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You Say You Want a Devolution? by Robert Gore

Posted by straightlinelogic 9 years, 2 months ago to Government
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The Brexit vote is more important than the US presidential election because whoever wins in November will be chained to the failing US government, while the British have an opportunity to shed some of their chains. Regardless of who wins in the US, the government will not relinquish its resources, power, or corruption. Centralization has advanced so far and so destructively that every expression or potential expression of a revolutionary desire for devolution—the transfer of power to lower levels and smaller subdivisions—is to be welcomed, be it Brexit or other countries leaving the EU, various separatist movements within countries, or mass disobedience to the dictates of centralized governments. As the Brexit vote and electoral insurgencies in the US and Europe make clear, the underlying pressures continue to build. Something’s got to give, and when it does, decentralization and devolution will give those seeking liberty a rare opportunity to build the kind of society they’ve always envisioned.

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  • Posted by chad 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would like to know how you do it. I have often dreamed of sailing in the Caribbean moving whenever the local tax suckers realized I was there and before they proceeded with licensing and fettering. What keeps me here is the attachment to children and grandchildren that I don't want to leave.
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  • Posted by chad 9 years, 2 months ago
    To be a permanent traveler. That may be the only way to live free. To move often from one island to another as you desired and before the local constabulary realized they might have a citizen that needed to be taxed and controlled. I have often thought that would be the only way to live, and I did not have children and grandchildren I would already be there. However that is one thing the state banks on, that we will not leave those we love. I would like to know how you do it, still dream of doing it myself.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And those who later join the other side should be treated as traitors. Declared or Not Declared. For sure the whole sum total of them are not worth the life of one soldier. If you can't support your military then voting for war is a despicable act. .
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The gulch can be as real as rocks and trees or simply a state of mind. When my family bought 150 acres surrounded completely by government land and and a large ranch (which is not a quarter acre plot with houses shoe horned together it worked just by driving around one corner and disappearing a cross a fenced area. $10,000 back then it recently sold for five million. two story house with basement, two barns, a shop, two artesian wells and a swimming pool river around two sides with two swimming holes. We lived Tom and Huck until rising prices and taxes drove us away. Now i live full time on sailing boat and take the Gulch with me.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago
    A welcome article and a thank you for that. On a personal and very self centered post Europe became boring when we quit getting luggage stickers, stamped passports and even postage stamps. nowadays anyone can go to any store and find T shrits with meaningless names like Hollister and Aero postale or depicting any corner of the globe but all it means is you visited on the internet. My favorite said Been There Done That Couldn't Afford The T Shirt. A second version is all white and in one little corner states 'stealth shirt.' In invisible ink.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I had much the same thoughts myself especially those that only show up at certain times. Maybe you need a better writer but you come across exactly as stated.
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  • Posted by LarryHeart 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What the hell are you ranting about? I really wish that people would click on the the link and comment with intelligence on what they read instead of launching into a disparaging screed having nothing to do with anything. You sound like a homeless person mumbling about some conspiracy. Race and gender wars. WTF? Take a xanax and don't call me in the morning.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A Re Revolution is a revolution for examle that which the left wing fascist just pulled off follwoed by another revolution to a third, more distant and murkier conclusion. Or it might be the left deciding they could have handled it better and opting to run the same revolution over again.

    Standard English 101.

    What Mr. Heart proposes is yet another revolution. There except the racism, sexism and bigotry is unclear.

    I'll just point out the only legal version under the Constitution would be a counter revolution returning us to the shelter of that document. Among other things it a. would enjoy the 100% support of the entire military and b. guarantee a return to Constitutional Law.

    Much more preferable than re-igniting race and gender wars.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years, 2 months ago
    Disappointed but not surprised that obobo all but abandon Brittan's brave choice to vote on this issue.

    My freedom lovin heart is with them.
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  • Posted by Lucky 9 years, 2 months ago
    Well done again SSL.
    That cabbage legislation quote gives a strong message. We have something similar here (Western Australia) on potatoes, at least it is up for revoking in the next session.
    All this massive migration into the UK- maybe they have accidentally done something right since the newcomers may be a bit more sentimental about their new country than the 'natives'. There are many new Brits from India and even those from Pakistan would have little identification with Europe.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Best defense is a good offense.

    Even a hasty defense is nothing more than preparation of an ambush.

