Governments Manage Human Resources as Corporate Slave-Farms

Governments Manage Human Resources as Corporate Slave-Farms

Who agreed to their rule?
Do these elites still harbor the belief of predestination?

They want to control and rule all the earth

When governments, statutes, laws, codes, and regulations speak of order:
Think of hierarchies from early ancient rulers,
from Pharaohs, Emperors, Caesars, Czars and Popes;
from Kings and Queens;
from Dictators to oligarchs and corporatocracy.

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Cattle Farm (above) and Human Chattel Farm (below)

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Yes, look through the past to the present and think UNFINISHED MOVEMENT for FREEDOM and LIBERTY.

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Develop and exercise your awareness thus shifting your perspective to gain a clearer view

The long history of human exploitation (as slaves and indentured servants) is sordid and cross all religious, gender, cultural and ethnic divisions. The concept of divine ancestry and predestination appears repeatedly in the stratification of civilizations, and continues today…

White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast Spain, Italy, and Egypt 1300’s -1800’s

White Slavery in Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy 1500 – 1800 by Robert C. Davis

They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America

White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America by Don Jordan

Tells the lost story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain’s American colonies.

Strange how stereotyped slave history has become, as if slavery was limited to only one ethnic group.
Obviously more historical facts should be shared with the public about white European slaves, about Asian slaves and all other slaves throughout the civilized journey.
A very different perspective will emerge about modern society and the unfinished freedom movement.

The Atlantic triangle Trade Route

Slave Trade from 1701 to 1810

Atlantic Slave Trade
“In the 1440s Portugal initiated the trans-Atlantic trade that lasted (over) four centuries. During that time, other European nations participated in commerce that took more than ten million people in Africa.”
http://college.cengage.com/history/us/ayers/am_passages/3e/resources/glossary.html

Slave Markets, Exchange Markets, Business for Profits,
business continues as usual…

Slave cargo diagram plan

Atlanta Plantation or Slave Farm

In this light consider the “sweatshops”…

More recently…

MODERN GLOBALIZATION of “FREE TRADE” for Profit…

Has the FUNDAMENTALS REALLY changed?

Modern sweatshop

Hmm… Feeling truly free yet?

Cubicle farm?

Office worker, or debt-slave (in office) worker?

From outdoors on the land to indoors in the building…

Corporate Managed Farms of “Human Resource”
or should I say of Human Slaves?
Debt-slaves and indentured servants as long as the global financial system is a fractional reserve banking model of perpetual debt.

There are old men acting as powerful wizards designing this system;
Trade Masters. Do they have your permission, do they keep you informed of the contractual details and did they ask you personally for permission?

Observe what happens when some brothers and sisters protest on our behalf…

Do they look welcoming, friendly and peaceful?

The truth is self-evident.

Can you imagine a flag flown overhead each national farm, orderly, well kept and managed for maximum profits?

DEBT-bondage is the modern form of SLAVERY.

NOW, you are aware of what the corporate-governments (see corporation nation) mean when they use the phrase “Human Resource” department.
The fundamentals have not changed, the financial wizards created an illusion of freedom for the enslaved public.
Deceptively allowing the debt-bonded population to vote, every few years, for a suggestion of who should represent them.
Slavery still exists but more massively and more subtly.
The planet has become a global system of well managed national debt-slave farms.

Each nation can select their own managerial style that is most acceptable to their cultural community.
Whether it be called socialism, communism, capitalism, democracy or something else.
Keep the slave-farm in proper order is the current purpose of government and “governance“.

Free-minded people want to abolish the national slave-farms and liberate the people (their peaceful brothers and sisters).

Free-minded people want those in offices of authority Trust to implement solutions that come from the free-minded people in open public forums with no secrecy, with no hidden clauses and with full disclosure.

Ask those in uniform to join the freedom movement with the peaceful people of the world

End the cycle of slaves guarding slaves for the masters of illusion and the wizards of global finance, the Central Banks and the secret societies.

Wizards of illusion:
MONEY, DEBT, INTEREST PAYMENTS, and GOVERNANCE


UNPLUG: global wizards behind the curtains

I have imagined that many Germans realized (by early 1930s)
that a unjustifiable ruthless regime had formed prior to Hitler’s wars.
Thus Americans can and should foresee similar warning signs in America prior to a tyrannical President welding the power of authority.


Unconstitutional orders is a warning to government employees, be ALERT.
Tyranny can happen in America; be alert.

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Definition of predestination:

(L. praedestinatio, Greek προορισμός, research the Catholic dogma: “predestination ante prævisa merita“)…
A widely accepted belief (theory) that states God decreed, even before he created the world, who will be saved and who will be damned. (Was this used as another justification for the colonization and slave trade era?)

Definition of viceroy:
The governor of a country, province, or colony, ruling as the representative of a sovereign. Can we gleam some insights into how governorships originated and why they continue to exist today?

Definition of royal fifth:
A tax on silver and gold from the New World , of which this percentage of its value went to the king of Spain

Definition of Free-minded:
Not a closed mind, Not shackled by indoctrination,
not narrow minded, not boxed in a paradigm or meme, in a state of calm, access to creativity, peaceful, untroubled, and ready to share experience and knowledge. Open source.

