7.)
The government actually transfers your resources to its cronies -
Quotes with sources
A
few years ago, Money magazine estimated that each household pays
nearly $1,600 per year for legislation benefiting corporations and
the wealthy - purchased by our system of privately financed campaigns.
(Micah
L. Sifry - Is That a Politician in Your Pocket?, pg 19)
The
money lenders stand ready at all times to lend money in unlimited
amounts to those robbers and murderers who call themselves governments,
to be expended in shooting down those who do not submit quietly
to being robbed and enslaved. (Lysander
Spooner - No Treason, Chp 18)
1929
Wall Street interests send Hitler $10,000,000.
1931 Wall Street sends Hiltler another $15,000,000.
1933 Wall Street Sends Hitler a final $7,000,000. (total $32,000,000.)
1933 Wall Street puts up initial $3,000,000, backed by another reserve
$15,000,000, for the Plot to Seize the White House. Up to $300,000,000
backing is promised.
JP Morgan was Mussolini's banker for over $500,000,000 and heavily
invested in fascist Japan by 1931. JP Morgan has over $3,000,000,000
invested in Germany by 1931. (Lion
Kuntz)
These
so-called presidents, senators, and representatives, these pretended
agents of all "the people of the United States," the moment
their exactions meet with any formidable resistance from any portion
of "the people" themselves, are obliged, like their co-robbers
and murderers in Europe, to fly at once to the lenders of blood
money, for the means to sustain their power. And they borrow their
money on the same principle, and for the same purpose, to be expended
in shooting down all those "people of the United States"
--- their own constituents and principals, as they profess to call
them --- who resist the robberies and enslavements. Perhaps the
facts were never made more evident that these soulless blood-money
loan-mongers are the real rulers; that they rule from the most sordid
and mercenary motives; that the ostensible government, the presidents,
senators, and representatives, so called, are merely their tools.
(Lysander
Spooner – No Treason, Chp 19)
The
European Union's executive branch is composed entirely of unelected
bankers. Political policies are made there and then handed down
to the politicians for implementation. Europe represents the future
of government - a government of the bankers, by the bankers and
for the bankers. (Cliff
Ford - Blood, Money, & Greed, pg 126)
"Fascism",
Mussolini said, "should more properly be called corporatism,
since it is the merger of state and corporate power." (Steve
Brouwer - Robbing Us Blind, pg 160)
Major
corporations such as General Motors, IBM, Standard Oil and ITT kept
doing business with the Nazis throughout WW2 through their foreign
subsidaries. (Steve
Brouwer - Robbing Us Blind, pg 154)
Monetary
policy is - aside from war - the primary tool of state aggrandizement.
It ensures the growth of government, finances deficits, rewards
special interests, and fixes elections. Without it, the federal
leviathan would collapse. (Lew
Rockwell - What Has Government Done To Our Money?)
To
read more about the criminal nature of our fiat money system, visit
this chapter.
Governments
serve only their own interests and those of an American corporate
oligarchy, similar to that which ruled Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany
and still rules certain Central and South American countries or
China; they represent illegitimate, usurped authority of a corporate-fascist
state. (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pgs 224-225)
The
so-called communist states are in reality corporate states. In Societ
Russia the corporations were composed only of the members of the
Communist Party. In America, the party is replaced by "public
corporations". The US government's real bosses are not "the
people" any more than those of the Soviet bureaucracy. (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pg 225)
The
greatest threat to the central banks and their underlings - which
control basic mineral resources, refineries, chemicals, pharmaceuticals,
and public utilities and other public cartels fueled by these -
is the development of autonomous home-generated power systems. The
courts insure the cartels against such threats. Corporate-state
power rests on control of primary resources, insured by judicial
suppression of threatening technology, thus artificially maintaining
our dependency. (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pg 226)
8.)
