living in america
bill st. clair has come to the end of the line, and traced his path with an unfortunately clear post that may only be refuted with, “yeah, well that’s the way it is,” or similar bullshit. the sad part is that some will read his words and conclude, from knee-jerk stupidity, that he’s encouraging violence. an objective reading shows very much the opposite. however, fools must have their refuge. the post’s context is opposition to home schooling:
The reason I don’t want to go to the school board or town council meeting or whatever is that then I’m a part of something that I consider to be pure evil. When a bunch of people vote, no matter how representative they might be and no matter how big a majority they might be, if even one person is forced against his/her will to do something that he/she wouldn’t otherwise do, then everyone involved in that initiation of force is wrong, hideously wrong. You see the problem is that even the smallest little thing, like a $1 rise in the property tax, in our system of government comes along with a gun pointed at your head. Refuse to pay that $1, and you’ll get a letter in the mail. Ignore that letter, and the police will come to your house. Resist them, and they will shoot you dead. Somehow that $1 is considered worth killing people over. I cannot in any way support a system that works that way. It must be unanimous consent or those who disagree must be excluded from the requirement or the system is evil.More and more I realize that anybody who believes in majority rule has no right to life. Most people don’t really believe in majority rule since they don’t realize that it means killing people for the smallest resistance of the majority edict. But if they still think that the majority should rule after understanding this property of the current system, they are hopeless cases, not worth a millisecond of my time or a penny of my money.
It’s taken me a number of years to come to the place where I can state this so succinctly and with such certainty. I’m not likely to be dissuaded.
over at statrix, morpheus also is punching through with some great recent posts from the same battery: