We Are Not The Government

Martin Rewrites: Anatomy of the State, Part 2

What the Government Is

Humans are born with infinite needs and desires. We shelter and feed ourselves using natural resources and the energy within each individual, one must use more energy and resources to do so. When we apply our ideas to resources, we create property, a natural extension of the individual who created it. The individual owns the results of his or her own actions.

Additionally, humans have learned that trading ideas, resources and property allow for substantially better living conditions for everyone involved. This spontaneous order is the only natural way for any individual and/or group to better their lives without violating others. This idea that humans have the right to keep or freely exchange the products of their labor is called the free market.

The second method of obtaining resources is somewhat easier, but can be risky. By taking resources from others, the individual does not have to be productive in any meaningful way. It only requires a knowledge of violence and coercion, and the willingness to use them against others. This can be a dangerous way to obtain resources, as others may try to stop you from taking the products of their labor. This is theft, also known as "the political means."

Since we've determined that the free market is the natural path for humans, it should be equally clear that theft is contrary to human nature. It is the nature of a parasite, and does not add to the overall wealth of humanity; it subtracts from it. 

When people use theft to obtain resources, they send economic signals to productive people to either hide their excess resources, or stop producing more than is needed. In this way, the thief destroys his own resource supply by removing the incentive to produce excess goods to trade with other people. It is an unsustainable, and unnatural. 

Since those who use the economic means are known to protect their resources, taking goods from others uncertain business, and can sometimes be dangerous. To reduce this risk of retribution, predators have set up a system that allows for a relatively orderly, systematic channel to obtain private property.

We can now better answer the question of what is government. It is simply a group of people who use the political means to obtain wealth in an organized fashion. This group uses violence (or the threats thereof) to take goods from productive people within a given geographical territory. 

Historically, all governments have arisen from violence, starting with the first tribe that realized it would be more productive to let a conquered tribe continue to live and produce goods, than it would be to loot and murder. This way, the conquerors can demand regular tributes, providing for a steady, secure means of plunder.

Let us take this anecdote as an example. In the valley of "Ruraland," a group of outlaws manages to physically control the area. The leader makes himself the "President of the Independent Government of the Valley of Ruraland," proclaims his men to be "federal leaders," and holds elections for local government representation. Thus, a new nation and a new government is born.

Disclaimer: This is my attempt at simplifying the book "Anatomy of the State," written by Murray N. Rothbard. This is not a plagiarized writing; it is my interpretation, and is paraphrased from the writing. For the full text, please click here: Anatomy of the State.

Martin Rewrites: Anatomy of the State

What Government Is Not

Most people consider government to be a social service, a tool to ensure security for the population and regulation of business and economy. Most say it should be used to achieve the goals of humanity. And most would say it is an absolutely necessary.

In democracies, people self-identify as being part of the government, even if they don't hold office, or work for a government agency. The common refrain is "we are the government," an idea that confuses "society" with "government."

Using the word "we" allows people to ignore the reality of political life. If "we are are the government," then anything the government does, "we" do. If government goes into debt to fund social services, then "we" go into debt because "we owed it to ourselves." Drafting soldiers becomes acceptable, because the individual soldier is really just a part of the "we" group, and no rights have been violated. When government throws peaceful protesters in jail, the protesters are essentially throwing themselves in jail, and no brutality could be said to have occurred. Using this logic, anyone killed by their own government weren't murdered; they actually "committed suicide."

Obviously, this is preposterous, and makes it clear that "we" are NOT the government, and the government is NOT "us."

It must also be made clear that government can't represent "us," because a true representative always follows orders and can only represent one person's opinion at a time. Additionally, a representative could be fired at any time. Government could never fulfill these requirements.

Since "we" are not the government, what is government?

Government is a group of people who use force and violence in order to maintain authority over other people. Government is a group of people who claim the sole right to use the threat of violence, arrest and jailing to extract income from another group of people and the only group of people who claim the right to regulate the actions of an individual person or groups of people within their borders.

Disclaimer: This is my attempt at simplifying the book "Anatomy of the State," written by Murray N. Rothbard. This is not a plagiarized writing; it is my interpretation, and is paraphrased from the writing. For the full text, please click here: Anatomy of the State.

Spokane, Wash. Sheriff says petition for oversight is a political move

Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich says that a petition with 1,000 signatures asking for more police oversight is purely a political move, and has nothing to do with actual oversight. He says that his department already has oversight in the form of the Citizens Advisory Board, made up of community members that he selected, which meets once a month.

The petitioners say that they are merely responding to recent incidents involving use of force, and apparent conflict of interest in having a group of investigators appointed by those who are accused of the crime.

“This isn’t a partisan issue,” said Rick Eichstaedt, director of the Center for Justice and one of the petition organizers. “It’s a good government issue.”

