Chapter
1. - Every State Has A Criminal Origin - Quotes with sources
In
2000BC the economic life of the Achean aristocracy and the king
was based on the loot and land acquired by robbery. The peasantry
did farming and agriculture, mostly on lands rented from the aristocrats
- robbers. (Dioszegi
György - A bolcselet eredete, pg.16)
What
are the states but big robber bands, and what are the robber bands
but small states? (St Augustine, 354-430 AD, retranslated) in (Paul
Lunde - Organized Crime, pg 17)
The
system of royalty has begun in the same fashion in all countries
and among all peoples. A band of robbers, gathered together under
a leader, throw themselves on a country and make slaves of its people
... Their power being thus established, the chief of the band changed
the name from Robber to Monarch; hence the origin of monarchy and
kings. What at first was plunder, assumed the foster name of revenue.
(The
Thomas Paine Reader, pgs 350, 233)
The
beginnings of the state can be traced back to the early history
of the human race when the strongest savage seized the largest club
and with this weapon enforced his rule upon the other members of
the tribe. By means of strength he became the chief and exercised
this power, not to protect the weak but to take the good things
for himself. One man by his unaided strength could not long keep
the tribe in subjection to his will, so he chose lieutenants and
aids, and these too were given a goodly portion of the fruits of
power for the help they lent their chief. No plans for the general
good ever formed a portion of this scheme of government. The ancient
knight who with his battle-ax and coat of mail, enforced his rule
upon the weak, was only the forerunner of the tax-gatherer and tax-devourer
of today. (Clarence
Darrow - Resist Not Evil)
The
whole feudal system was born out of the barbarian nobles safeguarding
attempt: to maintain under a cloak of Christian chivalry the barbarian
methods of privilege, abuse, plunder, continual conquest, and if
necessary, killing and deceit. (Paul
Winkler - The Thousand Year Conspiracy, pg 312)
The
State is the organized authority, domination, and power of the possessing
classes over the masses, the most flagrant, the most cynical, and
the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the solidarity
of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association
only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all
the rest. This explains why the entire history of ancient and modern
states is merely a series of revolting crimes; why kings and ministers,
past and present, of all times and all countries - statesmen, diplomats,
bureaucrats, and warriors - if judged from the standpoint of simply
morality and human justice, have a hundred, a thousand times over
earned their sentence to hard labor or to the gallows. (Mikhail
Bakunin - Federalism, Socialism, Anti-Theologism)
The
positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its
origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive state known to
history originated in any other manner. Oppenheimer defines the
State as an institution forced on a defeated group by a conquering
group to systematize the domination. This domination had no other
final purpose than the economic exploitation. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State, pg 20)
In
England (and the same will be found in other countries) the great
landed estates were plundered from the quiet inhabitants at the
Conquest. The possibility did not exist of acquiring such estates
honestly. How then were they acquired? Blush, aristocracy, to hear
your origin, for your progenitors were thieves. When they had committed
the robbery, they endeavoured to lose the disgrace of it, by sinking
their real names under fictitious ones, which they called titles.
It is ever the practice of felons to act in this manner. They never
pass by their real names.
Ill-gotten property depends for protection on a monopoly of rights.
He who robbed another of his property, will next endeavour to disarm
him of his rights, to secure that property; for when the robber
becomes the legislator, he believes himself secure. That part of
the government of England that is called the House of Lords, was
originally composed of persons who originally committed the robberies
of which I have been speaking. It was an association for the protection
of the property they had stolen. (The
Thomas Paine Reader, pgs 425-426)
“Organized
plunder” has been the very lifeblood of most states throughout
history. In most times and places taxation, like slavery, was simply
taken for granted as an inescapable fact of life; now and then there
have been tax revolts, just as there have been slave revolts; and
at times, especially since the Christian era, taxation has been
recognized as presenting serious moral problems. (Joseph
Sobran - Taxation Through The Ages)
The
aristocrats in many civilizations are the fossils of the early conquering
hordes. Their position at society's apex is the residue of robbery.
