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The Language of Rights and Priveleges

Written by Subject: Legislative Mischief

Rights and privilegesHave you noticed how governments want to own your language, so they can more easily manipulate you into giving up your rights and resources?

All Caps Names

For example, Bob Podolsky is a real person, and has all sorts of natural rights. Yet every single piece of correspondence coming from the BORG such as Bank statements, Drivers Licenses, IRS correspondence, Traffic Tickets has my name in all capital letters. I know these people went to school and learned the same grammar I did. Why is my name is all CAPS? Somehow, BOB PODOLSKY, became a vassal of the state. The argument, the all caps name is not the real person, has been thrown out as frivolous in court, yet there must be a reason why is it done this way.

Right to Travel

Similarly, I have a right to travel on public roads by riding a conveyance under my control. This is something that human beings have done since the domestication of animals, somehow adding a motor to power it and voilà, the state re-names the conveyance a Motor Vehicle and I am now a Driver. Thus the state converts my "right" into a "privilege" and grants itself the "right" to force me to pay for these privileges by buying a title, a license plate, a driver's license, and specified insurance. If you don't fill out forms and pay, this magically grants a 'right" to an armed group of thugs in costumes to beat you up, put you in a cage, steal your "property" and fine you.

Right to Migrate

Since time began, humans have had the right to move to wherever they pleased, based on resources, climate, scenery or religious beliefs. That's how the the American Indians got to the western Hemisphere, Australians and New Zealanders got to Oceania, Caucasians moved to Europe and the Pilgrims got to Plymouth Rock. They didn't like where they were, and they moved. However the government calls the right to move, a privileged known as "immigration". If you don't fill out forms and pay, this magically grants a 'right" to an armed group of thugs in costumes to beat you up, put you in a cage, steal your "property" and fine you.

Right to Property

It used to be that a human being had the right to own the land they live on. The Government changed this into a privilege by converting all own-able land into "Real Estate" You acquire the privilege of being a "tenant" on your Government controlled Bank owned land. It is impossible to own it. Want to test that? Stop paying the property tax. If you don't fill out forms and pay, this magically grants a 'right" to an armed group of thugs in costumes to beat you up, put you in a cage, steal your "property" and fine you.

Natural person

As a natural person I owe no allegiance to any government "authority" – but as a "citizen", I'm perpetually at the mercy of every bureaucrat that warms a chair in a government office paid for by money stolen from the "citizenry." Of course stealing money through threats, coercion, or extortion is crime. When the act is called "taxation", it somehow becomes legitimate. If you don't fill out forms and pay, this magically grants a 'right" to an armed group of thugs in costumes to beat you up, put you in a cage, steal your "property" and fine you.

Right to Eat

As a human being, I have every right, should my circumstances require it, to "forage" in the wild for food. Yet there exist many government bureaucracies that would punish me severely for doing my foraging without first purchasing their permission in the form of ahunting or fishing license, in the absence of which they'd say I was "poaching". If you don't fill out forms and pay, this magically grants a 'right" to an armed group of thugs in costumes to beat you up, put you in a cage, steal your "property" and fine you.

Wasn't Robin Hood accused of "stealing the king's deer"? While I'm not very partial to the "heroism" of the Robin Hood character, I dare to raise the question, "Who or what gave the kings and the Government ownership of all the wild critters and everything else for that matter?" Since the "divine right of kings" is clearly a manipulative fiction, by what "right" do those who run the world today, claim to have any "authority" over anyone else? And who is today's king, anyway?

About "Authority"

According to Larken Rose, whose philosophy I much admire, the whole concept of "authority" exists but for one purpose, to fool the public into complying willingly with the demands of a particular class of people who consider themselves our "betters", our "superiors", our modern "nobility", and ultimately our "masters". In their eyes, the rest of us are of no value to them except as a source of endless plunder – and they are forever inventing new excuses to abuse the rest of us financially, socially, taking away our natural liberties, stealing our property, and enacting violence against us at their will.

While they claim this behavior is necessary in order to "protect the public", the reality is that this notion is a total fiction, that in fact the real purpose of most of todays laws is merely to excuse the actions of our gargantuan "plunderers league" – who do to the rest of us whatever they want, up to and including killing us, with complete impunity. Surely the governments of the world collectively comprise the biggest, most powerful organized crime syndicate the world has ever known – egged on I suspect by previously existing crime syndicates that joined ranks with them – the Mafia, I believe, being a case in point.

Walk into a courthouse anywhere, and at any rank, and consider that the salaries of everyone working in the building are paid for with plunder – money stolen from ordinary folks in punishment for doing the things we all have a right to do. And their only "authority" for doing this is the fact that someone who supposedly "represents" you, wrote on a piece of paper that they had the "right" to plunder you.

Of course people who like to plunder others are always polite and subservient to their higher ranking plunderers.

Of course too, in order to really understand what's going on you have to get it that no matter how many people sign a document creating upper and lower classes, the document is still fatally flawed, because all divisions by class are fundamentally unethical, and therefore null, void, and invalid. Remember, valid law exists only to serve the ethics – not the other way around.

As far as human class structures go, we have an ownership class (nobility) that controls the central banks and large corporations, the political class that makes the rules dictated by the ownership class, the police and military class that enforces the rules, the slaveclass that are forced to work in hierarchies, and finally the free class that comprise a very small minority.

Note that this circumstance was not always the case in American culture. In the early days of our country, a sizable portion of the population came to this continent to be free – and was unwilling to be anyone's slave. Alas that day came and went, as fast as the ink dried on the Constitution.

To rescue ourselves from this state of affairs will not be easy, but it will be simple. The current social system operates as a cartel-controlled hierarchy. As we begin tailoring all our institutions, including businesses, charities, schools, foundations, etc., as consensus-based organizations – we will demonstrate that the most successful form of organizational development dispenses entirely with the pretense of "authority". Members of the existing system won't approve of this transformation – but they won't be able to prevent it happening – and the world will be transformed.

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