No Acquiesce To Depredation By Tim Case
(2010-01-10 at 02:30:58 )

No Acquiesce to Depredation by Tim Case

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a
fool trusts either of them.

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up
being allocated to politics. --- P.J. ORourke

Within the populace of the United States there seems to be a slow
awakening to the destruction that is beginning to overtake us. After my
last article I was asked by more than one reader: What happened? How did
we get into this mess? What did you mean by Survive ?"

The answers to these questions have no simple explanation but the bulk of
our problem stems from a wave of philosophical attacks which have
corrupted the fundamentals that have, throughout history, assured
happiness, and more than a modicum of prosperity.

These corrupting influences have not always been readily identifiable;
the reason being that as with any heretical doctrines, they seem logical,
inspiring and thus judged by the majority to be the correct. It should
also be noted that the numbers of those who see the future destruction,
which ultimately follows a new orthodoxy, are always far less than those
who do not; thus the implementation of the harmful principles are always
accompanied by intimidation and the associated threat of violence, when
the academic arguments falter.

It is the old tired mantra of tyrants everywhere; you will be convinced
by the force of our argument or we will convince you with force.

Once adopted by society, it is only the passing of time which reveals how
perverse, irrational, harsh, and caustic these false standards are to the
individual and social order.

Whether we like it or not we live in a world of scarcity. Economists tell
us that scarcity is the constant characteristic of the human condition
whereby our desires and needs are always greater than our ability to
satisfy them.

Certainly history testifies to the fact that human wants are almost
limitless and encompass a wide array of material and spiritual desires.

The caveat, as Thomas Woods explains, is that mans Resources and his Body
itself exist in finite quantities; any expenditure of these things in the
pursuit of some end necessarily comes at the expense of a foregone
alternative. He cannot simultaneously perform or enjoy the fruits of all
the ends he wishes to pursue. Time, for example, is an irreversible
continuum; an hour, once devoted to a particular task, is never again
available in the service of another task.

The conflict arises when we as humans realize - consciously or
unconsciously - that the ability to satisfy our desires is limited by the
finiteness of our resources; including the number of years in our
lifetime.

This is mans Achilles heel that allows governments to promise, contingent
upon allegiance to the state - You can have it all. Humans gladly accept
this facade for one simple reason; they tend to make choices based on
what they believe will bring swift and complete happiness.

It is human nature to take promises as acts which will either avoid
danger or that which is unpleasant, thus satisfying a need or desire.
Consider the ultimate swindles (Social Security, Medicare), spurious
notions (Unlimited credit, Universal Health Care, Welfare) and
surreptitious campaigns (One World Government, Global warming, saving the
planet) that have cajoled the people to the brink of economic disaster.

The common thread of human misery, weaving through centuries of mankinds
history, resides in the fact that the more utopian, the more feckless,
the more fatuous the pledge, the more faithful the public adherence.

Mankinds wretchedness derives from what is known among Austrian
economists as the law of marginal utility.

This law says, explains Thomas Woods, that each additional amount of a
homogeneous good yields a lesser amount of utility. This law follows from
the existence of value scales: the more units of a good a person
possesses the lower and lower ranked are the ends he can satisfy with
them. His first unit of water, for example, he may devote to drinking,
in order to keep himself alive. He may devote his second unit to bathing.
A third unit might be used to water his lawn. The value of the marginal
unit, therefore, is the value of the end he could no longer satisfy if
that unit were taken away. If he loses the third unit he will certainly
not go without drinking; he will instead refrain from watering his lawn-
in other words, he will refrain from pursuing the least valued of the
ends he was previously able to satisfy.

It is often forgotten that The Government or The State is not an
independent, omniscient entity. Rather it is an organization made up of
individuals and as such is subject to the same laws of economics -
including the law of marginal utility - that govern all human beings.

As more and more power, along with societys resources, are concentrated
in the hands of the Elite, wastefulness ensues in the form of debts and
mismanagement or outright theft of resources. Ultimately this squandering,
decadent misuse of assets becomes pandemic throughout all government
entities, manifesting itself in the cavalier, haughty, if not total
disregard for private property and even human life.

