Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Quote of the Day: Invoking Democracy to Destroy Freedom

People are taught that, thanks to democracy, coercion is no longer dangerous because people get to vote on who coerces them. Because people are permitted a role in choosing who will be in charge of the penal code, they are free. Being permitted to vote for politicians who enact unjust, oppressive new laws magically converts the stripes on prison shirts into emblems of freedom. But it takes more than voting to make coercion benign.

The fiction of majority rule has become a license to impose nearly unlimited controls on the majority and everybody else. The doctrine of “majority rule equals freedom” is custom-made to turn mobs of voters into spoiled children with a divine right to plunder the candy store. The only way to equate submission to majority-sanctioned decrees with individual freedom is to assume that individuals have no right to live in any way that displeases the majority.

The more confused people’s thinking becomes, the easier it is for rulers to invoke democracy to destroy freedom. The issue is not simply Lincoln ‘s, Roosevelt’s, Clinton’s or Bush’s absurd statements on freedom but a cultural–intellectual smog in which politicians have unlimited leeway to redefine freedom. If politicians can redefine freedom at their whim, then they can raze limits on their own power.
This is from libertarian author and lecturer James Bovard at the Freeman.

It is important to distinguish constitutional/liberal democracy with that of social democracy and of mob rule (Ochlocracy)

1 comment:

thediktatreporter said...

I relate Jesus Christ is God’s economic and political plan administrator transitioning the world from the fullness of investment choice and credit that produced prosperity under Liberalism, into what will be the depth of nannycrat diktat and debt servitude that will produce austerity in Authoritarianism, as seen in Ephesians 1:10

To achieve His aim of producing the Beast Regime of Diktat to replace the Banker Regime of Investment Choice, which will rule in all of the world’s ten regions and occupy in all of mankind’s seven institutions, Revelation 13:1-4, as well as to produce the Ten Toed Kingdom of Regional Governance, Daniel 2:25-24, Jesus Christ has released the First Horseman of the Apocalypse, that is the Rider on the White Horse, who has a bow but no arrows, Revelation 6:1-2, to effect global economic and political coup d etat. This rider is seen having great success in Argentina, ARGT, with Kirchnerism, in Egypt, EGPT, with Morsi’s rise to power, and in Greece, GREK, with the Troika’s technocratic rule, and now in Cyrpus with the Troika’s banking mandates. Greece and Cyprus are no longer sovereign nation states; rather vassal colonial states ruled by bankers and oligarchs residing in Brussels, and Berlin. The Greeks and Cypriots rely totally for the provision of their fiscal needs upon the regional sovereignty existing in the ECB, not the marketplace or any free market economy.

Also the First Horseman of The Apocalypse, Revelation 6:1-2, has taken sovereignty that is rulership from Italy; it exists as a country having no head, that is no rule, no government. Italy is no longer a democracy, rather it is a zombie state existing governed by Christ’s First Henchman, and whose fiscal needs, like Greece and Cyprus, are provided courtesy of Mario Draghi and the monetary authority of the European Central Bank

The Netherlands Cry for Freedom reported in the Financial Times article Dutch support EU referendum, will go unheeded, as God’s Clarion Call, Revelation 1:1, is for fascist technocratic government in the Eurozone, Revelation 13:1-4, Daniel 2:25-45, and Daniel 7:23. Rest assured that God will accomplish his aim as the Rider on the White Horse, Daniel 6:1-2, has all authority and power to fully displace all existing sovereignty as well as dislocate all current seigniorage, that is moneyness. Eventually, all current economic and political life wil be totally wiped out.

With the rise in the US Dollar, $USD, UUP, the fiat money system is dying. Said another way, the Milton Friedman Free To Choose floating currency regime, which featured the US Dollar as the International Reserve Currency is failing, as Major World Currencies, DBV, and Emerging Market Currencies, CEW, are trading lower in value.
The diktat money system where diktat serves as currency, money, that is wealth, and power is rising to replace the fiat money system.