Statism

Statism

The world still lives in the remnants of the feudal system. The state arose out of the desire to conquer people and enslave them to serve the king, who was only mortal but believed that if the symbolism of his power lived on, he would live on; thus the sovereign monarchy was born. Things haven't fundamentally changed since ancient times, in the feudal system the king claimed a divine right to rule and claimed ownership of all land, including his subjects, and furthermore, disregarded natural rights by claiming that all crimes are against the king. The king forced other men into slavery to fight for him so that he could continue to exploit the subjects and regulate any behavior or seize any property that serves his interests. Likewise, the modern state presumes a divine right to rule and some people worship the state as the only form of government and the answer to all problems as the ultimate authority, they wish only to serve its glory, this is the same superstition of divine right transferred from kings to an institution of politicians.
   Taxation was instituted to support the military, which has the power to perpetuate the state even if it means massacring millions of people including their own citizens to do it. State printing and regulating of money really began as a way to keep track of financial transactions and collect taxes to fund the military. Traditionally, most everything that the state did was to serve the main goal of funneling money into the military. In modern times it has been expanded to transfer money to an endless array of special interests groups.
  The state grew up out of a past where the state was built on conquest and feudalism; the male dominant culture hasn't changed fundamentally, its still a political system of battling for power with the victor dominating the conquered.
   The political system, campaigning, is primarily trial by combat. Would you wager your rights, your future, your very lives on the outcome of a contest? How stupid, archaic and superstitious to coerce people into believing that their rights and lives should be determined by a political contest, its ultimate paternalistic tyranny that imposes masculine combat on a society and subjects everyone to its outcome, that is patriotism, the belief in paternalistic dominance of a territory and its people and the belief that everyone including women should be subjugated under it -- it is therefor inherently discriminatory to women.
   Campaigning has become a lot like professional wrestling with macho posturing, name calling, displays of arrogance, chest thumping, saber rattling, pugilistic behavior that displays who is the strongest, toughest aggressor without real physically fighting, it's interesting how closely campaigns in patriarchal political systems where people choose the dominant male to rule emulate displays of male aggression between lower animals to establish dominance.

The statists try to destroy anything that challenges their power; especially the family, they promote perversion, contempt for morality, they promote violence and try to cause acrimony between the sexes, because all of this leads to people becoming more dependent on the state as the family is pulled apart and social cooperation and morality decline, by giving it more power to solve the problems they think are beyond of their control.
   Statist politics destroys human trust and kills even the possibility of justice within a country. They twist every good inclination in people to serve the most horrendous evil.
   If evil is embodied in anything in this world it is the political-state, which employs slavery, theft, murder, terrorism and perversion of everything that is inclined toward good into serving evil, while stigmatizing that which is truly good by branding dissenters who desire real freedom and justice as extremists. The state is entrenched in materialism till, in that philosophy, the only thing that is good or justifiable, according to their standards, is what serves the compelling interest of the state, this is the inherent evil of total materialism, where natural human rights are sacrificed to the idolatry of an institution.
   The state's political system is illegitimate because it is the practice of the idea of might makes right, rule by violent force; theft, coercion, terrorism, slavery, that is not a illegitimate system of government, anybody who claims it is and actually believes it, is an ignorant savage that is not capable of living responsibility with decent human beings.
   They will resort to theft and violence to get what they want, they will use violence against anyone who tries to prevent them from successfully robbing people and forcing them to serve their interests. The political system creates an imposed order that serves the selfish interest of its rulers and special interest groups.
   The statists teach evil incarnate and cover it up with high sounding ideas and instill a reverence for their institutions and power, true evil is that which hates goodness, virtue and justice and falsely assumes the mask of those virtues to do wickedness.