This is not some academic exercise but rather a considerable fact of
history. Predictably, the empty-headed barbarians among us will continue
to find their fantasy world of a benevolent government preferable to
reality; spurning self-reliance and personal property while endorsing
state terrorism (TSA, FDA, FEMA, Homeland Security, etc) with its
unabated misery.

Just how dangerous this can be was recently brought home to me while
speaking with a delightful lady whose youngest years were spent under the
Stalin regime 1928-1953 and grew up in the Liberated Soviet Block
country of Poland. (The Soviet Empire held Poland in subjection from 1945
to 1983.)

Eva was not born in Poland; she was born in the west, in Austria which by
1941 was in the orbit of Nazi Germany.

She has little or no recollection of either her father or uncle. During
the war they had left the house to do some personal shopping and were
never heard of again. Eva has no idea; neither did anyone else, whether
they deserted the family, were incarcerated, or killed in a bombing raid.

This, however, was only the beginning of the familys sorrows.

During the war German ideals of Racial purity and Politically Incorrect
were evident by a number of means. Eva remembers, Granny told me the
letter P had to be sewn on all our clothing so we would be recognized as
non-German...

In 1945, at the conclusion of WWII, this racial profiling continued to
put her family in an untenable position, which ultimately resulted in the
family being consigned to the deprivation of the Soviets. My mother
was born in Austria, she elaborates further, But my Granny was Polish
hence the Germans considered us Poles and the Russians as Germans and
that is why we were evacuated to Poland.

Criminals, then as now, wear uniforms and the trip to Poland, as related
by her mother, is complete with the shameless arrogance that accompanies
state sponsored crime. The train we traveled on was stopped several times
on the way and we were removed from the train waiting on the platforms
until the Russian soldiers robbed our possessions and then we were
ordered back on the train. Mama and the rest of the family learned by the
second time to grab whatever they could before the train stopped. By the
time we arrived at our destination, Gorzow Wielkopolski, most of our
possessions were gone.

The whole city was full of Russian soldiers, she continues, We kids were
forbidden to open our mouths on the streets as we did not speak Polish
and whenever we ask mom something in German we were called German swine
We were not allowed to speak German at all; we had to learn Polish from
Granny and Mom. Evas mothers wisdom even extended to forbidding the
speaking of German at home. So by the time I went to school I already
spoke good Polish. The rest I have learned in school."

However, there was more to come. Eva discloses that By the time I reached
the 3rd class grade at 10 years old the Russian language had become
compulsory. One day the Russian soldiers came and all Polish history
books were confiscated and replaced with Stalins/Lenins and Dzierzynskis
Feliks Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky Russian revolution history.

It was during those years, while learning to speak Russian, that she had
a problem rolling her R in a manner acceptable to her teacher. One day,
she recounts with more than a painful expression, the teacher got very
mad at me. She then went into the kitchen and got a tablespoon. Returning
to the classroom this Teacher grabbed Eva, pinned her against the wall,
then … jammed her knee into my stomach, pushed my head against the wall,
and forced the spoon under my tongue. She held me like that until I
rolled my R to her satisfaction.

Nor was there a lack of political correctness. During all my time in
Gorzow, that is the school time, we were not allowed to address our
teachers in any other way but by calling them Citizens. If you said Mr.
or Miss. or Mrs. they would not reply until you said citizen.

It was at the age of 4-5 years old, while walking home one afternoon,
another traumatic event occurred. I was beautifully dressed when a
Russian woman, we called them Uncle or Auntie IVAN, pulled me into a
doorway and started taking the dress off me. She kept saying she only
wanted to see if the dress was the right size for her daughter. She stole
my dress and never returned. I was found later by friends and my Mom
standing in a doorway half naked.

When I inquired as to what they ate and the availability of food, Eva
gave a most startling response. Some of the food was coming from UNRA -
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration] from the USA and
karitas (charitable) church organizations. The only spare meat that was
available was horse meat and pork dipped in boiling water. The rest of
the food was grabbed by the Russians before even the butcher was open.

Fruit was equally hard to come by. We could get, with great difficulty,
4 oranges for Christmas and Easter and the same applied to lemons and
other exotic fruits. They were simply not available to the normal public.

The rest can be presumed to have gone to the Elite and well connected.

