pg 374)
The
governments of our day have become what Herzen so well called "Ghenghis
Khan with the telegraph;" that is to say, organizations of
violence based on no principle but the grossest tyranny, and at
the same time taking advantage of all the means invented by science
for the peaceful collective social activity of free and equal men
to enslave and oppress. (Tolstoy
– The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chp 8)
A
change of public officials amounts to nothing. One goes out, another
comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagance are
pursued. It means nothing who is the official, the defect lies in
the system.The foundation and superstructure of government is bad.
Prop it as you please, it continually sinks into court government,
and ever will. (The
Thomas Paine Reader, pg 354)
The
fact that there is no objective reality to “government”
in no way interferes with the demand for easy money, so scam artists,
thugs and lawyers line up to pretend to be “government”
for the deluded. It fails miserably to do what people think it is
supposed to do, winning wars about half the time, and only because
the enemy is another “government,” meanwhile squandering
the resources trying to correct every imaginable evil with little
or no positive results. In fact, more folks are beginning to figure
out that this entity “government” really causes more
problems than solves. The reason people are baffled by this seemingly
inexplicable behavior of “government” is because it
is in reality a gang. If we viewed the President, Congress, Supreme
Court, and all the subsidiary agencies like the FBI, IRS, BATF and
EPA as a large crime gang, we would hardly be surprised by its actions.
Most of the things done by “government” are absurd when
“government” means “the force for good.”
They make perfect sense when we realize it’s really a gang.
(Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 6)
Things
in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it. (Will
Rogers)
The
history of the state is the history of human oppression. The deeper
the state with its countless agencies penetrates into the spheres
of activity of social life, the more inevitably will the world become
a vast prison in which at last there will be no breath of freedom.
(Rudolf
Rocker - Nationalism and Culture)
Government
interference always means either violent action or the threat of
such action. The essential feature of government is the enforcement
of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are
asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for
more compulsion and less freedom. (Ludwig
von Mises - Human Action, pg 715)
Endless
volumes have been written, and countless lives been sacrificed in
an effort to prove that one form of government is better than another;
but few seem seriously to have considered the proposition that all
government rests on violence and force, is sustained by soldiers,
policemen and courts, and is contrary to the idea peace and order
which make for the happiness and progress of the human race. Authority
has the same effect on human nature whether in an absolute monarchy
or a democracy, and the tendency of authority is ever to enlarge
its bounds and to encroach upon the natural rights of those who
have no power to protect themselves. The possession of authority
and arbitrary power ever tends to tyranny (Clarence
Darrow - Resist Not Evil)
Government
is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental.
It is the difference between making love and being raped, between
working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service
is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets
and puts you behind bars if you don't pay. (Thomas
Sowell - Barbarians Inside the Gates, pg 31)
Wherever
there has been direct personal contact between populations, however
hostile they were to each other, the main concern of their governments
has not been to prevent massacres, but to prevent fraternisation.
(Alex
Comfort - Writings Against Power and Death, pg 149)
Every
institution, religious, political, financial, judicial, and so on
is corrupted by the fact that the men in it either belong to the
propertied class themselves, or must sell themselves to it in order
to live. All the purchasing power that is left to buy men’s
souls after their bodies are fed is in the hands of the rich. Naturally
they use their power to steal more money to continue paying the
piper; and thus all society becomes a huge conspiracy. (George Bernard
Shaw - The Impossibility of Anarchism) in (Charles
Bufe - The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations, pg 37)
By
questioning and challenging the statist fraud concepts - by exposing
the territorial criminals as fraudulent impostors and by ridiculing
them instead of taking them seriously - you withdraw power from
the territorial criminals. "Government" is a fraud word;
its' a large figment of people's imagination, collectivist thinking.
