Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Some chick said that back in the 60s.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote:No but it is protected by the State you know that.eumaas wrote:Freedom is not a gift doled out by the state.
why I did not vote for Obama
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then don't go killing all the bees
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Fuckin hippies!dpwolf wrote:Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Some chick said that back in the 60s.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote:No but it is protected by the State you know that.eumaas wrote:Freedom is not a gift doled out by the state.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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with or without you....................eumaas wrote:Fuckin hippies!dpwolf wrote:Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Some chick said that back in the 60s.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote:No but it is protected by the State you know that.eumaas wrote:Freedom is not a gift doled out by the state.
Re: why I did not vote for Obama
U2? Et tu?101Walterton wrote:with or without you....................eumaas wrote:Fuckin hippies!dpwolf wrote:Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Some chick said that back in the 60s.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote: No but it is protected by the State you know that.
then don't go killing all the bees
Re: why I did not vote for Obama
101Walterton wrote:with or without you....................eumaas wrote:Fuckin hippies!dpwolf wrote:Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Some chick said that back in the 60s.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote: No but it is protected by the State you know that.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
Re: why I did not vote for Obama
Look what "the messiah" is doing to IMCT. This can't be good!
Re: why I did not vote for Obama
He's bringing on the Bonopocalypse!Schnix wrote: Look what "the messiah" is doing to IMCT. This can't be good!
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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he's not the messiah he's a very naughty boySchnix wrote: Look what "the messiah" is doing to IMCT. This can't be good!
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http://fair-use.org/benjamin-tucker/ins ... o-taxationBenjamin Tucker wrote:...such voluntary association would be entitled to enforce whatever regulations the contracting parties might agree upon within the limits of whatever territory, or divisions of territoy, had been brought into the association by these parties as individual occupiers thereof, and no non-contracting party would have a right to enter or remain in this domain except upon such terms as the association might impose.
But if, somewhere between these divisions of territory, had lived, prior to the formation of the association, some individual on his homestead, who, for any reason, wise or foolish, had declined to join in forming the association, the contracting parties would have had no right to evict him, compel him to join, make him pay for any incidental benefits that he might derive from proximity to their association, or restrict him in the exercise of any previously-enjoyed right to prevent him from reaping these benefits. Now, voluntary association necessarily involving the right of secession, any seceding member would naturally fall back into the position and upon the rights of the individual above described, who refused to join at all.
So much, then, for the attitude of the individual toward any voluntary association surrounding him, his support thereof evidently depending upon his approval or disapproval of its objects, his view of its efficiency in attaining them, and his estimate of the advantages and disadvantages involved in joining, seceding, or abstaining. But no individual to-day finds himself under any such circumstances. The States in the midst of which he lives cover all the ground there is, affording him no escape, and are not voluntary associations, but gigantic usurpations. There is not one of them which did not result from the agreement of a larger or smaller number of individuals, inspired sometimes no doubt by kindly, but oftener by malevolent, designs, to declare all the territory and persons within certain boundaries a nation which every one of these persons must support, and to whose will, expressed through its sovereign legislators and administrators no matter how chosen, every one of them must submit.
Such an institution is sheer tyranny, and has no rights which any individual is bound to respect; on the contrary, every individual who understands his rights and values his liberties will do his best to overthrow it. I think it must now be plain to Mr. Perrine why I do not feel bound either to pay taxes or to emigrate. Whether I will pay them or not is another question,—one of expediency.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
Re: why I did not vote for Obama
'Romanes Eunt Domus'101Walterton wrote:he's not the messiah he's a very naughty boySchnix wrote: Look what "the messiah" is doing to IMCT. This can't be good!
Re: why I did not vote for Obama
Schnix wrote:'Romanes Eunt Domus'101Walterton wrote:he's not the messiah he's a very naughty boySchnix wrote: Look what "the messiah" is doing to IMCT. This can't be good!
And to Obama: Bene merenti.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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I dont believe you mean that, its a no brainer.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote:No but it is protected by the State you know that.eumaas wrote:Freedom is not a gift doled out by the state.101Walterton wrote:Whilst enjoying the protection and freedom provided by the government as well as your access to education ?eumaas wrote: Spiff: the Naked Statist/Nude Apologist for the Establishment.
Needless to say, I disagree, and I'd rather frame it this way: if you think the state is valuable and you believe in its utility, then it needs to be funded somehow, so pay your fucking taxes. Now, the structure of taxation (form and rate), what your taxes fund, and how effectively is that money allocated: those are all questions you can ask. But so long as you think the state is legitimate, it's your duty to pay taxes.
On the other hand, if you think it's an illegitimate entity, then not paying your taxes (tax resistance) is a form of civil disobedience I can respect, though I don't practice it for practical reasons (i.e. I like not being it jail).
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He does. And he's right.101Walterton wrote:I dont believe you mean that, its a no brainer.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote:No but it is protected by the State you know that.eumaas wrote:Freedom is not a gift doled out by the state.101Walterton wrote: Whilst enjoying the protection and freedom provided by the government as well as your access to education ?
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You dont believe your freedom is protected by the State ?Wolter wrote:He does. And he's right.101Walterton wrote:I dont believe you mean that, its a no brainer.eumaas wrote:Nope.101Walterton wrote:No but it is protected by the State you know that.eumaas wrote: Freedom is not a gift doled out by the state.
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I'm by no means as knowledgeable as any of you, but perhaps another perspective is that the state affords some freedoms , whilst restricting some others?101Walterton wrote: You dont believe your freedom is protected by the State ?
What is your oppinion of our Western ways?