Freedoms Edge: Freedom the only end

Freedom: the only end

Freedom won't be found with any government... but perhaps ...here!

" ...a social shock absorber placed between privelege and the pressure of popular discontent."

Aneurin Bevan. "Talking about Parliament."

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force.
And force like fire is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." Anon

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
	Herbert Spencer, 1850.

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.
	Henry L. Mencken, 1926.

It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.
	A.J. Knock 19355

To oppose government one has to be careless about ones own life, for government nor society is open to different ideas and philosophies and are most determined to punish those who do not conform to its irrational behaviour, brutality, ignorance and bigotry. The "rule of Law" is being shown for what it truly is...barbarity.
	David Brooks 2005
The claims of these organizers of humanity raise another question which I have often asked them and which, so far as I know, they have never answered: If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?
	Frédéric Bastiat: The Law1850

Will there ever be a government that represents the people?

If the landowner owns your home you must pay him rent.
If he owns your planet what do you own?
And who does your parliament bow to?

"Under all forms of government the ultimate power lies with the masses. It is not kings nor aristocracies, nor land-owners nor capitalists, that anywhere near enslave the people - it is their own ignorance. Most clear is this where governments rest on universal suffrage. Working men may mould to their will legislatures, courts, and constitutions. Politicians strive for favour and political parties bid against one another for their vote. But what avails this? The little finger of aggregated capital must be thicker than the loins of the working masses so long as they do not know how to use their power."

Henry George

This is Government!
Red in tooth & claw

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.

To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorised, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolised, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured.
That is government; that is its justice, that is its morality.” Proudhon
____ Pierre J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century