A very small yet con­scious minor­ity has come to the real­iza­tion that the cur­rent world regime is one giant cor­po­rate infomoc­racy that needs to be ter­mi­nated with “extreme prej­u­dice”, dis­en­gage­ment being the weapon of choice.  The next rev­o­lu­tion will not be car­ried out by mobs of angry peo­ple, guerrillas, terrorists or, god for­bid, politi­cians.  It will be accom­plished by a small (10%) mil­i­tant minor­ity that will sim­ply unplug the matrix.


A Very Con­densed Case for Revolution
An enor­mous, dic­ta­to­r­ial cor­po­rate car­tel is rul­ing the world through its prox­ies in gov­ern­ment, bank­ing, acad­e­mia and media.  Our entire west­ern cul­ture has become an insid­i­ous farce with the sole pur­pose of main­tain­ing the enslaved masses in their con­jured up democracies, religions and his­to­ries.  Two devel­op­ments have increased its con­trol expo­nen­tially:  glob­al­i­sa­tion and the infor­ma­tion revolution.
The world is enter­ing the final acts of a great social, polit­i­cal and eco­nomic shift.  The inter­na­tional cur­rency regime, the key­stone of con­trol,  is peer­ing into the abyss; the mid­dle east is being turned upside down; the bank­rupt United States gov­ern­ment is fight­ing sev­eral wars and main­tain­ing more than 560 mil­i­tary bases in over 120 coun­tries.  The insa­tiable greed and desire for world con­trol have cre­ated a breach in the sys­tem.  Peo­ple are becom­ing aware while their mas­ters scram­ble for con­trol as the chaotic cli­max approaches.
Vio­lence, crack­downs, mas­sacres and all out wars are erupt­ing from Libya to Bahrain.  As Yeats put it , “the cen­tre can­not hold”.  The Arab Spring will soon reach the Wall in the West Bank and when it does the pos­si­bil­ity of a large scale con­flict and the even­tual involve­ment of Iran are almost inevitable.  How the west reacts when this con­flict erupts upon us will be the inflec­tion point for the entire period.
The great strides made in west­ern lib­eral soci­eties since the Enlight­en­ment have been  firmly based on the Greco/Christian tra­di­tion.  It should be no sur­prise that the pur­vey­ors of con­sumerist agnos­ti­cism firmly reject this tra­di­tion within the west­ern democ­ra­cies.  By pulling the spir­i­tual rug out from under Euro/American cul­ture, they have left a black hole that can only be filled by their cir­cus and gad­gets.  We have not only paid, but have in fact indebted our­selves, to wor­ship at the feet of their mate­ri­al­ist God.  This has noth­ing to do with the­ol­ogy and every­thing to do with cul­ture.  The West is pay­ing a very dear price for hav­ing stopped think­ing crit­i­cally and edu­cat­ing its children.
The great Euro­pean exper­i­ment (much more than sim­ply the EU), thought by many to be the light of the world, is sink­ing like the Titanic.  With a total dis­re­gard for tra­di­tional cul­ture, the rul­ing elites have turned our schools, uni­ver­si­ties, arts and mass media into a giant pro­pa­ganda machine pro­mot­ing polit­i­cal correctness, pseudo his­tory & eco­nom­ics and the new world reli­gion: debt based con­sumerism.  Any­one who ques­tions their ver­sion of sci­ence, world his­tory or mon­e­tary pol­icy is imme­di­ately branded as a mal­con­tent and removed from the pub­lic dis­course.  They con­trol the mes­sage by con­trol­ling the money.
Many look at the twen­ti­eth cen­tury as a time of great eco­nomic and tech­ni­cal advance, but his­tory, while rec­og­niz­ing the the tech­ni­cal inno­va­tion, will con­demn this cen­tury as the most vile in man’s his­tory.  The mir­a­cle that began in Greece, expanded in Rome, flour­ished in the Renais­sance & Enlight­en­ment and finally found its  mod­ern form in the west­ern lib­eral democ­racy has been been gut­ted by a cen­tury of mate­ri­al­ism, enslave­ment, slaugh­ter and greed.
The Cor­po­ra­tion and Infomoc­racy


There is no bet­ter exam­ple of fas­cism in today’s world than the major cor­po­ra­tion: deci­sions made by a select group of insiders, bureaucratic con­formism, com­mu­ni­ca­tions ripe with pro­pa­ganda, and the cult of power.  There is noth­ing demo­c­ra­tic about the board­rooms of these behe­moths, so how can we expect the gov­ern­ments they rule to be demo­c­ra­tic?  They have cre­ated a two party cha­rade with news pro­grams, talk­ing heads and oppos­ing  media fac­ing off in faux bat­tles to con­jure up their infomocracy.

