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John's avatar

Acts

1913, FICA, Federal Income Tax Act Article XVI

1913, FRA, Federal Reserve Act,

1934, NFA, National Firearms Act

1935, SSA, Social Security Act

1964, CRA, Civil Rights Act

1965, VRA, Voting Rights Act

1968, GCA, Gun Control Act

1978, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

1986, FOPA, Firearm Owners Protection Act

2001, USAPATRIOTA, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act

2010, ACA, Affordable Care Act

What other Intolerable Acts have I left out?

Note that each and everyone of these takes something away from someone and redistributes it to someone else. None of these improve life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness, without removing it from someone else. None of these insufferable acts improve or expand the rights and freedoms of American Citizens without restricting, subjugating or burdening through bureaucracy or taxation, otherwise law abiding citizens. All of these Coercive Acts trample the progress of freedom, and are enforced, forcefully by an army of heavily lawyered and more heavily armed federal agents.

Our enslavement isn't new, but the temperature of the water has killed the will to live, of most of the frogs in the pot.

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ABIGAIL REPORTS's avatar

Patriot Act.

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John's avatar

2001, USAPATRIOTA, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act

That is the official title of the Patriot Act. The newspeak-doublespeak of American government at it's finest.

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milahu's avatar

> What other Intolerable Acts have I left out?

all human laws. all these laws promise good, and deliver evil, with a 100% success rate.

anarchy is often confused with "no laws", but to me, anarchy is the rule of natural laws, laws of physics, natural order.

the only problem is that people are addicted to pacifism, but pacifism is not natural. a lion can only be "pacified" by throwing him into a prison cell for the rest of his life = passive violence, where he serves as a reminder to "be peaceful or else..." to the sheep of pacifism.

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John's avatar

But, without some "human law" we are but animals, living to eat, procreate and surviving by our instincts.

I can empathize with your thought, but there is plenty of room between tyranny and anarchy for civilization to agree to common laws.

Without common, human law, only the alpha predators survive, and the rest are simply food.

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milahu's avatar

a minimum consensus could be this:

we split the 500 million people of the future into 3 million tribes, and each tribe has 150 people = dunbar's number = natural group size. between tribes, there are tribe wars, but also peaceful cooperation (trade, travel).

how each tribe is internally organized is completely free - socialists can create their "socialism", capitalists can create their "capitalism", etc.

the only requirement is that all tribes must stay small = 150 people per tribe. so the role of the global empire would be to "keep tribes small" and to prevent multiple tribes from forming "united tribes" (conspiracies) to enslave other tribes.

currently this "keep them separated" strategy is done on an individual basis: all people are kept alone, so they cannot conspire for resistance against the empire. this is needed so that few guards (1%) can control many prisoners.

but as i said, people are addicted to pacifism, and "tribal warfare" is an absolute requirement for tribalism.

so instead of "tribal warfare" and "legalize serial murder", the pacifists want mass-murder every 100 years, to remove all the "dropouts" and "criminals", who are not happy with pacifism. aka social darwinism: survival of the social, death to the antisocial.

what is so stupid about this is, "social" and "antisocial" are inborn personality traits, and in a "wholistic" culture, both are equally important, and both halfs should have the same number of people.

on the internal structure of such a tribe, i created a hypothesis: pallas. who are my friends. group composition by personality type. https://milahu.github.io/alchi/src/whoaremyfriends/whoaremyfriends.html

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John's avatar

By setting rules, or parameters, for how society should be organized, you are becoming the arbiter of other peoples rights, responsibilities and freedoms.

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milahu's avatar

so what is the difference between my "minimum consensus" and your "common human laws"?

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John's avatar

I don't want to highjack the comment section of Edwin's article, but my closing comment is this;

You imply you support anarchy, or at least some level of it, but only if others submit to your viewpoint of how that anarchy should be "organized". It seems contradictory to me.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

Of course I want a machine gun. I’d love a Tommy gun. But a cannon would be fun too, having served on crews of several types. I miss my assault rifle dearly.

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ABIGAIL REPORTS's avatar

As the mother of a murdered child, beaten to death with a 2 ft section of 4 x 4, by a Sociopath for thrills. Try PRYING my carry piece from my cold dead hands. I've carried it since 1997. Took my classes, got my permit, went to Lifetime, and then TN went permitless. I live 35 miles from # 5 in murder, stabbings, and crime Memphis, TN. I live in the next county, they are invading my county now.

The 2nd Amendment is the only permit I need. I bought an Ar15, and am learning to use it. The USA is a REPUBLIC, not a democracy!

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David Poe's avatar

If you want to enslave all mankind you have to come up with stuff like that.

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Edwin's avatar

Sorry, governments before the USA came up with all that.

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David Poe's avatar

Yes, absolutely. All through history. But the U.S. was supposed to be different.

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