PublicServants.mp4

If you think politicians are there to serve you, watch this.

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[KittyAntonikWakfer]

Laws are WORDS! #Gov enforcers make the threats of & use physical force. While Larken has said many correct things, he has NOT stated this MOST important fact about government. Politicians - legislators, executives & even judges - issue the words but do NOT themselves do the enforcing. And without large numbers of enforcers, all those laws/regulations/edicts/mandat­es/directives/rulings/etc remain just sounds & scribbles. [Contd]

[LarkenRose]

@KittyAntonikWakfer It's tough to say everything about everything in every YouTube video I make. In "The Most Dangerous Superstition," I devote a good chunk of the book to the study of the mentality and actions of the enforcers of "authority," because yes, that's a huge part of the equation (and yes, I do think ostracizing the politicians' mercenaries is good).

[LiveFreeorDieGuy]

We should all work towards a more voluntary and peaceful society that doesn't want or need government. However, humans are imperfect. There are people and companies that have dumped their garbage/chemicals in ponds and I like having a public forum/legal system that fines and charges those groups with poisoning my community's water supply. To buy into absolutes and say that all government and laws are bad is a poor analysis of reality.

[LarkenRose]

@LiveFreeorDieGuy Humans aren't perfect. So let's give some of them societal permission to forcibly extort and control the rest of us. Great. Brilliant. And it's worked so well in the past, too. (Yes, that was sarcasm.) The idea that ADDING more immoral violence into society--which is all the state ever does, and all it can do--is going to help things, is looney. Absolutely looney, for those of us who believe in absolutes.

[LiveFreeorDieGuy]

My problem with the general discussion here, in Larken's Dangerous Myth Book, and in the videos is that there is a failure to discuss relevant examples in history at multiple levels of government (ie. international, national, state, local). In this video, Larken lumps all public servants into one category and just says it's absurd and crazy without giving specific examples. The corrupt Congressmen who warmongers is not the same as the public water manager for a town.

[LarkenRose]

@LiveFreeorDieGuy Any time you FORCE me to pay for YOUR "solution" to something, you're being an immoral control freak. Yes, the "public water manager," even if he doesn't have the ability to cause mass murder, is still a parasite and thug. Others are FORCED to pay him, and FORCED to go along with his plan. That is all that "government" and "law" ever is: threats of violence. Even when force is justified (i.e., to defend against aggression), the state is always a VIOLATOR more than a protector.

[LarkenRose]

@SiNaoia 1) Obama didn't "ask" anyone to do anything. He intends to use the threat of violence to steal more from them. 2) Whether they spend money or save it, millionaires (if they got there via voluntary exchange) do far more for "America's success" than you or I do. 3) If you actually believe that "America's success" is served by the power-happy, control-freak, war-mongering megalomaniacal parasite class stealing more money, then I doubt I can make a dent in your delusion.

[LarkenRose]

@PhUTube4Evah These days, I can't tell always tell the difference between sane people being sarcastic and statists being psychotic. If you really are a devout member of the cult of "government" (and not just being flippant), at least I find your honesty refreshing. Most state-worshipers don't like to bluntly express the fascism they advocate. Have a happy goose-stepping day. (For those who don't know, yes, I was caged for a year for not pretending I owed the "public servants" lots of money.)

[KittyAntonikWakfer]

@LiveFreeorDieGuy A self-ordering systm 4 social order is possbl, just as any othr natural systm, can B naturally self-regulating by means of interactions Btween its membrs. Recommend: "Social Meta-Needs: A New Basis for Optimal Interaction" (online). Not a breezy read; warning 4 thoz looking 4 & usd 2 soundbites on which 2 walk away. Twin-framework implementations of SMN theory - The Natural Social Contract & Social Preferencing - R envisioned as replacements 4 existing govts

[oidni1]

I'm reading a good 'anarchical' book right now titled: The End Of All Evil. Very nice. Keep up the good work.

[KittyAntonikWakfer]

[Contd] Want 2 send a REAL message of dissatisfaction w/ #gov? Do NOT voluntarily associate w/ enforcers - same w/ all other "public servants" but enforcers 1st & foremost. No sales, no service, no camaraderie, NO VOLUNTARY ANYTHING! Make government enforcement an unpopular job & there will be far fewer enforcers. With far less enforcement capability, government is greatly reduced in the harm it can do.... until finally it withers away from being ignored. Social Preferencing - more online

[kevlar442]

Larken, You are so far ahead of the curve, you make Alex Jones look like a modern day Republican. Bravo!

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@LiveFreeorDieGuy

where I live you pay a water bill even if you don't use any water and if you don't

pay they take your home from you. $37 per month up to 1000 gallons then $7 per cubic ft. I am talking about a well I own that has a meter on it that they put on it last summer. They say we voted for it but we got 52% of the people to sign a petition against it before the vote then they claimed it passed with a 78% nobody believes it until it happens to them then it's to late.

[LiveFreeorDieGuy]

@LarkenRose Last time I checked many public water systems were user fee based at least where I am from. If I don't pay then I don't get filtered water. I don't have to pay but if I didn't then I would be stealing from others in the community since the water belongs to everyone equally. I can elect others to oversee the cost since I can't do everything (division of labor) and if they don't provide good service at a reasonable cost then I can oust them. This does happen w/o violence!