For Whom Is It Humane?

Government is a criminal enterprise. All of it. “We passed a law” is no defense. The problem with Western civilization is that this idea that the government passing a law is an excuse to violate human rights has existed for far too long. This is the struggle the founders had, how to terminate that thought process. The concept of a republic operating with the will of the people lasted about as long as it took for the ink to dry. Washington himself violated that concept during the Whiskey Rebellion.

I’ve spoken for some time about this: power itself is corrosive to the body politic. Individual rights, if recognized as absolute would have solved it, but as soon as that anti-government idea flourished, the state started to clamp down on it. They can’t let us have freedom, because we will do things they don’t like or from which there’s no kickback.

What all powerful political figures understand is that if the people conduct their own affairs with the support of faith and their individual rights, there is no need for a government at all. The original Articles of Confederation were exactly that and they could not get the cooperation they wanted from it, so they went into the back rooms in Philadelphia and fixed it, under cover of secrecy. That’s the origin of the constitutional republic we know today and lacking a better alternative, it sailed along quite comfortably for several decades, not quite a century, before the need and desire for power overwhelmed it.

If the current system has led us to this, of what use is the system? Mamdani swearing into office on the Koran (Quran) is a symptom; mosques playing their call to prayers in Dallas is a symptom; wokism itself is a symptom; racist policies in universities and the workplace is a symptom of a jumbled, misinterpreted concept of justice and individual rights. An individual right is not something one citizen takes from another, it’s something one takes from the government. The infighting is produced by the state to convince one of the former for fear of the latter.

We don’t need a government, we just need clerks to record transactions and boundary lines. We have been convinced that someone else can take care of criminals, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If taken alive, they can be brought down to a jail and put there for as long as an arbiter (a respected member of the community) sees fit. The arbiter is cautious of letting criminals out of jail earlier than common sense would suggest, for fear of losing respect. Paid judges for life don’t care and are usually forefront in the debasement of society. At least in the US.

A point I made in 9 Principle of Freedom, is that America, when it was largely frontier, managed itself quite well. The problems came with policing, judges and prisons. Vagrants and drunks went to the workhouse for a period of time. More serious crimes sent one to the prison, from which they may or may not return, and probably not in the same shape as before.

The only thing that has really changed is the idea that there is some method of rehabilitation, in other words, a need for government prisons and the jobs they produce, the economic stimulation that politicians want. Even today, if one goes to prison, they are likely to not return or, at least, not in the same shape as before.

It was certainly a more brutal society back then. Criminals and cops were able to get away with more than they do today, but consider the cost, the erosion of society that has accompanied “humane policies.” For whom is it humane? Maybe, brutal societies are more humane than what we have today where rapists are released to rape more and upon capture for those new rapes, are still released.

What Europe says is that “you just have to adapt to a rape culture.” What they refuse to admit is that the “rape culture” exists where it never did before and in connection to the people the government allowed to enter. Instead of admitting their mistake and rectifying it, they simply blame their beleaguered citizens for not adapting. The question then becomes: how many people do we have to coalesce in order to reject laws we don’t like? The answer is however many it takes to kick off a rebellion.

The people are always in control; that’s why governments have spent so much time and effort indoctrinating them into a subservient role. What’s lost in the search for a “humane” culture is the understanding that all governments exist at the level of public tolerance. Demonstrations are fine, but they should preface action or they carry no weight.

On January 6th, it was always meant as a peaceful demonstration. Of those gathered, had one thousand entered the capitol, it still would have been classified as an unruly minority, except that those who had decided to use the crowd as a false flag wouldn’t benefit from that categorization. They couldn’t entrap Trump with a faithful description and turned it into an insurrection. Worse, it allowed the Biden Administration to inhumanely persecute many, many more and silence opposition for fear of legal ensnarement, the loss of liberty and possibly life.

My favorite suggestion is a general strike. They won’t respect you until you teach them that you hold the reins. There are a lot of other ways to go, but I don’t read that dedication in very many Americans these days. So, on a scale of what can be done, a general strike is non-violent, devastating to the tax system, only mildly inconvenient to the average tax-paying American and very inconvenient to those being paid with tax dollars, or worse, printed money. A general strike, for no other reason than to protest the fraudulent use of tax dollars, could be the beginning of reestablishing the power of the working class. We’re living the alternative.

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