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| Subject: Taxation is Theft and 3 Other Truths the State Must Hide From You Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:04 pm | |
| “The only “us versus them” that matters is not about race, religion, nationality, or income level; it is about aggressors and their victims.” ~Larken Rose
Who the hell are the “powers-that-be” anyway? You may not like the answer. The powers-that-be are us. Plain and simple. They are us to the extent that we each continue to give into the unhealthy, unsustainable, violent hype of a system that simply does not function well for healthy individuals. To the extent that we are aware of the hype but still choose to remain indifferent, apathetic, and ignorant to the violence around us, we are the powers-that-be. We are the ugly machinery of the monster that is the unsustainable, unhealthy state.
To the extent that we are aware of the hype, and we are systematically attempting to take apart the system, while also creating new, healthier, sustainable, non-violent modes of human governance, we are not the powers that be, but rather courageous Davids daring to challenge the overreaching, over-powerful, monstrous state that is Goliath. To that extent, we dutifully exert our power, in order to get power over power, by turning the tables on the powers-that-be, and thereby potentially preventing the state from harming others. As John Stewart Mill said, “The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”
As healthy catalysts, as freedom facilitators, as sparks of courage in the otherwise cowardly dark, we who are aware of the violent ugliness of the goliath-state, will always be more powerful (no matter how powerless we might feel) than the powers-that-be; precisely because our power is in alignment with health, sustainability and freedom, and theirs is not (no matter how powerful they might feel). Here are four things the powers-that-be want you to remain ignorant about.
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/04/21/taxation-is-theft-and-3-other-truths-the-state-must-hide-from-you/?utm_source=Waking+Times+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2a35913bbc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_25f1e048c1-2a35913bbc-54455565 |
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