Osborne Drops Some Reason on Tea Party

[Kat Kanning]

This is sooo good!

Osborne Drops Some Reason on Tea Party - Part 1

Osborne Drops Some Reason on Tea Party - Part 2

[highline]

Wow.

That was quite powerful.

The tea-party people have an idea that something is wrong and they are active.  To me, it seems that they just need that final push (that I once had) to understand freedom.

[Jim Johnson]

 

[dalebert]

The tea-party people have an idea that something is wrong and they are active.  To me, it seems that they just need that final push (that I once had) to understand freedom.

That's how I finally concluded that the Ron Paul campaign wasn't a total waste.  It was the final big political push that showed how hopeless politics is to a lot of people; not all of them, clearly, but many.  And many of those went on to embrace voluntaryism, agorism, etc.

[EthanLeeVita]

Indeed, I became anarchist partway through the Ron Paul Revolution. I don't think it was because of my disallusionment with politics as much as just lots of reading that finally pushed me over the edge.

[Pat K]

 

[TackleTheWorld]

What was good about that, Kat?  I couldn't get through the first 2 minutes.  Not that I could do any better, of course, but jeez couldn't Osborne start with a joke or something?

[Kat Kanning]

I especially liked the part where he told that group of republicans that we don't need a government, but I enjoyed the whole thing.

[Lloyd Danforth]

What was good about that, Kat?  I couldn't get through the first 2 minutes.  Not that I could do any better, of course, but jeez couldn't Osborne start with a joke or something?

Yeah! Like: 'why do bureaucrats carry 'poopie' in their wallets?'

[TackleTheWorld]

Thanks for the info.  I may try it again.

[Kat Kanning]

If you'd like to read it instead of listen....

Jason Osborne Tea Party Speech
Defiance, OH

I'd like to talk to you today about government.  Government is force.  Government is coercion.  Government is institutionalized violence.  It is the apparatus by which the counterproductive and the unproductive engage in predation upon the productive.  Whereas in the marketplace individuals create value and wealth for themselves by voluntarily trading goods and services with one another, the state pits groups of individuals against one another in a costly game of tug-o-war for theft and control.  Black against white, male against female, old against young, native against immigrants, religion against religion, the established against the unestablished.  The state causes our valuable resources to be shifted away from those higher voluntary purposes in the marketplace to prey upon others lobbying for protectionism, regulation, handouts, bailouts, and discriminatory taxation.  They perpetuate the mythology that we are somehow divided, left from right, conservative from Democrat , Republican from liberal, what have you, as if these two teams are in any way different from one another.  I say to you today that when the jackboot of the state is crushing your throat, it matters not whether that boot is from the left or from the right foot. (cheering)  They are the same team, bent on one goal:  to maximize the amount of your productive capacity they are able to siphon for themselves in rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies.

Did you watch this last joke of an election?  Did you hear the words coming out of their mouths?  It was exactly the same bullcrap.  The only difference at the end of the day,  if you look at it, is a percentage point or two of taxation.  Big deal.  They're spending billions of dollars on a weekly basis, and they have the nerve to call this freedom.  They call this choice, as if participating in the bogus election means something, as if you were free. 

You are not free in this country.  Have you ever tried to start a business for yourself?  I don't recommend it.  Last year, some friends and I, we started a brewery in New Hampshire. We couldn't even do it here in Ohio because the laws are so ridiculous and overwhelming.  It took only a few weeks to get the equipment set up and ready for production.  It took over six month to wade through the acres and acres of bureaucratic red tape from a dozen bureaucratic agencies.  In fact, we were held up for a number of weeks at one point because one, ONE letter on one beer label was a half millimeter too short.  I kid you not.  This is not freedom.

I'm so glad to see so many different kinds of people out today.  This is great.  We all need to get together and realize that we are not different. 

Doug Stanhope pointed out that if you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day.  But if you teach a man to fish, well then he has to get a fishing license, but he can't afford it so he has to get into the social security system so he can get a job and stay paying taxes and then they will audit the poor bastard because he's not really good at math and they'll send the vans to take all of his stuff, auction off his house, with the burden of proof upon him because he forgot to carry a one, all because he wanted to eat a fish, which he cannot even cook because he doesn't even a permit for an open flame.  This is not freedom.

