Sunday, February 21, 2010

"I Wish Joe Stack Had Not Killed Himself"

An interesting article by Chuck Baldwin.

Yes, Joe Stack was a homicidal douchebag who stupidly believed that killing could solve problems (the same mentality of the government he hated so much). But let's face it: he was dead on in most of his letter. The system we live under is bullshit.

6 comments:

  1. Cork, I was thinking about posting this exact article myself!

    Yes, it's all BS, the entire system is rotten to the core, including the so called "free market", which is a complete joke. I've found myself increasingly critical not only of government (that's a given) but of the private sector as well, because much of it couldn't exist as we know it without the support of the state.

    That said, I don't believe violence can solve anything. Self defense as a last resort, yes. But violence as a means to achieve liberty, no.

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  2. He wasn't talking about liberty, he was talking about trying to defraud the government of taxes. He admits in his own letter he was trying to achieve religious tax-exemption like the Catholic Church.

    I'm glad he's smoldering. "Wah wah, the IRS big brother is keeping us all down and I am the hero to save us." Hey Joe, your messiah complex is showing...

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  3. He wasn't talking about liberty, he was talking about trying to defraud the government of taxes. He admits in his own letter he was trying to achieve religious tax-exemption like the Catholic Church.

    Well, Ginx, since taxation is theft and the state uses violence and the threat of imprisonment to enforce that theft, then it would indeed be about liberty, wouldn't it?

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  4. No one chained you up and forced you to live in America.

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  5. No one chained you up and forced you to live in America.

    What the fuck are you, some kind of a closet right-winger? That's the best you can do, "America, love it or leave it"?

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  6. To quote David Friedman,

    The Mafia don replies that of course he owns the territory--if you don't believe him, go ask the current capo di capi. If you don't like it, you are free to move to the territory of a different don; if you remain, you are implicitly agreeing to accept his "taxes." Why is his claim any less justifiable than the government's? He provides you with protection against other dons, just as the government provides protection against other governments.

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