In England, the titled classes, the folks who hold their noses in
the air, are the descendants of Saxon, Viking and Norman soldiers
whol pillaged, slaughtered and raped in successive waves from roughly
AD 470 to 1066. In Japan, the aristocracy, which has sat securely
in place for nearly 1800 years is the remnant of a population of
nomadic Mongoloid horsemen who came across the sea from Korea in
the first century AD brutalizing the local population into submission
with long iron swords. (Howard
Bloom - The Lucifer Principle, pg 213)
Wherever
economic exploitation has been for any reason either impracticable
or unprofitable, the State has never come into existence; government
has existed, but the State, never. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State)
From
such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual
system of war and extortion? (The
Thomas Paine Reader, pg 233)
2.)
States Operate On Criminal Principles - Quotes with sources
If
protection rackets represent organized crime, then war making and
state making - quintessential protection rackets - qualify as our
largest examples or organized crime. Without branding all generals
and statesmen as murderers and thieves, I want to urge the value
of that analogy. A thoughtful exploration of a few hundred years
of European experience shows us that coercive exploitation played
a large part in the creation of the European states. There is an
analogy between war making, state making, and what, when less successful
and smaller in scale, we call organized crime. War makes states.
Banditry, piracy, gangland rivalry, policing and war making all
belong on the same continuum. Consider the definition of a racketeer
as someone who creates a threat and then charges for its reduction.
Governments' provision of protection, by this standard, often qualifies
as racketeering. To the extent that the threats against which a
given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences
of its own activities, the government has organized a protection
racket. (Charles
Tilly - War Making and State Making as Organized Crime)
Government
is a Mafia-like protection racket. The so-called "state"
has its origin in a gang of looters.... When the politicians and
bureaucrats want your money they don't immediately point their guns
at you. They send you words by paper or phone. In general, they
only come after you with guns if you repeatedly don't give them
money. (Frederick
Mann - The Nature of Government)
Roughing
people up through violence and threats of violence. That’s
what every line of every regulation comes down to. That’s
the meaning of every tax. That's the whole upshot of every tariff,
expenditure, prohibition, and bomb. It all amounts to increased
use of violence in society. Strip away the banners, songs, uniforms,
and speeches: that’s all that the state really is. (Lew
Rockwell - Conservative Euphemisms for State Aggression)
A
government lives on two things: war and taxes. What is war? Robbery
with murder abroad. The Criminal Code prescribes sentences from
20 years to death for committing the same crime at home, for that
is the government’s other monopoly, called “taxes”.
With taxes you won’t face an armed squad at first, but if
you resist paying persistently enough, they might visit you just
the same way they visited Iraq or murdered tax resister Gordon Kahl.
Once you understand that most wars are waged to collect more taxes,
you realize that taxes and wars are just two euphemisms for the
same robbery committed on two sides of the border. (George
Cordell - A noxious religion)
All
possessions of governments are attained through violent means. From
national lands, to national treasuries, to indentured servants,
every possession of every nation is acquired through the means of
taxes or war. When tribute is demanded and paid, it is a tax. When
tribute is refused and taken by force, it is war. (Jeremy
Locke – Worthless Paper Promises)
The
last resort of the monsters who masquerade as "government"
is terror and violence. They have to threaten, terrorize, punish
and kill to retain their coercive power. That's why it's approrpiate
to call them "territorial gangsters" or "territorial
criminals". (Frederick
Mann - The Nature of Government)
The
Mafia started out as a genuine government fighting the invaders
of Sicily in the 19th century. Observe a governments’ true
priority by its choice after victory: the need for its violence
gone, instead of becoming a public institution, it stepped up the
racket and the robberies. The Sicilian Mafia is not a government
gone bad. It is a government sticking to its core competence - extortion
- after its disguise of pretend benevolence vanished. Remember from
this what a government’s primary business is, once you peek
behind its ornate veneer: crime. War being simply the highest form
of organized crime, it’s no surprise why a Mafia government
pursues this old lucrative trade of theirs in spite of every civilized
citizen’s opposition. (George
Cordell - Government: the Mafia factor)
I
call the United States a “corporation” and a “protection
racket.” It is both, just as the Mafia is. There is no difference,
except in the fact that some people, wishing to lend more legitimacy
to one of them, call it by the eupemism “government.”
(Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pg xiii)
We
‘re supposed to think that the system that can extort half
our earnings from us is benevolent? The majority of people always
fall for the idea that if the state is hurting someone else even
worse than it’s hurting them, it’s on their side, and
is therefore their friend, protector and benefactor. As long as
the government is prepared to bomb foreigners to death, Americans
imagine that their proximate enemy is defending them. (Joseph
Sobran – Your Friend, The State)
Something
that is already filtering into psychiatry: the identity of the ruler
with the criminal, the fact that power and authority with their
most important activity, killing, whether by bomb, gallows or assassination,
are themselves the enemies of society. (Alex
Comfort - Writings Against Power and Death, pg 118)
Consider
carefully every article you read about politicians, governments,
and those who support them. When you do, you will find nothing more
than theft disguised as logic, charity, and goodness. (Wes
Alexander - Amtrak)
Modern
states kill and plunder on a scale that no (street) robber band
could hope to emulate. Any attempt to quantify their crimes is inevitably
subject to enormous margins of error, but by adding up midrange
estimates R. J. Rummel calculated that from 1900 to 1987 over 169
million people were murdered by governments. Rummel's figure excludes
deaths in wars (about 35 million, an unknown proportion of which
resulted from war crimes), judicial executions (other than those
resulting from 'show trials') and killings of armed opponents or
criminals. Government officials also make a major contribution to
property crime. The late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha is accused
of stealing $4 billion (2.75 billion pounds) from his country. This
is considerably more than the annual amount stolen and damaged in
all residential and commercial burglaries in England and Wales (2.3
billion pounds.) (Penny
Green, Tony Ward - State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption,
pg 1)
Unfortunately
there are still a number of people who continue in the fatal belief
that government rests on natural laws, that it maintains social
order and harmony, that it diminishes crime, and that it prevents
the lazy man from fleecing his fellows...The State is itself the
greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing
in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment.
(Emma
Goldman: Anarchism: What it Really Stands For)
Carjacking
or impoundment? We now have two vocabularies for wrongs, depending
on whether private persons or government agents commit them. This
is the difference between mass murder and national defense. Between
extortion and taxation. Between counterfeiting and inflation. And
so on. Other examples will occur to the astute reader. Do you smell
a fault? No wonder Frédéric Bastiat described government
as “organized plunder.” (Joseph
Sobran – Why Do We Need Government?)
Levies
used to be exacted by sheer brigandage and the overt threat of physical
force; now, the means are more subtle. Laymen call them: Debt, Taxes,
and Paper Money…. Theft is, of course, always most effectively
perpetrated when disguised as law and underwritten by the threat
of political violence - i.e., when it is committed by the State.
(Sean
Corrigan - The Great GDP Hoax)
Organized
crime may not be something that exists outside law or government
- William Chambliss later wrote in drawing the fateful inference
- but may be instead a creation of them: a hidden but nonetheless
integral part of the governmental and economic structures of the
society. Kefauver and his colleagues had found not something separate
from the country but its dark essence, the system itself. "Without
political and economic corruption," one journalist summed up
what the senators saw but had not put so plainly or unreservedly,
"there could be no organized crime Syndicate." The mapping
of the collusion would include the political and financial crucibles
of almost every American president for the rest of the century.
(Roger
Morris - The Money and the Power, pgs 116-117)
No
longer entertain the delusion that your so-called government is
anything but institutionalized organized crime ensconced in an empire
now teetering on the precipice of collapse. If you can digest that
reality and still vote in federal elections, God help you, because
you still haven’t gotten that what you are voting for are
hired liars, mobsters, and murderers. (Carolyn
Baker - Godfather Government)
The
lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be
maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence
as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
(Alexander
Solzhenitsyn - Live Not By Lies)
As
Dr. Sigmund Freud has observed, it can not even be said that the
State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only
to safeguard its own monopoly of crime. Looking at any state, at
any point in history, one sees no way to differentiate the activities
of its founders, administrators and beneficiaries from those of
a professional criminal class. (Albert
Jay Nock - Our Enemy, the State, pg 22)
The
government is an agency of coercion. So is the mafia. So to be more
precise, the government is the agency of coercion that has flags
in front of his offices. Every government action is backed by the
same kind of force that is so useful for robbing money from grocery
stores. (Harry
Browne - Why Government Doesn't Work, pg 12)
3.)