The government actually creates wars to maintain its power - Quotes
with sources
Without
war, no government has ever been able to obtain acquiescence in
its "legitimacy" or right to rule its society. The possibility
of war provides the sense of external necessity without which no
government can long remain in power. This historical record reveals
one instance after another where the failure of a regime to maintain
the credibility of a war threat led to its dissolution, by the forces
of private interest, of reactions to social injustice, or of other
disintegrative elements. The organization of society for the possibility
of war is its principal political stabilizer... It has enabled societies
to maintain necessary class distinctions, and it has insured the
subordination of citizens to the state... War is now a purely internal
affair... waged by each ruling group against its own subjects. The
object of war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory,
but to keep the structure of society intact. (Edward
Griffin - The Creature from Jekyll Island, pg 517-518, 558)
Every
government explains its existence and justifies all its violence
on the ground that if it were not there things would be worse. Having
convinced the people that they are in danger, the governments dominate
them. And when the peoples are dominated by governments, the latter
compel them to attach each other. And in this way a belief in the
governments’ assurance of the danger of attacks by other nations
is confirmed among the peoples. (Leo
Tolstoy - Christianity and Patriotism)
When
the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty,
and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring
up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
And in order that they may become poor by having to pay taxes and
stick to their daily round and be less likely to plot against him.
(Plato, 347 BC) in (Great
Dialogues of Plato, pg 366)
Every
time the US has gone to war, pretext incidents have been used. Upon
later examination, the conventional perception of these events is
always challenged and eventually exposed as untrue. (Richard
Sanders - How To Start A War)
John
Quigley, an authority on international law, examines around thirty
cases, beginning with the Korean War and ending with Iraq, where
the United States has used force. In each instance, he shows, the
administration's account has been blatantly false. (John
Quigley - The Ruses for War)
I
could only sit in startled silence as Cordell Hull told me Japan
was going to attack Pearl Harbor within a few days, and pulled from
his inside coat pocket a transcript of Japanese radio intercepts
detailing the plan. Recovering from my shock, I began to question
him. "Does the President know the Japs are going to attack
Pearl Harbor?" "Of course he does. He's fully aware of
the plans. So is Hoover at the FBI. Roosevelt and I got into a terrible
arrgument, but he refuses to do anything about it. He wants us in
this war, and an attack in Hawaii will give him just the opportunity."
(Joseph
Leib - Explosive Truth About Pearl Harbor)
Shortly
before the (Pearl Harbor) attack in 1941, President Roosevelt advised
my father of a pending attack on Pearl Harbor, by the Japanese.
FDR anticipated many casualties and much loss; he instructed my
father to send workers and supplies to a holding area. When my father
protested to the president, President Roosevelt told him that the
American people would never agree to enter the war in Europe unless
they were attack[ed] within their own borders. (Helen
E. Hamman)
Frank
Knox, the secretary of the Navy, Admiral Harold R. Stark, and General
George C. Marshall spent most of that night in the White House with
Roosevelt awaiting the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the chance for
America to join World War II. (Richardson,
Fisher - The Bombing of Pearl Harbor)
"
I could give you the names of 25 people (all of whom are at this
moment within a five-block radius of this office) who, if you had
exiled them to a desert island a year and a half ago, the Iraq war
would not have happened." (Thomas Friedman) in (Ari
Shavit - White Man's Burden)
It
is high time that we tried our own war criminals or history will
rightly and justly condemn us to permanent hatred and contempt.
War will liberate nobody from anything. If we cooperate with it
in any shape or form, we'll place ourselves in the hands of men
as devoted to the commission of unlimited and purposeless crime
as were the Nazis. (Alex
Comfort - Writings Against Power and Death, pgs 49, 137-138)
Wars
are essentially conducted by governments against their own people
– with "others" being held up as fear-objects around
which to enlist the obedience and submission of their own citizenry.
(Butler
Shaffer - Your Papers, Please)
In
all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments,
the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people,
to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. (Leo
Tolstoy - Spiritual Writings, pg 190)
In
a late 1984 meeting, Oliver North gave an extensive speech about
the Orpheus Operation, and how monies were being diverted from narcotics
operations to rebuild various Civilian Inmate Labor Facilities.
North, Casey, Zumwalt and others felt if Iran-Contra fell apart
early and everything spilled out publicly, it would have been necessary
to insitute a silent coup against the Government of the United States.
Orpheus went to the point, where if liability could not be controlled,
it would be necessary for Casey, North and George Bush to potentially
launch an outright coup d'etat against the government of the United
States. It was envisioned that George Bush would become acting President
of the new Provisional Military Government of the United States.