The story of slavery in black and white:

All regions appear to have endured a form of slavery in the past…
“Here’s a shock revelation: slavery was not confined to the black population. In fact, during the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of white Britons were marketed like cattle and transported to Britain’s American colonies to work in the fields. With the aim of emptying England’s prisons and clearing up the city streets, the authorities rounded up vagrants, orphans, prostitutes, beggars and criminals, and sold them into servitude.”

Wrote VAL HENNESSY in his News report to the Daily Mail in the
United Kingdom: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-450139/The-story-slavery-black-white.html

The Wake UP Rant

Thank you George, R.I.P.


“…But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They DON’T want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that, that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting FUCKED by system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that. You know what they want?
They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. OBEDIENT WORKERS.
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passably accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it…” -George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)

corporate-governments:
Most governments are now incorporated and are for profit business, but they are determined to hide this truth.
Most government officials and workers are unaware of this, as well as the general public. The global financial system is now a matrix of Central Banks, institutional investment managers and governments that are chartered to feed and regulate this rigged ponzi scheme where the currency is created at whim and for narrow interests.
Notice government pensions and bonds are substantially the total economy of the United States, but none of that profit (returns on investment) goes toward the government budget (inducing a perpetual budget shortfall and deficit while spending forever increases!). $Trillions from the government workers and others with 401k funds are invested in public stocks and bonds (through government pensions and bonds) but none of the profits return to the governments and in fact we are witnessing pensions being robbed and destroyed (including social security); and now many of the government workers (beneficiaries of the investments) are losing their pensions (including social security)…
Police, fire-fighters, park rangers, FBI agents, et al
are at risk of losing their pensions and retirement funds.
WE, the people, all are in this together.
A fundamental and systemic change is needed.

The Corporation Nation Master (2010) Full Length

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62 comments on “Governments Manage Human Resources as Corporate Slave-Farms
  1. ronmamita says:

    “Mariano punched his way through the ventilation hatch in the ceiling of a box truck in the farming town of Immokalee, Florida. He and his co-workers were held against their will for more than two years, violently forced to labor in Florida and South Carolina tomato fields, and padlocked into the windowless box truck at night. One worker was chained to a post by his employers. That day during Thanksgiving week, after escaping, Mariano found a ladder and went back to help his friends get out.

    The men reported their plight the police, and additional workers sought help from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW).

    Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney General Doug Molloy, who handled the case, characterized their condition as “slavery, plain and simple.” Some men bore marks of heavy beatings to their heads and bodies. A co-worker of Mariano’s walked into the CIW’s office, saying that he wanted to “get away from his boss.” When asked why, he held out his hands. His wrists were swollen with visible marks of the chain used to chain his hands behind his back at night.”
    http://www.ijm.org/news/slavery-america-meet-mariano

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  2. ronmamita says:

    “The New Slavery: Pigs are Tigers and Farmers are Felons”
    Caleb Hart, Contributor
    Activist Post

    “In “A Critical Mass for Real Food,” Anim Steel began with “The old logic of the slave plantation is still the logic of our industrial food system, 500 years in the making.”

    The idea that a slave mentality is still woven into production of food showed up as well in an article referencing the KKK. It describes the similarity between grossly discriminatory laws that were used to remove black voting rights (poll taxes and literacy tests) and the current discriminatory laws that are crushing small food producers (exorbitant certification costs, and irrelevant yet intentionally impossible to achieve food safety standards), and calling the food movement the most significant civil rights (and human rights) movement in history.

    Using this template of slavery allows the public to recognize the extreme and corrupt measures being taken to remove livestock producers markets, leaving them no means to sell their products other than through the big corporate meat packers, and then at a pittance, reducing independent (free) producers to contract farmers, or tenant famers, on their own land.

    The current system is without question working to break the back of free farming and ranching. But full-blown slavery* already exists for industrial food animals. Recognizing that reality can help explain a great deal else.

    They are trapped in concrete and metal prisons known as CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations), where they are denied both normal movement and their natural diet and are fed GMOs that are linked to organ failure, diseases, and sterility.”

    http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/the-new-slavery-pigs-are-tigers-and.html

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  3. ronmamita says:

    Georgia Farmers Lose Illegal Slave Work Force
    “Apparently Georgia farmers are singing the blues as their state is now implementing and enforcing their new immigration law. You see these farmers can’t make a profit without the use of labor provided by illegal invaders. One farmer being interviewed said he had lost 70% of his work force due to the illegals’ flight from Georgia to avoid prosecution.

    What I would like to know is why that farmer isn’t sitting in jail right now facing the prospect of losing everything he owns as he has admitted to blatantly violating laws that forbid the hiring of illegals. I have no compassion for any of these people. They grew their businesses at the expense of the rest of the people in the United States who have had to supplement their illegal work force through welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid. And of course we have had to pay to educate the children of the illegals working for them. I hope every one of them loses everything they own and that should be the least of their punishment.

    No doubt it is the big corporate farms in Georgia who are behind this whine fest as they may now actually have to pay more out of their grossly inflated profits to the American laborers that they will have to hire to maintain and harvest their crops.

    Of course the Governor of Georgia has come forth to offer prison inmate labor to help these poor corporate farmers. Well, slave labor by any other name I guess, as the ultimate goal seems to be fat profits for the federally subsidized farmers at any cost.

