Nothing Discredits a Philosophy More Effectively than Violence

Posted on May 20, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, nothing discredits a philosophy more effectively than violence. Those that resort to violence, to hold practitioners, convert people to their way of thinking or punish those that disagree, disprove their philosophy more effectively than any logician. Violence is the ultimate admission that one’s ideas are bad, and that the practitioner of violence has ceded the ground of logic and persuasion, proving the wrongness of their ideas. This is a lesson that seems to be lost on societies today. We unlearn this basic simple truth to the detriment of us, our neighbors and our children.

This is not to say we must not defend ourselves. To be a pacifist in the face of violence is to relinquish the future to the evil and pernicious. The lot of humanity would be forever lowered by this, and as rational maximisers, we are duty bound to defend ourselves and our fellows, whenever violence, and thereby fear, is the means of persuasion. Those sophists who would use violence to extend the reach of their bad philosophies, have no self imposed limits on their actions, and would twist logic to their own ends without a qualm… Ends that are clearly not in line with a human hearted civilization.

In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu said, the utility of a vessel is in emptiness. Meaning, if you need to store something and all you have is a full jar, it is not useful. The human mind is a vessel that can have the quality of emptiness or fullness. The amount of knowledge it retains has no bearing on it’s fullness or emptiness however. The attribute of emptiness is a factor of presumption. If someone presumes to know all that is needed then their mind is full and has no further utility. When a person understands that they don’t know, their mind can be said to be empty, regardless of their knowledge.

We must be discerning what we fill our minds with however. If we put dog poop in a bag that bag becomes unsuitable for popcorn. The dog poop effecting the quality of popcorn… and it doesn’t take much poop to corrupt a lot of popcorn. The popcorn does not effect the quality of the dog poop however. From this we can say, if we put evil in our minds then we corrupt the good in them, but the good does not purify the evil. There are several measures we can use to determine the goodness or badness of an idea.

Pragmatism shows us, those concepts that result in lowering the lot of humanity, are bad, those that raise mankind are good. Pragmatism is the quintessential American Philosophy invented by William James. From this we can see that results outweigh intentions. No matter how much we may want some idea or concept to be true, if the results are counter to the good of mankind, it is not. Therefore, we must discard those ideas that are evil, because by holding them they corrupt the goodness in us.

Presumption is the very essence of fullness of mind. Those who presume to know best are, by that very notion, closing their minds to other possibilities. Their mind is not empty, because they are unwilling to accept different ideas, it is closed off. But, as I said before, we must not accept all ideas unquestioningly. We must discern, by pragmatism, what is good and what is bad. To put evil in our mind is not to be open minded it is to corrupt our minds with a vile contagion.

Violence flows naturally from presumption like effluent from a sewer pipe. Once we accept the evil of presumption, we pollute any good intentions we may have had, turning them to evil. The results will be bad regardless of the intentions. To be free of presumption one must have an empty mind. Again, as I explained before, to have an empty mind is not to be ignorant, it is to reject presumption. Violence as a means of persuasion then, is the result of a full mind, (a presumptuous mind), a mind not empty but corrupted by the bad notions we have accepted, crowding out all others. Those bad ideas, ideas that preach violence, whether it is personal violence, State violence or any other violence, discredit those ideas. Just as dog poop corrupts popcorn… violence pollutes intentions. We must be empty of presumption, knowing that results trump intentions and if we embrace the evil of violence, we pollute our very own minds.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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This Scandal Ridden Administration

Posted on May 16, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, President Obama has presided over the most scandal ridden administration since the founding of the United States. His scandals are not only regular but they are profoundly perverse. No other president in my lifetime has had such critical lapses of judgment, if they are lapses of judgment. Nixon had Watergate, Reagan had Iran Contra, Clinton had Lewinsky, Bush had Valery Plame, none of them rising to the least of Obama’s scandals. Our republic is put in greater and greater danger every time a new one comes to light and there are no consequences. If we want to continue to live in a free country, it is up to us to force our government to follow the law, else our grandchildren will consider us villains.

Fast and Furious has been forgotten by the complicit media. In my blog, Fast and Furious a Despicable act of War, I point out that while the administration was shipping hundreds of high powered guns into Mexico, so they would show up at crime scenes, Obama was vilifying the Second Amendment… because US guns were showing up at Mexican crime scenes! This immoral tactic to undermine a Right enumerated in the Bill of Rights directly led to the deaths of at least 300 Mexicans! The only media to do even a cursory examination was Univision. When the Congress asked for records, Obama claimed Executive privilege, which is only applicable for direct communications between the President himself and his staff. This either proves he had knowledge of the program or he is fraudulently using Executive Privilege.

