Subject: Opening the Cage (Part 2) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Note: As I've mentioned before, there are now TWO e-mails lists I send stuff to: one about the 861 evidence, and one about politicial philosophy. If you just want to hear about the tax issue, you can unsubscribe from this list (instructions below) and you will NOT be unsubscribed from the 861 list. You can be on either, both, or neither.] Dear Subscriber, Once again, let's peek out the open door of the "authority" cage, and see what there is to see out in the world of "I own me." It's drastically different from how the world looks from inside the locked cage. "Countries" are but one concept that falls apart once we accept that we own ourselves. In his autobiography, Frederick Douglass (former slave) described how a lot of slaves back in those days were completely convinced that slaves are what they SHOULD be. Many, if not most, would even look down upon any slave who would be so despicable as to try to run away. To the radical like Mr. Douglass, however, who realized that no amount of whips, chains, or cages could change the fact that he rightfully owned HIMSELF, the world looked drastically difference. To him, the supposed "owner" was the enemy--an evil thief committing both assault and theft on a daily basis. The world looks very different depending upon one's ideas about who he belonged to: himself or someone else. In hindsight, most of us look back at that time and sympathize with the lawless, disobedient "slaves" who were willing to break the LAW in order to assert their rights to be free. But most people refuse to accept the same principle as it applies today. It was not too many years ago that, when I heard the term "law enforcement," it had a positive connotation for me. The cops were the good guys, enforcing "the law" against those nasty criminals (defined as anyone who disobeys the "law"). However, now that I realize that I own myself, and that the same is true of every other individual, "police" appear to me as what they really are: people who commit evil far more often than they commit good. I'm not talking about when they break the law, which happens often, too-- I'm talking about when they enforce an immoral, unjustified "law," which is MOST of the time. The number of "laws" which simply formalize the use of inherently justified defensive force (such as "laws" against theft, murder, assault, etc.) are far outnumbered by the so-called "laws" which ADVOCATE theft, murder, and assault. (Warning: If you like your view from inside the cage, you may not want to continue reading.) I own me. You own you. Every person owns himself. If some guy wants to fry his brain, it is HIS to fry. So long as he doesn't go around messing with someone else's self-ownership--whether out of malice or negligence--NO ONE has the right to use force to stop him from frying his brain (though we have every right to try to talk him out of it, to call him a moron, etc.). And calling violence "law" has NO bearing on whether it is justified. When someone hiding behind the label of "authority" or "law enforcement" forces his way into someone's home, with the intention of catching the homeowner with an unapproved LEAF (e.g., marijuana), in order to drag that person away and put him in a cage for several years, the leaf-smoker has the absolute right to use any means necessary, including killing the intruder (the "cop"), to protect himself. The same holds true of the victims of ALL non-defensive "law enforcement." For example, Ed and Elaine Brown up in New Hampshire have the absolute moral right to use any means necessary, including deadly force, to prevent the authoritarian thugs from taking them hostage and putting them in cages. Even if they were guilty of the "crime" of "tax evasion," which I believe they are NOT, the Browns would still own themselves, and still have the absolute right to defend their self-ownership from thieves and terrorists, regardless of whether the theft and terrorism is "legal" or not. Surely I'm not defending the "cop-killer" mentality?! Actually, I am doing precisely that, when the so-called "cops" are the ones doing the robbery, assault, or kidnapping. Despite how radical that may sound, it was not at all an usual attitude among those who started this country. The Declaration of Independence says that the only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the unalienable rights of the individual, and when it "becomes destructive of those ends," it is both the right and duty of the people to overthrow it and start over. Here are a few other radical things Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration, also said: "No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him." "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others." (In other messages I'll explain why even "legitimate government" is impossible.) And when "government" force is used, not to defend those rights, but to infringe upon them, then what? Then, according to me and Thomas Jefferson, we have the right to FORCIBLY RESIST. Oddly, almost everyone agrees, when they're talking about some "authority" they DON'T worship, but they believe it's the ultimate blasphemy to suggest the same regarding the "authority" THEY bow to. For example, it was ILLEGAL in 1940's Germany for the various "undesirables" to hide from the Nazis. Those who did were law- breakers; those who found them and dragged them away were "law enforcers." And those "law enforcers" all deserved to have their damn heads blown off. And us modern Americans don't mind saying that out loud, and in public. How about Stalin's "law enforcers"? How about Mao's? How about the "law enforcers" of King George III? We dang near deify the lawless, traitorous rebels who resisted George's laws, and don't mind at all the idea of his "law enforcers" getting gunned down. Heck, we have a big celebration about it every July 4th. How about today? When thugs and terrorists put a MILLION people in cages for possessing a SUBSTANCE, who should we be cheering for? It depends who owns the individual. If each individual owns himself, then those horrible "drug dealers" are the GOOD GUYS, and the "cops" are the BAD GUYS. (If the drug dealers happened to also have committed a REAL crime--the kind with an actual victim--like theft or murder, then they are the bad guys, too, but NOT because they had some "illegal" stuff.) I warned you, if you accept the idea that you own yourself, the way the world looks changes drastically. Most people don't like to think, and don't like to face disturbing truths, so they look for excuses to REJECT the idea that they own themselves. They revere "authority" and "the law"--superstitions which serve as a sort of philosophical crutch to help people not have to think and judge for themselves. Again, they see the open cage door, and they back away from it, thus guaranteeing their perpetual enslavement, in body and mind. (Those people then vigorously and passionately argue in favor of their own enslavement, which I find rather depressing.) But some of us choose something else. It's called freedom. Sincerely, Larken Rose www.larkerose.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.5 wpwEAQECAAYFAkbQtH8ACgkQGmVFo/iGj32M8QQAutMJDnkyf/2QICamyOCip54WPnlW sKitL8dYrmTL5QEDjmhxUywxktUAo1FSBAJzFZXEsE6BuLfZlH36ETH2TP8JQZBzMKov G53H1Q1Y3L9IzIW9cQQwVXE8a/EUZIOlKt+IqtUxoWvoz9q8dlisRt6xEpVRyKjmCDHm uhb7ADs= =Jetk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Click here for free information on consolidating your debt. http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/Ioyw6h4d71637EvG67HX2YuEARp0RucJ4mH814CENr2pVwTw2KiL0I/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, send a blank message to tmds-on@mail-list.com To contact the list owner, send your message to tmds-list-owner@mail-list.com