Government Incentive To Corruption

Posted on April 4, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, the reason the worst people on Earth rule the planet, is because of the incentives of government. Government puts opaque power in the hands of corruptible people. Then we stand amazed that they become corrupted. Moreover, after generations of opaque power in the hands of ever more corrupted people, we pretend that Epstein Isle, UK rape gangs, and elite pedophiles, are exceptions. Then the elite exploit law to destroy Alex Jones with lawfare for blurting out uncomfortable truths. The Holy Bible itself says that the Nephilim were angels. If even angels themselves are corruptible, how much more corruptible is a mortal human being? If we agree that some government is needed, then we must agree also to minimize the incentives to corruption in government.

Others and I have talked endlessly about the problem of unlimited power. Lord Acton underestimated the corrupting influence of power when he said, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” I believe unlimited power corrupts not only the mind, body and soul, but even one’s works. Because it allows us the ability to unleash our dark side without temporal consequences. So why follow any laws, except in public? This means any virtue in the politically entrenched is nothing but a veneer. A pretty covering designed to hide their corruption from the world. So they can continue in it. The longer held and more unlimited in scope the power the greater the corruption. To argue otherwise would be claiming, cooking soup in sewage doesn’t pollute it, because we all need to eat.

One way to look at human history, is a struggle between those who seek limited government, and unlimited government. In Plato’s Republic, Socrates and Thrasymachus vied. Socrates arguing for a warped form of limited government, that serves the whole of society. Even as Thrasymachus argued for an absolutely corrupt government, that only serves the elites. Which is the natural evolution of government. History is unambiguous on this point. Governments, societies and civilizations all rise in virtue, and fall in corruption. Sparta was unstoppable until they stopped minting money in iron, Rome conquered the world then collapsed in corruption, even as the Mongol Empire ransacked Asia and in a generation lost it all. History is a list of struggles between unlimited and limited power.

Each incarnation of government adds measures to limit the power of government and thus the elite. The Greeks used Ostracism and democracy to limit the powerful, but Pericles with the misshaped head manipulated those to his benefit. Leading to the entitled… Alcibiades. Who was a toxin wherever he went. Leading to the collapse of ancient Greek civilization. Rome tried two consuls who were elected to short terms of office. Which worked pretty well for a few centuries. Until the troubles with Marius and Sulla. Which led to the Empire phase and its collapse. Then there are the multitudes of other attempts to force the elite to rule for the benefit of society, instead of themselves only, like Constitutions. A contract between the ruled and the rulers. Yet every attempt has fallen short.

We have an entrenched elite who’re capable of anything. Even Trump’s executive order requiring only citizens vote, (the plain wording of the US Constitution), is challenged as unconstitutional by State attorneys general. (Who have standing while in 2020 no one did). Proving again that constitutions are insufficient. What’s the answer then? I say, we need absolute transparency, as the default, a bureau to enforce it, as well as all laws on the elites and be a government complaint department. I call it a Numa. It must have Constitutional authority or else the elite would ignore it. Moreover, its operations would also have to be absolutely transparent. Because even the power of enforcing laws is corrupting. That’s why the worst people on Earth rule it, and why we need better solutions.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on April 3, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

With every word the elite do drool,

They show that law is but a tool,

Justice for them,

We’re just phlegm,

And to the elite hypocrisy is cool.

 

The democrats are in a fog,

Petting Cletus their loyal dog,

Not self aware,

Better take care,

Now they’re ruled by Boss Hogg.

 

Bureaucracy by its nature is corrupt,

Working in the dark and being abrupt,

A functionary’s blessing,

Free to do their oppressing,

But it ends when the nation goes bankrupt.

 

There once was a bureaucrat Joe,

A corruptocrat he was in the know,

Some perjury here,

He didn’t at all fear,

Until attorney fees made his wallet glow.