Citizens are treated like cattle by the state, political leadership is much like herding cattle, the ruler is the herder with the state being their predetermined coral with fenced off, regulated areas. Citizens are to be housed, fed and kept alive to serve and be consumed by their masters; their productivity consumed by taxation, their ingenuity channeled into militarism, policing and spying technology, their creativity used to placate and distract the populace with entertainment that's rubbish, their children treated as mere resources to be shaped and molded into obedient slaves and their lives cannibalized like butchered cattle in wars.
Real leadership is leading people to freedom, self reliance and responsibility.
   People enslaved by the world system of nation-states can't escape from the slavery, because if you move to another territory you will be claimed by that state as their property, just like surfs in the middle ages who were claimed as a part of the land by their overlords, if a surf escaped he would either be returned to the neighboring lord, if he was an ally or simply kept as property if there was no such agreement between the land owners to return property, whether it was cow, pig or merely a surf who wondered onto neighboring property.
   People are trained to be good little obedience slaves of the state, to obey their rulers, whom they have been assured always have their best interest in mind. If their rulers intend to mass murder an entire ethnic group, well they say, it must be in our own national interests. Pathetic creatures who, like the Germans acquiesced to Hitler who told them that it was in the national interests to exterminate the Jews. Serbs supported Milosevic when he told them that a greater Serbia was in their national interests, and Iraqis followed when Saddam Hussain who told them that Kuwait belonged to the nation of Iraq while Americans go along with any adventure to bomb and subdue any nation anywhere in the world, all the President has to do is utter the magic words, "its in the national interests," the problem is that United States' national interest is global imperialism. The U.S. is eager to use the above mentioned aggressions to presume to justify their own aggressions which never result in any of the people they bomb and conquer being free, it only results in another step toward U.S. world domination. In fact, Americans are willing accept the U.S. military's preparation to annihilation the entire human species with nuclear weapons, by telling themselves that should our rulers push the button, then it must be in our own national interests.
   Then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Madeline Albright said about despot states, that they "Serve as a reminder that there will be always those who seek through aggression, deception and force to impose their will on the world of civility, decency and law." Of course she hypocritically fails to denounce the United States who does the same thing.

Patriotism is synonymous with both, being mindless obedient slaves and being belligerent terrorists. Indeed the ultimate patriotic glory is bombing the hell out of some defenseless third world country.

Tyrants will tell you that we are the government, we represent the will of the people, they intimidate anyone who would question their authority and cloak their tyranny in the shroud of justice.

The idea that the state gives you everything -- your job, your education, your rights, your freedom, all of which is benevolently bestowed upon you, is foolish absurdity. The statists create dependency and obligation on the part of the subjects to serve the masters who have conquered them through robbery and terrorism. But ironically, the masters are also the one's who are completely dependant, they are merely parasites living off of the body of the producers. Everything that the state has comes form the private sector producers, the rulers are totally dependent on the minds of others who must constantly agree to be servants and pretend that the lies they're being told are correct, the rulers are dependant on the ignorance and corruption of others and dependant on the real power that comes from the millions of people who choose to be subjects and who do the work of the ruler by coercing their fellow sheeple into obedience.
What's really galling is the sanctimonious attitude with which the politicians violates our basic human rights while telling us it's for our own good.

It's not a free society, it's a criminal society.

In true double speak, dictators are called lawmakers, war is called peacemaking, denying victims restitution and railroading innocent people who have victimized no one into prison is called the justice system, political thugs are called public servants, political tyranny enforcement is called law enforcement, slavery is called civic duty and selective service, and tyranny is called freedom. They seek to pervert every vestige of human goodness, dignity and rights. Citizens are little more than robots who are preprogrammed to perform for their masters.

The Case Against the World System of Political States

by Libercratus

Quotes

"It [the state] is burdened with everything, it undertakes everything, it does everything; therefore it is responsible for everything." - Frederic Bastiat

"The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing."
- Albert Jay Nock

"Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was
to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: It is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing."
- (page 303) Tocqueville's Democracy in America

"For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?" - (page 303) Tocqueville's Democracy in America

"When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on any power whatever, be it called a people or a king, an aristocracy or a republic, I say there is the germ of tyranny, and I seek to live elsewhere, under other laws." - (page 115) Tocqueville's Democracy in America

