InstituteForJustice | Imagine you own a million-dollar piece of property free and clear, but then the federal government and local law enforcement agents announce that they are going to take it from you, not compensate you one dime, and then use the money they get from selling your land to pad their budgets—all this even though you have never so much as been accused of a crime, let alone convicted of one.
Voluntaryist.com | Most of the people I have spoken to over the years think that government taxation is not theft because government is a necessary social institution. The attainment of the common good requires taxes to support government. Thus, those who evade paying their proper share or those who object to how their tax money is spent (the pacifist - on war; the Catholic - on abortion; the anarchist - in general) must be threatened with force beforehand. If they refuse to pay they will ultimately have their property confiscated and sold at auction or they will find themselves imprisoned (either after a conviction for violating the tax laws or for contempt of court [for refusing to obey a judge's orders to cooperate]). If they violently refuse to cooperate with the marshals that come to take their property or arrest them, they will be subdued or killed.
Three Mile Island. The worse nuclear accident in US history. The government and industry position hasn't changed in 30 years. Officials say the amount of radiation released from the plant during the 1979 disaster was small -- the maximum anyone could have received was equivalent to a chest X-Ray. But there is medical evidence to prove otherwise. According to Dr. Stephen Wing of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, cancers in local residents were elevated under the path of the radioactive plume that escaped from the plant. Symptoms of radiation exposure were severe and there were chromosomal abnormalities reported in people even 15 years after the event.
Strike-The-Root.com | Modern day slavery is vastly more sophisticated. For one thing, the term “slavery” has been abolished, with the modern slave being designated “citizen,” and our children indoctrinated with the concept of “good citizenship.” Today one becomes a slave not by being purchased, but simply by being born in a certain area dominated by a particular master. Since the entire known world is so divided, escape is futile; slavery is universal.
RjWeapon | The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality" -HL Mencken
SherryPeelJackson.org | Most Americans have been taught to think that everyone in prison is guilty of something. I have met many people, before and during prison, that are adamant that anyone in a jail or prison cell “must have done something wrong”. Nothing could be further from the truth. In my experience, filtering out the obvious liars, at least 20% of the women that I talked to in prison were innocent, and at least another 10% were guilty of something, but the sentence didn’t fit the “crime”.
SzandorBlestman.com | I do not advocate violence. I believe it to be counterproductive. There are times, however, when it seems that one must exercise some form of force to restrain those who think they are superior to the rest of us and deserve special privileges in order to prevent them from doing harm. This can be called self defense or intervention in the defense of another peaceful person who may be harmed. I also consider myself to be a reasonable person, so I am willing to consider all sides of a story. What I have come to discover as I have aged is that the common folk have become too willing to simply bow to authority and obey authority figures without question while those same authority figures overstep their bounds time and again and are almost never held accountable for their actions and/or bad decisions. Read Entire Article
FFF.org | George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, got a few things wrong — for example, the date. But he was dead-on in depicting the cause-and-effect relationship between language and politics, between language and our ability to think clearly; the process of using words as social control was called Newspeak. What cannot be expressed cannot be effectively understood or opposed. Neutralizing language defuses the most powerful weapon against oppression: the ability to think.
AnarchyInABottle | Taxes. We pay them, just like everybody else. Although some of you don't and I hold you in the highest respect. But is there anybody that doesn't have to pay taxes? Well yes there is. However you wouldn't know it by the way some people talk. You see government employees don't pay taxes. Oh I know what you might be thinking. "They have to file with the IRS and pay their dues too!" Well yeah that's how the political theatre makes it look. I have to say it's an impressive script.
FreeKeene.com | Although you may have been taught to believe differently, public schools tend to have very negative impacts on the development of a child's creativity, sense of ethics and autonomy. From the first day in kindergarten until the last day of senior year, 'kids' are told to "treat others as [they] want to be treated." Actions speak louder than words. Unfortunately, the staff members at public education facilities treat students as if they have "authority" over them, ingraining the message that it is acceptable to treat other people like property -- though I doubt they wish to be treated that way. A 'child' can learn all of the skills that one may deem 'critical' without being subjected to the hypocrisy and demand for blind obedience in the public school system.
