Posted by wgreen on 02/26/10

wgreen is crazy, I guess.  He questions whether coercive government is necessary.  He questions whether the civil war was necessary.  He thinks other countries abolished slavery without killing 600,000 of their own people.  He wonders why the government is allowed to do things he should not do, like take money from one person and give it to another.  He wonders why government agents can get away with killing innocent people.  He can't understand how a majority vote can give such power to one group of people against another.  He can't understand why majority rule is different from mob rule.  He can't understand how it can be OK to violate his neighbors liberty through legislation when it is not OK for him to do it directly.  I guess maybe he's crazy.  But maybe he just won't settle for the status quo.  Maybe he requires a real answer to these questions.  And maybe such answers do not exist.  maybe the way things are is not the way they should be.

Posted by wgreen on 06/26/09

"The fundamental political question is why do people obey a government. The answer is that they tend to enslave themselves, to let themselves be governed by tyrants. Freedom from servitude comes not from violent action, but from the refusal to serve. Tyrants fall when the people withdraw their support."

-Etienne de la Boetie

Gandhi put this into action.  He called it satyagraha.  I think it is time.  Our government has become opressive. 

But we need coordination.  We need leadership.  Do we have what it takes?  Could the Campaign for Liberty be a vehicle for satyagraha?

"They tell us, sir, that we are weak -- unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance, by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power."

-Patrick Henry

Posted 09/21/09 m26taylor Plainfield, CT

Posted by wgreen on 05/18/10

My latest letter in the Courant.

Posted by wgreen on 02/26/10

nonschool nonteaching concrete halls of resigned nonmen and nonwomen*

conforming or collapsing or exploding under the weight of our oppression.

How delightful!

What glorious failing!

What a rigorous slouching!

What a liberating suppression!

Unworld*

Unquestionable unwisdom of the State and swarm and elite...

Learn, lie, lay down your humanity.

Waste youth and time and energy for nothing.

Bind it all, lest it rise up and usurp our...

Our what?

But don't you dare question

the dogma.

The degrees, the diplomas, the school,  the hive, the bees, the "common good"

Majority rule(s over us all),

We rule over each other, own each other, enslave each other,

So that none are free.

For goodness sake, let them go...

Let us all go.

Let ourselves go.

Dare to turn and look, and listen, and not pretend not to hear,

Peel the scaly saran wrap from your soul,

Refuse the slithering lies that we all tell ourselves,

Spit out the thin blood of our measly parasitic existence,

And breathe

Freedom.

*Hat tip to Cummings.

Posted by wgreen on 12/20/09

The Hartford Courant published this on Wednesday:

Our leaders are in Copenhagen, deciding what new regulations to impose on us to protect us from the catastrophic climate change that will supposedly come upon us if we are left to ourselves.

If we really valued a cooler future climate (or if we really believed warming to be a real and serious threat), we could drive less, drive cleaner vehicles, go vegetarian, pay more for our electricity, pay more for "green" products, etc.

Each of us does a cost-benefit analysis every time we pay our light bill, and fewer than 22,000 Connecticut residents have signed up to pay more for the Clean Energy Option. Most of us apparently value economical energy over "cleaner" energy.

By forcing us to pay more for energy or to use less energy (and that is what any new regulations will entail), our leaders are imposing their values on us. They claim to know, better than us, what is best for us. But then again, that is the basic fallacy of big government.

William Green, Brooklyn, Conn.