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Orwell certainly was right about the use of meaningless words in politics. If we hope to remain free, we must cut through the fog and attach concrete meanings to the words politicians use to deceive us. We must reassert that America is a republic, not a democracy, and remind ourselves that the Constitution places limits on government that no majority can overrule. We must resist any use of the word “freedom” to describe state action. We must reject the current meaningless designations of “liberals” and “conservatives,” in favor of an accurate term for both: statists.
Every politician on earth claims to support freedom. The problem is so few of them understand the simple meaning of the word.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18951.htm
The word 'government' can be confused with the term "State".
What is the difference; and if there is no difference, then, why are two words used instead of one word?
Why not use ‘voluntary’ association and organized crime or even simpler – association or crime?
When the idea is to profit at the expense of innocent people by fraud or force, then, confusing terms, on purpose, is almost a no brainer.
The person seeking to have someone else work while that person reaps the rewards of that work performed by someone else can hardly announce his intent honestly and accurately.
Example:
Hi,
I am going to take what you earn.
That may work when the person threatens an obviously greater injury with accurate and effective communication.
Example:
Hi,
I’m going to take what you earn and if you resist in any way, then, look here:
The person doing the taking may at that point torture and mass murder a few hundred thousand innocent human beings including babies, toddlers, children, teenagers, young adults, adults, and old people. Throw in a number of sick people, retarded people, insane people, and injured people on huge piles of rotting bodies and the honesty rises along with the stench of decaying flesh and blood.
Point taken; no need to doctor the message up with fancy words or attractive illustrations; 8 x 10 glossy photos for example – no need to do that in order to get the message transferred with effective accuracy.
The stink will suffice in time if the screaming does not accomplish the task currently.
I’m not here to defend Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich and their viewpoints as representatives of the opposition. They can speak for themselves.
I contend with the usage of ‘government’ as a synonym for “The State”.
If an association is voluntary, then, the word used to describe that voluntary association can be ‘government’ and cannot be ‘The State’. See this?
How do you or I know how to participate in a voluntary association without some form of governing principle that is agreeable to everyone volunteering to abide by the governing principle, and, if someone volunteers to enforce a injury upon an innocent person (in or not in the voluntary association), then, that person volunteers to take away someone’s freedom. Is that someone doing the injury to an innocent a ‘governor’ in or outside the voluntary association?
I think not; a governor will submit a possible change in the application of the governing principle. If one, two, three, a minority, a majority, or any one other than the ‘governor’ agrees to the new change (without injuring an innocent), then, those people form a network of users of the governing principle.
What is that governing principle?
Do I really have to say it? Has that governing principle evaporated from our currency; our usage of language?
Do No Harm.
How is that done when so many people harm on purpose and do so for profit by deceit and by the application of violence against innocents?
That is the problem. Solve it.
If the idea is to harm, on purpose, by deceit and force if needed, then, the confusion of words is a given – or it is taken.
Confusing ‘government’ with “The State” is akin to confusing The Constitution with The Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
Like this:
The Declaration if Independence is the application of voluntary association or self-government. It is factual. I won’t take this crime anymore. I will earn my freedom from now on – thank you very much.
The Bill or Rights is like a deal between those who have had enough (want no part of “The State”) and those who cause, lie, fraud, violently enforce, create, and maintain THE STATE. The deal is a deal with the devil.
The Constitution is THE STATE. It is a man-made, man fabricated, and man enforced FALSE front for organized crime that is easily known (accurately known) as extortion; or an extortion racket.
Pay or pay more.
The Bill or Rights intended to derail organized crime. How did it work?
Don’t go telling me what words mean according to me. That is either silly or intellectually dishonest – on purpose or at a subconscious level.
Either way the lie, if it is a lie, is destructive to me. Que bono? Who gains?
Democracy can be defined as no one gains at the expense of anyone else because everyone is as powerful ‘by law’ as everyone else.
To suggest that ‘democracy’ can only be defined as involuntary rule by the majority upon the minority is to dictate the meaning of words despite objection.
See?