Topic: Government Accountability
How to Make Government Look More Illegitimate What you can do in your everyday life to knock down these pillars of sand Big Brother erects in his (dis)honor.by Dan Steward
(libertarian)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
We get better treatment by those who actually care about our satisfaction, from the people that work at bagging our groceries than we do from our grossly mis-named "public servants". Most folks complain under their breath if at all, but now the mess government has accrued has become way too big to sweep under the rug. Big Brother has irked everyone and in a big way. It has become glaringly illegitimate to everyone.
Uncle Sham was not content to just devalue all our money and order us to smile and be "good citizens" while he smacked us around. He was not satisfied snooping in on our phones and emails, snatching our property, and ordering us around.
No good people, he had to take it up a notch and pile numerous insults onto the ever growing heap of injuries done to you and me. I feel the tipping point will be that piece of plastic in your wallet when you go to your bank's ATM and it tells you "sorry pal, your worthless money got swiped from you". Wait in line at IndyMac or WaMu if you like, but you're going to real disappointed when the teller informs you that not only was your account cleaned out by two-bit charlatans with ill-intent, but the real kick in the head is that you're going to be billed for this fiasco.
Mr. and Mrs. America (and presumably all the ships at sea) are finally in a spot where, if Libertarians care to educate them of the facts, they can have just as much open and useful criticism for government meddling in their lives, as average Libertarians have done so all these years.
From there the finger can finally be pointed in the direction that our lapdog media has refused to have the backbone to tell us: at Government itself. We may readily let people know in a way that can be easily digested by average Americans, that what we've been telling them all along is exactly on target: Government is illegitimate.
Just how do you go about making government illegitimate? When you break it down, it really just means letting ordinary people see what is mostly obvious to them:
I like a good joke, it helps break the tension and is great for allowing folks to feel easy in the presence of bad news. Russians "toppled" plenty of statues of Lenin, Marx, Stalin and other fatheads and despots with a handy joke. They exposed their dictators and wannabe tyrants with humor and the ridicule they deserved.
Leviathan bites us all deeper than many of us realize because it has abandoned its only legitimate task of defending our rights and properties and has instead gone out of it's way to do the opposite of it's well defined mission and steal those same rights and our property.
I find that even in my everyday activities at the store when counting out (what passes for) money at the checkout, I can plant a seed in the minds of the clerks. "I went to a public school so I don't know to count, but I think that I gave you the right amount".
Sure, people will be instructed to blame capitalism for America's woes, but people have been had too often in way too short of a time. I have a keen sense that people will connect the dots and make up their own minds. Traditional news outlets have been losing their grip on people's minds for some time now.
If President Bush did anything to help the situation (by accident of course) he showed us the filthy cold underbelly of Big Government. He rubbed our noses in it and told us that if we were good Americans who did no wrongdoings we need not fear the onerous Patriot Act and it's vile mission to scoop up citizens to feed the savage meat grinder of the U.S. Penal System.
There are other things we can do to thumb our nose at government. Form a small group of people who share your concern. You really need at least 4 or 5 members just to keep from being perceived as a bunch of "loners". Contact your local media and call a press conference (free publicity for your group).
Have a certificate, and add a cheap frame printed awarding best public servant (one who does most to work him/herself out of a job). And of course don't forget the worst ones awarded titles of "rudest", "most dishonest", "most clueless", etc.
While it's still legal to do so, educate your friends, casual acquaintances and the like. Try strangers on the street if you're feeling especially friendly and show people by example how to make public employees look like total schmucks at ever possible opportunity.
This is our land, we belong here and keep their bellies full, not to mention paying their union dues and allowing their utilities to continue flowing without interruption. They should be eternally grateful to us for that, not mistreat us.
We're keeping these pampered layabouts employed when if they were actually paid for their "real value" they were to us, the whole gang of jack-booted thugs would be rummaging through dumpsters for scraps thrown out by the genuinely productive populace.
Since the taxes used to pay them are extorted from us under implied threat of force, a picture of an armed moocher shouldn't be too difficult to paint in the minds of the everyday throng to fill in the blanks of a petty despot or his vile underlings.
Don't waste too much of your time trying to convince those incapable of learning the truth, instead move on to the next. Street arguments are for suckers. Some people are just too averse to looking at what is ugly or seemingly inconsequential to them. When some wild eyed bureaucrat goes ape on him/her they'll remember your chat.
Look at it in terms of letting as many people in on what is actually happening to them. Have fun with it and share with the masses that ridicule and bad public relations are exactly what these government employees both fear and deserve.
When government stays out of yours and others lives, you are freer, to the degree of just how much you are able to keep them at bay. Good luck to you on your mission, my friends.
With Liberty,
Dan Steward
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