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Is the government your shepherd?
Coasting into communism.
Don’t worry about your foreclosure. The government will take care of you. Not!
Referring to democracy, “The will of men is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided. Men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence. It does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, until each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.“
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1831
Alexis de Tocqueville – Wikipedia
Tocqueville, Consumers, and Natural Law
Let’s start with a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, 1831. He says, “The will of men is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided. Men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence.” This reminds me of the saying, free men don’t take orders from public servants. There’s deep thought in that.
Tocqueville came to America after the French Revolution to study our prisons. In his book, he mentioned people under these governments were like timid and industrious animals. I’ll translate that into consumers. We are a society of consumers. Our economy is facing the death of the consumer. Some people contribute nothing and just use resources.
We don’t need consumers wasting resources. It’s not good to be a consumer today. You need to produce or face consequences like Stalin’s actions towards those without calluses. Governments are finding they can’t support a world of consumers.
If you have debt, you’re in trouble. Now let’s talk about the law and what’s going on there. I think everyone should be producers—government can’t micromanage to achieve the highest state of efficiency to please everyone. People at the top are farming the system for their own benefit.
Government tries to control everything through artificial intelligence and micromanagement, but it can’t meet everyone’s needs. Different groups pull themselves higher while others struggle. People in power aren’t altruistic.
The Trump and Biden situation is just entertainment; neither has control. We must focus on big picture thinking. The courts still function at local and state levels, but if you don’t understand how they work, you’re in trouble.
I want to discuss a more complex topic briefly concerning a great new book. I saw the people a Mises released a new one.
The forward of this book is interesting.
Many people discuss natural law and natural rights. “I didn’t contract with you. I don’t know who you are.” I hear various arguments, but most don’t hold up in law. They’re theoretical, and the state doesn’t recognize them. There are legal constructs and fictions.
This forward of the book touches on these topics well. I may add a few comments, but many people talk about natural law as the ultimate law. However, we live in a society with other humans, and many have delegated their power to the state. Some are smart, but don’t understand what’s happening.
There are people who might be good at making money but don’t want to think. Others are shrewd, like Warren Buffet, who said, “Don’t buy things you don’t need, or soon, you’ll have to sell things you do need.” It’s practical advice.
Many aren’t practical and don’t and mush in savings and investments. Those who do are usually practical people. Returning to the debate about natural law and ‘might makes right’ – You can have an opinion about you status in relation to the state, but that doesn’t make you a special-snowflake. Especially in the eyes of the state.
Foreword: Legal Foundations of a Free Society
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Put differently: there first must be a contractor—a person—and then there must be something rightfully owned and to be contracted by this person—private or personal property—before there can ever be a valid contractual agreement. Thus, personhood and private property logically—or more precisely: praxeologically—precede contracts and contractual agreements; and hence, trying to construct a theory of justice on the foundation of contracts is a fundamental praxeological error.
Moreover, with personhood and private property as the praxeological foundation of contracts, then, any universal, all-encompassing and -including social contract as imagined by social-contract theorists is impossible.
Rather: on this basis, all contracts are contracts between identifiable and enumerable persons and concerning identifiable and enumerable things or matters.
No contract can bind anyone other than the actual contractors, and no contract can concern things or matters other than those specified in the contract.
Accordingly: Real persons with their various real, separate and exclusive properties simply cannot—praxeologically cannot —conclude a contract as fancied by social contract theorists.
https://www.stephankinsella.com/lffs/ &
https://mises.org/wire/foreword-legal-foundations-free-society#footnote1_cywmcn6
Free speech is in trouble
Young liberals are abandoning it — and other groups are too comfortable with tit-for-tat hypocrisy
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College students aren’t very enthusiastic about free speech. In particular, that’s true for liberal or left-wing students, who are at best inconsistent in their support of free speech and have very little tolerance for controversial speech they disagree with.
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But is there a lot of hypocrisy around free speech? Of course there is. Republicans who rail against wokeness put significant limits of their own on academic freedom. Supposed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk has often taken a censorious approach toward content he doesn’t like while tolerating [censorship by foreign governments]
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. . . unless someone is willing to do that — to defend free speech in a principled, non-hypocritical way — the game theory says it’s just going to be a race to the bottom. And given the increasingly tenuous commitment to it in many corners of American society, free speech is going to lose out.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/free-speech-is-in-trouble
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And speaking of censorship and the nanny state . . .
