Political states masquerading as governments are nothing but criminal gangs, they have no sovereignty or rights of their own, they are merely artificial entities formed to subjugate human beings to serve the interests of those in power.
All legitimate law is based on the natural law of the sovereignty of individual human rights, politicians who make up their own "laws" are in reality criminals who are at war against human rights, people who impose the evil of democracy, which is mob rule are also criminals at war against human rights, anyone who tries to impose one's political opinions or values on others by covering it in the shroud of democratic law are deceivers and tyrants. Just law exists independently of any political body and is manifest in the sovereignty of the individual.
People are brainwashed into believing the fraud that they are the government, they are told that the government is yours; in reality it belongs to the mob who has the greatest power, that's like telling sheep who are attacked by a pack of wolves, that the wolfpack belongs to the sheep. People are told that the government derives its power from the consent of the governed, if that is so, then try withdrawing your consent or give your consent to a different form of government or start your own government and see what they do to you to force you to submit to their rule.
In a democracy or republic bullets and ballots are the same thing, voting to impose one's opinions on others is an act of aggression that commits violence against the minority or against other people who do not recognize the legitimacy of democratic mob rule and refuse to participate in the immorality of mob run government that commits crimes against natural human rights. Democracy is the opinion of a large group of people imposed on others, people must not be enslaved in such a pernicious system simply because of other people's political or social opinions or economic interests; because politics is merely opinion. When people vote to tell others how to live or to place restrictions on other's rights they are holding a gun to the head of everyone else. And, their ignorant opinions or absolutely wrong, they don't understand, or even want to understand the basis of human rights or legitimate government. Legitimate government is not merely opinion, it is based firmly on the foundation of individual sovereignty and natural human rights. Those who say they renounce violence and instead will work through the political process to impose a political ideology are foolish liars because the political process is violence.
Julien Benda wrote, "The present age is essentially an age of politics" and said that "democracy is war." Today, it seems, everything is political, social life has been completely politicized, economic activity is politicized, so have the schools, entertainment, sports, even sex. Opposing group's prejudices, fears and hatreds are the raw material for organizing and motivating the democratic plunderers in a political struggle for power.
To answer the criticism that democracy always means mob rule democrats say that for a democracy to be just it must have majority rule with respect for minority rights. This is bull, because in a democracy, where the majority rules, it means that the majority will decide what rights the minority will be allowed to have, they will define what minority rights mean, or they may presume to deny the minority's rights entirely, which means that the minorities have no rights at all in a democracy. Their only right is to submit to the will of the majority. Even if minority rights are respected to some degree they are never safe because they are always at the mercy of the majority, they may deny their rights at any time and take away whatever allowances had been given.
Democracy and freedom are mutually exclusive. Democracy is at war against freedom, you can't have democracy and enjoy individual freedom, democracy violates individual freedom at every turn, by its nature and practice every democratic action is a mob imposing its will on others. You can either have freedom or have a democracy, you can't have both. The philosophy of democracy is; might makes right.
Representative government is a deception, for no one may represent your rights for you. As your rights belong exclusively to yourself only you may exercise your rights; for who else can exercise your rights but yourself? As this is self evident, it is also necessary for the enjoyment of individual liberty, because as a self governing sovereign that has control over one's rights and activities, the individual can be held completely accountable for one's actions. The sham of collective rights transferred onto the artificial person of the state allows for people to act in collusion to commit horrendous crimes and get a away with it.
When the state commits acts of terrorism, murders innocent people in their wars, and commits armed robbery through taxation and other forms of confiscation there is no justice for the victims. And because of its regulation it assumes control over certain things such as protecting people's health by regulating food and drugs and protecting the environment, yet when people are harmed by food or drugs or by pollution, because of the state seizing control of these things and claiming total responsibility for them, the state is immune to being sued and made to pay restitution.
This setup allows many different people who have their own selfish interests to do things that directly violate other people's rights in ways which would land them in prison if it were done by any other means except through the political system. Democracy no matter what high sounding ideals that are attached to it is still just mob rule; the use of mob violence to impose political opinions.
