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Voting is Not an Act of Political Freedom

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork, being shared by an acquaintance from here, and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Voting is not act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you'." - Wendy McElroy

“Voting is not act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician’s ear: ‘You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you’.” – Wendy McElroy

My Commentary: Discover the single-most important factor that ended the Apartheid State in South Africa…

Why You Got to Stop Voting:
http://fubarandgrill.org/node/1172

Principles and Morality are Nearly Incompatible with Statism…

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Police and Government Accountability Movement,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Apartheid was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Slavery was legal. Colonialism was legal. Legality is a matter of power, not justice."

“Apartheid was legal.
The Holocaust was legal.
Slavery was legal.
Colonialism was legal.
Legality is a matter of power, not justice.”

My Commentary: Principles and morality are nearly incompatible with Statism…

Refusal to Vote is the Simplest, Most Effective Means of Peacefully Delegitimizing a Corrupt, Overreaching, Tyrannical Democratic Government

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Government Does Not Exist,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"The only way voting will work is if we all refuse to do it!"

“The only way voting will work is if we all refuse to do it!”

My Commentary: South Africans didn’t end Apartheid by voting their oppressors out of office: they withdrew their consent to be ruled over by REFUSING TO VOTE!

Historically, refusal to vote is the SIMPLEST and MOST EFFECTIVE means of peacefully delegitimizing a corrupt, overreaching, tyrannical democratic government.

Synchronicity Between a Facebook Memory and a Recent Debate

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As I scrolled through my Facebook memories, I discovered the following artwork, which I originally shared to my wall in November of 2012, in my post, “Legality IS NOT Morality,” and decidedly re-shared it, along with a new commentary…

My Original Commentary: Wake up! Legality IS NOT morality, my friends!

“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid was legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.” – Walter E. Williams

My New Commentary: Synchronicity! I just shared this in the comment section of one of my posts, then discover it waiting in my memories section!

But, Without Government, Who Would Commit Armed Robbery Under Color of Law?

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I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Cops Are merely crooked criminals in costumes

Cops Are merely crooked criminals in costumes

Law Enforcement Took More Stuff from People Than Burglars Did Last Year:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-took-more-stuff-from-people-than-burglars-did-last-year/

(Washington Post, Christopher Ingraham) Here’s an interesting factoid about contemporary policing: In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did. Martin Armstrong pointed this out at his blog, Armstrong Economics, last week.

Officers can take cash and property from people without convicting or even charging them with a crime — yes, really! — through the highly controversial practice known as civil asset forfeiture. Last year, according to the Institute for Justice, the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds. That same year, the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: But, without government, who would commit armed robbery under color of law?