 

There once was a judge with brilliance and gallantry,

So smart he thought he should run the whole country,

Despotism’s stench,

Rule from the bench,

And like a manager at a Kmart he has unlimited authority.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Welfare For The Rich

Posted on April 2, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems galling to me that the welfare checks to US universities might be late this month. I understand Harvard gets nine billion a year from ditch diggers, dish washers and janitors. Columbia University, Obama’s alma mater, gets almost half a billion. Johns Hopkins receives over 2 billion from taxpayers as well. It turns out, when you look into it, our colleges and universities are publicly funded, for private use. Very progressive, if you think about it. Taking money from laborers to subsidize the indoctrination of the offspring of the rich… the next generation of elites. People who will work diligently to lower the standard of living of those forced to pay for their college. A more unjust system couldn’t be imagined, yet it tracks perfectly with Thrasymachus’ idea of justice, and the globalists as well.

It appears our corporations, colleges and universities are on welfare. As are the Soros NGOs working to destroy Western civilization. Clearly welfare isn’t only for the poor. It’s for the richest people on the planet as well. No wonder they begrudge us our social security… it cuts into their welfare check. I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see George Soros in the checkout line at Walmart, using food stamps. The billionaires of this world have so little shame. Normal people who have the means to feed themselves don’t take the dole. We pull, we don’t ride in the cart. The corporations, universities and elites however, not only ride in the cart, they drag their feet for the fun of it. Because they have no shame whatsoever. Like you and I would if we took welfare when we don’t need it.

The first thing that should be cut is welfare to the rich, universities and colleges. Why should they be on the public’s dime? Oh, the cons would argue basic science must be funded by government. Because, according to them, there’s no profit in doing basic science for companies. Which is spurious as spurious can be. What does Space X, fusion start ups and others do then? Plus, what does government actually buy with those billions of dollars taken from you and I? Promoting politically favored notions. They seek to rationalize their absurdities with “science.” Crazy town ideas like Anthropogenic climate change, the whole trans perversion, and every other insane idea that reverberates in their ivory tower. They exploit their ability to take money from us at gun point, to pay to prove their crazy talk to us.

Meanwhile the quality of a university education has fallen off a cliff. The more money they take from the government the worse job they do at preparing their students for a career. Graduates are certainly adept at protesting, mindlessly hating the patriarchy and following a political order… but not at taking orders from a manager, showing up to work on time or working diligently toward a goal. The universities have a different priority. They seek to make angry communist soldiers… not upwardly mobile young people. That was such a 1980’s mindset. That young people should be upwardly mobile. Today the modern notion is that young people should die of heart attacks, in a war or by suicide, by the time they’re thirty. If we are to accept action as indication of intent.

It’s astounding how much a year of public “education” costs. Nearly twenty thousand dollars a year! At that rate, a few families could get together and pay a teacher top dollar to tutor their kids. Getting a better education at a lower price point. Even as the cost of a year of college is bone crushing. Because the total cost isn’t just tuition; it’s tuition plus the government subsidy. If Harvard graduates eleven thousand kids a year, and gets nine billion in grants, that amounts to eight hundred grand per kid… plus tuition. Meanwhile, graduates of high schools, colleges and universities emerge unable to function in society. Clearly, it’s time to stop the madness. Cut off welfare to the rich. They don’t need it, and we can’t afford it. Let the corporations, colleges and billionaires wash their own dishes.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on April 1, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

The DOGE commission is on a tare,

But DOGE members better beware,

Cutting the fat,

Watch your back,

‘Cause there’s nothing as dangerous as a wounded bear.

 

The Department of Education is a creature,

Inculcating absurdity by a government teacher,

Fill kids with strife,

It’ll ruin their life,

But with bureaucracy failure isn’t a bug it’s a feature.

 

There once was a little dragon that grew,

It was ignored by the elite at the EU,

Seeing it is racist,

The elite do insist,

But eventually it’ll mature and put them in a stew.

 

There once was a government corrupt as could be,

They defrauded elections and jailed the adversary,

Perverting the law,

Filling their maw,

Will they get a comeuppance or is justice petty?

