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"publius2k" |
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01 May 2006 02:49:28 AM |
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The strange concept of 'jobs' - Or how to get unemployed, how to be free. |
How often do protesters and social activists hear jeers of 'Get a
job!' ?
Interesting.
The questions seems to imply that those WITH jobs are less likely to
be protestors/activists? If so, why?
Could that be because those with 'jobs' no longer enjoy freedom?
They are no longer masters of their own time. That's a given. Most
realize the obvious fact that they have sold themselves, for a period
of time. But less obvious is what else they have given up in exchange
for "wages".
But it is far deeper than mere time and labor. They sold their voice.
They are often no longer 'allowed' to dissent, to be involved with
matters of concern that the master of jobs finds unpleasant. They are
no longer as free to assist others in need, to help them in their
plights. No longer as free to express their personal political views
or social values. And you thought a job was merely a paycheck in
exchange for labor.. If so, you come very cheap. They own you, your
voice.
And how often do people cry out about high rates of unemployement?
It is as if they think that is a bad thing, or at least they want the
working masses [human resources] to be conditioned to think of it that
way, to believing that being employed, having a boss, is a good thing.
How Orwellian! Why is wage slavery good? To be desired? Why are our
daughters being systematically conditioned to seek out someone with a
'good job'?
But what about 80% unemployement on the rez?
Great!!!
That means we only need to help the remaining 20% gain their freedom!
Then, no more bosses!
Freddy said it better... especially the martian analysis :)
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The Strange "Job" Concept
by Frederick Mann 10/6/98
Introduction Most people take it for granted that in order to earn the
wherewithal to survive, to get ahead in the world, to become accepted
and successful in the eyes of family and friends, you have to work, do
something useful, produce products and services of value to others,
and so forth.
There are off course alternatives. You could become a "professional
welfare recipient." Or you could become a professional criminal... or
a bureaucrat... or even a politician!
There are two basic ways to obtain the wherewithal to survive. The
first is to produce it. The second is to "steal" it. Why work like a
slave to produce or provide useful products and services if you can
simply "steal" what you need?
Well, you don't "steal" because others might not like it. They might
retaliate. They might "steal" back from you. They might even lock you
up in jail.
An important phenomenon enters the picture here. Many people produce
more than they need to survive. Probably for a variety of reasons.
During good seasons you produce extra to set something aside you can
live off during lean years. You feel more secure and successful if
you've accumulated some capital. You may even want to start your own
business. Maybe you want to retire one day and live off your savings.
So many people produce surpluses.
Some people produce large surpluses. For example, because the sun
shines, plants use energy from the sun and minerals from the soil to
grow, and various human methods can be used to increase production,
one farmer can effectively produce enough food to feed 100 people.
The fact that some produce surpluses creates the opportunity for
others to "steal" part of the production of producers in ways that
enable everyone to survive.
"Stealing" can occur along a scale, spectrum, or continuum, ranging
from most crude to most subtle. At the one extreme, you hold someone
up at gunpoint or you knock him unconscious or even kill him and take
what you want from him. Less crude is to enter someone's home or farm
at night or when they're absent and to surreptitiously take what you
want.
You can also use all kinds of trickery and deception to defraud your
victims. This is what the con artist does.
Or, together with others, you can form a "government" and force people
to pay "taxes."
You can be a large property owner and "rent" part of your property to
others. They have to work in order to pay you "rent" and you live off
the "rent."
Or you can own a factory or other business (you own the means of
production) and provide others with "jobs" to work for you. You
effectively take part of their production as your "profit." You live
off the "profit" and they have to work for a living.
Somewhere along this spectrum, it ceases to be "stealing" and becomes
"legitimate enterprise."
To the sneak thief and con artist, it may be "legitimate" as long as
you don't perpetrate physical violence against the victim's person.
To the bureaucrat, politician, and their believers and supporters,
it's "legitimate" if the violence is only used as a last resort by
someone else -- the "policeman" -- out of sight, out of mind?
To some people "property is theft" -- the practice of owning property
is a form of "stealing." "Capitalists" who own the means of production
are "thieves exploiting the workers."
