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True Nature of Government
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> I think it is very important that we teach our
> children about
> the true nature of government. Now, at last, there
> is a way to
> give your children a basic civics course right in
> your own home!
>
> In my own experience as a father, I have discovered
> several
> simple devices that can illustrate to a child's mind
> the prin-
> ciples on which the modern state deals with its
> citizens.
>
> You may find them helpful too.
>
> For example, I used to play the simple card game WAR
> with my
> son. After a while, when he thoroughly understood
> that the
> higher ranking cards beat the lower ranking ones, I
> created a
> new game I called GOVERNMENT. In this game, I was
> Government,
> and I won every trick, regardless of who had the
> better card.
> My boy soon lost interest in my new game, but I like
> to think
> it taught him a valuable lesson for later in life.
>
> When your child is a little older, you can teach him
> about our
> tax system in a way that is easy to grasp and will
> allow him to
> understand the benefits. Offer him, say, $10 to mow
> the lawn.
> When he has mowed it and asks to be paid, withhold
> $5 and explain
> that this is income tax. Give $1 of this to his
> younger brother,
> who has done nothing to deserve it, and tell him
> that this is
> "fair" because the younger brother 'needs money
> too'. Also, ex-
> plain that you need the other $4 yourself to cover
> the administ-
> rative costs of dividing the money and for various
> other things
> you need.
>
> Make him place his $5 in a savings account over
> which you have
> authority. Explain that if he is ever naughty, you
> will remove
> the money from the account without asking him. Also
> explain how
> you will be taking most of the interest he earns on
> that money,
> without his permission. Mention that if he tries to
> hide the
> money, this, in itself, will be evidence of
> wrongdoing and will
> result in you automatically taking the money from
> him.
>
> Conduct random searches of his room in the small
> hours of the
> morning. Burst in unannounced. Go through all of his
> drawers and
> pockets. If he questions this, tell him you are
> acting on a tip-
> off from a mate of his who casually mentioned that
> you had both
> earned a bit of spare cash last week. If you find
> it, confiscate
> all of that money and also take his stereo and
> television. Tell
> him you are selling these and keeping the money to
> compensate
> you for having to make the raid. Also lock him in
> his room for
> a month as further punishment.
>
> When he cries at the injustice of this, tell him he
> is being
> "selfish" and "greedy" and only interested in
> looking after his
> own happiness. Explain that he should learn to
> sacrifice his own
> happiness for other people and that since he cannot
> be relied
> upon or trusted to do this voluntarily, you will use
> force to
> ensure he complies. Later in life he will thank you.
>
> Make as many rules as possible. Leave the reasons
> for them
> obscure. Enforce them arbitrarily. Accuse your child
> of breaking
> rules you have never told him about and carefully
> explain that
> ignorance of your rules is not an excuse for
> breaking them. Keep
> him anxious that he may be violating commands you
> haven't yet
> issued. Instill in him the feeling that rules are
> utterly irr-
> ational. This will prepare him for living under a
> democratic
> government.
>
> He is too young to understand the benefits of
> democracy, so
> explain this wonderful system as follows:
>
> You, your wife and his brother get together and vote
> that your
> son should have all privileges removed, be caned,
> and confined
> to his room for a week. If he protests that you are
> violating
> his rights, patiently explain his error and tell him
> that the
> majority have voted for this punishment and nothing
> matters
> except the will of the majority. When your child has
> matured
> sufficiently to understand how the judicial system
> works, set
> a bedtime for him of, say, 10 p.m. and then send him
> to bed at
> 9 p.m. When he tearfully accuses you of breaking the
> rules,
> explain that you made the rules and you can
> interpret them in
> any way that seems appropriate to you, according to
> changing
> conditions.
>
> Promise often to take him to the movies or the zoo,
> and then,
> at the appointed hour, recline in an easy chair with
> a newspaper
> and tell him you have changed your plans. When he
> screams, "but
> you promised!", explain to him that it was a
> campaign promise
> and hence meaningless. Every now and then, without
> warning, slap
> your child. Then explain that this is self-defence.
> Tell him
> that you must be vigilant at all times to stop any
> potential
> enemy before he gets big enough to hurt you. This,
> too, your
> child will appreciate, not right at that moment,
> maybe, but
> later in life.
>
> If he finds this hard to accept, you can further
> illustrate the
> point as follows. Take him on a trip across town
> with you, to a
> strange neighborhood. Walk into any random house you
> choose and
> start sorting out their domestic problems, using
> violence if
> that is what is required.
>
> Make sure you use overwhelming force to crush the
> family into
> submission - this avoids a protracted visit and
> becoming invol-
> ed for long periods of time. Explain to your son
> that only a
> coward stands idly by whilst injustice is happening
> across town.
> Tell him we are all brothers and problems left to
> fester will
> eventually spill over into your neighborhood. Use
> some of the
> $5 you took from your son as bus fare and to
> purchase a baseball
> bat.
