Joel Walbert on Nostr: The Presidency Is the Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms The presidency must be ...
The Presidency Is the Greatest Threat to Our Freedoms
The presidency must be destroyed. It is the primary evil we face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids that anyone can be president. This is like saying anyone can go to hell. It’s not an inspiration; it’s a threat.
The presidency—by which I mean the executive state—is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts. The presidency insists on complete devotion and humble submission to its dictates, even while it steals the products of our labor and drives us into economic ruin. It centralizes all power in itself and crowds out all competing centers of power in society, including the church, the family, the business, the charity, and the community.
I’ll go further. The US presidency is the world’s leading evil. It is the chief mischief-maker in every part of the globe, the leading wrecker of nations, the usurer behind third-world debt, the bailer of corrupt governments, and the hand in many dictatorial gloves. The US presidency is the sponsor and sustainer of woke international agencies, of wars, interstate and civil, of famine and disease. To see the evils caused by the presidency, look no further than Afghanistan or Iraq or Serbia or Libya or Syria. These are places where the lives of innocents were snuffed out in pointless wars, where bombing was designed to destroy civilian infrastructure and cause disease. These are places where, in many cases, women, children, and the aged have been denied essential food and medicine because of cruel embargoes and US-imposed financial warfare. Look at the human toll taken by the presidency, from Dresden and Hiroshima to Waco and Ruby Ridge, and you see that the presidency is a prime practitioner of murder by government…
https://mises.org/misesian/presidency-greatest-threat-our-freedoms
#breakthestate #anarchy
The presidency must be destroyed. It is the primary evil we face, and the cause of nearly all our woes. It squanders the national wealth and starts unjust wars against foreign peoples that have never done us any harm. It wrecks our families, tramples on our rights, invades our communities, and spies on our bank accounts. It skews the culture toward decadence and trash. It tells lie after lie. Teachers used to tell school kids that anyone can be president. This is like saying anyone can go to hell. It’s not an inspiration; it’s a threat.
The presidency—by which I mean the executive state—is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts. The presidency insists on complete devotion and humble submission to its dictates, even while it steals the products of our labor and drives us into economic ruin. It centralizes all power in itself and crowds out all competing centers of power in society, including the church, the family, the business, the charity, and the community.
I’ll go further. The US presidency is the world’s leading evil. It is the chief mischief-maker in every part of the globe, the leading wrecker of nations, the usurer behind third-world debt, the bailer of corrupt governments, and the hand in many dictatorial gloves. The US presidency is the sponsor and sustainer of woke international agencies, of wars, interstate and civil, of famine and disease. To see the evils caused by the presidency, look no further than Afghanistan or Iraq or Serbia or Libya or Syria. These are places where the lives of innocents were snuffed out in pointless wars, where bombing was designed to destroy civilian infrastructure and cause disease. These are places where, in many cases, women, children, and the aged have been denied essential food and medicine because of cruel embargoes and US-imposed financial warfare. Look at the human toll taken by the presidency, from Dresden and Hiroshima to Waco and Ruby Ridge, and you see that the presidency is a prime practitioner of murder by government…
https://mises.org/misesian/presidency-greatest-threat-our-freedoms
#breakthestate #anarchy