All there is individual human beings. (Frederick
Mann - The Nature of Government)
I
see the power game resting on three levels of force and fraud. First,
earliest and still most powerful is the government racket itself,
the monopoly on force (military power, police power, etc.) which
allows the governing group to take tribute (taxation) from the enslaved
or deluded masses. Second, derivative from this primordial conquest,
is the landlord racket, the mammalian monopoly on territory which
allow's the king's relations (lords-of-the-land) or their successors,
today's "land-lords," to take tribute (rent) from those
who live within the territory. Rent is the daughter of taxation;
the second degree of the same racket. Third, the latest in historical
time, is the usury racket, the monopoly on the issue of currency
which allows the money lords to take tribute (interest) on the creation
of money or credit, and on the continuous circulation of the money
or credit every step of the way. Interest is the son of rent, the
rent of money. Since most people engaged in nefarious practices
are, in my opinion, very loathe to acknowledge what they are doing,
and are addicted to the same hypocrisies as the rest of humanity,
I think all power groups quite sincerely believe that what they
are doing is proper, and that anybody who attacks them is a revolutionary
nut. (Robert Anton
Wilson, interview)
You,
who cannot conceive of order without a whole apparatus of legislators,
prosecutors, attorneys-general, custom house officers, policemen,
you have never known what real order is! What you call unity and
centralization is nothing but perpetual chaos, serving as a basis
for endless tyranny; it is the advancing of the chaotic condition
of social forces as an argument for despotism – a despotism
which is really the cause of the chaos. (Pierre-Joseph
Proudhon – The General Idea Of The Revolution in the 19th
Century)
2.)
A leader is unnecessary - Quotes with sources
Who
are these rulers without whose aid the evil and corrupt would destroy
and subvert the defenceless and the weak? From the earliest time
these self-appointed rulers have been conspicuous for all those
vices that they so persistently charge to the common people whose
rapacity, cruelty and lawlessness they so bravely curb. The history
of the past and present alike proves beyond a doubt that if there
is, or ever was any large class, from whom society needed to be
saved, it is those same rulers who have been placed in absolute
charge of the lives and destinies of their fellow men. From the
early kings who, with blood-red hands, forbade their subjects to
kill their fellow men, to the modern legislator, who with the bribe
money in his pocket, still makes bribery a crime, these rulers have
ever made laws not to govern themselves but to enforce obedience
on their serfs.
The purpose of this autocratic power has ever been the same. In
the early tribe the chief took the land and the fruits of the earth,
and parceled them amongst his retainers who helped preserve his
strength. Every government since then has used its power to divide
the earth amongst the favored few and by force and violence to keep
the toiling, patient, suffering millions from any portion of the
common bounties of the world. (Clarence
Darrow - Resist Not Evil)
What
is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the
blood and treasure of the human race. (Thomas
Sowell)
It
doesn't matter whether the coercive individuals or groups identify
themselves as bandits, Mafia, Church, party, government, chief,
Pharaoh, king, high priest or president. If they initiate force,
they are all simply criminals, regardless of their aliases and pretensions.
(Jarret
Wollstein - Society without coercion)
What
this country needs are more unemployed politicians. – (Edward
Langley)
What
we were asked to worship , what had once been dressed as God or
king, is the naked, mindless figure of the human incompetent. They
are counting on you to work and feed them while you last. Their
plan (like all the plans of all the royal looters of the past) is
only that the loot shall last their lifetime. (Ayn
Rand - Atlas Shrugged, pg 683)
What
is called the splendor of a throne is no other than the corruption
of the state, It is made up of a band of parasites, living in luxurious
indolence, out of the public taxes. It is always the ruler's interest
to defend inferior abuses; it is the master-fraud, which shelters
all others. (The
Thomas Paine Reader, pg 302)
The
American people believe than they have no real control over government.
What they do not realize that the politicians have no real control,
either. Most representatives and senators believe that they operate
in a political system in which any serious attempts at change produce
instant, well-organized opposition from the small minority who are
hurt by the change. And it is these minorities who really run Washington.
(Fareed
Zakaria - The Future of Freedom, pg 177)
A
professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In
order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises
and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable
from a streetwalker. (H.
L. Mencken)
At
all times and in all places, they had found the secret of living
in peace in the midst of the chaos they created, in safety under
the despotism they favored, in idleness amidst the industry they
preached, and in abundance while surrounded with scarcity; and all
this by carrying on the singular trade of selling words and gestures
to credulous people, who purchase them as commodities of the greatest
value. (C.
F. Volney - The Ruins, pg 194)
Man
will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest. (Denis
Diderot)
Politics
divide people all over the world and billions take it seriously
when political office is the almost exclusive bastion of the corrupt,
stupid and myopic. It's not a matter of who we should vote for,
but why we should even bother when the system is so blatantly rigged.