The cor­po­ra­tions con­trol the cre­ation and dis­tri­b­u­tion of our money, our for­eign pol­icy, enter­tain­ment and news.  The only way to put a wedge between these mono­liths and the lib­erty of indi­vid­u­als is to com­pletely dis­en­gage from them.  They manip­u­late news and opin­ion to the extent that actual issues are never  dis­cussed, only the dis­trac­tions are debated.
Two Exam­ples —  Health care and Iraq
The United States has by far the most expen­sive health care sys­tem in the world, and a decid­edly unhealthy pop­u­la­tion.  Some­thing is clearly wrong with this sys­tem.  The debate is care­fully divided into those who want to main­tain the status-quo — Repub­li­cans, and those that want to enhance the sta­tus quo — Democ­rats.  All of the actors fall into line and go either shirts or skins, but the truth is never discussed.
The Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment sub­si­dizes the cor­po­rate health care sys­tem and the over payed doc­tors by  reg­u­lat­ing the mar­ket out of the sys­tem and cre­at­ing a closed cor­po­rate hege­mony over the indus­try.  The media and aca­d­e­mic shills stick to their sub­si­dized scripts and the real solu­tion is never dis­cussed because that solu­tion would destroy the bot­tom lines of  the cor­po­rate players.
Sim­ply dereg­u­late.  Remove ALL reg­u­la­tions on who can prac­tice med­i­cine and how.  Any drug can be sold in the US, period.  End the FDA.  Pri­vate FDA’s will sprout up, vouch­ing for the valid­ity of drugs.  Some will be bet­ter than oth­ers, but the con­sumers will decide which ones work.  Any doc­tor can prac­tice med­i­cine and many pri­vate orga­ni­za­tions will appear vouch­ing for their cre­den­tials.  As long as there is a judi­cial sys­tem that can pass judge­ment on rea­son­able claims, the sys­tem will work out its kinks and we will have, with­out a doubt, the cheap­est most effec­tive health care sys­tem in the world.  It’s that sim­ple.  The only thing the gov­ern­ment is doing in health­care is sub­si­diz­ing cor­po­rate profits.
Those pre­fer­ring uni­ver­sal health cov­er­age can cer­tainly make their case at the local level with­out impos­ing it on a nation of over 300 mil­lion people.
The war in Iraq was started by tak­ing advan­tage of the fear and con­fu­sion from 9/11 with the inten­tion of cre­at­ing a safer Mid­dle East for the state of Israel.  While this idea is far from novel, it’s not allowed to enter the main­stream dis­cus­sion of the issue.  The truth is taboo because the con­se­quences of accept­ing it would be beyond the pale for those who con­ceived of and pushed the coun­try to war;  too much blood to be laid at the feet of the guilty.  The motives and con­se­quences of Viet­nam were argued in acad­e­mia and the main­stream media ad nau­seam, but you will not see a Pen­ta­gon Papers come out of The New York Times regard­ing Iraq because the reper­cus­sion would rever­ber­ate too close to home.  How can the pur­vey­ors of moral­ity be noth­ing more than war mongers?
THE CONTROL MECHANISMS
Arti­fi­cial Scarcity
Why is there a world ‘eco­nomic’ cri­sis?  Is it a lack of able-bodied work­ers, nat­ural resources, fac­to­ries, or infra­struc­ture?  Absolutely not.  It’s a lack of liq­uid­ity and/or too much debt, how­ever one decides to slice it.  The most impor­tant myth sup­port­ing the sys­tem is the belief in frac­tional reserve money as a valid store of value and means of exchange.  The banks are allowed to cre­ate the money out of noth­ing, and charge inter­est for turn­ing the trick while the masses have to earn it.  The right to cre­ate money is the right to lever­age, and it’s that finan­cial lever­age that hoists them to the top of the pyra­mid.  With­out this lever­age they would not be able to cre­ate such mas­sive amounts of wealth and con­trol.  The only way to destroy this sys­tem and cre­ate fair money is by cre­at­ing aware­ness.  Once peo­ple under­stand the “trick”, the whole house of cards begins to collapse.
