There was a time when many Americans admired people who weren’t servile. Some still do. But there are also a lot of people (I wouldn’t call them Americans) who resent those who aren’t servile – and applaud when such deviants are “taught a lesson.”
One such lesson was meted out to a Florida woman who had the temerity to assert her right to travel freely. The right most Americans now consider a conditional privilege they must beg the government’s permission to be allowed to do. Earlier generations regarded it differently. Thomas Jefferson did not need a riding license to travel by horse from Monticello to Boston. George Washington’s carriage didn’t have to have license plates, either. Both – and everyone else, back then – availed themselves of what was considered by everyone to be the public right-of-way.
Then along came the government. It paved it over what had been the rights-of-way and asserted ownership over them, rendering those who use them people who must do so according to the government’s rules. And it’s not even “the government”- as if such an entity had any real existence. It is nothing more than the relative handful of people who exert control over the roads and thereby assert ownership of them.
Americans – many of them – have been taught to believe they own a thing if they have a piece of paper saying it’s “theirs.” And, of course, it doesn’t even say that. It says they have title to the thing – which is a very different thing. Unless you have absolute, legally respected control over something – more finely, if no other person has the legal power to exert control over the thing – then you don’t really own it, do you?
The government describes the roads it now controls as the “public” roads – a thing as greasily dishonest as the sly way government schools are characterized as “public.” And we know who controls them, too.
Back to the right to travel freely on what used to be the public right-of-way and the Florida woman who made the mistake of doing just that. Armed government workers – the costumed gorillas who enforce the government’s control over the things you’re allowed to use (as well as many other things besides) saw that the woman had committed what is styled a “moving violation,” which is a thing of a piece a with a kid inadvertently stepping on a crack in the sidewalk and not breaking her momma’s back. That is to say, a “rule” was broken.
She – the woman, not the girl – made a right on red.
No one’e person or property was hurt in any way but – nonetheless – this is an illegal act in many states. Cue the gorillas. They “pulled her over,” a gentle-sounding phrase that soft-peddles the murderous violence implicit in being “pulled over.” If you doubt this, don’t pull over sometime and see what happens next.
Anyhow, the woman pulled over. It was then that the state’s gorillas discovered she did not have the state’s permission slip to drive, nor the required “plates” on her vehicle, which are the functional equivalent of the ear tags ranchers staple into place on the ears of their cattle.
The woman questioned the gorillas’ mandate to “pull her over” – and their assertion that she was in “violation” because her vehicle was not properly ear-tagged and she herself could not produce the identification-cum-permission-slip (i.e., that thing they call a driver’s license) demanded by them.
It did not matter that she had harmed no one. It did not matter that she had not even plausibly appeared to be on the verge of maybe harming someone. What mattered was showing her who’s boss. By showing her – most forcefully – that neither she nor any other person have any right to travel freely on the government’s roads.
She was dragged out of her vehicle and thrown on the road by one of the gorillas and then placed in manacles. As if she’d done something wrong as opposed to something “illegal.” The latter being a moral non sequitur of a piece with ignoring the warning label on the mattress you just bought and tearing it off.
Bad enough.
Gorillas, after all, will be gorillas – especially when they are rewarded for being gorillas. And the government will be the government.
Expecting it to be a benign entity that exists only by common consent and to only act aggressively when the person or property of an innocent person is harmed in some way is a lot like the old story about the frog that was dismayed when the scorpion he’d helpfully allowed to ride his back across the creek stung him along the way.
But there is something even more dismaying. It is the way some people cheer what the government does – especially to others, when they “break the law.” Not realizing they are cheering the government doing it to them, too. We saw this lit brightly during the government-imposed “mask” mania during the “pandemic.” Store managers, teenage cashiers were vicious enforcers of the mania.
They had to wear them, so you’d better.
“It seems like it’s locos all around in the case of South Florida’s sovereign citizens versus the police,” snarks a writer for Jalopnik, the car site that regularly publishes articles criticizing those who drive them, especially without permission.
Misery truly does love company.
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I recently moved to south Florida from western NY. Where the real ghestapo operate. The cops are amazing lax on traffic enforcement.