(David
Icke - Infinite Love Is the Only Truth)
The
rulers of the states are the most criminal group in a respective
population. With a limitation of their power their criminality tends
to decrease; but it still remains exceptionally high in all nations
(Pitirim A. Sorokin)
When
will politicians quit insulting us by implying that we and they
are the same, despite their incompetence, thievery, murder, lies,
and corruption? (Becky
Akers - The Ford Fiasco)
Hitler
was TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year in 1938. Stalin was TIME Magazine's
Man Of The Year for 1939 and 1942, and the Ayatollah Khomeini was
TIME Magazine's Man Of The Year in 1979. George W. Bush was TIME
Magazine's Man Of The Year in 2004. (Nicole
Maestri)
The
grim results of the Bush-Rove vote fraud and the capitulation of
the Kerry campaign was ... Bush was no president, but an illegitimate
ruler - a lawless usurper leading a rogue state, a bandit regime.
The "political capital" which Bush claimed he had earned
in this post-election press conference was counterfeit. His alleged
mandate was as worthless as a rubber check. (Webster
Griffin Tarpley - 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, 4th Ed., pg
438)
We
have a political executive who promotes lying, cheating, stealing,
torture, and murder. I fail to see any substantial difference between
this one and all of those who preceded him, although this one is
more obvious. We have a secretive elite that manipulates the political
process for its own purposes, which as always means trying to enslave
the masses to enrich the elite. The state is bankrupt, as usual.
So far we could still be living in 1790; today’s political
system differs only in size, not in substance. (Robert
Klassen - The Glass)
The
superficial distinctions of Fascism, Bolshevism, Hitlerism are the
concern of journalists; the serious student of history sees in them
only the one root-idea of a complete conversion to state power (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State, pgs 10-11)
Nazism
has been justly called an attack on civilization. This characterization
applies with equal force to every form of coercive authority. The
State, ecclesiastical and secular, served to give an appearance
of legality and right to the wrong done by the few to the many.
(Emma
Goldman – The Place Of Individual In Society)
Liberty
has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from
the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
(The
Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 25, p. 124)
No
attempt or pretence, unless possibly the pretence of a "Divine
Right" embodied so much of shameless absurdity, falsehood,
impudence, robbery, usurpation, tyranny, and villainy of every kind,
as the attempt or pretence of establishing a government by consent,
and getting the actual consent of only so many as may be necessary
to keep the rest in subjection by force. Such a government is a
mere conspiracy of the strong against the weak. Their consent is
presumed! As well might the highwayman pretend to justify himself
by presuming that the traveler consents to part with his money.
As well might the assassin justify himself by simply presuming that
his victim consents to part with his life. (Lysander
Spooner – No Treason, Chp. XI)
A
socialist state monopoly economy and a capitalist interest-based
private money monopoly will both concentrate the power into the
hands of a small, undemocratic elite. Freedom will remain an utopia
as long as its proponents do not create equal financial opportunities
for everyone. (John
Drabik - Usury Civilization II - pg. 345, 408)
If
voting could change the system, it would be illegal. (Theodore Adorno)
The
political ballot box stands for willingness to be ruled by somebody
other than yourself. – (Alvin
Lowi, Jr.)
The
little stickers that read 'I voted' -- worn so proudly by those
wishing to confirm their allegiance to the system that is destroying
their lives -- reminds me of the 'kick me' signs teenagers used
to tape onto the backs of their fellow students. (Butler
Shaffer - A Rational Choice for Nov 2nd)
Voting
for the right thing is doing nothing for it. A wise man will not
leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through
the power of the majority. (Henry
David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience)
The
belief in “government” is, in fact, a religion, with
all the same structure of any other superstition dedicated to the
worship of a supreme entity that has no basis in reality. It has
a pope (president / prime minister), councils (congress / parliament)
tithing (taxes), commandments (laws), sects (political parties),
heretics (anarchists), protestant reformers (libertarians), a devil
(any foreign bogeyman or dictator), catechism (party platform),
doctrine (ideology), rituals (voting), prayer (pledge of allegiance,
loyalty oaths), crusades (wars to make the world safe for “democracy”)
and blind faith. One of the really loony ideas that sprouts from
all this religion is “majority rule”. If majority rules,
then no one would be president, since no one got the most votes.
