Filling the King's Purse. Force as Usual.

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:12:16 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Iloilo Jones - excellent essay on the subhuman beasts who inhabit positions of power, living on violence and coercion.

I know that those who employ coercive force against us, hiring thugs with the money stolen from us, are engaged in a marvelous game of smoke and mirrors, where we pay the hoodlum to not beat us. When, as do many animals, we give way to the angry bully, hand over our fruit to the bigger ape, give the alpha wolf the best eating place on the kill, and thus spare ourselves from being beaten, hit, or bitten. Animals resort to force to settle disputes. Humans have been given the gift of reason, if only we will learn to use it.

But if humans allow this sub-human use of force to continue, then how are we better than the primates who beat each other to get the piece of fruit, or better than the wolf who snaps to secure the best morsel from the kill?

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