>
> Drink a bottle of whisky and then lecture him on the
> evils of
> smoking dope. If he points out your hypocrisy remind
> him that
> the majority of people drink and that, as already
> explained,
> the needs of the majority are the only moral
> standard.
>
> Break up any meeting between him and more than three
> of his
> mates as being an 'unlawful gathering'.
>
> If he strokes the cat without the cat giving its
> express per-
> ission, slap him hard for feline harassment.
>
> Mark one designated spot in the yard where he can
> leave his bike.
> If he leaves it anywhere else, padlock it and demand
> $50 to re-
> ease it. If he offends more than three times,
> confiscate the bike,
> sell it, and keep the money.
>
> Install a CCTV system in your son's bedroom and also
> record all
> his telephone conversations. If he protests, accuse
> him of hav-
> ing something to hide. Explain that only criminals
> seek privacy
> and that good, dutiful children relinquish their
> privacy in exch-
> ange for the advantages which protective parenthood
> offers. Remind
> him of the boy across town who was caught smoking
> dope in his
> bedroom by just such a CCTV system, and explain that
> this case
> justifies installing CCTV in all teenagers'
> bedrooms.
>
> Lie to your child constantly. Teach him that words
> mean nothing -
> or rather that the meanings of words are continually
> "evolving",
> and may be tomorrow the opposite of what they are
> today.
>
> Have a word with his teachers at school and ask them
> to share
> any merit marks your son achieves, with any ethnic
> minority
> students who did not get any merit marks. If he
> questions this
> policy, explain that long ago we abused the
> ancestors of these
> people, and so it is only fair that he shares the
> merits around
> to compensate their descendants.
>
> This is also probably a good time to tell him that
> his energy,
> talent and enthusiasm will not secure him a job if
> the quota of
> such 'abused' people has not yet been filled. Tell
> him talent
> stands for nothing - it is fairness and sharing
> which are impor-
> tant. Remind him that his primary duty is the
> happiness and
> welfare of people he does not know, and will never
> meet.
>
> Ban cutlery from your home and make your son eat
> with his fingers.
> If he asks why, remind him of the youth who stabbed
> a cat to
> death last week with a fork. Explain that if just
> one cat is
> saved by the banning of cutlery, then this
> prohibition will be
> worthwhile. If he protests, question him closely
> about why he
> is intending to kill innocent cats, or accuse him of
> being a
> cat hater.
>
> Issue him with a pass card which he must show before
> he can
> enter the house. Stand guard at the front door. When
> he comes
> home, politely but firmly take him into the spare
> room and
> question him about his movements. Ask him how much
> cash he has
> on his person. If in excess of $50, confiscate the
> lot as it
> exceeds the house rule for maximum cash allowed.
> Then search
> his rucksack and pockets. To keep him guessing, do
> the occas-
> ional strip search. If he protests, detain him for
> longer and
> make the search more thorough. If he gets really
> angry at this,
> hold him in a locked room until he misses his next
> outing or
> party.
>
> If these methods sound harsh, I am only being cruel
> to be kind.
> I think it is important for children to understand
> the nature
> of the society in which we live.
>
> I hope you found that amusing. I did when I wrote
> it, but on
> second reading, I feel a bit sick. It makes the
> point too plainly
> to avoid.
>
>
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NewsBriefs
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>
> DOJ Wages War on Net Drugs
>
> Internet shoppers, look out: The next time you buy
> from an over-
> seas pharmacy, you might go to jail.
>
> The problem of Americans ordering from unregulated
> drugstores
> abroad is so acute that new federal penalties are
> necessary,
> administration and congressional officials said
> during a hearing
> Thursday.
>
> "I believe that the noose is slowly tightening
> around the neck
> of domestic sites ... but the question on foreign
> sites is what
> can we do about them?" asked William Hubbard, senior
> associate
> commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration.
>
> "An effective Internet enforcement process requires
> establishing
> priorities, identifying and monitoring potentially
> violative
> websites, and making appropriate referrals for
> criminal prose-
> cution," Hubbard told members of the House Commerce
> Subcommittee
> on Oversight.
>
>
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,36601,00.html
>
> COMMENT
> Another example for the "government" trying to
> "protect" its
> citizens who (they believe) are too stupid to make
> decisions for
> themselves.
>
> But is that the whole story? Probably not. Fact is,
> the pharma-
> ceutical industry is nothing other than a
> multi-billion dollar
> protection racket. Many medicines are designed
> neither to heal
> nor to kill... but to make patients dependent on
> them so they
> have to take them for the rest of their lives,
> spending more
> and more money on them.
>
> And of course, those who seek alternatives and try
> to think
> for themselves will have to be prosecuted. That's
> what a
> police state is all about, isn't it?
