Endless Duress
Sam Aurelius Milam III
I see, on the TV, sad-faced pundits, politicians, reporters, and others, all complaining that they just can’t understand why a man would go out and start shooting people. I can understand why. From my first day of mandatory attendance in the first grade at a government school (AKA public school), I was compelled to do things that I didn’t want to do, be places that I didn’t want to be, and associate with people and things that I didn’t like. Such duress continued during elementary school, junior high school, high school, junior college, and university. It continued as a so-called military obligation, forcing me into involuntary servitude in the Naval Reserve. It continued in the form of so-called job opportunities, luring me into the control of the
government’s corporate establishment. I spent that entire part of my life trying to do what was required of me. It wasn’t until I was in my late 30s or my early 40s that I began to understand that
I should have had other choices, and that I’d been deprived of them, without my knowledge or consent. After that, I began to try to rid myself of the constraints that had been imposed on me. One thing that I accomplished
was to replace one kind of duress with a different kind of duress.
That’s how this particular police state works. If one doesn’t submit
to its illegitimate jurisdiction, then one is deprived of access to all
of the things that one wants or needs, and over which the police state
has usurped control. Eventually, the police state even forced me to
sell my home, a place that had become my only means of livelihood, and where I’d intended to live for the remainder of my life. The police state permitted me to keep a small fraction of the proceeds of the sale, but not enough to survive. It didn’t care whether or not I had a place to live or a way to support myself. All that mattered was that either I submitted to the illegitimate jurisdiction, or I’d be deprived of things. In order to avoid the jurisdiction, I’ve had to accept being excluded from most
of the things that other people take for granted. A man can endure a certain amount of such duress, controlling every aspect of his life, to his disadvantage and dissatisfaction, without his consent, with the fear of punishment, and without any hope that it will ever end. After a certain amount of that, some men will refuse to
keep putting up with it. Some of those men will snap. They
reach a limit, and they snap. That’s the answer that I have for
those puzzled pundits, et al, mentioned earlier. At least some of
the “mystifying” hostility that so puzzles them, maybe most of it or even
all of it, is a consequence of the endless duress that the police state
imposes on all of us, against our wills, for our entire lives, and without
any hope that it will ever end.
Some Timeless Truths
Sam Aurelius Milam III
| ... since it is an impossible thing that those who are able to use or to resist force should be willing to remain always in subjection, from this point of view the persons are the same, for those who carry arms can always determine the fate of the
constitution. —Aristotle (384 BC — 322 BC) |
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All governments are police states. It’s inherent in the nature of a government to be a police state.
To govern, which means to control the people, requires the use of force, the threat of force, or punishment.•
Voting alone won’t control a government. The voters must always be capable of enforcing their votes. To that end, the body politic must be armed and free to organize independently of the government, without its permission.•
An armed man could kill people for his entire life and never kill a noticeable fraction of the number of people who have been killed by governments. Mass shootings aren’t the problem. Government is
the problem. •
No matter how many mass shootings there are, no matter how selectively the government’s news agencies overreport them, and no matter how many people are killed in
them, nothing ever justifies disarming the people. Anti-gun
advocates aren’t trying to control guns. They’re trying to
control the people. More than 2000 ears ago, Aristotle noted that those who carry arms will control the constitution. He wrote about such things as if they were already old knowledge, even
then. They were. They were timeless truths then and they’re
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