Government makes me think of "Lesters: America's Cheapest Ammunition". It also "usually" works. From a certain point of view.
When it fails, it fails big.
Although, sometimes the way it works is worse than if it hadn't worked at all.
Government was supposed to protect the rights of the people, yet it became the primary threat to those rights. No freelance serial killer or mass murderer could even come close to government's body count. No cruel slavemaster in history approached the indifferent cruelty of government toward those it acts as though it owns.
Government makes up rules it claims will protect people from criminals, but those rules make people powerless against criminals.
It says it is protecting the environment, but remains the worst despoiler of the natural world that the world has ever seen.
It "protects" private property from crooks by stealing a percentage of our private property- and ALL of our property if we fail to pay the entire amount of the extortion.
It makes up rules to "protect" children; rules which hand them over to their worst enemies to do with as they please.
It "protects" us by making sure there's nothing left to protect.
We would all be better off without this sort of "help".
As with all such examples, a comprehensive list would be endless.
Government is literally the WORST. No one needs it except the criminals who are too cowardly to go freelance.
Thank you for reading.
I am reminded of a line by L. Neil Smith, "The most terrifying sound is a click, when you expected to hear a bang."
ReplyDeleteTrue.
DeleteOr a bang when it shouldn't have happened.
“Government is literally the WORST.”
ReplyDeleteAmen! It is rulership, the exercise of power over others, that is the root of all evil.
“No one needs it except the criminals who are too cowardly to go freelance.”
And the responsibility shirkers who lack the capacity to take care of themselves and so exist by preying upon others.
Aren't those just another breed of criminal?
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