Government does not give you freedom.  Government does not protect your freedoms.  Ladies and gentlemen, you were born into this world 100%, absolutely free.  The government is an institution that takes that freedom from you and expects you to wave a flag to celebrate it.  I say, "No, thank you."

There are those out there that say that government is a necessary evil.  They got half of that right.  I'll give you a hint, it's not the necessary part.  It is logically impossible and inconceivable that government can create anything of value.  The economist Frédéric  Bastiat wrote about what he called the seen, and the unseen.  When government institutes a program, when they build a school, when they create a road, you see these things that they are providing.  What you do not see are the myriad opportunities that were forgone as those resources were stolen from their rightful owners.  Suppose for example that you are walking down the street with $100 in your pocket to buy a bicycle and I stop you on your way and I say, "Hey, give me that $100. "  And you say, "No, I don't want to."  And I say, "No, you don't understand this relationship that we have, because if you don't give me your $100, I'm going to lock you in a cage and if you remotely resist, shoot you."  So you say, "OK, here's the $100."  I take this $100 and I go down to the video game shop and I buy a $50 video game with that $100, because I owe the owner a favor because he supported my political campaign.  When I bring you this $50 video game, are you supposed to thank me?  Are you better off now, than if you'd gotten the bicycle that you wanted?  What is seen is the video game in your hand.  What is unseen is the bicycle that you actually wanted.  This is the logical outcome of the use of violence to solve problems.  When you force resources from their higher purposes, value is necessarily destroyed.  It cannot be created. 

One of these services the government is providing us with is their so-called War on Terror.  I looked this up the other night just to be sure, but terrorism is defined as the use of violence to achieve political ends.  Hmm. (laughter)  I ask you today, who are the terrorists that we need to be concerned about?  Some ragtag folks in a faroff land with a couple of AK47s who spend their entire lives in psychotic religiosity?  Or these thugs in our own backyard who yearly rob us of upward of 70% of our productive efforts at the point of a gun, men who have locked up millions of our friends and family in cages to be raped and stabbed, many of whom have committed no other crime than that of possessing a plant.

It is time today that we wage our own war on terror, a war on the terrorism of the state, and I'm not talking about a war of violence, of guns, of cannons, because that is a war we will not win.  That is a war we cannot win.  The war we will win is the war of ideas because our weapons are superior.  Our weapons are logic, are reason, and evidence.  Every day these weapons will triumph over their weapons of propaganda, of manipulation, of lies and bullying and deceit.

This tea party today pays homage to an event in Boston Harbor which was precursory to the American Revolution against the crown of Britain.  We no longer need a revolution.  Revolution refers to turning back, a return to what once was.  We do not need to return to what used to be.  It is time we progressed past the superstitious religion of statism.  The time is not for revolution but evolution.  This evolution begins today in your own personal life.  Cast off the chains of politics.  Stop supporting politicians who will not save you.  Barack Obama will not save you.  John McCain will not save you.  Sarah Palin will not save you.  Even our friend Ron Paul will not save you.  Stop wresting for control of the weapons of the state from your neighbors.  Put down the gun.  For the love of God, get your children out of the indoctrination camps they call the public schools where they're educated daily with fear, bullying, superstition, and taught obedience to arbitrary authority.  Teach them thievery, banditry and murder are immoral for everyone. These things are not made virtuous by putting on the costumes of the state.

[Kat Kanning]

(Cont.)

They say that politics is not appropriate conversation for polite company.  There's a really good reason for that.  It's the same reason that when your friends come over for dinner, you don't walk up and punch them in the face.  (laughter)  Because politics is violence.  Every political conversation involves a gun in the room backing it up.  Every time you support a government program, you are advocating violence against your neighbor.  When your friends and family bring the topic of conversation to politics, turn the tables on that conversation.  Have the courage these people in the eye and ask them why they are advocating violence against you.  Point out the gun that they are holding.  Show them that you have put yours down.  Put down the gun, and others will follow.

If you are interested in discussing philosophy and others issues of achieving freedom in your personal life visit
freedommainradio.com.  Welcome to the evolution.  Be seeing you.

[brycen]

Wow. That was powerful. Thanks for transcribing it.

[TackleTheWorld]

Thanks Kat!  Yeah, rock on Osborne!

[Russell Kanning]

the vfw sign in the background looks funny