It was in an interview with Russert, the journanalist who died a couple of years ago & I don't remember the name of the video.
Andwho was he talking about, and why?
It was in an interview with Russert, the journanalist who died a couple of years ago & I don't remember the name of the video.
Andwho was he talking about, and why?
What Mutkat hasn't realized is that the citizens of her area were not vigilant, active, and diligent enough to mobilize against her opposition like we did in the Ozarks.
We put our county commissioners on notice that they would be removed if they did not vote to oppose the UN Biosphere Reserve plan, and any further such plans.
We proposed the legislation and got it passed in every county we tried. It was a model which cannot be denied or reasoned against. Democracy in action, citizens taking part in the process.
"Stakeholders" having their say, and gettng their way.
She is wasting her time writing online here as much as she has been wasting time she could be organizing in her community. Muttkat, you need to read about what we did and follow the template. It worked and will work again. The citizens run the government, but when you fail in your responsibility to be part of it, you acquiesce to whatever happens as a result. Your enemy is you own inaction, plain and simple.
Word.
Interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-aggression_principle
However it does not seem like an entirely clear principle, and has several well founded criticisms. I don't suppose there are examples of societies actually working on this basis? Seems like it's been suggested as an abstract ideal for 2500 year, but does not actually work in practice.
I feel like I have free will now.
It works wonderfully in practice. The evidence is all around you. I would wager that you personally conduct 99.99% of your life without aggression. I bet very few threats of violence were necessary for you get a job, rent an apartment, engage in sexual intercourse, or buy groceries this month.
There is continuous debate about exactly what is the Non-Aggression Principle and how it works, just as there is disagreement about exactly what is "the perfect bicycle", or "morality", or "war".
In that case, exploring the idea of a voluntary society is probably a waste of your time. I'm the opposite. I advocate freedom because I do not feel free, and because I believe a voluntary society would be superior for my children.
Although you don't care, do you somewhat understand why people like me want less government and resist the development of a powerful global state?
You're right, I am wasting too much time on this site. I've been telling myself that but I continue to answer the nitpicking questions by the administrator. Can you point me the way on what ya did & did you have a flyer? I had typed up a page but I'm not happy with it & my roomate put up a forum up like this one. I did get on the Republicans county facebook & due to their reply, I had a feeling that they were somehow associated with Aransas Pathways. They deleted somthing I had previously quoted & tried to make it out like I was lying. Fortunately I hadn't deleted the message they sent me an I put it back on their FB page and made them look like an ass. There was a candidate running for sheriff but he blocked me cause he didn't think my joke was too funny. I just tried looking for his FB page because there were a couple people interested but its not there any more. I got to ask you this. When you go to the commissioners court do you have to state where you live?
If you had a flyer made up send it to my email address @ mutt_kat@yahoo.com or you can publish it here, whichever you prefer. Thanks
Heres the flyer. I was joking with him saying he was a terrorist because it mentions Christians but he didn't think it was funny. He lost the race & got fired from the police force.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/FBIsuspect.html
We operate here under directives which emanate from the White House... The substance of the directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to alter life in the United States such that we can comfortably be merged with the Soviet Union.
Rowen Gaithner
I mean how it would work in a broader level.
I'm sorry but I don't understand your question. How would what work?
How does the NAP apply to defending property?
I am interested in how education can be provided at a lower price by the free market. Isn't it basically free now for a family on a very low income?
I'm not sure you realize just how alien your phrasing will seem to most people
Seth joined them shortly after they’d finished their meal. Taking a chair, he wiped condensed steam off his face, looked them over calculatingly.
‘How much do you two know?’
‘Enough to fight over it,’ put in Elissa. ‘They are bothered about duties, who defines them and who performs them.’
‘With good reason,’ Harrison counter-attacked. ‘You can’t escape them yourselves.’
‘Is that so?’ said Seth. ‘How d’you make that out?’
‘This world runs on some strange system of swapping obligations. How would any person cancel an ob unless he recognized it as his duty to do so?’
‘Duty nothing,’ declared Seth. ‘Duty hasn’t anything to do with it. And if it did happen to be a matter of duty every man would be left to recognize it for himself. It would be outrageous impertinence for anyone to remind him, unthinkable that anyone should order him.’
‘Some guys must make an easy living,’ interjected Gleed. ‘There’s nothing to stop them that I can see.’ He studied Seth briefly before he asked, ‘How can you cope with a citizen who has no conscience?’
