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Choosing Peace Over Liberty
By Michael Gaddy

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January 19, 2004

Since my awakening to the forces and depredations of the State some 5 years ago, I have often wondered why so many people, even when faced with the terrible, deceptive forces of government, choose to continually apologize for it. History is resplendent with a plethora of examples to the answer to this question, if one will only listen.

The words of the great Sioux war chief, Sitting Bull, echo in my mind: “If the great spirit would have wanted me to be a white man, he would have made it so. Eagles do not gather with the crows.”

The American Indian and his way of life was the epitome of freedom. He roamed the land, settling where resources were plentiful and moved when he wanted. The Anglo and his “civilized” laws and rules eliminated the Red man when need be and brought the full devastating power of the State down upon him until he had to make a choice; peace or liberty. He could have chosen to fight on but the State was determined to eliminate him if that was the choice he made. Today, these noble people live on their “reservations,” follow the white mans laws, send their children to be educated as he dictates, die in his wars and enjoy his “peace.” Their once proud culture hangs today by a very thin thread as most of the children have decided to choose the State’s peace over liberty and no longer practice the ways of their culture.

In 1861, the people of the South, while providing the nation with the majority of its financial resources, began to realize that the confiscatory nature of the State was planning to demand even more from the bounty of their labors. They chose to pursue what they believed to be a legal remedy, secession. The head of the State machinery, one Abraham Lincoln, decided that he would use force, coercion, destruction and death to “convince” the people of the South that they should remain with the Union and enjoy more of its “peace.” Remarkably, today the State puts forth the idea that the war was fought over the subjugation of the Black race. Many have not the knowledge of history to know that while the war to subjugate the South was taking place, the State was in full battle mode with the Indian, so as to offer him a like peace to the one that would be visited upon the people of the South.

The State has now so brainwashed the Black race with their peace, they have their elected leaders proposing the slavery of all between the ages of 18-26. As Jack Duggan says. “Almost no one sees the irony of a slave descendant conscripting slaves to make more slave states worldwide.”

At Appomattox Court House, Robert E. Lee chose peace over liberty and thus brought about over a decade of horrors on the Southern people that we today know as “reconstruction.” This reconstruction would in essence be the plundering of Southern resources and the enslavement of its people for the betterment of the great benevolent state. But not to worry, did all this not bring us peace?

Today, the people of Iraq have a similar choice to make. Will they choose liberty or will they choose peace. The State apologists are too ignorant to see through the propaganda network. We were told the invasion of this sovereign nation was to eliminate the threat of annihilation that so many faced because of Iraq’s enormous stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. The State has now admitted that these weapons did not exist, if not in words, then by the removal of the teams that have been hunting for them for months.
Then we were told this invasion was necessary because Saddam had direct links to al Qaeda and was by this association guilty of the attacks of 9/11. While this has been proven to be nothing but another state prevarication, we wait patiently for another to justify the killing of our soldiers and spending of our resources to line the pockets of campaign contributors.

Now, the State’s position is that we are in Iraq and have killed tens of thousands of their citizens (many among them women and children) to bring them peace and democracy. If Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse Chief Joseph, Seattle, Geronimo and Barboncito, not to mention Robert E. Lee, were with us today, would they recognize this propaganda from the mouths of the slave masters? Would they recognize the rhetoric of the State where all potential enemies are called butchers and demons?

Of course, since in the nation of Iraq the majority of its citizens are Shiites, the State is faced with a real dilemma if they permit a true democracy. For in the democracy the Bush administration would impose, the majority would always be the State, just as it is in the good ole US of A. Our government does not want to allow elections at this time because, as a senior official with the Coalition Provisional Authority (read US government puppet) said, “allowing the most organized political groups - hard-line Islamic parties or, much less likely, splinters of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party - to seize power.”

Damn, isn’t that what an election is? I don’t want there to be an election in America in 2004 because I fear the government will maintain control! That makes just as much sense as what they are saying.

Soon we will be reaping the chaff from this devastating harvest and it will require much more of our resources and many more of the lives of our soldiers. The possibilities for total chaos emanating from this careless war are steadily increasing.

Many with whom I speak about my belief in anarchy, present their justification for government by saying that we must have someone to protect us from the “bad guys” in the world. They have not an answer when I ask; then what if the government is the “bad guy” or assists the “bad guys” with their goals?

Government can no more give you peace or liberty than a cancer can give you good health, because that is exactly what the State is: A cancer on the people, sapping away the sweat of our brows and the lives of our children.

We do not demand the truth and accountability from government because we choose the façade of peace over the reality of liberty!


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