http://permaculture.org.au/2008/12/18/pin-striped-pirates/ Permaculture News, Commentary and Worldwide Projects. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:36:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://permaculture.org.au/2008/12/18/pin-striped-pirates/#comment-29038 J. Kent Hastings Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:44:52 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=944#comment-29038 What's great about the permaculture movement is the potential for productive folks everywhere on Earth, individually or in collectives, to subsist on their own independent land with less effort than being, as C.S. Lewis put it, "willing slaves of the welfare state." I doubt there are many fans of corporate fascism among your readers. Yet, corporations are creatures of the state. The author gets that, listing the hypocrisy of Britain's Inland Revenue. And I can't help noting the failure of knife control, being a pro-gun American, but that's a big digression. We shouldn't expect relief for the poor to be the result of cheerfully building pyramids for the government pharaoh (unless maybe they're wind and solar powered with a medicinal garden). What’s great about the permaculture movement is the potential for productive folks everywhere on Earth, individually or in collectives, to subsist on their own independent land with less effort than being, as C.S. Lewis put it, “willing slaves of the welfare state.” I doubt there are many fans of corporate fascism among your readers. Yet, corporations are creatures of the state. The author gets that, listing the hypocrisy of Britain’s Inland Revenue. And I can’t help noting the failure of knife control, being a pro-gun American, but that’s a big digression. We shouldn’t expect relief for the poor to be the result of cheerfully building pyramids for the government pharaoh (unless maybe they’re wind and solar powered with a medicinal garden).

]]> http://permaculture.org.au/2008/12/18/pin-striped-pirates/#comment-28835 JDub Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:36:33 +0000 http://permaculture.org.au/?p=944#comment-28835 The belief that taxpaying is an "obligation to society" is erroneous. It represents the paradigm of structural violence and is nothing more than 21st century slavery. Your tax money, that is supposed to be used for the benefit of all citizens, is instead used to pay the interest on the American debt, privately held by the federal reserve. So if you think it is obligatory for us to line the pockets the Federal Reserve (and IMF on a global scale), you are sorely mistake my friend. The belief that taxpaying is an “obligation to society” is erroneous. It represents the paradigm of structural violence and is nothing more than 21st century slavery. Your tax money, that is supposed to be used for the benefit of all citizens, is instead used to pay the interest on the American debt, privately held by the federal reserve. So if you think it is obligatory for us to line the pockets the Federal Reserve (and IMF on a global scale), you are sorely mistake my friend.

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