"It is a curious anomaly. State power has an unbroken record of inability to do anything efficiently, economically, disinterestedly or honestly; yet when the slightest dissatisfaction arises over any exercise of social power, the aid of the agent least qualified to give aid is immediately called for."...
   "It is certainly true that the business of government, in maintaining "freedom and security," and "to secure these rights," is to make a recourse to justice costless, easy and informal; but the State, on the contrary, is primarily concerned with injustice, and its function is to maintain a r�gime of injustice; hence, as we see daily, its disposition is to put justice as far as possible out of reach, and to make the effort after justice as costly and difficult as it can. One may put it in a word that while government is by its nature concerned with the administration of justice, the State is by its nature concerned with the administration of law - law, which the State itself manufactures for the service of its own primary ends. Therefore an appeal to the State, based on the ground of justice, is futile in any circumstances, for whatever action the State might take in response to it would be conditioned by the State's own paramount interest, and would hence be bound to result, as we see such action invariably resulting, in as great injustice as that which it pretends to correct, or as a rule, greater."...
   "we see that what it actually amounts to is a plea for arbitrary interference with the order of nature, an arbitrary cutting-in to avert the penalty which nature lays on any and every form of error, whether wilful or ignorant, voluntary or involuntary; and no attempt at this has ever yet failed to cost more than it came to. Any contravention of natural law, any tampering with the natural order of things, must have its consequences, and the only recourse for escaping them is such as entails worse consequences. Nature recks nothing of intentions, good or bad; the one thing she will not tolerate is disorder, and she is very particular about getting her full pay for any attempt to create disorder. She gets it sometimes by very indirect methods, often by very roundabout and unforeseen ways, but she always gets it. "Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be; why, then, should we desire to be deceived?"...
   "It will be clear to anyone who takes the trouble to think the matter through, that under a r�gime of natural order, that is to say under government, which makes no positive interventions whatever on the individual, but only negative interventions in behalf of simple justice - not law, but justice - misuses of social power would be effectively corrected; whereas we know by interminable experience that the State's positive interventions do not correct them. Under a r�gime of actual individualism, actually free competition, actual laissez-faire - a r�gime which, as we have seen, can not possibly coexist with the State - a serious or continuous misuse of social power would be virtually impracticable." - Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy the State

"After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the
government is the shepherd." - Alexis de Tocqueville

"It is from the stresses arising from the resultant built-in conflicts of interest derived from the master-slave relationships of Statism that myriads of evils are affected, for the alleviation of which various groups of specialists form themselves into professions which presume to cure. These groups of professions thereafter have an entrenched interest in the very existence of the evils the treating of which forms the source of their incomes, and which thus appear to be necessary and tantamount to their very survival. Thus becomes inaugurated a self-aggravating system within the coercively-maintained social body the self-alleviating features of which become increasingly atrophied...The inexorable end of this process is the increasing tendency to resort to the theory that the State is responsible for the health, education, and welfare of its subjects or victims - a theory which is far advanced and which is just as prevalent today among degenerates in so-called democracies as in totalitarian regimes...
Politicians, preachers, physicians, psycho-therapists, lawyers, professors, pill manufacturers, social workers of every description, and of course the military, and indeed the industrial complexes under which this combined lunacy operates - all these whose raison d'�tre are the ills under which man suffers, most of which are manufactured and are effects of governmentalism, appear to have an immediate stake in the existence of these evils, as opposed to their eradication - are actually busily engaged in the degenerative process. And indeed we may continue the list down to the last inhabitant, all of whom to some degree or other constitute a working system, such as it is. There is an inherent contradiction in the very nature of things, and all the people involved are more or less victims." - Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy the State

