Notes From Gordon: Useful Definitions For Taxpaying Serfs

Useful Definitions For Taxpaying Serfs

Hi, Gordon here.

I think it important to recognize things for what they actually are. And always to maintain a healthy sense of humor.

Otherwise we could find ourselves trapped in a decaying republic, ruled by murderers and psychopaths, taxed to death, and with the labors of a lifetime being eaten way by inflation. And we certainly wouldn’t want that to happen!

When you step back far enough from the follies and predations of your fellow man (ladies, I’m not letting you off the hook here) you become an Observer. Here to help others in any way you can. Other than that, just passing through. Got a smoke?

Please do not think of the following definitions as being in any way dark or sardonic. They are merely statements of fact that would immediately become clear to any rational visitor to our small planet.

Government
The social experiment that we humans call government is only about 5,500 years old and hasn’t gone very well thus far. In fact, governments throughout history have been the number one cause of death for all the peoples on Earth. Government is the organized power of coercion, granted by taxpaying serfs to their political leaders. The taxpayer’s hope is that their government will protect them from external threats, while never proposing so large an internal threat as to one day disarm and kill them.

"The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded." — Baron de Montesquieu in The Spirit of the Laws (1748).

Subject vs. Citizen
A subject functions as the indentured servant of their elected officials and will do whatever their government tells them to do, just as an obedient (if occasionally unruly) child will begrudgingly obey a domineering parent. Citizens, on the other hand, see themselves as the masters of their government; holding their public officials accountable and treating them kindly as one would any faithful servant.

"Governments need armies to protect them against their enslaved and oppressed subjects." — Leo Tolstoy

Law
Laws are words inscribed into books by collections of elected individuals called legislators. The entire collection is called a Congress. Some of these individuals are so odd and demented that they could serve as extras for the bar scene in Star Wars. Voters grant these law makers the power to force their compliant behavior in the hopes that doing so will somehow create a fair and equitable social structure called democracy. Regrettably, every democracy in human history has devolved into totalitarianism. America is in late innings of this game right now.

"A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn’t going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty." — George Baumler

Money
Money is a circulating token that represents a finite amount of stored labor that can be exchanged for the stored labor of others. Money created by government fulfills the illusion that any labor has been stored.

"The decrease in purchasing power incurred by holders of money due to inflation imparts gains to the issuers of money." — St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank in Review, Nov. 1975, p.22.

The Constitution
The Constitution is the owner’s manual for citizens and includes a money back guarantee. Operate it correctly and politicians are made to walk the tightrope of liberty. Fail to operate it correctly and you are guaranteed not to get your money back, or your liberty.

"The Constitution is a written instrument. As such it's meaning does not alter. That which it meant when adopted, it means now.” — United States Supreme Court in South Carolina vs. United States (1905)

National Flag
Historically, flags began as pennants displayed on war ships to identify each other on the seas. You wouldn’t want to blow the other guy’s masts off, only to find out he was one of your own. The “stars and stripes” is today the military banner under which foreign lands are invaded and their peoples (infants, children, the infirm and elderly) subjugated or outright murdered—perhaps by a Predator drone—with apologies to those posthumously designated as collateral damage.

“If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.” — Frederick The Great

Memorial Day
The national holiday on which taxpayers are officially permitted a day free of labor. Let us share a silent moment for Karl Marx. The holiday is observed so that we can solemnly honor dead members of the military who ignored the Constitutional requirement that wars be declared by their elected representatives. And only, I might add, in those situations where legitimate sovereign defense against a clear external threat was required. Like, say, the War of 1812? Enlistees (soon to be accompanied by inductees, both male and female) blindly and unthinkingly follow the orders of military bosses to invade foreign lands they couldn’t locate on a map, in exchange for low interest loans, disability compensation if missing various limbs, and free burial.

“The indispensability of play-acting in the grim business of dying and killing is particularly evident in the case of armies. Their uniforms, flags, emblems, parades, music, and elaborate etiquette and ritual are designed to separate the soldier from his flesh-and-blood self and mask the overwhelming reality of life and death.” — Eric Hoffer in The True Believer

Politician
A politician is essentially a hooker with low self-esteem. Whereas hookers are hard working entrepreneurs who perform vital services for reasonable compensation, politicians are largely parasites who produce nothing and live off the labors of their constituents.

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own." — H.G. Wells

Taxation
Taxation is plunder, short and sweet. Taxation is officially sanctioned theft, enforced by an army of prosecutors who swear an oath to uphold the Constitution while paying it no attention whatsoever, other than to speak of it with great reverence.

"Only the rare taxpayer would be likely to know that he could refuse to produce his records to IRS agents... Who would believe the ironic truth that the cooperative taxpayer fares much worse than the individual who relies upon his constitutional rights.“ — Judge Cummings, U.S. Federal Judge, in US. v. Dickerson (7th Circuit 1969)

Treason vs. Sedition
Treason is the betrayal of one’s nation during wartime. Sedition is betrayal during peacetime and is the normal course of behavior by elected and appointed officials. The Constitution requires that the government issue lawful money. The fact that the Federal Reserve Note (a/k/a dollar) circulates as credit issued by a private, for-profit banking cartel constitutes sedition. The Constitution requires that direct taxes be laid upon the states only, yet the government directly taxes everyone. Again, sedition. The Constitution requires that all wars be declared by Congress, yet presidents routinely declare war as if they were emperors. Yet more sedition. You get the idea. Sedition is very popular these days.

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason." — Sir John Harrington

In Closing
I hope this was helpful. It served well in home schooling my children, all three of whom who now know a wooden nickel when they see one.