Prohibition Only Enlarges State Power and Creates Black Markets

Excellent interview! I agree with most of what is discussed. I will, however, take issue with two points made; that banning these harmful substances is good or effective as has been done in a few European countries and that the problem with these large corporations is their “profit” motive or bottom line.

Legal Plunder Taxation

 

Before studying Austrian Economics and Voluntaryism I was thoroughly interested in holistic Eastern Nutrition, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Big Pharma, vaccines, GMOs, and alternative medical therapies. When learning about such harmful products GMOs, vaccines, artificial dyes, preservatives, or additives it is quite natural to come to the conclusion that “government” should ban such things. I used to think this way as well until I learned about the true sinister nature of “government” and its status as a monopoly on initiated force. Not only is “government” incapable of protecting our property and welfare, but it must first rob us of our property and violate our human rights in order to give the façade that it is doing these things, all for our own good by “representing” us. Given this knowledge it can easily be seen how asking “government” to ban something is an open invitation for “government” to do what it does best: control, extort, regulate, monitor, harass, and violate the freedoms of peaceful people.

Statist Bully on the Playground

 

The “government” is morally and financially bankrupt, always has been and always will be. It has nothing to give but toxic lies and stolen loot. If you want something build it yourself, buy it, or get others to help you voluntarily. If you want to earn more money learn new skills to increase your marketability in the market place. Make yourself more attractive for prospective employers to want to hire you and pay you more money. That is how you improve your lot in life. When you ask “government” for anything, you are essentially asking a thief to steal for you, an assaulter to assault for you, and a murderer to murder for you. There is no nobility in this; rather there is only cowardice. In providing value to each other we become free!

Government Godfather Parody

 

The problem is not that these companies seek out profit. Absent “government” intervention, profit and the price mechanism are beautiful feedback processes that provide valuable information between buyer and seller. Buyers bid prices up and sellers bid prices down. Where these two forces meet determines the price of a particular product or service. It is a self-correcting free market phenomenon that ensures that all parties are getting the best deal. When “government” injects itself into this magnificent process with its violent edicts and arbitrary mandates the result is always a perversion of prices and natural consequences. Political nepotism guarantees that some well connected special interest groups function with sovereign immunity regardless of environmental degradation and human injury. Such groups include Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Pfizer, Perdue, Tyson Foods, Shell, BP, Chevron, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Capital One, Bank of America, Wells Fargo etc. The fault does not lie with these special interest groups as such because although they have massive ties to “government”, their products/services are not forced upon us at gunpoint, rather we buy them willingly, be it through ignorance or complacency, we always have a choice. The fault lies in “government” that provides the sovereign immunity that shields them from any wrongdoing, litigation, or ire that their products/services may inspire from the people. Do not merely cut the hydra head for another one will just grow in its place. Strike at the body! Know your enemy! Vacate the State!

 

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

 

Just do good things

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Justin Nunez: Anarchist Web Developer and Freedom Fighter

Please enjoy my recent interview with Justin Nunez, an Anarchist computer programmer and web developer from Florida. Herein we discuss how he became an Anarchist, the destruction of unseen potential from “government school” attendance, the futility and high cost of university, the importance of entrepreneurship, the effect of Obamacare in pediatrics, the Internet rendering most university degrees obsolete, the monopoly on violence AKA the police, unaccountability with the police and much more!

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary

 

 

 

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Mark Corske: Engines of Domination and the Human Emergency

Please enjoy my recent interview with Anarchist philosopher Mark Corske, author of “Engines of Domination” and assistant creator of the documentary “Mark Corske’s Engines of Domination”. Herein we discuss how he became an Anarchist, growing up in McCarthyism, experiencing the Cold War, how he came to write his book, how political power is a tool used by the ruling class to dominate, the various human emergencies, the belief in the myth of authority, where political power originates, what gives teeth to political edicts and mandates, thought control in “government”, can tyranny occur in a Stateless Society, Peter Schiff challenging the Occupy Wall Street protesters and much more!

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx

 

 

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Seeds Of Liberty Podcast Episode 6: Taxation

Please enjoy our recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. In *honor* of the recent National Extortion Day here in the U.S.S.A., this week we delved into taxation. Herein we discussed taxation as theft vs. a contribution, consent, property taxes, unseen communism, freedom to vs. freedom from, pointing the guns of government at your neighbor, the belief in authority, skewed historical education, do agents of government pay taxes, corporate taxes, sovereign immunity, *Marksism*, and more!

 

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.” – Lysander Spooner

 

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Mason Moore: Voluntaryist Rapper and Liberty Lover

Please enjoy my recent interview with Mason Moore, Voluntaryist Rapper and Liberty Lover. Herein we discuss how he became an Anarchist, his rapping style, How Intellectual Property hurts aspiring artists, How IP is living in the past, Fergusson riot madness, how to effect lasting change, the economic ignorance of protestors, are GMOs here to stay, can GMOs foster life, striking at the root, the effectiveness of comedy and much more!

Love yourself and your expression, you can’t go wrong.

KRS-One

 

 

 

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