{"id":17702,"date":"2013-05-06T22:26:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=17702"},"modified":"2013-05-06T22:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:26:22","slug":"the-cult-of-the-state-what-the-kent-state-massacre-anniversary-should-teach-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/05\/the-cult-of-the-state-what-the-kent-state-massacre-anniversary-should-teach-us\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cult of the State: What The Kent State Massacre Anniversary Should Teach Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The posting of this article does not imply endorsement of the views of the author.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 The\u00a0F\u00e9nix Rojo<\/em>\u00a0Editorial Board.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

by Michael Suede<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

(May 4, 2012) – Today is the\u00a0anniversary\u00a0of the<\/span>\u00a0Kent State shootings<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0by the Ohio National Guard. \u00a0The shootings should serve as a reminder to us of what underlies all political processes: violence. \u00a0The political process should more aptly be named the process of violent imposition, because any edict, no matter how small or\u00a0inconsequential, is ultimately enforced with the threat of death.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you receive a parking ticket, and you feel it is unjust so you refuse to pay it, eventually a bench warrant will be issued for your arrest. \u00a0Should you resist arrest, the arresting officer will escalate his use of force up to the point of killing you.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you refuse to fight a foreign war of aggression against your consent through the imposition of a draft, an arrest warrant will be issued for your arrest. \u00a0\u00a0Should you resist arrest, the arresting officer will escalate his use of force up to the point of killing you.<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter what the law, it always carries the ultimate threat of death for continued disobedience. \u00a0Any\u00a0resistance\u00a0to the state is always met with violent force. \u00a0Any\u00a0escalation\u00a0of\u00a0resistance\u00a0is always ultimately met with lethal force. \u00a0All projects, laws and bureaucracies created by the state are funded through the threat of violent force.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Kent State shootings, in which no National Guardsmen were charged with any wrong doing, after killing several unarmed girls and boys that were hundreds of feet away from them, is a symptom of a disease called the state. \u00a0Because violence underlies everything the state does, it is impossible to \u201cfix\u201d the state or correct it to be some kind of benevolent force for good. \u00a0As Milton Friedman used to say, the badness of means will ultimately corrupt the goodness of\u00a0intentions. \u00a0It is simply not possible to do \u201cgood\u201d without doing equal \u201cbad\u201d as far as the political process is concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even now, you do not have a choice about paying for Predator drones that fly around<\/span>\u00a0killing innocent women and children<\/span><\/a><\/span>. \u00a0Should you refuse to pay for this, you will be thrown into a cage. \u00a0Not only will you be thrown into a cage, but society as a whole will demonize you as being greedy. \u00a0You will not be able to find work once you have been released from your cage. \u00a0You will not be allowed to defend yourself with a gun once you are released from your cage. \u00a0You will not be allowed to vote once you are released from your cage. \u00a0You will probably have a hard time simply getting by \u2013 all because you didn\u2019t want to pay for child killings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet so many still believe in the process. \u00a0So many have been brainwashed to ignore the horrors of what the process creates because they continue to buy into the delusion that violence can be used for the greater good if only the \u201cright\u201d people are put into positions of power, if only the \u201cright\u201d laws were to be passed.<\/span><\/p>\n

The present condition of our society will deteriorate into chaos as the monetary system implodes and the state attempts to maintain its power. \u00a0 You should not fear this, for it is a process that is natural and necessary for the evolution of humanity. \u00a0Nature inherently forces man to confront his mistakes and provides him the opportunity to get it right. \u00a0Getting it \u201cright\u201d involves love and compassion. \u00a0Getting it \u201cright\u201d means rejecting the use of force to organize society. \u00a0Getting it \u201cright\u201d means voluntary interactions that force us to serve one another at all times. \u00a0Getting it \u201cright\u201d means compassion for all people, including tax evaders, tax collectors, heroin addicts, heroin dealers, and everyone else in society.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rise and fall of the\u00a0Western Roman Empire\u00a0took 500 years. \u00a0If you were ask a Roman citizen during the height of the empire if they thought it would ever collapse, what do you think their response would be? \u00a0The rise and fall of the Soviet Union took a mere 70 years. \u00a0How many years do we have left?<\/span><\/p>\n

The creation of the state will always end in the collapse of a given society. \u00a0This process of collapse may take years, decades, or even centuries, but all states always succumb to the bad means upon which they were founded. \u00a0Arguing that this is not so does not change the reality of what is. \u00a0Reality does not care about theory. \u00a0Reality does not care about good intentions. \u00a0Reality is what it is, and no amount of violence can stop it or alter the laws that govern it.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can learn from our past mistakes and reject the use of violence to organize our society, or we can continue down the same path humanity has been on since man first became self-aware.<\/span><\/p>\n

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