Billions of dollars of graft were handed out to Obama’s political backers in the stimulus bill. Remember Solyndra? Or any of the other boondoggles of the stimulus bill? Literally billions of dollars of taxpayer money was shoveled out to political backers of this President. Had there been a truly unbiased media, this would have been bigger than Watergate, but it was ignored and covered up by the complicit press.

Benghazi is being swept under the rug as you read this. The newest scandals have put Benghazi on the back burner and the press won’t even mention it now. The media have forgotten it in favor of the latest scandals. One point to make here is that Obama claims there wasn’t enough time to send troops. This presupposes he had foreknowledge of the attack and it’s intended duration. The only way he could have had that knowledge is if he were in on planning the attack. Otherwise, he couldn’t have known if there was time or not. Ordering the military to stand down, and not immediately sending relief troops in, is, at the very least, dereliction of duty. So what was it, was Obama in on the planning of the attack, or simply derelict in his duty?

Now we have the IRS using the power of the taxing authority to attack Obama’s political foes. Could there be a more pernicious use of a Federal agency than to use the power of bureaucracy to hobble your political enemies? We are being told that it was a low level staffer. If that is true then why has there never been an example of a progressive organization targeted? If low level staffers are so poorly supervised they can use their power to target a political faction they personally disagree with, surely some low level staffer is conservative, and would have targeted a liberal organization. The very fact none have ever been targeted, shows the orders to target conservatives and then leak the information to Obama’s political allies, came from the top.

As I wrote in my blog, The Frog and the Scorpion, the unbiased media that has been carrying Obama across the pond of public opinion, is feeling the first sting of the scorpion’s tail, now that it has been reviled that the Obama administration has been looking into the phone records of the Associated Press. Holder is claiming the Associated Press is under scrutiny because of a dangerous leak of classified information, but has recused himself of any involvement, (for plausible deniability no doubt). The unbiased media have been claiming lately, who cares if you or I are surveilled as long as you are doing nothing wrong, so I ask, what has the AP to worry about?

There are far more scandals but my space is limited, while the Obama administration’s penchant for abusing power for crass political gain is unlimited. Obama’s main defense is the incompetence defense. He could not have known about these things because the government is too big and Obama is too inept. Yet this faction wants to manage every aspect of every American’s life? Really! Who really believes this President is so bungling he is unaware of anything going on in his administration? Only a fool would believe that. Obama makes sure he has plausible deniability whenever he is undermining a basic Right, enumerated in Our Bill of Rights, he is totally oblivious when his stimulus grants billions of dollars to his backers, he was too tired to stay abreast when one of our Ambassadors was under siege, he only learned about the IRS scandal when he read the papers that morning, despite earlier briefings on the issue, moreover he claims he is outraged by it! Our republic is disintegrating around our head and ears under this President. To not see it is to be blind, deaf and stupid. Boy… do we need a Fourth Branch!

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Presumptuous and the Insane

Posted on May 13, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, just as those who consider themselves to be the only sane person on the planet, are insane, those that consider themselves to be the only enlightened people on the planet, are truly unenlightened. These two groups of people have many attributes in common. They both have the hubris to believe they presume to know better than everybody else, they feel they must take matters into their own hands, often resorting to violence and both deny the human right of self determination. The threat both groups represent is that they feel they have a moral imperative to do what they believe they must do. In the case of the insane, they sometimes go into theaters and shoot up the place, in the case of the unenlightened, they overthrow governments and install tyrannies. The one threatens only a few while the other threaten all of mankind.

Throughout history we have faced those who presumed they had a duty to protect us from ourselves. They have taken many forms, the dreaded inquisitor of the Dark Ages, the despot, the revolutionary and the eugenicist are but a few. They have all done their part to keep churn in the affairs of Mankind. The common thread is the hubris to believe they know better than everyone else. The rest of us, who have not been enlightened, must be controlled for our own good… else we might think wrongly, worship wrongly, have wrong government, warm the planet, or breed wrongly. They deny self determination, are materialists, and know better than all the rest of humanity… because they believe they do.

Another common thread is that the insane and the presumptuous are amoral. They don’t feel compelled by human mores and traditions. They are psychopaths and sociopaths. Why should they allow others to do as they please when the hubristic and the insane know better? If you or I say something they disagree with, they appoint themselves to shut down our free speech, if you or I want to do something they don’t like, they outlaw that action, if you or I have property they want, they are greedy enough to take that property by force.

