‘What Freedom Is…And Isn’t’

Posted on March 4, 2015 by KG

From a brilliant post by Francis Porretto:
‘…There cannot be liberty without responsibility. The “right” to vote has nothing of liberty in it; as Heinlein notes, it is merely a delimited exertion of political authority. When you vote, you are not exercising any aspect of liberty; you are functioning as an agent of the political authority. In our “democracy,” in which the voter bears no direct responsibility for the consequences of his vote, for that brief instant in which you “pull the lever and feel the power,” you are functionally a master, if only an infinitesimal fraction of one.
When you pull back the curtain and leave the booth, you’re back to being wholly a slave…’    (Bold mine.)

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6 Responses to ‘What Freedom Is…And Isn’t’

  1. Contempt says:
    March 4, 2015 at 06:53

    :shock: A vote becomes of less worth daily. :roll:

    • KG says:
      March 4, 2015 at 06:55

      I think a vote now only has value to our masters, Contempt, to legitimise their bastardry.

  2. D.T. says:
    March 4, 2015 at 18:15

    In NSW if you don’t mark your name off from the electoral roll in a council election then they will suspend your driver’s licence ( what my licence has to do with an election I have NFI ) . What if I didn’t have a driver’s licence then what form of extortion would they force on me ? So this is freedom is it ? I had to pay a $160.00 fine for the privilege. We have a state election coming up in NSW and I’m going to mark my name off and then tell them all to GET FUCKED and they can shove their pieces of paper up their arses .
    D.T. :twisted:

    • KG says:
      March 4, 2015 at 18:20

      http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif Good on yer, D.T. :grin:
      Fascist bastards.

      • D.T. says:
        March 4, 2015 at 20:23

        What irks me the most KG is that voting is compulsory in Australia . Forcing people to go to the polling booths to elect another lying ,thieving, dishonorable politician that isn’t any different from the last lying prick.http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_wacko.gif
        D.T.