Karl Denninger has written an article about consent. I will not start at the beginning but near the end of his piece concerning the actions of our forefathers in the American Revolution:
You stand here in this place called America this morning because a bunch of people heard all the arguments you’ve raised about how they really should just go along with it because despite protesting via voting, writing letters to the editor, posting bills on trees and other forms of dissent they weren’t getting anywhere, and the remaining alternatives that were available to them had potential (indeed, even likely) costs that were too high.
Privation, prison, even death.
They did it anyway.
No this is not yet anything piece where the obvious correlation to sheep will go unheeded. If people understood their true position in their false Liberty, they would be rising up in the streets. For the right reasons. Instead they are rising up in the streets over yet another racial incident. But it could be about some other entitlement or appeasement to pacify the people who perpetuate our slavery – with our consent.
Imagine what would happen if we withheld our consent? Such as not paying taxes? The beast would not starve since it prints its own money. It has realized that printing more money only reduces the fruits of our labor which further enslaves us. Withholding our vote? I made the decision to stop participating in a choice between the lesser of two evils. But then voting is just a form of medication on an open wound that will never heal. It may numb the pain and make us believe it is the proper path to recovery but it is a false illusion to which people are addicted. But don’t shoot the messenger: look in the mirror and tell yourself that the people who caused our enslavement will be the ones to free us if we keep voting. For the lesser evil.
As revolution waits in the wings, the likely outcome is more French than American. Will we take the easy path of retribution or will we act with Sacred honor as before? If we truly believe in Liberty, we would have already acted. The government knows what is coming. Look at their militarization of the police, the rules of engagement by the military against us released this week and the complete arrogance concerning what is left of our rights.
David DeGerolamo
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by Karl Denninger
It’s funny how people will make excuses for their own actions and inactions, but won’t admit the truth.
If you start pushing back on that your circle of friends begins to shrink — and quite quickly at that.
But it’s not because you’re wrong — it’s because people are uncomfortable with reality, and you’re refusing to put away the “real” card. You’re removing the Facebook patina of perfection, of hedonism, of narcissism and self-delusion.
What am I talking about? The fact that each and every one of you reading this, along with myself, consent to all of the below list each and every day:
- Every single act of felony assault when a cop in Ferguson points a weapon at a peaceful protester and is not immediately arrested and charged with the crime of assault with a deadly weapon.
- Every single act of altering the timing of yellow lights to generate intentional bogus violations that cannot be evaded due to the laws of physics and, when you are entrapped by happenstance of your presence, you must pay not a legitimate fine for misbehavior but instead literally have funds extorted from you.
- The violations of your Fourth Amendment rights on the road, in the airport and on the sidewalk in NY, Texas, Florida, Tennessee and elsewhere.
- The refusal of our government to recognize your fundamental right to life, that is the right to self defense through the keeping and bearing of the only device known to man that is effective in that regard, everywhere and anywhere without permit, license or other constraint up until you actually commit a criminal act by misusing same.
- The bankster fraud games in Jefferson County Alabama that are still costing people doubled (or more) water and sewer bills and will forever into the future, featuring court-proved acts of bribery.
h/t WRSA
David, amen and amen. You summarize my sentiments exactly!
That is because you were the first person I met who had the fortitude to stand up and stop voting for the lesser of two evils.
Found this recently … seems to fit here:
The claim that government is a necessary evil
is admission of a belief that evil is necessary.
I think Spoonerites would disagree.