The special interest groups that run modern republics don't represent the people because someone else can't represent an individual's rights and there is no such thing as a completely representative government and people are fools to believe in such an illusion. For those individuals who do totally believe in democracy or the republic, they are completely guilty of participating in supporting the crimes of the state and they are the primary tyrants who are imposing the mob rule on others. These individuals must be held completely accountable for their violations of other's individual rights just as the politicians are held accountable. It is absolutely morally wrong to give any support to this type of democratic or republican society which imposes its illegitimate government on others in violation of the law of free sovereign self-government.
The coercive bastards who say that if you don't like what the government does you should vote and if you don't vote you should shut up, that you have no right to complain about the political system if you don't participate in it are declaring war on your right to live in responsible freedom and sovereignty and to choose to have a legitimate government that respects everyone's rights.
I respond to that intolerable threat with; if you don't respect the sovereignty of individual rights and instead resort to the criminal violence of imposing your political opinions to control others, we are at war and I will use any means to destroy you. If you don't respect the right of others to live freely, then you don't deserve to live yourself.
Anyone who votes to support the system, instead of voting to dismantle the system, deserves what they get, choosing to vote, in the absence of a disclaimer in a contract, is giving your permission to accept the results. Threatening people's rights and coercing them into participation in the political process are the insidious tactics they use to ensnare people in their tyrannical and immoral system. They tell you that you will not be allowed to live freely and independently and respect other people's right to the same freedom because they wont let you. So many people vote in self defense, but in doing so without establishing contracts that respect other's rights while participating in the system, they are only perpetuating the war against everyone's rights by giving the appearance of legitimacy to political mob rule. Like any gang of thugs, such as a street gang, they want to get you entangled in their criminality by voting to support the perpetuation of the racket, which is an act of tyranny to impose one's opinions and desires on others. There is no intrinsic justice in democracy, it's just mob rule, there is some protection for individual rights in constitutions; however, in democratic or republican governments there is the potential for unlimited power which renders their constitution to be ineffective in protecting individual rights in the long run. Eventually the power of the majority or ruling interest groups will find ways to subvert the constitution, either, by simply using their power to enforce their rule and ignore the constitution. Or, they can appoint judges with a particular political ideology that has the effect of slowly perverting the interpretation of the constitution, while indoctrinating people into an interpretation of the constitution that is a lie. Or, they can amend the constitution by having a large enough majority. Such allowance means that any democratic constitution is worthless in protecting individual rights in the long run. Citizens who rely on such a sham document are trusting their rights to the wind.
It's only by getting people to agree to surrender their rights, by suffering the indignity of putting your rights up for a vote, that they can manipulate the definition of those rights. You will always be at the mercy of the state when you allow them to define your rights for you. You have to beg them to allow you to keep as much of your property as they will allow you and to get their permission to engage in activities that you have a right to do in the first place. Your rights, your very identity, will be at their mercy to pervert and to use against you to gain even more power to an endless degree.
The philosophy of the political state is expressed in the idea at human beings have no natural rights, that their rights are conferred by the state, by the political opinions of a few individuals who are the rulers or by majority opinion; and their belief that they can manipulate human behavior by changing conditions and thereby changing human nature and human rights. This materialistic philosophy is the basis not only of communism but also modern democracy, where the only real difference is that the majority votes to determine what rights people will be allowed to have. Democratic societies believe also, that by political action changing social conditions will lead to changing what is considered to be natural human behavior and thereby changing the definition of human rights. Democracy and communism are the same in that neither respects the sovereignty of the individual, of whom all rights originate, they are both tyrannical and at war against individual freedom. While communism is much more tyrannical, democracies have been more successful in brainwashing the populace into believing that mob control is freedom, that rights are determined through popular opinion and that any action no matter how atrocious is justified if it is taken through the democratic process. Some of a same crimes against humanity are committed in so called democracies that are committed in totalitarian regimes and the world doesn't lift a hand to stop it because it is whitewashed with the label of democracy. Of course most countries who claim to be democracies are in reality republics run by special interest groups (e.g. United States), so even their own identity is a lie.
