Guest Post by Eric Peters
I agree with Mencken, fundamentally.
Voting (as he put it) is basically an advance auction of stolen goods. Ideally – and I concede it may be impracticable given human nature – there would be no voting at all because there would be no government. Just rules stablished on the basis of individual self-ownership and the property rights which flow from that concept.
If we must have some government, then at the very least it must – somehow – be restrained from serving as a redistributor of property taken from those who who own it and handed over to those who voted to relieve them of it.
But how?
Ay, that’s the question!
One might attempt to restrict the power of government to a civil/criminal apparatus which adjudicates contract disputes and protects the individual and his property from aggression by holding accountable those who violate (cause harm to) either. This could funded by a voluntary subscription, which entitled the subscriber to these services.
Roads and such could be financed on the same basis.
No one is forced to fund anything. Pay as you go – and only for what you wish to pay for.
And then they would be services – in the proper meaning of that term. A true service is something you can say no to; that you can refuse, if you do not wish to use that service. When I call the guy who digs trenches to come dig a trench for me, that is a service.
We agree on a price; the service is performed satisfactory. I freely pay for the services I solicited.
No one else is forced to pay for them.
When I receive a letter from the county government claiming I “owe” $1,800 because I own a home in the county – a home I paid for 15 years ago – on the basis that the county is providing education for other people’s kids and so on, that is not a “service.”
It is extortion.
I am not using these services; I didn’t ask for them. But I will be thrown out of my own home – the one I paid for – if I fail to pay for these unwanted/unused “services.”
The problem is how to limit the natural (it seems) inclination of people to demand the kind of “services” government provides – by which they mean “services” they want but which they use government to make others pay for.
This gets us into moral rather than legal territory.
Laws forbidding the use of the ballot box as means of theft-by-proxy are probably not the solution, for the same reason that “reasonable” gun proscriptions are not the solution to the problem of violence committed with guns. Moral people do not use guns to commit acts of aggression irrespective of laws forbidding it.
But immoral people are not prevented by laws forbidding acts of aggression using a gun from committing them.
What’s needed, then, is recovery of the moral aversion to theft and the use of force to facilitate theft – rather than laws forbidding it.
Most people, of course, have been conditioned to euphemize theft as “taxes” – and thus blank-out their moral aversion to theft performed under that rubric. Language is critically important. Which is why language is used by immoral people to achieve their ends. They pervert language so as to make people who aren’t by nature bad people do bad things – or countenance bad things – by making those bad things seem (and sound) like not-bad things.
“It’s time to pay your taxes” sounds so much better than “give me your money – now.”
A “contribution” – that you’re obliged to pay and punished for not paying.
Your “fair share” – of other people’s property; which is to say, your fair share of those other people, since in order to obtain that “fair share,” those other people must be forcibly put to work as your servants, in order to produce that which you propose to relieve them of.
I think it was Franklin who wrote about a free republic being fit only for a moral people. He was right. The job, then, is not to advocate for new laws – or even for fewer laws – but rather for more morality.
To insist upon honest language – and to vigilantly call out euphemistic language.
This work must begin from the ground up, with children. They are already taught that it is wrong to steal. The task is to explain that stealing is always wrong as a matter of principle – and that it is wrong to call stealing something else.
That they own themselves, absolutely – but have not the slightest claim on anyone else. That they have the right, as owners of their own lives, to pursue happiness as they define . . . and a moral obligation to respect the right of others to pursue happiness as they define it.
To live – and let live.
That they are owed what they paid for – but that no one owes them anything who hasn’t incurred a debt to them or caused them harm in some way.
That rules based on property rights – which are based on the individual right of self-ownership – are morally valid; that laws which trample property rights affront the concept of individual self ownership and as such are indecencies and intolerable.
It’s all pretty simple, as most sound things usually are.
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Humans gonna human.
And THAT is the very reason why NO ONE should be given the unquestioned authority over anyone, for any reason…..PERIOD. Libertarians/anarchists, are the only ones who truly recognize the evil in man and thus give nobody special rights over anyone else. Everyone else likes to pretend that a government filled will evil men/women, will somehow be ok or better than those evil men/women acting alone or without legally-protected authority over others. How could that possibly ever be true?