War is Theft - Quotes with sources
Wasn't
the conquest of one nation by another international robbery? If
a country, through its leaders, embarked on a program to take from
the peoples of neighboring countries their land, their property,
or their personal freedoms, why shouldn't the ordinary rules as
to robbery apply? (Josiah
E. DuBois - The Devil's Chemists, pg 107)
People
who disliked work became soldiers, and lived their lives killing
their neighbours across arbitrary frontiers, and looting thir property.
They were members of a robber gang, led by a master robber, who,
if he plundered successfully, became a historical character. The
people over whom these criminals ruled, supported them in the hope
that their masters would have some scraps left over for them to
enjoy, but these plunderers never increased the prosperity of the
great majority. (Arthur
Findlay - The Curse of Ignorance, Vol 1, pg 36-37)
People
who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers.
It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer
is carried out by government. (Cal
Thomas - A Taxing Time)
All
wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who
therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the
fighting for them. (Howard
Zinn - Emma Goldman, pg 93)
The
state rulers, if they can, will block any frank depiction of the
criminal nature of war... We should distance ourselves, as soon
as possible, from vicious rulers and their criminal gangs and withdraw
our support as much as possible. (Polyarchy
- Waiting for the Bomb?)
On
September 20 1996, a half-century after WW2, the Associated Press
at long last noticed: "Tons of gold looted by Nazis during
WW2 - some of it possibly taken from the fillings in Holocaust victims'
teeth - are stored in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the
Bank of England in London. Recently declassified federal documents
show that six tons of gold looted by the Nazis are stored in the
two banks." (Alex
Constantine - Virtual Government, pg 13)
To
initiate a war of aggression is not only an international crime;
it is the supreme international crime. (Nurnberg Tribunal of War
Crimes). So according to this foundation judgement of all international
criminal law, the American leaders - Messrs. Bush, Rumsfeld and
Powell, General Franks, Ms. Rice, etc., and their associates Messrs.
Blair, Hoon, Straw, et al. - are guilty of having committed the
supreme international crime in Iraq. In the words of the American
Chief Prosecutor of the Tribunal, the much-venerated American Supreme
Court justice Robert H. Jackson: "Any resort to war - any kind
of war - is a resort to means that are inherently criminal... inherently
criminal acts cannot be defended by showing that those who committed
them were engaged in a war, when war itself is illegal." In
other words, President Bush and his colleagues are legally guilty
of the murder of many thousands of people, not to mention the grievous
assault of many tens of thousands more and so on down the list of
the most serious crimes in the criminal codes of every country in
the world. It's the kind of thing that, when done on a fraction
of the scale in the Bush family's Texas, gets you a one-way ticket
to the lethal injection chamber. (Michael
Mandel - How America Gets Away With Murder, pg 6)
Postwar
interviews have repeatedly demonstrated that veterans feel offended
when it is suggested that they were part of a vast criminal undertaking.
(Omeg
Bartov - Mirrors of Destruction, pg 27)
A
soldier's chief duty - the one most appreciated by the authorities
- is that of executioner. Not a professional executioner who kills
only condemned criminals, but one ready to butcher any innocent
man at the word of command. (Tolstoy
– The Kingdom of God is Within You, Chp 8)
A
U.S, Navy document secretly pointed out the real issue: "Realistically,
all wars have been for economic reasons. To make them politically
palatable, ideological issues have always been involved. Any possible
future war will undoubtedly conform to historical precedent. (Gerard
Colby - Du Pont Dynasty, pg 408)
Rather
than truly seeking to help the Japanese, Chinese, and other looted
nations recover in the aftermath of WWII, the most senior leaders
of the US government conspired with Nazi bankers and the Japanese
imperial family to create a Black Eagle Trust controlled by a very
select hand-picked cabal in Washington. The Black Eagle Trust quickly
became a global slush fund used to bribe national leaders and manipulate
elections around the world. This fund remains in existence today;
major banks are "addicted" to the funds and would face
collapse if public investigations resulted in a forced return of
this gold and related certificates to the rightful owners. The architects
of the Black Eagle Trust were three advisors to President's Roosevelt's
Secretary of War, Henry Stimson: John McCloy (later head of the
World Bank), Robert Lovett (later Secretary of Defense), and Robert
Anderson (later Secretary of the Treasury). Bringing the story up
to date, the authors show how prior attempts to investigate the
Black Eagle Trust have led to the ruin of individuals such as Norbert
Schlei, at one time deputy attorney general to Presidents Kennedy
and Johnson. (Sterling
Seagrave - Gold Warriors)
4.)