The violence the insane and the self righteous visit on humanity takes many forms. It can be as mundane as censoring the opinions of others to chopping off the head of an infidel with a scimitar. Those who believe themselves to be enlightened are the quickest to resort to violence… especially when they claim to be nonviolent. As history has shown, those that seek revolution disdain violence by others and so call themselves nonviolent, but are happy to use violence to further their own agenda. Only people who eschew violence themselves can reasonably be called nonviolent. Those that willingly and happily use violence themselves, but decry it in others, are dangerously delusional hypocrites.

One way to instantly tell the insane and presumptuous from the average person, is that their proscriptions are always for the rest of mankind… never themselves. They seek to shut down the free speech of others, but freak out if their free speech is impeded, they seize control of the language to forward their goals, they call for shared sacrifice, while they live in luxury, their own life is precious, but the lives of others are valueless, the list is endless but is tied together with a common bow, they don’t lead by example, they lead by the nose. They do unto others that which they would never want done unto themselves.

Neither of these groups in human society can be eliminated. They are as human as the need to eat and sleep. Moreover we do ourselves a disservice by trying to eliminate the hubristic and the insane. To do so makes us just as guilty of self appointed grandeur as them. As I have pointed out in past blogs… the ends does NOT justify the means, the means TAINTS the ends.

The answer to the question of, “how to keep society from succumbing to the self appointed gods and lunatics,” is to recognize them when we see them, then deny them the power they seek over us and our fellows. When we ignore their censoring the thoughts and words of others, we participate in their shutting off debate, when we agree with the rantings of sociopaths, we empower them, and most of all, when we react out of fear, we are giving legitimacy to violence as a means to control society. To stop the next Pol Pot or Adam Lanza, we must understand that they don’t act alone, they have help. Pol Pot had the help of brainwashed children and Adam Lanza had the help of everyone who turned a blind eye to his insanity. We must grow ourselves, recognizing them, standing against violence and we must refuse to be taken in by a charismatic sociopath, but most of all, we must lead by example. Else we become the sponsors of our own oppression.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Banghazi and the Fall of America

Posted on May 9, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if my government lies to me it is called politics, but if I lie to my government, it is a felony. I am held to a higher standard of action than government officials. When officials who can lie to the public with no repercussions, they have no incentive to tell the truth, especially when the truth is embarrassing or politically inconvenient. We, on the other hand, must tell the whole truth whenever we are questioned by our government, else we face heavy sanctions including jail, no matter how embarrassing, inconvenient or self incriminating. Citizens have a relationship with the government. Whenever one party to a relationship abuses the other, without consequence, the relationship is degrading. Lying is a form of abuse. When the relationship is a marital one, we have a case of spousal abuse, when the relationship is economic, we have a case of fraud or slavery, when the relationship is political, we have a case of oppression.

Thomas Jefferson said, “When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” This simply means when government can do anything it pleases, because it has no fear of the reaction of the people, that government has no limit on it’s actions. When government fears the reaction of the people those actions are limited by the will of the people. Government that has no limit on it’s actions is the definition of despotic. The explanation of liberty is the limit on the actions of the government by the will of the people. Government that can lie to the people, about the most important debates of the day without consequence, is showing it has no fear of the people, but when the people are jailed for far less, we clearly have reason to fear our government… This, by Jefferson’s own statement, is tyranny.

Benghazi is a perfect example of this. As it has become clear, the lying tour of the media by Susan Rice was total fiction, told without consequence to the American people, to protect the President’s reelection. The President was derelict in his duty, not only to protect those in his staff, but when they came under attack he told the military to stand down. The attack went on for nine hours, and we are lied to again, that the military could not get assets into the area soon enough to make a difference. Now it has come to light that there were military assets available but were told to stand down. Had the few brave Navy Seals followed that order by the President’s staff, every man and woman in that CIA house, would have died in the attack. Abusing whistle blowers is only icing on the cake. The Congressional hearing will turn out to be mere window dressing, furthering the cover up and giving it legitimacy, the President will again get away with something, that if you or I did we would go to jail for.

The Fast and Furious cover up is another egregious example. Eric Holder has been proven to have lied to Congress about it, with no real repercussion, other than a toothless contempt citation. President Obama claimed he had no knowledge of the operation, that intentionally put guns in the hands of Mexican drug lords, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and at least one American. Which the president then exploited to undermine the Second Amendment until the truth came out. When Congress tried to get documents on it the President used executive privilege. Since Executive privilege can only be used in cases of the president’s personal interactions with his staff, it’s use proves Obama had knowledge of the operation, else the use of executive privilege is itself a lie without consequence.

