Mark Davis' Columns
MUST READ "I like this analogy because it reveals how voting is an act of submission: When you no longer resist tyranny, but agree to submit to the threat or use of force and do as you are told, when you no longer question the higher authority because you are allowed to choose your supervisor. In the process you condemn your offspring and future generations to be subjects of this authority establishing an institution of tyranny that eventually is accepted unquestioningly, perhaps even celebrated." Column by Mark Davis.
Holy
Wars
"But violent Christians have
become the worst because they should know the truth about love and yet openly
forsake it....Most modern Christians are simply cowards that do not have the
courage of their convictions...." Column by Mark Davis.
Of the housing market. Column by Mark Davis.
Conspiracies, Plots and Agendas
"The threats that I believe are biggest involve people begging to be enslaved for their own good. The problem is that these collectivists conscript the rest of us into the road gang paving the road to hell." Column by Mark Davis.
"It looks like a win-win situation for lovers of liberty: either a President Ron Paul is the elected dictator that fulfills the dream of setting all the slaves free, or he proves that the system is a scam and must be completely scrapped. At the very least, it should be a spectacular show watching the puppeteers squirm and the puppets panic...." Column by Mark Davis.
"It is human nature to huddle in masses against cold, rain and invasions. Building a fence around and shackling the huddled mass is the purpose of that contrived tool we call the state. Seeing that this is wrong requires the innate tools of conscience and reason." Column by Mark Davis.
"If you were a slave on a Roman estate or an Old South plantation and you got to choose who was given the power to control the fruits of your labor and tell you what to do and what not to do, would you be any less a slave? What if you were a serf on a French or German lord’s manor and you got to choose who was given the power to control the fruits of your labor and tell you what to do and what not to do, would you be any less a serf? Is being a taxpayer really that much better of a deal?" Column by Mark Davis.
Recommended "I find it amusing to listen to radio talk show and television news show entertainers bemoan the fact that people would rather watch sports or go to a movie than listen to them pontificate about the same old crap over and over. Their thinking goes that if only everybody were educated (really indoctrinated) as good Republicans, Democrats or even Libertarians, then there would be more voters making better choices and we would all be ruled by wonderful, selfless leaders. Uh huh, right. Yet they all support the biggest state circus of all: war. State-controlled media is the circus we should avoid if we want to be free." Column by Mark Davis.
"Strike The Root is powerful imagery dedicated to battling tyranny. The title concept is based on a prescient metaphor created by an American icon. The genius of Thoreau, striking blows at the root of the evil state, understanding power and freedom, finding liberty in everyday life, and seeking the joy of enlightenment is quite a bit to stand for. Strike The Root does this and more." Column by Mark Davis.
"The core difference between true patriots and pretend patriots (who are really nationalists) is understanding what constitutes 'my country' and 'my government'." Column by Mark Davis.
Life Is Good (Voting Is Insane)
"Forming a monopoly on the use of force (the ability of specified individuals to legally incarcerate, kill and steal) does not eliminate the “animal spirits” in people. It just harnesses them and focuses them in the directions chosen by the elite. The elite use the state to institutionalize barbarism by dressing it up as the savior of civilization. This is how individuals who control the state are able to get good people to do bad things." Column by Mark Davis.
"The state cannot eliminate fear, poverty, loneliness or violence: it institutionalizes them." Column by Mark Davis.
"So to sum up you start with a fractional-reserve fiat money machine and then go to small investors making stupid money. The artificial increase in equity returns fuels increased demand until a mania ensues due to unrealistic expectations of future returns based on recent phenomenal returns projected into perpetuity. When sales prices (or stock prices) cannot be justified by net operating income (or profit), then the market has been distorted beyond sanity. When the prices paid for investments are based on fantasies about the future instead of the demonstrated ability to produce income, then investors have been fooled. As this becomes apparent to the masses, then pop goes the bubble." Column by Mark Davis.
"The biggest obstacle to the majority of the population recognizing what is obvious to those who have been deprogrammed is the perception instilled by Big Media and government schools that the people who live within a defined territory are synonymous with the state that rules them." Column by Mark Davis.
"The descent from confident people living in a civilized (relatively) free society into fearful paranoids going through the motions of living in a state-controlled, barbaric society is evident everywhere today." Column by Mark Davis.