Democracy is the most intrinsically immoral form of government because in its ideal of involving everyone in society in the system of attacking everyone else's rights, it corrupts an entire society and makes everyone guilty. Democracy corrupts and turns everyone into conniving little tyrants who are obsessed with controlling other people while frequently exploiting the minority or the lest powerful by expropriating their earnings and/or property to serve their own agenda, which usually involves using that stolen money to manipulate personal behavior. Its the most thoroughly immoral form of government for the largest number of people and can be the worst kind of tyranny of all, because, instead of just one tyrant that can be overthrown or assassinated, all of the citizens become insidious little tyrants that try to control each other's lives, with zoning codes that empower your neighbors to tell you how to build your own house, how to decorate it, even to tell you what you can and can't do in the privacy of your own home (of course this means that its not your own home, the house you live in is public domain and you with it because your mobster neighbors have voted themselves that power). The little tyrants want others to provide for them, they want to keep anyone else from being free because of their weakness of character; because they're afraid of freedom.
Democracy requires massive mind control to function, therefor the majority who controls the media seeks to shape public opinion to serve their interests. And, mandatory education where everyone fights over which prejudices to impose on everyone's children becomes more important that seeing that children receive a quality education. The main objective of the education system is political indoctrination to mold the next generation into both, mindless slaves who will submit to "the will of society" and conspiratory criminals with the mentality of tyrants who will become politically active in perpetuating the tyranny of democracy.
In a dictatorship, in theory, only the dictator, and those who serve him, are guilty. The subjects are innocent victims. But in a democracy, everyone who participates in it is guilty. A dictator may imprison or kill the subjects, but that persecution doesn't in any way corrupt the souls of the victims. Democratic politics have an invasive, corrosive effect of developing the most immoral tendencies in the populace that were in the past only cultivated among the power political players who were among the most immoral examples of human garbage that has ever lived. It would figure that today's statists would glorify these idiots from the past since it is to them that they aspire to emulate. Democratic societies involve people in groups who are continually conspiring to rob and manipulate each other for their own selfish interests or sometimes even worse, for the collective interest. Democracy is tyranny, it makes no difference whether it is by one tyrant, a committee of tyrants or a whole society of tyrants, it is the moral equivalent of all forms of tyranny, if anything the fact that it's a majority of society engaging in tyranny that makes it even worse, it's more extensively evil for a larger number of people.
Democratic states respect no boundary to their totalitarian control of every aspect of people's lives. You must choose between freedom and democracy, you can't have both, democracy is the surrender of individual freedom to mob rule.
The democratic majority is a mob of anonymous cowards who, like the KKK or hooded vigilantes, hide behind the mask of the voting booth curtain to conceal themselves in order to anonymously command the commission of crimes against human rights, they lack the courage or moral sanction to stand up as responsible human beings and hold themselves accountable for their actions, so instead they hide as if to escape from their own conscience and pretend that it is just the hand of society doing its will.
Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of the equal realization of all people to be both tyrant and slave and a faith in the ability of each person to have a part in manipulating one's neighbors and confiscating their property with the illusionary hope of salvation being total order and security through the human sacrifice of individual freedom.
Republics
Republics are rule by representatives of powerful special interest groups competing for power by funding and buying the candidates and legislation that serve their interests. The worst type of republic of all is where only two parties work in collusion to form a cartel and exclude other parties from representing the populous as a whole, they do this by restricting entry by minority parties by making it difficult or impossible for minority parties to get on the ballot or otherwise compete or even get a small share of the power by putting up various obstacles including requiring exorbitant fees to get on the ballot and by using tax money to fund the cartel; while denying access to funding by minority parties.
Pure democracy is bad enough but a democratic republic is the most corrupt form of democracy. At least in pure democracy special interests can't bribe the entire electorate to support their selfish interests, but republics are factories of corruption, the political machines not only solicit money to bribe political office holders and regulators, they use their power to steal more money through taxation to support their parties, this most extreme case is endemic in the United States political system where the two parties operate a cartel racket where they steal from taxpayers to keep themselves entrenched in power and to prevent other parties from challenging them. It is easier to change things in pure democracy than in a republic where big money rules. In fact, republics barely resemble democracies except for the fore gone conclusion of voting to confirm that those who have the money to advertise their candidacy will be confirmed by the electorate who know practically nothing about any other challengers who might appear on the ballot and most people won't vote for other parties because they're so small they think that their wasting their vote. Because even if minor parties were elected, they would most likely not be able to work with either of the two major parties. The United States is not very democratic compared to those countries which have proportional representation which is the trademark of a democratic republic. In those countries with proportional representation there is better representation for most of the people and it's easier for minority groups to get representation and have influence in coalition governments.