The complete disconnect began when Al Gore was caught blatantly violating Campaign finance laws, and his reply was, “There is no over riding legal authority…” Bill Clinton was praised by the unbiased media for lying. We were told that everyone lies about sex and that lies are a helpful social mechanism to protect hurt feelings. This puts the beginning of the down fall around 1992. So, what we have, is a government in America that is abusive, lies without consequence and is therefore, by Thomas Jefferson’s definition, tyrannical. Our government seeks to further water down the ability of the American citizenry to force our will on our government, by making millions of people, who have no real stake in the country… voters, by amnesty. The American people are lulled to sleep by the media that engage in the old sophist tactic, of changing the subject, whenever their guy gets in trouble. We are at the same place that Rome was during the reign of August Caesar. The department of Homeland security is the praetorian guard in all but name, and we pile on, pillorying anyone who rings the alarm bell.

Rome was a republic for 900 years before it became a tyranny, and was a tyranny for 150 years. Therefore, we can estimate Rome’s fall to be 17% of the republican era. America was a republic for 200 years. Using the same number, 17%, we can estimate America’s total collapse to be 34 years or so from 1992, which puts it around 2026… Time is running short and the trend is accelerating. Unless we do something about it. Demand from you representative a special prosecutor to look into Benghazi and Fast and Furious… Else, participate in the destruction of liberty in the World, perhaps for generations, what kind of villain does that make us for allowing it to happen?

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Charity at the Point of a Gun

Posted on May 6, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, charity cannot come at the point of a gun it must come from the heart, else it is not charity, it is robbery. At first glance this doesn’t seem to be a very controversial stance, but if we look into it a bit, we see that this basic, common sense statement is politically charged. That such an intuitive position could be politically charged, shows the total lack of wisdom in our society and how far politics has encroached into our lives, politicizing that which should not be political. If this encroachment is allowed to continue, our society, children and our very spirits will inevitably suffer.

For charity to be charity it must be given freely. As I pointed out, if you are coerced into giving someone alms by the threat of violence, it cannot be called charity. The moment the threat of violence enters the equation we are talking about robbery. Robbery can never be charity they are fundamentally different actions. To confuse the two is either stupidity or a means to confound. If it is mere stupidity, simply pointing out the error would be enough to rectify it, but if it is a sinister means to confuse then it cannot be stopped by merely pointing out the folly of it, in fact, logic will garner character assaults and ad homonym attacks.

We give alms to the poor not only for them but for us as well. Giving to the less fortunate is a form of exercise for the spirit. All three parts of a fully actualized human being, must be exercised, else they atrophy. We understand this when it comes to physical and mental exercise, but the most neglected part of the human being today, is the spiritual part. Charity is a good way to exercise the spirit. When charity is turned to robbery, it ceases to be charity and the good that charity bestows on the giver and the receiver is not only lost, it is undermined. We become less charitable when we equate charity to robbery. This has the pernicious effect of weakening our spirit and at the same time it builds resentment to the needy. From this we see the negative effects are not only on individuals but on society as well.

The welfare state is predicated on robbing one to give to another. If you don’t think taxes are taken at the point of a gun… try not paying them. This is what makes the statement, “Charity cannot come at the point of a gun it must come from the heart, else it is not charity, it is robbery,” politically charged. Those that use our natural sense of compassion for those less fortunate, to turn charity into robbery, are tricking us into turning charity into robbery, with all the negative consequences this brings. These people get to seize the moral high road even as they take the low road. They are Thrasymachus’ heirs. They seek to appear just while actually being unjust. Are we to assume that famine would exist if the State didn’t coerce money from some to redistribute to others? This question is answered by history, and history is clear, in a capitalist society, charity is available more and more but is needed less and less. In the socialist society however, where charity is robbery, charity is needed more and more, until eventually all need charity, and none is charitable.

Those who point out, using taxes to pay for charitable endeavors turns charity into robbery, are vilified as heartless and mean, by the unbiased media, the Elite and those who have fallen for the deception. But, the reality is that those who seek to use robbery for charity, are the ones who are the villains. They weaken our spirits, create resentment for the poor, confuse reality with rhetoric, lower the lot of Mankind and use unjust means to unjust ends… while trying to appear just. To these people logic and common sense are an anathema. These villains undermine the philosophy of a rational maximizer and turn him into an egoist. Rational maximizers, or to use Tocqueville’s term, people who are self interested rightly understood, are rationally charitable, because they know the benefits, both personal and societal will come back tenfold, while the egoist has no such wisdom, they resent the poor, they may be strong physically and mentally, but they are spiritual weaklings. All societies are well served when the people are charitable, making us spiritually strong, strengthening societal ties, and giving us a stake in the society we live in. Rational maximizers keep charity in their hearts and are sharp enough to see sophist rhetoric when they see it. The question then becomes, “Are you a rational maximizer… or have you fallen for the deception?”