Taxes are Theft - Quotes with sources
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read about the lack of authority of law (and any agency collecting
revenue based on it) visit
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Government,
beyond the strictest limits of justice, became organized plunder.”
In other words, government itself tends to become the very evil
it is supposed to prevent: crime. It confuses people because it
enacts criminal acts under the forms of law. ... This means, for
openers, that taxation is a gigantic system of fraud, robbery, and
extortion. (Joseph
Sobran - Taxation Through The Ages)
If
the state wants your money, it doesn’t ask you for it politely.
It doesn’t try to earn it. The state extorts money from you
with threats of prison. Since no one wants to picture himself as
a victim of violence, governments lie. States always prevaricate
and coin new words to conceal their use of force. Taxes, laws, conscription,
tariffs, regulations: A thousand words have been invented to distract
your attention from the guns and prisons that uphold the government.
If the state were honest and open about its use of violence, the
victims might revolt... taxes are simply the extortionist’s
requests for money. (Allen
Thornton - Laws of the Jungle)
Taxation
is extortion. It is the dubious institution that's based on the
monarchical tradition when governments (the monarchs) owned the
realm and taxes were the tribute they collected for permitting ordinary
folks to live and work in this realm. (Tibor
Machan, 2005)
The
theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily…But
this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical
fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to
a man: Your money, or your life." And many, if not most, taxes
are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does
not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from
the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle
his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that
account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. (Lysander
Spooner – No Treason, Chp. XI)
Can
you imagine a group of thugs without the guise of legitimacy (a.k.a.
‘legality’) just saying to 300 million people (with
almost as many guns) ‘Give us $1.7 trillion a year, or else’?
That would last about five minutes. The income tax is really theft,
an aggravated form of theft called extortion. The way the United
States collects its loot is identical to the way a gang uses extortion:
“cough up your dough and we make sure bad things don’t
happen to you.” That is robbery, only the “government”-cultists
try and make it sound legitimate by using the euphemism “income
tax.” There is no such thing as legitimate theft. (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pgs 138, 184)
Taxation
is theft, purely and simply, even though it is theft on a grand
and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to
match. (Murray
Rothbard - Ethics of Liberty)
I
began reading a stack of government reports how the Internal Revenue
Service plans to go on collecting taxes from us after 200 nuclear
bombs have dropped on the United States and killed 100 million Americans,
destroyed incalculable amount of property, and incinerated a substantial
part of the records that document the wealth of the nation. Here,
memorialized in the turgid prose of long-forgotten bureaucrats was
stated the absolute first rule of all governments: Nothing, not
even the incredible destruction of nuclear war, is more important
to any government than the collection of taxes. In one section,
the official indicated that his primary concern about a possible
nuclear attack was the disorder that such a strike would bring to
government, rather than the unimaginable horror it would wreak on
society. (David
Burnham - A Law Unto Itself, pgs 4-5)
To
lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of
the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals
to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none
the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and
is called taxation. (US
Supreme Court, Loan Association v. Topeka, 20 Wall. 655)
The
similarity between tax collector and robbers is ... found in the
basic meaning behind the word 'taxation,' which means forced exaction.
