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On the Cop Block Facebook page, comments on this blog, and on my YouTube channel, and really anywhere you say anything negative about police in general, there is one common theme you can expect to hear from the voting cattle and government propagandabots. “You shouldn’t paint with such a broad brush, sure there are some bad cops out there, but most cops are good guys. Maybe not most, but some of them exist. Someday you might need a cop” or some variation thereof.

This is absolute nonsense. The fact of the matter is, the best cop on the planet, would be a do nothing tax leech. Literally, the best case scenario for a police officer, would be somebody who showed up for work, got in his squad car, parked it, and went to sleep. Now of course, we see this from time to time, and perhaps we could thank those sleepy evildoers for not harming anyone that day, except for the fact that they are getting paid to do the exact opposite, and they are paid by taxation.

Taxation is theft. No matter what your opinion on taxes is, this is proven by the fact that myself and others do no consent to taxation. Our money is taken from us without our consent, and under threat of violence. If we do not pay, men (cops, actually) will break into our homes, shoot our pets, and kidnap us. If we resist, they will gun us down without a second thought. If you think that’s a morally justifiable thing because some slave owners wrote a document 230 some odd years ago, that’s a topic for another article, but it’s still theft.

So really, when the highest possible aspiration for a man with a uniform is literally that of being a lazy thief, one can easily imagine that the jump to heroic savior of mankind is rather unlikely. 

Because the other thing that we know is, cops have quotas, or at least, some expectation that they will go out and generate revenue, like any other job. If said good guy cop went fishing instead of victimizing innocent motorists and kidnapping hippies for possessing plants, he’d not be a cop for long, would he?

Of course not. In fact, we can safely make the assumption that the longer he’s been a cop, the more innocent people he has harmed. If he has moved up in the ranks at all, then we can safely assume he did it with a particular enthusiasm that warranted promotion. So by the time one reaches the esteemed title of “homicide detective” or “armed robbery investigator” we know that he has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from people who committed the heinous crime of “driving to work” and that each one of those thefts involved a death threat.

When a police officer turns on his flashers, he’s not making a polite request to have a chat with you. He’s informing you that your car is about to stop, whether it’s because you pull the car over, or because he runs it off the road and shoots you in the face. This is not a negotiation, and if you think it is, then by all means, the next time one of these “good guy cops” catches you speeding, just wave to him and keep on driving. Make sure your camera is running at the time, and if you survive the encounter, be sure to submit the video to CopBlock.org after.

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People often complain about libertarians being rude and obnoxious. It’s not nearly as widespread a problem as some would make it out to be, and contrary to popular belief, this did not begin with me. To the extent that it does exist, I have become to many this sort of picture of the asshole libertarian who doesn’t give a shit about your feelings or opinions. So I figured I’d put this list together of why libertarians aren’t nice to you. Even libertarians who are nice to you, I think will get a kick out of it, because despite their outward appearances, they are every bit as frustrated with your statism as we are. Feel free to bookmark it and produce it every time you hear someone make this complaint.

Libertarians Aren’t Nice To You Because,

10. Ridicule works.

Believe me when I tell you, we would really prefer it if mankind were a rational creature that responded to reason and evidence. If that were the case, we would have already won this debate, and we wouldn’t even be having this discussion. The State would not exist, and there would be no political arguments pertaining to it.

What we have observed from watching your elections and propagandists, is that there’s more of a “that guy sucks so you should support me!” type of psychology behind all of this. Leftists call everybody who opposes them fascists, and racists, and religious nuts, and homophobes, and greedy. Rightists call everybody who opposes them socialists, and enemies of God, they promote fear about homosexuals, and immigrants, and foreign countries that they want to go to war with.

It’s unfortunate that this has become the nature of political discord, but that’s the reality we are met with. You folks have obtained such wonderful political success by being completely miserable towards one another, so we figure this is how to win political battles. Thus, we are sort of compelled to work within it. We make fun of you, because that is the nature of political discussions that we have been met with. We tear down your leaders and your people because they promote terrible ideas, and we don’t want people to take you seriously.

9. If you already have an ideology, we’re actually not terribly concerned with convincing you.

Most people have no concept of politics, economics, or philosophy. If they take an interest in these subjects because of something we said, or because they are genuinely interested in finding some kind of objective truth, then we have some hope of bringing them over to our side. Those are the people we are primarily interested in convincing.

Most people involved in these things aren’t actually interested in finding any sort of objective truth. As far as we’re concerned, the fact that they aren’t already libertarians is evidence enough of this. They chose a side for whatever reason, and they represent their team for better or worse. Liberals don’t tend to become conservatives, conservatives don’t tend to become liberals, and neither tend to become libertarians. At best for us, they try to get libertarians to assist them in their own anti-libertarian political agendas, and they’ve done an excellent job of accomplishing this. Trying to work with you then, generally ends up hurting us, and we’ve learned this lesson too many times to ignore it.

Having an ideology tends to imply some study of the subject at hand. If you have studied government, and determined that it has any potential to do anything positive, this implies you are really not very good at processing information. The failures of the State are so numerous and ridiculously obvious, that we find it difficult to believe any rational person could justify its existence. Your informed adherence to this absurdity tells us that you are pretty much b...

The American political paradigm is truly hysterical, and I say that as someone who grew up under it. Those who want the least from their government, and have the greatest reason to be angry with it, are the most patriotic people under it. Simultaneously, those most angry with their government, ask the most from it, and are the least patriotic.