22% of all eligible voters is a minority that can be only considered
the “will of the people” by someone who combines LSD
and Tequila. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pgs 70-71, 73)
In
every US presidential election since 1920 non-voters have outnumbered
those who voted for the winning candidates, often by a large margin.
(The ratio was close to or more than 2:1 in six of those elections,
including the ones in 1920, 1924, and 1948). (Russ
Kick - Everything You Know Is Wrong, pg 336)
When
politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up
being allocated to politics.(P.J.
O'Rourke)
Ideology
offers a great insight into a society if you know how to approach
it. Most people commit the mistake of studying its tenets. Tenets
are just false advertising. A better approach is to study ideology
like murder: who benefited? Which small group filled its pockets
using some or other ideology as a justification for crime? History
and the evening news will make suddenly a lot more sense. Ideology
exists to justify crime. (George
Cordell - Quiz: Are you the devil?)
It
is very important for the Establishment to maintain the historic
pretension that the common enemy is not at home, and that disasters
of economics or war are unfortunate errors of tragic accidents only,
to be corrected by the members of the same club that brought the
disasters. (Howard
Zinn - People's History of the United States, pg 620)
The
modern liberal state often uses deception. Not so much of the foreign
enemy (which, after all, has little faith in its adversaries), but
of its own citizens who have been taught to trust their leaders....
I want my readers to think twice about our traditional heroes, to
reexamine what we cherish and what we ignore (human consequences).
I want them to think about how easily we accept conquest and murder.
Consider how much attention is given in historical writing to wars
and battles and consider how little attention is given to antiwar
movements and to those who struggled against the idiocy of war.
(Howard
Zinn - Declarations of Independence, pgs 13, 47, 50)
I
am unable to accept the idea that I should be an obedient subject
of a gang of corrupt, unprincipled thugs who pontificate about freedom
while enslaving the population. (John
Pugsley, writer)
The
Communists only pretended to be atheists, bit in reality substituted
a different pantheon of gods (their leadership) under a different
set of mystical beliefs, replacing the myth of God with the myth
of state. (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pg 142)
Since
the state operates on the same principle (violence) regardless of
the theoretical system, it doesn’t matter whether people call
it monarchy, democracy or communism. The crappy result is always
the same blind faith in “government.” . (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 99)
Democratic
State practice is nothing more or less than State practice. It does
not differ from Marxist State practice, Fascist State practice,
or any other. Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the
first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: you get the
same order of criminality from any State to which you give power
to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things
for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.
A citizenry which has learned that one short lesson has but little
more left to learn. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our enemy, the state)
Much
of "modern" human culture is based on deception. Some
preachers use deception to obtain tithes from their prey - in return
for promises of "paradise". Most politicians use deception
to obtain "taxes" from their prey - in return for promises
of "welfare", etc. These modern predators live by consuming
the values produced by his or their victims, giving little more
than promises in return. (Frederick
Mann - The Nature of Government)
A
tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler
whom they consider godfearing and pious. On the other hand, they
do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods
on his side. (Aristotle)
When
one side "protects" the other from depredations emanating
from itself, this is only "protection" in the Mafia or
protection-racket sense of that term. It is, to be crystal clear,
not protection at all but rather invasion or theft. (Hans-Hermann
Hoppe - The Myth of National Defense, pg 329)
Graft
in the old days was not merely a fringe benefit for the police;
it was for patrolman and chief alike a cardinal value by which they
measured their livelihood. At the higher level there was a well-established
bureaucracy handling payoffs received from two sources: legitimate
business, for "nonharrassment"; and organized crime for
protection. Graft made it possible for New York's vast criminal
society to flourish and for the police to profit in millions of
dollars. "it was a charge rarely denied that our police captains
are in collusion with the keepers of dance houses of every sort.
They receive from these, stipends larger than their yearly salaries."
