Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the threat of violence is implicit in everything the government does, says or rules. Why do you pull over when a police officer puts the lights on behind you? No, it isn’t because you are law abiding, it is because you know in the back of your mind that if you did not, even in a life and death situation… the government would ratchet up the confrontation until you ended up dead, if that is what it takes. Don’t believe it? Try not pulling over sometime, see how that goes. The government will escalate any confrontation, even over the least issue to mortal combat, until we back down. In their megalomaniac minds, their attitude is justified because, “We are the government!” Thus legitimizing any oppression since it is in the name of “justice.” In other words, Just Us.
Violence is self discrediting unless it is meeting previous violence… self defense for example. One could argue that the only just power any government can wield is that which the individual can justly delegate to them. Since it would be unjust for me to assault you, because you have too many windows in your home, are collecting rainwater, or because you didn’t file the 1065-635 A, sub paragraph C paperwork, on the volume of hair that you swept from a barber’s floor. Since that would be unjust of me, how can I delegate it to someone else? That would be like giving you gold I don’t have. It cannot be done, logically, physically or politically. I can however, defend myself if attacked, and therefore can delegate that power to the government. Scrounging around in other people’s business however…
Sadly the administrative state has become all too accustomed to using violence as a tool of social control. Government has a monopoly on violence, and in the agreement that gave them that monopoly, they were supposed to be under strict Constitutional limits on the use of that violence. The government has abandoned the limits but not the violence. Let’s face it, violence is a handy tool… If you are the only one who can use it. You can muscle your way and everyone has to give, else face your wrath. We all know the wrath of the US government. Just ask the American Indians, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Although you cannot totally blame the elite, since everyone knows, if a child is not disciplined, they will become a bully, as the elite have done in the absence of discipline.
When one party is allowed to do violence to another, there is a power inequality, that inequality is exacerbated when the party that can use violence, is also allowed to lie constantly while severely beating the weaker party, should they be caught in any lie at all, even a lie of forgetfulness. This also follows if the powerful are given carte blanche to use violence to enforce their every whim, while we are limited in every way. (The opposite of the way the US government was supposed to work). So the elite have made the US government a drunken lying brute, prone to violence. Embodying the worse characteristics of a bad husband. Now it is up the the American people, bloodied and battered, to justify the thumpings we have got over the last two years, like any other victim. Else get it worse next time.
All of which proves our governments, across the planet, have discredited themselves, are liars, have abandoned their obligations and have perverted the authority they no longer justly wield. Why would anyone take such feral folk seriously? Other than the ever present threat of violence, they have zero authority. How do you deal with a sociopath government? By becoming a swamp. Literally and figuratively. No bulldozer can punish a swamp with violence. The swamp just swallows the bulldozer. Especially if the swamp is as vast as the US population. How to be a swamp? Do nothing they ask. Drag your feet in everything government related. Drive 55 (to stop global warming) two abreast around the DC five bridges complex during rush hour. Be creative… deep, ductile and cloying. That’s how.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