Gangs of kids on dirt bikes drive up and down US1 doing wheelies and speeding in traffic, speeding and non use of turn signals is the norm.
Broward county publicly stated a while back that for all intents and purposes, they will not be enforcing traffic violations. The only exception is they are very strict with enforce my in school zones, as it should be.
They also know tens of thousands of illegals and others are driving around un licensed, they simply don’t care. Yes traffic enforcement is different depending on the region, in Palm Beach county, the cops don’t mess around regarding traffic violations. By and large, Florida is quite libertarian. I’m surprised that instead of writing an appearance ticket, and impounding this woman’s car, that the cops made a federal case out this. It wasn’t even speeding or wreck less driving, which again is THE NORM throughout Florida.
For record I am vehemently anti drivers license, registration, and insurance. The write to free travel is exactly your right to free travel, can’t remember which amendment of the constitution grants that right.
The commenter who made reference to this being staged by the “busty woman” and the cops for click bait may be on the right track.
Eric,
One other thing – I like gorillas and protest at your smearing them by likening them to AGWs. :)) Gorillas are nice and are unfortunately victims of poaching, and are almost exterminated by humans now. There was a nice movie about this, “Gorillas In the Mist”, starring Sigourney Weaver. So it’s probably better to call AGWs something else.
Morning, Yuri!
Fair enough – in re Gorillas. How about red-assed baboons?
That too.. and chimps, passenger pigeons, bisons and all the other creatures that are being (or have already been) eliminated from this planet by our so-called “civilization”.
oh.. just realized I may have misunderstood you Eric. I’d probably call them humanoids, so as not to offend all the nice animals on this planet.
Humans? In Africa? It is to laugh. You failed. Die nigger loving faggot
A rap tune protesting police violence against “knee grows” also had that title:
https://youtu.be/WrU7W80r13w?si=M1Oi6yxk2FdF4x2H
Hi Eric,
While I agree with you, it’s important to realize that the incident with this “sovereign citizen” busty chick is most likely staged. This is what they do unfortunately. I can’t prove it, but this is just my quick take on it. Just look at her doing a selfie at 0:43. Busty stupid chick. Sovereign citizen my ass! That’s exactly what they want the sovereign citizen to look like. Next they’ll stage her riding naked getting pulled out and bent over the hood by cops. (I know I’m giving them ideas).
I pity folks who haven’t found this site and have to settle for the thin, soy-laced gruel that passes for automotive coverage from Jalopnik. My “favorite” was an article where the editor, a self-described urban elitist who uses mass transit, was trying to explain why he was writing for an ostensible car outlet. Why, indeed?
But, you can fairly reliably find fun vehicles by selecting offerings that they hate.
This is kind of like living under Soviets. Everyone was guilty of something at all times, and the police could make your life miserable if they wanted it. We also had secret police, so you didn’t know if you were being watched except when at home with your closest family. When you, as a society, live under oppression and in fear, we see the kinds of behaviors that we see today in the US. Keep your head down, don’t get on their radar, don’t assert your rights even if you’re in the right, because the men with guns have final say, etc.
These bastards in power basically give you a choice; comply, keep your head down, and live to raise your family and support your kids, or assert your rights and give up on all those things that you live for. It feels like we’re living in the end times of a corrupt empire, but I’ve no way predict when it will fall.
‘Keep your head down, don’t get on their radar, don’t assert your rights even if you’re in the right, because the men with guns have final say, etc.’ — OppositeLock
When my dad was in his 30s, and I was a little kid, nobody thought like this. ‘It’s a free country,’ was the slogan at the time. Dad spoke his mind without any self-imposed restraint, even when some of his audience loudly disagreed.
Funny how no one says ‘it’s a free country’ anymore. Haven’t heard it said for years. If someone did, I would assume they were a political candidate or selling something (sorry for redundancy).
