Deniers of liberty on wrong side

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for January 12, 2025)

No one wants to be on the wrong side with the bad guys. At least, that's what people claim. Many of them don't seem to understand which side is wrong. As strange as it seems, it must be explained to them.

People who are in favor of slavery of any variety are always on the wrong side. Even if it's the "slavery-lite" imposed on everyone in America by Abraham Lincoln's war; subjugating us to an overbearing federal government which goes directly against the principles upon which America was founded. Unless it was all, from the beginning, a hoax to gain power and Lincoln was just the one who was able to finally put all the pieces in place.

People who are in favor of stealing are on the wrong side. It doesn't matter if the theft is called a tax, extortion, armed robbery, a fine, or shoplifting. It doesn't matter if the thief uses a gun or legislation. Theft is never ethical and those who are okay with it, under any circumstances, are on the wrong side.

Anyone who tries to deny others the liberty to defend their life, liberty, or property from all violators is on the wrong side. They often use the justification "I don't condone violence". If you don't condone violence in defense, you want everyone to submit to the bad guys. This helps no one but the bad guys. They appreciate this support.

The wrong side supports censorship, war, kidnapping, vandalism, trespassing, and governing others.

Those on the wrong side will try to argue that something which is wrong in every other situation isn't wrong if the person doing it has imaginary political authority or a government job. This is a feat of mental gymnastics I won't participate in. A government position can't turn wrong into right.

Anyone who is okay with violating any rights, of anyone, is on the wrong side.

Sometimes this is called being "on the wrong side of history". Unfortunately, when the wrong side wins the battle and gets to write the history, it gets to say which side was, in its opinion, right. At least for a while. This is how a protest gets labeled an insurrection. This is how self-defense gets treated as murder. This is how refusing to submit to an armed kidnapping gets called "resisting arrest".

Before you attack those with a different view, make sure you aren't the one on the wrong side.

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Statists clinging to their anchor

Statists will perform seemingly impossible mental gymnastics to justify government.

They'll abandon their morals while pretending they aren't doing so. They'll change their opinions as soon as "their side" is doing something they've always said was wrong when "the other side" did it.

They'll put aside their (other) religious beliefs to keep faithful to The State when the two clash.

They'll redefine (or misdefine) words. Or they'll deny words mean anything at all.

They'll support destructive legislation, sometimes even if it hurts them, because they fear liberty and don't trust anyone. Everything not forbidden must be mandatory!

They'll advocate anything they think will help "their side" of the statist monster gain power over "the other side" of the same monster.

They'll hate when the right thing is done, or love when the wrong thing is done, based upon who's doing the doing, rather than what they are doing. It's about the teams, not the actions.

They'll see different political sides where it's not political. They believe "everything is political" only because they make everything political.

But, mostly, they'll do whatever it takes to avoid admitting they are doing any of those things. Because, deep down, they believe the state is legitimate; they imagine that governing others is a legitimate human endeavor. They'll do anything to be able to keep believing this. It looks to me as though it scares them to let go of this anchor.

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