Freedom… Except for...
Lots of people ask, "How did THIS happen?!?" Most of them just need to look in a mirror...
Many people are—rightfully—upset that some governments have mandated masks, lockdowns, or vaccines in order to work, live daily life, travel, socialize, fly, eat in restaurants, visit entertainment venues, shop, go to school, and on and on. They view such restrictions and/or demands as violating their rights; as unwarranted examples of government overreach; of going beyond the actions appropriate to a government.
But many—almost all—citizens shrug or nod in approval when government or its surrogates interfere in ways and in areas of which they approve because X or Y or Z is “important” or “necessary.” Indeed, many things in life are desirable and highly valued and essential. The number is virtually unlimited.
But that fact hardly transforms such objects, activities, or institutions into concerns of a government, especially the federal government. Almost all lack an enumerated power or delegated authority in the Constitution to justify the federal government’s involvement. Beyond that, ALL of these intrusions listed below—regardless of the level of government in question—violate rights and should be prohibited.
There is one and only one proper purpose of government: TO PROTECT OUR RIGHTS.
People who make “exceptions” for “good” goals—libraries, schools, hospitals, welfare, roads, whatever—have no one to blame but themselves when government oversteps its bounds and forces masks, lockdowns, vaccines, whatever upon the public.
THERE ARE NO “EXCEPTIONS” TO FREEDOM.
LIBERTY IS ALL OR NOTHING.
Once you let your would-be masters slip that noose around your head, YOU ARE NO LONGER FREE. Only slavery comes in degrees. It doesn’t matter how long the rope is or how loosely it is held, once it is in place you are subject to another’s will.
The ends—no matter how strongly you desire them, no matter how “good” they are—NEVER justify the means.
Ever.
Those who use the spiked club of government to get what they want rather than trying to persuade people or earning those ends have no right to complain when government fucks them over to satisfy others and, in doing so, ruins or destroys their own lives.
If such complainants support any or most or all of what government typically does today in a myriad areas of society—beyond any actions designed to protect individual rights—then these same folks have created the conditions, have established the principle that it’s “okay for the government to ‘do things’ if…” that has led to the current egregious state of affairs.
If you say, “I believe in freedom…except for when…,” then YOU made such overreach possible, even inevitable.
Sadly, most people are so lacking in either knowledge or, worse, intellectual integrity that they will push blatant falsehoods to achieve their goals but will then ignore or evade the obvious truth that they are deeply hypocritical when their errors or lies are pointed out.
For evidence, witness the state of the world today.
Beyond the protection of citizens from violations of their rights via coercive force or fraud, do you support government involvement via laws, regulations, licenses, permits, subsidies, grants, loans, demands, prohibitions, or similar interference in the areas of:
airports and aviation, alcohol, banking or finance, business, child care, child labor, consensual activities, construction, discrimination, drugs (recreational or otherwise), education, energy or power, entertainment, explosives, firearms or other weapons, firefighting, food, freedom of association and its corollaries of freedom of contract and travel, garbage, health care, housing, immigration, labor, libraries, marriage, medicine, money, parks or recreational activities, personal safety or self-defense, postal services, radio/television/telecommunication/phones/games/Internet or any other form of communication or technology, recycling, retirement, roads, science, sex, tobacco, transportation in any form, unions, unemployment, wages, water, or welfare.
Do you support such things as:
OSHA, FDA, CDC, Federal Reserve board, and countless similar bureaucracies; non-military government education-related research; Medicare, Medicaid; Social Security; restrictions on immigration beyond criminals or people with deadly diseases; a social “safety net”; background checks to purchase or carry firearms; licensing for businesses or professions; building and zoning laws; anti-discrimination laws; affirmative action; prescriptions; income taxes; property taxes; sales taxes; censorship; interventionism abroad; foreign aid; minimum wage laws; eminent domain; civil asset forfeiture; identification numbers/papers/cards/chips/passports or other means of mandatory identification; driver and/or car licenses; government unemployment insurance; conscription, involuntary servitude, and/or slavery; etc. etc. etc.
If you answer “yes” to government action in any, most, or all of these situations, then:
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CREATING THE CONDITIONS AND PRECEDENTS THAT HAVE LED TO THE INSANITY THAT IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY, OUR CULTURE, OUR CIVILIZATION TODAY.
Stop it! Just stop it. Don’t be a hypocrite. Do better.
Fight for freedom in ALL areas of life.
Slippery slopes don’t just appear in logic texts. They can be real as fuck.
Remember: the ends never justify the means.
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