The pretext was going to be a limited nuclear exchange with the
Soviet Union, in cooperation with certain hardline elements within
the Soviet military. North said it would comprise 50 to 70 million
American casualties. It was a very extensive briefing in detail,
how these operations would have proceeded in every phase; Gorbachev
would have been overthrown. The hardliners would have come in. The
Soviets would have suffered just as many casualties. This was not
simply the United States and the Soviet Union. Some of our allies,
as North had mentioned, had also been consulted about this. The
Thatcher government and the Kohl government were also going to become
a part of this, because they had exactly the same concerns. This
involved the long-term post-war cooperation between deep right-wing
elements within our allied governments. (Al
Martin - The Conspirators, pg 337-341)
Since
governments themselves commonly simulate, stimulate or even fabricate
threats of external war and since the repressive and extractive
activities of governments often constitute the largest current threats
to the livelihoods of their own citizens, many governments operate
in essentially the same way as racketeers... In our own time, the
analogy between war making and state making on the one hand and
organized crime on the other is becoming tragically apt. (Charles
Tilly - War Making and State Making as Organized Crime)
9.)
The government actually manufactures acts of terror to legitimize
its power - Quotes with sources
Attorney
Stanley Hilton has sued President George W Bush for involvement
in the terrors attacks on 11 September 2001. He represents hundreds
of the families of the victims of 9/11. On 10 September 2004 Stanley
Hilton told the following on radio: "Bush personally signed
the order. He is guilty of treason and mass murder. Bush and Rice
and Cheney and Mueller and Rumsfeld and Tenet were all involved.
We have some very incriminating documents as well as eye-witnesses,
that Bush personally ordrered this event to happen in order to gain
political advantage" (Juri
Lina - Architects of Deception, pg. 548)
The
British government has been caught in multiple examples of carrying
out bombings in London which were then blamed on the IRA. They even
had one of their own MI5 agents wihin the Omagh bomb squad. Click
here
for an archive of this evidence. (Alex
Jones - London Underground Bombing...)
The
bombing in Bolognia was part of a CIA operation code named Gladio,
where the US government would pay right-wing terrorists to carry
out bombings to be blamed on leftists in Europe. All of this was
blown wide open when two of the Bolognia bombers were convited in
an Italian court, forcing them to spill their guts admitting that
they were neo-fascists contracted by the CIA. (Alex
Jones - London Underground Bombing...)
It
was discovered in 1990 that Italy had an underground organization
called Gladio, organized by NATO and controlled and financed by
the CIA, which was linked to acts of terrorism within the country.
Large-scale right-wing terror started in 1969 when in Milan the
“Piazza Fontana massacre” killed 16 and maimed and wounded
80. The terror was wrongly blamed on the Communists and the extreme
left, traces were covered up and arrests followed immediately. In
1974 another bomb exploded in Brescia in the midst of an anti-fascist
demonstration, killing eight and injuring and maiming 102, followed
by a terror attack in the same year on the Rome to Munich train
“Italicus Express”, killing 12 and injuring and maiming
48. On 2 August 1980 a massive explosion ripped through the waiting
room of the second class at the Bologna railway station, killing
85 people in the blast and seriously injuring and maiming a further
200. "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children,
innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game”
right-wing terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra later explained. “The
reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people,
the Italian public, to turn to the State to ask for greater security.
This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres and
the bombings which remain unpunished, because the State cannot convict
itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.” (Daniele
Ganser - Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact)
The
Madrid train bombers were found to be police informants with close
links to the Spanish security services. They had access to the most
secure areas of the Madrid train system. The Spanish government
initially tried to blaim the Basque group ETA for the blast in the
hope that the people would rally behind the government and get them
re-elected. After ETA denied involvement and the people started
saying the government was involved, the Spanish government had to
blame Al-Qaeda and kill some patsies by claiming they blew themselves
up during a raid. (Alex
Jones - London Underground Bombing...)