While there are of course exceptions to the rule, gun owners tend to fall into the former category. Conservatives, who care not for taxes, nor for the welfare state. They realize for the most part that the market could do a better job of educating their children, and nearly every other task. For the most part, they wish the government to stay out of their business, and somewhere, in the back of their minds they know, that it may ultimately come down to bloodshed if all else fails. One of many reasons for being weary of gun control legislation.

They know that taxes and regulations, at least so far as they currently stand, are tyrannical. They know, even if they support it on some level, that the post 9/11 security and surveillance state is a threat to their safety. They know, that if they are disarmed, that all hope will be lost, and they do not want to find themselves throwing rocks at tanks.

But on their bumper stickers, front lawns, boats, clothing, and even tattoos, an odd symbol is displayed. The symbol of their oppressor, the American flag. Not upside down as a signal of distress, not on fire as a symbol of protest, but pristine, with a spotlight on it at night, properly folded when taken down, and properly disposed of when tattered.

Perhaps as a souvenir from a fabled past of freedom and prosperity which they were not yet born to see. Perhaps as a way of honoring the loved ones they lost as their oppressor sought to oppress outside its own borders. Perhaps the answer is far simpler, Stockholm Syndrome.

The right to keep and bear arms, as the US Constitution put it, was really the primary difference between the constitution of the United States and all the other countries they’ve been told to view as enemies. The Constitutions of North Korea, Communist China, and the USSR, all promised fair courts, free speech, representative government, and rule of law, but not the right to keep and bear arms. Ask anyone living under those regimes, how that’s working out for them. The 2nd Amendment would surely seem to be the one thing that separates us from those oppressive governments, except of course for the fact, that much like those governments, ours does not honor its constitutional restrictions.

If you live in New York, Connecticut, California, Massachusetts, or any number of other states, you’re already seeing how badly a government can ignore its constitutional restrictions on gun rights. Even if you live in less restrictive states like Alaska, Vermont, or New Hampshire though, it is not as if you escape the federal leviathan who’s flag you so proudly display. There is no law against fully automatic rifles in New Hampshire, but just you go and try to buy one. Alaska requires no background checks for gun purchases, but good luck buying a gun without getting permission from your federal overlords. Montana attempted to pass a law escaping the “interstate commerce clause” under which the largest government in the history of mankind claims power over all things, only to have it struck down by the Supreme Court. Rest assured that if the Democrats take the House of Representatives in 2014, that new draconian restrictions will come at a federal level, and all those law enforcement personnel you so adore, will come to enforce them.

We have been told our entire lives, that the United States is the freest and greatest country on Earth. We need look no further than the

The American political paradigm is truly hysterical, and I say that as someone who grew up under it. Those who want the least from their government, and have the greatest reason to be angry with it, are the most patriotic people under it. Simultaneously, those most angry with their government, ask the most from it, and are the least patriotic.

While there are of course exceptions to the rule, gun owners tend to fall into the former category. Conservatives, who care not for taxes, nor for the welfare state. They realize for the most part that the market could do a better job of educating their children, and nearly every other task. For the most part, they wish the government to stay out of their business, and somewhere, in the back of their minds they know, that it may ultimately come down to bloodshed if all else fails. One of many reasons for being weary of gun control legislation.

They know that taxes and regulations, at least so far as they currently stand, are tyrannical. They know, even if they support it on some level, that the post 9/11 security and surveillance state is a threat to their safety. They know, that if they are disarmed, that all hope will be lost, and they do not want to find themselves throwing rocks at tanks.

But on their bumper stickers, front lawns, boats, clothing, and even tattoos, an odd symbol is displayed. The symbol of their oppressor, the American flag. Not upside down as a signal of distress, not on fire as a symbol of protest, but pristine, with a spotlight on it at night, properly folded when taken down, and properly disposed of when tattered.

Perhaps as a souvenir from a fabled past of freedom and prosperity which they were not yet born to see. Perhaps as a way of honoring the loved ones they lost as their oppressor sought to oppress outside its own borders. Perhaps the answer is far simpler, Stockholm Syndrome.

The right to keep and bear arms, as the US Constitution put it, was really the primary difference between the constitution of the United States and all the other countries they’ve been told to view as enemies. The Constitutions of North Korea, Communist China, and the USSR, all promised fair courts, free speech, representative government, and rule of law, but not the right to keep and bear arms. Ask anyone living under those regimes, how that’s working out for them. The 2nd Amendment would surely seem to be the one thing that separates us from those oppressive governments, except of course for the fact, that much like those governments, ours does not honor its constitutional restrictions.

If you live in New York, Connecticut, California, Massachusetts, or any number of other states, you’re already seeing how badly a government can ignore its constitutional restrictions on gun rights. Even if you live in less restrictive states like Alaska, Vermont, or New Hampshire though, it is not as if you escape the federal leviathan who’s flag you so proudly display. There is no law against fully automatic rifles in New Hampshire, but just you go and try to buy one. Alaska requires no background checks for gun purchases, but good luck buying a gun without getting permission from your federal overlords. Montana attempted to pass a law escaping the “interstate commerce clause” under which the largest government in the history of mankind claims power over all things, only to have it struck down by the Supreme Court. Rest assured that if the Democrats take the House of Representatives in 2014, that new draconian restrictions will come at a federal level, and all those law enforcement personnel you so adore, will come to enforce them.

We have been told our entire lives, that the United States is the freest and greatest country on Earth. We need look no further than the