Statism--or government, is the application of force. Force is violence, if necessary, to achieve the ends (goals) of the State. If the goal of the State is to secure everyones rights--rights to life, to liberty, and to own and enjoy the use of property--bounded only by the equal rights of all others--then the government is limited to a collective defense, deriving its powers from those inherent within the people themselves. The dark side of Statism (communism, socialism, progressivism, fascism, and any other government-centric -ism you may wish to put in this category) is that the State often exercises undelegated powers--powers usurped from the people, or powers denied to the people. For example, the State routinely engages in robbery, theft, or plunder--activities which if you were to do them on your own would get you arrested and prosecuted as a criminal. Therefore, to be a justly founded and to remain a just government, the State must be funded on a voluntary or consensual basis. Hence my appreciation of the #FairTax . If you consent to purchase a new good or service, then you agree and consent to pay the FairTax included in the price paid. If you dont consent to the purchase, then nobody puts a gun to your head and threatens you to buy something you dont want to buy. This is the fundamental error of the Affordable Care Act. Another instance would be the methodical killing of certain individuals. Now this takes various forms--the permission to murder unborn babies, the permission to murder certain convicted felons, permission to use deadly force is situations where deadly force is not necessary to protect the innocent, and permission to murder certain persons designated as enemies of the State without trial or any pretense of due process of law. Again, I am not talking about declared wars where national survival hangs in the balance although if the war is not a just war, then the large scale killing of civilian populations is indeed troubling. Everyone and every society has a natural right to self-defense. If perverted into a war of aggression, that war is an exercise of undelegated power (an illegal war). If you want to take my property and not compensate me fully and fairly for what you have taken, then thats theft, robbery, or plunder. I have a property right in my personal liberty--my life. If you restrict my actions when I do no harm, then I have a just cause to sue for unlawful restraint. If the State does it, then it somehow become moral and right? How can it be if no individual has the right to restrain me when I do not harm others? How can it be a just delegated power? America is in a corrupt State because the people themselves have forgotten what it means to hold fast to a public morality--where the government is limited and constrained to do no more collectively, than what each individual can do lawfully. If theres one set of laws for the government, and a different and less permissive set of laws for the general public, then the people are RULED not governed. Theres an oligarchy masquerading as a republic, and democratic institutions are nothing but a sham. This where the progressive accumulation of undelegated State powers must lead--and has taken us to this point.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 07:10:04 +0000
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