Government 1
The first in a series on local and national governments.
The history of human freedom is long, tortuous and not gratifying.It consists essentially in governments trampling the laws enacted to restrain them. It is the profound clash of natural personal freedom and the commands of the state backed by force. — Judge Napolitano
The federal government taxes you, feeds the universities and NGOs, they generate research and propaganda to feed the machine, and the cycle continues. The examples are legion and have resulted in an absolute avalanche of fake science in the last five years. — Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute
Met a guy who worked for the DEA in the Clinton to Bush years. He said they fly drugs and children on the UN planes as they are untouchable for customs. He was told by superiors not to pursue certain operations. He also said there are many child sex houses for the elite and for the underclass. — Comment on ZeroHedge 22-11-15
US Gold Reserves: A Legacy of Theft and Lies
The gold reserve was never supposed to be a static, untouchable hoard of the US federal government, as it is now. It was supposed to be there for Americans and other users of dollars who traded in their dollars for gold. Gold was supposed to flow in and out. Then, the US government slammed the doors of the federal gold vaults shut and declared “the gold is all ours forever.”
Like most everything else the US government “owns,” the gold in the US gold reserves is there due to many years of lies, gaslighting, and deception. The gold is there because the US regime defaulted on its debts and reneged on its promises to back dollars in gold.
If a true auditing team is ever allowed to actually examine the US regime’s gold, it will be examining the evidence of crimes from long ago. The auditors will be counting the gold stolen from our ancestors to enrich the state and its friends. — Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute
On Thursday, America First Legal (AFL) released explosive new documents obtained through ongoing litigation against the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), exposing a vast, government-backed censorship operation to silence Americans under the guise of “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.” The documents reveal a disturbing alliance between the GEC, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the British Foreign, Commonwealth, Development Office (FCDO), and media censorship organizations, all working in lock-step to manipulate public discourse, control media narratives, and suppress free speech. — Via America First Legal
None of this should be any surprise. As we’ve seen, again and again, all of man’s systems are flawed, but perhaps the only significant flaw, is not anticipating this, and preparing a strategy, for constant change, by making constant improvements.
Now, there is change, already, but consistently for the worse.
We’re experiencing, particularly in the States, a discrediting of existing governments, to grease the way for their new, yet crappier, system. Hence the supposed, “peeling back the curtain on government mismanagement” by the Trump administration.
They trotted out the manufactured cartoon character, “Klaus Schwab,” founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), to say you’ll own nothing and be happy, and of course that’s yet another deception, in that you’ll surely pay to “own” but keep paying through the nose by “subscription” to have something keep working, and we’re already seeing this with the contemptible BMW cars, where you have to pay on the regular to keep your already paid for heated seats working.
We already anticipated this series in Ruses, where we discussed the convenient dodge of ignoring solutions or making up disingenuous barriers to such solutions, a tactic heavily leaned on by government. One of the major solutions we already have, is to the “energy crisis,” where natural gas is an answer, but they concocted the criminal, “carbon emissions” fraud to nullify that. Natural gas will be produced, ejected from earth, and burned or decomposed regardless of whether we exploit it or not, as in forest fires, and decomposition, since it is naturally destroyed by both chemical and biological processes, including reaction with atmospheric hydroxyl [OH] and chlorine, and by methane-consuming bacteria (methanotrophs) in soil and water. This results in a lifetime in the air of 9.1 ± 0.9 years (Stevenson DS et al. 2020 Trends in Global Tropospheric Hydroxyl Radical and Methane Lifetime Since 1850, from AerChemMIP).
The plain fact is, our buggerers need a government to be the muscle to stop good ideas, and prevent us from readily solving all problems.
Explaining Government
Remember playing soccer in grade school gym class? The defense was supposed to hang back by the goal, but everyone rushed to any scrimmage area, wanting to be part of things, leaving the goalie exposed. Then the other side would take possession and sail in for an easy score. Or the plane crash where it seems everyone was so distracted and engrossed in fixing a warning buzzer, they neglected to actually fly the plane. Almost no one is immune from this effect, wanting to be the center of attention, or “in on the action,” easily distracted from the main purpose, and we all suffer dearly from that fact.