 

Folksy charm to appeal to the local,

And pandering to the foolish yokel,

Elitist talking trash,

Aiming to be brash,

As democrats urge us to go postal.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on March 31, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

Now listen all you husbands and wives,

So you and yours prosper and thrives,

Covid did show,

Ignorance brings woe,

Because censorship cost human lives.

 

There once was a philosopher Kung Lung,

Confucianists said his head was full of dung,

But a white horses pall,

He outsmarted them all,

And even today his language tricks are sung.

 

The main stream media are the big guns,

With bluster propaganda and full of puns,

I may be a jerk,

But how will it work,

Now Trump’s cut off their USAID funds?

 

Take even a glance and you’ll find,

The world has gone out of its mind,

Bureaucrats run the show,

Those who are in the know,

Making the deep state the enemy of mankind.

 

The globalist progressives have a ready spout,

Of cash to spend bribe and to give them clout,

Free money does talk,

Paid actors squawk,

But what’ll they do now that USAID money is running out?

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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How Despotic Is Your Nation?

Posted on March 30, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, one way to tell if you live under a tyranny, is if political crimes are punished more severely than crimes against persons or property. Because the government that holds political thought as the greatest crime, epitomizes despotism. It’s Bastiat’s thesis in his book The Law, where the law is exploited to steal instead of protect. The elite exploit their power of law to take our Rights, property and lives themselves. Even as they claim they’re acting “justly.” Channeling Thrasymachus from the grave. If a single person is in prison for wrong think or wrong speak in your country, know that you live in a despotic state. One that takes crimes against the political order more seriously than crimes against people or property… unless their persons or property are involved.

Ideas are the most dangerous thing to any oligarchy or tyranny. Because everything starts as an idea. The house you live in was an idea. Then, from the brain of someone, that idea sprang into life and now exists as a physical entity. Though that physicality started as an ethereal notion. So does everything else we have or ever will create. Including such things as interplanetary travel, AI… and revolutions. It’s the revolutions that the elite seek to minimize. So they have to stifle all thought unless pre-approved, lest it lead to revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary ideas have a way of spreading from one area to another. A paradigm shift in science could trigger thoughts of a different social order. Which is why all ideas are dangerous to a despotic state, and are punished as wrongthink.

Law is always sold as a way to protect us, our families and our property. Law however can be exploited to take those very things. Since we’ve previously agreed, we have no standing when the elite exploit the law to do violence to our self interest, to improve theirs. Then they call it just, because it was “lawful.” This is one of the themes in Bastiat’s The Law. That law is often exploited as a means to take instead of protect. In such cases the law is a perversion of its intent. Moreover, the less limited the state, the more likely those authorized will exploit that authority to enrich themselves. One way to tell if wealth is concentrated is by examining the neighborhoods around the capital. Are the homes average sized and cost, or are they much more expensive and larger than average? House value is a metric of wealth.

If the corruption of the State gets really bad, the elite will openly flaunt their corruption, thinking themselves above the law. Judges will openly rule against the plain wording of founding documents, the law and precedent. Those elected to office will become rich while in the public’s service. Even as the media will openly lie, doctors will allow bureaucrats to practice medicine for them, and town officials will get their industrial parks permitted without hassle, and paid for by the towns folk. Then they raise the property taxes of anyone who speaks up. When the elite flaunt their corruption in such ways, it’s sure they don’t think they can be punished. Because, why should they? If consequences are only for the little guy, and so far never for them, why not exploit the law to get rich and suppress ideas?

There’s a saying attributed to Goethe, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Look around, are you free? We participate in our own enslavement when we ignore the signs of despotism, because the payola press assures us we’re free. We abet the perversion of law when we go along with judges mocking the law, the plain wording of our Constitution and precedent… because they’re the authority. Are there people in jail for wrong think or wrong speak in your nation? Do our doctors allow bureaucrats to order them around in their own practice? This corrodes our trust in medicine. To act helpless in the face of open corruption is the hallmark of the slave mindset. So speak up, think and demand accountability… else abet your own enslavement.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on March 29, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

There once was a prosecutor who heard the call,

Of the deep state’s siren come one come all,

He did his part,

Watched the chart,

And exploited his authority to pervert the law.