You had to assume you were being watched and listened to, even at home. Ones own abode was not a sanctuary, sadly. Even Gorbachev admitted in his autobiography, was that the only time he knew for sure he could have a truly private conservation with his wife, Raisa, was out in the woods in the middle of nowhere. I learned (growing up there) to talk in code, or, like Gorby, to talk out in the middle of the woods, where only the trees were listening. No one was your friend, even if you swore they were. You had to assume everyone would eventually rat on you because you never trusted anyone, and you also had to assume there were eyes and ears everywhere you went, even in your own home, because privacy was non-existent. Never in a million years did I think that world I grew up in would come to the United States, but here we are. I surmise those years growing up and living in hell will come in hand in the not-too-distant future. It is just sad such a “system” came here.
OL,
“This is kind of like living under Soviets.”
We are all living under the Soviets now, except that most people don’t realize this. They closed the Soviet Union down as it was no longer necessary, in favor of the Western “democracy” that they decided was more efficient, but otherwise things stayed the same. The US was never free. All this democracy was a sham from the get go.
“It feels like we’re living in the end times of a corrupt empire, but I’ve no way predict when it will fall.”
It’ll fall when they decide it’s time to let it fall.
The Soviet cops, aka “Militsiya” (милиция) were notorious for shaking down the relatively few private car owners.
South Dakota registration. Look it up
Give me liberty or give me death. Make it a beer.
It’s all a scam, everywhere. War is a racket, the mother of all scams.
I recommend Scam City filmed and produced by Free Documentary.
The episode on Jerusalem revealed a couple of scams. Fake rabbis begging for a hundred euros. Another scam is pickpockets at tourist sites in Jerusalem. Russians carry a lot of cash, so Russians are marks. One pickpocket admitted he made 20,000 euros in one day.
The word Free in Free Documentary speaks volumes.
Scams all over Europe’s cities.
“But there is something even more dismaying. It is the way some people cheer what the government does – especially to others, when they ‘break the law.'” -Eric Peters
That is the warped truth of it. The populace is swarming with misanthropes. They experience the rapture of schadenfreude during these situations, but perhaps worse than that, they see themselves in the AGWs. The gorillas are “their” army, enforcing “their” laws. They sadistically cry “victory!” with a clenched fist while watching such a shameful spectacle. “Law and Order!”.
It’s a phenomenon much akin to those who feel victorious when an AC-130 makes mincemeat of some goat shepherd in a distant country.
I’m afraid in regards to the “sovereign citizen” claims; feel free to make them, but you’ll need overwhelming force of your own, at your command, before The Powers acknowledge your claim.
Better to deride the sadists and misanthropes, though I feel that those horses have long left the stable. One great thing about places such as that in which I live is that, though the roads are officially “unmaintained”, an AGW sighting is fairly rare, and there are no traffic controls to violate.
“They experience the rapture of schadenfreude during these situations”. This is the mark of those who have no power, no prospects. They are the crabs in the pot that pull back the crab that is about to escape.
Ridiculing Liberty:
Defense attorney Roger Roots describes the 100% conviction rate and the absolute railroading of J6 defendants in DC federal court, in an essay at Lew Rockwell’s site this morning.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/no_author/a-thousand-years-of-prison-time-over-a-6-hour-delay-of-congress/
A horrific precedent is being set in these kangaroo court proceedings. ‘The DC jury pool is the most extreme pro-government jury pool in the United States, if not anywhere outside North Korea,’ writes Roots. So the US fedgov has created its own slam-dunk conviction machine, right in its DC backyard.
Twenty years earlier, during protests in Feb 2003 before Smirking Chimp launched his Iraq war, DC cops were noticeably more reserved and professional than Bloomberg’s snarling goons in NYC. Today, protesting in DC means risking decades in prison. Liberty is a complete joke in the imperial capital.
Incredibly, Congressional Republiclowns are uniformly silent, as this ongoing travesty plays out. And they’ve got parliamentary immunity. What dirt do the spooks have on them? Or do they think this is okay, since the protesters were ‘MAGA scum’?
One should never set foot inside DC. NEVER.
DC: Pyongyang on the Potomac, whose 100% conviction rates match the scorecard of Kim Jong Un’s courts, where the government always wins.