Knezovich recently defended a deputy who said that the department needed an armored vehicle because of increased violence against police, specifically a threat posed by “constitutionalists”. 

“He wasn’t talking about you and I, the American people that love the constitution, he talking about people that do bad things, that hate their government enough to take up arms and kill people”, says Knezovitch.

Included in his list of ‘extremists’ are the armed protesters at Bundy Ranch in Nevada, when Federal Officials attempted to capture, impound and remove ‘trespass cattle’ from open range. To Knezovich, Cliven Bundy is a criminal, and those who protected him are complicit in his crimes. 

Knezovich says that the petition is a political move started by opponents such as Republican State Representative Matt Shea, former Spokane County Commissioner Bonnie Mager and Doug Orr, who unsuccessfully ran for the sheriff’s position last fall. However, petitioners say that this is the same oversight that the sheriff campaigned on during last year’s election. 

“I don’t see this as something that should be threatening to him,” said Rick Eichstaedt, director of the Center for Justice and a petition organizer. “It’s something he ran on.”

Sources:

http://spokanepublicradio.org/post/sheriff-warns-extremists

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/sep/03/oversight-spokane-county-sheriff-petition/

Tell me again - Why am I supposed to 'support the troops?

 The United States government under the Obama administration (like that matters anyway), is on a mission to terrorize the world. They justify killing, because they're not doing the killing themselves. The troops are doing the killing, without questioning orders. They end up terrorizing peaceful people.

What It’s Like to Be Hit By a Drone Strike

"The following account is taken from an important and devastating new report on America's drone program, from law professors at Stanford and NYU. The report, "Living Under Drones: Death, Injury and Trauma to Civilians From US Drone Practices in Pakistan," is a deeply researched condemnation of how American drone strikes are terrorizing a civilian population in the name of national security."

The sad thing is, no one can really even agree what the body count is, or if it's actually effective.

Not Even the White House Knows the Drones’ Body Count

"Government officials claim they’re ultra-precise killing machines that never, ever miss their targets. Outside groups say they’re covered in children’s blood. The fact is no one has a clue exactly how many militants and how many innocents have been slain in the U.S. drone war that spans from Pakistan to Somalia. Remember that before you start your next Twitter feud about the drone war."

Stop the drones! They're about to be used on us! Well, maybe not with weapons (yet), but definitely to spy on us. Why do police need drones? Can they not do them themselves?

Seattle Police Dept. has permission to operate drones

"The Seattle Police Department is one of 50 organizations that have received permission from the federal government to operat unmanned aerial vehicles -- AKA drones."

 Drone Use Takes Off on the Home Front

"With little public attention, dozens of universities and law-enforcement agencies have been given approval by federal aviation regulators to use unmanned aircraft known as drones, according to documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests by an advocacy group."

So, if supporting the troops leads to actions like these, tell me again - why am I supposed to support the troops?

Were the Aurora Shootings a False Flag? Is this Proof?

Ok, it's not "proof," as an absolute, but do you think it's compelling?

You should read this and check out the links (I added a few below). You can ask my wife what I said about this guy (the 'suspect') and the blood trail on the sidewalk from a picture I saw a few days after this shooting happened (I thought James Holmes had been framed and drugged). Then you can ask me why I mistrust authority.

The court documents from a witness the police tried to recruit to falsely testify.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/105211790/Motion-to-Intervene-in-James-Holmes-Case

The original article that broke the story.
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2012/09/aurora_theater_shooting_james_holmes_police_chief_illuminati.php?page=2

The video above (of course).

Evidence that there was an accomplice, the police knew this would be happening and the blood trail did not lead to where they supposedly found James Holmes.
http://theintelhub.com/2012/07/27/colorado-batman-shooting-second-gas-mask-found-on-the-scene-neck-wound-blood-trail-cover-up-questions-and-more/

And there's even more! Somebody give me rational explanations. Anyone?!?!?!

Life's A Drone - Then You Get Hacked

Texas college hacks government drone

This is the most awesome thing ever! A group of students in Austin, TX told the Department of Homeland Security that they could hack a drone, and DHS dared them to do it. So, $1000 worth of equipment, a little bit of ingenuity, and a homemade hacking system later, viola! A hacked drone!


Of course, the media feeds into the cultural fear that has become America. They tell us that this means that if some college students can do it, so can the terrorists. Soon, they'll be taking over the thousands of drones that are set to watch our sky starting in a few years! Those terrorist will be flying them into buildings and not even killing themselves! What are we going to do? The fear is too great!

Come on, people! Wake up! We can't let drones take over our airspace. We need to take back our freedoms, deny them the ability to spy on us. We need to stop the use of drones in America. Call your senator, your mayor, your sheriff's department and demand that drones not be used in your city, county and state. I'm not statist, and I don't condone anything the government does, but these people are meant to serve our needs, even if they do so with violence.