Written by current US military General
- Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain — and since labor is pain in itself — it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it.
When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor.
It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.
But, generally, the law is made by one man or one class of men. And since law cannot operate without the sanction and support of a dominating force, this force must be entrusted to those who make the laws.
This fact, combined with the fatal tendency that exists in the heart of man to satisfy his wants with the least possible effort, explains the almost universal perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of the people, their personal independence by slavery, their liberty by oppression, and their property by plunder. This is done for the benefit of the person who makes the law, and in proportion to the power that he holds.
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims. Thus, when plunder is organized by law for the profit of those who make the law, all the plundered classes try somehow to enter — by peaceful or revolutionary means — into the making of laws. According to their degree of enlightenment, these plundered classes may propose one of two entirely different purposes when they attempt to attain political power: Either they may wish to stop lawful plunder, or they may wish to share in it.
Woe to the nation when this latter purpose prevails among the mass victims of lawful plunder when they, in turn, seize the power to make laws!
…But it is also true that a man may live and satisfy his wants by seizing and consuming the products of the labor of others. This process is the origin of plunder.
WE CANNOT BE PERCIEVED THIS WAY >>>>> Welcome To Bergeron!
by Tyler DurdenSat, 10/10/2020 – 20:00TwitterFacebookRedditEmailPrint
America is becoming Bergeron – a new country based on the principles laid out in Kurt Vonnegut’s depressingly prescient short story, Harrison Bergeron.
It is a country in which – as in the book – you may not act if anyone of lesser strength or ability or drive cannot act at the same level. You must accommodate yourself to their level.
Everything is leveled – ever downward.
Until all are depressingly . . . equal.
In misery. In poverty. In thrall to suffocating edicts limiting what they are permitted to do – and told they must not do – on the basis of what others can’t do. Or resent you for being able to do, which they can’t.
One of the most obvious expressions of this principle is on the road, where the law punishes competence as a kind of affront to the incompetent. If some people can’t handle making a right turn on red without creeping out in front of right-of-way traffic and causing a wreck thereby, no one else is allowed to make a right-on-red. If someone ignores the law forbidding it and makes a right-on-red safely and competently, by judging the flow of traffic and applying the necessary degree of acceleration to merge with it smoothly, he is punished for being competent.
For having ability – and daring to use it.
Some will say that, no, the offender ignored the law. True – but only superficially.
Consider that the competent execution of the action isn’t a mitigating factor. Just as health is no excuse for not Diapering.
Which is proof positive that the true offense – not mentioned but nonetheless – is lack of obedience premised on the acceptance of incompetence (and sickness) even in its absence.
At the first hint of snow, the roads are now inundated with liquid brine – if they’re not closed outright, as in my part of Virginia – where the Blue Ridge Parkway is closed even before it snows, stays closed if it doesn’t actually snow . . . because it might snow.
Because some people can’t deal with snow.
Highway speed limits are today what they were 60 years go – notwithstanding 60 years of improvements in tire/brake/suspension technology and half a dozen “safety assists” in addition to that.
Glaucomic granny sets the pace.
And now – because granny might die – everyone is treated as if they, too, were a granny and might die.
Healthy people at very little to no risk of death from catching a cold must live in perpetual fear of death. If they don’t fear it, having no reason to – they must be forced to act – and look – as if they did.
For the sake of those who do fear it.
Instead of sequestering granny, everyone else is sequestered.
And Diapered.
Soon, they will be Needled. Not because they need it – being healthy – but because some people aren’t. Everyone must be made unhealthy – by injecting them with substances that make them so, which suppress the competence of their own healthy immune system to ward off colds.
A public sneeze will soon be treated the same as spraying a crowd with machine gun fire – and there are Bergeronites who equate the two. Even if you don’t sneeze. Because you might.
Ergo, the Diaper.
It’s as vindictive a policy as forcing people who can drive to operate at the level of those who can’t – and punishing them if they don’t.
It all flows from the same ugly principle. The Sickness Regime is merely the latest and entirely predictable evolution of least common denominatorism – the Bergeroning of America.
It has been evolving for a long time, gradually – until it reached a critical mass – gesundheit! – this year.
Decades before the locking-down of the healthy population to protect the unhealthy portion of the population, it became common practice – in government schools – to limit the progression of instruction of the bright kids to accommodate the dullest kids.
It was called “mainstreaming.”
When kids played team sports, participation trophies were handed out to everyone in lieu of trophies for winning.
Adults lacking ability were hired for jobs over those with ability. This was called “affirmative action” – and it worked in the same way (and on the basis of the same motives) as forcing a champion sprinter to run in boots so that a mediocre rival could keep up with him.