They think this is okay because they were MAGA scum locked up. I want revenge for that as well. I am leaning towards two wrongs at this point
It’s not two wrongs, but a reckoning is overdue. We tried tolerance, we tried live and let live, we tried laughing in good nature at their foolishness and insanity. They just cannot leave us alone. Libido Dominandi.
Si via pacem para bellum is an eternal truth.
I have personal experience with this. This is why I live outside the United States right now. I swore once I was financially able I would escape the tyranny of the DC area in a BIG way.
I had a SWAT team deployed at 3am because a “melanin enhanced” individual did not like a text message I sent to him. DC area far left police are –more– than happy to oblige the most extreme response imaginable when the narrative is “white guy vs. innocent minority”.
Broke in my house, terrorized my family, stole everything that wasn’t nailed down “evidence gathering”, and attempted to throw me in prison for years for a TEXT message, one which was an obvious joke but was weaponized in a big way.
I got –very– lucky in that I got perhaps one of the last judges in the DC area that wasn’t a political appointee so escaped the years in prison they wanted to slap me with over literally nothing. Nothing happened! And the judge realized that so mercifully most of that time was waived. I did a -little- time but nothing like what they wanted.
You live in a Panopticon of Anti-Conservative and Anti-White terror and selective ‘law enforcement’. It is more concentrated in some areas (DC/NY) but make no mistake, it is basically everywhere at this point especially in the cities.
My solution to this problem may be considered extreme but after having fully automatic assault rifles pointed at me and my career destroyed for literally -nothing- it was the only move I considered sane. I left, totally. To a place where there is –no– diversity. Problem solved! Partially… but the globalists never sleep and they will not leave anywhere on the planet alone where Europeans are the majority. They are simply focused on destroying the US first, then they will set their sites on everywhere else.
Hi UserAnon,
Wow. I used to live in the Northern Va. suburbs and worked in DC, at The Washington Times. This was back in the ’90s. Things were bad then. I can’t imagine how much worse, now. I moved to SW Virginia in ’04 and have been here ever since. My only regret is not having moved much deeper into the Hillbilly “sticks,” where I feel most at home. The Northern Virginia/DC cancer is spreading, even to my once-backwater area. I now often think about a move. But the thought galls me, because I love the area and my place, which I’ve spent the past 20 years making mine. But I recognize I must be sober and not let my feelings trump the hard facts. The dilemma I have – that I suspect many others have – is: Where can one go that is significantly better? I’m too old to expat and start over in a new country – and too young to just retire and disappear. Sigh. I suppose I’ll just be here when they come, if they do – and so be it.
“I’ll just be here when they come, if they do – and so be it.”
My attitude too. I have lived a full life and raised 3 good kids. If “they” (it’s never them, it’s their enforcers) come and kill me, I will make sure it is a good death and I will be at peace.
I understand why someone would feel the need to flee, but this is my home and I refuse to give it up. I’ll continue doing as I please while not harming anyone. When that becomes too much for them, so be it.
Sadly, Eric, it may get to the point where there is nowhere left to run. Both Montana and Colorado got over run by stupid Californians years ago. Montana is not as bad off. John Tester in Montana (a Democrat) has to walk a fine line to keep his job, because unlike Colorado, Montanans love their guns, and have been able to stay purple and not go full-on blue, unlike Colorado. Here in Alaska, Anchorage is not called “North Seattle” for nothing, as they are full of liberals. It is also called “Los Anchorage”, as well, albeit the surrounding areas are not as bad. There is nowhere left to run once you get up here. Liberals are like locust that destroy everything they come upon in their path. They are just smart enough to figure out (for some) that their Communism does not work, so they run from the sh– they caused. For others, they love it, and want to spread the misery to others. I think the running is why we are in such bad shape. And, at some point, we are going to have to take a stand and tell them to pound sand, and that we we would rather fight to be free than be their slaves, even if it means dying for that believe. Unfortunately, we have not had to fight for so long, many would rather give in, because it so much easier for them to do so.
Feels like the entire Western US is lost politically. All because one or two cities in each state steal elections. No way 80-90% turnout. Libs say high voter turnout does not a smidgeon of corruption make, except when its in Russia then its an evil dictatorship.