“Libertarians/anarchists, are the only ones who truly recognize the evil in man…”
The Christian is the one who recognizes the evil in himself.
But these others are the only ones who recognize it well enough to understand that government cannot exist because of it.
But, but, … the point of government is to benefit the common good! Isn’t it?
A saying I heard frequently while growing up – “One man’s heaven is another man’s hell”.
A humble awareness that your bright idea may not be all that bright outside your circles.
Government should help in keeping the hellraisers out of everybody else’s business.
But, any government eventually gets taken over by the hellraisers.
Our FF had some sayings about that eventuality.
Why is the lure of free stuff the default of (most) vote seeking politicians, and who are these cretins so easily bribed?
The ones who don’t want to work for it, or take the risk that it might not show up in the way THEY DEMAND.
“No one is forced to fund anything. Pay as you go – and only for what you wish to pay for.”
a society which is reduced to atomized individuals who will pay only for the sole-shaped piece of pavement they personally step on won’t have roads. etc.
and it will be dominated by those who act as a tribe while insisting that everyone outside the tribe act as an atomized individual and accusing anyone else who tries to act in any coordinated common manner of being a “statist”.
Spare me theories how it might go … we already know what a train wreck the status quo has produced.
Actually, libertarianism is how the WASP elite got booted out of power by Jews, and for the exact reasons gman wrote. The WASP elite followed the rules, the Jews don’t.
Outside of an all-white ethnostate, libertarianism is suicide – because all the other ethnically based groups are going to devour each libertarian, one by one.
This isn’t an accident, either.
The Kosher Sandwich
The Kosher Sandwich is a piece of alt-right theory which does not receive nearly enough attention, and so will be extrapolated upon here. The basic idea of the Kosher Sandwich is that the Jewish elite have essentially sandwiched the two competing normie political options between two fundamentally Jewish ideologies.
If you go to the Left, you end up with communist anarchism and/or cultural Marxism, which are quite clearly Jewish ideologies which undermine traditional Western (white) nations and values. The bigger problem is that the “safe” alternative posed, the opposite end of the spectrum which is advocated by the Jewish elites to oppose Marxism, is simply the other side of the Jewish ideological coin: neoliberalism, individualism, and anarcho-capitalism.
It is no cohencidence that all the top intellectuals of the libertarian movement were Jewish (Rothbard, Rand, Friedman, Mises). Individualism is safe for the Jew, because it undermines white collectivism and white nationalism, and thus undermines the threat of collective white opposition to blatant Jewish ethnocentrism. Unfettered capitalism is safe for the Jew, because they can thrive in a “free market” by applying ethnocentric nepotism amongst a deracinated and rootless base population. Neoliberal, internationalist capitalism achieves the same destruction of race, family, and traditional morality sought by the Marxists, and is arguably even more effective in this regard than the Left. The white libertarians who value freedom and individualism above all else are contributing just as much to the destruction of white peoples, nations, and values, (if not more so) than the Marxist Left.
So the white normie is only offered two socially acceptable political positions: Jewish Marxism (which undermines white identity and values), or Jewish Neoliberalism/Libertarianism (which undermines white identity and values). It’s two sides of the same coin at the end of the day. And it is the fact that the normie views these two Jewish ideologies as the opposing ideological extremes which is the truly insidious yet clever trick played on the goy.
The alt-right offers the only true alternative to our modern clown world: Positive white identity, ethnic nationalism, traditional values, the family unit, cohesive communities, rejection of materialism (both capitalist consumerism and Marxist communism). In no other place will we find salvation.
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http://www.renegadetribune.com/dim-view-libertarian-movement/
“Kosher Sandwich”
never heard that, though I’ve suspected it since reading atlas shrugged by alisa rosenbaum. thank you.
“accusing anyone else who tries to act in any coordinated common manner of being a “statist” or a “counter-revolutionary”.
BS! Voluntary taxes such as gas taxes and excise taxes work perfectly well. The slave taxes such as income tax and property tax do not provide essential service, they provide slavery and dominance
Those “rules” were already discovered, documented, implemented and practiced – they were called the common law. Why was the common law mostly lost to history? Because people ignored the law which enabled the bar conspirators to build their “legal products” – formalized color of law. The bar conspirators never would have been successful if people generally didn’t ignore the law.
