Therefore, I oppose government.
Therefore, I oppose legislation (counterfeit “law”).
Therefore, I oppose the existence of "law enforcement" (police).
Therefore, I oppose traffic police.
If traffic cops are to exist anyway, even though they shouldn't, then they must not be allowed to make contact with anyone who cannot be clearly seen with the naked eye, driving dangerously.
If the "offense" relies on technology such as radar, traffic cameras, or a breathalyzer to detect, it's not real. It's certainly not worth robbing or killing people over.
All governments violate natural human rights and therefore forfeit their privilege to exist.
All governments are communist.
All are fascist.
All are authoritarian tyrannies.
All governments are criminal operations.
Including the one you believe in.
The only distinguishing factor is how much power they each have.
The more powerful they are, the more they violate rights.
The more criminality they can get away with.
The more important it is to eradicate them from the fabric of the Universe.
A "limited government" would be the same, but would have a bit less power until it escaped its limits. Which it would. Government can not be limited. It will not allow us mere peasants, pointing to founding documents, to limit it. It knows what's best for us. And it means to govern us with whatever cruelty it takes to make us understand this.
Walk away. Stop complying. And then, when it insists we aren't "allowed" to do that, bring out the torches, pitchforks, and tar and feathers. Liberty is ours to claim... or reclaim. No government can change that fact.
Uberti, the Italian reproduction gunmaker, is going to start making and selling a replica of the Volcanic pistol!
I've wanted one of these guns for decades- ever since I first saw one in a book on guns of the Old West.
Malcolm Reynolds' pistol in Firefly (and the one in Serenity) reminded me of the Volcanic in some ways, and that made me want one even more. (Until someone starts making a working model of that gun.)
No one made Volcanic replicas (that I could find), and the originals were a wee bit out of my price range.
At least I have time to save up for it, since it's not for sale yet, and many times gun companies' time estimates are a little overly optimistic. So, maybe in the next few years, as long as everything goes well.
I'm assuming the internals will be improved over the originals- the video may have hinted at that. It will also be chambered for modern .380 ACP ammo, rather than "rocket ball" ammo, which is a good thing.
I am determined to get one of these. I've never decided to get a specific gun before it even came on the market. Until now. I also know that getting an early production model means more potential problems. I don't even care.
Now the question will be, 6" or 8" barrel? And will it fit the Malcolm Reynolds belt holster I got as a gift several years ago?
Words such as "marketplace", "rights". and even the word "liberty" itself!
Orwell predicted it. Or noticed it, since government has probably always done this.
If government can confuse you about what words mean and cause you to think they might mean the opposite of what they've meant before, then government can prevent you from thinking clearly. It can make some concepts literally unthinkable.
ObamaCare is the opposite of a health care "marketplace", even if that's the word they use to label it.
Rights are the opposite of privileges, even though government wants you to believe you only have the right to do what they approve of- which is what a privilege is.
And liberty does not mean "temporarily, with permission", like government uses the word in a military context.
Dishonest and deceptive to the core!
Do what you want and use words however you prefer, but if you buy- and use- the government definitions, you're not helping people understand liberty.
This illustration could be my parents talking to me. We actually had this conversation- although it was decades ago. Most likely while I was in high school; before I'd heard of libertarians and when I probably thought anarchists were bushy-mustached bomb throwers.
But, that assumption about the system is wrong. Anyone who thinks this way is wrong. It’s the best system they can imagine or are willing to consider; not the best there is or could be. Not even close.
They are far from being alone in this belief. The vast majority of humans, regardless of the specific system they find themselves yoked with, share this delusion.
Only govschooling or some other intensive cult indoctrination could brainwash people to this point.
Again, as happens so often, I wonder how I dodged that bullet.. or if I'd be better off believing the lies with the rest of them.
America is a country- I would prefer the term "region", but it is what it is. America is the land and the people of that specific region. Once, it was also a culture; for some, it still may be. Few understand the foundation of that culture anymore, but imagine it was something cheaper that they prefer.
North America is a continent; a land mass- just like South America and Australia are different continents. America is located on the continent of North America, along with Mexico, Canada, Costa Rica, Honduras, and several others.