I'll leave it to the reader to decide where to draw the line between
"stealing" and "legitimacy."
The purpose of this article is to examine the "job" concept. There's a
specific skill involved in analyzing the "job" concept. I call it
"Martian analysis."
The Strange "Job" Concept ["Language creates spooks that get into our
heads and hypnotize us." -- Robert Anton Wilson, Introduction to The
Tree of Lies (by Christopher S. Hyatt. Ph.D.)]
Suppose a Martian came to Earth to study our economic systems. He soon
finds out that on parts of Earth there are millions of people who
don't work, because the Earthlings say they have a so-called
"unemployment" problem."
To the Martian this is almost incomprehensibly strange. "Why don't the
millions of not-working people work at satisfying the needs and wants
of the billions with unmet needs and wants?" he asks.
An Earthling explains, "Well, they can't work because they don't have
jobs; nobody wants to employ them."
Now the Martian is really flabbergasted, "I've been all over the
Universe and studied over a hundred humanoid civilizations. And in all
these other civilizations, all that people need in order to work is a
brain, one or more eyes, and one or more hands. What else can you
possibly need in order to work?"
Earthling: "We must have a job in order to work; someone must employ
us; can't you understand something this simple?"
Martian: "No. What kind of a thing is this so-called "job?" Can you
show me a "job?" Can you demonstrate to me how it enables someone to
work?"
Earthling: "No, you don't understand. A job isn't a thing... it's a...
it's a..."
Martian: "Is it perhaps an illusion? I've come across many illusions
in the Universe, but this one seems to be one of the strangest of
all!"
"And what about this "employment" thing you talk about? What's that?"
Earthling: "Well, you see, in order to work you have to get someone to
employ you."
Martian: "This sounds strange. What does someone do to you when he
"employ's" you."
Earthling: "He gives you work to do."
Martian: "I don't understand. Everywhere in the Universe I've visited,
"work" isn't a thing that can be given; it's an activity, what you
do."
Earthling: "It's not that simple. An employer gives you things like a
desk, a chair, a computer, and whatever tools you need to do your
job."
Martian: "In every part of the Universe I've been, all that people
really need in order to work is a brain, one or more eyes, and one or
more hands. Surely, people can either make the equipment, tools, or
whatever they need to work more efficiently, or they can acquire them
through exchange."
Earthling: "But what if everyone in a region is impoverished and there
are no wealthy capitalist pig employers to provide tools and
equipment?"
Martian: "If you go back far enough in history, you'll get to a time
when all humans were poor. How was wealth created in the first place?"
"I'll give you a clue. Your Sun shines. Every day it showers vastly
more energy on you than you can possibly use. You enjoy a huge surplus
of energy. You can use some of that energy to grow things and much
more besides."
"In the rest of the Universe, the first principle of economics is that
Energy plus Brain produces Wealth -- provided you produce more than
you consume. Because of the huge free surplus energy you get from your
Sun every day, anyone and everyone (at least those with functioning
brains, eyes, and hands) can produce a surplus and become wealthy."
Earthling: "My mind is spinning! I'll have to think about all this."
Moral: The language you use can have a profound effect on how you
perceive the world, how you think about it, and how you act in
relation to it.
The "Job"/"Employment" Illusion The words "job" and "employment" and
the illusions they engender may have debilitating effects on those who
blindly accept them. Here we have an important "Human Failure Program"
that plays a major role in keeping people poor and stuck in what they
call their "jobs." (Nevertheless, because much economic activity is
organized on the basis of so-called "jobs," some of us may have to
play the "job" game -- at least temporarily -- to survive and,
hopefully, get back on our economic feet.)
The "job"/"employment" illusion has far-reaching implications. Because
many people believe they need "jobs" to work gainfully, and "jobs are
scarce," their only alternatives seems to be "government handouts" and
crime. Jeremy Bentham wrote, "Out of one foolish word may start a
thousand daggers." (Bentham's Theory of Fictions by C.K. Ogden.)
From the perspective of the wealthy "employer," it's wonderful that
people think they need "jobs" in order to work and they have to come
to someone like me to "employ" them. It gives me power over them. It
makes me strong and them weak. The more powerful I am, and the weaker
they are, the less I have to pay them, and the more I profit!
