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Before we speak about racism, justice, human rights, charity or values. We must realise that we are never morally justified in sacrificing someone’s freedom to achieve our ends. Doing so is the justification of tyrants and conquerors.
We live in a time where people have hijacked the word freedom and made it synonymous with safety, not being offended and privilege.
As aptly put by Thomas Jefferson, freedom also known as rightful liberty, is
“unobstructed action to our will within the limits drawn around us by the equal RIGHTS of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrants will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual”.
Freedom is not based on the assumption that everyone has equal ability or the same opportunities. Quite the contrary.
It's based on the universal truth that regardless of race, status, sex or creed, everyone has the same individual rights that should not be violated.
We will never have equal ability or equal opportunities. We are not even equal to ourselves on differing days. This however does not give one the right to take the fruit of someone’s labor in order to create a more equitable society for the greater good of the masses.
You do not have the right to steal the justly acquired wealth of the few to give to the many.
Your race does not entitle you to special treatment and consideration.
Your right to not be offended does not trump another’s right to speak their opinion of you.
The worst evils in the world are not committed by evil men, but rather by people lacking the wisdom to understand this truth and choose to plunder the freedom of the individual for the supposed good of the majority.
The same majority that a few hundred years ago would eagerly journey to the public centre to watch executions with the same gusto we eat popcorn while watching movies.
The same majority that would burn anyone accused of witchcraft at the stake and the same majority that tortured Galileo for going against the church’s teaching that the earth was the centre of the universe.
The majority or collective is not something to be revered but guarded against. Before service to any King or country, one must have service to the individual.
We Are all Kings for We Rule Ourselves
Wonderful essay! I've been silenced and effectively imprisoned for eight years by the "tyranny of the mob" a.k.a. tyranny of the majority a.k.a. Plutocracy that pretends to be a democracy.
The corrupt politicians aren't the problem. They are just doing what the majority tell them to do. "We do not care about our liberty. We do not value the ability to hear what would be said to us. We definitely do not want to hear speech that disturbs us. We do not care about the Constitution or about civil rights. Keep us safe, and we don't care how you get the job done."
I'm writing a "book" about it. It's time to do something about the ignorance about civil rights while we still can.
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Amen!!! The public sucks FUCK hope! This is why I'm not a cop watcher. I don't blame the cops and this corrupt government. I blame the shitizen peon masses for not being patriots. My country is the world now so I no longer fall under the lawless fake jurisdiction of the corporation known as the United States. Fuck this corporation and fuck the people who love being ruled by tyranny even more so.
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I'm with you totally except that you do not appear to appreciate the power and the potential of the Constitution of the United States and of its institutions (including corporations). The problem is that the law and the institutions have been overthrown by renegade officials who are enemies of the Constitution and of the People! How did this happen? The "shitizen peon masses [who are not] patriots". Exactly.
But what do we do about it? Speak, to awaken and to educate those shitizens so that they become effective as vigilant, empowered citizens.
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"Every country has the government it deserves". Government is nothing more than a manifestation of the thoughts, ideas, and opinions of the collective.
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Do you really think that the North Korean peasants deserve to be impoverished and enslaved? Although there is some truth to what you say, it is more false than true, because tyranny has a way of becoming so entrenched that an oppressed people cannot throw it off no matter how selflessly heroic and freedom-loving they are.
Now look at the United States, and in particular, California. The people in California have got to be the fucking stupidest people on the planet, in terms of comprehending politics and defending liberty. Yet on paper California citizens are arguably the most free and empowered people on the planet. (For example, in California, even more explicitly than under the federal Constitution, sovereignty remains in the People, collectively, rather than in the State.) Do the pathetic morons in the San Francisco Bay Area deserve to be the most free people (on paper at least) on Earth?
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Dude, I literally just reiterated what you said in your initial comment:
"The corrupt politicians aren't the problem. They are just doing what the majority tell them to do. "We do not care about our liberty. We do not value the ability to hear what would be said to us. We definitely do not want to hear speech that disturbs us. We do not care about the Constitution or about civil rights. Keep us safe, and we don't care how you get the job done."
You're saying that the people are to blame for its government, because they don't care enough about freedom, morality, or self-ownership.
I posted the exact same thing, with different wording, and you say my claim is more false than true?
Yes, the North Korean people have allowed themselves to be enslaved. If they want their freedom, they can declare it at any time, just as the American people can. The missing ingredient, of course, is courage - which only few men possess.
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LOL. Yes, I did contradict myself, didn't I? Well, I stand by both statements!
No, the North Koreans cannot "declare it any time". Neither can the American sheeple. Any change in either place can only begin with the speech of an organizer who finds a way to create an incentive for individuals to say, "Count me in!" In North Korea, such speech is suppressed, and even if it could be uttered, the people would dismiss it due to the brainwashing by the government. Ditto for the California sheeple.
The problem is that we are wet computers. Our brains are programmable. Government knows this and exploits it to entrench itself so that no change is possible. Change will occur only when things get so bad that some of the people have nothing to lose by saying, "Count me in!"
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"The same majority that a few hundred years ago would eagerly journey to the public centre to watch executions with the same gusto we eat popcorn while watching movies."
Crazy that this is still commonplace in Saudi Arabia.
Great write-up.
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Good post.
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"You do not have the right to steal the justly acquired wealth of the few to give to the many.
Obviously. But how much of the wealth in the 1% is "justly acquired"? I'd wager not much of it at all.
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