The system proved impervious to reform movements. (Otto
Bettmann - The Good Old Days--They Were Terrible!, pgs 96-102)
Street
crimes are a smoke screen behind which far more deadly, costly,
and serious crimes take place. By any measure of harm, the crimes
of police, politicians, the state, and corporations far outstrip
the ordinary crimes of the poor. (William
J. Chambliss - Power, Politics, and Crime, pg 155)
Like
other instruments of the power structure, the mass media imparts
a message of enormous value to those at the top of our society:
that the greatest danger to the average citizen comes from below
him on the economic ladder, not from above. (Jeffrey R. Heiman)
in (Norman
Solomon - Unreliable Sources, pg 242)
Many
people still cling to the idea that the main function of the State
is to maintain Equal Freedom, an idea which has already been exploded,
by showing that the State is the greatest violator of the law -
in other words, the greatest criminal. (Francis
Dashwood Tandy - Voluntary Socialism, Chp. 5)
To
read more about the inherent criminality of the state (a.k.a. government),
visit the page
on state criminality.
The United States,
from the day of its first European colonization, went 235 years
without even having a single professional police force. The first
full-time, professional police force in the entire world wasn't
formed until 1829, after thousands of years of civilization. If
cops are so vital, why did it take so long to invent them? Has "public
safety" improved since government sent a uniformed callss of
professional enforcers onto our city streets? (Claire
Wolfe - Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet), pg 36)
To
be blunt, the government's protection is largely fraudulent. Officials
pretend to protect citizens and to promote social harmony while
actually accomplishing the opposite. (Robert
Higgs - Against Leviathan, pg 16)
Governments,
justifying their existence on the ground that they ensure a certain
kind of safety to their subjects, are like the Calabrian robber
who collected a regular tax from all who wished to travel in safety
along the highways. (Leo
Tolstoy – The Slavery Of Our Times)
As
Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the
State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only
to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. Looking at any state, at
any point in history, one sees no way to differentiate the activities
of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of
a professional criminal class. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State, pg 22)
At
no other time in American History were there so many law enforcement
agencies and officials to counteract the greatly exaggerated and
falsely perceived threats from criminal elements. Per population,
not only did the United States have the highest number of law enforcement
officers, it also had the highest ratio, for all countries, of its
population imprisoned. To defend this prefabrication to the American
Public, greater criminal statistics needed to be produced that would
show an increasing crime wave. They were. Politicians relished this
fact since they could harangue their constituents to vote for them
because they would protect the public. In essence the only criminal
conspiracy here was against the American Public, the taxpayers who
were funding redundant law enforcement activities. In the meanwhile,
white collar criminals were making billions of dollars in ill-gotten
gains. These perpetrators included high-ranking government officials
and business leaders and the Mafia. (Rodney
Stich - FBI, CIA, the Mob, and Treachery, pg 427-428)
Police
officers enforce laws to impose the system's will and defend it
from challenge. They don't primarily serve the people, they serve
the system, with honorable exceptions. (David
Icke - Infinite Love Is the Only Truth)
The
Los Angeles Organized Crime Intelligence Division kept no files
on organized crime at the time of detective Mike Rothmiller's resignation,
but did target liberal activists for surveillance, spied on police
in rival departments, harassed opponents of former chief Daryl Gates
and performed local services for the CIA. (Alex
Constantine - Virtual Government, pg 204)
Narcotics,
the police say, is the driving force behind roughly 75 percent of
robberies, burglaries and acts of prostitution. (Connie
Fletcher - What Cops Know, pg 177)
To see who brings them in, visit our
page on governmental drug smuggling.
We
purchase the “protection” of the state with our freedom
and do not realize that it is this “protection” which
makes a hell of our life, while only freedom can endow it with dignity
and strength. (Rudolf
Rocker - Nationalism and Culture)
No
state Attorney General had been able to provide a single example
of a concealed-weapon licensee getting convicted of a violent gun
crime - a record far better than that of any major Missouri law
enforcement body. (Self-Defense Laws and Violent Crime Rates in
the United States) in (John
Ross - Unintended Consequences)
An
unexpected challenge like the (Washington DC) sniper catches the
state unprepared and exposes its real nature. Its legitimacy rests
on its claim that it protects us from crime, but its own activities
are essentially criminal. It claims a monopoly of force, but now
a competitor is denying that monopoly and it is helpless. (Joseph
Sobran - The Law Of Force)
The
result of believing in “government” is that not only
is the state robbing you regularly, and dragging you into a new
war with every successive administration, you still have to deal
with the lone serial killers and robbers, because believing in “government”
doesn’t stop them. Good job. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 10)
I’m
still waiting for an answer, why worry if everyone gave up on “government”
there would be no one to protect our rights. There is no one to
protect your rights now, other that you. The most likely person
in your life to threaten your rights is someone working for “government.”
. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 216)
Gun
toters are safer than cops. The LAPD by its own admission perpetrates
more violent crimes than do permit holders in North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia combined. (Brad
Edmonds - Gun Toters Are Safer Than Cops)
5.)
Military Protection is a fraud - Quotes with sources
It
is generally supposed that governments strengthen their forces only
to defend the state from other states, in oblivion of the fact that
armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments
from their own oppressed and enslaved subjects. (Leo
Tolstoy - The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Chp 7)
It
is a simple truth that there is no reason to use force against people
unless you are trying to steal something from them. (Jeremy
Locke - Worthless Paper Promises)
The
amount of rubbish and humbug that pass under the name of patriotism
in wartime in all countries is sufficient to make decent people
blush when they are subsequently disillusioned. (Arthur
Ponsonsby - Falsehood in Wartime)
Those
that insist that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were a threat
that justified invasion are in essence claiming that the US Government
took $5 trillion of your money (over $17,000 from each of you alive
today) in a gigantic swindle, because the $5 trillion nuclear deterrent
isn't a deterrent after all, nobody is really afraid of it, because
they all know it was just a hoax to soak the American taxpayer.
(Michael
Rivero - What The Heck Is This Stuff?)
The
power of massive armaments is a huge fake; one of the great hoaxes
of the 20th century. We have seen heavily armed tyrants flee before
masses of citizenry galvanizer by a moral goal. Recall those TV
images of Somoza scurrying to his private plane in Managua; or the
Marcoses quickly assembling their suitcases and fleeing from the
Philippines; of the Shah of Iran desperately searching for somebody
to take him in; of Duvalier barely managing to put on his pants
before escaping the fury of the Haitian people. The possession to
10,000 thermonuclear weapons by the US did not change the fact that
it was helpless to stop the revolutions in Cuba and Nicaragua and
that is was defeated in Korea and Vietnam. The possession of an
equal number of bombs by the Soviet Union did not prevent its forced
withdrawal from Afghanistan, and its loss of control of Poland to
Solidarity. (Howard
Zinn - Declarations of Independence, pg 233)
Over
the years, the CIA would run an estimated 3,000 major and 10,000
minor operations that would result in the death of over 6 million
people in the Third World. (John
Stockwell - The Praetorian Guard)
Lying
is part of the job description at the CIA, where falsehoods are
regularly peddled to allies, the press, other federal agencies and
Congress. “We’d go down and lie to them consistently,”
says former CIA officer Ralph McGehee. “In my 25 years, I
have never seen the agency tell the truth to a Congressional committee.”
(Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout, pg 110)
The
root myth that enables the State to wax fat off war is the canard
that war is a defense by the State of its subjects. The facts, of
course, are precisely the reverse... For which categories of crime
does the State pursue and punish most intensely – those against
private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in
the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of person
and property, but dangers to its own contentment. All this evidence
demonstrates that the State is far more interested in preserving
its own power than in defending the rights of private citizens.
(Murray
Rothbard - War, Peace and the State)
Justifying
conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most
bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the
risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes
no sense. (Congressman
Ron Paul - The Crime Of Conscription)
The
US arms industry, and US policies on the selling and granting of
arms world-wide, are in fact a direct US commitment to repression,
genocide, and terrorism sponsored by one big state: the US. (Robert
Steele commenting on Noam Chomsky "Hegemony of Survival")
In
reviewing the history of the government of England, its wars and
taxes, a bystander not blinded by prejudice or interest would declare
that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were
raised to carry on taxes. Every war terminates with an addition
of taxes, and consequently with an addition of revenue. To establish
any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to nations,
would be to take from government the most lucrative of its branches.
