Is Obedience a problem for America? I have read the articles and watched the videos about statism, saying that Americans are basically a herd of cattle following along doing what they are told, and not questioning whether this is the right thing to do. Laws which in this article basically add up to rules put in place by our forefathers. Not questioning if we are truly free. These articles and videos imply that we are all part of a cult, that we are unaware of even being a part of it. Statements like government is equal to religion and taxes are equal to extortion. This could be true, and it could be true that maybe the people that are writing these articles and making these videos are trying to make us follow their religion, and be in their
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We would no longer have money to fund roads, schools and social security for example. It would be up to each community to pay for those things. You could be left with dirt roads, if not everyone wanted to pay for roads in your area. This would make it hard to get around if you didn’t have the right vehicle. If there were no social security and you didn’t earn enough money while you were young. You would not be able to retire, and would have to work till the day you died. What if you were one of the few people in your area that had small children, and you didn’t have the skills to educate your children and no one else wanted to pay for a school. Your children would go uneducated. While being completely free, and not having to answer to anyone sounds wonderful. It doesn’t always work. It has been tried in other countries, and has …show more content…
The first source I found was a documentary called “The Deep Web”, by Alex Winter (2015) this documentary was about people who decided to use the dark net and TOR (TOR is a type of encryption that was created by the US military) together to create a free market place where things could be bought and sold, and that the government had no control over. All sales were paid for in Bitcoin, an almost non-traceable form of money that makes transactions almost anonymous. With these things in place there was a sense of freedom to do as they pleased. The site was called “Silk Road”. Most of the sales were for things like drugs and forged documents. This was more to prove a point than it was to traffic drugs. The point was to have freedom from government monitoring. There were people on this site that thought by selling drugs on the site was a way of ending the war on drugs, by taking drugs off the streets all together. The site was eventually brought down by the FBI, and one person was prosecuted by the government when they illegally accessed a web server in Iceland. The NSA appears to be the ones that accessed that server without a warrant. Usually all of this would be considered illegal and of course the case would have been thrown out of court, but there is no way to know. Because the federal government would not allow his attorney to question the agent
We would no longer have money to fund roads, schools and social security for example. It would be up to each community to pay for those things. You could be left with dirt roads, if not everyone wanted to pay for roads in your area. This would make it hard to get around if you didn’t have the right vehicle. If there were no social security and you didn’t earn enough money while you were young. You would not be able to retire, and would have to work till the day you died. What if you were one of the few people in your area that had small children, and you didn’t have the skills to educate your children and no one else wanted to pay for a school. Your children would go uneducated. While being completely free, and not having to answer to anyone sounds wonderful. It doesn’t always work. It has been tried in other countries, and has …show more content…
The first source I found was a documentary called “The Deep Web”, by Alex Winter (2015) this documentary was about people who decided to use the dark net and TOR (TOR is a type of encryption that was created by the US military) together to create a free market place where things could be bought and sold, and that the government had no control over. All sales were paid for in Bitcoin, an almost non-traceable form of money that makes transactions almost anonymous. With these things in place there was a sense of freedom to do as they pleased. The site was called “Silk Road”. Most of the sales were for things like drugs and forged documents. This was more to prove a point than it was to traffic drugs. The point was to have freedom from government monitoring. There were people on this site that thought by selling drugs on the site was a way of ending the war on drugs, by taking drugs off the streets all together. The site was eventually brought down by the FBI, and one person was prosecuted by the government when they illegally accessed a web server in Iceland. The NSA appears to be the ones that accessed that server without a warrant. Usually all of this would be considered illegal and of course the case would have been thrown out of court, but there is no way to know. Because the federal government would not allow his attorney to question the agent