I
asked Upper Lieutenant Alexi Galkin if he had proof that the FSB
(Russian intelligence service) planted the bombs and killed their
own citizens in Moscow. Alexi wanted me to know that he was with
the men who carried out the bombings, but he had nothing to do with
planting the bombs. Both were members of the GRU / FSB. He was sent
to Chechnya to continue the same kind of sabotage that would be
blamed on the Chechens. (Robert
Young Pelton - Three Worlds Gone Mad, pg 188)
Mossad
agents were arrested by the Palestinian Authority for attempting
to set up a phony 'al Qaeda' terror cell in the Gaza Strip. Yasser
Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell in order to justify
military attacks on Palestinian areas. (Michael
Rivero - Fake Al Qaeda)
Agents
of an Israeli "terrorist" cell operating in Egypt planted
bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities,
then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the
culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians
to identify the bombers). Israel's Defense Minister was brought
down by the scandal, along with the entire Israeli government. (George
Washington - An Introduction to False Flag Terror)
The
plan Operation Northwoods which had the written approval of the
Chairman and every member of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, called
for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C.,
Miami and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did
not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all
of it would be blamed on Castro, this giving General Lemnitzer and
his cabal the excuse to launch their war. The plan may actually
have originated with President Eisenhower. It called for a war in
which many patriotic Americans and innocent Cubans would die senseless
deaths. Even senior Pentagon official Paul Nitze argued in favor
of provoking a phony war with Cuba. (James
Bamford - Body of Secrets, pgs 82-83, 90)
Francis
A. Boyle, an international law expert who worked under the first
Bush Administration as a bioweapons advisor in the 1980s, has said
that he is convinced the October 2001 anthrax attacks that killed
five people were perpetrated and covered up by the U.S. government.
The motive: to foment a police state by killing off and intimidating
opposition to post-9/11 legislation such as the USA PATRIOT Act
and the later Military Commissions Act. "The anthrax used was
a trillion spores per gram, refined with special electro-static
treatment. This is superweapons-grade anthrax that even the United
States government, in its openly proclaimed programs, had never
developed before. So it was obvious to me that this was from a U.S.
government lab. There is nowhere else you could have gotten that."
(David
Swanson - Anthrax Coverup: A Government Insider Speaks Out)
On
closer examination, "domestic terrorist" events do not
appear to be what they are made out to be. The FBI had an informant
inside the World Trade Tower bombers, Emad Salam, who offered to
sabotage the bomb. The FBI told him "no". The so-called
"hotbed" of white separatism at Elohim City, occasional
home to Tim McVeigh in the weeks prior to the Oklahoma City bombing,
was founded and is being run by an FBI informant! Is terrorism inside
the United States really from outside, or is it a stage managed
production, designed to cause Americans to believe they have no
choice but to surrender the Republic and accept the totalitarian
rule of a new emperor, or a new Fuhrer? (Michael
Rivero - Fake Terror, The Road To Dictatorship)
One
of the most controversial and least discussed aspects of Western
society is the notion that Western governments would be able to,
let alone actually, kill their own civilians.The sad truth is that
since World War II many Western nations have seen a long series
of state-sponsored terrorism-directed against its own citizens.
(Philip
Coppens - State-Sponsored Terror in the Western World)
The
CIA has helped to kill at least six million people since it was
founded in 1947. They are people without ICBMs or armies or navies,
incapable of doing physical damage to the US. A majority are rag-poor
peasants, including large numbers of women and children. Communists?
Hardly. Enemies of the United States? That description doesn't fit
either, because the thousands of witnesses who have lives in Nicaraguan
villages with the people since 1979 testify that the Nicaraguans
love people from the United States and they simply cannot understand
why our leaders would want to spend $1 billion on a contra force
designed to murder people, terrorize and wreck the country. (John
Stockwell - The Praetorian Guard, pgs 82-83)
Terrorism is authority attempting to teach people that freedom is anarchy, that freedom is to be feared. Terrorism has been used throughout history to coerce populations to yied their authority and governance to those hungry for power and lacking of conscience. Terrorism is proof of the pattern of liberty. It is precisely because tyrannical governments are afraid of losing the grip they have had over their peoples for so long that terrorism is a rising factor in the world. Evil is afraid. (Jeremy
Locke - The End of All Evil, pg 54)
Nothing
in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. (Marie
Curie)
10.)
