Wars are mass-murder, huge theft, and unrelenting propaganda. On this nation they’re profitable abroad entanglements, as authorities diverts loot from taxpayers to the struggle trade. They’re additionally perpetual, as struggle ornaments the sanctity of the state in addition to offering grounds for elevated plunder of its inhabitants. Wars are authorities as Houdini—drawing consideration to the bloody far-away whereas relieving consideration on the corrupt close-at-hand. For the victor, the propaganda is inked as fact within the historical past books. Warfare is the well being of the state, Randolph Bourne concluded, however not for the individuals underneath it:
Within the freest of republics in addition to in probably the most tyrannical of empires, all international coverage, the diplomatic negotiations which produce or forestall struggle, are equally the personal property of the Government a part of the Authorities, and are equally uncovered to no test no matter from common our bodies, or the individuals voting as a mass themselves.
Authorities-controlled financial coverage is canopy for counterfeiting, an insidious type of taxation that creates gross financial distortions and inequalities. Presidential elections are extravagant contests between straw males owned by these behind the throne. Formal schooling is indoctrination into dominant narratives. The US Structure is a feel-good distraction from the larceny and depravity of the political class.
Blogger J.D. Breen has revealed a short historical past of the twenty first century in two elements (right here and right here). “As final century was launched when the Maine sank in Havana harbor, this one turned when the Twin Towers had been toppled. . . . The remnants of the U.S. Structure went within the shredder.” Stunning, however not stunning, he mentioned, given the destruction wrought by US intervention in Muslim international locations over the many years.
However authorities, as we’ve realized, isn’t accountable for wrong-doing. If it was, it might suggest the state is fallible, a blasphemous concept.
As a substitute of blaming their very own covert coups and navy misadventures, authorities officers advised us “the terrorists hated us for our freedoms”. So to maintain us protected, they stripped extra of them away.
They invaded international locations they’d already needed to beat, cracked down on the one they already dominated, and counterfeited trillions of latest forex so we might pay for his or her “errors”.
In response to a Brown College report, the estimated whole price of the post-9/11 authorities journey was $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths. And what of 9/11 itself? Was it merely a coincidence that it amounted to the New Pearl Harbor sought by the neocon assume tank, the Undertaking for the New American Century (1997-2006)? Is it potential the distinctive nation is totally devoid of ethical scruples?
It’s not as if our situation has improved since then—see Half II of Breen’s historical past. And what can we make of the top section of the continued genocide in Gaza, carried out by Israel, funded involuntarily by US taxpayers? Or the proxy struggle in Ukraine, one other wealth- and lives-draining operation? Or the regime’s struggle on the First Modification following the assassination of a beloved conservative activist?
“We will need to have authorities,” Robert Higgs wrote in chapter one in every of his basic, Disaster and Leviathan, initially revealed in 1988. “With out authorities to defend us from exterior aggression, protect home order, outline and implement property rights, few of us might obtain a lot.” Since then, Dr. Higgs has taken a special perspective:
Everybody can see the immense hurt the state causes day in and time out, to not point out its periodic orgies of mass dying and destruction. Prior to now century alone, states prompted a whole lot of thousands and thousands of deaths, to not the combatants on either side of the various wars they launched, whose casualties loom giant sufficient, however to “their very own” populations, whom they’ve chosen to shoot, bomb, shell, hack, stab, beat, fuel, starve, work to dying, and in any other case obliterate in methods too grotesque to ponder calmly.
But, virtually incomprehensibly, individuals worry that with out the state’s supposedly all-important safety, society will lapse into dysfunction and folks will endure grave hurt.
And for assurance we will do it if we strive, as I’ve quoted many instances, from Thomas Paine:
There’s a pure aptness in man, and extra so in society, as a result of it embraces a higher number of talents and assets, to accommodate itself to no matter scenario it’s in. The moment formal authorities is abolished, society begins to behave: a normal affiliation takes place, and customary curiosity produces widespread safety.
If we wish a constant, ethical way of living we should always let the engine of prosperity and peace, the laissez-faire free market, which means a market unobstructed by authorities, function our governing equipment, not “authorities” as we’ve identified it.
A Revised Delivery Certificates
The next is, at finest, a draft of what a brand new Declaration of Independence—Declaration of Independence from the American state—would possibly appear like:
When within the Course of human occasions, it turns into crucial for one individuals to dissolve the political bands which have linked them with one other, an honest respect for the opinions of mankind requires they need to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We maintain these truths to be self-evident, that each one individuals possess sure inalienable rights, that amongst these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness; that to safe these rights, we acknowledge that sovereignty resides with every individual solely, that we’re free to contract with safety companies for cover of life and property, as we choose crucial.
We additional maintain that the American state secures its false sovereignty by a monopoly of pressure over the realm comprising its claimed boundaries, which by repeated infractions of our pure liberties threaten our survival, prosperity, and normal well-being.
Although prudence will dictate that governance lengthy established shouldn’t be modified for mild and transient causes, we maintain that our American society is approaching full collapse because of the state’s technique of governance, consisting of, however not restricted to:
- Plunder of the individuals by huge and sophisticated schemes of taxation;
- State management of the financial unit by its central financial institution, the Federal Reserve, that produces extreme financial inequalities, periodic crises, and crushing debt;
- Suicidal international coverage with an end-of-civilization nuclear part;
- Onerous rules that fatten administrative state features whereas draining wealth from those that produce it;
- Corrupt elections and corruption of elected officers by different states;
- State-controlled schooling and media that ensures most well-liked narratives stay unchallenged from mainstream sources;
- Quite a few false flags used to violate our freedom and security whereas justifying struggle;
- Propaganda, an ongoing stream of lies and deceptions;
- Widespread psychological issues, together with drug and alcohol dependancy
We, subsequently, as voluntary signatories to this Declaration, declare we’re absolved from all allegiance to the American state, and that each one political connection between it and us is hereby completely dissolved. And, for the assist of this Declaration, ought to the state refuse to acknowledge our freedom, we mutually pledge to one another our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
