Do we have to have government? From T.L. Davis at tldavis.substack.com:
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.
The banksters and oligarchs need some blood to suck as Malcolm X said about capitalism.
Only a fool wants rule but the fear of anarchy is strong.
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