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There is a thread here about Marc Stevens. This is the first time I have heard of him, and it caught my interest so I read his book. That woke me up a bit. I was aware of corruption in the justice system from reading Eustace Mullins, but I was not aware of what can be done about it until I read Mark Stevens book Adventures in Legal Land. It seems that the tyrants who rule us need our consent. But they have no obligation to protect us.
Stevens makes a really good point in his book. Something that slips past most of us. None of us are allowed to steal our neighbor's property. Yet the government allows itself to do just that when they impose fines on us or seize our assets. If the government derives its power from the consent of the governed, and the governed are not allowed to steal from each other, where does the state get that power? Surely the governed cannot delegate a power to the government that they do not have themselves.
What I awakened to is that the state is just a mental construct--not a tangible thing. What it does is the will of the people who 'operate' it for their own benefit under the guise of being representatives of the people. What the Occupy Wall Street movement calls the 1% is the state. There is no difference between the 545 people who are the US Federal Government and the corporations and banks and other moneyed interests they represent. The 99% they claim to represent are really their slaves,and the whole charade relies on the appearance of our consent to be their slaves. We need to behave in ways that smashes the appearance of that consent and see where that leaves them. You cannot threaten people with extreme violence and claim that you are governing with the consent of the governed. Being awake is being able to see that contradiction and communicating it to others. It's that simple.
Hatha
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Hatha Sunahara
Stevens makes a really good point in his book. Something that slips past most of us. None of us are allowed to steal our neighbor's property. Yet the government allows itself to do just that when they impose fines on us or seize our assets. If the government derives its power from the consent of the governed, and the governed are not allowed to steal from each other, where does the state get that power? Surely the governed cannot delegate a power to the government that they do not have themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
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Hatha Sunahara
Stevens makes a really good point in his book. Something that slips past most of us. None of us are allowed to steal our neighbor's property. Yet the government allows itself to do just that when they impose fines on us or seize our assets. If the government derives its power from the consent of the governed, and the governed are not allowed to steal from each other, where does the state get that power? Surely the governed cannot delegate a power to the government that they do not have themselves.
What I awakened to is that the state is just a mental construct--not a tangible thing. What it does is the will of the people who 'operate' it for their own benefit under the guise of being representatives of the people. What the Occupy Wall Street movement calls the 1% is the state. There is no difference between the 545 people who are the US Federal Government and the corporations and banks and other moneyed interests they represent. The 99% they claim to represent are really their slaves,and the whole charade relies on the appearance of our consent to be their slaves. We need to behave in ways that smashes the appearance of that consent and see where that leaves them. You cannot threaten people with extreme violence and claim that you are governing with the consent of the governed. Being awake is being able to see that contradiction and communicating it to others. It's that simple.
Hatha
Another great book along these exact lines is "The Most Dangerous Superstition".
http://www.amazon.com/Most-Dangerous...9788543&sr=8-1
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Hatha Sunahara
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What the Occupy Wall Street movement calls the 1% is the state. There is no difference between the 545 people who are the US Federal Government and the corporations and banks and other moneyed interests they represent. The 99% they claim to represent are really their slaves,and the whole charade relies on the appearance of our consent to be their slaves. We need to behave in ways that smashes the appearance of that consent and see where that leaves them.
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Being awake is being able to see that contradiction and communicating it to others. It's that simple.
Hatha
Excellent insight, Hatha. I have extracted my favorite part of your post, which ends with a challenging action statement. First see it, then communicate it. Group awareness is key, and I see it growing slowly but surely.
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Sometimes I listen to the callers into the Washington Journal on C-Span. This morning the first caller said the campaign is meaningless, because the two-party system is the problem. Shortly after that, another guy called in to say that it things are on such a bad track that we are in for a rough ride regardless of who wins the presidency, so he had little interest in the election. The number of people who now see the futility of having any faith in the current corrupted political system is growing.
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This is a handy little doohickey, can post to messagboards, will animate in emails etc, just copy/paste:
^ why not make one of those WTC7 pics above into your email signature? Just copy/paste one of them into the place where you set up your email siggy. It will probably carry the ae911truth URL with the paste job, otherwise you may need to link it manually.
anyways, here's a good Corbett report audio,
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I saw a infowars.com sticker on a vehicle on my way into work this morning. Pretty ballsy. Not perfect but its a start...LOL
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“How can you disrespect the victims and their families by questioning 9/11?”
His rebuttal could have been the commercial paid for by families of 9/11.
How can you disrespect the victims and their families by not questioning 9/11?
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I heard this cat Douglas Dietrich on Coast to Coast last night. Anyone here ever heard of ATS? What say GSUS?
NSFW, BOHICA and the music is too loud...
Episode 1: Douglas Dietrich: 911 and The House of Saud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPBD9QsEN4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPBD9QsEN4Y
Uploaded by Thewormholes on Oct 7, 2009
Douglas Dietrich breaks down 911 and The House of Saud
1. Saudi Arabia: House of Saud, part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4EkGqb4mKE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4EkGqb4mKE
Uploaded by TheHistoryProfessor on May 22, 2009