(Charles
Adams - For Good and Evil, pg 1)
Those
who believe in “government” typically defend taxation
as the “price we pay for civilization” or some such
crap. In reality it’s a theft – extortion, really. Changing
it from “extortion” to “tax” is nothing
more than an attempt to create an obligation. You can’t create
an agreement by manipulating words. “Price” implies
voluntary agreement, “theft” demands that we recognize
that there is a perpetrator (the state) and a victim (you). Which
one is “taxes”? . (Jackney
Sneeb - There's No Government Like NO Government, pgs 13-14)
Use
of government as a means to plunder and rob from its citizens through
taxation... is a form of organized crime. Our government has become
an organized crime ring. (Irwin
Schiff - The Great IRS Hoax)
Without
doubt, the classic relation of a subject to the government is the
payment of tribute in exchange for protection. All too often, however,
the protection received by the taxpayer is exclusively against the
violence of the tax taker. A question naturally arises, therefore,
as to what distintuishes the government from, say, the Mafia. (Robert
Higgs - Against Leviathan, pg 137-138)
Social
Security is simply a tax. Like all taxes, the money collected is
spent immediately to fund the federal government. … Allowing
people to opt out of Social Security would force the federal government
to admit it has been stealing money from Social Security for decades.
(Ron
Paul - Want to Reform Social Security? Stop Spending.)
Another
lie was that there was a Social Security account with your money
in it to which you had rights. There's no such account, plus, according
to two U.S. Supreme Court cases -- Helvering v. Davis (1937) and
Fleming v. Nestor (1960) -- you have no legal right, in the sense
of a contract, to Social Security payments. (Walter
Williams – More Social Security Deceit)
Nothing
disrupts a politician like the presumption that your money isn’t
his, which is why honorables go apoplectic at the mention of tax
cuts. … The debate hinges on a simple question: Who owns your
work, you or the president? (Tony
Snow - Keeping What We Earn)
Statism
is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some
with feathers coercively plucked from others – on the grand
scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket
and the progressive income tax or any other social program. –
(Leonard
Read - Combatting Statism)
Government
stock ownership of pharmaceutical companies, in composite totals
equates to 60% - 75% ownership. (This is) why government dumps massive
taxpayer money down the throat of the pharmaceutical / health care
industries; it is expanding its own investment profits at taxpayer
expense without one dollar ($1) ever going back to taxpayers. (Walter
Burien – Letter to Michael Moore)
The
funding of government over the last 100 years is based on deception
and outright fraud. The public’s focus is directed to taxation
when of total government income, only a third is tax income, two
thirds are investment income, interest income, cash receipts, mostly
kept out of the budget report. For the last 100 years, government
based its wealth on non-disclosure of its real gross income. To
do this, they kept two sets of books: the public budget report,
always in the red (to justify taking more taxes) and the Comprehensive
Annual Financial Reports which shows the whole picture. In reality,
the composite government has over 53 percent ownership of all issued
stocks from all exchanges. Xerox is approximately 72% owned by composite
government funds; AT&T is up around 42%, and so on... the state
truly owns everything, dwarfing the control Russia had. If the public
was aware that this type of wealth was being built and obfuscated
as tax dollars are being drained out of their pockets citing a “shortfall
of budgetary revenue”, there would have been an uprising 30
years ago. (Walter Burien
– Gold vs. Fiat & The
Biggest Game In Town), heavily excerpted
Your
city, county, state, and federal governments have lied to you for
decades. Our governments are not broke, they are rich beyond measure
with our money, and they are hiding it from the American taxpayer,
investing, and spending it, while pleading they are broke and need
more taxes, bonds and levies to survive. There is enough aggregate
wealth owned by our government agencies to abolish all property
and income taxes today. (WJB
- Comprehensive Annual Financial Report)
5.)
