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Dec. 19, 2023 - Jim Fetzer
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ALEXANDER “ACE” BAKER – False Flags Happen. So What?
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Welcome to the fourth annual False Flags and Conspiracies Conference, which this year, I'm pleased to say, is being provided free to the public live as it's being produced thanks to Lauriam Fenton, who is
with me this year, and who will be hosting the speakers for the second half of each day's presentations, while I will be hosting the first.
In addition, I want to express appreciation to our sponsors this year, including Revolution Radio, Speak Free Radio,
Republic Broadcasting Network, Moonrock Books, Real Deal Media, All Things Reconsidered, and by special arrangement, our show is being broadcast live over the Mike Adams Brighteon
Network, at the address wrighteon.com slash channels real deal media, by arrangement with Dean Ryan, shown here, wearing a conspiracy realist cab, which is totally appropriate.
The attempt to denigrate conspiracy theorists who are actually revisionist historians who are trying to get history right is that we not know the facts about our own past, so methods they've used heretofore can be used again endlessly because they've denied us We're sought to the ability to sort these things out.
Thus, we have, for example, since 2012, when Barack Obama nullified the Smith-Mutt Act of 1948 by the Smith-Mutt Modernization Act, where the Smith-Mutt Act precluded the use of the same techniques of propaganda and disinformation within the United States that, up to that point, were only permissible without
He unleashed a veritable floodgate of staged false flag events, including a host of school shootings, such as Sandy Hook, and of course Parkland, most recently Nashville, and other events like the Boston bombing, Charlottesville, Orlando, and Dallas, and others more recent yet,
Because they're seeking to promote a political agenda by manipulating our beliefs.
It's absolutely crucial to understand that in order to take responsible action in society as a citizen or official in a position to actually take something further than casting a vote, that we based our actions on beliefs that are true rather than those that are false.
And I must say, when I contemplated the attacks on Marjorie Taylor Greene as a conspiracy theorist and published on my blog a review of the seven or eight charges being brought against her, I realized that in every single case,
She was either clearly right, or at least not clearly wrong, in that the whole purpose of attacking conspiracy theorists is because we are investigating crimes that more often than not lead back to them, so of course they're seeking to suppress any research on it to eclipse it from the beginning.
What we must understand is that conspiracies are as American as apple pie.
I went through a then-current issue of the New York Times.
Every single page had a story you could not understand that related to a conspiracy.
And of course, they're not unique to America.
I mean, after all, what would Shakespeare have had to write about in his plays We're not for plots against the kings and queens of England.
So if you want a prime historical example of a conspiracy theorist, William Shakespeare is your man.
I'm so very pleased with the lineup for this year's conference.
On my very first speaker, Alexander Baker and I go back quite a ways.
Ace produced early on a brilliant work exposing what happened on 9-11, entitled the 9-11 Psy Opera, where among the points he made is that Rio Plains could not possibly have entered the Twin Towers by virtue of its robust structure, but would have crumpled external to the building, body, seats, luggage, wings, tail falling to the ground.
The engines, which are virtually indestructible, could have entered the buildings indeed, but not the rest of the plane.
And yet we have photographs beneath the facades of the North and the South Tower showing no such debris because it did not happen, raising the question of how they deceived us.
A very prime example of the principle that seeing is not always believing.
He's a brilliant guy, very versatile.
He's a musician, a videographer.
Now he's a JD, and he's engaged in research on activities for the public good and aiding and abetting legal efforts in that direction.
It's just my great pleasure to introduce our first speaker today, Ace Baker.
Sorry, I don't know if you can hear me.
I'm unable to start my video.
I'm turned off on the host's end.
I don't know if you can hear me or not.
Yeah, I think Gary needs to do something.
He needs to... Let me in!
Turn your camera on!
Yeah, it says unable to start video.
Sorry.
I know Lorian knows how to fix that, but it's on your end.
Give me one second, Ace, and I'll take care of that.
And I guess we're editing already, you guys.
Keep the recording rolling there, Gary.
Give me one second.
I gotta go find where I do that.
There we go.
Okay, it should work now for you, Ace, and I'll mute. - Well, good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, wherever you are.
My name is Alexander C. Baker, J.D., also known as Ace Baker, and I Pledge obedience to the flag of the United State of the world.
And two, the corporate slave plantation for which it stands.
One state under rule with surveillance and slavery for all.
Except, of course, for the ruling class who live lives of unbelievable wealth, dominance, and degeneracy.