Other fraudulent government "benefits" - Quotes
with sources
Governments
have long ago elaborated methods of supporting education, which
not only fail to prevent ignorance, but even increase it; methods
of aiming at freedom and constitutionalism, which are no hindrance
to despotism; methods of protecting the working classes, which will
not free them from slavery; and a Christianity, too, they have elaborated,
which does not destroy, but supports governments. (Tolstoy
– The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chp 6)
It
doesn't take much cynicism, in fact, to see that the bureaucrats
have a vested interest in not having problems solved. If the problems
did not exist (or had been invented), there would be no reason for
the bureaucrat to have a job. (William
Simon, former U.S Treasury Secretary)
Government
power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently,
economically or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction
arises over the work of the private sector, the aid of the agent
least qualified to give aid, the government is immediately called
for. When a bank runs into trouble - let the government, which has
never shown itself able to keep its own finances from sinking promptly
into the slough of abuse, waste and corruption, intervene to "supervise"
or "regulate" the whole banking industry, or even take
it over entirely. If a railway bungles some operation, let the government,
which has bungled every business it has ever undertaken, intervene,
and put its hand to the business of "regulating" railway
operation. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State, pgs 83-84)
It
has been estimated that out of every five people, three of them
must work extra to support the remaining two who are useless government
employees or dependents. (William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pg 228)
Only
stupid or gullible citizens believe that bureaucrats act in their
best interest. Why would bureaucrats, genotypes apparently incapable
of independent, creative or productive work, ever want a free market
system in which their only remaining means of survival would be
as uncreative and incompetent - although more honest - thieves?
(William
R. Lyne - Pentagon Aliens, pgs 230, 228)
From
age five, most children are exposed to a politician-controlled government
school system that continues for 13 years. The child's brain is
a captive of mankind's worst enemy on earth. Governments have destroyed
more property, confiscated more wealth, and ordered the murder of
more men women and children than any enemy. Government cannot be
trusted with the minds of our children. (Common
Sense II, pg 21)
In
government schools, the students' development is arrested, their
minds are set to respond to slogans as animals respond to a trainer's
whistle... They would obey anyone, they need a master, they need
to be told what to do. They are ready now to be used as cannon fodder
- to attack, to bomb, to burn to murder. (Ayn
Rand - The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution)
The
public school system? Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism
and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry,
twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority. (Walter
Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine)
A
lot of the educational system is designed for obedience and passivity.
From childhood, a lot of it is designed to prevent people from being
independent and creative. If you're independent-minded in school,
you're probably going to get in trouble very early on. That's not
the trait that's being preferred or cultivated. There are huge efforts
that do go into making people, to borrow Adam Smith's phrase, "as
stupid and ignorant as it's possible for a human being to be."
(Noam
Chomsky - Class Warfare, pgs 27, 30)
Public
schools are institutions of coercion. Students are coerced to attend
them. Parents are coerced to pay for them. (Gary
Reed - The Pledge of a Grievance)
(Health
care) - At the present time, more than 24000 pharmaceutical products
are available on the market, 98% of which have no proven therapeutic
effect. Physicians today realize that after five and half years
of training, they have not learnt a single method of restoring health.
Side effects of medicines are the fourth leading cause of death
in the United States - 140,000 deaths each year. (Jiri
Lina - Architects of Deception, pg. 533-534)
According
to carefully researched statistics, cancer patients who did not
receive surgery, chemotherapy or radiation have a greater life expectancy
than the ones who receive treatment by about four times. (Dr.
Harlan Jones - A Report on Cancer)
During
a 29-day physicians' strike in Israel in 1973, the national death
rate dropped by nearly 50 percent. (Hans
Ruesch - Naked Empress, pg 13)
Medical
deaths per year: 12,000 from unnecessary surgery, 7,000 from medication
errors in hospitals, 20,000 from other errors in hospitals, 80,000
from infections in hospitals, and 106,000 from negative effects
of drugs. These total to 250,000 deaths per year (Dr.
Barbara Starfield - Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death
in the US)
11.)
What does all this government fraud cost us? - Quotes with
sources
Adjusting
for inflation, in the 81 years between the enactment of the income
tax in 1913 to 1994, government spending increased 13,592 percent!