(The
Thomas Paine Reader, pgs 225-226, 261)
The
General Accounting Office concluded in 1993 that the Pentagon systematically
lied to Congress throughout the 80's in order to justify the budget-busting
arms buildup (Tom
Tomorrow - Tune In Tomorrow, pg 83)
The
much-discussed "missile gap" of the early 1960 turned
out to be a hoax, as the New York Times finally acknowledged a quarter
of century later. "The charge was untrue," the Times Times
editorialized about allegations that the US lagged far behind the
Soviet arsenal. "At the time of hte missile crisis, the United
States had 2,000 long range missiles, the Soviet Union less than
100." Later came "the ABM gap." "The hard-target-kill
gap." "the spending gap" and "the laser gap."
As a result, U.S. taxpayers were hoodwinked. (Martin
A Lee, Norman Solomon - Unreliable Sources, pg 106)
At
the party there was an active three star general who was talking
about moving his fraud money to Corsica. This is the type of scam
that’s been done for years. It’s called the Old Double-Inventory-Whammo-Scam,
and it’s often done against the Department of Defense. The
general is doing it with his clique of ten confederates. Some are
in DoD Procurement. Some are in DoD Inventory Control. Some are
in DoD Payment and Disbursement. And some are in DoD Audit. He was
bragging about it, “We just committed this scam last week.
It cost $40,000 and it netted $2.5 million.” He said his end
was $250,000 and it just got wired to his off-shore account. The
scam is relatively simple, they are reselling back to the Department
of Defense items that the DoD already owns. They go through the
massive DoD inventory list. They look for some esoteric part. The
guy on the inside simply deletes it from the computer. He doesn’t
leave a paper trail pretending it was sold to some other company.
It’s just erased. … DoD’s own auditors say, the
Department cannot account for $2.3 trillion transactions in one
year alone. (Uri
Dowbenko – On The Take)
The
Cold War helped both superpowers entrench their military-bureaucratic
ruling class in power, compelling their populations to subsidize
high-tech industry. Each government controlled its primary enemy
- its own population - by terrifying it with the (real) crimes of
the other. (Noam
Chomsky - What Uncle Sam Really Wants, pg 80)
We
were told that the FAA was providing security on planes, but it
turns out that the FAA was preventing it from being provided. We
were told that the military would protect US cities, but they couldn't
even protect their headquarters. We were told that a vast intelligence
apparatus kept a watchful eye on terrorists, but the large group
involved in this attack (9/11) either went unnoticed or was ignored.
We were told that US foreign policy was designed to deter aggression,
but it turns out to inspire it. (Lew
Rockwell - Speak The Truth)
The
casualty rate for the first Gulf War was close to 31% due to the
exposure of the 696,778 veterans serving there being exposed to
depleted uranium rounds and other toxic conditions *of our own making*,
with 262,586 of these consequently falling ill and being *officially*
declared to be disabled by the Veteran's Administration. (Chalmers
Johnson - The Sorrows of Empire, pgs 100-101)
There
were 13 deliberate releases of radioactive material over US and
Canadian cities between 1948 and 1952 to study fallout patterns
and the decay of radioactive particles. In Hanford, Washington,
the Atomic Energy Commission engaged in the largest intentional
release of radioactive chemicals to date in December 1949. The test
did not involve a nuclear explosion but the emission of thousands
of curies of radioactive iodine in a plume that extended hundreds
of miles south and west as far as Seattle, Portland and the California
– Oregon border, irradiating hundreds of thousands of people.
So far from being alerted to the test at the time, the civilian
population learned of it only in the late 1970s, although there
had been persistent suspicions because of the clusters of thyroid
cancers occurring among the communities downwind.7 the National
Cancer Institute found that millions of American children had been
exposed to high levels of radioactive iodine known to cause thyroid
cancer. Most of this exposure was due to drinking milk contaminated
with fallout from the above-ground nuclear testing carried out between
1951 and 1962. The institute conservatively estimated that this
was enough radiation to cause 50,000 thyroid cancers. The total
releases of radiation were estimated to be ten times larger that
those released by the explosion in the Soviet Chernobyl reactor
in 1986. (Alexander
Cockburn - Whiteout, pgs 156, 159)
The
world's most effective peacemaking force is not even run by the
United Nations government but by Executive Outcome, a private South
African mercenary company, that restored, for example, relative
stability in Sierra Leone in late 1995. (Bernard
Lietaer - The Future of Money, pg 97)
Peace
and justice in the world comes only from the tireless efforts of
the common citizen. The mighty Sovet arsenal did not prevent the
break-up of the Soviet Union. The tanks of Ferdinand Marcos and
Nicolae Ceaucescu could not hold back the demands of Filipinos and
Romanians for freedom. (John
Pilger - Hidden Agendas, pg 14)
The
chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute.