Well, we're here today and tomorrow to talk about false flags and conspiracies.
I want to thank the conference organizers, Jim Fetzer and Lorian Fenton, for putting together the fourth annual False Flags and Conspiracies Conference.
Two solid days of very informative speakers on a variety of subjects, but tied together by the common theme of bad stuff that the government does to its own people.
Or should I say, the people it claims to own.
Now this year, I'm not going to do a deep dive into any one false flag.
Hang on, wait.
This year I'm not going to do a deep dive into any one false flag event or conspiracy.
I and so many other very smart and very good people have been doing that for a long time.
It's very important and noble work, and it should continue.
But if you're here, Chances are you're intelligent enough, educated enough, strong enough, and courageous enough to have already risen above the lifetime of brainwashing and propaganda that all of us have been subjected to literally since the day we were born.
I think most of you are deeply committed to trying to figure out how we can finally achieve good government.
By the end of my talk, I hope I will have persuaded you that dreaming of good government is just that, a dream.
And in fact, it's a delusion that has no basis in rationality or reason at all.
We're here to talk about false flags.
But before we worry about a false flag, we should stop and wonder, what even is a true flag?
As you look at these flags behind me, stop and consider what they're supposed to represent.
The state.
Well, what is the state?
Does the state exist in reality, or is it just an idea in your mind?
You already know that the government, or should I say the people calling themselves the government, have a long and consistent history of mass murdering, torturing, stealing, counterfeiting, defrauding, spying, manipulating, dominating, enslaving, and lying right to your face about everything.
But so what?
Now that we get it, what can we do to stop this madness?
It's easy to look at the government's total control of the three M's.
That's money, military, and media.
And believe that we lovers of freedom stand no chance.
Well, if you think in terms of trying to militarily defeat the government with actual warfare, this is indeed ridiculous from a practical standpoint.
Okay, they could outspend, outman, outgun us at least a million to one.
But more importantly, Thinking in such military terms is accepting their statist ideology and simply trying to outdo them at it.
There's one M that they don't control, at least not completely, and that is your mind.
Today, I want to inspire you to see that the origin of this entire problem, and therefore the solution, lies not out there in the world somewhere, but inside your mind.
Solving this problem is as easy or as difficult as changing your mind.
Today, I'm going to try to show you that the real problem here and the true source of most of the terrible things that have happened throughout human history, including events that the speakers will talk about over the next two days, are the direct and predictable result of Not greed or hatred or stolen elections, but rather the widespread belief in rightful authority.
That is the belief, in your mind, that we need or want a ruling class at all.
My old friends still call me Ace Baker.
That's the childhood nickname my dad gave me.
It was my music business name and the name that I used back in the day creating 9-11, the Great American Psy-Opera, a 10-part video series that Jim Fetzer has called one of the best resources for 9-11 truth.
For decades, I was quite successful in the music business.
And while you probably never heard of my name, I was on some pretty big concert tours back in the 80s and 90s.
And if you watched any amount of television from the mid-90s through the 20-teens, it's a good bet that you heard my music.
The credits you see rolling by are just some of the shows that my music was on.
My new friends call me Alex, like my mom always did.
And those letters after my name, JD, stand for Juris Doctorate, meaning I graduated from law school.
My current day job is that of an independent litigation paralegal.
I research and draft civil litigation in both California state court and in federal court.
Most of the cases that I'm working in involve trying to enforce the so-called Constitution against evil government forces that have abused and extorted so many people in the civil courts, the family probate and child welfare courts.
The reason why I'm not a licensed attorney is that I was what I call pre-disbarred.
They saw me coming from a mile away and made a deliberate decision not to ever allow me into the lawyer club known as the Bar Association.
It's worked out okay.
I'm highly in demand and have a waiting list for my services.
Get this, because I don't have a so-called law license that they can threaten to take away from me, I am free to make arguments that most attorneys dare not.
So before I get into voluntarism, here are my ideas for how to categorize these false flag events with examples for each type.
Okay, the types are false flag, false shield, false trophy, false drama, false person, and false book.
I've compiled links to some of the best authorities on debunking the official story on each one.
My presentation is available as a PDF, and I'm going to build a web page and a website for all of this at the site of my nonprofit, which is called the Postmodern Justice Media Project, and that's at pmjmp.org.
First is the classic false flag, defined as when the rulers commit mass murder and then falsely assign blame on an enemy.
All right, they have their methods, as you can see here, their goals and their ultimate goals.