(135 times) (Adam
Young - The Origin of the Income Tax)
The
federal government of US takes away between a fifth and a quarter
of all our money every year. This is eight times the Islamic zakat,
the almsgiving required of believers by the Koran; it is double
the tithe of the medieval church and twice the royal tribute that
the prophet Samuel warned the Israelites against, if they are to
elect a king. (P.
J. O'Rourke - Parliament of Whores, pg 3)
The
average family now pays 35.4 percent of its income to government.
Medieval serfs, by contrast only had to turn over one third of their
income to the lord of the manor. And they were considered slaves.
(Daniel
J. Mitchell)
The
cost of government employees is astronomical. Each federal civilian
employee costs us $80,000 in cash for salary, benefits and pension,
plus a collective half-trillion dollars in unfunded pensions. When
you add the government overhead of $115,000 per federal employee,
each employee costs the taxpayers $200,000 - between two and three
times the cost in private industry. (Martin
L. Gross - Tax Racket, pgs 16, 294)
The
yearly cost of street crime: $18 billion. The yearly cost of corporate
crime: $338 billion. The yearly cost of state crime (tax extortion):
$2500 billion. (Source
for statistic 1 & 2)(Source
for statistic 3)
12.)
The Solution - Quotes with sources
In
evolutionary perspective, the crisis we confront today is inextricably
the crises of the state as a predatory form of political organization,
born, nurtured and spread by the sword. It seems highly likely that
our kind will not survive the next century or even half-century
unless we transcend the state's insatiable demands for sovereignty
and hegemony. And the only way to do this may be very well be to
transcend the state itself. (Marvin
Harris - Our Kind, pg 500)
Kossuth
and the 1848 Hungarian uprising proved that if a self-conscious
society takes the money power in its own hand, it can launch a blossoming
economy without precious metal backing or high-interest loans from
any foreign power. His revolution was crushed by military might
only; its suppressor, General Haynau was related to the Rothschild
family. (John
Drabik - Usury Civilization II - pg. 301)
When
the criminal state can no longer bring terror and constraint upon
its subjects, it will cease to exist, for the state’s existence
hinges on mere smoke and mirrors. The state has no concrete existence
or form, but is in reality only a consolidation of men who claim
ultimate authority. (Jesse
Ogden - The Case Against The Criminal State)
Man's
true liberation, individual and collective, lies in his emancipation
from authority and from the belief in it. True civilization is to
be measured by the the extent to which the individual is free to
grow and expand unhindered by coercive authority. (Emma
Goldman – The Place of the Individual in Society)
In
seeing the state as a permanent fixture, Americans have become almost
as myopic as the Soviets were in that regard. Some believe if the
government didn’t build the roads, we would still have no
infrastructure. Similarly, some Soviets had a hard time figuring
out who would build cars, if not their government. Any government
activity that needs to be done can and would be done more efficiently
by entrepreneurs – at a profit. Actually, the inability to
understand how the world would work without government shows an
inability to understand how it works right now. What holds society
together isn’t the coercive power of the state. It’s
peer pressure and self interest. Few people would argue that the
reason diners do not stand on table tops, disrobe and create a scene
is because of some ordinance prohibiting it. The coercive power
of the state has almost no part in forming the glue holding society
together. (Doug
Casey – Imagine A World Without Government)
If
we wish to put an end to the systematic exploitation and enslavement
of people, we must confront the underlying premise upon which all
of this is grounded: that our lives belong to the state, to be consumed
in whatever manner and for whatever purpose state officials choose.
We must confront and move beyond the delusional thinking that a
responsible and meaningful life is to be found in participating
in coercive governmental undertakings. (Butler
Shaffer - The Slave Mentality)
The
age for the veneration of governments is more and more passing away.
And it is time for people to understand that governments not only
are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions,
in which a self-respecting, honest man cannot and must not take
part, and the advantages of which he cannot and should not enjoy.
And as soon as people clearly understand this, they will cease to
give the government soldiers and money. And as soon as a majority
of people ceases to do this the fraud which enslaves people will
be abolished. (Leo
Tolstoy - How Can Governments Be Abolished?)