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Shysters and Liars

Posted on May 2, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, when a millionaire stands in front of me and claims he is going to hurt the rich and help me, I know I am being lied to. Carneades said, people are like animals, each striving for his or her own best interests, and so true justice cannot exist, because for a person to be truly just they must damage their own interests. In the case of a rich man telling me how he is going to damage the rich to help me, he must be lying, because to do that he would have to do damage to his own self interests, and no man, rich or poor would do that. This is a lesson to all those who tend to believe it when a millionaire claims he is going to tax the rich and help the poor. The rich politician only seeks to appear that he is taxing the rich when in fact his goal is to protect the rich. If a majority of us don’t learn this lesson we will continually be disappointed at the economic results of our votes.

Obama is a case in point, he claims to be against the rich and for the poor. But his latest poll numbers show that he is loved, by the very rich he is so intent on taxing to death, and not liked so much by those he claims he is trying to help. The higher the income the higher Obama’s poll numbers. If the results of his tax increases were so damaging to the rich, why do they love him so, and, if his policies are so geared to helping the poor, why do we like him less? A brief look at the results of Obama’s policies will make the point.

The uber rich are doing very well indeed under the Obama regime. Despite Warren Buffet’s claim that his tax rate is lower than his secretary’s, his taxes have not gone up, but his secretary’s have. The Obama administration handed the billionaire investor a tidy windfall when Obama vetoed the Keystone oil pipeline. The oil didn’t go unused it is traveling to Texas in Warren Buffet’s trains. Increasing the carbon footprint of the oil, increasing the danger of a major spill if a train were to derail, driving up the cost of that oil and eliminating the thousands of jobs that would have been created if the pipeline had gone through. In this one case, we see clearly that despite the rhetoric, Obama damaged the interests of the little guy and gave a hand up to the uber rich guy.

The money printing of the Federal reserve is another manifestation of Obama’s policies helping the uber rich and hurting the little guy. The 40 billion dollars a month the FED is printing to buy mortgage loans, to drive down the cost of mortgages, could make 40 thousand people millionaires every month! Add to that the 45 billion Bernanke is printing to buy treasuries and the total would be 85 thousand people made millionaires a month! Think of how this would stimulate the economy! If the FED did a random drawing of 85 thousand people a month, and cut them a check for a million dollars each, the economy would boom overnight. But instead, the FED is buying treasuries and mortgage loans… lining the pockets of the rich with the printed money.

Obama care’s tsunami of taxes and regulation will wash away any economic gain from all the money printing. This is the dirty little secret that economists don’t tell you. Obama care will destroy the American economy and everyone in business knows it. The regulations alone will drive up the cost of labor so much that many businesses will have to lay people off. The confiscatory taxes will drive many out of business altogether. The reason so many firms have been cutting labor and ratcheting up productivity, is that they know the ones who have the lowest labor cost as a percentage of the total cost of production, will be the only ones to survive. Those that have not cut to the bone will be pulled out to sea and drowned by Obama’s tsunami.

Obama’s claims to help the working man have come with policies that damage working people’s interests and helped the uber rich. Money printing to “stimulate” the economy into creating jobs, has only made the rich richer, and the tsunami of Obama care will swamp our economy, eliminating jobs just when we need them most. If we want to live in liberty and freedom it is imperative we learn to recognize shysters when we see them. Clearly we have not, but I am hopeful that the Obama administration has gone a long way, to teaching this generation to recognize one when they see one. So, now you know too, that when a rich person stands in front of you and claims he or she is going to hurt the rich and help you… you are being lied to.

Sincerely

John Pepin

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Basic Human Worth

Posted on April 29, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, every human being has intrinsic worth, no matter his or her mental status, race, age, religion or any other arbitrary definition. We are more than a sophisticated explosive delivery device, more than a machine that deludes itself with a notion of self awareness, and we are far more than animals to be herded by someone who thinks he is farmer to the rest. To attribute to others, less than person hood, is to deny one’s own person hood. Therefore, anyone who considers other human beings to be less than spiritual beings with intrinsic worth, is subhuman. Unless we learn this and hold it tight we risk becoming cows for someone to milk and slaughter.