And notice that script writing is always one of the elements in any of these kinds of things.
They want to have the story that they're going to tell.
9-11 was an inside job.
The Twin Towers were blown to kingdom come with what had to be nuclear devices.
Only that explains the annihilation of the steel, the mushroom clouds, the tritium, the strontium and barium, the China syndrome, and the rare cancers.
But so what?
Unless you accept the magic bullet theory, you must understand by now that JFK was an inside job.
Why the rulers decided to take out one of their own is an interesting question.
For almost 80 years, the governed media ...have told you that these were victims of a Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews.
In fact, these prisoners were of various nationalities and died in the last weeks of World War II from typhus and from lack of food and medicine.
The horrible prison conditions were caused by Allied bombing raids and the breakdown of the entire German infrastructure in general.
This photo was taken at Nordhausen and you can see the camp was bombed.
They lied to you.
But so what?
Type 2 is the false shield where the rulers establish an institution falsely claiming to protect you while actually injuring you.
The Constitution is a false shield.
It was intended to and been successful in establishing a ruling class with unlimited power and nothing else.
The court system is not a dispute resolution forum.
It is the system working as intended.
The Federal Reserve is a false shield.
Thinking that we need the government to monopolize money and credit so as to manage the economy is as ludicrous as thinking steel-framed skyscrapers could crush themselves into fine powder.
In truth, the Federal Reserve is a counterfeiting operation that we're forced to accept.
This allows the rulers to purchase anything they want and transfer unbelievable amounts of real wealth away from producers and into their own hands.
Child Protective Services is a federally funded kidnapping and extortion racket.
Children are taken away on rumor alone.
The parent is presumed guilty, denied a jury trial, and allowed to begin the reunification process only after signing a confession.
Talk about coercion.
The so-called civil rights movement had nothing to do with rights and everything to do with entitlements.
Forcing you to pay for somebody else's health, education, or welfare is, of course, the essence of communism.
Not surprising, considering Martin Luther King was an avowed communist.
In fact, the entire anti-communist Cold War was a false shield.
Folks, the United States became a communist country in 1913 with the passage of the income tax and the Federal Reserve combined with public education and property tax.
Those are the essential elements of communism.
This, according to this guy, Karl Marx!
The U.S.
teamed up with the Soviet Union and Great Britain to conquer all of mainland Europe, essentially, in both world wars.
Haven't you always found it just a tiny bit suspicious that the Soviet Union was our greatest ally and then suddenly became our worst enemy?
Marx was a Jew, and both world wars were fought on behalf of the Jews, but I'm sure that's all just a coincidence.
And oh, by the way, so what?
Type 3 is what I call the false trophy.
This is where the rulers stage a fictitious event, then falsely claim some laudable achievement for the public good.
The quintessential false trophy is The purported moon landings!
This lunar liftoff video is hilariously fake, not only because of the invisible rocket exhaust, the swinging on a cable side-to-side motion, and the dust that is diffusing into the air, but also because of the flawless camera work.
Zooming back and tilting up, keeping the craft in frame, supposedly by remote control from the Earth.
Despite a 1.5 second radio signal delay both directions.
Notice, if you will, the tiny alleged fuel tanks in red on this official diagram of the lunar module.
Now on the left here we can see the Saturn V rocket and on the right is the lunar module to scale.
Now notice the size comparison between the tiny little lunar module and the mighty Saturn V.
305, 363 feet tall, 33 feet in diameter, and almost entirely full of what?
Rocket fuel.
It would require about one-sixth of that amount of fuel to do a reverse thrust landing and another one-sixth of that amount, again, to lift off from the moon.
Folks, it's not even remotely possible to bring enough fuel to the moon to do this.
This here is a great photo of the magical spacesuits that somehow kept the guys cool in temperatures of 280 degrees Fahrenheit in the sun and warm in temperatures of minus 350 degrees in the shade.
However, this is a terrible photo of the Earth, and it's the only photo of the Earth allegedly taken from the surface of the Moon.
Think.
There are thousands and thousands of very high quality alleged moon photos, including many taken with a high-powered 500 millimeter lens.
If NASA really went to the moon six times, can you, in your wildest imagination, believe that they would not have endeavored to take the best ever photos of the Earth?
I can't.
A study without a control group is not science, it's guesswork.
A lady named Joy Garner conducted the only study of vaccinated people that included a control group, that is, unvaccinated people.
Turns out, the never vaccinated are 12.4 times healthier than vaccinated people.
Not 12%, 12 times.