"If we sit idly by as the war planners 'manage information' with the goal of influencing a docile population to forego more treasure and sacrifice more children to their schemes of world domination then we will soon meet our fate. Speak the truth, for it is the only thing that will set us free from the war planners." Column by Mark Davis.
"Local cops getting high on increased power will not make people any safer. Lawmakers injecting steroids into the laws that smother liberty does not protect people. Citizens who want peace at home and peace abroad must be brave by yelling stop to the angry, frightened lynch mob. A life of fear where order is defined as obedience to authority is not how I want my children to live out their lives." Column by Mark Davis.
"The central banking system is the tap root of the modern Corporate-State: the main root that must be struck at for the state to collapse. If the income tax, all business regulations, wealth transfer schemes and the military/industrial complex were somehow miraculously ended tomorrow while central banking remained, then the state would still have the means to enslave you." Column by Mark Davis.
"The surprising story of the year was not that Bush and Company told so many lies that led us into an immoral war, but that so many people fell for it, again." Column by Mark Davis.
"From Aristotle to Goethe to Spencer to Rothbard, there have been those who stood up to the State and exposed the lies of its leaders. A true patriot fights for liberty, not a piece of paper, a piece of cloth or a liar seeking votes. Let reason be your guide and seek the truth before consenting to be governed by thugs and thieves interested in only power." Column by Mark Davis.
MUST
READ "To
define anarchy as statist-government failure is such an obvious distortion of
the concept of a free society that it is hard to decide where to begin to
dismantle such thoughtlessness. I
like to begin by simply pointing out that at least four layers of
statist-government agencies still claim jurisdiction over the area known as
"Love must be allowed to arise, and it cannot be forced. Force not only can not create love, force destroys love." Column by Mark Davis.
Column by Mark Davis.
MUST READ "It is difficult to be peaceful in the face of violence and to love when surrounded by hate. This is why the 'dark side' is so easy to follow and seeing the light takes so much courage. The light can appear blinding and the fear of force is often debilitating. Still, each individual has the power to act free and with courage may choose to be free." Column by Mark Davis.
"Voting is to liberty what a pacifier or a thumb is to a baby: a willing act of self-delusion that enables people to feel like the need for liberty is being met in the face of a growing hunger for it." Column by Mark Davis.
The Reserve Bank of Oz (Part Two)
"'I
can turn paper into gold,' the Wizard said."
The Reserve Bank of Oz (Part One)
Story by Mark Davis.
The Politicalization of Society
"This is why the state at its core is immoral, and those who use politics to get what they want are immoral people. The politicalization of a society provides a breeding ground for immoral people to thrive. Thus political systems corrupt economic systems." Column by Mark Davis.
"...the state security system has an aggressive tendency to create security risks faster than they are diffused, both foreign and domestic. A free-market system of security would not create a Drug War against its own customers or a War on Terrorism/Global Democracy Crusade or whatever the Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace state policy is called today. The state will create new enemies faster than it deals with old enemies either through incompetence or design." Column by Mark Davis.
"The great difficulty for statists is how to suck more and more life out of a society without killing the host. The great difficulty for anarchists is how to kill the parasite without committing suicide in the process. The advantage that anarchists have over statists is that the state needs society, while society doesn’t need the state." Column by Mark Davis.
"The purpose of all states is to provide a means for the richest guys to protect their economic interests. The rich guys who controlled the State governments in the South wanted to protect their economic interests that included slaves as property. The rich guys who controlled the State governments in the North wanted to protect their economic interests, which included taxing the Southern States in order to pay for 'internal improvements' in the North as well as restrict foreign competition for their 'emerging industries'." Column by Mark Davis.
"The general population is continually pandered to at the level of a beer commercial: 'It don’t get no better' than the state, so 'trust us' and enjoy your bread and circuses." Column by Mark Davis.
"Instead of fighting over who holds the reins to Leviathan, we should seek to withdraw our support for the beast and expose it for what it is: a method of control by the elite based on the use of force." Column by Mark Davis.
"The State apparatus is built on the premise that those individuals anointed with Statecraft are imminently wiser than those individuals who are not, all the way to the point where it is acceptable (i.e. legal) to use violence to enforce those decisions." Column by new Root Striker Mark Davis.