But the worst thing about any type of republic is the inability of people to take direct control of government and pass specific protections against political abuses of their rights. In republics the citizens are forced to have to vote for their masters who will then tell them what to do. People who want democracy and protest this are told that their "leaders" are superior to them and know what is best for them and that to have stability people must elect and submit to their imposed leaders leaders (a.k.a. masters) who will then make decisions based on their own superior judgment. This intolerable form of tyranny is where the fraud of democracy will end, majorities who impose their rule on others through pure democracy is intolerable and unjustified, however the people may participate in democratic voting in self defense to protect theirs and everyone's rights if its done properly. In very corrupt republics, this is more difficult but can still be accomplished by using the same tactics against the political racketeers.
We will not submit to the indignity of being forced to choose our masters, a human being is one's own master, one must be one's own master in order to have any responsibility at all, someone who is not able to control one's action is not able to live in society with other people, and such as society that presumes people to be incapable of controlling their own actions presumes that a few arrogant people who presume to know what's best for everyone must be imposed on everyone by the majority.
John Locke in his Second Treatise said, "This freedom from absolute, arbitrary power is so necessary to, and closely joined with, a man's preservation, that he cannot part with it but by what forfeits his preservation and life together. For a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot by compact or his own consent enslave himself to any one, nor put himself under the absolute, arbitrary power of another to take away his life when he pleases."
If a gang of thugs captures a person and pulls weapons on that person and then tells the person to vote on what crime they are going to commit against that person, then the victim of the crime is not obligated to surrender one's rights because of being outnumbered. Being allowed to vote for which criminal gangsters will be chosen to violate their rights is no privilege. It is outrageous that supporters of democracy commit crimes against individual rights and justify it by mob rule, that might makes right, and they are so arrogant as to tell people that because they have been a victim of greater numbers or power they have given permission for their conquerors to rule over them. This kind of evil will not long stand in this world, we will destroy this monstrosity masquerading as a government and institute legitimate government that truly protects individual freedom.
by Gregory Flanagan
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Quotes
"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner
"No attempt or pretence, that was ever carried into practical operation amongst civilized men --unless possibly the pretence of a "Divine Right," on the part of some, to govern and enslave others--embodied so much of shameless absurdity, falsehood, impudence, robbery, usurpation, tyranny, and villainy of every kind, as the attempt or pretence of establishing a government by consent, and getting the actual consent of only so many as may be necessary to keep the rest in subjection by force. Such a government is a mere conspiracy of the strong against the weak. It no more rests on consent than does the worst government on earth." Lysander Spooner, No Treason
"This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings." Walter Lippmann, (American teacher, journalist) A Preface to Politics (1914)
"A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another." Lenin, The State and the Revolution (1917)
"An election is nothing more than an advance auction of stolen goods." - Ambrose Bierce
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship." - Alexander Fraser Tyler, "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic"
"Most of the presidential candidates' economic packages involve 'tax breaks,' which is when the government, amid great fanfare, generously decides not to take quite so much of your income. In other words, these candidates are trying to buy your votes with your own money." - Dave Barry
"The very existence of majorities and minorities is indicative of an immoral state. The man whose character harmonizes with the moral law, we found to be one who can obtain complete happiness without diminishing the happiness of his fellows. But the enactment of public arrangements by vote implies a society consisting of men otherwise constituted - implies that the desires of some cannot be satisfied without sacrificing the desires of others - implies in the pursuit of their happiness the majority inflict a certain amount of unhappiness on the minority - implies, therefore, organic immorality. Thus, from another point of view, we again perceive that even in its most equitable form it is impossible for government to dissociate itself from evil; and further, that unless the right to ignore the state is recognized, its acts must be essentially criminal." Herbert Spencer, The Right to Ignore the State
"After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it." ... "Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?" Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
"The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny; the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also, only of a less intense kind. "You shall do as we will, and not as you will," is in either case the declaration; and if the hundred make it to the ninety-nine, instead of the ninety-nine to the hundred, it is only a fraction less immoral." - Herbert Spencer, The Right to Ignore the State
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