Friday, June 15, 2018

Taxation Is Robbery


Taking that which is not yours without consent of the owner is theft, regardless of what other label you may place upon it.   Theft under the threat of bodily harm is robbery.

No magic attaches to the label "taxation".  It is, in fact, a rather weak euphemism for robbery.  There is no getting past this, regardless of the justifications forwarded by those who seek to benefit from the fruits of the labor of others, regardless of consent and irrespective of any purport of the authority to do so.   The only magic of the term evidences in the fact that it has been so effective.

The arguments in favor this legitimized robbery are many, all hopelessly rotten lies.  Roads, schools, police, and so forth are used as bludgeons by which free men are subjugated and left poorer in the wake of the taxman.

The only correct "government" is that of the individual. But we are become a race rife with corruption, wanting something for nothing. We want safety, but refuse to make ourselves safe, all the while expecting someone else to provide it for us, preferably at no charge. We want, yet are unwilling to do the work required to have. Rather, we are content to let men with guns threaten our fellows with violence if they fail to fork it over so that yet others will take up their shovels and provide everything nice and shiny while we sit on our well-fed duffs down to a giant feast at the dinner table on the nickels of our neighbors.

We are becoming a race of thieves, so many of us, and it is disgusting.

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.

Introducing the Social Justice Crusader

To the term "social justice warrior" I take great exception as to its validity in terms of the connotations that "warrior" tends to evoke.  Having trained in warrior culture for forty seven years to date, I can say without equivocation that the "social justice warrior" is not.

In objection to the abusively false nature of the use of "warrior" that this case represents, I propose a substitution to yield a new term, "social justice crusader".  Those who are knowledgeable of the relevant history of the crusades may chafe at this, and I fully understand why.  However, in the minds of the sorts of people who fancy themselves warriors, "crusader" is about as pejorative a term and they might imagine.  Therefore, I find "crusader" a very appropriate appellation for the sorts of people who think they are something that they so clearly are not.

It is not my purpose to insult such people, but to expose them for what they are and apply a moniker more closely a fit to their truer nature and status.

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.