Government Is All About Power, Control, And Revenue

Government Is All About Power, Control, And Revenue
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I am a peaceful man. I have never intentionally harmed anyone. I believe in voluntary interaction with others for mutual benefit. I just want to be free to live my life. I do not believe I should be forced to do that which is against my will so long as I am doing no harm to anyone else. I just want to be left alone. "Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind," as Donovan sang to the masses some forty-five years ago. In reality, my desire to be free - to attain absolute freedom - is likely impossible.

I grew up, as do most folks, a brainwashed child. I was taught early on that we live in the United States, the "land of the free." If you believe this - if you have brainwashed your children into believing this - you might want to rethink your beliefs. Freedom - which I was taught mankind was endowed with by God - has likely never truly existed. After all, freedom is incompatible with the order required of a "civilized" society. Or, so our masters would have us believe.

Noah Webster, in his 1828 opus, "An American Dictionary of the English Language," offered as the primary definition of freedom:

• FREEDOM, n. - a state of exemption from the power or control of another; liberty; exemption from slavery, servitude or confinement. Freedom is personal, civil, political, and religious.

The primary definition of freedom in the 2011 online version of the Merriam-Webster dictionary reads as follows:

• FREEDOM, n. - the quality or state of being free: as the absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action

Please take notice that Noah Webster defined "freedom" in absolute terms, whereas the current Merriam-Webster definition offers a more vague, wishy-washy interpretation. Why have the editors at Merriam-Webster finessed Webster's earlier definition? Does it have anything to do with the fact that you cannot convince people they are "free" if the definition has an absolute meaning?

I think it is self-evident after reading the 1828 definition that absolute freedom does not exist. Even those who have completely dropped out of society - those of who are technically homeless, those who live on the streets or in their cars, trucks, and vans by choice - are not truly free. As close to being free as they are, they still run the daily risk of violating one or more of the hundreds of thousands of rules and regulations enacted by those in power and control.

We are often told that without such rules and regulations we would live in a world of chaos. In reality, such rules and regulations are nothing more than obstacles placed before us, designed to control us, to keep us "in line." They prevent us from being free. They make it impossible to be exempt from "the power or control of another."

Consider this: You cannot start a business without obtaining government permission, even for something as simple and non-invasive as washing windows. If you do start a business without permission and you are caught you will face severe fines and penalties. Mind you, there need not be a complaint from anyone you do business with. Eventually someone who "plays by the rules" will narc on you because (unlike them) you have not bowed down to the narcissistic megalomaniacs who insist they have the right to dominate you. You too must enhance the public coffers. You too must submit to the power and control of those who proffer they are there to "serve" you - all the while bossing you around and taking your money.

Our masters also tell us we cannot drive an automobile without being licensed. Even if you accept the premise that such licensing is necessary (I don't), once you have passed a one-time basic competency test, what legitimate purpose is served by requiring you to renew your license on a regular basis? Why is the license not good for the duration of your existence? None that I can think of. Repeated licensing is nothing more than a means of tracking you and generating revenue.

Recently, the State of Oregon demanded that Dale Smith pass an "in-person practical exam" and successfully complete a 75-question written test to regain a barber's license he unknowingly operated without after his license expired in 2006. Smith, who has been cutting hair for more than 50 years, had not run afoul of a customer complaint. He was "found out" by a state regulator paid to spy on people.

Even more recently, a federal warrant was issued for the arrest of 78-year-old Julian Heicklen. Heicklen was charged with "distributing literature without a permit" in front of a Federal Court House. The Department of Homeland Security "regulation" Heicklen allegedly violated is itself a direct violation of Amendment 1 of the Constitution for the united States, which proclaims, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech [emphasis added], or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Government is all about power, control, and revenue. As long as you submit to even one government rule or regulation you cannot be free.
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