The Abyss Also Gazes

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 07 May 2010 12:55:37 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Jim Davidson at The Libertarian Enterprise - though it's mighty tempting, we're not likely to defeat Leviathan by eradicating its agents. Mr. Davidson recommends starving it. Thanks, Jim, for the Trubanc mention. [tle]

For hundreds of years there has been a proposal on the table from Etienne de la Boetie. Withdraw your support. The tyrants depend on your tax payments. The tyrants depend on you informing on your neighbours, for they cannot be everywhere to see everyone at all times. The tyrants depend on you to support the system, send your sons and daughters to join the military, create the value that they tax all along the way, run the businesses that employ people and pay payroll taxes, do all the things that make the system go. The banking gangsters have the same dependencies.

The banksters depend on your deposits, your investments, your money. They depend on you to invent new things and start new businesses, take them public, and put your money into their stock schemes and bond schemes and collateralised debt obligations and credit default swaps and mergers and acquisitions and idiocies. Withdraw your money from their banks and use a credit union near you. Withdraw your money from your 401K and put it in gold and silver one ounce coins in a vault in your home. Withdraw your money from other forms of investment--in oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, agribusinesses, defence contractors, treasury bonds, and everything else. Don't participate in their schemes. Form a separate economy.

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