Bureaucrash Manifesto

We believe that individuals are sovereign and own their own bodies.

We believe that every person has a right to make decisions about his or her own life, as long as those decisions do not directly harm other people.

We believe that no person has a right to use force against another person -- to steal what they have earned or threaten their body or property.

We believe that when a government makes a new rule, it threatens to use force against someone (or everyone).

We believe that when bureaucrats and politicians have the power to make arbitrary rules, they steal our choices.

Therefore, we believe that if governments are to exist they should be small and just have the power to protect us from force and fraud.

Because we believe that any other arrangement breeds corruption and gives other people (bureaucrats) power over us. Any other arrangement makes us all slaves to the bureaucrats.

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[freesk8]

Great Video!

Free Minds and Free Markets!

[dubran]

Exactly... why don't libertarians call for equality of condition before libertarianism? If they believe in individual freedom and meritocratic progress, why not first let everyone get the best chance in life?

I would be more sympathetic to this ideology if they said that everyone would get an equal chance to suceed. Instead they want to safegaurd the present ineqaulities that have nothing to do with individual merit.

All these far-rightists are just trendy rich kids.

[andriu727]

@theevilkittenofdoom Thanks for this really thoughtful response, very coherent. I feel better knowing that many libertarians do actually protest corporate subsidies. I will say that for centuries we have in-built, unfair advantages for people (racism, sexism, being born into poverty) and that these disadvantages prevent true meritocracy from flourishing. Once we level the playing field, I'm all for rewarding people for their inherent abilities and hard work!

[theevilkittenofdoom]

@dubran actually many libertarians are steadfast opposed to government privliges to business because it drives out competition and creates unemployment, some libertarians do seem to be apologists for big business and crony capitalism Kevin Carson, wikipedia is your friend, coined the term "Vulgar Libertarian" for such people. And as for for equality of condition that would be using force against other people to get them to part with things they rightfully own which would be controlling them.

[TracyII77]

@5lkk For starters, the moment any group of people join together to "rule" anybody, they became a government. So if you don't like being "ruled" by others, you contradict yourself when you advocate for government. Secondly, Libertarians are not anarchists. I am not against rules or the rule of law. I am against the creation and enforcement of laws that infringe on natural law, just because you see yourself as a God who must save the world from itself.

[TracyII77]

@5lkk Yes, bureaucracies are inherently bad. They add no value to life. How is forcing me to pay for someone to tell me that I have to pay them? How is that serving me or any other person? And for the record, public sector employees earn more through wages and benefits than their civilian counterparts. So spare me this crap that they are working for my benefit. If it was for my benefit, why would they force me to pay for things I don't want or need?

[TracyII77]

@5lkk There is absolutely no logic to your statement that all humanity will die off when it consumes all the resources. That can happen only if every human being ceased to work and produce. Resources are quite simply anything that is useful for human consumption. As far as the elements from which resources are derived, they cannot be consumed out of existence. That goes against physics. When I drink water, the hydrogen and oxygen atoms don't disappear. They just cease to be useful to me.

[5lkk]

@TracyII77 That's not necessarily so, & that's the big lie of the libertarians. Logically all humanity will die off when it consumes all the resources. In the mean time it should be very possible for most to live comfortable lives. Comfortable life, not a life amassing a personal fortune at the expense of others. Most what I have read from self sescribe libertarians it's all about them in the end.

[5lkk]

Bureaucracies in bureaucrats aren't inherently bad. In general they do the day to day work of the government that serves the people. The problem is that the people served expect the bureaucrats they see expect them to accept & be, what the people themselves wouldn't accept & aren't. Work at cut rate wage & be able to please everyone all the time every rime. Making bureaucrats susceptible to the temptations offered them by those who seem to be giving them a break.

[5lkk]

The ideal world sought here can't exist without rules, AKA laws. Your utopia can't exist, without a governing force powerful enough create reasonable law, with the ability to enforce them. Unfortunately here in the USA we allowed our government to degrade into what we would have gotten if no governments where formed. Those who where able to accumulate wealth join forces to rule in their interests.

[oct28th1985]

@richardcadbury

If someone punches you in the face and you punch them back, who initiated the force? Please look up the definition of initiate.

"to start, to introduce"

[richardcadbury]

Those examples of theft are just that-examples of theft.

Not fraud