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Preserving The State

Posted on January 14, 2021June 30, 2021 by bencassman

For those of you just waking up to the dangers of the modern nation state but still clinging to the illusion they promote the common good:

“The gravest crimes in the state’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to the state itself: treason, desertion, insurrection, etc. The state does not exist to protect its citizens, but to protect itself.”

Link: How The State Preserves Itself – and What The State Fears

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Catholic Distributism

Posted on July 28, 2020October 30, 2020 by bencassman

A few folks have wondered why I keep talking about the Distributists. Yes, they’re a fringe group, but as the Marxist revolution grows, some people with good intentions will take shelter in these evil ideas, thinking that because they’re cloaked in religion they are somehow made good. It’s like version 2 of the liberation theology subterfuge.

Every now and then you’ll find a Distributist who ADMITS that these policies (price controls by the government) will lead to shortages of necessities, and this is the scary part…will then reveal their total lack of concern about the resulting human suffering by saying, literally, “First of all, who cares?”.

BTW, I wrote to Dr Russell twice asking for a reply and he ignored me. Relevant comments start at 1:04:00

Catholic Distributism with Dr. Levi A. Russell

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You Don’t Trust the Feds, So Why Do You Trust Them to Kill the Right People?

Posted on July 25, 2019June 8, 2020 by Jeff Cassman

Fellow Christians and others of sound mind and/or good will:

Support capital punishment in principle as a divinely instituted right of legitimate governments, but oppose it in practice.

Or do you want the people who hate you and your God and who believe evil is good and good is evil deciding which citizens to kill?

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The Tyranny of ‘Good’ Intentions

Posted on May 21, 2019June 9, 2020 by Jeff Cassman

For Statists, whether Left or Right:

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult.

To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” {C.S. Lewis} H/T Eric S. Giunta… Read the rest

Are Property Taxes Immoral?

Posted on May 7, 2019June 9, 2020 by Jeff Cassman

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