Government coerces you to get vaccinated much more likely to make you sick than to keep you healthy.
But so what?
Type 4 is the false drama where rulers stage a fictitious event then falsely claim death and injury.
9-11 was a false flag, yes, but the airplane element of the story was a false drama.
There were no real airplanes at any of the four supposed crash sites.
Oh, oh, shit.
Check out Chapter 7 of the Psy Opera, that's the key, where I show you just how it was done and the mistakes that actually betrayed them.
Dr. Fetzer has given overwhelming evidence that Sandy Hook was a false drama.
Check out his Supreme Court petition.
It's very, very well written, by the way, in addition to providing a great factual evidence for why we know that Sandy Hook was a staged event.
The Boston bombing was a false drama.
The lower part of Jeff Bauman's leg doesn't even look close to real.
And I mean, for crying out loud, we can see the tube right here in this enlargement.
Can you see right here?
This is a tube that's coming out of his pants where the fake blood squirts out.
The Holocaust was a false flag and a false drama.
There were certainly concentration camps during World War II in both the United States and German-occupied Europe.
And like all warmongering rulers, Hitler was stone evil.
But there was no Nazi plan to exterminate the Jews, no homicidal gas chambers disguised as shower rooms, and no six million dead Jews.
That's all a false drama.
COVID.
False drama.
Type 5 is the false person where your rulers present an imposter to convince us that a live person is dead?
Or that a dead person is alive.
For example, Jeffrey Epstein.
The official story is that Epstein was finally jailed and promptly committed suicide in his cell by hanging himself.
The prison security camera conveniently malfunctioned, and the controlled opposition story was that Epstein was murdered.
In truth, most likely, is that Jeffrey Epstein is alive and well.
They released a picture of the dead guy on a gurney, and whoever it was, it sure wasn't Epstein.
Different nose bone, right?
Different ear cartilage, cheekbone, etc.
During the 9-11 cover-up, the officials released a video of what they said was Bin Laden confessing to the crime.
The guy in the confession tape looks nothing like Bin Laden.
And then, of course, we have...
Paul McCartney, who died in September of 1966.
Whoever foul McCartney is has done an amazing job, but it's simply not the same person.
I've recorded a brand new parody song and this video.
Why?
Because.
Because his head was small.
This can't be Paul.
Because his head was small Ah, ah, ah, ah Because his eyes were wide We know he died
Because his eyes were wide Ah, Paul is dead, Paul is gone
Though his name carries on Because the scope got high Paul is dead, Paul is gone Though his name carries on Because the scope got high It's a new guy
Because the scope got high Why can't you see the room was true?
Why, why would your annoyed's light tell you?
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?
Why? Why? Why? Why?
So, Type 6 is the false book.
And by false book, I mean false academic knowledge.
In case you weren't aware, most of what is taught at university in the 20th century, since the 20th century, is anti-scientific bullshit with a collectivist and globalist agenda.
Kevin, McDonald's culture of critique is a scholarly investigation of how and why that came about.
And while it's true, as McDonald demonstrates, that most of the people behind the 20th century destruction of the scientific method were Jews acting in an evolutionary strategy to advance their group interests, None of it would have been possible without there first being a government in charge of academia and the money supply in the first place.
Here's a comic that I found about postmodernism.
I think this is kind of funny.
In the first panel, this artist is saying, I am a genius.
In the second panel, the postmodernist comes along and says, the category of genius is a theoretically untenable cultural construct.
But then, secretly, he's thinking to himself, ah, but ah, I'm a genius.
Ah, government control of education has led to all sorts of nonsensical ideas that we're supposed to believe, like race is a social construct, gender is a social construct, climate change is caused by CO2, and if we don't give up fossil fuels, there's going to be mass extinction.
All of this false knowledge furthers the global communist agenda of enslaving and impoverishing you.
I could go on forever, and so could many of you.
But that's enough false flags and conspiracies to make my first point, and that is that the people calling themselves government do really bad stuff over and over, and it works to their benefit and against everybody else.
Just a few words about the formula.
Now, you can call it the Hegelian dialectic with problem, reaction, solution, but the script writers have used the drama triangle since at least biblical times.
And it is Perpetrator, Victim, Rescuer.
Here it's applied to the Holocaust, right?
You can see that the state creates fear and ignorance, naming a bad guy, naming the perpetrator, in this case Hitler, blaming him for death and injury to victims, right?
In this case the Jews calling the survivors, calling on them to willingly surrender their wealth And so there's some sort of a kickback.