Justice is a concept that can be hard to define. As a result most people have a distorted idea of what justice is. Many people’s concept of justice is subjective not objective. A subjective notion of justice is dependent on the perspective of the observer, objective justice is unchanging, no matter the observer’s perspective. Those who espouse different levels of justice, dependent on the person, are using subjective justice and thereby are being unjust themselves. Those that apply the same attributes, worth and rights to all, are just. It follows then, that to be unjust is to forfeit justice, while to be just is to deserve justice, this is the basis of criminal law. Those that forfeit justice deserve none while those that espouse and attribute justice to all deserve justice themselves. Any other consideration is sophistry.

Many times in the past have human beings been designated as less than human. Everyone knows of the Nazi atrocities. These crimes against humanity were only made possible by the philosophy that human beings are no more than animals. That it is in our best interest to cull the herd occasionally and the enlightened must be hard hearted enough to do it. Every crime against humanity has it’s roots in this twisted philosophy. The mass starvation of millions of people by Mao’s Red Guard, were justified in this way, the Nazi slaughter of Gypsies, Jews and Slavs were justified by this philosophy, China’s one child policy is contingent on this spurious notion, and the eugenics movement is based in this perverted misunderstanding of the nature of humanity.

Eugenics has as storied history in the United States as it does England and Germany. Many people in these countries were sterilized against their will by the edict of bureaucrats and judges. Human beings were denied their basic humanity by government officials, who believed that they have the God like ability, to decide who should breed and who should not. The evil of the eugenics movement led directly to the evil of abortion and population control. The same people who funded and shilled for the eugenics movement, Rockefeller, Margret Sanger, HG Wells, Dr. Mengele, President Wilson, Charles Darwin, President Hoover, and other well known notables, would breed us into Eloi and Morlocks.

A person who denies humanity to another for whatever reason also denies his or her own humanity. If the congenital nature of man is evil then all man are evil, if human beings are nothing more than machines that evolved to have the delusion of self awareness, then everyone, even those that propose this perverted philosophy, are as well. I cannot claim everyone else is less than human and claim I am human. That is an impossibility. So, we can safely say that those who deny humanity to others are in their own way subhuman, even if the philosophy they promote is incorrect, they are subject to it. They have self identified as subhuman by their own philosophy.

Slavery, abortion, population control, eugenics, and even redistribution are all forms of injustice called justice, and require as a prerequisite, the denial of someone else’s basic human worth. Denial of the value of every human being is the slippery slope that leads to these evils and more. We are human beings and all of us have individual worth outside our value to any collective or group. To maintain that personal humanity, we must accept the individual value of every other human being, rejecting the spurious notion of collective this or that, for the evil it is and the injustice it creates. If we are rational maximisers we will accept the basic worth of humanity in general and the individual in particular. To do otherwise, is to deny our very own humanity, subjecting us to our own injustice. In other words… We have accepted that we are merely cows, and the implications.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Fight the power… by being the power that will be!

Posted on April 25, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if we truly want to change the World for the better, we must exhibit the change we want to see. Most of us would like the World to be a better place, but we are stymied at the magnitude of the task, so we placidly go along. We long for a planet where courtesy is common, where the elite follow their own rules, where children are safe and where people are free. We seek these things for us and our children but the World keeps going further and further off the rails. The answer is not violence or to coerce virtue in others but to act as we would have others act and be the change we want to see in others. If we continue down the road we are on, it will be sooner rather than later, when the government will be all powerful. The Elite will rule without oversight and corruption will flow from government like water over Niagara falls.

In the society we live in, the Elite pass more and more laws, but follow the Constitution less and less. The examples they set for us are uniformly bad. They call us greedy, for wanting to hold on to money we have earned by the sweat of our brow, even as they seize more and more of our wealth through taxation and money printing, throwing it away on pork that carry their names. We are told we have to sacrifice, while the president lavishes himself and his family with multimillion dollar vacations, at taxpayer expense. The Elite demand we give up guns even as they buy billions of rounds of ammo and thousands of armored cars to patrol our streets. We are told that we must be watched by a camera on every street corner and submit to our homes being searched without warrant, for our own good, while they cover their actions in a veil of secrecy. The cultural, societal and political elite attack morality as old fashioned while they promote immorality as enlightened, and the unbiased media see no irony in this at all. The instances of bad examples from the elite would fill volumes. Clearly, the examples we have from our elite, are uniformly negative and counter productive to a well ordered society, and we are reaping the reward.

Confucius said, “The sage kings ruled by force of personality.” He went on to say that if the sage kings wanted the people to be more pious, they were more pious themselves, if they wanted the people to be less greedy, they dampened their own rapine, and when the sage kings wanted the people to work harder, they worked harder themselves. This was a central tenet in Confucius’ philosophy. That good leaders lead by example. Since our leaders are bad examples we must be the good examples in society and thereby be the leaders our society needs. Corruption doesn’t stop at national boarders… bad examples are a problem in every nation of men on Earth.

