Saturday, May 23, 2009

Just Don’t Call Me Late for Dinner

In a piece titled Being a Criminal, Larken Rose obliquely asks, whether you’re ready to be called a criminal.  I am.  But let’s remove the obliqueness from Rose’s question by reading what this means.

People with brains have a problem with authority. And while being at odds with “authority” and “the law” does not automatically make someone a good person, it also doesn’t automatically make someone bad, either. Whether someone respects and honors the individual rights of other people is what matters. The trouble is, so many people, including those in the pro-freedom “movement,” still have a desire to receive the approval of authority. (bold by ed.)

Rose continues.

Try asking yourself, or the people you know, “Are you willing to be a criminal?” Most will vehemently say no. But why? These days, when politician scribbles are called “laws,” what does it mean to be a “criminal” anyway? All it means is that someone disobeyed any one of the myriad of arbitrary politician commands and demands. Why should anyone feel bad about that? (The truth is, by that definition we’re ALL criminals, since the sheer volume of “laws” makes it impossible to even KNOW all of them, and impossible to obey them all.

Read the whole thing.

Via Bill St. Clair.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/23 at 11:30 AM
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