"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Gun In The Room
Submitted by Robert Fredericks on Wed, 2011-01-26 04:00
"In political debates, it can be very hard to cut through the endless windy abstractions that are used to cover up the basic fact that the government uses guns to force people to do what they do not want to do, or prevent them from doing what they do want to do."
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"The first thing I want you to realize is that the primary tool or WEAPON terrocrats use to subjugate, control, and dominate their victims is WORDS. By "terrocrat" I mean "coercive political agent" or "terrorist bureaucrat." A terrocrat is always an individual human being.
Please think about this issue. How often has a terrocrat stuck a gun in your face and said, "Pay your taxes or else?" Compare this to the number of times terrocrats have sent you pieces of paper with words on them, telling you what to do or what not to do -- and what penalties you may be subjected to, if you don't obey? … I don't care how much thought you have to put into this, but it's absolutely vital that you understand that the primary means terrocrats use to subjugate, control, and dominate their victims is words. " ~ Frederick Mann
When I click the link I get some "lost liberty cafe" site not related to the topic.
I'm presuming this refers to Stefan Molyneux's 2006 piece by the same name. In it, Stefan subtly refers to reification, except he uses the term "euphemisms". I think it's quite effective the way Stefan responds to a poster who was favoring "the government" by substituting the word "rape" wherever the poster used "government".
"Terrocrat" is also an excellent substitution where one wishes to convey the real meaning and "...to ward off the continual oily drizzle of words and phrases designed to obscure the simple reality of state violence..."
Sam