The problem with hypocrisy, isn’t that it doesn’t garner a reaction, it is that the reaction is disgust. The beauty of good examples is that they are magnetic. We are repelled by the hypocrisy of the elite but as we follow their example we engage in hypocrisy ourselves. When we tell our children to be virtuous, but they see us following our leaders and behaving badly, they see our hypocrisy and ignore our entreaties to goodness. Our children are far removed from the elite however, and the media is full of stories of the “good life” for our children to follow, and they do. We prove the truth of this by our very own actions, teaching our children that morals and virtue are for suckers, and repel them by being corrupt, when we should be drawing them in with good examples. Our society suffers, our civilization suffers, our government grows despotic and, worst of all, our children suffer.

Since we cannot expect our political elite to set good examples, and indeed they must want corruption in our society, as shown by their actions, we must set the example. If we follow the Sage kings of ancient China we will show those around us that virtue can be lived. Our good example will draw people to follow us, while the corrupt elite repel them. The hypocrisy of the elite will repulse our children and our good examples will make them far more inclined to be civil, courteous, hard working and honest… if they see it modeled in us. So, smile at strangers, stop and let the car waiting in, tip the waitstaff well, be honest in business, and most of all, follow the golden rule… Do unto others as you would have them do unto you! The change will not be fast, it took generations to get to where we are, and many will struggle against us. But if we want change in the World, we must be the change we seek. Unless we do, no one else will, and if we do, positive change will eventually come.

Remember, Fight the power… by being the power that will be!

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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Exploiting Tragedy

Posted on April 22, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if exploiting a tragedy for crass political gain is acceptable, it is acceptable for all political factions, if it is not, it is unacceptable for any political faction to do it. Tragic events such as the Boston marathon bombing or the Sandy Hook shooting stun the public’s psyche and cause people to reassess the meaning of evil and good. We struggle for answers, why would a person do such horrific things to innocents. We examine our own security situation, and in our heightened emotional state, we are more susceptible to making snap decisions. This is why tragedy is so often exploited by political operatives to pass legislation that otherwise couldn’t be passed. Tragedy, is a means to move society from a place of liberty to a place of security. But, that security comes at the price of liberty, and as anyone with a real education, (admittedly uncommon today due to the State monopoly school system), knows Ben Franklin’s old adage, “Those who would trade liberty for security will get neither.”

Today we live insulated lives. We go about our day secure in the knowledge that it is very unlikely that we will experience violence. The news shows us that violence still exists in our society however, they expound unendingly, on every robbery and shooting, making us afraid of our fellow man, while ignoring the far worse examples of State violence, then politicians exploit that violence. All to shock us into acting against our own interests. When we see random acts of violence perpetrated on innocents, our glass world of security is shattered, and the reality that violence can be visited on anyone at any time, intrudes on our personal universe of safety. This quakes the ground of our reality under our feet, making us more open to innovations, even if they wouldn’t help, at least we are doing something. That something, always makes us more susceptible to State violence, even as it has no effect on personal safety, or maybe even makes it worse… ensuring the next tragedy to be exploited is close at hand.

Politicians know this and use this attribute of human nature to get laws and regulation passed that otherwise would be dead on arrival. When Rahm Emanuel famously said, “Never let a crisis go to waste,” he was explicitly referring to this aspect of human nature. Crisis and violence gives the political elite a means to do what they want outside the normal deliberative course of the political process. This saying shows that not only that tragedy can be exploited, but that it will be exploited, for crass political gain… at least in the circles Rahm Emanuel travels in. This is a strong incentive to politicians to exploit tragedy, and even to make sure that the next tragedy is never far away, so as to provide the means to forward the next step in their agenda.

Obama and those that seek to undermine the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution have exploited the Sandy Hook shootings to the utmost. Obama parades the victim’s parents, (those that agree with him), in front of the American public constantly. Using spurious logic, he equates being against this or that attempt to undermine the Bill of Rights, as tantamount to favoring more massacres at schools. This is nakedly exploiting that tragic event to political advantage. Obama and the unbiased media make sure the parents that disagree with them, never have their opinion told to the public however, because it undermines Obama’s argument.

