{"id":14022,"date":"2011-01-25T23:55:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T06:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14022"},"modified":"2011-01-25T23:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T06:55:18","slug":"heads-up-america-slavery-is-not-somehow-virtuous-when-you-enslave-each-other-if-you-want-freedom-you-must-demand-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14022\/heads-up-america-slavery-is-not-somehow-virtuous-when-you-enslave-each-other-if-you-want-freedom-you-must-demand-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads up, America: Slavery is not somehow virtuous when you enslave each other. If you want freedom, you must demand freedom."},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the political issue that matters: Government is crime.<\/p>\n

When your local City Hall tells you which trees you must plant in your yard, that’s a crime against you.<\/p>\n

When your state taxes your income in order to give your money to people who did not earn it, that’s a crime against you.<\/p>\n

When the federal government dictates the specifications of the products you can buy and the tariffs you must pay to obtain products you want still more, that’s a crime against you.<\/p>\n

We are not<\/em> a family composed of 300 million strangers, we are each one of us individual human beings, each with our own minds, our own lives, our own families, our own hopes, dreams, wishes and plans. When the government impedes your life in any way — that’s a crime against you.<\/p>\n

We don’t need to reduce this or reform that, we need to rid our civilization of this systemic criminality.<\/p>\n

That<\/em> is the message we should be hearing from the newly-elected presumptive friends of human liberty. If the new Congress is not committed to individual<\/em> rights, then it\u2019s just more Collectivism-on-the-Cheap: All the intrusiveness but even less<\/em> satisfying!<\/p>\n

Nobody is going to change anything overnight, nor very dramatically very soon. But if we don’t start making dramatic changes in the way we govern ourselves, we will succeed only in enslaving ourselves and our children.<\/p>\n

That<\/em> is what we need to focus on: Ridding our society of all criminal intrusions into the lives of individuals innocent of all wrong-doing.<\/p>\n

So-called technological and economic “miracles” will result, of course, but that’s irrelevant. It is wrong to prey upon individual human beings, no matter what the nature of the predator. It is no less an abomination to be enslaved by a democracy than by an aristocracy or a dictatorship. It was freedom from all<\/em> forms of tyranny that the American patriots fought to win for themselves and their children.<\/p>\n

If you want freedom, demand freedom — which can only mean individual<\/em> freedom. Demand that your governments stop committing crimes against you and your neighbors.<\/p>\n

If you’re not willing to do this, you and the people you elect to represent you Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the political issue that matters: Government is crime. When your local City Hall tells you which trees you must plant in your yard, that’s a crime against you. When your state taxes your income in order to give your money to people who did not earn it, that’s a crime against you. When the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15266,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15266\/the-role-of-information-hiding-in-keeping-all-of-us-enslaved-to-the-state\/","url_meta":{"origin":14022,"position":0},"title":"The role of information hiding in keeping all of us enslaved to the state.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"This is from my book Janio at a Point. 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