{"id":4494,"date":"2021-09-01T01:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coldfury.com\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2021-09-01T01:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:05:51","slug":"no-half-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/no-half-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"No half-measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get hot or go home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How can benefits flow from coercion and the wholesale violation of individual rights? What gives a small minority the right to coerce and subjugate the rest? Why is the burden of proof always on those who oppose coercion and defend individual rights? Why are those who arrogate to themselves the power to rule by violence never called to account for their many and massive failures, even as the world they\u2019ve created slides into an abyss from which it may never emerge? Why, if people are supposedly unfit for freedom and running their own lives, are some people fit to run everyone else\u2019s lives? Why are words and phrases like \u201clockdown,\u201d \u201cmasking,\u201d \u201cmandatory vaccines,\u201d and \u201cvaccine passports\u201d not treated as the obscenities they are, while words and phrases like \u201cfreedom,\u201d \u201cliberty,\u201d \u201cindividual rights,\u201d \u201cindividual autonomy,\u201d and \u201cpersonal sovereignty\u201d are freakish, beyond-the-pale concepts that cannot be mentioned among those who consider themselves polite society?<\/p>\n

\u201cScrew polite society\u201d is a phrase that should have been uttered long ago, and which has to be uttered now. If someone claims the right to lock you down, close your business, destroy your job, make you wear an ineffective mask, decree your life\u2019s activities contingent on proof you\u2019ve been injected with an ineffective and dangerous vaccine whose makers cannot be sued, and prevents you from questioning or protesting this tyranny; if someone claims the right to force you to accept as legal tender a piece of paper or computer entry whose value is entirely dependent on the value of promises not to create too many of them from thieves who never keep their promises; if someone claims the right to invade countries which pose no threat, and to pay for it with your taxes, your credit, and the lives of you, your fellow citizens, and the invaded; if someone claims the right to impose regulations, laws, and decrees that destroy your ability to act in your own best interest, render you guilty until you prove yourself innocent, extort your compliance at the price of your job, business, or freedom, and only benefit\u2014through extortion, bribery, and the peddling of influence and favors\u2014those who promulgate and enforce them; if someone claims the right to the products of your mind, work, imagination, and integrity to promote the \u201cequality\u201d of those who offer nothing but their screeching \u201cneeds\u201d; then their claims versus your resistance are not polite differences of opinion. They are matters of life and death.<\/p>\n

Consider these people who want absolute power over you. They\u2019re several layers removed from the realities that confront the rest of us. Many of them have never put in an honest day\u2019s work\u2014where someone willingly pays them because the value of what they produce is greater than what they\u2019re paid\u2014never met a payroll, never had to stretch $5.16 until the end of next week. From their sinecures they prattle and preach, lobby and legislate, censor and suppress, tax and tyrannize, revolving satellites in a firmament centered on government and its power. The revere their credentialed aristocracy and drip contempt for those not in it. Publicly they don\u2019t hide their condescension, privately they stifle any doubts that it\u2019s not merited. If they take any notice of the outsiders\u2019 resentment, they attribute it to jealously and mentally move on.<\/p>\n

A great reordering is coming. It won\u2019t be imposed by behemoth institutions, it will organically evolve from individuals, families, and small communities of interest. The behemoths are centralized, bureaucratic, parasitic, and corrupt dinosaurs. They won\u2019t survive the decentralized chaos they\u2019re unknowingly fomenting. There is no ecological role for the Potomac brontosaurus or any other mega-government. They and the gargantuan states over which they preside and plunder have outlived whatever usefulness they may have once had. Nature ruthlessly winnows the useless. The behemoths will be winnowed.<\/p>\n

Survival requires adaptation and adaptive order can emerge from chaos. Historically, order has been imposed in a myriad of violent variants, superficially different political philosophies but at root all the same. The coming chaos will present an opportunity for organic order to emerge, based on freedom, individual rights, and voluntary interaction and exchange. It\u2019s order for those who seek neither to control nor be controlled, a philosophical and psychological evolution many will never attain. Those that do will find a patch of territory and stake their claim to freedom, defend it, and flourish. It may not be large, but an acre of freedom is better than a continent of tyranny.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s required are the people who are unafraid to claim their individual rights,\u00a0every single one of them<\/em>, and will go all the way to secure them. It will be no victory to \u201cwin\u201d some slight rollback in tyranny\u2014fewer Covid mandates, lower taxes, a tapering of fiat debt monetization, military withdrawal from an occupied nation, etc. Rollbacks are a fool\u2019s errand, later rerolled forward. Nothing short of total victory\u2014the elimination of tyranny\u2014will do.<\/p>\n

If you reflexively cringe when someone calls you selfish for claiming what\u2019s yours, if you\u2019re unwilling to defend your life and rights, so be it, assuredly they will be taken from you. If you want to be free from tyranny, if you want to peaceably live\u00a0your<\/em>\u00a0life as\u00a0you<\/em>\u00a0see fit, if you want to go all the way and create something entirely new, and if you\u2019re willing to work and fight for it, that can be your and your posterity\u2019s future.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robert Gore has produced a mighty fine work here, and no mistake. Aesop calls it “the best essay I’ve read all year,<\/a>” and I for one ain’t gonna argue with the man. I will say this much: if we wait until we get to where Australia is to act, then we probably just shouldn’t bother at all, because we’ve already lost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Saturday afternoon, a father walking with his daughter in the Garrison Point Reserve in George’s Hall, Australia, was handcuffed by local police after he was found unmasked in Sydney’s coronavirus-hit western suburbs.<\/p>\n

Footage of the incident, obtained by the\u00a0Daily Mail, shows the man sitting with his hands behind his back, as his daughter wanders nearby.<\/p>\n

“Come on guys, be fair, a little bit,” said the man who was filming. “He’s got a daughter here. She is by herself. Look, the little girl is scared, man.”<\/p>\n

The officers told the man filming that the father had “committed an offense.”<\/p>\n

“He hasn’t committed an offense – I walked past and saw everything,” the man filming said to the law enforcement officers. The father then told police that he would not speak to them until his daughter was by his side.<\/p>\n

The officer has the young daughter return to her father, who then sits in his lap as he is sitting with handcuffs on his wrists.<\/p>\n

The father told police that he was dropping his daughter off with his sister then going for a run, during which he would not have to wear a mask.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Absolutely unbelievable. Anybody still wish-hoping that Real Americans can count on the Blue we used to Back to be with us when Gore’s Great Reordering begins for real is hereby strongly advised to think again. I mean, STRONGLY.<\/p>\n

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