One sim­ple thought exper­i­ment is to imag­ine what would hap­pen if the the mega banks and the Fed came to an agree­ment to cut all per­sonal debt by 50%, send a credit card with 20K to every Amer­i­can while at the same time pay­ing off all gov­ern­ment debt (fed­eral, state and local).  In this exper­i­ment every­thing would be paid for by quan­ti­ta­tive eas­ing and remov­ing bank reserve require­ments for bad debts.  The “cri­sis” would be over in about three months:  any­one who wanted to work would be able to find job, fac­tory capac­ity would surge and the entire world econ­omy would rise on a mas­sive wave of pros­per­ity.  The only trick would be keep­ing infla­tion at bay by reduc­ing gov­ern­ment spend­ing to a bal­anced bud­get and keep­ing inter­est rates high enough. This is not to say that cre­at­ing money out of thin air and giv­ing it away is the answer, but it does point out that the entire cri­sis is abstract and con­trived and the supreme charge of the gov­ern­ment is to pro­tect those that live off inter­est and lever­age.  The debts pushed on the 99% by the pow­ers that be are its main source of lever­age and wealth, and by over­bur­den­ing the pro­duc­tive pop­u­la­tion with debt they killed the prover­bial goose.
Peo­ple out of work, fac­to­ries shud­dered, fields unploughed, stu­dents with­out teach­ers, chil­dren with­out food — all because of dig­i­tal debt money.  Why can’t a man with a strong back and a work­ing brain sim­ply go out, work, cre­ate some­thing and exchange it for money?  That would be too easy.  First some­one has to cre­ate the money, with inter­est.  The frac­tional reserve sys­tem, by design, cre­ates arti­fi­cial scarcity, allow­ing the rul­ing banker class and their polit­i­cal pup­pets to skim enough off everyone’s work and turn abundant, productive labor and pri­vate prop­erty into a giant banker-run slum– turf wars included.  They put mas­sive claims on future pro­duc­tion until, at the end of the cycle, their debt chick­ens come home to roost.
Pro­pa­ganda
Why is this basic truth not shouted from every news­pa­per, col­lege class­room, church pul­pit and street cor­ner?  In a world of brands, they con­trol who is deemed appro­pri­ate.  Any­one who states the truth is iso­lated, black­listed or demo­nized as inap­pro­pri­ate, which is now just another word for hon­est.  An entire caste of over-educated shills dom­i­nate media, film, the arts, lit­er­a­ture, and acad­e­mia.  Orga­nized reli­gion, when not pro­tect­ing pedophiles and apartheid states, spends the rest of its moral cap­i­tal rail­ing against the basic plea­sures of human­ity that have yet to be mon­e­tized and secu­ri­tized by Wall Street.
They tell us to kill and we kill.  Cur­rent fash­ion is that it is okay to kill Yemenis, Bahrainis, Pales­tini­ans, and some other assorted Mus­lims.  Libyans have been put on the no kill list and Syr­i­ans may soon find them­selves on the same list.  That list means only NATO can kill them (see Afghanistan).  Iraqis have the spe­cial honor of being the exclu­sively killed  by Amer­i­cans since May 2011
Edu­ca­tion, Reli­gion & Circus
One of the most amaz­ing feats of the regime is how they coerce young peo­ple to go into extreme amounts of debt to be brain­washed and taught not to think before they ever even have a career .
Main­stream and not so main­stream reli­gion gen­er­ally tries to sell peo­ple on a hodge­podge of fear and fan­tasy, with a big pay-off for the self right­eous who drink most from the sacred well of Kool-Aid.  What must never be attempted is to actu­ally have an authen­tic spir­i­tual expe­ri­ence, for this would cause the sub­ject to run from the dogma and quite pos­si­bly bring most of the remain­ing parish­ioners with him.  Real con­scious­ness as much an anath­ema to reli­gion as crit­i­cal think­ing is to academia.
But even if one can escape the grasp of schools and uni­ver­si­ties, dodge the churches, few can evade the tempt­ing trap of the cir­cus.  The tele­vi­sion, music, the press, spec­ta­tor sports, movie stars and the like have an almost hal­lu­ci­na­tory power over the sheeple.  Not only do these pas­times steal the money of the masses, they brain­wash them to boot.  The regime’s mantra: pay the mas­ter for the right to be enslaved.
SOLUTIONS


