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Against the Tyranny of Urban Majorities

Posted by M. C. on November 26, 2024

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

The only real surprise in all this is that The Wall Street Journal would dare to broach such a topic as secession in a manner that was not explicitly condemnatory. Those interested in learning more should consult the Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Ryan McMaken and his great book on the subject of secession.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/against-the-tyranny-of-urban-majorities/

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In a recent and rather surprising piece, The Wall Street Journal highlighted growing frustrations among rural residents of states like Illinois, solidly Republican regions who feel disenfranchised by the political dominance of urban metropolises like Chicago and the wider Cook County. The article described sentiments among rural Illinoisans who increasingly view their state government as an unrepresentative body, one that governs in the interests of urban elites while neglecting or outright opposing the values, interests, and livelihoods of those living in less densely populated areas.

This frustration is not unique to Illinois; it resonates in states like California, Oregon, and New York, where rural and small-town residents feel marginalized by overwhelmingly urban legislatures and policies crafted by political majorities in the cities. It raises an important question: why should sparsely populated regions be bound indefinitely to the political dominance of a few, highly concentrated urban areas?

The idea that rural regions might seek autonomy from urban majorities has an intuitive appeal, especially when considering the arbitrary nature of state boundaries in the United States. Unlike France, England, or other nations rooted in medieval kingdoms and centuries-old cultural identities, states like Illinois and California are constructs of relatively recent history, products of political compromises and expedient geographic delineations. Many boundaries of these states reflect no natural or inherent connection among their inhabitants. This arbitrariness invites comparisons to the imperial cartography of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, where colonial powers carved up Africa and the Middle East into artificial nations that still grapple with the consequences of their incoherent borders. Why, then, should we expect places as disparate as Chicago and rural Illinois, or San Francisco and the farmlands of California’s Central Valley, to share common governance without conflict or resentment?

The argument for rural secession from urban-dominated states rests on several principles. First, it is fundamentally undemocratic to force people into perpetual political subjugation because they happen to live within arbitrarily drawn borders. Unlike democracy, properly republican government depends not just on majority rule but on the protection of minority rights, including the right to self-governance. When rural communities are systematically outvoted and overruled by urban majorities, they are effectively disenfranchised within their own states.

Take California, for example. The state’s Democratic supermajority is overwhelmingly driven by votes from urban centers like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego. Policies on taxation, land use, energy, and firearms, among others, reflect urban priorities that often clash with the values and economic needs of rural Californians. Yet rural residents have no realistic avenue to influence these policies.

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Neil deGrasse is ABSOLUTELY wrong about this

Posted by M. C. on August 20, 2024

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Tyranny in the UK – Can it Happen Here?

Posted by M. C. on August 15, 2024

Complain about immigrants grooming kids…go to jail.

The Ron Paul Liberty Report

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What Do Justin Trudeau And Kristi Noem Have In Common? They Both Want To Put You In Jail For Having Unpopular Opinions

Posted by M. C. on March 22, 2024

Everyone who commits an offense under this act or any other act of Parliament, if the commission of the offense is motivated by hatred based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, color, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression, is guilty of an indictable offense and liable to imprisonment for life.

Notice that virtually everything in this list defining “antisemitism” focuses on speech, attitudes or thoughts. “Allegations.” “Accusing.” “Denying.” “Accusing.” “Accusing.” “Denying.” “Applying.” “Using.” All of this refers to speech, attitudes or thoughts.

It IS easier to prove discrimination when government describes anything it wants as discriminatory.

How are these for offensive words…power, control, government.

https://chuckbaldwinlive.com/Articles/tabid/109/ID/4510/What-Do-Justin-Trudeau-And-Kristi-Noem-Have-In-Common-They-Both-Want-To-Put-You-In-Jail-For-Having-Unpopular-Opinions.aspx

The left and right sides of an ellipse are descriptive of Left and Right politics. At the top of the ellipse is Liberty. At the bottom of the ellipse is Tyranny. Republicans and Democrats spend most of their time arguing over things that fall in the middle of the ellipse.

I define Tyranny as anything that promotes the power of the state to control people’s lives and liberties beyond the Natural Laws of our Creator. I define Liberty as anything that constrains the power of the state to control people’s lives and liberties beyond the Natural Laws of our Creator.

The problem with so many people from both the political Left and the political Right is that, regardless of their differences over middle elliptical issues, they meet in unison at the bottom of the ellipse. Both Trump and Biden, Republicans and Democrats, want to use the power of government to coerce, intimidate or force the American citizenry to do what THEY want us to do. Whether we agree or not with either side is irrelevant. The fact that we would allow them to exercise governmental power to enforce THEIR personal opinions upon us should be anathema to any true freedomist.

And there are no God-ordained liberties more precious to free men and women than the freedom of speech and the freedom of religion (conscience).

