 | FORCIBLY overthrow tyrants or be doomed to enslavement
It is good that Napolitano's book is NOT scholarly, because
it then has the chance to reach more people.
He is right that the government is not your friend and
most lawyers are in some way or the other tied to the government
because of the court system. Keep in mind that EVERY demand
by "government" is backed by the ability and willingness to
use force, including deadly force, if you don't "comply."
EVERYTHING the government does involves violence or the
threat of violence. They may hide it in many layers of legalese
rhetoric, euphemisms, and administrative and judicial garbage,
but it's all backed by FORCE.
Civilized, good people don't enjoy hurting or killing people. What
makes
people "civilized" is their RELUCTANCE to resort to violent force,
unless
it's necessary for defensive purposes. (Incidentally, this is also the
basic premise behind libertarianism.)
But this leads to a paradox. If the good guys are unwilling to use
force
when necessary, when the bad guys ARE willing to use force... well, the
good guys will lose. So that which makes us good (the reluctance to
use
violence against another human being) also puts us at a huge
disadvantage
when compared to those who don't mind initiating violence. Many good
people don't even like to talk about, or THINK about using force,
especially deadly force. But the fact remains: if the bad guys are
willing to use violence, and the good guys aren't, the bad guys will
win.
If you read some of what went on around 1776, not as a lesson from
history, but as if it's a current event, it takes on a very different
light. The "Founders" were law-breaking, treasonous, violent rebels,
who
openly advocated VIOLENT resistance to the laws of the land. Now we
all
cheer them for doing it... because they won. If they had lost, the
history books would show it as an uprising of rebel traitors.
In his famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, Patrick Henry
did a
wonderful job of explaining how sometimes the good guys HAVE to use
violence, or submit to slavery... or death. Other "founding fathers"
explained that if you give
up your ability to FORCIBLY overthrow tyrants, you are doomed to
enslavement. (Thus we have the Second Amendment.)
We have a country that was BUILT on the open advocacy of VIOLENT
OVERTHROW of any government which BEOMES destructive of individual
liberties
(see the Declaration of Independence). Yet we've gotten to the point
that
even
saying something that might be construed to sort of mean something
vaguely
reminiscent of a thought that might have some connection to violence,
gets
you treated as a nasty criminal. Meanwhile, the government commits
violence EVERY DAY involving innocent members of the public (not just
dangerous
criminals) and more and more doesn't even bother restricting it to
"legal"
violence.
The Internet is helping to make this happen.
Tom Clayton, MD
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