Clearing the Brush

The US is not a functional nation. As Nayib Bukele says: “There is no such thing as a state that cannot deal with criminals. If a state fails to defeat crime, it is because it is complicit.” This from the man who turned a snake pit of a nation, El Salvador, the progenitor of the deadly MS-13 gang, into a peaceful country within a few years. How? He grabbed every corrupt judge and criminal he found and put them in jail. He built jails to house the massive amounts of them. He is attacked for being cruel. There is no greater cruelty than to tolerate crimes against the innocent.

Throughout the years, decades and even century, the people have been polite and decent and asked our elected officials to enforce the laws. The civility of the US population, a breed far more inclined to pursue their own independent goals in life rather than ruling the lives of their neighbors, expect to be able to defend themselves and their homes, to worship freely and debate issues openly.

This is becoming less and less possible. Whole industries and government bureaucracies have been built up around the idea of interfering with those individual goals, taxing them out of existence and even punishing enterprising instincts. Only with government approval can these pursuits be accomplished. This is antithetical to the concept of liberty, of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. It’s a scar on the face of the United States and the wound deepens every day.

What has it led us to? We now have a diminished idea of what justice is. Justice has a price and it’s too heavy for most people to bear. They accept guilt where there is none because they cannot afford to be innocent and the state has used this as a bludgeon, knowing that all they have to do is make some absurd charge that will bankrupt a person, a family, rob children of their inheritance, in an attempt to obtain justice from the state and their power-hungry instincts.

This is not freedom, not even close. As the vise has tightened over every aspect of Americanism, it has squeezed freedom out of the equation, leaving only a condensed nut of evil.

The US was always an experiment and when politicians protect fraud, benefit from it and imprison those who expose it, it is an experiment that has failed. The rich and powerful can afford to hide their crimes, buy off their accusers and/or judges. A lot of this is done with campaign contributions; a media safely ensconced in one end of the political spectrum where it wields a heavy sword; corporate loopholes and schemes.

If a person buys a piece of property and endeavors to farm, he is immediately in competition with the largest corporations in the world. If he seeks to raise cattle, he must sell to equally large corporations who pay as little as possible. If one tries to sell the milk from his cows without government approval, he might be put in prison.

None of this should be the business of government, but there’s always those who seek protection and as we’ve seen, the government promises to look into bad actors and scammers, but if those bad actors can pay off the inspector they can operate as if there were no government bureaucracy designed to ensure safe products. In effect, there is no protection other than the promise, but there are more taxes and heavier regulatory burdens on the individual trying to make a living and build a legacy.

Freedom is dangerous, there is no antidote for that, but government is more dangerous than freedom. Every great genocide was prosecuted by governments. There is no criminal genocide without government complicity. The genocide then is more organized, thorough and efficient. A single man might sell contaminated milk, but only once. A government can do it repeatedly safely hidden behind their public offices.

Nothing made this corrupt system more visible than the vaxx and all of those who promoted it, shamed anyone who didn’t comply and ignored the tragic effects. That’s the sort of harm organized government can achieve.

So, what is the answer? What’s the cure for this diseased nation where invaders are welcomed in to set up anti-American businesses, governments and lawyers? It is the people themselves.

What must be understood is that it is not the people’s responsibility to figure out a better system, that’s beyond their pay grade. Even if they did take that task upon themselves, to whom would they submit their plan? What they can and must do is make sure that whatever is failing is destroyed. They must clear the brush. They don’t have to be involved in the construction of what comes next, but they do stand in judgment of it. They have the power to say: “Nope, not what we had in mind.”

In that intimate circle are those who want freedom unencumbered by judges and politicians who sell safety to criminals at the expense of the people. The people need the freedom to withhold subsistence to rogue and criminal governments. The formation of a police force is the beginning of a police state. Where it can be controlled and monitored, it might serve some good, but it’s always a step away from legitimacy.

I’ve read dozens and dozens of court documents from the earlier stages of this society and the norm was to assume that the people were right. Cattle rustlers were dealt with summarily and it was assumed that those who owned the cattle were justified. That’s not the case today. The individual must not take matters into his own hands. That shows a decided suspicion of the individual. Again, one might commit murder and get away with it under such a system, but as we have seen, a whole population can be wiped out by laws and invasion. The invasion of illegals was conducted with atypical government efficiency. Perhaps the only time government truly works is when it’s engaged in genocide.

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