Libertarian @dcjogger@gameliberty.club

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

My concern with “Why don’t you move to Somalia, then?” isn’t with Somalia so much as… Why should I? Why shouldn’t I stay right here where I am and try to make HERE better? Why all this, “love it or leave it” stuff? How do we look at blacks in the 60s who demanded they be treated better?

Do we look back on them and say, “No, you silly negros, if you don’t love it here, why don’t you go back to Africa?” Of course not. We applaud them as heroes and visionaries and call them courageous and noble. But we’re the bad guys. We aren’t demanding that you provide for our children’s college education. We’re not demanding that you hire us for jobs before others because of the color of our skin. We’re not demanding that your tax dollars be spent on us… we just want to live in peace. And for that, we get, “Why don’t you just get out!?” Yup. That’s an awesome attitude.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/05/25/margaret-sullivan/

Anarchists did not try to carry out genocide against the Armenians in Turkey; they did not deliberately starve millions of Ukrainians; they did not create a system of death camps to kill Jews, gypsies, and Slavs in Europe; they did not fire-bomb scores of large German and Japanese cities and drop nuclear bombs on two of them; they did not carry out a Great Leap Forward that killed scores of millions of Chinese; they did not attempt to kill everybody with any appreciable education in Cambodia; they did not launch one aggressive war after another; they did not implement trade sanctions that killed perhaps 500,000 Iraqi children. In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy’s mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state’s mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous.

When I think of "D-Day" I have questions.

What was the military necessity? Same for the Pacific island campaign. If your opponent's airforce/navy has been decimated, his allies surrendered, most of his army trapped/captured in Russia, is he a threat? Isn't surrender or collapse imminent? If so, what is the hurry? Why sacrifice/commit ground troops? Especially if only the enemy is marooned on useless islands? What harm would occur if they were left there until they died naturally or surrendered or committed suicide? Won't some who want to live/go home rebel causing the others to do the same and resulting in no need to lose a single life by forcing the immediate confrontation? If some action is needed, some direct confrontation, won't bombs or shelling from the sea be the best option? When military leaders used to lead or at least be in the thick of battle, was more thought put into strategy? When the generals/politicians have no chance of dying, are they as careful?

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

What I can conclude today, five years later, is that we were no better than any other occupying force, whether the British in Boston 1773 or the Soviets in Afghanistan 1979.

I used to think government was a necessary evil, but I’ve changed my mind. It isn’t necessary.

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.

Saying that we can’t survive without the government, is like saying that animals can’t survive without farms.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I say that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the students or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers… Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more.

Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

Taxation is theft; Conscription is slavery; War is murder.

If you could print all the money you wanted, and steal all the money you wanted, couldn’t you manage to stay out of debt?

Anarchy—it’s not the law, it’s just a good idea.