 

It may be too early to boast,

But I think the democrats are toast,

Not self aware,

Caught in a snare,

In self denial they cry try and roast.

 

Beware take care the British thought police are on the prowl,

Policing opinions jailing citizens and keeping the hours of an owl,

Wrongthink is illegal,

Says the legal beagle,

With enough hypocrisy to make even Pollyanna scowl.

 

The righteous indignation can’t be outgunned,

Enemies of the deep state must be shunned,

Things are dire,

Hair’s on fire,

At losing their progressive globalist slush fund.

 

The narrative must be controlled big and small,

Shutting down anyone who has grit and gall,

Trump’s example,

Is a small sample,

Because he has broken the globalist’s thrall.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Our Technological Age

Posted on March 28, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, a common fallacy of our times is that our technological age is inevitable. It’s not. Humanity existed for literally tens of thousands of years and didn’t produce a technological age. Not because people weren’t as smart as us, or as industrious, but their culture and philosophy made it impossible. Rome had superior technology and resources to Middle Ages Europe, yet collapsed in a few centuries, rather than building space ships. Our age is made possible by the confluence of several factors. Christianity, which set the philosophical foundation for free enterprise, limited government, an end to human slavery and the freedoms that contribute to our technological age. So the technological age nor the science we enjoy isn’t inevitable and we aren’t special because of them.

Christianity made the Renaissance, Enlightenment and free enterprise possible. We can deduce this from the fact it didn’t happen under any other system. Christianity offers several innovations to the religious world. While other religions might allow for other people, only Christianity has the combination of the Golden rule, we are created in the image of God, and salvation through the blood of Christ. The golden rule tells us to treat others as we would be treated, which is the foundation for crimes against humanity. Slavery was made unconscionable by the idea that we’re created in the image of God. Moreover, salvation allows us to get up and move forward even after falling. Treating others as equals allows free enterprise, as a lack of slavery means incentive to advance and capitalist jobs.

Free exchange has existed since the first man exchanged a stone tool for some meat. It didn’t turn into free enterprise until Adam Smith made it a philosophy. A new way of looking at the world. Then the Industrial Revolution galvanized it into industrialism… something impossible under the Roman, Mayan or communist systems. The ability to think freely isn’t possible under those systems. Plus the top down organization of those cultures made bottom up innovation impossible. Slavery, (or being a non party member in communist and socialist systems) corrodes the work ethic, and prevents people from being the productive twenty percent in the Pareto distribution. So, while free exchange has always been done, free markets require freedom of thought, speech, action and association.

Limited government is only made possible by Enlightenment philosophical and cultural innovations. Limited government is a necessary prerequisite for scientific, philosophical and cultural advancement. All advancements require thought, and if thought is criminally punished, it will be rare. Even the vaunted ancient Greeks had thought laws. Socrates was put to death for violating them. Which is why, even with the brilliance of some of those men, a technological age was unthinkable. Aristotle wanted to understand the natural world, but he lacked the scientific method, so his ability to understand it was hobbled. It was only after the Enlightenment and the scientific method, that was made possible by the Renaissance and Christianity, that capitalism allowed a technological age to develop.

This leads us to the idea that the fallacy of our age, is that our age is inevitable. Had it not been for Christ, and the chain of events that followed his death and resurrection, we would still be riding horses, dying of smallpox and sewing with thorns. Because without the philosophical innovation that was Christianity, and its compression, mankind simply would not have had the philosophical or cultural foundation to build upon. Which leads us to the final point… if we lose the philosophy that allows our technological age, that technology will vanish. Because technology can only be maintained and advanced where people are allowed to think, innovate and be free of the elite’s judging eyes. If we want to keep our technological age, then it’s up to us to defend those things that allow it to exist.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Limericks

Posted on March 27, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

 

For journalism that’s the color of pee,

With a point of view for you and me,

Selectively judgmental,

And quite temperamental,

You can always count on the BBC.

