It's getting really hard for me to have an Internet presence, in the sense of having stuff out there such as my 2008 email to the President. Apparently, people must really wanna censor it, and they've been doing a pretty good job because at any given time, you usually can't find it in a google search. Anyway, here it is again.
You can just post it somewhere on reddit, it will be archived by services such as
http://removeddit.com/
My primary motivation for doing so is that he is the leader of the largest
and most dangerous criminal organization in the world - namely, the United
States Government.
That failed rather badly and you just taking out a single individual would be rather useless anyway, the vice president will simply take over. We also need to realize that a lot of harmful practices are implemented by individual states.
Among the many unlawful activities it engages in is a nationwide protection racket, in which it extorts money from non-consenting
citizens
This libertarian obsession with taxes is rather strange, you do lose purchasing power when you pay into the system but if you are successful that will not really be an issue for you. It's mostly a status thing (how you do relative to other people) since you will quickly reach the point of deminishing returs.
Higher taxes simply mean you need to be more successful to earn the same amount after the taxes, this is a problem in countries like Sweden unless you manage to avade these high taxes (such as by having a company, AB)
Its not unlawful since the constitution was amended to allow for taxation.
The government's thefts are not only immoral, but unnecessary. In the
absence of taxpayer-funded police, courts, and defense agencies, citizens
and businesses would hire private police, arbitrators, and private defense
agencies to provide protection and dispute resolution. These firms, being
unburdened by the red tape and dysfunctional bureaucracies that accompany
government, would be more efficient and effective than government agencies.
Can you name a single example of where that has actually worked, the closest example in recent times is medieval iceland which did have something like a government, its just that the enforcement wasn't centralized, this was in the past when technology was primitive, it may no longer be feasible.
Government regulation must also be ended, since it constitutes an
infringement on our freedom. Laws supposedly intended to protect workers,
such as the minimum wage, actually hurt the poor by pricing them out of the
labor market. The government red tape required to operate a business also
creates barriers to entrepreneurialism. Regulation of various professions
(including mandatory licensures) reduces the number of available
professionals, causing the price of important services (such as doctors,
lawyers, accountants, etc.) to rise. Immigration restrictions are violating
the rights of employers to invite whomever they want onto their property;
and in doing so, are hampering the ability of U.S. firms to compete against
low-wage countries such as China in the global economy. Regulation accounts
for much of the reason why we are entering a recession, and why millions of
Americans are unemployed or underemployed. Everyone should be allowed to
negotiate whatever contracts they want for purchase or sale of goods and
services, without government interference.
As Ted kaczynsky pointed out some of the regulation are not needed but a lot of it are in fact needed. Minimum wage laws were originally implemented for the purpose of eugenics, it also serves the purpose of making low wage immigration difficult.
Perhaps most disturbing, the government is also steadily chipping away at
the right of citizens to bear arms; the whole point of which is to enable
them to fight back against an oppressive government. Once the people are
disarmed, they will be able to offer no further meaningful resistance. Thus,
this is the now-or-never tipping point at which it becomes essential to take
up arms against the government.
People have so far not resisted actual tyranny such as psychiatry so the second amendment may even do more harm than good.
Unfortunately, the prospects for peaceful reform are dim.
No reforming the system peacefully when you have democracy in place is far easier than taking power with force unless you get significant outside help. Armed revolution rarily lead to an improvement, often you find yourself in a worse situation afterwarths.
The main reason is that most of the intellectuals, who might otherwise form a nucleus of
dissent, have been bought off or indoctrinated. The lure of a lucrative,
stable job in academia, government or government contracting draws many
intellectuals to these fields. In those roles, they are hardly in a position
to go around questioning the merits of government's existence. That would be
biting the hand that feeds them. Instead, they use their posts in the state
bureaucracy (including the public education system) to help indoctrinate new
generations of young people into the statist ideology. There are even
government positions, such as the Drug Czar, that are specifically tasked
with advocating the government's current policies at taxpayer expense (see
U.S. Code Title 21, Section 1703(b)(12), which requires the Drug Czar to
"take such actions as necessary to oppose any attempt to legalize" drugs).
As one cannabis reform activist pointed out, legalizers are essentially
paying to oppose themselves.
The movement to legalize pot has been rather successful so it's a bad example.
The statists also have the benefit of political donations from interest
groups seeking to profit from feeding at the public trough. The Medicare
drug benefit, farm subsidies, etc. are creating whole new classes of
citizens who see themselves as financially dependent on the government's
continued largesse. It is almost impossible for even a well-funded
libertarian movement to compete effectively against those who have taxpayer
funds at their disposal to indoctrinate and/or buy off the electorate.
The coch brothers were libertarians, where were no lack of money. The real issue is that libertarianism is a fraud.
Your letter was dogshit and you deserved 5 years in jail for writing that nonsense, you only focused on economic issues that frankly isn't important and not a valid reason to overthrow a government or even to support peaceful libertarianism.
Actual problems are
1. Psychiatry
2. Age of Consent laws
3. other problematic sex/porn laws
4. expensive and inhumane prison system
5. too many to broad laws making it impossible not to break them
All these issues stem from an ignorant public and thus to be successful we need to target the public such as via disruptive protests.