Vio­lent Rev­o­lu­tion?

In the Alle­gory of the Cave, Plato com­pares the awak­en­ing process to real­iz­ing the shad­ows on the wall are only reflec­tions from lanterns in a cave, but he points out that there is a period dur­ing which the eyes need to get adjusted, in these moments the per­son can see nei­ther the shad­ows nor make out the real images soaked in sunlight.
Those who awaken go through many stages, one of which is the strong desire to plant bombs and slit throats.  As Plato points out, there is a period of dis­ori­en­ta­tion as one mean­ders out of the cave.  While vio­lence is the most appe­tiz­ingly sim­ple of choices, it is also the most coun­ter­pro­duc­tive.  Any­thing one does that can be uti­lized by the mas­ters to fire up their destruc­tive para­pher­na­lia  is a mis­take.  In fact, any­thing that even breaks their laws is harm­ful to the cause and will only cre­ate use­less oppo­si­tion.  All forms of vio­lent resis­tance only gen­er­ate energy which they use to manip­u­late news and events in order to cre­ate fear and reac­tion­ism.  They thrive on our anx­i­eties and use the very energy gen­er­ated against them as the impe­tus to foment divi­sion among their opponents.
Enlight­ened Disengagement
The enlight­ened con­scious man needs no school to raise his chil­dren, no church to know his God, no banker to val­i­date his work and no gov­ern­ment to choose his ene­mies.  He is free to do as he pleases, when he pleases and how he pleases.  His lib­erty allows him to need almost noth­ing, which is how the great evil matrix becomes undone: in a great fire of awareness.
Money – Use frac­tional reserve money only for what is needed in the short term.  Have no sav­ings denom­i­nated in their dol­lars.  All sav­ings in hard assets.
Work & Cor­po­ra­tions – Avoid, to the great­est extent pos­si­ble, work­ing for and using cor­po­ra­tions.  Actively pur­sue locally owned alter­na­tives and self-employment.  As a con­sumer, avoid all cor­po­rate prod­ucts when­ever pos­si­ble.  This includes clothes, food, reli­gion, news, etc.
Bread & Cir­cus – Can­cel all cable sub­scrip­tions imme­di­ately. Sell all your tele­vi­sions and take your best friend out for a night on the town with the pro­ceeds.  Stop par­tic­i­pat­ing in the cor­po­rate enter­tain­ment net­work.  If you love base­ball, fol­low a local inde­pen­dent team.  If you love dra­mas, fre­quent your local the­ater.  Read inde­pen­dent news ser­vices.  Always know the source of what you are con­sum­ing.   Avoid cor­po­rate food at all costs.  Pay the pre­mium for locally, inde­pen­dently grown and pre­pared food.
Fol­low the Law to the Let­ter – That means pay­ing all taxes, fol­low­ing all reg­u­la­tions, and sub­mit­ting to all their rules while they are still in force.  The cause is not advanced by hav­ing mil­i­tants ensnarled by the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. All their efforts must be fully ded­i­cated to dis­en­gag­ing them­selves, their fam­i­lies and their friends.  Moves must be cal­cu­lated to max­i­mize strength and stay­ing power, even if it means remain­ing “attached” to parts of the sys­tem longer than one would like.   A finan­cially sound, secure mil­i­tant fam­ily  dis­en­gag­ing and evan­ge­liz­ing is their worst enemy.
Pol­i­tics - The obvi­ous thing to be done is abstain from par­tic­i­pa­tion.  In most cases, this would be the clear strat­egy.  How­ever, with an icon­o­clas­tic can­di­date like Ron Paul still in the run­ning, it makes sense to give him sup­port.  The more the main­stream avoids him and dances around his cam­paign, the more he should be backed.
The Mag­i­cal 10%
We don’t need to con­vince the whole vil­lage, we only need 10% of them. A recent study has con­firmed that once an idea reaches the 10% thresh­old and that 10% is demon­stra­bly fixed to the idea, the major­ity will quickly follow.
“Three con­di­tions are key: a major­ity that is flex­i­ble with their views, a minor­ity that is intractable, and a crit­i­cal thresh­old wherein about a tenth of the pop­u­la­tion advo­cate the minor­ity opin­ion. They also saw that the time it takes to reach social con­sen­sus drops dra­mat­i­cally as the minor­ity grows past this tip­ping point”
The focus must be on the best and the bright­est, the rest will fol­low.  There is no need to dummy down the mes­sage; on the con­trary, the high­est level of argu­men­ta­tion and lan­guage should be imple­mented to cap­ture the crit­i­cal thinkers, lead­ers and trend setters.
A Well Sharp­ened Blade