The US (or "USA") is a government, a criminal organization infesting the country of America on the continent of North America. The US is the greatest enemy America has ever faced. It is opposed to everything America once stood for. Either you love America, or you support the US; trying to straddle that fence is impossible.
Govschool and other schools modeled after govschgool are the reason most people are unable to understand distinctions such as these.
So, to me, most virtue signaling is counterproductive. It accomplishes the opposite of what was intended.
But, I'm thinking this may be because if it's something I agree with, I don't consider it "virtue signaling", but just being a decent person. I assume those I disagree with see their side the same way.
Humans are weird, and politics makes people stupid.
If a cop is doing something that everyone everywhere has a natural human right to do, then I have no grounds for opposing them.
When I oppose them, it’s because they are doing something no one has the right to do, and they imagine the uniform and badge create the "right" out of thin air, just for them.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of things cops do, as part of the “job”, are in the second category. That’s when, if I’m to have worthwhile principles, I must oppose them.
Having principles is incompatible with an elite government "job" (maybe with any government "job"). A commitment to stop violating the natural human right to be armed at all times requires strong principles that don't bend to pressure from the crooked cowards who make and enforce rules. They are a powerful pressure group.
Wanna bet the next TCLA will be even worse?
It brings me no joy to hear of an entrepreneur being taxed.
It doesn't make me happy to know of someone being arrested or imprisoned for violating some counterfeit "law".
I dislike seeing anyone being governed. Even if I think they deserve it for advocating for others to be governed or violating others in some other way. There are better ways of dealing with any problem.
Until more people feel as I do, it will be impossible to throw off the yoke of political government. It's a "Do unto others because it is done unto me" situation, which gets us nowhere worth going.
They know government is the problem and that it is evil, and in unguarded moments seem almost libertarian, but for whatever reason, they just prefer keeping The State around.
Sometimes their reasons are religious, and other times they are cultural. Normally, it comes down to them hating someone or something more than they hate government.
They don't realize that government is the biggest threat to the things they value. They can't quite think that clearly.
Still, they sometimes have good insights and can be amusing. But I don't get caught up in their moral panics or their flawed reasons for the things they advocate.
George Carlin pointed out how dumb the "average person" is, then reminded us that half are dumber than that. Scary!
OK. That's fine. There are plenty of things I'm not smart about. I can admit it.
If liberty is going to prevail, it's going to need to win over a lot of the below average people.
I love liberty enough that I'm willing to try to make it simple enough for them to understand. It can be done, by me or someone smarter than me, without compromising anything. Liberty isn't that complicated.
I love liberty more than I love feeling superior. How about you?
I point out that, according to the Second Amendment, all anti-gun rules are illegal. They ask if I'm OK with that, and if not, what I'm going to do about it.
Here's what I will continue to do:
I'll ignore their rules as much as possible, but I'm not going to beg the criminals to stop being criminals. It's not in their nature, nor in their interests. I may as well beg the wind to stop blowing.
It's the same way with all the other rules they make up to violate life, liberty, and property. Do you really think they'll stop if called on it? Do you believe you have another way to make them stop? V*ting? Petitioning? Memes? Speeches? Logic? They're immune to all that. They only understand power- and they have it.
They won't stop.
Violating life, liberty, and property has to hurt, BAD, immediately for them to decide to stop. And they've set things up where this is unlikely to happen.
You're better off figuring out ways around them than wasting your time begging them to change.
You can't tax a robot because robots own nothing. If you pretend to tax a robot, you're only taxing the human who owns the robot. You are stealing a portion of that robot's value from the owner of the robot.
Even if you ignore that inconvenient fact, the money is still going to fund government.
You're diverting money away from the economy and dumping it down a black hole of desperation and misery.
Funding government is always the unethical choice.
You can change your beliefs.
You can keep your beliefs while suffering the discomfort of others not agreeing with you.
You can use threats and aggression to force others to adopt your flawed beliefs (or act as though they did).
Statism always seems to choose the path of coercion. The path of trying to make reality irrelevant by forcing people to ignore it- or else.
This is how you know they are wrong.
Part of the evidence for this is that they'll call you a Democrat any time you disagree with them for being irrational.
Just like the Democrats call you a Republican any time you disagree with them for being irrational.
