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THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION

Pattison

While reading The Voluntaryist Handbook, I came across this excerpt from Joseph Sobran summarizing what Hans-Hermann Hoppe believes is the eventual conclusion of all governments (regardless of good intentions), and accurately describes the current situation we’re in—which is why I personally believe we have reached the end of this once great nation.

“Hans argued that no constitution could restrain the state. Once its monopoly of force was granted legitimacy, constitutional limits became mere fictions it could disregard; nobody could have the legal standing to enforce those limits. The state itself would decide, by force, what the constitution ‘meant,‘ steadily ruling in its own favor and increasing its own power. This was true a priori, and American history bore it out.”

Waking the Proles

Quotes: Suckered again . . . like this dead rat.

Pattison

14441226_1667251883585749_7687799725225019722_n“The perfect allegory and metaphor for the voting process: We’re lured by its promise as was this now very dead and bloated and decomposing New York Hell’s Kitchen rat.

We’re hungry for, not change, but improvement and we’re being baited and tempted by an inviting promise.

Look, someone has left food for me. Look, they are asking me for my opinion, my vote. They care about what I think and believe. I have a say; my input matters! This system invites for my input and my perception and my desires and worldview. And no matter how many times I am warned that my opinion in the scheme of things does not really matter, I fall for the same trick every time. I fall for it hook line and sinker. I trusted you. As for Mr. Rat, his primitive brain did not allow him a moment the suspicion as to why this contraption mysteriously provided a wonderful mélange a rodent victuals. Behold the American voter. Suckered again.”

  • Michael William Lebron (Lionel)