And there is currently a perfect depiction of what I said above being played out before our very eyes with the Leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and South Dakota’s conservative governor, Kristi Noem.

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It Seems Most All of Society Is Going About the Problem of Injustice, Fraud, and Tyranny the Wrong Way

Posted by M. C. on November 20, 2023

“As to adopting the ways which the state has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man’s life will be gone.”

“Unjust laws exist: [most all of them] shall we be content to obey them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?”

~ Henry David Thoreau

Those in government, and those freedom pretenders, continue to seek to cure the ills of government and rule, by promoting different and more government and rule.

By Gary D. Barnett

“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.”

Joseph Story

We are faced with extreme tyranny, based on a totalitarian model, and one that promises justice where none exists. This should have been realized at the so-called beginning of this country, but alas, the people were once again fooled, as is the common theme of mankind throughout time. As the government gains more and more power, which is the natural state of all government, the people become more enslaved until societies eventually fail. When this happens, a dictatorship may be the result, but more often than not, the lowly masses, and the surviving ruling class, attempt to solve the despotism responsible for the failure, by building a new dominant governing system where a ‘new’ ruling class is given power. Nothing could be more asinine.

What this amounts to, is attempting to solve the problem of rule, by more rule. It matters not if the ‘new’ rule is expected to do better than the last, as that has never happened in history, but that the many think that seeking redress from those who caused and administered the tyranny, to be viable and legitimate. This is an impossibility of course, but has been clung to perpetually, all without any function of  logic, reason, common sense, or use of intellectual brain stimulation.

These same idiotic attitudes are extremely active today, as so many believe that by picking new masters, accepting new politicians, ‘voting’ for different overlords, seeking redress for grievances from government and government courts, or begging government to cure itself, is an answer to anything other than more brutal rule and tyranny. Only fools, seekers of power, or manipulators, pursue such a path of idiocy.

But that is exactly the tactic being sought today, as the mainstream of society has not changed its position or opinions about the State in eons, and likely (obviously) never will. This is known by all who desire to gain power over others, regardless of their claims to be men of liberty, simply attempting to make the criminal State better, when in fact, the opposite is the case. One cannot gain freedom by seeking it in the arms of government, any government. All those who claim to want to make things better by putting new rulers in place, or seeking rule themselves, are either duped ignoramuses, or outright liars. This is without question, as asking permission from government at any level to do things that free men have a right to do, is as mindless and pathetic an undertaking as can be imagined.

This could never be more evident than during these pitiful and absurd election cycles, where all news of importance is sacrificed for the stupidity of picking a new master, or as many have been brainwashed to believe, a new ‘leader.’ The useless term ‘leader’ in every aspect of sanity, is self-defeating, because if one seeks a ‘leader,’ he is admitting to being only a follower, which is the first step to evil unintelligible collectivism, and slavery. No individual seeking real freedom could participate in such nonsensical and preposterous imbecility, but then has not that always been the way of this country and many others. This could only happen if the masses of populations are so dumbed down and indoctrinated, as to be beyond the ability to reason, and instead, voluntarily accept their lot in life as allowed by their chosen masters. This has been the case for thousands of years, and yet, the bulk of humanity has never figured out the grand plot of the ruling classes; which has actually brought about their own serfdom at the hands of the worst of mankind.

Even now, as Israel has attempted to genocide and ethnically cleanse an entire people, supported, at least initially, by most all Western governments; those heinous monsters claiming to speak for each of you, Not only that, but the support of this effort of murder has been paid for with the very money stolen from each of you,; making complicit all those who remain silent in the presence of evil in their names.

Fake ‘pandemics,’ fake ‘viruses,’ intentional fires and murders, poisoning and death due to government-mandated and approved toxic bioweapon injections, fully funded wars by the U.S. in Syria, Yemen, Palestine, and much of the rest of the world, total economic devastation at the hands of this criminal federal reserve and U.S. government, destruction of supply lines for food and energy, planned takeover of all with central bank digital fiat currencies, massive monetary inflation causing a doubling or tripling of prices, worldwide famine, all-consuming surveillance, censorship, monitoring of all activity of every individual, and on and on, and on. Even with all this, most are searching for a new rule to fix the problems that only rulers and a complicit society could cause.

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The Road To Tyranny Is Paved By The Left AND Right…Both Better Snap Out of It!

Posted by M. C. on November 6, 2023

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Covid Tyranny — Did The “Experts” Get Even A Single Thing Right?

