next step, martial law; 

 

“The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects. The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others and commit democide.”

~ Rudolph Rummel

This quote by Rudolph Rummel is accurate and on point, but it has one fatal flaw; that is that regardless of how constrained the power of governments, regardless if that power is diffused, so long as government exists, freedom cannot. I fully understand that most balk at this kind of statement, and immediately clamor on that government is a ‘necessary’ evil, but how can evil ever be ‘necessary?’ To claim that a dominant governing State is necessary for humans to exist, survive, and be free in an environment of harmony, is gross misinformation that exists for the sole purpose of mass propaganda, as the opposite is actually the case. All that is required is personal responsibility, free markets, self-defense, and non-aggression.

This kind of non-thinking that government has to have power over people, is troubling to say the least, as it is based upon the idea that mankind is not capable of self-governance, and therefore needs a keeper in order to police his behavior. What is completely ignored in this idiotic assessment, is that there is the expectation that choosing among the same humans who are thought to not be able to survive and live on their own, is totally opposite and contradictory to the initial ‘reasoning’ that governments are necessary because people have no ability to take care of themselves. How can one choose among the same humans who cannot be trusted to self-govern, and end up with legitimate government? That, I say, is impossible, and why I firmly believe the worst of all mankind are those politicians who seek to rule over all others............more...........