Traffic Tickets are Theft - Quotes with sources
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read about the lack of authority of law (and any agency collecting
revenue based on it) visit
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Municipal and state governments assign quotas of traffic tickets as a means of extorting revenue from the public. Defrauding the public, inflicting monetary damages and bureaucratic hassles for innocent, law-abiding people doesn't doesn't merit punishment, under the moral calculation of the parasites who style themselves public servants. In 2002, Washington Mayor Anthony Williams nearly committed an act of candor by saying: The traffic cameras are about safety and revenue. Actually, they undermine safety in pursuit of revenue. (The John Birch Society – Highway Robbery)
When
reduced to its most basic elements, the traffic ticket racket amounts
to little more than a system of legalized extortion. The proof is
that before the people pay the ticket, they are criminals, and by
merely writing a check they are able to buy their freedom. In case
you didn't notice, real criminals are generally held in jail no
matter how much money they have. (Traffic
Tickets, The Vehicle Code and You)
Our
(study) results suggest that tickets are used as a revenue generation tool
rather than solely a means to increase public safety. Positive changes
in local revenue have no statistical effect on the changes in the
tickets issued, but we find evidence that law enforcement officials
issue significantly more tickets in the year following a decline
in local government revenue. A one percentage point decrease in
last year’s local government revenue results in a 0.319 to
0.360 percentage point increase in the number of traffic tickets
in the following year. (Garret,
Wagner - Red Ink in the Rearview Mirror)
Brian
Wolk was fired because he spilled the beans on a corrupt system
whereby illegally collected traffic tickets are a form of taxation
without representation. If municipalities want increased public
revenues they can't steal; they have to get approval from the voters.
The municipal traffic ticket industry is a fraud. It steals money
from law-abiding citizens; it makes people lose faith in our legal
system; and it diverts many police officers to become tax collectors
with guns. (William
E. Grim - Unconstitutional At Any Speed)
Does California's fiscal policy force law-enforcement officers to function as highwaymen on the highways of the State? James Sweeney's revealing article "Ticket Quota Costs County $125,000," Santa Rosa Press Democrat, May 22, 1995, indicates that this is so. Since 1992 the State of California has been requiring the counties to meet a quota for traffic tickets. The State expects the 58 counties to bring in $80.1 million a year in fines. This State policy of turning the police out on the highways to raise revenues is a gross violation of the social contract. It is a form of involuntary taxation and State-subsidized plunder. (Mark Evans – Highway Robbery)
According to a 1996 Ontario study, of the 384,453 vehicle collisions involving property damage, personal injury and fatality, only 6.7% were deemed to be speed related. Yet, 60% of all the Highway Traffic Act convictions were for speeding! Now you know that those safety bureaucrats are just a bunch of liars, but they are really honest when they told you that "speed limits exist for a reason". They didn't provide you with a clear answer, but it is pretty obvious: it is a healthy source of revenue. When so much money is at stake here, it becomes clear why the government, police and the insurance industry all collaborate their efforts to rationalize and legalize this blatant extortion. This speeding ticket system is not only the most legalized crime in the country, it is also a multi-million-dollar business. (F.Y.S.T. - Speed kills? Or does it?)
ACS, who runs 80 percent of the red-light camera systems infecting various North American communities, has been known to lubricate its deals with bribery: An investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has turned up evidence that ACS offered such blandishments as secret commissions and trips to free NHL games to police officials in charge of Edmonton, Alberta's radar camera program. The Philadelphia Daily News dug into a malodorous deal that brought ACS to Philadelphia in exchange for a payoff to Pennsylvania House Speaker John Perzel. (The John Birch Society – Highway Robbery)
Speed enforcement in this country is a mockery. My experience has shown that if a person on an interstate is traveling in excess of thirty miles an hour over the speed limit, is following too close to the rear of anyone who dares impede his forward motion and almost forces other cars out of the way, there is at least a 75% chance that he is police officer. It is also very likely that he is off duty or if working, is not going to an emergency. There is better than a 99% chance that, when stopped, will not get a ticket. All cops don't speed while off duty but those who do, manage to do it with impunity. Speeding tickets are big business. They permit and justify the employment of an army of civil servants, including police, their supervisors, court clerks, accountants, judges, secretaries, stenographers, bailiffs, computer operators, programmers, district attorneys, and more. (James M. Eagan - A Speeders Guide to Avoiding Tickets)
Pennsylvania
State Police documents show that not only is there a system of monetary
reward and punishment for state troopers based upon numeric ticket
goals, there is a clear effort to prevent anyone from ever speaking
about it. The first rule of a ticket quota is: there is no ticket
quota. (Ticket
Quota Cover-up Continues)
Did
it ever occur to you that if traffic tickets were truly being written
for your safety on the road, why does the highway patrol have quotas
on how many to write per month? The answer is, it is not about safety.
It is about making money for the cities, and counties that write
them! It is your money they are stealing to do it. (Speed
Ticket Beaters)
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