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Obedience to "authority" is a main factor in our political enslavement There should be no contradictions in the realm of politics, yet self-ownership isn't recognized by governments Government is allegedly designed to protect you and provide for you, but at whose expense? Businesses in the marketplace don't impose their services on customers; they offer and revise their offerings according to customer desires "Public good" and "free rider" arguments are based on economic falsehoods--and immoral premises If you weren't threatened with fines, incarceration and other punishments for not paying taxes, would you pay them? Collectivistic memes support unjust services such as the "military," which is funded via extortion and enslaves its own "employees" Employers and employees are not slaves and masters; each can discontinue their relationship at any time for any reason When people aren't allowed to opt out, daily rights-violations are perpetrated with impunity Those involved in the authoritarian nature of government don't take responsibility for their immoral and unjust actions As government grows, people blank out the essentials and avoid making moral distinctions even more Scientists are notorious for blanking out regarding issues and ideas of immorality and injustice Once again, the obedience meme is keeping us enslaved Why do so many rational individuals allow so much of their lives to be controlled by the threats and coercion of those in government? A disrespectful family environment tends to deny self-ownership and leads to enslaved "citizens" Stop saying "Please"! by Larken Rose http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=3113 The sordid political tale of the Boston Tea Party... http://mises.org/story/2110#6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#Tea_Act_1773 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#Resisting_the_Tea_Act http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/04/bernstein_on_th.html http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/related/sons.htm The concept of individual rights is key to understanding the nature of rights-violations We are made of star stuff, and as conceptual beings, we need to realize the implications of reason in relation to rights Violent resistance won't destroy the authoritarian/obedience meme Civil disobedience entails demanding that your rights be respected, with firmness and no slavespeak "Police officers" are criminals themselves to the extent that they "make" money via extortion and work for the coercive monopoly of government The jurisdiction to search for evidence of a crime (actual wrongdoing) naturally stems from property rights; owners have jurisdiction; cops don't Freedom should be our highest value (assuming good physical and psychological health) Feel free to add your comments: http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=529054&comments=on In order for Free Staters (http://freestateproject.org) to achieve freedom, they need to see disobeying unjust "laws" and demanding respect for individual rights as virtuous Resignation to the political status quo (obeying unjust "laws") is not the answer To try to use government to get rid of government is not the answer either Those in government don't care about individuals, but they do care about being seen as legitimate Politics "works" by destroying people's lives As long as we consider disobedience (and its consequences) less moral and less practical than obedience, we'll never achieve complete liberty People who derive benefits from gov