This isn't a criticism of profit as such. There are many "employers"
who do their best to play the business game such that their
"employees" enjoy the best benefits possible while keeping the
business viable, particularly considering the restrictions and
restraints imposed by terrocrats.
Terrocrats (terrorist bureaucrats or coercive political agents) also
use the "job"/"employment" illusion extensively to increase their
power. In general, they succeed in dominating people by dictating in
thousands of ways with a plethora of "laws and regulations" many
aspects of "jobs" and "employment."
For many of us seeking greater freedom, one of the first practical
steps we need to take might be to escape from the "job"/"employment"
trap. To find out how you may be able to do this, subscribe to the
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see also:
www.whywork.org
and these books by Gerry Spence:
From Freedom to Slavery - The Rebirth of Tyranny in America (1993)
GIVE ME LIBERTY! - Freeing Ourselves in the 21st Century (1998)
7 Simple Steps To Personal Freedom (2001)
Sample excerpt:
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"If we are the new American slaves, then who is our master? The New
Master, like some monster escaped from the laboratories of a noble
experiment called the American dream, is the sum total of an amoral
coupling between government and business. It looms as a monolith
hybrid that is neither government nor business and is composed of
individual strands of power that include the president, Congress, the
courts, a multitude of governing bureaus and agencies, and an immense
cluster of multinational corporations, some as wealthy as great
nations."
--Gerry Spence, Give Me Liberty!-Freeing Ourselves in the 21st
Century
"Free men work when their work is their joy. Free men work when they
are also free not to work, when they work but remain the master of
themselves."
In chapter 12, The Religion of Work, Spence relates:
"---Work, The Virtue That Enslaves
Elevating the drudgery of work to a virtue is our dubious gift from
the Puritans. Martin Luther and John Calvin laid the way in the late
Middle Ages. Erich Fromm, the renowned American psychoanalyst,
thought that the reformation's doctrine of predestination--that is,
that God, at the time of our birth, has already made his choice as to
who will and who will not be saved--created in man such an anxiety
over not knowing his eternal fate that it was necessary for him to
treat the pain of his anxiety with compulsive, meaningless activity.
Fromm likened the phenomenon of ceaseless work to a man awaiting the
pronouncement of the doctor as to whether he is afflicted with a
terminal disease. The man, waiting, waiting, paces the floor to
assuage the terrible pain of his anxiety. But the American worker
does not engage in a fury of meaningless activity to ease the anxiety
described by Fromm. He works because he is enslaved. He works mostly
to eat.
In the new industrial state, the rich and the powerful, too, are
compulsively at work, impelled by insatiable greed, greed born of
man's terror of death, for no matter how hard and how long he works,
no matter how much money he accumulates, no matter the power he
wields, he still can never conquer death. Here he stands, this puny
man bearing the burden of a free will that, at last, proves useless as
a weapon against the grave.
The work ethic in America, flowering from the original doctrines of
Luther and Calvin, fulfilled the requirements of the industrial state.
Indeed, man might achieve salvation if he were honest, diligent, and
responsible and worked hard in accordance with the model set by Henry
Ford--which is to say that man could enter the Pearly Gates if he in
all ways qualified as a good, reliable, and efficient worker-slave.
And he might feed his family well. If one worked at lawful work, even
at worthless work, even at work that might bring misery or death to
many, still, because of such work alone, one could be adjudged worthy.
One thinks of the workers at Los Alamos in the early 1940's, laboring
away on a nuclear bomb that could destroy the world. One thinks of
the workers in the tobacco fields and the cigarette factories. One
thinks of the clever gurus on Madison Avenue whose creative
advertising will hook three thousand kids on cigarettes every day.
Such work is respected not because it produces good, but because it is
work. Such workers are respected not because they produce a useful
product, but because they work.
Under the Puritan doctrines, even the sinner, if he worked hard
enough, could finally earn the respect of his neighbors. Hard work
was the only means by which the poor could, in the eyes of the
community, rise above the degradation of poverty. "He was a
hardworking man" were the words spoken over many a corpse.
