Update: Never mind what I wrote. My pitiful attempt pales in comparison to Will Grigg’s masterful handling of this issue.
The only difference between democracy and slavery is with democracy you don’t see the chains.
You have probably heard about Representative Gabrielle Giffords (AZ) being shot by a crazed gunman. From what I’ve read so far, the man was currently seeking military service, but schizophrenic. What you can’t miss is the large number of reports somehow twisting all this into a political commentary. There was no politics involved. The gunman was a lone nut. Had it not been Giffords, it would be someone else he shot.
The idea we have some threat here from anti-government types is a blatant lie. Jared Loughner wanted to be a government employee, had been processed for military recruiting. This guy was pure, 100% government employee material. The military can claim he was rejected, but that’s after the fact. I can assure you from direct experience in uniform the military is full of Jared’s type. The threat is government employees, in that the system which hires them, trains them and arms them enslaves them to psychopaths. With all seriousness I remind you we are ruled by psychopaths. Were the bulk of our government officers tested for psychopathy using the standard diagnostics, they would score very high on the scale. Not because of something inherently wrong in the wiring of their brains — that simply can’t be proven with what we now know. It’s because of the net result of their motives and actions.
What we can prove with what we now know is the people in charge have zero empathy, a complete alienation from human emotional connections. They can know sorrow and frustration, and there are people meaningful to them, but it’s not at all the same thing as with normal humans. Their motives in taking government positions is an intent to force the rest of the world to do things their way. They may have decided to accept the system and its limitations along the path to the goal, but that’s just an intelligent and well-adjusted psychopath. They are still crazy and will most certainly do us harm in the long run.
The real threat is government.
Gabrielle Giffords participates in this awful madness of enslaving vast portions of the human population of this earth. She may not be a psychopath herself, but she enables them by considering their world “normal.” That twisted norm allows schizophrenic people to serve in the military because they have some use to the psychopaths in the military. One kind of nut is more comfortable with other kinds of nuts. Real people with a strong moral inclination are their biggest threat. They’d rather have the random acts of violence from within their own ranks than the purposeful rejection of violence from real people.
The path to peace is too radical. It means people left to their own devices until they cross the line into harming others more than is natural to human activity as a whole. That means we can’t have anything approaching total safety; it means dismissing the obsession with controlling all the factors in your daily existence because you can’t, and shouldn’t try. It means accepting a certain amount of inconvenience from each other, and rejecting a ruling class who won’t tolerate any inconvenience to their rule. It means not being manipulated because we reject any system of control which squelches and squashes the unique individual differences inherent in human character.
This horrific act of murder and injury is purely the fault of government, not some imaginary anti-government conspiracy, or some reputedly wicked philosophical inclination to reject the chains of slavery Congress is determined to put on us. What the propaganda machine intends to do is get peace for themselves while they rape the rest of us.