At one end of the system we call government: complacency, boredom, ennui; at the other, corruption, greed, coercion, extortion... all at the taxpayer’s expense, another reason why taxes are immoral and senseless. The first alternative is that a pay-as-you-go system, based on tangible services rendered, is required. They’ve hidden the demonstrated fact that there are multiple ways to finance government without any tax burden at all. This goes way beyond tariffs, which are also problematic, but any discussion of such matters is viciously opposed.
Basic Rules for Government
Rule: government can’t be allowed to “ban” anything. Some clueless individuals can't seem to process that, oddly, the most dangerous drug, alcohol, is freely flowing, while the drugs that government (government lackeys, that is) can make huge profits off of via “regulation,” have a government-restricted supply. Government profits immensely from restrictions that actually provide the impetus for drug trafficking, hence the strict “laws” on drugs...
Rule: of course, there should be no government “unions,” of course they’re corrupt and dysfunctional.
Rule: government must be acknowledged as imperfect, and all means should be sought for its improvement.
Rule: we need to be able to sue and/or arrest government goons if they screw up.
People tend to think (or hope) there will be a simple solution to everything, and that everything will be hunky-dory afterwards. As noted, there are simple solutions, but not to the problems we create for ourselves, and we count government among them. With politics and government, the only “solution” is to anticipate a constant battle.
Everything we set up that deals with imperfect people is going to have to be dynamic, will need to be revised/tended to, designed with continual adaptation and improvement in mind. That means government needs review and revision all the time, while recognizing that inescapable sinister elements in our world will work to change things for their benefit only.
Indictment of the Proles
Of course, any proposals for reform will be met with hue and cry from the dopes who will claim you’re subverting government or something. Yet, it is routine to see movies that point up the the folly of government, the corrupt officials, the bribery and payola. That’s all absorbed and accepted without so much as a blink of an eye. No one ever says: “Did you see that ridiculous movie where government was corrupt? How unrealistic that was!” So, it’s not even cognitive dissonance. It’s that people are afraid of government. But would they admit that? Would you? How do you square that? If there’s any fear, it’s not consent of the governed, it’s tyranny, isn’t it?
The Trump Distraction Scam
This go round, and one has to wonder at this bit of nonsense, Trump seems to be taking concrete action to rein in out-of-control government, but the results are not impressive, as Trump’s good measures are being shut down by rogue judges. That this isn’t nipped in the bud indicates it’s all just a bit of theater, since an executive order based on inherent presidential powers cannot create an enforceable cause of action according to the Federal Judicial Center.
So we get semi-nonsense like this article, about Trump “defying” the court, which admits, near the end, that courts cannot interfere with presidential duties like deporting illegal terrorists/criminals. Absurd on the face, but marquee stuff for the theater of the absurd. Then the White House gets childishly defensive, presenting nonsense excuses... Why don’t they use the “standing” argument used and misused countless times against legitimate citizens? Illegals simply don’t have standing in district court to sue to stay in a country they invaded.
Since most of what Trump is doing is his prerogative as chief executive, the tables should be turned and these scum “judges” should be impeached. There should be almost none of the interference were seeing. However, Trump’s improprieties, like using the spurious “I can break laws for the good because they did for the bad,” and similar BS do need to be curbed.
And he shouldn’t be involved with Bitcoin. Looks like the Bitcoin con, though, is going to be more misused and exploited than was imaginable back when this comprehensive Bitcoin article was written, what with governments now hopping on the bandwagon to prop up the heinous fraud.
It doesn’t take much to sway and distract people does it? To hide the real issues, and the very important question of why they want or need a king-like president, anyway.
Monetary Crisis
You have to wonder if the “monetary crisis” they’ve been promising will be initiated when when “debt” nears the total useful private assets that they think they can seize.
Notable
It’s all governments that share the same problems.
The entire society has to be rejiggered. Scrupulously.
The goons want chaos to implement their “new order,” which is just the same old communism, so any change has to be well thought-out.
Until we understand and accept human nature, for avarice, stupidity, hubris, ego, and provide for its flaws and follies in the governments we create, we’re going nowhere but down.
Very notable: government is organized under the exact same crappy pyramidal structure as businesses, something we’ll look at in the next article in this series.
Also very notable: in the U.S., they do have an ordained method for reform: the constitutional convention, but they don’t dare use it, for fear they’ll come back with something even worse! Jefferson even mentioned that it is the duty of the people to abolish bad government. Sadly, even the best form of government so far attempted, the republic, tends to fail after about 200 years.
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