Like here, it's like reparations, right?
To incentivize victimhood.
So you can see there is a feedback mechanism, so the whole situation perpetuates.
If you look at any of these false flag events, you will find some variation of the drama triangle going on.
Yes, false flags happen.
But so what?
These are symptoms, not the disease.
What is the problem?
Where is it located?
What is the real reason to rule?
Where does legitimate authority come from?
For the answer, Let's turn to those heroic philosophers and prophets of this Orwellian nightmare.
Of course, I'm speaking of none other than those philosophers themselves, Monty Python.
Old woman!
Man!
Man, sorry.
What night lived in that castle over there?
I'm thirty-seven.
What?
I'm thirty-seven.
I'm not old.
Well, I can't just call you man.
You could say Dennis.
I didn't know you were called Dennis.
Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you?
I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind you looked... What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior.
Well, I am king.
Oh, king, eh?
Very nice.
Now do you get that, eh?
By exploiting the workers or hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society.
If there's ever going to be any progress... Dennis!
There's some lovely filth down here!
Oh!
How do you do?
How do you do, good lady?
I am Arthur, King of the Britons.
Whose castle is that?
King of the who?
The Britons.
Who are the Britons?
Well, we all are.
We are all Britons.
And I am your king.
Didn't know we had a king.
I thought we were an autonomous collective.
You're fooling yourself.
We're living in a dictatorship.
A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class is... Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again.
That's what it's all about.
If only people would be... Please, please, good people.
I am in haste.
Who lives in that castle?
No one lives there.
Then who is your lord?
We don't have a lord.
What?
I told you.
We're in a narco-syndicalist commune.
We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
Yes.
But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting.
Yes, I see.
By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.
Be quiet!
But by a two-thirds majority in the case of more major... Be quiet!
I order you to be quiet!
All right, who does he think he is?
I'm your king.
Well, I didn't vote for you.
You don't vote for kings.
Well, how do you become king then?
The Lady of the Lake.
Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held the loft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.
That is why I'm your king!
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
Be quiet!
You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
Shut up!
If I went around saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.
Shut up, will you?
Shut up!
Now we see the violence inherent in the system.
Shut up!
I didn't know we had a king!
in the system help help i'm being repressed bloody peasant oh what a giveaway did you hear that did you hear that that's what i'm on about do you see him repressing me you saw it didn't you oh i didn't know we had a king right if you don't know that you have a king then perhaps you don't actually have one if authority doesn't come from the lady of the lake her arm clad in the most shimmering of samite
Right?
or if it doesn't come from strange women in pawns lying in pawns and distributing souls right if If it doesn't come from there, well, perhaps rightful authority comes from...
A constitution?
Hey, I wrote a constitution, and here it is.
Look, it has really fancy writing and it's on old parchment paper.
It says, we declare wars, force you to fight our wars, borrow unlimited money from the banksters to finance our wars.
We tax you any amount that we want to pay for all that.
We decide all disputes.
We make up new rules anytime we want.
And if you disobey any of this, we put you in a metal cage.
And look, I signed it, and so did a bunch of my friends.
So, will you now obey my Constitution?
No?
Well, why not?
It doesn't say anything different than the U.S.
Constitution.
Now, to get to the bottom of this, however, I think it's time to play... Where Do I Lose You?
Where do I lose you?
The game where we start with a scenario that everybody agrees is just plain wrong, like armed robbery.
I point a gun at your head and demand your money.
We all agree that's just plain wrong.
But here's where it gets tricky.
I'll keep changing the scenario bit by bit until I'm describing a government that taxes you.
As a contestant, you win a fabulous prize if you can pinpoint where this behavior goes from being evil into being something good and necessary.
All right, do we have phone line one?
Yes, first contestant on phone line one, tell us your name and why you believe that government is necessary.
A minute.
Wait a minute now.
Let's see.
Do we have the phone line?
There's the phone line.
Do we have Bob from Oklahoma?
Alex, this is Bob from Oklahoma.
And listen, I hear your little program there, what you call your podcast.
And you're just ignorant and foolish.
Why is that, Bob?
Look, son, you got to have a government, because otherwise things just fall apart on you.
Who do you think builds the roads, for instance?
You drive on the roads, don't you?
You don't believe private companies know how to build roads? - What do you mind?
I don't know how, but that don't mean they're going to.
And what about a standard of weights and measures?
Did you think about that?
Isn't it nice that an inch is an inch and a pound is a pound?
