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Governmental extortion via property tax (part 2 of 2)

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#Taxation, # Morality, # Voluntaryism, # Liberty, # Protest, # Dan McAllister, # San Diego, # Theft, # Coercion, # Stealing, # Injustice, # Property ta
This freedom activism event took place in San Diego, CA, at the County Tax Collector's office (http://sdtreastax.com). It was a protest in which the morality of taxation, specifically property taxes, was questioned. A number of peaceful individuals supported Joe as he paid his property tax in $1 bills. This afforded him and others time to ask challenging questions of the San Diego County Tax Collector, Dan McAllister. The idea was to bring to the government employees'--and public's--attention the coercive nature of government. According to one woman who has been working there for 10 years, she has never seen or heard of an event such as this. In other words, it seems that the vast majority of people who are extorted by government never take the time to point out the immorality and injustice to those who presume to govern them. - Joe's notes: This protest was inspired by Ian Freeman (http://freekeene.com) who did two similar events in Keene, NH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcfhzT... The language used was inspired by Wes Bertrand: http://completeliberty.com And the moral philosophy was inspired by Stefan Molyneux: http://freedomainradio.com - And here's the valuable thread about how to challenge those who presume to govern you and take your property without your consent: Root-striking questions http://www.meetup.com/Complete-Libert... As well as a list of voluntaryist (or anarcho-capitalist, or complete liberty) resources: http://www.meetup.com/Complete-Libert... bumper music of note was "Society" by Eddie Vedder, from the soundtrack of "Into The Wild." http://www.pearljam.com/

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  • Absalom ?
    by Absalom ? 1 year ago
    Theodore Roosevelt
    Jamestown Exposition April 26,1907

    We of this mighty western Republic have to grapple with the dangers that spring from popular self-government tried on a scale incomparably vaster than ever before in the history of mankind, and from an abounding material prosperity greater also than anything which the world has hitherto seen.

    As regards the first set of dangers, it behooves us to remember that men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others. If from lawlessness or fickleness, from folly or self-indulgence, they refuse to govern themselves, then most assuredly in the end they will have to be governed from the outside. They can prevent the need of government from without only by showing that they possess the power of government from within, a sovereign can not make excuses for his failures; a sovereign must accept the responsibility for the exercise of the power that inheres in him, and where, as is true in our Republic, the people are sovereign, then the people must show a sober understanding and a sane and steadfast purpose if they are to preserve that orderly liberty upon which as a foundation every republic must rest.
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