 

There is only one path to free­dom, and it is ter­ri­bly straight and nar­row.  To nav­i­gate it one must shed prej­u­dice, edu­ca­tion, polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness, patri­o­tism, greed and fear.  Real­iz­ing the pro­found depth of the decep­tion can be fright­en­ing; a slew of long-held beliefs  will come tum­bling down.  Much of the truth is, by design, dia­met­ri­cally opposed to what we have been “taught” to con­sider moral, eth­i­cal, even decent.  What­ever term one wishes to apply to con­scious­ness, rev­o­lu­tion with­out it is sim­ply exchang­ing mas­ters. The enemy is igno­rance in all its insid­i­ous forms.
The real rev­o­lu­tion needs no lead­ers, ban­ners, or plat­forms.  Each awak­ened man’s con­scious­ness is his own guide.  Those look­ing for a place to sign up are sim­ply look­ing for more enslave­ment.  The con­trollers are well aware of the dan­ger to their pyra­mid and will surely toss out some inter­est­ing schemes to hold on to power.  The enemy of aware­ness is dis­trac­tion, but the anti­dote is sim­ple:  close out, turn off, unplug and ignore.

This arti­cle was edited by Jim Horky

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One of the most per­va­sive mis­con­cep­tions in our cul­ture is the idea that “gov­ern­ment” has any­thing to do with the struc­ture or orga­ni­za­tion that we see in our society. This is one of the pri­mary rea­sons why peo­ple have such a dif­fi­cult time con­sid­er­ing the very real pos­si­bil­ity of a world with­out the orga­ni­za­tion known as “government.” When some­one sug­gests that we sim­ply do away with this unjust and unnec­es­sary orga­ni­za­tion, they are typ­i­cally met with some very neg­a­tive knee-jerk reac­tions from who­ever they may be talk­ing to. This kind of con­ver­sa­tion typ­i­cally ends very quickly because both sides have com­pletely dif­fer­ent ideas of what the word “gov­ern­ment” actu­ally means, mak­ing it very dif­fi­cult to find com­mon ground.
If we attempt to exam­ine gov­ern­ment from an outsider’s per­spec­tive, we would see a world where peo­ple are grouped into two dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories, those in gov­ern­ment and those not. At face value, we can see that these two groups of peo­ple have com­pletely dif­fer­ent stan­dards and expec­ta­tions, even though they are the same species and have the same basic needs. Looking closer, we can see that these dif­fer­ent stan­dards and laws are not neu­tral, they are very much ben­e­fit­ing those in gov­ern­ment at the expense of those who are not. The most impor­tant dis­crep­ancy to men­tion here is the fact that those in gov­ern­ment have a license to kill any­one who hap­pens to dis­obey them.
Point­ing out this fact is vital in under­stand­ing the true rela­tion­ship between those inside of gov­ern­ment and those out­side of gov­ern­ment, and that is the rela­tion­ship between slave and master. If some­one has the right to ini­ti­ate the use of force on you if you dis­obey them, you are essen­tially their property. If you don’t believe me, go on over to Google and type in “slave def­i­n­i­tion,” and the first def­i­n­i­tion you will find is the fol­low­ing: “A per­son who is the legal prop­erty of another and is forced to obey them.” Now, doesn’t that sound a whole lot like the rela­tion­ship between peo­ple inside gov­ern­ment and peo­ple out­side government? If you can force peo­ple to do things against their will, then you are treat­ing them as if they were your property.
How­ever, if you ask any ran­dom per­son on the street to define “gov­ern­ment” for you, they would prob­a­bly give you the story that they were taught in gov­ern­ment school. You know, the one about how gov­ern­ment is the back­bone of civ­i­liza­tion, and the means by which peo­ple in the com­mu­nity come together for mutu­ally ben­e­fi­cial projects. Well this may sound good, but it isn’t at all true, because the gov­ern­ment is com­prised by a minis­cule frac­tion of the pop­u­la­tion, and they would not be able to pro­vide any­thing at all if it wasn’t for the resources that they forcibly extracted from the rest of society. Therefore, it is safe to say that all func­tions that are cur­rently being car­ried out by the orga­ni­za­tion known as “gov­ern­ment” could actu­ally be bet­ter served by indi­vid­u­als in the com­mu­nity work­ing together for com­mon goals. Voluntary trade, char­ity and other peace­ful meth­ods of inter­act­ing would cre­ate a far bet­ter soci­ety than the one that we see today, which is filled with vio­lence and forced associations.
