April 1, 2006 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Hello, this is Stephan Molyneux from Free Domain Radio, broadcasting on Free Thought Radio. | |
| Thank you so much for listening. | |
| So, the delay case staggers on, and I think that just about everybody in the government would like you to believe that they're dealing with some sort of problem here. | |
| That the fact that the government moves hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars around at the point of a gun and benefits its friends and punishes its enemies and can just sit astride this massive vat of taxpayer money removed from us at the point of a gun, but that the only corruption that's occurring is the top aid for one guy or another, is just funny. | |
| So from the New York Times we read March 31st, a former top aide to representative Tom DeLay pleaded guilty on Friday to charges that he accepted thousands of dollars in illegal gifts including money funneled through a consulting firm he set up with his wife and traveled by private jet to California in return for influencing legislation on behalf of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff Now this is funny, right? | |
| This is kind of like a joke. | |
| Because if you come at it from an anarchist or minimalist or libertarian perspective, the fact that money is being transferred against particular rules in particular circumstances is really not seeing the entire picture or even an important part of the picture of government corruption. | |
| The fact of the matter is their salaries and their powers and their abilities and their jurisdictions are entirely unconstitutional. | |
| So the fact that somebody's being bribed to do something that as a whole is completely unconstitutional, to get mad at them about the bribery is really to miss the forest for the trees. | |
| There's no point going in and attacking these aides who accept a couple of grand when you look at the entire budget of the federal government, 99% of which is entirely unconstitutional, then getting mad at this little guy is completely deranged. | |
| And in fact, I think that it's a negative thing morally, because what it does is it allows us to get mad at one little guy who broke one little rule when the entire structure is corrupt and rotten. | |
| What it does is it legitimizes the whole structure, because we say, OK, let's go for this little guy who transferred a couple of grand and forget about the whole hundreds of billions of dollars of superstructure that's entirely corrupt. | |
| So I say forget about delay. | |
| Let's start focusing on bringing freedom back to America. | |
| And that means ignoring the little fish and going after the big fish. | |
| So I do have an alternative. | |
| I'm not going to be one of these guys who just rants and gives negatives. | |
| I do have a positive alternative. | |
| So if you'd like to listen to my show this week, it's called The Stateless Society, An Examination of Alternatives. | |
| We can live without a government. | |
| I know it's a radical idea, but hey, give it a shot. | |
| It might open up some avenues of thinking that you hadn't thought of before. |
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