 

The corruptocrat regime will pay its penance,

And the people will have their vengeance,

Actions do tell,

Like ringing a bell,

That the deep state’s corrupt to it’s very essence.

 

USAID needs no oversight nor introspection,

Progressive confession through projection,

Money is power,

In an ivory tower,

So they get us to fund our own oppression.

 

Democrats are terrified of an unelected government,

With vehemence anger and lacking good judgment,

The bureaucracy’s just fine,

Democrats say it all the time,

Meaning DOGE is a threat to the unelected establishment.

 

Self awareness is a life promoting hack.

Self righting benefits carried in a sack.

The elite not so much,

They’re out of touch,

Because self awareness is a quality the elite clearly lack.

 

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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2025 Elections in Canada

Posted on March 26, 2025 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, with the upcoming Canadian election, Canadians need to consider the future of their nation. There are really only two options offered. One is to become a 1984 style despotic state, where the people are guinea pigs for the elite’s experiments. The other is a possible return to limited, responsive and virtuous government. Pierre Poilievre is the only candidate advocating for limited government and free markets, plus he’s a patriot… the rest are WEF penetrators. They’re traitors, intent on accelerating Canada’s fall to the totalitarian globalist oligarchs. Sadly, there are no free market advocates among that crew, only unlimited government types. They’re banking on the courtesy culture in Canada, and Canadian’s deferment to the State in all things, to keep Poilievre out.

One way to tell if a nation is captured by an idea is if they continue following it even after it’s been proven a failure. The Canadian socialist healthcare system is just such a failure. Waiting lists, suicide assistance, and the political favor that’s required to get good service, characterize all single payer systems, and Canada’s is no exception. While the doctors themselves in many cases are exceptional, any top down system will be one where bureaucrats decide what medicine can be practiced… not doctors. During the Covid swindle, Canadians suffered the worst of it. The government went to extremes that boggle the mind, like locking children in their rooms while they cry for affection, as part of Trudeau’s draconian lock down restrictions.

Canada is a nation rich in natural resources. From timber to rare earth elements, Canada has it all. If only the government allowed access to it. Most people think the stranglehold is “just” in Alberta, with the oil resources, but they would be wrong. The choke hold Ottawa has over resource extraction is a garrote. In Quebec, there are proven extractable rare earth minerals, but the government has made getting them uneconomic. Even timber is both restricted and subsidized. Moreover, Canada could pay its health care costs by selling water to the US and across the world, but refuses to. All these restrictions cost jobs. Plus, the taxes required for the subsidies to offset the regulations further lowers the worker’s standard of living. Which is why Canada needs to parasitize off the US with tariffs.

People who feel they need the government to do for them aren’t mature self-actuating agents, they’re children in adult bodies. Dependency isn’t an organic mindset for a grown man or woman. It’s an artifact of the culture. Moreover, the culture is the aggregate effect of the cultural leaders leading by example. There is of course Edward Bernays’ propaganda that moves the minds of the masses, which is very effective. Especially since the propaganda is pumped into Canadian’s homes every night by the state funded CBC. In the western provinces like Alberta, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, the NW territories and the Yukon, there’s a strong independent ethos. Because in such places one dies without it. Their sparse population however limits their political power. Canada is ruled by the cities.

Canada has to decide what the people want to bequeath to their children and grandchildren. Right now the future looks like the next generation of Canadians will be Winston in Orwell’s 1984. The biggest obstacle to Canadian success, is the culture of dependency and the tendency of deferring to the state. These cultural attitudes make many Canadians think they need the state to do for them. Giving up their agency to the almighty experts. Experts who have nearly unlimited power to limit Canadians. Suppressing the vast wealth that’s right under their feet, all around them and in their own hands. Canada could have twice the real GDP per person of the US, were it not for their unlimited globalist government. When offered shackles, it’s best not to put them on, even out of courtesy.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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