The Myth of 'Limited Government'

"There can be no such thing as 'limited government,' because there is no way to control an entity that in principle enjoys a monopoly of power." ~ Joseph Sobran

Slavery can exist in many different forms...all of which are ultimately enforced by gaslighting and psycho-emotional conditioning. And we're all victims of it:

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. That’s how state supremacism gaslights you into thinking you need a ruler.

"I freed a thousand slaves...and I could have freed more had more of them known they were slaves." ~ Harriet Tubman

Democracy is not a system that puts the people in power. "The people" will never be in power. Democracy is a system that puts the best manipulators in power.

“We need to give more power to the State so that the State can limit its own power,” said the idiot. Power is power. Once you delegate it to the collective, you cannot control whether it will be used for good or evil. Nor against whom. It's impossible to grant the monopoly power to effectively fight injustice, corruption and oppression without also granting the power to engage in it with impunity. A monopoly cannot be expected to police itself; it's a conflict of interest.

When the government is the sole arbiter of the legality of its own actions, then no law or Constitutional clause can prevent the government from doing whatever it wants. State supremacists claim that the state is our servant, and that “we the people” are its master. But when your servant has the big guns, and controls the police and the military, and makes the laws, and is in charge of enforcing the laws it makes, and is the one that decides what the text of the laws mean, and how they apply to you, who's really the servant and who's really the master?

The purpose of the state isn't to defend the rights of individuals against either the rich and powerful or against the majority. Its purpose, in fact, is to enable the majority and/or the rich and powerful to "LEGALLY" violate the rights of the minority, and of individuals. The state exists in order to grant itself and its agents a license to kill. And steal.

"You cannot first establish a territorial monopoly of law and order and then expect that this monopolist will not make use of this awesome privilege of legislating in its own favor." ~ Hans Herman Hoppe