Sarah Huckabee Sanders denies clemency to Charlie Vaughn
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Despite suffering from mental illness and a severe developmental disability, Vaughn was held in jail for nearly a year, during which he repeatedly denied any involvement in the crime. There’s no record he was ever evaluated by a mental health professional to assess his competency.
A judge did finally order an evaluation, but instead, the local sheriff sent an informant into the jail to extract a confession from Vaughn. This would not be disclosed to defense counsel for more than 20 years.
The sheriff then publicly announced that Vaughn had confessed. To that point, there was no record of such a confession. But Vaughn was then assigned an attorney, who Vaughn says told him his only hope to avoid the death penalty was to confess and implicate the other people suspected by local officials.
Despite representing a man who faced a life sentence or possible death penalty, Vaughn’s attorney was paid just $200.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/sarah-huckabee-sanders-denies-clemency
Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – and Why We Believe Their Confessions
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Tennessee officials to pay $125K to settle claim they arrested a man for meme about fallen officer
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“First Amendment retaliation is illegal, and law enforcement officials who arrest people for offending them will pay heavy consequences,” Garton’s lead counsel, Daniel Horwitz, said in a news release Monday. “Misbehaving government officials apologize with money, and Mr. Garton considers more than $10,000.00 per day that he was illegally incarcerated to be an acceptable apology.”
https://apnews.com/article/meme-arrest-officer-killed-lawsuit-b842977881f95bd30186271b32a414e3
The states of indigent defense: part one
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For non-capital cases, there’s also a cap on how much attorneys are paid per case. For serious felonies punishable by between 10 years to life in prison, the cap is $4,000 per case. The RAND study recommends that attorneys spend at least 249 hours on these cases. This means that in Alabama, if you’re a private attorney handling one of these cases properly, your hourly rate comes out to about $16 per hour, roughly equivalent to the average fast food worker wage in New York.
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-states-of-indigent-defense-part
Reporting on my transition from
United States Concealed Carry Association
to
Attorneys on retainer
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https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/
Cancelled
I speak at length on this in prior programs. In the upper left, search for USCCA and Attorneys on Retainer.
https://attorneysonretainer.us/
Retainer agreement signed.
Setting up your foreclosure fight. Your information request, and 3d chess
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Hour 2
Setting up your foreclosure fight. Your information request, and 3d chess
Continued from the first hour.
Solution By Recognition
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The decision maker of experience has at his disposal a checklist of things to watch out for before finally accepting a decision. A large part of the difference between the experienced decision maker and the novice in these situations is not any particular intangible like “judgment” or “intuition.” If one could open the lid, so to speak, and see what was in the head of the experienced decision-maker, one would find that he had at his disposal repertoires of possible actions; that he had checklists of things to think about before he acted; and that he had mechanisms in his mind to evoke these, and bring these to his conscious attention when the situations for decisions arose.
https://fs.blog/solution-by-recognition/
How We’re Playing Into The Hands Of The Elites Without Even Realizing It
My subtitle: Coasting into Commie-Ville.
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Simple As That, by T.L. Davis
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What you cannot do, if you want to be taken seriously, is allow NGOs receiving money from taxpayers to fund these caravans, to pay for cell phones, bank cards and issue Asylum cards that help them ask for asylum. You certainly can’t allow fighting age males from China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Haiti, or any other nation that hates the United States and wants to see it drown in uncontrollable mobs.
It’s going to come down to a shooting and it would be better if our military were on one side and the invaders on the other, but if it doesn’t happen that way, the shooting will happen in Austin, in Milwaukee, Portland, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco over and over again.
I’m sick of all of this defeatist nonsense that if the “authorities” can’t get a handle on it, I have to watch my child die in the street. Unacceptable. Unacceptable to me and any other father out there. It should be unacceptable to those in the U.S. House and Senate trying to figure out how to ship some taxpayer funds over to Ukraine, or Israel. Stop it. The only thing, the only concern in the heart of any American who will have to suffer the deaths from terrorist, biological or chemical attacks is to shut the border down now, and if they won’t do it, don’t have the patriotic fervor to accomplish it, we will have to do it.
This can be done and it has to be done. The only choice is whether it is done orderly and efficiently or chaotically and dangerously.
It’s as simple as that.
https://tldavis.substack.com/p/simple-as-that
Credits
Jeremiah Johnson:
and, Free Raine (circa 2003)
Mason Proffit – Two Hangmen
https://youtu.be/CC3yZdG_2B
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