The State Is Not Great: How Government Poisons Everything

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Links
Government Death Count: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE1.HTM
The Story of Your Enslavement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbp6umQT58A
Government Intervention Caused The Financial Crisis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDp65Juibes
Who Watches The Watchers?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR0ZXu5brQo
Free Trade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVAOpFstIIs
Exploitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTgJNWs-gWA
Free Market Monopolies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO8ZU7TeKPw
Historical Voluntary Land Claim Associations: http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf
Current Private Roads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5DCmDXJun4
Historical Voluntary Fire Brigades: http://www.firemarkcircle.org/documents/goodstory.htm
Historical Voluntary Mutual Aid Societies: http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/friendly-societies-voluntary-social-...
http://libertariannation.org/a/f12l3.html
What About Somalia?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtGkTRnocZI
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Celtic Irish Law: http://mises.org/journals/jls/1_2/1_2_1.pdf

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[binkiie4dictator]

love this video. I am currently studying development at Bradford Universities peace studies department. we cover this type of outlook. Could I possibly reference you over the coming months in my essays on sustainable development, understanding violence and development in practice please?

[JacobSpinney]

@binkiie4dictator Absolutely!

[JacobSpinney]

@coynedogg So let me understand your position. You're afraid of an entity who is not allowed to use violence in any way gaining too much power, so you wish to give supreme power to an entity who IS allowed to used violence in any way it wishes? Is that right?

[itachi705]

@coynedogg You conveniently ignore history. In almost all cases where business was violent, it was backed by government.

Even so, government by itself has a much longer a larger history of violence than any corporation.

[longhairsRcool]

This kids a retarded twink. Even the founding fathers wanted "some taxes". Sure we may have too many taxes these days but that's a side issue. You give way to much credit to people. If people don't have to pay for large expenses like roads etc. they wouldn't pay for adequate ones. Businesses also don't care about being the cheapest either, it's called a monopoly and they can then coerce people to buy their products. The government in a sound republic can actually tax and spend wisely.

[DesecrateConformity]

This should have been shown at Obama's inauguration.

[DesecrateConformity]

Democracy sucks. The only thing that I can conceive of being ethical that's even close to democracy is isocracy.

[DesecrateConformity]

@coynedogg Large, monopolistic corporations are a direct result of the state's four monopolies on land, patents, tariffs, and money, the Paleotechnic Revolution, and the centralization of people, power, and production. These are all a result of the state itself. And the state is the largest organized entity. I recommend reading Benjamin Tucker, Kevin Carson, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.

[robertmike57]

God, do people give money to a ziphead like you sptiting out this tripe? Reason I ask is because I want to make a video asking for money where I shall inform people how to invoke a democratic process. That refutes your dipshit initial assertion "Government is force at 0:14. Since your inital premise is bullshit, the rest of your video should be regarded as bullshit.

[OfficialAerium]

the question that remains with me is how humans as a species would react to the concept of no government, (if you want, a form of anarchy) In every human society throughout history from the tribes in Borneo to the US, A form of hierarchy, call it government, has always emerged automatically. If one where to dispurse the current government and, "give power back to the people" if you want. whats to stop "us" from clustering together and form small "goverment island" if that makes sense.

[wkmac2]

Very good video Jacob. You did an excellent job.

[Khyrid]

@JacobSpinney because that one big entity has checks and balances, at least in the USA anyway.