Because some people can’t use a rearview mirror, everyone must be forced to buy a back-up camera. Because some people are terrible drivers when sober, the slightest amount of alcohol in the system of a good driver subjects him to a charge of “drunk” driving without regard to his actual driving.
Everything has to be idiot-proofed . . . for the sake of the idiots at the expense of those who aren’t.
People with the foresight to live below their means, who set aside money for their own retirement, are punished for their prudence by being forced to “contribute” money to subsidize the retirement of the imprudent, thereby rendering them just as dependent.
People who can competently handle a firearm – having never given reason to believe otherwise – are presumed incompetent to handle a firearm on account of the demonstrated incompetence of other people.
And now, the healthy must pretend they are sick – and be treated as presumptively sick. The fact that they aren’t isn’t a mitigating factor. In fact, it is a kind of perverse crime in that they are punished for living normally – on the basis of the fact that they aren’t sick.
This is being characterized as “selfish.”
It is an actionable offense in many areas.
Granny isn’t forced to enter a restaurant – and can enter wearing a Face Diaper if she likes.That’s not Bergeronic enough. The restaurant must force all of its employees and patrons to wear a Face Diaper.
Every level of American society is being pulled toward the floor like a tablecloth grabbed by a temper-tantruming toddler – who will never be allowed to grow up – by making the adults at the table sit on the floor, amid the spilled soup and broken plates.
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2) What AOC And Bernie Sanders Don’t Understand About “Free Education”
So many falsehoods here .. needs rebuttle write up
by Tyler DurdenWed, 03/27/2019 – 15:2599SHARESTwitterFacebookRedditEmailPrint
Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,
Bernie Sanders believes that FREE university education a “right, not a privilege.”
His fellow Bolshevik, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also believes that tuition-free university “forms the basis of human dignity” and should be provided for free by any “moral society.”
They aren’t alone in holding these beliefs.
A recent survey conducted by CNBC shows that 60% of Americans support free university.
But what most of these people fail to realize is that there’s an enormous difference between an education and a university degree.
There’s obviously nothing wrong with a university degree. And for some professions they’re vital.
But a university degree is just an expensive piece of paper; it doesn’t actually confer any real knowledge.
An education, on the other hand, develops skills and mental agility to create real value in the world.
And while a university degree can cost you an enormous amount of money (students in America have taken out $1.4 trillion in student debt), an education can be completely free.
There are thousands of free resources out there that people can take advantage of to learn valuable skills.
For example, companies like Microsoft will teach you programming languages – for FREE – and then encourage you to apply for a job with them.
That’s an incredible opportunity to learn real-world, applicable skills that you can use to create an income for yourself.
In the same vein, Google recently announced a partnership with 120,000 libraries across the US to teach people how to code.
And 96% of Americans live near a library.
(That is not counting the thousands of other books you can learn from – for free – at the library.)
There are also websites (like edX.org) where you can take dozens of courses from places like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, etc., all for free.
So every time I hear someone whining about wanting free university education, I always ask them how many online courses they’ve taken. How many books have they read?
I typically receive nothing more than a confused look in return.
But that’s the nature of entitlements: people feel that they should have everything provided for them without having to lift a finger to help themselves.
This mentality is becoming an epidemic in the West.
The Bolsheviks like to talk about education as an ‘investment’. And, to be fair, a more educated society is likely more productive, safer, and prosperous.
But to demand that the entire country invest in people who refuse to invest in themselves first – that’s absolutely ludicrous… and almost guarantees a BAD investment.
Personally I have a number of philanthropic activities and genuinely enjoy doing what I can to help people.
Not too long ago I helped out a wounded US Army veteran who had lost his leg in Afghanistan.
He had been abandoned by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs, and was trying to raise close to $100,000 to have a new surgical procedure performed overseas.
(It was a ridiculous story– the FDA had banned the procedure in the US because they had deemed it ‘unsafe’. Unlike being deployed to Afghanistan, which they apparently think is perfectly safe.)
This guy Joe didn’t wallow in self-pity. He was busting his ass, using every resource he could find to fix his own problem.
That’s exactly the type of person I like to invest in– because you know they won’t squander your investment. They’ll cherish it and grow from it.
I invested in Joe… and as a result of his surgery, he not only danced at his wedding and participated in a 5K, but the FDA has now approved the procedure in large part to his success.
That was a great investment.
Let’s be honest– a lot of people waste away in university. They skip classes, drink beer, and learn nothing.
Others work their butts off to learn and live as much as they can, and genuinely become better people as a result.
This notion of treating them all the same, and investing equally in each of them, is beyond insane.