It is not a new thing for peo­ple to con­fuse gov­ern­ment with cul­ture and have the mis­con­cep­tion that with­out a cen­tral plan­ning struc­ture, every­thing that makes a soci­ety great would vanish. This fact was rec­og­nized by some of the more rad­i­cal “found­ing fathers” of Amer­ica, includ­ing Thomas Paine. In his most famous lit­er­ary effort “Com­mon Sense,” there is a sec­tion called “Of the Ori­gin and Design of Gov­ern­ment in Gen­eral, with Con­cise Remarks on the Eng­lish Constitution.” In this piece, Paine dis­cusses the dif­fer­ence between gov­ern­ment and society.
Paine writes, “Some writ­ers have so con­founded soci­ety with gov­ern­ment, as to leave lit­tle or no dis­tinc­tion between them; whereas they are not only dif­fer­ent, but have dif­fer­ent ori­gins. Soci­ety is pro­duced by our wants, and gov­ern­ment by our wicked­ness; the for­mer pro­motes our hap­pi­ness pos­i­tively by unit­ing our affec­tions, the lat­ter neg­a­tively by restrain­ing our vices. The one encour­ages inter­course, the other cre­ates dis­tinc­tions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher. Society in every state is a bless­ing, but Gov­ern­ment, even in its best state, is but a nec­es­sary evil; in its worst state an intol­er­a­ble one: for when we suf­fer, or are exposed to the same mis­eries by a gov­ern­ment, which we might expect in a coun­try with­out a gov­ern­ment, our calamity is height­ened by reflect­ing that we fur­nish the means by which we suffer.” His state­ment is as true today as it was dur­ing the first Amer­i­can Revolution. Culture, soci­ety and secu­rity are absolutely capa­ble of con­tin­u­ing in the absence of a cen­tral con­trol system.
The most com­mon argu­ment against hav­ing an orga­nized civ­i­liza­tion with­out gov­ern­ment is the notion that we are all some­how stu­pid, worth­less sav­ages who would not be able to fig­ure out how to build a damn road if there wasn’t some­one with a gun in our face every step of the way, telling us how, when and where to do it. But if peo­ple are stu­pid sav­ages, and politi­cians are peo­ple, then isn’t the gov­ern­ment made up of a bunch of stu­pid sav­ages who can’t be trusted with a license to kill? Aren’t they just the same as us and even in many cases far worse than us?
There is noth­ing that the gov­ern­ment can do that you and a large group of like­minded peo­ple can’t do better. The gov­ern­ment doesn’t pro­vide ser­vices, they sim­ply take money from every­one (except their bud­dies, of course!) and use a very small por­tion of that money to pay peo­ple in the com­mu­nity to do things for their neigh­bors that they prob­a­bly would have done any­way in the nat­ural course of human interaction. Looked at in these terms, it becomes appar­ent that the gov­ern­ment is noth­ing more than a vio­lent mid­dle­man, who forces his way into nearly every inter­ac­tion that takes place between each of its so-called “citizens.”
Every­thing that the gov­ern­ment does is an attack on peo­ple who don’t belong to that organization. If you think about it, every sin­gle action that the gov­ern­ment takes is some kind of puni­tive mea­sure taken against peo­ple who don’t belong to that organization. Even when the gov­ern­ment claims to be doing some­thing nice, they are doing so with resources that they obtained by using threats and vio­lence, which really doesn’t make much of a case for the vir­tu­ous­ness of government.
This orga­ni­za­tion is not here to pro­tect our rights as it claims to. In fact, when the gov­ern­ment steps in and gives itself the respon­si­bil­ity to “pro­tect” your rights, it is simul­ta­ne­ously strip­ping you of your abil­ity to actu­ally defend your own rights. When you are depen­dent upon the whims and capa­bil­i­ties of another human being to pro­tect your rights, you are lit­er­ally hand­ing your rights over to them and essen­tially sub­mit­ting to slavery.
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Gov­ern­ment Is Not Civ­i­liza­tion, It Is Slav­ery | Strike-The-Root: A Jour­nal Of Lib­ertyOne of the most per­va­sive mis­con­cep­tions in our cul­ture is the idea that “gov­ern­ment” has any­thing to do with the struc­ture or orga­ni­za­tion that we see in our soci­ety. This is one of the pri­mary rea­sons why peo­ple have such a dif­fi­cult time con­sid­er­ing the very real pos­si­bil­ity of a world with­out the orga­ni­za­tion known as “government.”

