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Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

"Nowhere in the Constitution is the government authorized to lie to We The People. And the Tenth Amendment prohibits the government from simply assuming that right.

"The government lied about a Spanish mine in Havana harbor, They lied about the Lusitania not smuggling weapons to Great Britain. They lied about the JFK assassination. They lied about torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin. They lied about Saddam’s WMDs. They lied about Assad gassing his own people. They lied about 9-11. They lied about Covid. They lied about honest elections. They lie about everything!

"When the government lies to We The People, it becomes an unconstitutional and hence illegitimate government, and we are not obligates to obey said government’s dictates, pay said government’s bills, or sacrifice our children in said government’s wars!" -- Michael Rivero

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Courageous Lion's avatar

That is because for some strange reason, the "job" of administering government gets filled by psychopathic control freak PARASITES as a whole. There are few normal people that even want to be involved. Or as Ron Paul has observed, the ones that should be in government are already run away slaves that will not be allowed to participate.

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Carl L. McWilliams's avatar

Thank you Courageous Lion for your reply. FYI: I am 75 years old, a serial entrepreneur and I am formally trained as a sociologist by the University of California, (BA1975). Therefore, from my political-socio-economic observations; I have concluded all levels of government in the USA are "kleptocracies", staffed by unending bureaucrats who are "rent seekers".

What is a Kleptocracy?

Kleptocracy (from Greek "I steal", and "power, rule") is a government whose corrupt leaders (kleptocrats) use political power to expropriate the wealth of the people and land they govern, typically by embezzlement or misappropriation of government funds at the expense of the wider population. Thievocracy means literally the rule by thievery and is a term used synonymously to kleptocracy. One feature of political-based socioeconomic kleptocratic-thievery is that there is often no public announcement explaining or apologizing for misappropriations, nor any legal charges or punishment levied against the offenders. Kleptocracy is different from plutocracy (rule by the richest) and oligarchy (rule by a small elite). In a kleptocracy, corrupt politicians enrich themselves secretly outside the rule of law, through kickbacks, bribes, and special favors, or they simply direct state funds to themselves and their associates. Also, kleptocrats often export much of their profits to foreign nations in anticipation of losing power. The Ukraine war with Russia/Putin is a perfect example of the federal government's kleptocrats exporting stolen money from the US Treasury into global money laundering schemes.

What is Bureaucratic Rent-Seeking?

Bureaucrat Rent-Seeking is the act of a government employee growing one’s personal wealth without creating any new wealth, by taxing the producers on wealth and new wealth. Government bureaucrat's rent-seeking activities have negative economic effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of natural and scarce resources, reduced wealth creation, heightened income inequality, and national decline. Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e.: The portion of income paid to a factor of production from land, labor, capital, entrepreneur, in excess of what is needed to keep it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, by regulation and taxation, rather than by creating new wealth.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

SEEMS TO ME THAT YOU DESCRIBED PARASITES TO THE "T"!!!!

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Sharine Borslien's avatar

Just as is always the case with the wayward wizards and their cushy-job-keeping career clowns, they have to lie, cheat, and even make up their own narratives out of whole cloth in order to make it appear that they are "superior," when nothing could be further from the truth. Try explaining that to anyone who has an agenda that aligns in some big way with that BS, and we're labeled as freaks, idiots, "conspiracy theorists," etc.

I think that the Machine Mind has so deeply programmed most people that they would turn on their friends and family to maintain their loyalty to "experts," "officials," and "authorities." Oh WAIT, that's been happening on a grand scale for the last nearly-four years!

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