Wisdom
is a property of groups. In most instances, groups are collectively
smarter than their individual members and often make more sensible
decisions. The fact that typcally the only group in a corporation
[or government] that decides on the biggest issues is a handful
of leaders is not an accident. Decision making is usually more an
exercise of power than an act of wisdom. (Rick
Levine - The Cluetrain Manifesto, pg 142)
Most
people have stopped listening for answers from above - from Big
Government, Big Business, Big Education, Big Media, Big Religion,
With few exceptions, the interlocking agendas of these monolithic
powers are utterly divorced from the constituencies, their interests
as remote from our daily lives as the court of King George was to
American colonies in 1776. And you know what happened then. Just
because you're not seeing a revolution - or what Hollywood has told
you a revolution ought to look like - doesn't mean there isn't one
going down. (Rick
Levine - The Cluetrain Manifesto, pgs 173, 177)
There
was a period, about 900 AD, when there was no empre, no state, and
no public authority in the West. The state disappeared yet society
continued. So also, religious and economic life continued. This
clearly showed that the state and society are not the same thing;
the society is the basic entity, and the state is a crowning, but
not essential cap to the social structure. This experience had revolutionary
effects. It was discovered that man can live without a state; that
economic life, religious life, law and private property can all
exist and function effectively without a state. (Carroll
Quigley - Tragedy & Hope, Unabridged Edition, pg 83)
Everything
which government can usefully add to that has been performed by
the common consent of society, without of government. For more than
two years since the beginning of the American war, and to a longer
period in several of the US states, there were no established forms
of government. The country was too occupied in defense to establish
new governments; yet during this interval, order and harmony were
preserved as inviolate as in any country in Europe. There is a natural
aptness in man, and more so in society, because it embraces a greater
variety of abilities and resources, to accomodate itself to whatever
situation it is in. The instant formal government is abolished,
society begins to act. A general association is taking place, and
common interest produces common security. So far it is from being
true, as had been pretended, that the abolition of any formal government
is the dissolution of society, that it acts by a contrary impulse,
and brings the latter the closer together. (The
Thomas Paine Reader, pg 267)
It
cannot be proved, as the champions of the state maintain, that the
destruction of government involves a social chaos, mutual spoliation
and murder, the destruction of all social institutions, and the
return of mankind to barbarism. (Tolstoy
– The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chp 10)
Do
humans have an unquenchable thrist for power that, in the absence
of a strong ruler, inevitably leads to a war of all against all?
To judge from surviving examples of bands and villages, for the
greater part of prehistory, our kind got along quite well without
so much as a paramount chief, let alone the all-powerful English
King whom Thomas Hobbes believed was needed for maintaining law
and order among his countrymen. (Marvin
Harris - Our Kind, pg 344)
Only
mutual aid and voluntary co-operation - not the omnipotent, all-devastating
State - can create the basis for a free individual and associational
life. (Peter
Kropotkin - Mutual Aid)
I
think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of
authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and
to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given,
they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the
scope of human freedom. (Noam
Chomsky, interview)
A
slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him (Ezra
Pound)
Men,
who, for reasons of their own choose to exercise their natural right
of dissolving their connection with the governments under which
they have lived no more commit the crime of treason than a man commits
treason when he chooses to leave a church, or any other voluntary
association, with which he has been connected. (Lysander
Spooner – No Treason, Chp. IV)
An
understanding of the concept (of anarchism) can be derived from
the Greek origins of the word (anarkhos) which meant 'without a
ruler.' It is this definition of the word that members of the political
power structure (i.e., your 'rulers') do not want you to consider.
(Butler
Shaffer - What Is Anarchy?)
Most
people when referring to anarchy or anarchists probably associate
that with revolution, violence, bombing, destruction, chaos, or
general disorder. The irony of that characterization is that it
more closely resembles the actions of “government” than
anything else. Anarchy, which in fact exists, is rather orderly.
Most of us lead routine, uneventful, civil lives. Man, contrary
to the popular belief, has introduced the concepts of civility,
tolerance and understanding, among others. “Government”
had nothing to do with that. If anything, the belief in “government”
has hindered widespread acceptance of reason and sound judgment.