Remembering the hardships she and her family endured brings an obvious
look of pain to Evas face. That pain, however, is quickly replaced by
unbridled joy as she remembers the first time she ever saw a grocery
store display with oranges, in any quantity desired, available to the
general public.

The day I arrived in Dover, after missing Mother in Amsterdam, Lila with
her husband picked me up at the train station and we were driving along
one street when I suddenly saw a shop window full of oranges... I
shouted to Richard, Stop! Stop the car!

Her brother-in-law asked; What was the matter? and Eva pointed to the
window with all the oranges and asked, Are they real? I just could not
believe that they were real and nobody was queuing - standing in line. I
went inside the shop to check for myself if the oranges were for real;
THEY WERE!

During her teenage years, in Poland, Eva recalls. Most of the books were
forbidden and just vanished from the libraries and book shops. Listening
to any foreign radio stations, or Radio Free Europe, was forbidden and
very dangerous.

She and her friends would go into the basement cover themselves with
whatever was available and turn a radio on, being sure to keep the volume
down very low, just to hear the news or listen to music. Music like Rock
and Roll and Elvis Presley were absolutely out. You could have been
severely punished if caught with his record bought somewhere on the black
market.

Even so, Eva became an accomplished singer. In a dichotomy which properly
belongs to a black comedy those decadent western songs which had been
banned by the regime were the very tunes, I sang… at the official parties
of the dignitaries in Warsaw and got away with it.

There are many more horrifying events which could be recounted from the
time Eva and her family spent in Communist Poland but the most troubling
comes from her preteen years. The most frightening were some nights when
drunken soldiers would knock on our door, with their rifle butts,
demanding to be let in or they would open fire. I was usually pushed to
the door to say that: Mom is away working and I am alone sleeping. That
made me very nervous and for the rest of my life I become very nervous
when somebody knocks on my door, even now.

I will leave it to the reader to decipher these drunken soldiers intent.

Eva now lives comfortably in a western country but is still ever cautious
about what she says, to whom she is talking, her surrounding and
especially who is following her: behavioral traits that aided and acted
in concert to assure her survival.

I can hear detractors declaring: That was then this is now! We do not
live in Communist Poland, this is America and it can not happen here!

Are you sure? Take a hard look at the TSA; government intrusion into
every aspect of our lives; rogue police officers committing crimes that
only a few years ago would have brought public outrage but now are
sanctioned by Law; regulations upon regulations designed to leave us no
better off than defenseless, destitute medieval serfs; then there is
Congress which is staffed by blatant fools who have brought one of the
greatest economies in modern history to its knees and on the verge of a
catastrophic meltdown. Do I really need to go on?

The executive branch of the Federal government is embracing and openly
declaring its support of ideologies and espousers of pogroms who have
been responsible for the death of millions upon millions from Europe to
China.

What is the ostensive difference between the actions of our present chief
executives administration, in concert with its dupes in Congress over the
last year, and Lenins statement that Communism is power based upon force
and limited to nothing, by no kind of law and by absolutely no set rule?
Lenins Collected Works, Vol. XVIII, page 361

With the acceleration of government size and power are we that far away
from certain books, websites, cable news networks, and radio programs
being outlawed? Can we expect harsh penalties being exacted for
dispersing, or even speaking certain Unapproved, Government Banned
ideals? You think not? Consider how many words are no longer Politically
correct and construed as Hate Crimes.

Is it a stretch of the imagination to see a future that has government
induced food shortages or clothing shortages? You had better be sure of
your answer. Our banking and financial systems are failing!

How long do you really think it will be before we are reliving the worst
that history has to offer? Take a look at your children and grandchildren;
will they survive? Could you survive? Before you answer do not let a
modicum of present wealth and comfort lull you into apathy or a false
sense of security.

Survival begins not with guns, gold, and a garden. It starts with self-
reliance, strong family and communal bonds, a plan of subterfuge, and
clandestine acts centered in the refusal to be subdued. You can not have
it all so you had better spend the scarce time, energy and resources you
have left to prepare.

January 9, 2010

Tim Case is a 30-year student of the ancient histories who agrees with
the first-century stoic Epictetus on this one point: Only the educated
are free.

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