"Instead of recognizing the State as "the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men," the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it not only as a final and indispensable entity, but also as, in the main, beneficent. The mass-man, ignorant of its history, regards its character and intentions as social rather than anti-social; and in that faith he is willing to put at its disposal an indefinite credit of knavery, mendacity and chicane, upon which its administrators may draw at will. Instead of looking upon the State's progressive absorption of social power with the repugnance and resentment that he would naturally feel towards the activities of a professional-criminal organization, he tends rather to encourage and glorify it, in the belief that he is somehow identified with the State, and that therefore, in consenting to its indefinite aggrandizement, he consents to something in which he has a share - he is, pro tanto, aggrandizing himself. Professor Ortega y Gasset analyzes this state of mind extremely well. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem, presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. . . . When the mass suffers any ill-fortune, or simply feels some strong appetite, its great temptation is that permanent sure possibility of obtaining everything, without effort, struggle, doubt, or risk, merely by touching a button and setting the mighty machine in motion."
Professor Ortega y Gasset has done, aware that after this there is no more that one can do. "The result of this tendency," he says, "will be fatal. Spontaneous social action will be broken up over and over again by State intervention; no new seed will be able to fructify. Society will have to live for the State, man for the governmental machine. And as after all it is only a machine, whose existence and maintenance depend on the vital supports around it, the State, after sucking out the very marrow of society, will be left bloodless, a skeleton, dead with that rusty death of machinery, more gruesome than the death of a living organism. Such was the lamentable fate of ancient civilization." - Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy the State

James Madison called it, "the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government"

"See, then, the many concurrent causes which threaten continually to accelerate the transformation now going on. There is that spread of regulation caused by following precedents, which become the more authoritative the further the policy is carried. There is that increasing need for administrative compulsions and restraints, which results from the unforeseen evils and shortcomings of preceding compulsions and restraints. Moreover, every additional State-interference strengthens the tacit assumption that it is the duty of the State to deal with all evils and secure all benefits. Increasing power of a growing administrative organization is accompanied by decreasing power of the rest of the society to resist its further growth and control. The multiplication of careers opened by a developing bureaucracy, tempts members of the classes regulated by it to favour its extension, as adding to the chances of safe and respectable places for their relatives. The people at large, led to look on benefits received through public agencies as gratis benefits, have their hopes continually excited by the prospects of more. A spreading education, furthering the diffusion of pleasing errors rather than of stern truths, renders such hopes both stronger and more general. Worse still, such hopes are ministered to by candidates for public choice, to augment their chances of success; and leading statesmen, in pursuit of party ends, bid for popular favour by countenancing them. Getting repeated justifications from new laws harmonizing with their doctrines, political enthusiasts and unwise philanthropists push their agitations with growing confidence and success. Journalism, ever responsive to popular opinion, daily strengthens it by giving it voice; while counter-opinion, more and more discouraged, finds little utterance.
Thus influences of various kinds conspire to increase corporate action and decrease individual action. And the change is being on all sides aided by schemers, each of whom thinks only of his pet project and not at all of the general re-organization which his, joined with others such, are working out. It is said that the French Revolution devoured its own children. Here an analogous catastrophe seems not unlikely. The numerous socialistic changes made by Act of Parliament, joined with the numerous others presently to be made, will by-and-by be all merged in State-Socialism -- swallowed in the vast wave which they have little by little raised." - Herbert Spencer, The Man vs The State

"The result---and a natural one---has been that we have had governments, State and national, devoted to nearly every grade and species of crime that governments have ever practised upon their victims; and these crimes have culminated in a war [US Civil War] that has cost a million of lives;"
- Lysander Spooner, No Treason II

"the State with one hand increases evils which with the other hand it tries to diminish" - Herbert Spencer

"the State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation--that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class--that is, for a criminal purpose.
No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity." - Albert J. Nock, The Criminal State

"if you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be" - By Albert J. Nock, The Criminal State

"The pressure of centralization has tended powerfully to convert every official and every political aspirant in the smaller units into a venal and complaisant agent of the federal bureaucracy." - Albert J. Nock, Our Enemy the State

"You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you." - By Albert J. Nock, The Criminal State

"The nature and intention of government, as adduced by Parkman, Schoolcraft and Spencer, are social. Based on the idea of natural rights, government secures those rights to the individual by strictly negative intervention, making justice costless and easy of access; and beyond that it does not go. The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing. So far from encouraging a wholesome development of social power, it has invariably, as Madison said, turned every contingency into a resource for depleting social power and enhancing State power. As Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. In Russia and Germany, for example, we have lately seen the State moving with great alacrity against infringement of its monopoly by private persons, while at the same time exercising that monopoly with unconscionable ruthlessness. Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class." - Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy the State

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao Zedong (1938)

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton (1887)