Some would have us believe a theory--that all individuals are granted equally by their Creator, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and thus have unalienable rights to self-determination, property ownership and the ability to freely exchange this property... essentially self-rule--is evil. These also would have us believe another theory--that only an elite few are granted, by themselves and their own decrees or by the masses they manipulate, the power to rule over all others and all others property and person...essentially others rule--is good. In order to sell the others rule theory, the elite few use various schemes and strategies from military conquest to manipulative conquest of the minds of individuals they wish to rule. The others rule theory always ends in some form of oligarchy (rule by the few--from monarchy to collectivism). Whereas self-rule is practiced either in an open society, with loosely to more tightly banded individuals who freely associate, trade with each other, and band together for mutual self-defense, or in constitutional republics in which the people define and democratically elect self-administered governments restrained by lawful law, with limited powers defined for this self-government. This limited government serves the people where the individual and/or private entity is not as well suited to address a particular essential societal need, over time--such as in the administration of just and lawful law and provision of a common defense*. Throughout history the theory of others rule has dominated and the few elite have largely ruled with an iron fist. The theory of self-rule has only been put into practice a few times. Only in America, however, has this power to self-rule been acknowledged and codified as unalienable and to have come from the Creator, and not from man or the State. For the last century or more, those who desire to wrest the power to self-rule from the people--the people being individuals in America and around the world--have perfected their pitch for others rule. The State, run by the puppeteer few, is being sold as the savior of the people. However, the real enemy of the people and of liberty is those who would imprison them once more to others rule, as well as, a society that allows itself to become characterless and eventually re-enslaved. Which theory works for you? To be ruled by others and to have no voice, or to self-govern? Time is running out. Make your choice. DM Chaney Thoughts on Liberty (Draft) * There are not, in fact, many situations where the government, even a representative government, is absolutely **required** to serve societal needs. Most societal needs (as differentiated from individual needs) can be met through private entities and the co-operation of many individuals. This, however, requires a society with enough aggregate resident character (a capacity for self-rule--liberty) to provide individually or societally for their own in need and to provide privately for common defense and other services without corruption and cronyism that destroys the integrity of these services. To underline, each societal need met by private entities, individuals, or self-government, as well, only work if the aggregate character of that society is sufficient to deliver these with integrity. As such, to the degree aggregate societal character declines, to that same degree the ability of that society to self govern, diminishes. The solution to the latter is not others rule, as this is already tyrannical by definition of its existence.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:57:12 +0000
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