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#1 Amer­ica has the high­est incar­cer­a­tion rate and the largest total prison pop­u­la­tion in the entire world by a good margin.

#2 There are more car thefts in the United States than any­where else in the world by far.

#3 Of all the major indus­tri­al­ized nations, Amer­ica is the most obese.  Mex­ico is #2.

#4 The aver­age Amer­i­can drinks more than 600 sodas a year — the most in the world.

#5 U.S. cor­po­ra­tions sell more fast food and more soda than any­one else in the world by a wide mar­gin.

#6 Nobody watches more tele­vi­sion per week (28 hours) than Amer­i­cans do.  Although to be hon­est, peo­ple liv­ing in the UK are tied with us.

#7 The United States leads the world in credit card fraud.

#8 The United States has the high­est per­cent­age of one per­son house­holds on the entire planet.

#9 The United States has the high­est divorce rate in the world by a good margin.

#10 The United States has the high­est teen preg­nancy rate in the world by far.

#11 There are more school shoot­ings in Amer­ica than any­where else in the world.

#12 The United States has the high­est child abuse death rate in the world.

#13 There are more “deaths by rep­tile” in Amer­ica than any­where else in the world.

#14 The United States has the most lawyers per capita in the entire world.

#15 The United States pro­duces more pornog­ra­phy than any other nation in the world.

#16 Amer­i­cans take more pre­scrip­tion drugs than any­one else in the world.

#17 More is spent on pre­scrip­tion drug adver­tis­ing in Amer­ica than any­where else in the world.

#18 The per­cent­age of women tak­ing anti­de­pres­sants in Amer­ica is higher than in any other coun­try in the world.

#19 More peo­ple have been diag­nosed with men­tal dis­or­ders in Amer­ica than any­where else on earth.

#20 The United States has the high­est rate of ille­gal drug use on the entire globe.

#21 There is more credit card debt in Amer­ica than any­where else in the world.

#22 There is more mort­gage debt in Amer­ica than any­where else in the world.

#23 There is more stu­dent loan debt in Amer­ica than any­where else in the world.

#24 The United States spends more money on gov­ern­ment schools than any other nation on earth does.

#25 U.S. cit­i­zens spend more time in school than any­one else in the world.  So why are so many of us dumb as a rock?

#26 Nobody in the world gets more plas­tic surgery done than Amer­i­cans do.

#27 The United States leads the world in eat­ing dis­or­der deaths.

#28 Accord­ing to nationmaster.com, the United States has the most total reported crimes in the world by far.

#29 Nobody has more air­port secu­rity thugs grop­ing women and chil­dren than Amer­ica does.

#30 The United States spends much more on health care as a per­cent­age of GDP than any other nation on the face of the earth.

#31 The United States has the most com­pli­cated tax sys­tem on the entire planet.

#32 The United States has the most laws on the entire planet.

#33 The United States spends more on the mil­i­tary than the next 12 nations com­bined, and yet the Obama admin­is­tra­tion is con­sid­er­ing plans to uni­lat­er­ally slash the size of the U.S. nuclear arse­nal by up to 80 per­cent.

#34 The United States has the most for­eign mil­i­tary bases in the world by far.

#35 The United States exports more arms to other coun­tries than any­one else in the world.

#36 Amer­i­cans spend more time sit­ting in traf­fic than any­one else in the world.

#37 Amer­i­cans spend more money on elec­tions than any­one else does in the world by a very wide margin.

#38 Every sin­gle year, the United States has the largest trade deficit in the world by far.

#39 The U.S. gov­ern­ment wastes more money than any other gov­ern­ment on earth does.

#40 The United States has accu­mu­lated the biggest moun­tain of gov­ern­ment debt in the his­tory of the world.

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The cost of America’s police stateAt the height of the Occupy Wall Street evic­tions, it seemed as though some diminu­tive ver­sion of “shock and awe” had stum­bled from Bagh­dad, Iraq, to Oak­land, Calif. Amer­i­can police forces had been “mil­i­ta­rized,” many com­men­ta­tors wor­ried, as though the fire­power and cal­lous tac­tics on dis­play were anom­alies, sur­prises burst­ing upon us from nowhere.

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