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Election Day

November 3rd, 2009

Across the U.S. of A., today is Election Day. Do something productive: don’t vote.

Election Day masquerades as a magical opportunity afforded to all freemen, to decide the political direction of a community, locale, state, etc. In the real world, the serfs are merely allowed to “choose” their new masters under the ruse of democracy which, thanks to public-school propaganda, has become to many a near-synonym for freedom.

The candidates for Lordship, of course, have been thoroughly vetted by the incumbent parties and special interests, ensuring that whosoever receives the most tallies by day’s end will toe the proverbial line.

The residents of Detroit are asked to choose from a buffet of candidates in various stages of foreclosures, bankruptcies, and in at least one case, bank fraud and tax evasion. When asked about these discretions, they reply, “There are no perfect candidates.”

Indeed. Which is why there should be no candidates.

Fake Anarchists Oppose Immigration

October 29th, 2009

I find it ironic, and just a bit confusing, to see an “anarchist” waxing poetic about national identity; as though anything could be less meaningful in the anarchist lexicon than those f*cking arbitrary delineations of conquest and subjugation drawn on maps by all manner of kings, tyrants, and usurpers.

I’m not going to bother wasting five minutes of my life watching the video linked via the National Anarchist Revolution! blog, primarily because NumbersUSA peddles a lot of borderline-bogus, alarmist, jingoistic “statistics” in support of their arguments.  I’ve taken them to task on this junk-science in the past, and that will suffice for me, thank you very much.

There will always be scarcity, but if it were possible to create a localized superabundance, any decent man, genuinely concerned with the plight of the poorest among us, would wait a little bit longer to get there, so that others could feast at that table, too.

—Immigration: The Good Stuff. 31 May, 2007.

I do not mean to imply that freedom of immigration would solve all of the world’s problems, although I do believe it would go a long way towards achieving that goal.

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The System Is Not Legitimate

October 19th, 2009

What is “The System”?

Whatever it is, teh System must be taken as a given; it is the yardstick by which one measures the legitimacy of everything else. Nobody is ever allowed to challenge its legitimacy which is built upon the shaky foundation of the repeated assertions and unfounded declarations of those who control it.

The System could be the legal system. It could be the political system. It could be the perverted relationship between these two systems and corporatism. The System might be “The Man” holding you back.

It doesn’t matter. Ask yourself whether it’s legitimate? and how you know this to be true?

Question Authority.

Question the system. Above all, question its assumed “legitimacy.”  Ask “Why?” frequently.  If you can’t find the answer, dig deeper. If you meet resistance, you’re probably on the right track.

A few months ago I had a conversation like this with a friend.  He could muster only bullshit, which is what lawyers always do when they don’t have anything cogent, convincing, or meaningful to say (which is most of the time). They don’t care whether they’re right, as long as they can convince you to doubt your own convictions.

He who wanted to turn everything in to a relativist game, saying things like “That’s just what you believe!”

Well, d’uh. That is what I believe.

What do you believe?

I’m not even asking, let alone forcing you at gunpoint, to live your life my way. I’m just asking (and politely so) that you stop trying to force me to live my life, your way.

If you’re incapable of accommodating that request, do not be offended when I declare myself incapable of treating you like a human being.

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