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During the American Revolution even the most ignorant peasants understood that someone taking their money from them without their consent was unacceptable.
Now most people accept the state taking 40-60% of our money through taxation (add inflation and it gets worse) and using that money in ways we never consented to, such as funding wars and sending our money overseas.Β It also funds such wonderful things as illegal government surveillance, imprisoning people for having the wrong plants, and poisoning people with experimental vaccines.
The colonists revolted over a tiny tax by today's standards, meanwhile we are practically enslaved and we just roll over and let the state fuck us in the ass with no lube as they whisper some bullshit about a "social contract "Β that you are supposedly bound to based solely on where you were born.
You are not even allowed to exit this contract, if you leave the country you still have to pay taxes no matter where you reside. Only one other country (although a third will be soon, France I think) does this.
Take a moment and think about how fucked up it is that you have to work to fund evil instead of funding your own family.
Some idiot in the peanut gallery is going to say it's not enslavement because we elect representatives who then decide what the funds are used for.
To that I will say, the majority of those who actually vote pick representatives who never represent their actual interests and instead lie their faces off to get elected. After election they proceed to serve the interests of corporations and the ruling class. In a representational democracy, the minority and those who don't vote have no input, and most voting Americans are quite literally stupid thanks to the horrible indoctrination camps known as public schools. So when you subtract non voters you have a minority of the total population choosing corrupt politicians based on feels who then spend our money on evil.
There is no representation. It's all fake. It's a LARP designed to make you feel better about your enslavement. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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US citizens and non citizens alike are being randomly kidnapped off the street by masked thugs and scanned with facial recognition.
This is what a dystopia looks like.
In the Supreme Court case of Bad Elk v. United States, the court made it clear that it was lawful to use force to resist an illegal arrest.
Putting on a uniform doesn't give you the right to randomly kidnap people off the street based solely on the color of their skin.
It probably wouldn't be a good idea, but it would be lawful to resist an illegal arrest by ICE agents with force.
So when does a detention cross the line into an "arrest"?
When it is prolonged, when a reasonable person would not feel free to go, when handcuffs or restraints are used.
So when they snag a citizen with no evidence of a crime, put them in cuffs, and drive them to a different location before scanning their face, that feels like an arrest regardless of whether the citizen is released after the scan or not.
If you are going by the actual law, and we know how much ICE and their supporters love talking about the law as if it is sacred, then it would be entirely legal to resist these illegal kidnappings with force.
Unfortunately, the reality is the ruling class and their thugs don't actually respect the law, so resisting with force will probably end quite badly for the kidnapping victim. Best case they win at trial after a long and expensive ordeal. That would be a miracle because almost noone wins at trial in the Federal court system, which is just proof the entire Federal "justice" system is a Kafkaesque joke rigged against defendants in favor of the state.
Now the final question is, if your rulers don't respect their own laws, why should you?
The state represents an existential threat to humanity.
The number of times nuclear war has already almost occured as a direct result of state action is disturbing.
The state's main mechanism of control is money. They can close or freeze your bank account at any time if they don't like you or your speech.
As more people realize this and exit their financial system, the power they have over us decreases greatly.
Opt out. Use cash, Monero, Bitcoin, bartering, and gold. Develop or join circular economies within your local community. Buy your food directly from farmers not corporations.
Countereconomics has more power to resist tyranny than trying to resist within the system with elections, ballot initiatives, petitions, and protests.
There is no more time, the exits are closing, you need to get any wealth you do have outside of the system now and not later.
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