The Consequences of Equality by Matthew S. Battaglioli

Author:Matthew S. Battaglioli
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: von mises, equality, free health care, inequality, minimum wage, libertarian, egalitarianism, multiculturalism
ISBN: 9781910524893
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd.
Published: 2016-08-03T21:00:00+00:00

You also did not see, by the way, any wars breaking out between all those countries that were dominated by the Soviet Union as long as the Soviet empire existed. From which we also do not draw as a conclusion that communist dictatorships under Russian control do not go to war against each other, so because of that we have to introduce something like this.37

So it is not as so many believe that democracy induces peace; in fact, it is quite the opposite of this. Domestically, with this systematic warfare state comes the restriction of important so called “civil liberties.” The state uses the perpetual warfare and the general “safety” of the population as a Trojan horse to introduce a plethora of large-scale state spying mechanisms (PRISM, for example) to usurp the general provisions people feel as though they should receive via the justice system (the NDAA, for example), to consolidate more power in the executive branch and ultimately to foster the long-term conformity of the public under the false veil of “patriotism” and “duty to one’s own country.”

There is created then an all-seeing eye in the sky capable of observing any and all behaviors done by any and all people. Combined with the crumbling rule of law and justice system also brought about by democracy and its corollary, the warfare state, anyone anywhere becomes subject to personal invasion, accusation, and finally, conviction of crimes against the state based on sheer suspicion and inferences made from what the state was never meant to see. Of course, as I mentioned before, unlike the king’s war, known to be for his and only his benefit, a war engineered by a democratic state becomes everybody’s war. Because of this, these human rights violations and “big brother” state created as a byproduct of the war are generally not even opposed; quite the contrary, many, even most, of the state’s citizens are in favor of it. As one might then imagine, this becomes a cycle that is very difficult and even seemingly impossible to halt given the lack of opposition.

Indeed, this problem in the modern age is the worst it has ever been given the vast array of new technology that the state can now employ the use of to rob, murder, locate, see, harass, and vandalize people and their property with. At least in the beginnings of the democratic age, people had some chance at resisting or avoiding the state. They could run away and hide from the state when it came for them. Today this is virtually impossible; the state can see and track anyone, anywhere, at any time. Unlike in the past decades or century when people could reasonably maintain some small hope of escaping the wrath of the state and avoiding its sight and pursuit, we today find that hope is at best negligible, and at worst entirely nonexistent. To provide an anecdotal example of sorts, take the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff, where a Mr. Randy Weaver took his wife Vicki,

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