{"id":19945,"date":"2016-04-14T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19945"},"modified":"2016-04-14T13:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:13:30","slug":"statism-in-a-nutshell-from-thievery-to-tyranny-in-five-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19945","title":{"rendered":"Statism in a Nutshell: From Thievery to Tyranny in Five Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a title=\"Permanent Link to Statism in a Nutshell: From Thievery to Tyranny in Five Easy Steps\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/2016\/04\/03\/statism-nutshell-thievery-tyranny-five-easy-steps\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Statism in a Nutshell: From Thievery to Tyranny in Five Easy Steps<\/a><\/h3>\n<div id=\"essb_displayed_top_974545757\" class=\"essb_links essb_counters essb_displayed_top essb_share essb_template_flat-retina essb_974545757 print-no\" data-essb-postid=\"72431\" data-essb-position=\"top\" data-essb-button-style=\"button\" data-essb-template=\"flat-retina\" data-essb-counter-pos=\"inside\" data-essb-url=\"http:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/2016\/04\/03\/statism-nutshell-thievery-tyranny-five-easy-steps\/\" data-essb-twitter-url=\"http:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/2016\/04\/03\/statism-nutshell-thievery-tyranny-five-easy-steps\/\" data-essb-instance=\"974545757\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Statism-Star.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72433\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Statism-Star.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Statism-Star-300x159.jpg 300x, http:\/\/www.wakingtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Statism-Star.jpg 640x\" alt=\"Statism Star\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cGive a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0~Unknown proverb<\/p>\n<p>War is murder, no matter how you try to justify it.\u00a0<strong>Taxation is theft, no matter how you try to codify it.<\/strong>Statism is tyranny, no matter how you try to rationalize it. No amount of justification, codification, and rationalization will get you off the hook for murder, thievery, and tyranny. The only solution? Stop justifying, codifying, and rationalizing murder thievery and tyranny. It can only be resolved from the ground up; never from the top down. Meaning: it begins with you. It begins by recognizing how individual thievery can become collective tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a parable explaining the diabolical ease in which base thievery can become a tyrannical state. As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;index=aps&amp;keywords=Anthony%20de%20Mello&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=wakitime09-20&amp;linkId=JIEVJEDO5BPZQIXR\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony de Mello<\/a>\u00a0said,\u00a0<em>\u201cYou have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cWhere there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.\u201d<\/strong>~Mohandas Gandhi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you are, scoping out the ocean side, looking for that unaware fisherman. Sure you\u2019re lazy and greedy, but you\u2019re smart. You\u2019ll be damned if you\u2019re gonna let a sucker keep his fish. After all, that fishhead soup isn\u2019t going to cook itself. You\u2019re hungry and you have to survive too. It just so happens that you\u2019re hungry for power and control, and survival for you is making other people\u2019s survival dependent on you. Who cares if it\u2019s off the backs of others? You\u2019re smarter than they are. Or so you keep telling yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statism in a Nutshell: From Thievery to Tyranny in Five Easy Steps \u201cGive a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.\u201d\u00a0~Unknown proverb War is murder, no matter how you try to justify it.\u00a0Taxation is theft, no matter how you try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[13471,972,13470,1492,8553],"class_list":["post-19945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-gary-z-mcgee","tag-statism","tag-thievery","tag-tyranny","tag-waking-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19946,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19945\/revisions\/19946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}