    I have to believe that there are a lot of industrious Americans out there that would love to cut up these big corporate farms and turn them once again into small family farms whereon an honest family can make an honest living without any help from the government. In fact these small farms will thrive once we have taken back our government and ran all the corporate elite middlemen into the sea.

    Anyway, here is my salute to the 21st century plantation owners in Georgia that just lost their slaves. Waah.”

    http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/georgia-farmers-lose-illegal-slave-work-force/4993/

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  4. ronmamita says:

    Slave Tortures: The Mask, Scold’s Bridle, or Brank
    Friday, September 23, 2011

    “Let the Woman be Silent in Church: Over four centuries, thousands of women were subjected to the wearing of these contraptions. The main principle behind the scold’s bridle was: let the woman be silent in church, though the word ‘church’ referred to the Parish community, or to be more precise; the male hierarchies of a community, rather than the building of bricks and mortar. Further translation would suggest more accurately – ‘Let the woman be silent in the presence of the male’.”…

    “There were also different tortures used for men and women. The Brank was also known as the Scold’s Bridle and it was specifically used as a torture for women to inflict humiliation and discomfort as opposed to pain. A scold was a term given to a gossip, shrew or bad tempered woman during the Middle Ages. A scold was defined as: “A troublesome and angry woman who by brawling and wrangling amongst her neighbours breaks the public peace, increases discord and becomes a public nuisance to the neighbourhood.” The device was a locking iron muzzle, metal mask or cage which encased the head. There was an iron curb projecting into the mouth which rested on the top of the tongue. This device prevented the shrew from speaking. In some instances the iron curb was studded with spikes which inflicted pain if the victim spoke. Some branks had a bell built in which drew attention to the scold as she walked through the streets. The woman would be humiliated by the jeering and comments from other people.”
    http://usslave.blogspot.com/2011/09/slave-tortures-mask-scolds-bridle-or.html

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  5. ronmamita says:

    Slave Tortures: The Mask, Scold’s Bridle

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  6. ronmamita says:
    Whispers from the past… psst its time for humanity to mature and self-govern, ’cause all governments will abuse you eventually. Frederick Douglass (February 1818 – February 20, 1895) “I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.” “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.” “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” “America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.” “A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.” http://www.constitution.org/civ/civildis.htm Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience [1849, original title: Resistance to Civil Government] I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure. This American government — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed upon, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. For government is an expedient, by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievious persons who put obstructions on the railroads. But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at one no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience? — in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation on conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents on injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for the law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts — a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniment, though it may be, “Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O’er the grave where out hero was buried.” The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgement or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others — as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders — serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as the rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few — as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men — serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be “clay,” and “stop a hole to keep the wind away,” but leave that office to his dust at least: “I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.” He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useless and selfish; but he who gives himself partially to them in pronounced a benefactor and philanthropist. How does it become a man to behave toward the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also. All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was the case, they think, in the Revolution of ’75. If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counter-balance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is that fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. Paley, a common authority with many on moral questions, in his chapter on the “Duty of Submission to Civil Government,” resolves all civil obligation into expediency; and he proceeds to say that “so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that it, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconveniencey, it is the will of God… that the established government be obeyed — and no longer. This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other.” Of this, he says, every man shall judge for himself. But Paley appears never to have contemplated those cases to which the rule of expediency does not apply, in which a people, as well and an individual, must do justice, cost what it may. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself. This, according to Paley, would be inconvenient. But he that would save his life, in such a case, shall lose it. This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people. In their practice, nations agree with Paley; but does anyone think that Massachusetts does exactly what is right at the present crisis? “A drab of stat, a cloth-o’-silver slut, To have her train borne up, and her soul trail in the dirt.” Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, neat at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless. We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not as materially wiser or better than the many. It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump. There are thousands who are in opinion opposed to slavery and to the war, who yet in effect do nothing to put an end to them; who, esteeming themselves children of Washington and Franklin, sit down with their hands in their pockets, and say that they know not what to do, and do nothing; who even postpone the question of freedom to the question of free trade, and quietly read the prices-current along with the latest advices from Mexico, after dinner, and, it may be, fall asleep over them both. What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for other to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give up only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and Godspeed, to the right, as it goes by them. There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man. But it is easier to deal with the real possessor of a thing than with the temporary guardian of it. All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote. I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intelligent, and respectable man what decision they may come to? Shall we not have the advantage of this wisdom and honesty, nevertheless? Can we not count upon some independent votes? Are there not many individuals in the country who do not attend conventions? But no: I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reasons to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates thus selected as the only available one, thus proving that he is himself available for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought. O for a man who is a man, and, and my neighbor says, has a bone is his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in the country? Hardly one. Does not America offer any inducement for men to settle here? The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow — one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness, and a manifest lack of intellect and cheerful self-reliance; whose first and chief concern, on coming into the world, is to see that the almshouses are in good repair; and, before yet he has lawfully donned the virile garb, to collect a fund to the support of the widows and orphans that may be; who, in short, ventures to live only by the aid of the Mutual Insurance company, which has promised to bury him decently. It is not a man’s duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous, wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man’s shoulders. I must get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too. See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my townsmen say, “I should like to have them order me out to help put down an insurrection of the slaves, or to march to Mexico — see if I would go”; and yet these very men have each, directly by their allegiance, and so indirectly, at least, by their money, furnished a substitute. The soldier is applauded who refuses to serve in an unjust war by those who do not refuse to sustain the unjust government which makes the war; is applauded by those whose own act and authority he disregards and sets at naught; as if the state were penitent to that degree that it hired one to scourge it while it sinned, but not to that degree that it left off sinning for a moment. Thus, under the name of Order and Civil Government, we are all made at last to pay homage to and support our own meanness. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made. The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur. Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most conscientious supporters, and so frequently the most serious obstacles to reform. Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves — the union between themselves and the State — and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State? How can a man be satisfied to entertain and opinion merely, and enjoy it? Is there any enjoyment in it, if his opinion is that he is aggrieved? If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see to it that you are never cheated again. Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divided States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine. Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse. Why is it not more apt to anticipate and provide for reform? Why does it not cherish its wise minority? Why does it cry and resist before it is hurt? Why does it not encourage its citizens to put out its faults, and do better than it would have them? Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? One would think, that a deliberate and practical denial of its authority was the only offense never contemplated by its government; else, why has it not assigned its definite, its suitable and proportionate, penalty? If a man who has no property refuses but once to earn nine shillings for the State, he is put in prison for a period unlimited by any law that I know, and determined only by the discretion of those who put him there; but if he should steal ninety times nine shillings from the State, he is soon permitted to go at large again. If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth — certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn. As for adopting the ways of the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man’s life will be gone. I have other affairs to attend to. I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. A man has not everything to do, but something; and because he cannot do everything, it is not necessary that he should be petitioning the Governor or the Legislature any more than it is theirs to petition me; and if they should not hear my petition, what should I do then? But in this case the State has provided no way: its very Constitution is the evil. This may seem to be harsh and stubborn and unconcilliatory; but it is to treat with the utmost kindness and consideration the only spirit that can appreciate or deserves it. So is all change for the better, like birth and death, which convulse the body. I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts, and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. I meet this American government, or its representative, the State government, directly, and face to face, once a year — no more — in the person of its tax-gatherer; this is the only mode in which a man situated as I am necessarily meets it; and it then says distinctly, Recognize me; and the simplest, the most effectual, and, in the present posture of affairs, the indispensablest mode of treating with it on this head, of expressing your little satisfaction with and love for it, is to deny it then. My civil neighbor, the tax-gatherer, is the very man I have to deal with — for it is, after all, with men and not with parchment that I quarrel — and he has voluntarily chosen to be an agent of the government. How shall he ever know well that he is and does as an officer of the government, or as a man, until he is obliged to consider whether he will treat me, his neighbor, for whom he has respect, as a neighbor and well-disposed man, or as a maniac and disturber of the peace, and see if he can get over this obstruction to his neighborlines without a ruder and more impetuous thought or speech corresponding with his action. I know this well, that if one thousand, if one hundred, if ten men whom I could name — if ten honest men only — ay, if one honest man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this co-partnership, and be locked up in the county jail therefor, it would be the abolition of slavery in America. For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever. But we love better to talk about it: that we say is our mission. Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man. If my esteemed neighbor, the State’s ambassador, who will devote his days to the settlement of the question of human rights in the Council Chamber, instead of being threatened with the prisons of Carolina, were to sit down the prisoner of Massachusetts, that State which is so anxious to foist the sin of slavery upon her sister — though at present she can discover only an act of inhospitality to be the ground of a quarrel with her — the Legislature would not wholly waive the subject of the following winter. Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. The proper place today, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less despondent spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race should find them; on that separate but more free and honorable ground, where the State places those who are not with her, but against her — the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor. If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy within its walls, they do not know by how much truth is stronger than error, nor how much more eloquently and effectively he can combat injustice who has experienced a little in his own person. Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, “But what shall I do?” my answer is, “If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.” When the subject has refused allegiance, and the officer has resigned from office, then the revolution is accomplished. But even suppose blood shed when the conscience is wounded? Through this wound a man’s real manhood and immortality flow out, and he bleeds to an everlasting death. I see this blood flowing now. I have contemplated the imprisonment of the offender, rather than the seizure of his goods — though both will serve the same purpose — because they who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time in accumulating property. To such the State renders comparatively small service, and a slight tax is wont to appear exorbitant, particularly if they are obliged to earn it by special labor with their hands. If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man — not to make any invidious comparison — is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it. It puts to rest many questions which he would otherwise be taxed to answer; while the only new question which it puts is the hard but superfluous one, how to spend it. Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet. The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as that are called the “means” are increased. The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor. Christ answered the Herodians according to their condition. “Show me the tribute-money,” said he — and one took a penny out of his pocket — if you use money which has the image of Caesar on it, and which he has made current and valuable, that is, if you are men of the State, and gladly enjoy the advantages of Caesar’s government, then pay him back some of his own when he demands it. “Render therefore to Caesar that which is Caesar’s and to God those things which are God’s” — leaving them no wiser than before as to which was which; for they did not wish to know. When I converse with the freest of my neighbors, I perceive that, whatever they may say about the magnitude and seriousness of the question, and their regard for the public tranquillity, the long and the short of the matter is, that they cannot spare the protection of the existing government, and they dread the consequences to their property and families of disobedience to it. For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State. But, if I deny the authority of the State when it presents its tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard. This makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects. It will not be worth the while to accumulate property; that would be sure to go again. You must hire or squat somewhere, and raise but a small crop, and eat that soon. You must live within yourself, and depend upon yourself always tucked up and ready for a start, and not have many affairs. A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government. Confucius said: “If a state is governed by the principles of reason, poverty and misery are subjects of shame; if a state is not governed by the principles of reason, riches and honors are subjects of shame.” No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case. Some years ago, the State met me in behalf of the Church, and commanded me to pay a certain sum toward the support of a clergyman whose preaching my father attended, but never I myself. “Pay,” it said, “or be locked up in the jail.” I declined to pay. But, unfortunately, another man saw fit to pay it. I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster; for I was not the State’s schoolmaster, but I supported myself by voluntary subscription. I did not see why the lyceum should not present its tax bill, and have the State to back its demand, as well as the Church. However, as the request of the selectmen, I condescended to make some such statement as this in writing: “Know all men by these presents, that I, Henry Thoreau, do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society which I have not joined.” This I gave to the town clerk; and he has it. The State, having thus learned that I did not wish to be regarded as a member of that church, has never made a like demand on me since; though it said that it must adhere to its original presumption that time. If I had known how to name them, I should then have signed off in detail from all the societies which I never signed on to; but I did not know where to find such a complete list. I have paid no poll tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for one night; and, as I stood considering the walls of solid stone, two or three feet thick, the door of wood and iron, a foot thick, and the iron grating which strained the light, I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated my as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up. I wondered that it should have concluded at length that this was the best use it could put me to, and had never thought to avail itself of my services in some way. I saw that, if there was a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was a still more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as I was. I did nor for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of stone and mortar. I felt as if I alone of all my townsmen had paid my tax. They plainly did not know how to treat me, but behaved like persons who are underbred. In every threat and in every compliment there was a blunder; for they thought that my chief desire was to stand the other side of that stone wall. I could not but smile to see how industriously they locked the door on my meditations, which followed them out again without let or hindrance, and they were really all that was dangerous. As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it. Thus the state never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior with or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They only can force me who obey a higher law than I. They force me to become like themselves. I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live? When I meet a government which says to me, “Your money our your life,” why should I be in haste to give it my money? It may be in a great strait, and not know what to do: I cannot help that. It must help itself; do as I do. It is not worth the while to snivel about it. I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, when an acorn and a chestnut fall side by side, the one does not remain inert to make way for the other, but both obey their own laws, and spring and grow and flourish as best they can, till one, perchance, overshadows and destroys the other. If a plant cannot live according to nature, it dies; and so a man. The night in prison was novel and interesting enough. The prisoners in their shirtsleeves were