Posted by M. C. on February 28, 2023

https://rumble.com/v2b69g0-covid-tyranny-did-the-experts-get-even-a-single-thing-right.html

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Resisting Tyranny, Colonial Style | The Libertarian Institute

Posted by M. C. on November 22, 2022

The strategy was powerful and effective. The colonists built and maintained local support by keeping their principles front and center. But they didn’t relay on words alone. They pushed back forcefully against British tyranny and made it increasingly difficult for the Crown to enforce its will.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/resisting-tyranny-colonial-style/

by Michael Maharrey

As the British put increased pressure on the American colonists in an effort to force them into submission, the colonists backed up their increasingly forceful rhetoric with concrete actions to undermine British authority.

The colonists began perfecting this formula after the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765. Resistance started with protests. Patrick Henry drafted a series of resolutions. In the seventh, He asserted, “the Inhabitants of this Colony, are not bound to yield Obedience to any Law or Ordinance whatever,” outside of those passed by the colonial assemblies.

Other prominent colonists added their voices to the protest. John Dickinson wrote, “IF you comply with the Act by using Stamped Papers, you fix, you rivet perpetual Chains upon your unhappy Country. You unnecessarily, voluntarily establish the detestable Precedent, which those who have forged your Fetters ardently wish for, to varnish the future Exercise of this new claimed Authority.”

But it didn’t end with resolutions. Patriots throughout the 13 colonists blocked the distribution of stamped paper, forced stamp agents to resign, and effectively made that act impossible to enforce. Ultimately, mass resistance and noncompliance forced Parliament to repeal the hated law.

Historian Dave Benner summed up colonial resistance this way.

“Rather than hoping the next election will produce preferable results or waiting for the courts to weigh in on controversial law, the patriots took a fierce stand against an odious law. In doing so, they inspired tireless masses to their cause, brought about a reversal of policy without representation in Parliament, and changed the world as we know it.”

While the colonists effectively nullified the Stamp Act, it didn’t end British efforts to maintain control over the colonies. Tensions continued to grow and reached another boiling point with the Boston Tea Party.

To punish the colonies, particularly Massachusetts, the Parliament passed a series of acts together known as the “Coercive Acts.” These included the Boston Port Act closing the Boston Port, the Massachusetts Government act stripping virtually all authority from the colonial government, the Administration of Justice Act stripping authority from local courts and authorizing trials to be held in Great Britain instead of Massachusetts, and the Quartering Act allowing British troops to take over private buildings.

Even before the Tea Party, the colonists had formed local political bodies known as committees of correspondence in response to increasing tensions with the British government. These representative organizations formed an underground communications network to promote the patriot cause and coordinate political action.

Local  Committees of Correspondence kicked off resistance by passing resolutions opposing the Coercive Acts. The best-known was the Suffolk Resolves, adopted on Sept. 9 by delegates at the Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Convention of the Committees of Correspondence. This local protest against the “Coercive Acts” called for non-cooperation with British authorities and for direct action to oppose what it condemned as illegitimate and unconstitutional acts by Parliament.

A strong spirit of noncooperation ran through the resolves. The resolutions declared that given the British government was acting contrary to the constitution, the colonists were under no obligation to obey these illegitimate acts.

No obedience is due from this province to either or any part of the acts above-mentioned, but that they be rejected as the attempts of a wicked administration to enslave America.”

Other counties adopted similar resolutions.

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The Only ‘National Security’ Necessary Is the Elimination of the ‘National Security State’

Posted by M. C. on August 13, 2022

“The words ‘national’ and ‘security’ are like precursors for a binary chemical weapon: not overly dangerous by themselves, but capable of completely shutting down the brain and nervous system when used in combination.”

John Alejandro King a.k.a. The Covert Comic

By Gary D. Barnett

“I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”

Jim Garrison

“National Security” is just the excuse for every form imaginable of tyranny, totalitarianism, privacy destruction, abuse of freedoms, aggression, terror, and war. Every time I hear this deceptive and scurrilous term, I cringe knowing that lies, deceit, and horror are on the horizon. It is based completely on false fear; fear planted in the minds of the people in order to force (goad) them to run to government and the state for protection from fabricated enemies. It is the state’s go to argument when additional control is sought, and it has worked nearly every time it has been tried. It is currently the mainstay of this fascist state called America, and it is still effective. The term ‘national security’ is nothing more than sheer propaganda based on unwarranted fearmongering.

One has to wonder, given that this country has never been aggressively attacked on its home soil by any foreign aggressor state, how the term ‘national security’ ever became the default reasoning for any and every aggressive war waged by this government against countries around the world. It is not just war against other innocent countries that has been waged, aggression in the name of national security has been levied against the American population almost continually, whether in the case of desired war, disasters, ‘pandemics,’ bogus ‘climate change’ risks, state and federal emergencies, and any number of other deceptive means of control.

