The Right To Rule: Welcome To The Gulag

What gives people the right to rule over the lives of others? In days of old, kings/queens were said to possess "divine right," a God-given right to keep individuals in a condition of virtual slavery. In our enlightened society this would never be deemed acceptable. However the condition of slavery is not any less profound. In a republic, we are given the opportunity to vote for who we prefer to oppress us. During the War of Northern Aggression, Abraham Lincoln performed one of the best political sleight of hand tricks in history. When he "freed" the black slaves, he in turn enslaved an entire nation.

If we go back in history to the founding of our nation after the American Revolution and look at what the intent of the Framers was, we see a picture very different than what we see now. The purpose of government, in their view, was to preserve the rights of the individual; that we were "...endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." and "That to secure those rights, Governments are instituted among Men." (Declaration of Independence) Little by little these intents and the rights that accompany them have been eroded away...perhaps never as profoundly as by Lincoln who was called in his own time a dictator and despot.

Lincoln sacrificed the lives of over 650,000 of his fellow countrymen (and women & children) not to end the scourge of slavery, but to institute an all-powerful federal behemoth that would evolve into a totalitarian leviathan that doles out "rights" at it's own whim. We are not free, we are slaves. Hypothetically, what if the slaves were allowed to vote for their master? Two owners, we'll call Bob and Joe own slaves. Bob is benevolent and treats his slaves well. Joe, on the other hand, is a prick and is mean. Who do you think the slaves would vote for? The answer is obvious, Bob. Joe would either have to change his methods or go out of business. However, the slaves are still slaves. Just because you can vote for your oppressor and the oppressor might appear to be kind...you are still a slave. This is true today. Instead of belonging to another human being, something we've all agreed to as being wrong and immoral, we belong to the government.

The average American works from Jan. 1 until sometime in June or July (I haven't seen the stats in a while) just to pay the myriad of taxes we have to pay...what I call the "slave tax." You don't own your home. If you think you do, don't pay your property taxes and watch what happens. To own an automobile, you have to pay sales tax and licensing fees- then there are taxes on gasoline and highway taxes and/or tolls (in some states). The largest may be the Income Tax. This tax is unconstitutional, it was never ratified. But if you don't pay this unconstitutional tax you have your property seized and go to prison. May the excessive force be with you! Aaron Russo did a marvelous movie called Freedom to Fascism in which he tries to find the law that requires us to pay an income tax...there is NONE. Government is just the ability of elites to use force to enslave a populace for their own end. In a Democracy/Republic the way it's done is truly something to marvel at. We have the illusion of freedom- which isn't freedom at all. Mark Passio explains it beautifully:

Statists and collectivists always use the argument: "Who will provide security? Who will build the roads? What about education?" Even during colonial times, there were roads. They were build voluntarily out of necessity. If people needed to go from here to there, they got together and put in a road. It was done by the people who needed to use it. When the American Revolution came about, there was no standing army and no taxes to support one. Everything was done out of necessity. People used their own weapons. Granted times have changed, but currently there are more guns in America than there are people. As for education; Adam Smith, the designer of the market economic system wrote in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, that education is the obligation of the parents. He warned that public schools would indoctrinate children and turn them against their families. How prophetic. Statists and Cultural Marxists have virtually destroyed the nuclear family. It has become necessary for both parents to work just to make ends meet. The educational system has been turned into an acculturation instrument instead of a tool for education. Children are no longer educated, they are indoctrinated. But that's another topic altogether.

For anyone concerned about freedom and liberty, voluntarism is the only reasonable option. Governments and the people running them never relinquish power voluntarily...they only get bigger and more powerful. Taxes continue to grow and the slaves have to work harder to pay them. People have to be made aware that they are being lied to. By saying that America is the freest country on Earth doesn't mean we are free, as the statists would have us believe. It is an illusion. A change is long overdue.