Liberty: Mortal enemy of government

(My Eastern New Mexico News column for April 2, 2025)

It isn't "political" to keep government-- its employees, agencies, and rules-- out of our lives. Politics imposes those things on others. Liberty isn't political, but violating liberty is.

If you want to be governed, I'll respect your right to act like you have no rights. If you want someone else to be governed, you're on the side of slavery and tyranny. You're doing something no one has a right to do, which is a better definition of crime than "breaking laws".

"Consent of the governed" is a lie. You can consent for government to violate your rights; you can't consent for others to have their rights violated.

If you look at the news on any typical day, how much of it concerns government violating some segment of the population? I'd guess at least eighty percent. Only a natural disaster or major accident can change the focus for a while. Yet, most people consider this normal and look askance at those trying to keep their life, liberty, or property out of the hands of political criminals. This is upside down.

Recently, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of political criminals and against the Constitution's Second Amendment in yet another gun case. The Bill of Rights doesn't list what you are allowed to do; it lists some of the things placed out of reach of any legislation or politician's opinions. Any interpretation which gets this wrong is illegitimate, no matter where it comes from.

Owning and carrying weapons isn't political-- trying to allow government to illegally put limits and conditions on a natural human right is entirely political. When the Supreme Court rules in defense of government power and against the people and their right to not be burdened with government, it is wrong. Every time.

All government is against you and your rights; it is never on your side. Especially if being on your side would take away some illegitimate power government currently enjoys. It doesn't matter which party is in power or what encouraging words the politicians whisper in your ear. Government is your enemy because government fears your liberty and always seeks to place limits on it.

Liberty has only one limit. Liberty is the right to do everything that doesn't violate any other person's life, liberty, or property-- their equal and identical rights. This leaves no room for government interpretation or exception. Liberty and government are mortal enemies. If you value liberty, government considers you its enemy.

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Leftist "intellectuals"

It’s interesting that Leftist “intellectuals” notice that reality has a “liberal bias” but imagine that Leftism is in any way “liberal”. 

It shows that the Leftist "intellectuals" aren’t as smart as they believe they are. 

They are, however, very confident in their superiority and very committed to remaining wrong. They can see so clearly where "conservatives" go astray, but are completely blind to their own cognitive errors and biases.

"Liberal" is on the side of liberty; it is generous and respects the rights of all. This is as far from modern Leftism as it is from modern "conservatism", both of which are entirely authoritarian. It's a shame that the Leftists have co-opted the word "liberal" and made it mean the opposite of what its root, historical meaning was.

It takes a view from a higher dimension to see it clearly.

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