>
>
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>
> International Law Enforcement and Industry Discuss
> Cyber-Crime
>
> Top law enforcement and industry officials from
> major industri-
> alized countries met in Paris last week to discuss
> responses to
> cyber-crime. The meeting is a lead-up to a meeting
> of the
> Presidents and Prime Ministers of the countries in
> Okinawa,
> Japan this July.
>
> One of the primary controversies discussed at the
> event was a
> proposal that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) be
> required to
> keep logs of all of their users' activities online.
> Under pro-
> posals suggested at the meeting, ISPs would be
> required to main-
> tain user logs for up to one year. Many industry
> participants
> were critical of this suggestion, noting the costs
> of maintaining
> the logs and the difficulty in keeping the logs
> secure and
> tamperproof for law enforcement purposes. The
> Council of Europe
> (COE) "Draft Convention on Cyber-crime" (See EPIC
> Alert 7.08)
> was also discussed. At the meeting, the French
> Government re-
> commended allowing non-COE countries to sign the
> Convention but
> opposed the creation of an international cyber-force
> to fight
> cyber-crime.
>
> This conference was the first meeting held by the
> G-8 on the
> issue that included participants from outside the
> governments.
> However, only one representative from a consumer
> group was in-
> vited and no members of privacy or cyber-rights
> groups were
> invited. The G-8 is made up of senior government
> officials from
> France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United
> States, Italy,
> Canada and Russia. A subgroup on High Tech Crime
> chaired by the
> U.S. Department of Justice has been meeting since
> 1997.
>
> In the end, only a weak resolution calling for more
> discussion
> and cooperation was issued. A second closed meeting
> of govern-
> ment experts was held in Tokyo this week to work on
> the text
> of a resolution that will be issued by the heads of
> state of
> the G-8 at their July meeting.
>
> More information on the G-8 and COE is available at:
>
>
http://www.privacyinternational.org/issues/cybercrime/
>
> COMMENT
> Cybercrime is a serious problem, and it could be
> easily pre-
> vented by employing stricter security measures,
> among them
> encryption. Do you see what's happening here?
> Encryption and
> security software will be "restricted" while secret
> plans are
> made in Tokyo for the "international community" to
> police the
> Internet. Why not empower individuals and companies
> instead
> by giving them access to the tools they need to
> protect them-
> selves?
>
> The parallel to the gun control issue is
> frightening. Criminals
> don't obey laws, thus they won't be affected by any
> kinds of
> gun control, while law-abiding citizens will readily
> surrender
> their guns. This results in the criminals being
> armed and in the
> victims being defenseless. Thus they have no choice
> but to look
> up to Big Brother for protection.
>
> And who would benefit from that...?
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> Affluent Avoiding Census - Officials Surprised
>
> It's crunch time at the U.S. Census Bureau as
> door-to-door
> workers in Dallas and elsewhere zero in on the last
> of the
> procrastinators who failed to turn in their forms.
>
> Surprisingly, those thought to be the most wary of
> the govern-
> ment - low-income residents and minorities - aren't
> holding up
> the count.
>
> In Dallas and other parts of the nation, it's the
> most affluent
> who are dragging their feet, particularly those
> households in
> gated communities and ensconced in luxury townhomes
> and apartment
> complexes, census officials say.
>
> "We discovered some very interesting things," Robert
> L. Mallett,
> deputy secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department,
> said during
> his Dallas stop Thursday. "We had more support for
> participating
> in the census in areas that people didn't think we'd
> have that
> kind of success."
>
> But in central and northwest Dallas, particularly in
> wealthier
> neighborhoods, many more people failed to fill out
> the form than
> in lower-income areas, Mr. Mallett said.
>
>
http://dallasnews.com/metro/85643_census_26met.A.html
>
> COMMENT
> About the only people in the world who would be
> surprised about
> this are bureaucrats. Who needs Big Brother if they
> are success-
> ful, intelligent and rich? And who doesn't need Big
> Brother if
> they are poor and stupid?
>
> Just another reason why the government wants to keep
> the popu-
> lation as dumb and penniless as possible. That's
> what public
> schools and taxes are all about!
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Glossary
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>
> * Doublethink
> To forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and
> then, when
> it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from
> oblivion for
> just so long as it is needed.
>
> * Thoughtcrime
> The mere act of thinking about ideas and concepts
> like Freedom
> or Revolution.
>
> * Newspeak
> The purpose of Newspeak was to drastically reduce
> the number of
> words in the English language in order to eliminate
> ideas that
> were deemed dangerous and, most importantly,
> seditious to the
> totalitarian dictator, Big Brother and the Party.
> Thoughtcrime
> would be made literally impossible because there
> will be no words
> in which to express it...
>
>
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Quote of the Week
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>
> "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,
> mankind would be
> no more justified in silencing that one person than
> he, if he
> had the power, would be justified in silencing
> mankind."
>
> John Stuart Mill
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