Okay, Bob from Okay, it's time to play Where Do I Lose You?
Suppose this time I come to your door wearing a blue costume, and I only demand half your money.
Now is it okay?
Well, hell no, it is not okay.
Why not?
Because you're just some guy on the internet.
You're not a government official.
But what's the difference?
Well, for one thing, government provides benefits.
Benefits?
Okay, I'll throw in a cheese pizza.
Now will you give me half your money?
Look, son, it's just not the same.
Oh, what's the difference?
Well, you see that, uh... You see, I think that, uh...
Five seconds, Bob.
Bob, where do I lose you?
I'm sorry, Bob.
You couldn't explain how taxation is legitimate.
Okay, let's go to our next contestant on phone line number two.
Tell me what's your name and why you believe government and taxation are necessary.
My name is LaTonya Washington, all right?
You could take me as a full instance, all right?
I'll be deputy caseworker for the Department of Child Family Service in Los Angeles.
I ain't saying we's perfect, all right?
You got to have government, though, to protect folks.
It bad enough out there, you take away the police, and what you got is the Wild, Wild West.
Wild, Wild West.
Well, actually, studies have shown that Western towns in the 19th century, without hardly any government, were far safer than cities today.
You expect me to believe that?
Come on.
Alright, it's time to play Where Do I Lose You?
Now, suppose I come to your house wearing a costume, I demand half your money, I give you a cheese pizza, and I show you this!
Why, it's a constitution, right?
Now, uh, is it okay?
A cheese pizza?
I've lactose intolerant!
Sorry, one size fits all.
Look, I've got a constitution.
Look, it says right there I can tax you.
Okay, I'll give you the right to vote for your rulers now, is that okay?
Yeah, majority rule, know what I'm saying?
Majority rule!
Yeah, well a majority of people supported slavery, so is that okay with you?
I don't see it.
I'm sorry, Latonia!
Better luck next time!
Just between me and you, everybody.
Nobody gets a prize in the game of Where Do I Lose You because there's no point at which taxation ever becomes anything besides armed robbery.
Let's get serious now.
Here's a flag that actually stands for something good.
And it stands for voluntarism, which is the simple idea that all human interaction should be voluntary, and that is consensual.
Human behavior should never be coerced through violence or the threat of violence.
And it's often stated this way, it is wrong to initiate force or fraud against the person or property of another.
This is the non-aggression principle.
And by the way, if you're unclear on the difference between voluntary and coerced, it's the difference between lovemaking and rape.
The physical act is the same, but one was consensual and the other was not.
The non-aggression principle is the only law we need or want, and nearly everyone agrees that this is the correct statement of morality.
That's right and wrong.
And yet, for some very strange reason, nearly everyone carves out an exception to this rule for the rulers.
I've been a voluntarist for over 20 years now, although I used to use the term anarcho-capitalist.
Some of the thinkers that have been most influential on me are Lysander Spooner in the 19th century.
And again, these quotes, you can get the PDF on my website at pmjmp.org.
So Lysander Spooner and then Murray Rothbard from the 20th century.
Here are some other writers who have influenced me.
But considering all of the thinkers who have spoken on the problem of government versus freedom, in my never-to-be-humble opinion, there's one person in all of history
Who stands head and shoulders above the rest at having given us the strongest, clearest, and ultimately the best, most irrefutable argument against the existence of government and in favor of a stateless free society.
And that person is...
Larkin Rose.
If you have any concern over human freedom at all, then you simply must read or listen to his book, The Most Dangerous Superstition.
The Most Dangerous Superstition, I cannot recommend it highly enough.
I'll read a passage from the very beginning.
How many millions have gazed upon the brutal horrors of history, with its countless examples of man's inhumanity to man, and wondered aloud how such things could happen?
The truth is, most people wouldn't want to know how it happens, because they themselves are religiously attached to the very belief that makes it possible.
The vast majority of suffering and injustice in the world today, spanning back thousands of years, can be directly attributed to a single idea.
It is not greed or hatred or any of the other emotions or ideas that are usually blamed for the evils of society.
Indeed, most of the violence, theft, assault, and murder in the world is the result of a mere superstition.
A belief which, though almost universally held, runs contrary to all evidence and reason.
The punchline of this book is easy to express, although difficult for most people to accept, or even to calmly and rationally contemplate.
The belief in authority, which includes all belief in government, is irrational and self-contradictory.
It is contrary to civilization and morality and constitutes the most dangerous, destructive superstition that has ever existed.