Before the letters start rolling in claiming that the sinking of the Lusitania, the Pearl Harbor attack, the Gulf of Tonkin false flag, and the 9/11 inside job were acts of pure aggression by outsiders, please refrain from such nonsense. They all, and many more, were set up and staged, and led to major wars of aggression by the U.S. against multiple foreign countries that had nothing to do with attacking America. In the process, freedom was destroyed. This has been written about by very many scholars for decades, and plenty of proof has been forthcoming. As I have stated over and over again, the United States has aggressively attacked many other countries, as well as Americans, and has prosecuted wars of aggression for 93% (an understatement in my estimation) of its entire history against those who never attacked or were a threat to this country; all under the pretext of ‘national security.’

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The Smith-Mundt Modernization Act: From Propaganda to Censorship to Tyranny

Posted by M. C. on May 19, 2022

by Laurie Calhoun 

The outcry on social media about “Mary Poppins” (whose performances have gone viral) is unlikely to subside anytime soon, which is why I surmise that the selection of Jankowicz may have been intended by the DGB masterminds as a red herring, to distract attention from the profound problems with the very idea of a Disinformation Governance Board.

https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/the-smith-mundt-moderniziation-act-from-propaganda-to-censorship-to-tyranny/

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Spectacle and theater have come to dominate the political arena today, even more so than ever before. Politicians are now celebrity oligarchs, who use tax revenues to promote their pet projects, and to enhance their personal investment portfolios, while pretending in scrupulously orchestrated performances to care about the populace from whom all of the money they squander is siphoned. Congresspersons who issue dire warnings about global warming jet across the world for photo ops with President Zelensky in Ukraine. The provision by the federal government of Peloton bicycle memberships to the house of representatives and their staff, all on the taxpayers’ dime, will begin on May 18, 2022. Meanwhile, more than 550K Americans are currently homeless. The absurdity of all of this has reached the point where we now seem to inhabit something akin to a sequel to the Hunger Games.

Consider the person recently selected by the Biden administration to head up its new Disinformation Governance Board (DGB), the self-styled “Mary Poppins of Disinformation,” Nina Jankowicz, whose melodramatic mode of “correcting” what she takes to be falsehoods is disturbing to behold, to put it mildly. The DGB is being championed needless to say by spokespersons for President Biden, including former press secretary Jen Psaki, who not only defended Jankowicz as “an expert on online disinformation” and “a person with extensive qualifications” but also expressed perplexity that anyone should take issue with the mounting of the DGB: “I’m not sure who opposes that effort.” This type of gaslighting should be recognized for what it is by now, for it has gone on throughout the Biden presidency, with officials responding with unbridled snark to anyone who raises perfectly valid questions about what they are doing. How dare you?!

“Our patience is wearing thin,” President Biden himself soberly warned the populace in denouncing the reluctance of some of his compatriots to volunteer as pro-bono subjects in a Pfizer experimental medication trial. We were furthermore “informed” in December 2021 by the White House that, for our disobedience, we could look forward to “a winter of severe illness and death.” Given the volume of such nonstop, and frankly surreal, psyops perpetrated on the populace since 2020, and before that as well—albeit usually more subtly—perhaps no one should have been surprised when a figure who could have been plucked directly from either Hunger Games or Brazil arrived on the scene to lead the charge against disinformation and “help” us to determine what we ought and ought not to believe. As if to further test the credulity and compliance of the populace (both of which were largely confirmed throughout the Coronapocalypse), the Biden administration selected to head up its dubious new board a person who has served as the functional equivalent of a Democratic Party operative for years.

Revulsion is a natural reaction to Jankowicz’s appointment, but this particular piece of political theater strikes me as too “on the nose.” The outcry on social media about “Mary Poppins” (whose performances have gone viral) is unlikely to subside anytime soon, which is why I surmise that the selection of Jankowicz may have been intended by the DGB masterminds as a red herring, to distract attention from the profound problems with the very idea of a Disinformation Governance Board. Perhaps the histrionic Jankowicz will be furloughed in response to a barrage of criticism from lawmakers on the right, to be replaced by a more staid and sober character, someone skilled at persuading television viewers that he speaks the truth. In that event, the U.S. populace and their ostensible representatives will have been duped.

Unfortunately, the victims of government-produced propaganda throughout the Coronapocalypse, which judging by its effects amounted to the psychological equivalent of a blunt-force head injury, have become more receptive than ever before to the latest propaganda lines and scams. “I got vaccinated” profile picture frames have been replaced with a beautiful Ukrainian flag, and some people are even donning t-shirts and displaying blue-and-yellow banners in their front yards alongside their “In this house we believe” rainbow placards. While lamenting inflation, caused directly by the profligate printing of currency by the government to fund COVID-19 “rescue” packages, those who support the latest print run of $40 billion for Ukraine appear to have been convinced by the government-vetted pundits on television (who else?) that although Putin is incorrigibly evil and beyond the reach of reason, he would never, ever, even when repeatedly threatened with regime change and his personal demise, resort to the use of nuclear weapons, thus causing World War III and the end of human civilization.

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