‘Easy as pie.’
Elissa suggested, ‘Tell them the story of Idle Jack.’
‘It’s a kid’s yarn,’ explained Seth. ‘All children here know it by heart. It’s a classic fable like . . . like—’ He screwed up his face. ‘I’ve lost track of the Terran tales the first-comers brought with them.’
‘Red Riding Hood,’ offered Harrison.
‘Yes.’ Seth seized upon it gratefully. ‘Something like that one. A nursery story.’ He licked his lips, began, ‘This Idle Jack came from Terra as a baby, grew up in our new world, gained an understanding of our economic system and thought he’d be mighty smart. He decided to become a scratcher.’
‘What’s a scratcher?’ asked Gleed.
‘One who lives by accepting obs but does nothing about wiping them out or planting any of his own. One who takes everything that’s going and gives nothing in return.’
‘We’ve still got ’em,’ said Gleed.
‘Up to age sixteen Jack got away with it all along the line. He was only a kid, see? All kids tend to scratch to a certain extent. We expect it and allow for it. But after sixteen he was soon in the soup.’
‘How?’ urged Harrison, more interested than he was willing to admit.
‘He loafed around the town gathering obs by the armful. Meals, clothes and all sorts for the mere asking. It wasn’t a big town. There are no big ones on this planet. They are just small enough for everybody to know everybody—and everyone does plenty of gabbing. Within a few months the entire town knew that Jack was a determined and incorrigible scratcher.’
‘Go on,’ said Harrison impatiently.
‘Everything dried up,’ responded Seth. ‘Wherever Jack went people gave him the, “I won’t.” He got no meals, no clothes, no company, no entertainment, nothing. He was avoided like a leper. Soon be became terribly hungry, busted into someone’s larder one night, treated himself to the first square meal in a week.’
‘What did they do about that?’
‘Nothing, not a thing.’
‘That must have encouraged him some, mustn’t it?’
‘How could it?’ asked Seth with a thin smile. ‘It did him no good. Next day his belly was empty again. He was forced to repeat the performance. And the next day. And the next. People then became leery, locked up their stuff and kept watch on it. Circumstances grew harder and harder. They grew so unbearably hard that soon it was a lot easier to leave the town and try another one. So Idle Jack went away.’
‘To do the same again,’ Harrison prompted.
‘With the same results for the same reasons,’ Seth threw back at him. ‘On he went to a third town, a fourth, a fifth, a twentieth. He was stubborn enough to be witless.’
‘But he was getting by,’ Harrison insisted. ‘Taking all for nothing at the cost of moving around.’
‘Oh, no he wasn’t. Our towns are small, as I said. And people do plenty of visiting from one to another. In the second town Jack had to risk being seen and talked about by visitors from the first town. In the third town he had to cope with talkers from both the first and second ones. As he went on it became a whole lot worse. In the twentieth he had to chance being condemned by anyone coming from any of the previous nineteen.’ Seth leaned forward, said with emphasis, ‘He never reached town number twenty-eight.’
‘No?’
‘He lasted two weeks in number twenty-five, eight days in number twenty-six, one day in twenty- seven. That was almost the end. He knew he’d be recognized the moment he showed his face in number twenty-eight.’
‘What did he do then?’
‘He took to the open country, tried to live like an animal feeding on roots and wild berries. Then he disappeared-until one day some walkers found him swinging from a tree. His body was emaciated and clad in rags. Loneliness, self-neglect and his own stupidity had combined to kill him. That was Idle Jack, the scratcher. He wasn’t twenty years old.’
‘On Terra,’ remarked Gleed virtuously, ‘we don’t hang people merely for being shiftless and lazy.’
‘Neither do we,’ said Seth. ‘We give them every encouragement to go hang themselves. And when they do it’s good riddance to bad rubbish.’ He eyed them shrewdly as he went on, ‘But don’t let it worry you. Nobody has been driven to such drastic measures in my lifetime, leastways, not that I’ve heard about. People honour their obs as a matter of economic necessity and not from any sense of duty. Nobody gives orders, nobody pushes anyone around, but there’s a kind of compulsion built into the circumstances of this planet’s way of life. People play square—or they suffer. Nobody enjoys suffering, not even a numbskull.’
‘Yes, I suppose you’re right,’ agreed Harrison, much exercised in mind.
It all seems like a rather idealized view of how the world should work. The question is how do you get there from here, and how do you stay there once you get there.