Rather than being a force for order and justice, the belief in authority is the arch enemy of humanity.
Now, when you strip away the religious rhetoric, here is a plain statement of why most people believe that we need a government.
Step 1.
There are people who might initiate violence or fraud against me.
Okay.
Step 2.
I want protection from people who might initiate violence or fraud against me.
Okay.
Step 3.
Therefore, I give permission for certain people to initiate violence and fraud against me.
Okay, that is insane!
That's insanity!
To avoid this cognitive dissonance of believing in the warmongering peacemaker, or the abusive defender, or as Hans Hoppe often says, the expropriating property protector, Faithful believers in the myth of authority must double down on their insanity.
Rather than accepting the plain fact that government is comprised of people, that is, the very people they claim to be afraid of, the state theist must instead hallucinate the existence of an all-knowing, all-powerful God that intervenes into the world.
Under this belief system, when government officials do anything, they are said to be acting not of their own free will as individuals, but rather in their official capacity, right?
Carrying out the will of this invisible God named the United States, or California, or the Department of Child Protective Services, or simply the law.
The Constitution is often characterized as the social contract.
It obligates the citizens to pay taxes and obey all the laws and supposedly obligates the mythical invisible God creature to protect them and to provide certain goods and services.
Well, we can already see a problem because a valid contract only binds the parties who voluntarily entered into it.
Did you sign the Constitution?
No, so you're not a party to it.
I realize most of you don't have legal training as I do, but look, we all understand that we can assign or delegate rights or duties under a contract.
For example, Suppose you agreed to pay me $5,000 in exchange for painting your house.
After I paint your house, I have the right to collect $5,000 from you.
$5,000 from you.
Now, suppose I owed somebody else $5,000 for some reason.
I could assign to that other person my right to collect $5,000 from you.
That makes sense, but only because I had the right to collect $5,000 from you in the first place.
Another example, I could give you my car as a gift, but only if I'm the rightful owner of my car.
I have no right to give you my neighbor's car, right?
All of this makes sense.
Now, did I ever have the right to take half of your money at gunpoint under the threat of imprisonment if you refuse?
Did anybody ever have the right to do that?
Well, the answer, obviously, is no.
Therefore, since nobody ever had the right to tax their neighbor, it follows that no such right ever could have been assigned or delegated to any government official, no matter what any piece of paper says.
Okay, here's a simple question that you can pose to your friends.
It's the world's shortest political quiz.
Does any business have the right to offer you their product or service at the point of a gun?
No?
Congratulations!
You're an anarchist like me.
Wait, wait, wait.
Does democracy legitimize the state?
Democracy is two wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Or, democracy is four horny drunk frat boys and one cute college co-ed voting on the evening's entertainment.
What does government add to society?
If you're basically a good person, you don't need a government law to tell you not to do the wrong thing, like committing murder.
If you're an immoral bad person who wants to commit murder, then no law against murder is going to stop you.
What will stop you is the fear that if you do something wrong, somebody else will hurt you.
You already have the right to do the right thing, like act in self-defense or defending some innocent person.
We don't need a government law for that either.
So you can see, using pure reason, that the only thing that government adds to society is evil to take.
But one example out of literally thousands, consider Fugitive slave laws.
In 1850, the people, calling themselves Congress, passed the Fugitive Slave Act, making it a crime to assist any slave in escaping.
Would you have obeyed the Fugitive Slave Act?
Is there any command or order that you would not obey?
Remember, everything that Stalin, Hitler, and Roosevelt did in the 1930s and 40s was perfectly legal.
When Roosevelt ordered everybody in America to surrender their gold, that was legal.
It wasn't right, but it was legal.
Would you have obeyed?
And if you believe that you have the conscience to decide for yourself when a law is immoral, great!
You are on the right path.
But before you pat yourself on the back, let's not forget what we learned from the Milgram experiment.
In the 1960s, Milgram did an experiment in which people were ordered to shock other people, supposedly to help them learn.
The authority figure would tell them, please continue, or please go on.
Then, the experiment requires that you continue.
And then, it is absolutely essential that you continue.
Then, you have no other choice.
You must go on.
What happened?
Well, most people obeyed.
Most people obeyed.
Milgram would go on to write in his paper, quoting, "...the extreme willingness of adults to go to almost any lengths on the command of an authority constitutes the chief finding of the study and the fact most urgently demanding explanation." Well, I can explain it.
