Funny thing how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Let’s consider knighthood, for instance.
It all started like this, which was the ideal of the valiant knight who would sacrifice his own life to protect and succour the weak, the feeble, women and children, in short those who couldn’t protect themselves.
Modelled after Christ, but after discarding the ‘turn the other cheek’ precept, which would have guaranteed its rapid extinction, knighthood was supposed to bring balance to a power-mad world that saw the mighty feed on the weak.
As it always invariably happens, the ideal was quickly abandoned by most of its proponents in favour of a more practical approach.
You see, people, most knights had operated in the Middle Ages thus,
Let me explain myself.
Medieval robber barons were bandits. Nothing less, nothing more. Just like government, they levied taxes.
Unlike the constituted state authorities, they imposed high taxes and tolls out of keeping with the norm without authorization from some higher authority.
They believed themselves to operate above the Law.
They saw themselves as the Law in their own little fiefdoms.
Wikipedia teaches us that medieval robber barons imposed high or unauthorized tolls on rivers or roads passing through their territory. Some robbed merchants, land travelers, and river traffic—seizing money, cargoes, even entire ships—or engaged in kidnapping for ransom.
Some even tortured and killed and maimed the innocent they were supposed to protect in the first place.
Quite a far cry from the ideal, wouldn’t you agree?!
As it happens, this sorry state of affairs endures to this day and age.
The only difference is that the state, which is supposed to abide by the social contract and fulfill its job of protecting the law and upholding the peace, is failing to do so.
The situation is far worse.
Government is robbing us all blind.
It levies taxes, that is public money, that it’s supposed to use to further the interests of the people. That is the nature and job of the government. That’s what it’s supposed to be doing.
But does it do that?
Oh no.
Instead, government takes all that public money and launders it thus.
It earmarks it for special projects. Say to support a foreign regime in a distant country that allegedly needs financial aid assistance.
So, it takes our public taxpayers money and transfers it into that foreign government’s account.
But the cash never makes it into the distant government’s public coffers. It is instantly transferred into that foreign government’s accounts as a debt.
But the real cash is stolen by that government in collusion with the one sending it, and spirited away in a nice cold Swiss bank safe, under the names of its very private principals.
So public money finds its way via Theft into private hands, by means of taxation.
Hence, taxation is theft. QED
My grandfather was right. The greatest thief of them all is the State.
They have access to the most money, have the Law on their side, all of the Power, and the Will to use it to dispossess us of our hard earned cash.
We toil for nothing. We do nothing. We are nothing.
Slaves had it better than us. They at least knew that some could actually be manumitted by their masters, if they did a very good job for 40-50 years.
We are in bondage, and we accept all their BS stories about us being free to choose, democracy, free will, free speech, etc.
But in reality, they take away most of our money, and we allow them to.
I tell you, folks. We deserve our fate. We’re a bunch of stupid cowards who merit our station in life.
Götterdämmerung 