By: Gary D. Barnett
“No one rules if no one obeys”
~ David Icke
If I was weak, I would ask to be forgiven for my brutal and accusatory candor, but I need not, and desire not, any forgiveness. It is my assumption that telling the truth regardless of any ill will or hurt feelings it may generate, is always literally my only intent. I will never compromise, or soften the truth in order to massage weakness, cowardice, or pathetic victimization attitudes. As anyone who knows or understands me is aware, I am no doomsdayer, nor am I cynical, I am strictly a teller of truth, regardless of how uncomfortable that may be to those who desire to hide, and do nothing to help or save themselves from this heinous State that has consumed and gained control over the minds of this obedient proletariat mass. I will accept no label of the idiotic term ‘black pill,’ as that is intentionally ad hominem, and therefore cheap and offensive to any honest thinking individual.
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The fate that most of you have voluntarily accepted, is that of a slave, which means that the fault lies with any and all who have willingly allowed this system of rule to exist in any form, with the insane notion that ‘choosing’ a master to lord over you is somehow in your best interest. In this case, government, all government and anyone in it, plays the role of master, so acceptance of this government, voting to instill this government, support for this government and its murderous wars and military, and the failing of securing your own freedom, leaves all the blood on your hands. Without your support, obedience, and compliance of this fraudulent ‘authority,’ it would not exist, and therefore, you would be set free. The long quote below by Étienne de La Boétie in “The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude,” explains in explicit and exact detail why the people in this country have of their own doing been relegated to eternal servitude:
“Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as our own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives. All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. … Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? You sow crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows—to be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labour in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him stronger and the mightier to hold you in check. From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not be taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces.”
Let us pause for a moment and reflect on these words of wisdom. The ruling class and its state pawns in government cannot exist, cannot steal your wealth, cannot use and kill your children as fodder for their murderous wars, cannot surveil your every move, cannot steal your land and property, cannot destroy your family, cannot lock you in your own home prisons, and cannot control you unless you willingly allow that to happen. How simple is the solution then, if all you have to do individually and en masse, is to support this abominable government no more. The real rulers you see, those called the “deep state,” can only survive and control you if an accepted government middleman is in place to command and hold dominion over your lives. Without that conduit of assumed ‘authority,’ the ruling class could be banished, and the government made impotent.
This will never happen with any petitioning or collective protest of government. A slave does not petition his master to not be his master. Once a people are under the forceful ruling thumb of government, any petition of same government is in direct contradiction to sanity. Rulers do not give up their power to those it controls due to begging or vote. Political protest, especially violent protest, achieves nothing, and in fact strengthens the state, and causes abominable force, increased surveillance, strengthened bogus ‘laws’ and enforcement, and state violence against the people becomes more accepted by the rest of the timid crowd of cowardly sheep. Holding a sign, chanting, screaming slogans, marching, and harming private property and the liberty of others, cannot and will not bring any relief from tyranny, but it will certainly enhance it as has been evident for generations. When crowds gather, when collectivist swarms are present, all critical thinking ceases to exist. Only individuals retain intellect and control, while herds follow along trying to avoid individual dissent and social condemnation by staying in the crowd.
Everything of value concerning freedom of the individual is based on the concept of self-ownership. “Only you own your own life,” this the core of natural human rights. To give up this personal ownership is an acceptance that “another person has a higher claim to your life than you do.” Your life is yours and yours alone, so to allow any individual or ‘governing’ body to possess claim over you, means your life is not yours. Your life is your property alone, your property therefore, belongs to you alone. No one has any right to your life, and you have no right to another’s life; meaning that no one can delegate a right to rule you, because no one has any right to rule another. This fact alone means that no government claiming any right over any individual is legitimate, and in fact it is criminal.
Since you own your own life, it is your duty and right to defend your life against any who would aggress against you in any manner whatsoever. The initiation of force in self-defense is legitimate in this case, as no man and no government has any right to claim ownership of you or your property in any way. Because of this, each is fully responsible for himself, and has no right to the property of others. If you want freedom, claim ownership of your own life, and refrain from interference in the life of any other unless all is mutually voluntary and non-aggressive.
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed, regardless of the response. To beg for the blessing of “authority” is to accept that the choice is the master’s alone to make, which means that the person is already, by definition, a slave.”
~ Larken Rose
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