    Always go for the leaders and the supply systems.

    A well executed battle plan should result in no names taken. Just enemy KIA statistics.

    Once you commit troops to battle there are no 'what ifs.'
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  • Posted by Mamaemma 9 years, 2 months ago
    My first thought is that if we have smaller, decentralized enclaves, then, as the author says, the honest and productive can thrive......until bands of marauders destroy them and steal their production, this time with violence, not laws.
    So defense will be paramount.
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  • Posted by chad 9 years, 2 months ago
    What could prevent the demise of the central planners is the pursuit by the majority of slaves to maintain themselves in serfdom. This horizontal support may (and always has in the past) support they tyranny against the few individuals no matter the consequences. Reminds me of a parody I once expressed a desire to write to a friend. 'Death of a Taxpayer' - based loosely on the idea that the rest of the world gathered and waited wondering their fate as the last productive man neared his end and those that depended on him for support worried about what would become of them. Where exactly is John Galt? I think the only way to survive would be to find a small enclave that the rest could not discover where only those suitable to live liberty would be enjoined.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    People who haven't taken leave of their senses, myself included, agree with you, but the cabal pushing the climate change religion are deliberately crushing the economies of the energy states. If they realize there is no reasoning with those autocrats, then a just separation is in order.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    climate change has happened for thousands of years. I say that the forces involved in climate management are so big relative to what us humans could do that no matter what WE do, natural forces will dominate.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Another progressive, climate change President, and I could see the energy states seceding as a matter of survival. Alaska, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Kansas alone could hold the rest of the country hostage, withe the bulk of oil, gas, and wind production.
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  • Posted by 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Herb,
    Thank you. I love writing and for a long time I've had a desire to teach it, probably to high school kids. Part of being a good writer is being a good reader, so naturally I'd introduce them to what I consider great writing (backdoor Ayn Rand). Unfortunately, you have to jump through so many accreditation hoops to teach that it's just not worth it. Life's too short, but sooner or later I'd like to at least get down on paper my thoughts on writing. For now, I can do no better than recommend Strunk and White, especially their thoughts on clarity and concision.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think the federal goverment has expanded into too many areas of our lives, and states (who can compete for residents) should take over most of those powers (or relinquish them). If Texas (or any other state) would secede from the union, I would move there at this point.
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  • Posted by Stormi 9 years, 2 months ago
    We survived the Clinton years, then the Bush one world years, but Obama was the nail in the coffin. Never has a leader cared so little about the country he ruled, or the people who live there. Teamed with Soros and KIssinger, who openly have expressed desire to take down the US economy, he has left us with a nation of citizens who could not rebuild a dog house. He has destroyed the black families, given them enough to return to a new slavery of centralized handouts, with a willingness to riot to maintain that status. We could not help another country, as we cannot help our own. The one world group stand ready to profit and make slaves of us all.Our Founders had the power of reason, while to our current population reason is like a foreign language.
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  • Posted by DrZarkov99 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Texas has retained the option of subdividing into five states, which would give them 10 senators. Something to think about.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 2 months ago
    As usual, a brilliant article. You have the ability to cut right through to the salient points and clarify them vividly. You make me wish I was back in college and you were the instructor.

    The world's governments have become hard to handle lumbering giants. Even with a good person at the controls, it will be a superhuman task to get even a part of it to run correctly let alone the entire mechanism.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 2 months ago
    I find this tendency toward devolution to be a glimmer of hope.
    May this ripple in the water rise into a huge wave.
    Oops, there goes my wicked dino mind again.
    I just pictured a cartoon Obama who flees a beach screaming.with his arms all up in the air.
    This stems from cocky King Barry's' recent affront of telling the Brits not to leave the EU.
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  • Posted by term2 9 years, 2 months ago
    Trouble is that the British are socialists too, so they probably will never leave the EU that could bail them out if (when) they need it. They would have been completely destroyed by Germany in WW2, if it had not been for the USA bailing them out.

    I hear Texas is thinking about withdrawing from the union. Thats never going to happen either, although I would certainly move there if it did. Obama would send in the troops to crush any sort of rebellion as happened in the civil war.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    down I put an up! What we need is a straight up full bore anti-socialism counter revolution AKA the present government. . they appear to have won the third one counting Civil War and Revolutionary War as well.
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