From one day to the next, North America is disappearing. Even to me, it sometimes seems to be the same place in which I grew up because everything is so familiar. But the political and institutional framework that supported rights and enabled peaceful individuals to simply live their lives is gone. Freedom of speech has been replaced by political correctness. Privacy is non-existent even for the most personal of communications. Due process has been gutted by an administration that executes Americans without trial and promotes torture. The militarized police are indistinguishable from regular armed forces who occupy their own nation as though it were a conquered one. The school system is a blatant propaganda machine with buildings that look like penitentiaries. Rights have become state-granted privileges with the basic human right to travel becoming more restrictive at every step. Institutions either work to maintain freedom or to establish tyranny. Why? Because human beings are not born good or evil; they are born with a capacity for both. Social institutions exert a powerful influence on which tendency prevails. Those who fear that human nature is prone to evil often argue that state control is necessary to ensure a peaceful society. But the state causes the worst aspects of man to flourish because it richly rewards the criminal within man while discouraging whats peaceful and harmonious. The state is a thief and an arrogant bully who is given free rein to steal from productive people and punish anyone for the slightest disobedience of unreasonable laws, even for having a disobedient attitude. The state becomes a legitimized vehicle for criminals to impose organized force upon a society that would otherwise function through trade or other voluntary exchange. dollarvigilante/blog/2013/10/28/the-unbearable-lightness-of-leaving.html#6061
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:50:23 +0000