enjoying a chat and the evening air in the doorway, when I entered. But the jailer said, “Come, boys, it is time to lock up”; and so they dispersed, and I heard the sound of their steps returning into the hollow apartments. My room-mate was introduced to me by the jailer as “a first-rate fellow and clever man.” When the door was locked, he showed me where to hang my hat, and how he managed matters there. The rooms were whitewashed once a month; and this one, at least, was the whitest, most simply furnished, and probably neatest apartment in town. He naturally wanted to know where I came from, and what brought me there; and, when I had told him, I asked him in my turn how he came there, presuming him to be an honest man, of course; and as the world goes, I believe he was. “Why,” said he, “they accuse me of burning a barn; but I never did it.” As near as I could discover, he had probably gone to bed in a barn when drunk, and smoked his pipe there; and so a barn was burnt. He had the reputation of being a clever man, had been there some three months waiting for his trial to come on, and would have to wait as much longer; but he was quite domesticated and contented, since he got his board for nothing, and thought that he was well treated. He occupied one window, and I the other; and I saw that if one stayed there long, his principal business would be to look out the window. I had soon read all the tracts that were left there, and examined where former prisoners had broken out, and where a grate had been sawed off, and heard the history of the various occupants of that room; for I found that even there there was a history and a gossip which never circulated beyond the walls of the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterward printed in a circular form, but not published. I was shown quite a long list of young men who had been detected in an attempt to escape, who avenged themselves by singing them. I pumped my fellow-prisoner as dry as I could, for fear I should never see him again; but at length he showed me which was my bed, and left me to blow out the lamp. It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town clock strike before, not the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I never had seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar institutions; for it is a shire town. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about. In the morning, our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small oblong-square tin pans, made to fit, and holding a pint of chocolate, with brown bread, and an iron spoon. When they called for the vessels again, I was green enough to return what bread I had left, but my comrade seized it, and said that I should lay that up for lunch or dinner. Soon after he was let out to work at haying in a neighboring field, whither he went every day, and would not be back till noon; so he bade me good day, saying that he doubted if he should see me again. When I came out of prison — for some one interfered, and paid that tax — I did not perceive that great changes had taken place on the common, such as he observed who went in a youth and emerged a gray-headed man; and yet a change had come to my eyes come over the scene — the town, and State, and country, greater than any that mere time could effect. I saw yet more distinctly the State in which I lived. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions, as the Chinamen and Malays are that in their sacrifices to humanity they ran no risks, not even to their property; that after all they were not so noble but they treated the thief as he had treated them, and hoped, by a certain outward observance and a few prayers, and by walking in a particular straight through useless path from time to time, to save their souls. This may be to judge my neighbors harshly; for I believe that many of them are not aware that they have such an institution as the jail in their village. It was formerly the custom in our village, when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers, which were crossed to represent the jail window, “How do ye do?” My neighbors did not this salute me, but first looked at me, and then at one another, as if I had returned from a long journey. I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker’s to get a shoe which was mender. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended show, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour — for the horse was soon tackled — was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen. This is the whole history of “My Prisons.” I have never declined paying the highway tax, because I am as desirous of being a good neighbor as I am of being a bad subject; and as for supporting schools, I am doing my part to educate my fellow countrymen now. It is for no particular item in the tax bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdraw and stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man a musket to shoot one with — the dollar is innocent — but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get what advantages of her I can, as is usual in such cases. If others pay the tax which is demanded of me, from a sympathy with the State, they do but what they have already done in their own case, or rather they abet injustice to a greater extent than the State requires. If they pay the tax from a mistaken interest in the individual taxed, to save his property, or prevent his going to jail, it is because they have not considered wisely how far they let their private feelings interfere with the public good. This, then is my position at present. But one cannot be too much on his guard in such a case, lest his actions be biased by obstinacy or an undue regard for the opinions of men. Let him see that he does only what belongs to himself and to the hour. I think sometimes, Why, this people mean well, they are only ignorant; they would do better if they knew how: why give your neighbors this pain to treat you as they are not inclined to? But I think again, This is no reason why I should do as they do, or permit others to suffer much greater pain of a different kind. Again, I sometimes say to myself, When many millions of men, without heat, without ill will, without personal feelings of any kind, demand of you a few shillings only, without the possibility, such is their constitution, of retracting or altering their present demand, and without the possibility, on your side, of appeal to any other millions, why expose yourself to this overwhelming brute force? You do not resist cold and hunger, the winds and the waves, thus obstinately; you quietly submit to a thousand similar necessities. You do not put your head into the fire. But just in proportion as I regard this as not wholly a brute force, but partly a human force, and consider that I have relations to those millions as to so many millions of men, and not of mere brute or inanimate things, I see that appeal is possible, first and instantaneously, from them to the Maker of them, and, secondly, from them to themselves. But if I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the Maker for fire, and I have only myself to blame. If I could convince myself that I have any right to be satisfied with men as they are, and to treat them accordingly, and not according, in some respects, to my requisitions and expectations of what they and I ought to be, then, like a good Mussulman and fatalist, I should endeavor to be satisfied with things as they are, and say it is the will of God. And, above all, there is this difference between resisting this and a purely brute or natural force, that I can resist this with some effect; but I cannot expect, like Orpheus, to change the nature of the rocks and trees and beasts. I do not wish to quarrel with any man or nation. I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors. I seek rather, I may say, even an excuse for conforming to the laws of the land. I am but too ready to conform to them. Indeed, I have reason to suspect myself on this head; and each year, as the tax-gatherer comes round, I find myself disposed to review the acts and position of the general and State governments, and the spirit of the people to discover a pretext for conformity. “We must affect our country as our parents, And if at any time we alienate Out love or industry from doing it honor, We must respect effects and teach the soul Matter of conscience and religion, And not desire of rule or benefit.” I believe that the State will soon be able to take all my work of this sort out of my hands, and then I shall be no better patriot than my fellow-countrymen. Seen from a lower point of view, the Constitution, with all its faults, is very good; the law and the courts are very respectable; even this State and this American government are, in many respects, very admirable, and rare things, to be thankful for, such as a great many have described them; seen from a higher still, and the highest, who shall say what they are, or that they are worth looking at or thinking of at all? However, the government does not concern me much, and I shall bestow the fewest possible thoughts on it. It is not many moments that I live under a government, even in this world. If a man is thought-free, fancy-free, imagination-free, that which is not never for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rulers or reformers cannot fatally interrupt him. I know that most men think differently from myself; but those whose lives are by profession devoted to the study of these or kindred subjects content me as little as any. Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency. Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all tim, he never once glances at the subject. I know of those whose serene and wise speculations on this theme would soon reveal the limits of his mind’s range and hospitality. Yet, compared with the cheap professions of most reformers, and the still cheaper wisdom an eloquence of politicians in general, his are almost the only sensible and valuable words, and we thank Heaven for him. Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence. The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. He well deserves to be called, as he has been called, the Defender of the Constitution. There are really no blows to be given him but defensive ones. He is not a leader, but a follower. His leaders are the men of ’87. “I have never made an effort,” he says, “and never propose to make an effort; I have never countenanced an effort, and never mean to countenance an effort, to disturb the arrangement as originally made, by which various States came into the Union.” Still thinking of the sanction which the Constitution gives to slavery, he says, “Because it was part of the original compact — let it stand.” Notwithstanding his special acuteness and ability, he is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect — what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in American today with regard to slavery — but ventures, or is driven, to make some such desperate answer to the following, while professing to speak absolutely, and as a private man — from which what new and singular of social duties might be inferred? “The manner,” says he, “in which the governments of the States where slavery exists are to regulate it is for their own consideration, under the responsibility to their constituents, to the general laws of propriety, humanity, and justice, and to God. Associations formed elsewhere, springing from a feeling of humanity, or any other cause, have nothing whatever to do with it. They have never received any encouragement from me and they never will. [These extracts have been inserted since the lecture was read — HDT] They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humanity; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountainhead. No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freed, of union, and of rectitude, to a nation. They have no genius or talent for comparatively humble questions of taxation and finance, commerce and manufactures and agriculture. If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations. For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation. The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to — for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well — is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which I have also imagined, but not yet anywhere seen. ____________________________________________________________________ http://www.theheroesclub.org/harriet_tubman.php Harriet Tubman (circa 1819 – March 10, 1913) “She had escaped from slavery. To help other slaves escape, she became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. Escaping slaves knew they could count on her. None of the 300 slaves who walked the freedom trail behind Harriet were ever captured. Wow! Her RELIABILITY rate was 100% – totally dependable for the people who needed her.” Quotes: “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” “I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.” “I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” “I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.” ____________________________________________________________________ Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) on nonviolent action & civil disobedience Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. You are not followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.” “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness. Every citizen is responsible for every act of his government. There is only one sovereign remedy, namely, nonviolent non-cooperation. Whether we advertise the fact or not, the moment we cease to support the government it dies a nature death. FREEDOM The spirit of political and international liberty is universal and, it may even be said, instinctive…The attainment of freedom, whether for a man, a nation or the world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of non-violence by each…There is no such thing as slow freedom. Til we are fully free we are all slaves…I want freedom for the full expression of my personality. I must be free to build a staircase to Sirius if I want to…No action which is not voluntary can be called moral. So long as we act like machines there can be no question of morality….Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves….No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority….True nonviolence should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all….Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help….If it is man’s (sic) privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent…. Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral….Freedom of the individual is at the root of all progress. GOVERNMENT Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress…Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest….We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day be the mass of people acting as if by instinct….If they were instinctively violent the world would end in no time…It is when the mass mind is unnaturally influenced by wicked men that the mass of mankind commit violence. But they forget it as they commit it because they return to their peaceful nature immediately the evil influence of the directing mind has been removed….A government that is evil has no room for good men and women except in its prisons. NON-VIOLENT ACTION AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness…Every citizen is responsible for every act of his government…There is only one sovereign remedy, namely, non-violent non-cooperation. Whether we advertise the fact or not, the moment we cease to support the government it dies a nature death….My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant….I hope the real Swaraj (self-rule) will come not by the acquisition of authority by the few but by the acquisition by all of the courage to resist authority when abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by education the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate ad control authority…. Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies…Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be cruel joke….Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering without the intoxicating excitement of killing….Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent….Disobedience to be civil implies discipline, thought, care, attention…Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation….Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but [are] branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force)…. Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end….One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman….Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good… Nonviolent action without the cooperation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result….All through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall, always. NON-VIOLENT ECONOMICS Economic equality is the master key to non-violent independence…A non-violent system of government is impossible as long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists….A violent and bloody revolution is a certainty one day unless there is a voluntary abdication of riches and the power riches give and a sharing of them for the public good….All have not the same capacity…I would not cramp talent…I want to bring about an equalization of status…. _____________________________________________________________________ Martin Luther King Jr. (Jan 15, 1929 – Apr 4, 1968) Civil Disobedience and Nonviolence King was more than willing to defy laws if he deemed them to be unjust. He was sharply criticized for this and he defended his tactics in the Letter from Birmingham Jail written on 16 April 1963 when he was arrested for a non-violent demonstration. Martin Luther King met eight white priest from Alabama who had wrote four days earlier a letter entitled A Call for unity. While conceding the existence of social injustice, they expressed the belief that the battle against racial segregation should take place in the courts and not in the street. Martin Luther replied that without direct and powerful efforts like those he undertook, civil rights would never be achieved. Here is an excerpt: You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may won ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there fire two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.” Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distort the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority…. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and awful. Paul Tillich said that sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression ‘of man’s tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness? Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong. Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal. Let me give another explanation. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state’s segregation laws was democratically elected? Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured? Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest. I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. What is most interesting about King’s defense is that he places all laws below a “higher law” of morality. He then defines that higher law based on his theology of separation, and concludes that segregation is a manifestation of separation, and therefore must be unjust. Notably, he does not say what we would typically say today: “That all laws are unjust if they violate constitutional rights.” We would subject laws to a constitutional order. He subjects it to a higher moral order. Indeed, King refers to the Constitution only three times in this letter, all in passing. LikeLike
  7. ronmamita says:

    Ending the authority fallacy that he or she is capable of governing others while continuing to demonstrate the inability to govern him/her self. Institutions must stop trying to RULE people…
    Remember, the authorities may be wrong and often are.
    Also note the government’s countless secrets, secret agents and double agents are evidence that governments are not to trusted.
    Government authority must be constrained and limited.

    Thus it is preferable to govern your self; in other words SELF-GOVERN
    and tell government that governing job is filled, no vacancies available. Put the government out of the business of ruling people.

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  8. ronmamita says:

    WHERE – O – WHERE
    are the brave Generals and Admirals standing for justice and liberty in America?
    I here only silence…
    Contact the alternative media, we will blog and broadcast all whistleblowing revelations.
    By shining the bright light of truth on these dark and destructive secrets and hidden threats to freedom and justice the criminal can be brought before the people and tried for their crimes in a open tribunal to end criminal activities.

    Many, many thanks to Gen. Smedley Butler for his bravery in speaking out against American despotism!

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    • ronmamita says:

      DEBT-bondage is the modern form of SLAVERY!

      While it may be true that some free people may defend their freedom with weapons,
      know that the masters control currencies, banks, governments and markets…

      Thus decide, insightfully, how you want to trade, barter and exchange goods and services as free people.

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  9. ronmamita says:

    “The time has come to awaken humanity, together we can do it. We have the best tool- the internet. Everyone of you can and should take part in it.

    One of the things you can do (and it doesn’t require any effort and time) is to press the share button on every video you agree with. We need to act together, and sharing the information is the first step towards awakening!

    Please guys and girls, from now on, if you think that the information we post is worth sharing press the share button. It is that simple!”

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  10. ronmamita says:

    Published on May 9, 2012 by LarkenRose

    One cannot change reality by changing the words you use to describe reality. Look beneath the rhetoric, and glimpse the truth.

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  11. ronmamita says:

    “More and more people are learning about the importance of logical reasoning and the dangers of logical fallacies. But is logic sufficient for arriving at certainty? Today on The Corbett Report we tear apart the notions of the clockwork universe, the rationality of humans and the idea that logically valid arguments always arrive at true conclusions.”

    http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-239-logic-is-not-enough/

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  12. ronmamita says:

    …”The Crimson Pill explores the salient questions of the day: “Why are we here?” “Why is the world seemingly spinning out of control?” “What can I do to prepare myself, family and friends for the tumultuous events that face us in the coming days?”

    Host Antonin Feori will guide the listening audience on a quest to assemble the ‘Pieces of the Truth’ that lay the foundation to prepare for what is to come. This journey will call upon a host of researchers and truth seekers to share their expertise with the listener on the topics that matter so much: “Why are various populations (including the U.S.) being targeted with Chemtrail spraying programs?” “How can it be legal and possible for known poisons to be placed in our food and water supply?” “Why would world powers use technologies like HAARP and Project Bluebeam to deliberately manipulate their populations, and somehow think that we won’t ‘wake up?'”

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  13. […] who refuse to look at an alternative to the current global matrix of debt as money, and nations as national human-resource farms and test subjects. We know people who do not question authority and do not think for themselves. We […]

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  14. […] *Click on the hyperlinks in this post and gain more facts about the fraudulent global financial empire with a global commercial law system to legalize it and threat of war and martial law to enforce it. Can you imagine a system of global harvested farms is hidden as Nation States? […]

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  15. […] global system has become a Global Slave Farm System where each nation state has governance over their human resources managed within the global […]

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  16. […] the Mission is unfinished WE, the People of Earth, are the change we have been searching for. AMPLIFY the Global Dialogue for […]

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  17. […] agreements, financial agreements, partnerships, and fiscal policies funds all, including the wars. Governments Manage Human Resources As Corporate Slave Farms, this is part of the global […]

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  18. […] Global Dialogue, helpful earlier posts here: BREAKING Global Dialogue: Value Exchange FALSE Logos Governments Manage Human Resources as Corporate Slave-Farms THE ONE PEOPLE’S PUBLIC TRUST: UCC and FORECLOSURE FILINGS WORLDWIDE Lawful and Legal: not always […]

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  19. […] Governments Manage Human Resources as Corporate Slave-Farms FALSE Logos WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP? […]

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  20. […] only omissions are the TRUE income & profits of the government, (see video: Corporation Nation) and the flawed reasoning for Gold backed money (return on […]

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  21. […] Worshiping & Trusting institutions with their officials. When Slave-masters (institutions) Are No Longer Worshiped and obeyed, Freedom Springs Forth. End your support and walk away from the […]

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  22. […] they want your life. They want to enslave the People on Earth. Consider each nation as a Farm of human chattel as a Revenue & Labor […]

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  23. […] Governments Manage Human Resources as Corporate Slave-Farms […]

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  24. […] up on other people’s research I have verified the facts that both commercial slave farms (aka nation states) and the international monetary system are commercial schemes protected by governments. I leave it […]

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  25. […] the casino-exchanges and their fraudulent system. Stop Hiding and End the Deception. Abolish the bondage system, halt the wars, dismantle the illusions, acknowledge the fraud, accept contract revocations and the […]

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  26. […] a senior American I have witnessed the descending political patterns with increased money in campaigns over the decades. This is not meant to flog the distinctions of one political party versus the […]

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  27. […] their creative problem solving skills. Stop relying on institutions, reject authority & institutional governance which is regulated abuses, despotic restrictions on your liberty and a matrix of legal fiction with […]

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  28. […] State Sponsored Terror (False Flag, state emergency, etc.) […]

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  29. […] Campaign is Diabolical Vaccine programs in Africa are dangerous and counter productive Governments Manage Human Resources as Corporate Slave-Farms […]

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  30. […] I see this simply as a intentional pursuit of worldwide control. This is an age-old script. […]

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