Now, the very people that have so expertly exploited tragedies in the past, are telling us that the Boston Marathon Bombings have no relevance to such debates as, immigration reform, gun control or the need to profile. In this, those that exploit tragedy for crass political gain always call profiling, Islamophobia, they claim illegal immigration, and all the associated crimes that go along with it, should be forgiven, and guns must to be taken from law abiding citizens. The political and media elite, keep us ignorant of the fact that human history shows, unequivocally, a person is far more likely to be the victim of State violence, than crime. Their sophistry is as thick as it is illustrative of their intentions… to undermine Constitutional rule, replacing it with arbitrary rule by the political elite… for the political elite. This subjects us to the horrors of State violence, supposedly, to protect us from personal violence.

The incentive for the political elite, who seek Constitutional change outside the parameters the Constitution sets up, is to ensure that violence continues, to provide a source of tragedy they can exploit to their own ends. They will deplore the use of tragedy to point out the folly of their agenda while exploiting that tragedy themselves. Some would say this is simply politics… The smart politician using the tools at hand to promote their agenda, while denying those very tools to the other side. If that is so, then I have a question for you, when has good ever been promoted by evil? Moreover, don’t the means taint the ends? In the times we live in, it is up to us to decry the Machiavellian machinations of politicians that seek to fundamentally change America, from a Constitutionally limited republic to a socialist Hades… else we will get hell without limit.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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The Boston Marathon bombings

Posted on April 18, 2013 by john

Dear Friends,

It seems to me, if we want to eradicate violence like the Boston Marathon bombings, we must eliminate the cause, removing the means only empowers the very factions that perpetrate these crimes. The university system in the United States has ceased being a place of higher learning and instead has become indoctrination centers for communist thought, political correctness clouds the minds of the unbiased media, and we are told our Constitution needs to be weakened to stop these evil actions… all of which rewards and encourages the criminals. We allow this to go on because we feel powerless to stop it even though many of us have known about the problem for a long time.

The human suffering from the Boston Marathon bombings is the result of people who believe that violence against innocents is an acceptable form of political discourse. This mind set is as pernicious as it is evil. Those who would do such a thing should be locked up for the rest of their lives or be the voltage drop in a high amperage circuit. The outcry from the American public will demand this for the perpetrator of this heinous evil. Our outrage is justified and righteous, but justice must be applied evenly, else it is not justice, it is injustice.

Make no mistake, the bombings were a political expression. No matter who did it, be it communists, anarchists, Islamofacsists or even radical right wingers, the bombing of an athletic event was a manifestation of someone’s politics. More and more often political expression is becoming a violent act. Sometimes, because of the shooter or bomber’s feelings of powerlessness, often due to their opinion of religious teachings and regularly as a result of the overtly violent political movement, we call socialism. Our society is plagued with political violence against bystanders.

At the time of this writing we don’t know who the bomber(s) are. The culprit or culprits could be anyone. Yet this type of bombing has happened in the past many times. We have forgotten them, sometimes not even punishing them, and as a result, we are reliving them. Our forgetfulness has allowed evil to regrow and retool to become even more dangerous. Our having allowed, through our inaction, past terrorists like Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn, not only to escape retribution for their actions, bombings that resulted in deaths and mutilation of innocents and children in the 1960’s and ’70’s, we have rewarded them with high paid professorships… we have, at the very least, minimized the offense, and at worst, glamorized it.

The answer to stopping political violence of any nature, is not to outlaw guns, destroy the Constitution or limit access to toilet cleaner, it is to shine the light of public opinion on the political ideologies that underlay it. The unbiased media, and our government under Obama, have colluded to protect communists and Islamofascists from the light of public scrutiny. Political correctness has blinded us to the reality of violent factions that are empowered by it, while our university system has been usurped by people who seek arbitrary power, even if it has to, “come at the end of a gun”… as one of Obama’s political appointees said, quoting Mao. Indifference and ignorance empowers the political violence we find ourselves facing today.

Unless we make a stand and demand that the unbiased media stop clouding the realities of favored political factions, with self censorship, use the power of the purse to force universities to go back to higher education, visit justice on all murderers, even if they are close friends and associates of the President, and call evil what it is, without fear, (eliminating the cause), no amount of regulating the means will stop it. Timidity in the face of evil, encourages evil, even as it discourages good. If we agree that political violence like the Boston Marathon bombings are unacceptable, we must stand together and require these things of the elite, in the media, academia and politics. Nothing less will put an end to the bombings, mass shootings and mob violence our televisions bring into our homes and we experience in our lives. Outlawing guns, (the means) only leads to disarmed victims, but has no effect whatsoever at stopping political violence. Unless we seek to become Iraq or Afghanistan we must speak loud and with conviction. Our children deserve no less from caring parents.

Sincerely,

John Pepin

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