tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post2637727256772190466..comments2017-04-13T04:47:21.148-06:00Comments on Pro Libertate: We Don't Need Costumed Overlords and Tax Farmers William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-59427915285094013232016-12-30T01:22:07.658-07:002016-12-30T01:22:07.658-07:00American Malls, thronged by tens of millions... American Malls, thronged by tens of millions every day, are safe, pleasant, prosperous places precisely because of the relative absence of government intrusion and the relative absence of governments armed enforcement caste. The mall is perhaps the one place left us where there is still the preponderance of private governance and private security. By contrast Americans studiously avoid the place where government and its armed enforcement caste are most forcefully on display, the American 'inner city'. Where malls flourish under relative freedom, cities have perished under government domination. The hope has to be that one day soon malls and the residential communities surrounding them once again become independent free entities much like the city state of the renaissance. ancaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12985538497409080098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-80069921750122033072016-12-29T09:04:42.376-07:002016-12-29T09:04:42.376-07:00Government first came about when some local bandit...Government first came about when some local bandit got the idea that instead of raiding villages, he'd offer to defend them (from other bandits) in exchange for taxes. Government is a protection racket.Whoopiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15662821847774702856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-42226604770195201322016-12-29T06:08:51.247-07:002016-12-29T06:08:51.247-07:00Spot on and exactly what government is all about, ...Spot on and exactly what government is all about, stealing from the productive to feed the lazy who will not work real jobs that could likely put some dirt under their fingernails. <br />Classic example: When a city incorporates it does so not for the citizens best interest but for the new city's employees best interest. A city incorporating is to get their own police force to enforce the new laws that the city enacts as revenue scams the citizens of the city will be saddled with. When a city expands it borders to incorporate new areas into it's scam of stealing other people's money under any number of scams that have citizen serving names. The city's employees see the expanded lands as mo money for them for, higher wages, larger retirement and likely lifetime medical insurance paid for by the taxpayers. When a city expands and incorporates new land, homes, businesses and so on. Those new citizens of that city not only have to pay for the parasites that will now be living off of them. But they have to pay for past now retired employees of that city who are collection taxpayer retirement. The new citizens of the city incorporation scam will have a lot of new expenses and will get nothing in return that they didn't already have. Government has become a huge scam on decent people. But people need to understand, government today is a word for the "employees" of government and in many cases they are unionized to scam the taxpayers to larger degrees by having smooth talking union leadership. This lie of needing government is, brought to you by your local media. Watch your local news, read you local news paper. It's pretty much all about government in one form or another. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-33924660896756551152016-12-28T17:42:24.070-07:002016-12-28T17:42:24.070-07:00Another great article. The previous article about ...Another great article. The previous article about the school to prison pipeline was excellent as well. I like to share your articles on facebook, however I usually have to wait until they appear on Lew Rockwell. I have not figured out how to share off of this site. I am a retired dairy farmer with 21 years of private/productive sector service and a recently retired, tax fed, costumed dispenser of state sanctioned violence, (I love your way with words). I served in law enforcement in the 70s and 80s, then spent 21 years as a productive citizen, during which time I became concerned about the militarization of police. I returned to law enforcement for another 14 years. I am a long term fan of your writing and share the same opinions on the issues. Naturally, my sharing of your articles and expressing my own opinions on the rampant corruption and excesses of law enforcement and government in general has not endeared me to many of my colleagues. Keep fighting, you are a great American. By the way, I am from Southern Missouri and served on a small department near Springfield. Mike Rossnoreply@blogger.com