A Case For Self-Governance: The Business of Peace
Jan 18, 2010 A Case For Self-Governance, Anti-State, Anti-War, Police State, Social Issues
I feel peace is a good topic for Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday. It was not planned like that, it just happened that way.
War is the governments business and business is good. From military imperialism to militarized police the government is in the business of death and theft. The government is in the business of forcing people to do what it wants with its guns. We discussed in A Case Against Government Part 1: Police State how police are not for the people but to serve the interest of the state. I would like to expand on a concept that Stefan Molyneux of Free Domain Radio proposed in his Lew Rockwell article The Stateless Society: An Examination of Alternatives. The idea is the the Dispute Resolution Organization (DRO). I would like to point out the business of peace can be a highly marketable thing to sell as opposed to the business of war which brings financial disaster, death and destruction.
A DRO is described on Wikipedia as:
a conceptualized organization providing services such as mediation and arbitration through the private sector.
This is his answer to the common question and objection of the statist, “What about Police?” No, we do not need police but we do have disputes that need a resolution. Will it end rape? No, but it will come closer to ending violence and rape than any police force or government entity has proven capable of doing. We see their failure in the fact that these issues still have little resolution or advancements, only a culture that reacts with vengeance towards people.
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Tags: Martin Luther King, Non-profit organization, Violence and Abuse
A Case For Self Governance: High Fashion
Jan 10, 2010 A Case For Self-Governance, Anti-State, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Police State
This is not about government control this is about the redundant responses people give me when I say I oppose all government. I am going to talk about a world where the government came in and took over all clothing manufacturers and began to be the sole provider of clothing. What was created was two wasteful bureaucracies to create low quality clothes at a higher rice subsidized by our taxes. We will call our new government agency the Government Agency for Clothes Control (GACC) You get essentially K-mart quality for Armani prices. Fashion will be frozen. Any advancements from creativity and modern inventions in fashion will cease. This will freeze the clothes we wear as the government sees necessary. Now, I am not painting this illustration to show why I oppose government control, but to show the flaws in the many arguments for government control.
Now in this new system I will begin to say we need to abolish the GACC. This will lead to people screaming “You want the poor to go naked!” or “How would we get clothes?” and ” Why don’t you like clothes?” I have nothing against clothes. I wear clothes. I have never seen a naked homeless man in America. There are systems of charity and compassionate individuals who give gloves and coats at Christmas. I want clothes.