In the 4 years we’ve been going to Alaska, we have seen the change in Anchorage. Homeless is now a thing, as well as more and more rainbow flags. Only way to be truly free is Prince of Whales Island, less than 3000 people spread over hundreds of miles of coast, no Govermental authority outside the State of Alaska. Nearest towns of Petersburg, or Wrangell are both under 5K people.
A few places in the Willamette valley, and coastal Oregon/N.Cal you could get lost in, with an easy ability to feed your family. The trees are so large and overwhelming, phones and satellite radios don’t work, might be hard to fly drones through there as well. Probably as good a place as any to hide and wage guerrilla war.
Yeah, Anchorage is lost. The sex trafficking of young women happens right out in the open out on the streets there. At one point, the governor talked about shipping the homeless down to California due to the cold. Much like Northern areas of New York State, there are other areas that are more conservative. But, more of the population is mostly in the Anchorage area. Also, it is getting to the point it is too expensive to live up here, but too expensive to move. And then, you have to find a state is suited to what you believe, and that can be challenging if you are trying to find a Red state that is not rapidly turning purple or outright blue. And, another (Chinese?) balloon was found by fishermen off the coast this month. Lord, I would rather have the Russians up here. Better the devil you know, than the devil you don’t know…
The whole “blue state” thing is a fiction, IMHO. Barring a few places like Ca, NY, Ill. Its all an illusion, enhanced by the media. These Bolsheviks make up 20-25% of the populace, tops. They just project a large, mouthy footprint.
It cost my son a fortune to ship his truck and household goods back down to the lower 48. Everything is expensive down here now, just like Alaska.
Sadly, you are correct, Norman. I have wondered how much everything is marked up just because of having to have it shipped up here? I have heard of the prices to take the ferry down, but imagine the price is higher now, thanks to inflation.
As Reagan warned (and the line was in a Def Leppard Song, “Gods of War”), “you can run, but you can’t hide”….only not to any state or town, or even another country. There again, I surmise running is why we got into this mess to begin with.
‘but the globalists never sleep’ — Useranon99
There is no permanently safe place. Red states aren’t guaranteed to stay red. Formerly conservative countries — Chile, to pick a random example — proceed to elect radical Leftist governments. The last sound currency on earth, the Swiss franc, dumped its gold backing in the year 2000, by popular referendum.
And so it goes. One-percenters with boltholes in multiple jurisdictions and access to chartered jets can rest easy. The rest of us have to be more creative and more vigilant. Economic historians whose views I respect say that the US has all the precedent conditions in place for a violent crack-up. Socially cohesive areas will fare better than our wonderfully diverse [/sarc] cities, I reckon.
“They are simply focused on destroying the US first, then they will set their sites on everywhere else.”
No, they used the US to conquer and police the rest of the world, and now that the US is no longer needed, they can get rid of it. It’s like robbing a bank with a buddy, and then turning around and whacking him off to get his share in the spoils. The white race has been used, and still is. It’s amazing people still don’t realize it. They’ll whack you off in a heartbeat. Why pay people so much money in the US when everything can be done for a pittance in China?
Um, Yuri, I’m guessing English is not your mother tongue? Whacking and whacking off have rather different meanings, buddy! Otherwise, well said…
I imagine there are a lot of people driving without a license in the United States every day. Here in Colorado we saw over COVID that people started letting their temporary tags on the vehicle long after they expired (three months to get registered with the county). Some people drove for years on temporary tags. I personally saw a few.
When you have nothing there’s not much they can do to you. Sure, haul you in front of a judge. Sure, fine you. Just try to collect. You’re renting a room from a friend, or living in an old leaky trailer on someone’s ranch. They’re not going to find you, and even if they did, again what are they going to do? Throw you in jail for a non-violent offense? Hell, that’d probably be an improvement for you, at least you’d get fed and not have to pay for propane.
This is a classic case of what the great Sam Francis termed anarcho-tyranny, defined as when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law.
The armed government workers won’t even bother to try to find your stolen car or arrest a homeless man from starting fires and damaging multi-million bridges. Still, they’ll clap the cuffs on you in a heartbeat for whatever minor offense they can find.