I do not argue that people ought not work. But let us for once be
practical about it. Likely one must work if one has not chosen his
parents carefully for their stock portfolio and has not thrown off the
troublesome eating habit. Moreover, a man must likely resort to work
to find a mate and feed and educate the squalling aftermath. But
aside from the plain necessity of work and its status as the most
laudable evidence of a person's worth, what, I ask, is there about
work that makes it intrinsically right?
---The Ignominy of Work---
Work as an abstract activity, undertaken for itself, has no merit.
Native man did not work. He hunted, which was his pleasure. He
gathered, which was his joy. Anthropologists insist that in his
nascent state man was engaged in providing himself food but an hour or
two a day. And that was not work. It was his play, his adventure,
the fulfillment of his genetic purpose. Work was unknown to native
man.
Smohalla, who belonged to the Nez Perce Indians, saw work as evil.
'My young men shall never work.
Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams.
You ask me to plow the ground.
Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's breast?
then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
You ask me to dig for stone.
Shall I dig under the skin for her bones?
Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born again.
You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like the
white man.
But how dare I cut off my mother's hair?'
Only a harsh master could force us to the relentless drudgery of
endless, meaningless, numbing toil. It is the religion of work, like
all religions, that creates our anxiety. It is against the religion
of work to embrace the moment, to feel, to experience one's
relatedness to the earth and its occupants. It is insane to stop and
hug a tree. In light of the endless work that lies waiting, its foot
tapping in impatience, it is irresponsible to stop and to wonder at
the simple beauty of a forest fern.
The notion of work, and its puritanical elevation as among the
greatest of virtues, is a religion that converts the diamonds of human
creativity into the coal of the industrial machine. The religion of
work has transformed human life and all of its potential, its great
capacity for joy and fulfillment, into the inert fuel that is dumped
into the furnaces of the New Master. Out of this religion is produced
the gadgets and trinkets we purchase from the great war machinery that
is destined to one day destroy the human race as the final vengeance
of the insane machine against its insane inventors.
Yet I do not wish to confuse the idea of work on the one hand with
slavery on the other. Work and slavery are not reciprocal concepts,
although slaves work. On the other hand, the mere fact that people
work does suggest that they are slaves. Free men work when their work
is their joy. Free men work when they are also free not to work, when
they work but remain the master of themselves.""
-- Gerry Spence, Give Me Liberty!-Freeing Ourselves in the 21st
Century, Chapter 12
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another path is possible:
Notice how Thomas Jefferson described such a desirable culture/way of
life:
"That, on the principle of a communion of property, small societies
may exist in habits of virtue, order, industry, and peace, and
consequently in a state of as much happiness as Heaven has been
pleased to deal out to imperfect humanity, I can readily conceive, and
indeed, have seen its proofs in various small societies which have
been constituted on that principle." --Thomas Jefferson to Cornelius
Camden Blatchly, 1822
The indigenous peoples of Mexico too are known for living "in a state
of as much happiness as Heaven has been pleased to deal out to
imperfect humanity, as Jefferson described it. Note this research
reference:
"The desire to better one's economic position seems to lose its force
in the upside-down world south of the Rio Grande. The Indian-Mexican
enjoys savoring life (with rest and leisure), and the Americans enjoys
crowding it. ...But they (the Mexicans) look happy. They are
reposeful and contented.
Of course they are happy! That is the worst of it!
Until the Mexican-Indian wants money to buy things that money can buy
more than he wants mastery over time, he will not labor consistently
like the Americans, except by force."
--Helen Walker (1928) Mexicans Immigrants as Laborers, Sociology and
Social Research, 13, 55-62, p. 60; quoting from an article in the
Nation.
What took this happiness from us?
"Privatization of the commons is the theft from the unborn." --
Unknown [to me]
or in other less succinct words, "When all land is privatized and
allocated, future generations are born into bondage."
The concept is consensual communalism [not the false
'communism'/coordinatorism claimed to have operated in China and
Russia under coersion].
Can it really work though?
It has worked for many cultures, as Jefferson noted.