So you wind up with the institutionalizing of extortion in order
to prevent the occasional theft, sending your children overseas
to shoot strangers in order to prevent war, and writing laws to
preclude you having to develop sound judgment. How could anarchy
be any worse than what people call “government” today?
. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 185)
The
leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century,
is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but
a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade
and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into
the next century. What has happened around the world – nations
states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising
up against government masters – can and is happening here
at home. (Llewellyn
H. Rockwell, Jr., speech)
There
is a battle shaping up in the world – a battle between the
forces of archy – of statism, of political rule and authority
– and its only alternative – anarchy, the absence of
political rule. This battle is the necessary and logical consequence
of the battle between individualism and collectivism, between liberty
and the state, between freedom and slavery. We shall replace the
state with the free market, and men shall for the fist time in their
history be able to walk and live without fear of destruction being
unleashed upon them at any moment – especially the obscenity
of such destruction being unleashed by a looter armed with nuclear
weapons and nerve gases. We shall replace statism with voluntarism:
a society wherein all man's relationships with others are voluntary
and uncoerced. Where men are free to act according to their rational
self-interest, even if it means the establishment of competing agencies
of defense. (Roy
A. Childs, Jr. - An Open Letter To Ayn Rand)
And
now that the legislators and do gooders have futilely inflicted
so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should
have begun: May they reject all systems. And try liberty …
(Frederic
Bastiat - The Law, pgs 71-72)
Obviously,
governments should be abolished. No human institution has been so
pernicious, so harmful, so successful at producing misery, poverty,
and fear. Would that bring us heaven on earth? Of course not. We
would still have ambitious men, willing to succeed at our expense;
but they would no longer be able to hide behind the façade
of government, which legitimizes the use of force. Absent that justification,
they would be revealed for what they really are: brigands, thieves,
and con men. Their futures would include, not handsome retirement
benefits and honors, but tar and feathers, jail, and even shotguns.
(Paul Hein -
Original Sin)
What
would happen if we suddenly dismantled all forms of government and
law? If we abolished all threats and commands of politicians, there
would necessarily be a lot less extortion, racketeering, and killing
going on in the name of “democracy” and other religious
cults. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 20)
All
the evils the "authorities" imply you would face without
their existence tomorrow - poverty, crime, wars, terror - are fake.
The "authorities" create and sustain these, using our
money. (Example? Our taxes now fund the Fed’s drug trafficking,
which fuels 75% of all robberies, burglaries, etc… our tax
dollars at work, literally growing crime). Okay, but how about all
their good deeds, those welfare, retirement checks and subsidies
paid to millions? - one might ask. The recipients are not paid by
the government but by the productive economy whose two thirds of
the contributions the government diverted to itself for the last
30 years. Yes, in plain English it stole most of the poor people’s
money, not helped them. If there wasn’t a government to plunder
them tomorrow, both the recipients could get more money and the
economy would have to contribute less. (George
Cordell - The Words That Make You Free)
If
Canada and the United States can be separate nations without being
denounced as being in a state of impermissible 'anarchy,' why may
not the South secede from the United States? New York State from
the Union? New York City from the state? Why may not Manhattan secede?
Each neighborhood? Each block? Each house? Each person? But, of
course, if each person may secede from government, we have virtually
arrived at the purely free society, where defense is supplied along
with all other services by the free market and where the invasive
State has ceased to exist. (Murray
Rothbard - Defense Services on the Free Market)
Saying
“if you oppose government, you have an obligation to offer
something to replace it” assumes that “government”
is a net good thing to have. The belief results in a gang of lawyers,
thugs and con artists operating a protection racket that depends
of mass extortion. That’s not my idea of something good. It
would be as if I proposed to abolish rape and the authoritarians
demanded to know what I would replace it with. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg 122)
No
matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes
it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?"
When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? (Thomas
Sowell)
In
a stateless society there would be no regular, legalized channel
for crime and aggression, no government apparatus the control of
which provides a secure monopoly for invasion of person and property.
When a state exists, there does exist such a built-in channel, namely,
the coercive taxation power, and the compulsory monopoly of forcible
protection. (Murray
N. Rothbard - Defense Services on the Free Market)
Nothing
else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea
whose time has come. (Victor
Hugo)
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