By: Gary D. Barnett
“It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men’s property, which they had not before, as individuals.”
~ Lysander Spooner
It seems that every single day, someone who claims to support freedom, and claims to be anti-State, refers to the U.S. Constitution as the arbiter of liberty. This non-thinking is literally asinine, as I have pointed out so many times over the past few decades. Of course, any review of history, of the direction taken by this country, or of what the actual outcome of this authority-driven society has become, would alarm any thinking individual and cause him to question the very idea of worshipping or supporting some intentionally-crafted political document meant to create and sustain a domineering centralized federal system with unlimited power.
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Reliance on any constitution is in fact an admission that the false authority of government is the giver of ‘rights’ and freedom; this a blatant contradiction of all natural rights of man. It matters not that many claim this horrendous piece of parchment to be the work of “God,’ or the protector of the liberty of the people. Lysander Spooner had it correct when he said: “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain – that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
Any acceptance of a political constitution is a confession that one embraces and voluntarily accepts being a slave of the State. Of course, the same can be said of all who vote for a master to rule over them. No State can give ‘rights,’ so therefore, no State can claim to define rights. All rights can be sourced back to a single natural law. That is, every individual on earth has a right to his own life. This one fact requires that each individual has a right to defend his life, (self-defense) he has a right to sustain his life, which means he has a right to his property, of which his most sacred property is self, he has a right to not be impeded in any manner so long as he harms no one or their property, and does not infringe on any of these natural rights of others. He has a right to be left alone. He does not have any ‘right’ to free medical care, he does not have any right to another’s property, whether via tax or other theft, he has no right to get a particular wage, he has no right to a job regardless of ethnicity, he has no right to a home, he has no right to State ‘welfare,’ he has no right to block the speech or movement of anyone who is not aggressing against him. No piece of government paper can change this truth.
Other than the simple idea of natural rights, no court has any business defining ‘rights,’ no court has any right to decide what ‘laws’ mean, because ‘laws’ are made by men in order to control other men, and ‘laws’ are a State function meant to corral and control the free lives of others. The U.S. has more ‘laws’ than any other country on earth, and by a huge margin, which means it is a slave State, and not free by any stretch of the imagination.
Any who claim that the Constitution was drafted in order to free us, to protect us, to make us equal, or profess to site any time that this was actually the case, is either lying or is completely ignorant of realty. The U.S. Constitution was a lie and an orchestrated coup to bring about a monstrous and powerful federal governing system. It was never anything else. If a politicized government document could define or grant ‘rights,’ it would be able to change its opinions, and remove so-called ‘rights’ at will. Of course, that is exactly what has happened for the past 237 years.
Any who rely on any government document to define their rights, any who think a government document can protect their rights, any who think that any political system based on government rule and enforcement is legitimate, regardless of any popular acceptance, any who think they can be protected by a constitution; have willingly accepted their own enslavement. As I have stated over and over again:
There is but one legitimate law, and that is natural law, which is simply all the inherent rights of man at birth to his free life. No laws by any man over another, and no laws assumed by any group of others calling itself government, and no government proclamations, are justifiable or right, and cannot exist except in a state of tyranny. Therefore, all government is illegitimate and criminal, and any and every ‘law’ dictated by any State is immediately reprehensible, immoral, and without justification. In order for freedom to exist, rule and arbitrary political laws cannot. Aggressive behavior (offensive force) negates freedom, while natural law protects it.
“No man, and no group of men called government, have any right whatsoever to rule over any other man on earth. To assume such a position, whether this rule be consented to by any minority or majority, or unlawfully ‘designated’ to any so-called ‘representative, is illegitimate and immoral, and is the epitome of evil.”
There are no such things as ‘constitutional rights,’ and there have never been. Natural rights concerning the inherent right to life are the only legitimate rights of man. Every time someone refers to the Constitution to define rights, or to whine and complain about some worthless politician not following the Constitution, I get not only irritated, but completely incensed. It is a weak, stupid, and pathetic argument based on a complete misunderstanding of life and freedom. It is ignorance at a level beyond comprehension, and a testament to the indoctrinated idiocy of the common man.
Why do government and the corrupt courts site the Constitution, swear an oath to it, and claim to protect it? Because it is the tool that they choose to use to fool the fools, all in order to justify every single criminal act of tyranny it commits. And most have swallowed this absurd propaganda, choking on it as they watch all their freedom disappear in the name of nationalistic ‘constitutional’ rule.
“There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.”
~ Lysander Spooner
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