{"id":75498,"date":"2024-06-13T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T17:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=75498"},"modified":"2024-06-13T13:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T19:40:15","slug":"the-us-government-is-a-illegitimate-criminal-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/13\/the-us-government-is-a-illegitimate-criminal-gang\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Government is a Illegitimate Criminal Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US Government is a Criminal Gang With No Legitimate Authority to Rule the American People<\/a><\/h1>\n

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The US government is a totally illegitimate authority. It\u2019s rather obvious that the people funding the slaughter in Gaza have no moral authority, but it needs to be understood that they do not have any legal authority either. What they have is men with guns who will kill you or put you in a cage if you don\u2019t do what they want you to do. The US government is an international criminal gang.<\/h2>\n

We need to examine this concept of\u00a0 \u201cthe sovereign.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The sovereign is the source of authority within a society. Now, this is universally represented by the center of power in a nation-state.<\/h2>\n

Historically, \u201cthe sovereign\u201d was a King who served God and thus ruled by divine right. This was true not simply in Christian Europe, but everywhere in the world that had developed past the level of a tribal system.\u00a0The Divine Right of Kings<\/a>\u00a0in Europe was virtually identical to\u00a0The Mandate of Heaven<\/a>\u00a0in China. There are other versions of this, but comparing these two systems is particularly useful, given that they developed completely independently of one another, which suggests that this idea of God appointing a singular authority to rule a people is something innate to basic human psychology.<\/h2>\n

During the Age of Enlightenment, it was determined that people had something called \u201chuman rights,\u201d and from this developed the ideas of liberalism and modern republicanism (which remains the technical term for what are now referred to as \u201cdemocracies\u201d). The core idea of importance here is that every man was himself sovereign, and therefore has a list of personal \u201cinalienable rights\u201d by virtue of being a human. Widespread acceptance of this concept of individual sovereignty philosophically nullified the Divine Right of Kings. So then, people set out to create a concept of a state based on individual sovereignty. The core documents establishing this system were the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution. (Shortly thereafter, the French did their thing, but the French Revolution wouldn\u2019t have happened without the American Revolution.)<\/h2>\n

The basic idea of Republicanism is that the people of a state form a \u201csocial contract\u201d to cooperate and \u201cself-govern.\u201d They agree to respect each other\u2019s individual rights, and they enshrine these rights in law. The government then explicitly serves the will of the people, being guided exclusively by the the governing documents (a constitution), which the population has agreed on through this elusive process of the \u201csocial contract.\u201d<\/h2>\n

There is obviously a conversation to be had about the positives and negatives of this philosophical revolution. The positives are largely self-evident, while the negatives were less obvious and took time to manifest. I\u2019ve largely come to the conclusion that liberal republicanism is unsustainable, as it will always devolve into a liberal democracy, which will in turn devolve into a tyranny. Further, the core ideas of liberalism, such as \u201chuman rights\u201d and \u201csocial contracts\u201d are so abstract as to be incapable of making the leap from the realm of thought to the realm of reality. But the details of this discussion is beyond our scope here today.<\/h2>\n

For the purposes of reaching agreement that the US government is an illegitimate entity with zero legal authority to tell anyone what they can and can\u2019t do, let alone use violence against those who disobey it, we must simply establish that the US government does not follow the US Constitution, and therefore does not have any source of legitimacy as \u201cthe sovereign\u201d of these United States.<\/em><\/strong> The discussion only becomes abstract because the ideas of liberalism are so abstract. If that were not the case, the illegitimacy of the US government would have been self-evident as soon as they blatantly violated the US Constitution.<\/h2>\n

As a comparison, we might consider what would happen if the Holy Roman Emperor had endorsed the normalization of gay sex as an official state policy. Because his legitimacy as the sovereign came from the Christian God, his authority would be forfeit by endorsing such a policy in blatant violation of the Christian faith. The people would then have not only a right but a duty to overthrow him and replace him with someone who respected divine law. This is very simple, because there are no particularly confusing abstractions associated with the Divine Right of Kings.<\/h2>\n

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The US Government is a Criminal Gang With No Legitimate Authority to Rule the American People   The US government is a totally illegitimate authority. It\u2019s rather obvious that the people funding the slaughter in Gaza have no moral authority, but it needs to be understood that they do not have any legal authority either….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5442,5773,5523,3786,15358,16280,5067,3958,14485,15696,15169,5445,5477,8560,9614,13,473,74,14643,14588,5594,475,476,478,479,483,484,3631,5549,4579,14779,15203,5586,3725],"tags":[7632,17550,6482,474,7806,7671,8798,9765,13568,4601],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75524,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75498\/revisions\/75524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}