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Thread: George Ought to Help - nice 4 min vid on rethinking the concept of democracy

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    God damnit george
    You are the $#@! that started this whole thing.

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    One difference these days is that George isn't threatened to help Oliver all that much anymore, he's threatened in order to fund warfare, bureaucracy and corporations who have lobbied government favor.
    Those who want liberty must organize as effectively as those who want tyranny. -- Iyad el Baghdadi

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    Ooh, I like this video. Not that I didn't know this idea before, but it's easily digestible for newcomers to the idea that taxation is theft.

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    That was very well done. I have a few people I need to share this with.
    "One of the great victories of the state, is that the word "Anarchy" terrifies people but, the word "State" does not" - Tom Woods

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnengland View Post
    ooh, i like this video. Not that i didn't know this idea before, but it's easily digestible for newcomers to the idea that taxation is theft.
    qft.

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    Wow, that was an awesome and simplistic movie to easily introduce the non-aggression principle
    "Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."-Étienne de La Boétie

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    MAJOR bump to this video! Tweeted, liked, favorited, and Facebooked!
    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me



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    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me

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    Concise points colored with real world relativism end with suggestive keyword searches. the introductory illustration of liberty is better drawn out in "george out to help" than "the philosophy of liberty". in our hands, we hold a masterpiece.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mediahasyou View Post
    Concise points colored with real world relativism end with suggestive keyword searches. the introductory illustration of liberty is better drawn out in "george out to help" than "the philosophy of liberty". in our hands, we hold a masterpiece.
    Ditto! This has to go viral.
    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me

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    Meh, showed this to a forum I regular in which the majority of members are leftist Europeans. Got called a bunch of names, got referenced to the social contract(ie: maybe he should move to another country). The one conservative amongst them, a South American, called me a dreamer and brought up the old "what about roads" argument.
    "Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."-Étienne de La Boétie

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    The Constitution is the original social contract and the deal was that the government would stay out of your way and in exchange you would agree to stay out of other people's ways. If someone objects to the Constitution as a social contract, it is he who should consider moving to another country.

    Anyway, sorry to hear it didn't make make it through their thick skulls. You could show them this as well but I'm not sure how much good it would do based on what you said

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    Quote Originally Posted by emazur View Post
    The Constitution is the original social contract and the deal was that the government would stay out of your way and in exchange you would agree to stay out of other people's ways.
    The notion of the social contract implies that the people give up sovereignty to a government or other authority in order to receive or maintain social order through the rule of law.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
    There is no social contract because I never handed my sovereignty to the government.

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    ya, this video is awesome... i put it in a YouTube movie i made called "Global Hostile Takeover".... so if you like this video, you'll probably enjoy my movie

    Under Occupation - Global Hostile Takeover - FULL MOVIE
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCPpHt03-Oo



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    Awesome stuff, thanks for posting.
    "Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."-Étienne de La Boétie

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    I wish there was a way to circulate videos like this one on a more widespread basis so that it wouldn't just be seen by people who already agree with its message and those who vehemently oppose it. How do we reach the "blue pill" crowd?
    "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight, because once they've got you violent then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor. "

    ---John Lennon


    "I EAT NEOCONS FOR BREAKFAST!!!"

    ---Me

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