I love my country. I loathe my government.
The AGW is the tip of the spear. Sure, take three months to find your vehicle, in the same chop shop where they always find the stolen cars. Haul the guy off to jail, only to have the criminal’s lawyer right behind with bail money. Then the perp’s mouthpiece looks over every piece of paper for any misspelled words or comma fault and gets the case dismissed.
Meanwhile, you the law abiding, probably don’t have a lawyer on retainer, don’t have any interaction with the legal system, and are scared to death. The path of least resistance for you is to just plead guilty, pay the fine and get on with your life. Chalk one up for team blue!
John said all sin is sin. This is fine for the afterlife, but when applied to man’s law it makes this odd situation where there’s no room for judicial flexibility. All those three-strikes laws were supposed to make criminals think twice before dealing drugs or shoplifting again, but the problem is, no one goes into criminal activity considering the downside. They just want the immediate reward, there’s no long term view for petty theft.
A history of license plates says they started in France in 1893. New York began requiring owners to make their own plates in 1901. Massachusetts introduced the first standardized, state-supplied plates in 1903. Then this happened:
‘In 1979 a Los Angeles man named Robert Barbour filled out a DMV form for personalized plates. He wrote “SAILING” and “BOATING” as his top choices. Unable to think of a third option, he wrote “NO PLATE”, intending to convey that he’d prefer no personalized plate if his top choices were unavailable. Misinterpreting Barbour’s intent, the DMV issued him plates reading “NO PLATE”.
‘Barbour was initially amused by this mix-up and decided to keep the plates due to their uniqueness. However, his amusement turned to surprise when he started receiving notices for unpaid parking tickets across the state. It turned out that when law enforcement ticketed a car with missing plates, they wrote “NO PLATE” in the license plate field. As a result, Barbour’s unique plate was associated with every unpaid citation issued to a car without plates! Barbour still chose to keep the plates, sending letters and occasionally appearing in court to have the tickets expunged.’
https://www.logotech.com/blog/post/the-history-and-evolution-of-license-plates
Innocent days! ‘You in a heap of trouble, boy!’ they’d tell Barbour today, guns drawn.
> Misinterpreting Barbour’s intent, the DMV issued him plates reading “NO PLATE”.
Sounds like Idiocracy arrived over 500 years early in LA:
https://invidious.alfter.us/watch?v=sVyRkl5qNb8
HA HA HA! Perfectly apposite.
The talking heads on the local channel would have been even more over the top with glee if the driver was wearing a MAGA hat. Then she really would have deserved a full beat down.
With this demented push for EVERYONE to get an EV, what are the odds that someday governments that are pushing this crap will say you can’t drive an automobile PERIOD unless it’s an EeeeeeeeeeeeVeeeeeeeee?
‘“it’s locos all around,” snarks a writer for Jalopnik.’ — eric
Help is available for those troubled by our darkening world:
‘In a small room in Lower Manhattan, a group of eight New Yorkers sat in a circle sharing kombucha and their climate fears against the background of pattering rain and wailing sirens.
‘In Champaign, Ill., a psychotherapist facilitating a meeting for other therapists held up a branch of goldenrod, asking the half-dozen participants online to consider their connection to nature.
‘And in Kansas City, Mo., a nonprofit began its session with a spiritual reading and a guided meditation before breaking into groups to discuss topics like the ethics of childbearing amid a fast-rising global population and concerns of resource scarcity.
‘All were examples of a new grass-roots movement called climate cafes. These in-person and online groups are places for people to discuss their grief, fears, anxiety and other emotions about the climate crisis.’ — NYT
https://archive.ph/ams3l#selection-623.0-635.209
Group hugs! Soulful chats with leftist intellectuals! One is shocked only that so few are wearing masks at these burgeoning climate struggle sessions. 🙁
Geez Jim,
I just gagged on my coffee, gotta stop reading while I’m having breakfast 😆
>One Black woman wept, saying it was difficult to know that people of color would be disproportionately affected by climate change,
Evidently it has something to do with black body radiation. (?) 🙂
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
‘A black body at room temperature (23 °C (73 °F)) radiates mostly in the infrared spectrum, which cannot be perceived by the human eye.’ — Wiki
Now you see why the weeping woman feels invisible: science proves it. And Clowngress can stop it, by requiring everyone to wear infrared goggles along with their covid mask. Equal visibility for all!