One example is life under the Iroquois culture. An English
translation of a snippet of their very successful Great Binding Law of
Peace can be found at http://www.constitution.org/cons/iroquois.txt .
The Iroquois helped the 'founding fathers' of the USA to form ideas
about living freely and forming a government of the people to protect
those freedoms. In fact, the culture and freedom of the Iroquois and
other native peoples inspired the American and French Revolution and
the eventual downfall of the overt British monarchy. The European
world view had long since lost a view of personal freedom and they had
become accustomed to the yoke of servitude and domination by kings and
priests. The Indians' lifestyle reawakened the yearning for liberty
in their genetic makeup and demonstrated to them the potentials.
What was life like under the Iroquois Confederacy?
"it gives us the opportunity of studying the organization of a society
which, as yet, knows no state." !!! No state domination! Freedom
can't exist under state coersion.
-- Forgotten Founders -- Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois and the
Rationale for the American Revolution by Bruce E. Johansen:
Complete ebooks online at:
http://www.ratical.com/many_worlds/6Nations/FF.html
Exemplar of Liberty, Native America and the Evolution of Democracy by
Donald A. Grinde Jr. and Bruce E. Johansen at:
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/EoL/
Notes Lewis Henry Morgan [in collaboration with Seneca sachem Ely
Parker] regarding the Iroquois peoples in Ancient Society [1877]:
"Everything runs smoothly without soldiers, gendarmes, or police,
without nobles, kings, governors, prefects or judges; without prisons,
without trials. All quarrels and disputes are settled by the whole
body of those concerned...."
Ben Franklin commented on his contemporaries sarcastically:
"It would be a very strange thing if Six Nations of Ignorant Savages
should be capable of forming a Scheme for such an Union and be able to
execute it in such a manner, as that it has subsisted Ages, and
appears indissoluble, and yet a like union should be impracticable for
ten or a dozen English colonies."
Frederich Engels:
"Everything runs smoothly without soldiers, gendarmes, or police,
without nobles, kings, governors, prefects or judges; without prisons,
without trials. All quarrels and disputes are settled by the whole
body of those concerned. . . . The household is run communistically by
a number of families; the land is tribal property, only the small
gardens being temporarily assigned to the households -- still, not a
bit of our extensive and complicated machinery of administration is
required. . . . There are no poor and needy. The communistic household
and the gens know their responsibility toward the aged, the sick and
the disabled in war. All are free and equal -- including the women."
excerpted from:
Iroquois Confederation - Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on
Earth:
http://www.ratical.org/ratitorsCorner/11.24.96.html
http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/
How did some of the early Europeans, those not bent on genocide and
theft, view Indian lifestyle?
"Most of the Indians who were educated by the English--some
contemporaries thought ALL of them--returned to Indian society at the
first opportunities to resume their Indian identities. On the other
hand, large numbers of Englishmen had chosen to become Indians--by
running away from colonial society to join Indian society, by not
trying to escape after being captured, or by electing to remain with
their Indian captors when treaties of peace periodically afforded them
the opportunity to return home."
"No Arguments, no Intreaties, nor Tears of their Friends and
Relatives, could persuade many of them to leave their new Indian
friends and Acquaintances; several of them that were by the caressings
of their relatives persuaded to come Home, in a little Time grew tired
of our Manner of living, and run away again to the Indians, and ended
their days with them." -- James Axtell in "The White Indians of
Colonial America"
Notes the founder of Germantown in 1685 of the "so-called savages" in
the area:
"They strive after a sincere honesty, hold strictly to their
promises, cheat and injure no one. They willingly give shelter to
others, and are both useful and loyal to their guests.
Their huts are made of young trees, twined, or bent, together,
which they know how to roof over with bark. They use neither table
nor bench, nor any other household stuff, unless perchance a single
pot in which they boil their food.
I once saw four of them take a meal together in hearty
contentment, and eat a pumpkin cooked in clear water, without butter
and spice. Their table and bench was the bare earth, their spoons
were mussle-shells, with which they dipped the warm water, their
plates were the leaves of the nearest tree, which they did not need to
wash with painstaking after a meal, nor to keep with care for future
use. I thought to myself, these savages have never in their lives
heard the teaching of Jesus concerning temperance and contentment, yet
they far excel the Christians in carrying it out.