The common law describes all defineable concepts in law as simultaneous elements that must be present for the defined truth to actually exist. If knowledge of those elements that make a lawful concept and practice of this knowledge was pervasive by everyone then the current paradigm of legal crime (theft can be defined as taxes) would not and could not exist.
What most don’t realize about the common law is that it is NATURAL. Common law elements was derived from observation of natural disputes that arise between humans. The pattern common to types of disputes was recorded, categorized and then elements common to those types of disputes was extrapolated. The fact that common law is NATURAL means it is derived neural activity in how the human brain and body is actually wired for operation.
Mastering the categories, elements, names and rules for proving is real power -knowledge IS power. Power = the ability to do work, work is energy per time, the human body uses energy per time to actually perform movement. The common law being natural, derived from the bioelectrochemical sensing, processing and response system of the human body means that one can actually use the common law to generate a response from a human body that has processed received stimuli.
How does this all fit together? Observe the initiated action (s) of others to you, evaluate and inspect those actions for elements of a breach, seek corraboration – one way is to ask them, if possible, if their intent is aligned with each element – this is what cops do when interrogating someone. As soon as you have confirmation of each element then boom you have just obtained proof of a breach and valid cause for action to remedy the breach.
One thing I have found is that this process is so mechanical in nature in its format in the nueural formation and motor function of humans knowledgeable in law that one who has mastered the elements of breaches they can actually use the interrogation process against, cops, prosecutors and especially judges to get them to admit to felony criminal acts against you. Because the elements are natural the second one reveals to the perpetraitor the presence of the elements the result will be a predictable motor response from that human organism. Because they are committing multiple crimes, all the time, one can even predict (actually know) the type of resulting motor response based on the weight of the breach – perjury = twitch with sigh, practicing law from bench = shrug, perceived minor felony = scoff with full upper body movement, major felony = existing area temporarily or permanently, capital crime = exiting area without return.
I experimented with this over many years in the courts. It got so predictable that I would gather witnesses weeks to months before a court date, lay out the flow of dialogue based on a nodal if/then map and state the exact moment a the judge’s motor function would occur and what type of motor function would occur then I would bring those witnesses to the court and they would watch it unfold just as predicted.
Do you have any idea what this means? These experiments I conducted over a ten year period show that there is an actual difference between color if law and real law. Not just theoretical but physical reality based on how the neuron and neural nets function. I originally formulated the experiments based on extensive research into the common law and scuentific peer reviewed work that measured neuron electronic processing and the derived weighted sums format that is the root of all artificial intelligence programming.
After all of that extensive experimentation and proven hypothesis using the scientific method it became absolutely clear to me that all tyranny and slavery is based on consent – primarily one consenting to ignoring the law and consenting to giving up the protections of law through their ignorance of law.
Maybe now you can see why people look so dumb – it is old knowledge that was pervasive all throughout society and then people ignored it , then the bar conspirators saw the opportunity and like a true carpetbagger salesman convinced people that there color of law “legal products” (legal crime) is law – and the lawless amongst us believe them.
It goes much further than I convey here but think about that – the protections of law goes lightyears beyond the info above to an exact precise set of law based on the exact precision of the physicaly processing of a human body and pretty much all of you gave all that up for slavery to criminals.
At least in SC, if it’s a primary residence and don’t have children <18, you get a 40% cut in property taxes. But you get killed on commercial property taxes. Also, if you have acreage and designate it as "farmland", the tax rate approaches zero…literally.
The problem with libertarianism is that it is based on morals, and the United States is no longer a particularly moral country. The fact is, the principals of non-aggression, which is the basis of libertarianism, would cut off much of the welfare state, and the American people have become dependent upon the welfare state.
They would rather be comfortable well fed slaves, than to risk having to stand on their own feet and actually practice self determination.
We are now a country of cowards and frauds, trying desperately to keep a system which is deteriorating from the inside.
But any system NOT based on morals, is also immoral. So despite its problems, it is still the right target to shoot for.
We stopped shooting for the target of morality long long ago. Thats the truth. The target we shoot for now is something for nothing.