They live! 🙂
Towards the end of this “article”, there’s the story of a mother attending a climate crisis meeting because her son committed suicide from hopelessness over the whole climate “situation.” One has to wonder why they don’t ALL “assume room temperature” as there is nothing they can do to alter the climate. Reusable bags/cups, paper straws, EVs, and incessant weeping won’t accomplish anything. Humans don’t have the ability.
‘merica 2024.
Police that neither protect nor serve.
Education departments that don’t educate.
Defense departments that don’t defend.
Rewards for illegal invaders and punishment for citizens.
Big Macs that are tiny.
Deadly HFCS instead of natural sugar.
Conservatives that don’t conserve.
Liberals who aren’t libertine.
Feel free to pile on.
You forgot departments of energy that don’t produce energy and are actually working to reduce our energy production.
Hi Mike,
Here are some more….
Vaccines that DON’T prevent infection from a particular disease but instead make it MORE likely for someone to get that disease.
Tearing out dams restores the local area instead of damaging it.
Forest fires restore the forest.
Joe Biden isn’t mentally fit to stand trial but is mentally fit to run a whole country.
Arbitrarily removing Presidential candidates from the ballot is saving democracy.
Endless wars and private jets don’t cause environmental damage but driving a gas vehicle does.
Government agencies that don’t look out for the interests of the public but instead the industry they supposedly regulate. COVID made that painfully obvious.
Eating meat and REAL food is bad for the planet but eating bugs and frankenfood is GOOD FOR YOU (and the planet).
Donald Trump is the worst President ever.
Censorship for people who tell the TRUTH about something but free rein for corrupt governments to LIE about something. We saw a TON of that just over the past 4 years.
Governments that don’t actually care about their own citizens but criminals and foreigners instead.
Lately, I keep being reminded of that George Costanza line:
‘George Costanza It’s not a lie if you believe it’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om6o7dhPtRI
Most of our history has involved some time of government. The government is thought as necessary to maintain civility. But governments obtain their power through violence. If goverments will always be violent, how should the population react to this? Im beginning to question the non agression principle.
Yes, the cops could have handled it better, but the specific personality type behind the wheel of an Audi in that part of the Miami metro is a wildcard sanity situation with the possibility of escalation to violence real fast.
Accurate observation.
IMO, there is going to be a lot more ‘drivers’ who don’t have the ‘credentials’, be it a license, registration, insurance, etc…. Hell, what happens when the 10M+ illegals ‘drive’?
Especially in rural areas, and it may be more than they can deal with, or even want to deal with, relative.
I already break the ‘rules’ with many ‘road going things’, and it’s not because I can’t afford it, but it’s the insane amount of bureaucracy, taxes, etc… that they impose.
I even asked one the local cops in our rural area, “do I need to do this?” No, we don’t care, no one does it, it’s stupid.
Venezuelans voted in their own Marxist hell and then decided they didn’t like the end result.
‘Hell, what happens when the 10M+ illegals ‘drive’?’ — ChrisIN
Present a Honduran ID card and a 2030 appointment for an immigration hearing, and everything’s copacetic. Sigue adelante, mija!
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But there is something even more dismaying. It is the way some people cheer what the government does – especially to others, when they “break the law.” Not realizing they are cheering the government doing it to them, too.
This is actually pretty common occurrence. Like teachers pets that are happy to see someone punished NPCs and bootlickers of current system like it when dissident gets punished. It makes them fell better about their boot licking.
There is also aspect Kazinsky wrote about . So called oversocialised leftists knowing they too weak to control themselves and be independent making sure Government control’s them and everyone else. If there was a man living alone on the Moon free they would figure justifications to not leave him alone. The cant stand seeing people outside their little pyramid hierarchy. How dare he ,who does he think he is he should be a part of our structure kiss ass and obey to advance in the hierarchy .