They are, furthermore, serious and of few words, and are amazed when
they perceive so much unnecessary chatter, as well as other foolish
behavior on the part of Christians.
***
They are very quiet and thoughtful in our gatherings, so that I
fully believe that in the future, at the great day of judgment, they
will come forth with those of Tyre and Sidon, and put to shame many
thousands of false nominal and canting Christians.
***
They plant Indian corn and beans round about their huts, but they take
no thought for any more extensive farming and cattle raising; they
are rather astonished that we Christians take so much trouble and
thought concerning eating and drinking and also for comfortable
clothing and dwellings, as if we doubted that God were able to care
for and nourish us."
Hardly 'savage' per today's misapplication of the term.
More detailed suggested readings:
"Indian Givers: How The Indians Of The Americas Transformed The World"
and
"Native Roots: How The Indians Enriched America"
-- both by Jack Weatherford
"Encyclopedia of American Indian Contributions to the World"
-- by Emory Dean Keoke and Kay Marie Porterfield
http://www.kporterfield.com/aicttw/excerpts/intro.html
Many falsely claim the USA was founded by freedom loving people.
Hardly. The Purtans sought freedom for only themselves. Freedom to
practice their religion but also freedom to force others to practice
it too and to kill those who resisted.
The Puritans were fanatically intolerant. They killed those who dared
to espouse any alternative views. When word of the hanging of Quaker
Mary Dyer in 1660 by the Puritans who ruled Massachusetts reached back
to the king in England and he expressed his dismay, the governor who
had sentenced Dyer to the gallows tried to justify his deed thusly:
"The Quakers died not because of their other crimes how capital
soever, but upon their superadded presumptuous and incorrigible
contempt of authority..."
Imagine, death by hanging--not for a crime--but because they dared
express contempt for such intolerance!
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Some random related quotes:
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"The business of household management is concerned more with human
beings than it is with inanimate property; it is concerned more with
the good condition of human beings than with a good condition of
property."
-- Aristotle
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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as
something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a
small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the
benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. -- Major General
Smedley Butler, USMC
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching. It unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. The money powers
preys upon the nation in times of peace and conspires against it in
times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent
than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public
enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.
I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me & the
financial institutions at the rear, the latter is my greatest foe.
Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high
places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor
to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic
is destroyed."
--Abraham Lincoln, letter to William Elkins, Nov 21, 1864 (just
after the passage of the National Banking Act, right before his
assasination)
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"I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class
muscle man for Big business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In
short, I was a racketeer for capitalism. I helped purify Nicaragua for
the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I
helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil
interests in 1914. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for
American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a
decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I
helped in the rape of half a dozen Central American republics for the
benefit of Wall Street...."
--- Smedley D. Butler (1881-1940) Major General (U.S. Marine Corps)
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"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the
days of Andrew Jackson.." --- President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
November 21, 1933
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"The government of the United States at present is a foster child of
the special interests. It is not allowed to have a will of its own...
The government of the United States in recent years has not been
administered by the common people... the masters of the government of
the United States are combined capitalists and manufacturers of the
United States - The big bankers, the big manufacturers, the big
masters of commerce, the heads of railroad corporations and of
steamship corporations."
--- President Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom
of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power,
than by violent and sudden usurpations."
--- James Madison
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BANKS and faux money:
"If the American People EVER allow the banks to issue the currency,
their children will wake up homeless on the continent their
forefathers established." - Thomas Jefferson
"I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous
than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be
paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity
on a large scale." - Thomas Jefferson
"The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire
against it in times of adversity. The banking powers are more despotic
than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than
bureaucracy. They denounce as public enemies all who question their
methods or throw light upon their crimes. I have two great enemies,
the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the
two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe. [As a most undesirable
consequence of the war...] Corporations have been enthroned, and an
era of corruption in high places will follow. The money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the
prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands
of a few, and the Republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln
"Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal
its power. But the truth is, the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the
government of the United States. It controls everything here; and it
controls our foreign relations. It makes or breaks governments at
will. No man, and no body of men, is more entrenched in power than the
arrogant credit monopoly which operates the Federal Reserve Board and
the Federal Reserve Banks. These evil-doers have robbed this country
of more than enough money to pay the national debt. What the National
Government has permitted the Federal Reserve Board to steal from the
people should now be restored to the people. The people have a valid
claim against the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks.
