“God Bless the USA and the Red, White, and Blue”

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atheism, empire, freedom, God, hitler, Law, police, politicians, Religion, rights, Taxes, United States, US flag

People are always saying,  “God bless the U.S.A.”  It is like a magical mantra that is supposed to make everything better.  Sometimes,  they like to throw their magic  symbol in as well: “God bless the Red, the White,  and the Blue”.

Why should God bless the USA?  Is this country any better than any other country in the world?   When one looks at the figures,  the U.S. doesn’t seem blessed when it comes to things like life expectancy,  taxes, suicide, or limited government. Perhaps God has forgotten the Promised Land. The Old and the New Promised Lands remain in conflict with deceit on all sides.

Perhaps God doesn’t realize the large number people choosing not to believe in ghosts.   Perhaps God fails to see that the only thing gurgling down the drain faster than this country’s  prosperity is its freedoms.

Why should God bless the Red, the defilers of the body?  Near every drop of blood shed by Americans have been shed, not for peace and freedom as they’d like to think, but for empire and oppression of those far and near.  Do we forget that Germans who disagreed with Adolph’s policies still generally supported and applauded their troops?   They had fathers, sons,  and brothers to call heroes in the name of Empire, just as we.

Why should God bless the White,  the defilers of mind?   The politicians and priests of this nation never fail to steer the populace to this or the other side of the pasture.   The politicians hand out the lefts and the rights, the liberal and the conservative,  the ‘this’ and the ‘not this’. They define the political cage for all but the masters to live in.  The priests also hand out two sides: the good and evil, the right and wrong,  the guilt and forgiveness; and by the definition of morality, they profit from both sides.

Why should God bless the Blue, the defilers of spirit?  The everyday enforcers crush the spirits and the hopes of all.  There are few places one can go without their thefts and prohibitions on the lives of others.

The people of this nation love to think that freedom is available in this society.  Those who can look past the imaginary tyranny of good and evil and can see through the fine, but ever thickening, bars of our imprisonment are those who know that a better world can exist,  a world of life,  liberty,  and happiness.

On the Road to Anarchism — Law Enforcement

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Anarchism, bad cop, death, freedom, good cop, law enforcement, liberty, mafia, police, statism, stormtroopers, Taxes

We’ve all driven by the guy in the red sports car with the flashing lights behind him.  We’ve seen his new friend wielding the taxing pen and paper, or his flashlight peering into the dark interior.  Let’s face it, we’ve all thought at one time or another, “Better him than me.” Multiple times.

In the view of the gun, most of us will back down, and respect his authority.  Is the man worthy of respect?  I fear not.  The way we look at the police officer is entirely different that the respected looks we give our firefighters or other first responders.  We like to pretend it isn’t there, but it’s unavoidable.  The man carries a gun with him everywhere.  He parades with it, he brandishes it as he directs traffic, he fondles it while talking to children, and he points it at you while getting you to pull your car over.  Make no mistake, it isn’t the badge that makes people act that way, it is the gun.

Does he perform useful services to people? Absolutely.  What is the cost?  He is more than just a goon hired to help old ladies walk across the street and direct traffic around an accident.  He is a hired gun on the lowest tier of executive authority.  His main purpose isn’t to protect the peace and make sure everyone plays nicely.  His purpose is to be the face of authority, to remind us POLITELY that they are the ones in charge, and if necessary, not so politely.  His pay is extorted from us by the threat of violence, prison, and death.

I don’t care how nice of a smile he puts on.  He is little more than a hall monitor with a gun.  He hasn’t learned the high step march or high handed salute, but he is a civil stormtrooper.  He arrests victimless criminals, jails them, and demands more funds for doing so.  His duties are a microcosm of the state at large, and it is certain that his legal status and authority will grow.

It is often said, that only death and taxes are certain.  His is the face of taxes backed by threatened death.  Death remains certain, at least for now.  Taxes, we can all live without.  In fact, we can all live better without them ( except of course for the thieves feeding off of our lives ).  A peace keeper can not call himself such if he supports himself with the theft, murder, and rape of his state proclaimed area of protection.  He might not actually do any of those things himself, but neither does the Mafia Don.

We don’t know all the steps to reach a peaceful, stateless society.  We do know that it will never be accomplished as long as anyone believes they have a right to anything of your life, liberty, or pursuit of happiness and flaunts it by waving the big stick of statehood.

On the Road to Anarchism — Sweat

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Anarchy, Government, Labor, Objectivism, Philosophy, Politics, Taxes

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” — Theodore Rubin

Life isn’t an easy thing for most people, and it shouldn’t be. To have lived an easy life is to have lived an unfulfilled one. Men excel when they have difficult tasks to accomplish, whether it be just getting through life by the skin of their teeth, or a momentous work is undertaken.

Labor of some kind is the ethical way to support our lives. To not labor for one’s self and expect to feed off of another’s labor is not just cheap and lazy; it is immoral.

If a man clears off some wilderness, builds himself a home; he is completely entitled to it. It takes a lot of labor to build a home. If a dust-proof greased-hair individual from the government comes to the man and demands a room of his house to quarter in, should he just acquiesce? Hell no, I say! Send him and all of his friends packing!

Quartering looters in one’s house is no different than being hired to dig a hole, where one finds for every four shovels of dirt removed, three are put back in. Would you be pissed? I sure would.

This is also no different than the forced payment of taxes on one’s labor. It doesn’t seem as bad initially, because you have finished the job; but, in the long run, you must do more work to achieve the same effect. And since you have financed the thieving of your sweat, you further finance the thieving of more. Money taken in the name of ‘public good’, only serve to finance the thieves.

Eventually, there are too many thieves running about demanding protection money. And protection money it is; for one is threatened with death or imprisonment otherwise.

If it is declared good for some morally exempt group called government to seize one’s livelihood, then it follows that it is good for all men to steal from their brothers. This is, of course, logically false; therefore, an imagined entity like government, which can only exists as a parasite on the backs of the productive must be immoral.

One phrase supremely comes to mind when thinking not only of the value of labor, but of the value of one’s self, and one’s accomplishments, and that is the Objectivist Oath :

“I swear — by my life and my love of it — that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” says it all.