I feel a little bad that reality just doesn't support their beliefs, but that's not my fault, nor is it my responsibility to coddle them in their distress.
My responsibility is to not archate, and not demand that others do so on my behalf. Other than that, they'll have to work it out on their own- and calling me names won't help them get there.
Saturday morning (around 3:30am), I dreamed of a rocket explosion. In my dream, I was watching the launch of a rocket with a center core and 2 side boosters. Just as the engines fired, there was an explosion at the bottom of the center core, just above the nozzle/s, and the whole thing blew apart, mostly destroying the launch mount as well.
I’m not sure if the rocket in my dream was a SpaceX Falcon Heavy, NASA’s SLS, or another rocket. When I woke up, I felt like it was SLS, which is scheduled to launch soon, but that wasn't part of the dream.
Either way, I hope this doesn’t come true- I don’t like rockets being lost, and I certainly don’t want a manned rocket exploding with people on board. Not even government employees.
I figured I'd document this, making a record that would show precognition if it came to pass (which I think makes it less likely to happen, since the Universe seems averse to precognition being demonstrable).
Update: It wasn’t the Artemis II launch, and I’m glad of that!
The more things they turn into "crimes", the less respect the "normies" will have for their "laws". Some might even end up having contempt for "the law" like I do.
Not contempt for real Law, but for legislation and arbitrary government rules; counterfeit "laws".
Government supremacists get very upset over me pointing out counterfeit "laws"- they demand to know how I can arbitrarily decide which laws are real and which ones aren't.
But it's not arbitrary at all.
If they weren't so concerned with defending a criminal organization and its evil rules, they could see it for themselves. Counterfeit "law" is having consequences, and those will only get more obvious. I don't expect the State's addiction to counterfeit "law" to be cured. I expect it to get worse. I expect more and more people to gradually start seeing it for what it is. I expect less and less respect for "the law" over time.
Statists (and Statanists) have only themselves to blame, but they'll never face reality. They'll try to put the blame everywhere but on themselves. It will be their downfall. It can't happen soon enough.
He is a hero for free speech and against cops doing what cops feel entitled to do.
If there was to be a lawsuit, this was how it had to turn out if justice is to prevail. The loser cops had to also lose in court, not just in life.
He'd better watch his back, though, because that gang doesn't like being mocked, even though they deserve it so much. If he is the victim of a drive-by shooting anytime in the next few years, I will assume the Blue Line Mafia is 100% responsible. No matter who they find to blame as their scapegoat.
Stay safe, Afroman!
But, I haven't felt like doing anything. Or writing anything.
I did make the mistake of going on X- the cat videos are nice- but I see things posted by people who really ought to know better that make me feel even worse.
I just can't believe the lengths people will go to when trying to justify government. People who really should know better, and who I think would be ashamed if they had enough self-awareness to realize what they're saying.
I even had someone (who should know better) respond to something I wrote a couple of days ago, saying if you don't like being governed, you can revoke your citizenship any time. A different spin on the "Love it or leave it" nonsense.
They said no one may have the right to govern, but "we the people" gave them the "authority" to govern in 1788. Funny, but I wasn't there, and I did no such thing.
We really are going to have to get used to being outlaws if we are to hang on to any shred of liberty. Those who should be on our side are all too happy to sacrifice us and our liberty to The State, just so they can keep the parts of government they like. Idiots.
Refusing to be used by you doesn't violate your rights. You have no right to use others.
If you have a mutual understanding that you'll do some specific thing for someone, that's not what I'm talking about when I say "being used". That's just being helpful or useful, voluntarily of your own free will. Consent is the key.
As much as I hate mowing and yard work, I do it for my parents to be helpful. I don't resent it or feel like I am being used. They've done things for me, too.
Being used can create resentment and devalue you. It's akin to slavery. Being useful can make you feel good, even if it's not particularly enjoyable in and of itself.
Government employees don't get this distinction (almost by definition), but many freelancers also don't get it. Governing others is just another way of using others; of controlling them in ways no one has a right to do. It's not exclusive to bureaucrats and other political criminals.
Refusing to be controlled, in this case, can be a valid form of self-defense. The control freaks won't like it.