People, including you and I, have been religiously indoctrinated to believe that obedience to authority is a virtue and that disobedience of authority is a sin.
This is the belief that we must all let go of.
So what is the right form of government?
Well, that's actually a very easy question to answer.
The right form of government for you is whatever you voluntarily agree to.
Consider.
Urania.
Urania is a private land purchased in South Africa and set up as a whites-only independent town.
If you want to live in Urania, you voluntarily agree to the terms and conditions that have been written down.
It's a contract.
And if you breach the contract, you have to leave.
Now, Arrhenius terms include some rules that I personally don't like.
For example, zero tolerance for drugs.
I don't do drugs anymore, but I used to smoke a little weed now and then, and I believe in self-ownership, including the right to put into my own body whatever I choose.
But this is the point.
With freedom of association, people overwhelmingly will choose to associate with other people most like themselves.
When you eliminate the state from the equation, people quite naturally sort themselves out along the lines of race, language, religion, and cultural practices.
And that is good!
Okay, there is not and never was any reason why all people should have to adopt one set of values.
The people who founded Irania, they didn't wait for the government of South Africa to tell them it was okay.
No, they just stopped believing that those other people had authority.
Arrhenia is just one example of what's possible.
We need thousands of Arrhenia in the sense of private land experiments on living together under voluntary contracts.
If you had a voluntary choice of all sorts of different types of social contracts to possibly live with, what kind would you want for yourself and your family?
If you're a teetotaling Christian and you want to live near other teetotaling Christians, well, and you all voluntarily agree that to be part of your community, you need to be a teetotaling Christian, you should have that right.
If you're a dope-smoking Harley-Davidson riding loudmouth and you want to live near other dope-smoking Harley-Davidson riding loudmouths and you all voluntarily agree that to be part of your community you need to be a dope-smoking Harley-Davidson riding loudmouth, you should have that right.
As long as people are making choices voluntarily and not interfering with your rights, it's okay.
If you got some people together and wanted to start your own community, what sort of contract would you offer?
And what sort of people would you like to attract?
And shouldn't you be free to do that?
As soon as you stop believing that the criminals of the world have authority over you, then you are free.
And that belief exists in one place and one place only, and that is inside your mind.
We all want a better future.
We all understand that what's happening in the world today is terrible.
We can all point the finger at criminals who are right now, today, perpetrating all manner of brutal injustice.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, every politician, every judge, everybody in the ruling class.
But it takes a lot more courage to point the finger at ourselves, to see our own place in this.
And it is our age-old religious belief in authority, in a ruling class that is at the root of all the false flags and conspiracies of which we complain.
We can let go of this belief in a heartbeat.
And we can invest our time spreading this message.
As soon as significant numbers of people simply let go of this most dangerous superstition, know that each of us was born free, and that the cage we live in, that is, the state, exists only behind our eyes and between our ears.
Then the state will poof disappear and be replaced by nothing except for free people doing what they want to do.
Forming whatever organizations and associations and communities they want to form with a common understanding that nobody has the right to initiate force or fraud.
We can achieve peace through anarchy.
However, unless and until we let go of the belief in authority, we will only get more of the same.
Thank you very much, and I look forward to any questions that you might have at the Q&A coming up after the next three speakers.
And I also cordially invite anyone out there who wants to discuss or share your story of government abuse or to debate the idea of voluntarism to please contact me by email through my site.
Again, it's pmjmp.org.
That stands for the Postmodern Justice Media Project.
Or come on my podcast, Freedom Enough, which is on Speak Free Radio.
Thank you again very much.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Take care, everybody.
Well, that was simply sensational.
I'm reminded of the justice of the Supreme Court, Potter Stewart, when they asked To Define Pornography said, I don't know how to define it, but I know it when I see it.
I would say of this presentation, you may not know how to define genius, but I know it when I see it.
This was genius.
When I organized this speaker session, the question session, following groups with an hour, I realized that was a lot of time.
Ace, of course, ran a bit over, but we have the flax because of the question-and-answer period, and be sure to take advantage of the opportunity to put questions in the Q&A.
You'll find it at the bottom.
Bring your cursor down below your screen.
It'll pop up.
Put them down there to remind you, and then when we get to the question-and-answer session, we'll pick it up.
Meanwhile, to make the technical transition to our next speaker, we'll take a moment or two, and we'll have a brief disconnect here as we end this recording and prepare for the next, but I would say this is a hell of a start.
I mean, I'm gonna watch this one again myself.
I loved it.
Stand by.
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