The Free View-- weblog of a presidential candidate

Get the Gun Out of The Process (not an anti-gun rant)

I want to make sure everyone understands my objective here. My goal is not to rip government painfully from people's lives, leaving the unfortunate to wallow in a black hole of social services.

I do, however, find it reprehensible (intolerable, in fact) that our current system requires the use of force (coercion) to "solve our social problems." It bothers me a lot that the people setting the rules of society are: a) primarily not interested in the welfare of individuals, b) in charge of nearly half of the money in America, c) the only legal monopoly, d) the only people allowed to use force legally, e) the largest employer in the country, and f) guilty of daily attacks on personal and public liberty, in the name of solving problems.

"This country is the best in the world, so that makes the atrocities tolerable, in some twisted, brainwashed way, right?"

Wrong. An atrocity is an atrocity by any name. Our government should quite simply not be committing human rights violations, ever. If something it is doing has the unsavory side effect of directly harming others, it should stop doing that thing.

The (social or physical) machinery that creates the harm should be dismantled. The easiest and most sensible way to do that? Take the gun out of the process. That way, no one gets hurt. (Note: By "the gun", I mean the government's use of force to achieve certain goals. As the title states, but many have not understood, this is not an anti-gun rant.)

Guns don't belong in the processes of feeding people (in the U.S.), or helping pregnant girls, single moms, black people, kids, or anyone else. Those processes belong in the realm of society, as its own, free entity.

Please note that I am not speaking here of military defense, or of the policing of direct harm. These functions, along with a much-improved court system, are necessary functions required by government to provide for our basic safety and freedom.

Ultimately, I think many here would agree that a society that solved its problems without using force on each other would be a better ideal than one that resigned itself to the use of brute force to get things accomplished. Everyone knows it's better to talk things out than to fight.

But as long as the sheep among us continue to provide their ever-more-hesitant support to the TWO EVILS and their ilk, the current structure of things will never change. Joe Voter has made that abundantly clear.

I have given up on the Two-Party system entirely, if for no other reason than their united stand on the failed and destructive Drug War. I now seek to engage the task of developing a new formulation for society, and, with support, acting to provide private, non-force-based replacement infrastructure to our country, to provide in advance for the necessary and inevitable end of "the old way."