If that claim is enforced, Americans will not need to stand in bread
lines. Homes will be saved. Families will be kept. What is needed here
is a return to the Constitution of the United States. The old struggle
that was fought out here in Jackson's day must be fought over again.
The Federal Reserve Act should be repealed; and the Federal Reserve
Banks - having violated their charters - should be liquidated
immediately. Faithless government officers who have violated their
oaths of office should be impeached and brought to trial. Unless this
is done by us, I predict the American people - outraged, robbed,
pillaged, insulted, and betrayed as they are in their own land - will
rise in their wrath and send a President here who WILL sweep the money
changers from the temple." - Congressman Louis T. McFadden before the
House of Representatives, in the midst of the Great Depression, 1932.
"The Bank of the United States is one of the most deadly hostilities
existing against the principles and form of our Constitution. An
institution like this, penetrating by its branches every part of the
Union, acting by command and in phalanx, may, in a critical moment,
upset the government. I deem no government safe which is under the
vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority
than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. What an
obstruction could not this bank of the United States, with all its
branch banks, be in time of war? It might dictate to us the peace we
should accept, or withdraw its aid. Ought we then to give further
growth to an institution so powerful, so hostile?" -Thomas Jefferson
"History records that the money changers have used every form of
abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible, to maintain their
control over governments, by controlling money and its issuance." -
James Madison
"If congress has the right under the Constitution to issue paper
money, it was given them to use themselves, not to be delegated to
individuals or corporations." - Andrew Jackson
"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a
national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is
calculated to raise around the administration a monied aristocracy
dangerous to the liberties of the country." - Andrew Jackson
"It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand
our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there
would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Automaker Henry
Ford, during the Great Depression.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes
its laws." - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, European founder of one of the
most powerful networks of international banks of all time.
"It is sad comment that the public is so uneducated, unconcerned and
blinded to the TRUTH by the media, and that the Judiciary of our once
great Nation has been allowed to sink to these depths. And while I say
that the conditions that exist today can be laid at one doorstep, that
of the Judiciary, I must ultimately say that the fault really lies at
our feet, We the People, for it is We the People who have allowed the
foxes to guard the henhouse." - Supreme Court Justice, Robert H. Bork
"We have operating within our government and political system, another
body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite
which believes our Constitution is outmoded... All the strange
developments in foreign policy agreements may be traced to this group
who are going to make us over to suit their pleasure... This political
action group has its own local political support organizations, its
own pressure groups, its own vested interests, its foothold within our
government, and its own proganda apparatus." - Senator William Jenner,
February 23, 1954.
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from
behind the scenes." -Felix Frankfurter, justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court 1939-1962
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"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines
they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the
souls of those who live under tyranny."
--- Thomas Jefferson
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will
come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To
restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal
privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science.
All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a
republic. The Constitution of this republic should make special
privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
--- Benjamin Rush, George Washington's personal doctor and a signer
of the Declaration of Independence
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Those that like to hold the US Constitution as hallowed would do well
to review the author's intentions in drafting it and designing the
government as he did, in a way that oppresses working people while
protecting the rich.
Note Madison's remarks: "...as had been observed (by Mr. Pinckney) we
had not among us those hereditary distinctions of rank which were a
great source of the contests in the ancient governments as well as the
modern States of Europe...We cannot, however, be regarded even at this
time as one homogeneous mass....In framing a system which we wish to
last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will
produce. An increase of population will of necessity increase the
proportion of those who will labor under all the hardships of life,
and secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of its blessings.
These may in time outnumber those who are placed above the feelings of
indigence. According to the equal laws of suffrage, the power will
slide into the hands of the former."