The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That’s
easy: 100 per cent. (Joseph
Sobran - All We Like Sheep)
6.)
The government can't make you prosperous - Quotes with sources
Professor
Murray N. Rothbard's "Power and Market: Government and the
Economy" (Insitute for Humane Studies 1970) enumerates and
analyzes the effects of almost every conceivable kind of government
intervention in the market, and finds that not one of them can impove
the human condition. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State, pg 104)
What
role did authority or government play in human endeavor for betterment,
in invention and discovery? None whatever, or at least none that
was helpful. It has always been the indivitual that has accomplished
every miracle in that sphere, usually in spite of the prohibition,
persecution and interference by authority. (Emma
Goldman – The Place Of Individual In Society)
By
its own (IRS) guidelines, the government would have to show a profit
3 years out of 5 to qualify as a business. It preaches about all
the prosperity it can create, if you just give it half of your income
now. Run its gospel through the time-proven “if it were really
so all-mighty, would it need my money?” dogma detector, and
it flunks. Look how of most ancient lowlands settlements, only the
the stone palaces of rulers and gods, two sales fronts of empty
prosperity promises survive. The commoners who exchanged good cash
for lofty promises there, invariably couldn’t afford rocks
for their own dwellings. (George
Cordell - A noxious religion)
There
is no other choice: government either abstains from limited interference
with the market forces, or it assumes total control over production.
Any attempt at creating a "middle of the road" between
a pure free market economy and a completely planned economy must
ultimately fail, because the problems created by the original interventions
will continuously create disturbances in the markets and necessitate
still more intervention. The monetary authority's attempt to manipulate
market rates of interest to overcome trade slumps creates an outcome
that tends to induce further destabilizing and futile interventions.
(P.
Kurrild-Klitgaard - The Dynamics of Intervention, pgs 6, 23)
The
complete workings of the boom-bust cycle are the inflationary injection
of bank credit, fostered by government; a boom marked by malinvestments
caused by inflation; the end of inflation revealing these unfortunate
malinvestments; and finally, the depression as the correction by
the free market of the wastes and distortions of the boom.
(Murray N. Rothbard - Why The Business Cycle Happens)
Do
you believe in Santa Claus? By the time most of us stop believing
in a literal Santa Claus, we are well on our way to believing in
a figurative one that goes by the name welfare state, or government.
Have trouble feeding your family? Santa State can help. Need affordable
housing? Welfare Santa to the rescue. The sooner you give up on
the idea that you can get something for nothing and learn to make
it on your own, the better off you'll be. (Steve
Buckstein - Do You Believe In Santa Claus?)
One
of the enduring myths of the "Third Way" welfare state
is that a nation as a whole can have a high standard of living -
even if no one really has to work - as long as government transfers
massive amounts of wealth from those who are well off. Welfare
states are destructive at their roots. Wealth transfer inhibits
economic growth, not increases it, for it penalizes entrepreneurs
for being successful. The more government impedes the creation
of wealth, the less of it will be created. People who are on the
margins are the first to be hurt. Thus, the welfare state actually
makes the poor worse off in the long run. (William
Anderson - Sweden: Poorer Than You Think)
Politicians
lie to the electorate because they fear that they will lose the
elections if they speak the truth. Hence they acquiesce to "living
in the lie" the big lie that the state is Santa Claus. A corrupt
electorate gets the politicians it deserves. Most politicians are
liars, especially if they have been around for some time, because
it is almost impossible to survive in politics without lying. The
welfare state corrupts the voters, the voters in turn corrupt the
politicians, and the politicians corrupt the voters even more by
maintaining the welfare state. It is a vicious circle, which can
only be broken when the welfare state collapses under its own inherent
deficiencies. This will happen as soon as the money runs out.
(Paul Belien
- Communism Killed 100 Million People and All I Got Was This Lousy
Democracy)
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