All government, of course, is against liberty.”
H.L. Mencken
In all of nature, man is the only living thing that purposely seeks rule and abandons self-governance. I see this as entirely foreign, and completely unnatural. This desire to be ruled, to be coddled, to be told how to act, regulated, and restricted is unique to the human animal. Why is it that the only entity known that is supposedly intellectually superior and has the ability to reason, surrenders independence in favor of dominance by a master? Why is self-responsibility forsaken for a life bound by slavery? Why do people voluntarily vote to choose their commanding ruler, king, and court?
This is a legitimate inquiry, because government, all government, depends completely on force. Government cannot exist without resorting to violence, theft, and murder. Therefore, government is evil, and government is the essence of terrorism against all under its totalitarian thumb. This is why nullification of most all so-called ‘laws’ is absolutely vital, and not just in the courts by juror nullification, but broad-based nullification of all unjust ‘laws,’ which of course are all that exist outside those of natural law.
Government and its henchmen consider any resistance and any individual dissent a crime against the State, this the exact same as Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, and of course now, Trump. This is backward of course, but reliance on propagating threats and fear is necessary by the State, so that a cowardly populace will obey their chosen masters. If a decent sized minority failed to comply with government at any level, that government would fail and fall apart in short order. There is just no way for the few to control hundreds of millions if they simply ignore and fail to acquiesce to this false authority, of which all government certainly qualifies.
This brings us to these current circumstances, all long-planned and now being implemented in order to quell the herd by division and fear. Withholding vital goods by stealth gives the appearance of actual shortages, but all these so-called ‘shortages’ are non-existent. There is no shortage of oil; in fact there are great surpluses, but they are being purposely withheld in order to drive great fear among this seemingly helpless proletariat herd. By intentionally making sure that the Strait of Hormuz and other passageways are blocked, this by the fake war in Iran, done intentionally, energy gluts become real. This of course is also devastating to farming, fertilizers, food production, markets, and causes extreme price inflation, all harmful to the masses only. Who controls the energy, food supply, and money controls the world, as has been posited for decades. Think of this situation as a coup, which is really nothing less than an intended false flag operation meant to bring about total control over all by resetting the monetary system in order to create a global multi-polar technocratic dictatorship.
The only reason all these things are happening is due to the fact that the people at large are not doing anything to stop it. In fact most are doing nothing, except relying on someone else to fix all the problems for them. I am constantly asked the insane question: “What is your solution, and what are you going to do to fix it. This seems to be the way of ‘modern’ man; indifferent, cowardly, dependent, irresponsible, groveling chattel.
This government is in the midst of wars around the world, all led of course by the U.S., Israel, and global technocrats, all working together to advance the same agendas of technocracy. We are constantly surveilled and monitored, monstrous data centers are going up everywhere, our data is captured and analyzed, our food, energy, and water stolen, our currency debased, and inflation is rampant, causing prices to explode. At the same time, AI is being shoved down out throats, biometrics are being mandated, digital ID is being implemented everywhere, ICE goons are targeting innocents nationwide, Flock cameras are going up by the thousands, and speaking out against this heinous government has become a crime, and in many cases has claimed many as targets of the State.
I cannot begin here to describe all of the evil being pursued by the ruling element of the technocratic dark state. Genocide, slaughter, torture, child molestation, depopulation efforts, democide, theft of assets, transhuman experimentation, and assisted ‘suicide,’ even of children. Land theft by government and its corporate partners, weather manipulation, atmospheric spraying of poisonous toxins and metals in the form of chemtrails, toxic ‘vaccines,’ fake pandemics, possible conscription, (slavery) and the list is endless. None of this could happen in a society based upon non-aggression, self-responsibility, self-defense, and true freedom.
As I stated in a few years ago:
The homily of obedience is beaten into the minds of the people by multiple deceptive means, and is an ongoing process that never sleeps. The effort to control societies is based on many methods of promoting service, (subservience) monetary or dependency enticement, nationalism, (worship of State) promotion of collectivism, and especially fear. The basis of this atrocious curse of obedience is psychological warfare against the people. Henry David Thoreau properly stated: “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
“Anyone who seeks relief from totalitarian rule by use of any political process or system, is completely lost in a sea of insanity and madness. The epitome of rule lies in obedience and voluntary compliance by those subjects of the State. Those subjects are any and all who believe in, allow, approve, condone, worship, or participate in, any State system or government that survives by a top-down ruling structure. Any rule of one monarch or any oligarchy over any other is absolutely immoral. No politician, no political party, no government, no president, no congress, no ‘democracy,’ no ‘republic,’ or any other insane power and control system, can exist if freedom is to be achieved. Only anarchy, self-rule; of, by, and for the individual, can co-exist with liberty.”
The only way to insure freedom is through the efforts of self-rule and self-governance. If government exists, freedom cannot. It is simply a matter of removing rule at every conceivable juncture, and disallowing any group of maniacal psychopaths to lord over entire populations, regardless of the outright idiocy of any claimed political ‘representation,’ which is just a farce based on propaganda, deception, and lies.
“Why can you not see the manipulation taking place? Why can you not see that you are being treated as a collective horde of tamable animals, instead of thinking individuals? Why can you not see the madness that is the basis of the world today? Why are you so blind to the planned total destruction of all that is natural and good, in favor of designed immoral chaos?“
“Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only ‘order’ that governments have ever maintained.”
~ Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
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On target, as always, Gary. I do seem to "remember" that at one time mankind, wherever it popped up, was tribal in nature, and while power relationships inevitably form within even small groups, I'm sure that it was ultimately far more benign than what we see in our mess of a world today. Mostly, I suppose, back then, leadership was needed when under attack from other tribes, but I am not even sure that that was the case. People really are capable of sharing responsibility for dealing with mutual challenges, and the need for "rulers" does seem a rather bizarre development.
Gary, this may be the best article you have written yet, because it strikes at the very root of the problem, which is personal responsibility, and which has been an ongoing issue since the story of the Garden of Eden, which I view as a metaphor to help explain our situation.
Your first paragraph says it all--I do not want to be responsible for myself, therefore I will blame someone else. Adam blamed Eve. Eve blamed the serpent. Neither of them said, "I was wrong and should not have done that." In principle, not any different than we recently saw with Dr. Anthony "The Science" Fauci on the stand taking the easy way out by claiming the 5th rather than owning up to his own failings.
Personal responsibility. The one message which many people do not want to hear, which becomes the one thing which needs to be most heard. Until it sinks in and has an effect.