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You make a good point. When did we expressly consent to be governed? I have wracked my brain to remember when I did and I just can't remember. I checked my document safe. I found my lease, my marriage certificate, my divorce decree, the bill of sale for my car, but dang it, I couldn't find the document of my expressed consent to be governed. You know, I don't think I did expressly consent now that I think about it. Did you?
I DID NOT. At least not directly. The list of items in your document safe makes one wonder however, if consent could be conveyed by assumption, when one simply participates by taking anything administered by a governmental entity. Which I desperatly try to avoid at almost any cost. But, like you, I was signed up with a number, at the behest of my parents, long before reaching the age of majority. And certainly with no more understanding of the downside of doing so at the time.
Not the lease, nor the bill of sale for a vehicle, but a "license" to marry, or drive a vehicle, or the act of voting in a general election, for example. If one refuses to consent to be governed, why would one partake of those "services"? By definition, they would have no meaning, nor application to the individual.
I'm onboard with the notion that I do not need any level of government to take care of, or watch over me. I've never asked anything of them, and I have no intention to. But by default, I seem to be compelled to abide by certain "rules" imposed that are necessary to simply function on a day to day basis. There seems to be no way out of the slavery loop.
YC.......
edit: Posted before watching your vid, which addressed some of this post. Interesting stuff, will visit your blogs later.
Last edited by Compression; 05-29-2010 at 07:47 AM..
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