Chart of Coercion
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BIDERMAN!! I’ve been looking for that name for ever. Thanks for posting!
hmmm the name doesn’t come up in my notes. Alrighty what glowie scrubbed this from me notes... geo I’m looking at you little green haired rascal... I’m praying for you! All the more because you hate it.
[Posted a moment ago and found it as a reply to someone else's comment (my mistake, or glitch, I don't know which) but it's meant as a response to 50_Stars_For_Freedom's post at top, so here it is in the right place . . . I hope]
Great post and a terrific chart. COERCION is a bottom-line, central concept. I was on a jury where "coercion" by name was one of the charges: coercion is literally a crime. Sex becomes rape by the simple addition of coercion, for instance.
Also, coercion is literally the single defining feature of government -- everything else is detail and fantasy (divine right of kings, dictatorship of the proletariat, democratic rule, etc -- it always comes down to someone other than YOU deciding what you can and cannot do). If you want to use coercion to do things, your choice is criminal behavior or government. This explains a lot. Hell, it underpins EVERYTHING we're dealing with.
In a Texas Junior High, in 1964, I told my Civics teacher that I liked the pro-freedom message in Barry Goldwater's speeches. She sneered at me and said, "Recognize propaganda when you hear it." Freedom was NOT a good thing in her mind.
As far as the horrors of Communism: I don't remember ANY discussion of them in my so-called education, which spanned several states. I have copies of Rummel's Death by Government (Rummel died a few years back; here's a related site: http://www.vftonline.org/XianAnarch/pacifism/rummel.htm ) and of The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press, 858 pages) -- none of that material, which involves 20th century horrors, was taught in any course I took.
Americans and people around the world are waking up to the nnightmare of government coercion, and I only hope it's not too little too late. Charts like the one you posted here are very helpful because they put the focus where it belongs and NAMES the basic problem. Can't think about something clearly if you don't have a name for it or a good understanding of it.
Sad that stupid people that didn’t study or pay attention in High School or College history to the VietCong, Khmer Rouge, or USSR history didn’t see this a mile away! These same people must’ve never saw the original Red Dawn either.
Great post and a terrific chart. COERCION is a bottom-line, central concept. I was on a jury where "coercion" by name was one of the charges: coercion is literally a crime. Sex becomes rape by the simple addition of coercion, for instance.
Also, coercion is literally the single defining feature of government -- everything else is detail and fantasy (divine right of kings, dictatorship of the proletariat, democratic rule, etc -- it always comes down to someone other than YOU deciding what you can and cannot do). If you want to use coercion to do things, your choice is criminal behavior or government. This explains a lot. Hell, it underpins EVERYTHING we're dealing with.
In a Texas Junior High, in 1964, I told my Civics teacher that I liked the pro-freedom message in Barry Goldwater's speeches. She sneered at me and said, "Recognize propaganda when you hear it." Freedom was NOT a good thing in her mind.
As far as the horrors of Communism: I don't remember ANY discussion of them in my so-called education, which spanned several states. I have copies of Rummel's Death by Government (Rummel died a few years back; here's a related site: http://www.vftonline.org/XianAnarch/pacifism/rummel.htm ) and of The Black Book of Communism (Harvard University Press, 858 pages) -- none of that material, which involves 20th century horrors, was taught in any course I took.
Americans and people around the world are waking up to the nnightmare of government coercion, and I only hope it's not too little too late. Charts like the one you posted here are very helpful because they put the focus where it belongs and NAMES the basic problem. Can't think about something clearly if you don't have a name for it or a good understanding of it.
https://youtu.be/olXipfCKUoo