Funny how people do not read up on history. They should. If it does not repeat, it certainly rhymes. During Stalin’s reign of terror, he murdered, enslaved, and starved to death millions of people via “collectivization”. Just plain outright theft. The very people who helped him to the top? Yep, he killed them (some he throw in insane asylum’s), but he just saved them for last, and until he was done using them for his own purposes. So all these fools who cheer when John or Jane Q. Public goes to jail because they have an expired tag, or for something else equally stupid and non-consequential? Those cheering are just last in line is all, but they are too blind to see it.
Perhaps shunning of government officials would get the point across?
I can’t help but raise an obvious question: WHY did Americans tolerate the beginning of licenses, vehicle registrations, and license plates? As I understand it, these things came in during the early 20th century as the automobile started entering service. This was obviously on the heels of traveling via horse and horse and carriage, when these things didn’t exist. This means that the people had a fresh memory of not having, let alone needing and being required to have these things. Why wasn’t there pushback? Why did they tolerate their former rights being turned into conditional, gov’t granted privileges?
Those americans also voted against WW1 and tolerated wilson going against their wishes, suspending free speech (speaking against the war) and effectively creating big government institutions that torment poeple to this day.
I genuinely believe that is the worst generation. They had guns, life skills and knowledge of previos life, they weren’t indoctrinated by media 24/7 and they acted like pussies. Out of all those men no one took a shoot at willson and all went to ww1 like good little NPCs.
It’s part and parcel of the Progressive Era that brought the socialism of Lincoln into full bloom. The poster boy for that era is Teddy Roosevelt who said,
“”Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.”
If that remark was original with me, I should be even more strongly denounced as a Communist agitator than I shall be anyhow. It is Lincoln’s. ”
And this…
“The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare, who rightly maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.”
His whole New Nationalism speech is here…
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/12/06/archives-president-teddy-roosevelts-new-nationalism-speech
I doubt there’s any “going back” because the nation, if not all of humanity, has marinated in socialist thought for nearly two centuries. Now, too many see the current devotion to socialism as a moral imperative for their religious zeal to control others.
In Great Britain there’s a political party called the Fabian Society. It’s a sort of precursor to the WEF and other elitist societies. They are pure socialists, but are assuming the long game. Their icon used to be a turtle until they opted for a more bland modernist logo to conceal their intent behind a mid-century corporatist facade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society
It was thought that Obama was a closet Fabian, that his mentors realized that radical Marxist style overthrow of the United States wasn’t possible. Death by 10 trillion cuts would be the way. Unfortunately it looks like they’ve won over the old institutions. Good thing for us the old institutions are crumbling, but like a dying wounded animal they’re going to strike out at whatever they can bite.
Mark,
It’s called incrementalism. My late Father never took a driver’s license test. When he got his first license, it was simply sold, like a hunting or fishing license. And he never let it expire. Now you have to take a test, and get in a car with an “official” that has authority to deny you a license.
The test simply make you aware of corpgovs ‘rules’. By taking the test and paying for the ‘license’ you are accepting their control. Sort of like voting. When you vote you are accepting and agree to the present situation.
True.
But when you are 16 you are too young, too naive, and too impecunious to fight it. Besides that, when you are 16 you need your license so you can get a car so you can go out and impress girls. Also, so you can get to and from a part time job so you can have some pocket money and take girls out on nice dates.
Sixteen year olds have their priorities straight. They are far more likely (which isn’t very…but there’s always hope…) to achieve success doing that, than they are attempting to fight the system.
The corollary to that:
It is OUR job, the oldsters, to fix the system on behalf of those who are coming up behind us, who cannot. Or else, we continue our slow descent into the muck.
Sounds like a live catch rodent trap.
My guess? The boiling the frog slowly in hot water phenomenon. Every day Americans though nothing of it. Take a little chunk of freedom away here…not much, just a little around the edges… here and there, and in the bustle of every day life, no one really noticed. John and Jane American could easily justify away in their minds why such was “necessary” and “okay”. They will not notice until the water they are in-once so warm, inviting, and comfortable-is boiling, and they realize too little, too late, that they cannot hop out of the pot, because someone slammed the lid down over them.