Live free or die......governed!

I would first like to start by saying, blah, blah, blah. I feel like this article went in to so many different directions that I constantly focus and had to keep taking breaks to finish the reading.

That being said i can now say that there was one part, and only one part that caught my attention and I said "damn, that's deep".
"for the purpose of government is to compel people to do what they would not do of their own volition. In short, government is a process by which some people exercise compulsion on others."

DEEP! I, subconsciously, have always had a problem with governments in general, and ultimately with any type of authority. However, I pretend to be obedient and love being an American so I go along with the government and the rules. I never stopped to think about how government is just kinda giving up your freedom. However, is it possible to live without government?

Let's go back a couple of weeks to when the good Lord flooded the earth and left only a couple alive and the reason was because there were no rules and people were just "governing" themselves. That is the last example that we know about people living without rules. So, if you think about it, we vote for people to take our freedom.

We vote for the people who raise our property taxes and who push business owners to raise prices so that "we" can all benefit from a growing economy. At the end of the day we still cannot say "no I refuse to pay that tax because it is a free country and I do what i want". Yeah, OK, you'd find yourself in jail so fast and not even that would be free.

This country was founded on the basis of FREEDOM and there are only basic freedoms, but they are all limited in a way. For example, it is illegal to pray in a public school and mention the name Jesus or God. When the pastor, who gave the inaugural prayer this year for Obama, accepted the invitation to participate in the ceremony there was an uproar about what he would say at the end of his prayer. When I was listening to him I was waiting to hear what he would do as a pastor and what he would say. The bible that he reads says that at the end of a prayer you need to send it up in the name of his son "Jesus" and he had to go in so many different circles just to end the prayer when he, with all his rights could have just said "in Jesus' name we pray, Amen"



IKE