"The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in
his carriage, cannot judge of the wants or feelings of the
day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for
ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process
of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe,
when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through
the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed
interest be overbalanced in future elections? and, unless wisely
provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at
this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the
property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law
would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government
ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against
innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to
support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the
other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of
the opulent against the majority. The Senate, therefore, ought to be
this body; and, to answer these purposes, they ought to have
permanency and stability. Various have been the propositions; but my
opinion is, the longer they continue in office, the better will these
views be answered."
Madison deprived the people of a direct vote for the Senators and the
President and created a sham selection system whereby these would be
elected by the elite class. The representatives of thise elite class
were thus empowered with a dual veto over any leveling, equalizing
legislation the only democratic branch of the government, the House of
Representatives, might dare dream--all to protect the interests of
those Madison called "the minority of the opulent". We were reminded
of this faulty system in the 2000 presidential election, with the
'leader of the free world' being selected by a 1 vote majority in an
illegal court proceeding over the popular vote of the people.
Toward an American Revolution
Exposing the Constitution and other Illusions
Jerry Fresia Chapter 3
The Constitution: Resurrection of An Imperial System
Go to http://www.cyberjournal.org for the whole book online....
No one now living ever had the opportunity to consent to the
constitution or its shackles. It is therefore not binding and not
representative of self-determination or government by consent.
Read more on that in a document described by Playboy magazine as the
most subversive writing ever:
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm
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| Title: Re: The strange concept of 'jobs' - Or how to get unemployed, how to be free. |
01 May 2006 10:33:45 PM |
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"publius2k" <1@2.3> wrote in message
news:bpbb52dkgff9j0u2be9n61t1cjnv3aq7pj@4ax.com...
How often do protesters and social activists hear jeers of 'Get a
job!' ?
Interesting.
The questions seems to imply that those WITH jobs are less likely to
be protestors/activists? If so, why?
Could that be because those with 'jobs' no longer enjoy freedom?
They are no longer masters of their own time. That's a given. Most
realize the obvious fact that they have sold themselves, for a period
of time. But less obvious is what else they have given up in exchange
for "wages".
But it is far deeper than mere time and labor. They sold their voice.
They are often no longer 'allowed' to dissent, to be involved with
matters of concern that the master of jobs finds unpleasant. They are
no longer as free to assist others in need, to help them in their
plights. No longer as free to express their personal political views
or social values. And you thought a job was merely a paycheck in
exchange for labor.. If so, you come very cheap. They own you, your
voice.
You obviously excuse acceptance of personal responsibility for loss of ones
rights - a definition that would only apply if you belive that one has a
"right" to be a parasite. I suspect you are a typical Lefty Liberal, and
hence prone to believe such idiocies... :O|
<The usual Marxist/socialist/collectivist crap snipped. Funny how your type
will spend more effort in justifying your own worthlessness than getting a
fucking job...>
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| User: "Antonio Forza" |
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01 May 2006 10:57:11 AM |
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On Mon, 01 May 2006 03:49:28 -0400, publius2k <1@2.3> wrote:
How often do protesters and social activists hear jeers of 'Get a
job!' ?
Interesting.
The questions seems to imply that those WITH jobs are less likely to
be protestors/activists? If so, why?
Could that be because those with 'jobs' no longer enjoy freedom?
They are no longer masters of their own time. That's a given. Most
realize the obvious fact that they have sold themselves, for a period
of time. But less obvious is what else they have given up in exchange
for "wages".
But it is far deeper than mere time and labor. They sold their voice.
They are often no longer 'allowed' to dissent, to be involved with
matters of concern that the master of jobs finds unpleasant. They are
no longer as free to assist others in need, to help them in their
plights. No longer as free to express their personal political views
or social values. And you thought a job was merely a paycheck in
exchange for labor.. If so, you come very cheap. They own you, your
voice.
Fantastic reading - thank you for posting this. Most people on our
"civilization" today have been indoctrinating into believing that
being a good little producer/consumer is what life is all about.
But living as an indentured servant, buying lots of consumer crap and
watching corproate mass-produced "entertainment" and sporting events
is not really living, it is a waste of life. The sooner a person
figures this out, the sooner they can start actually living.
--
Mental Anarchy - Free Your Mind
http://mentalanarchy.com
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