How the TYRANTS Topple - [Powerful Quote]

But what if the Tyrant has the power to destroy you should you stop serving him? (Ex. See what happens if you stop paying taxes)

It's a process and will take time.

But as long as these types of quotes and ideas grow stronger and stronger in the hearts of men, we will eventually see the day we...."Walk Away."

Yes, direct confrontation with the tyrant gets a violent response.

There are dozens of other ways.

Here is Bill Buppert at free state New Hampshire talking about non violent resistance to tyranny.

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Last Edited by s. d. butler on 10/18/2014 08:17 PM

OP what is the attribution for the quote?

The quote is infamous in liberty and anarchist circles.

It's from

Étienne de La Boétie - 1500's

See what happens if a great number of us stopped paying taxes.

There's power in numbers and safety in herds.

There are more of us than them :)

An ancient riddle, older than your quote goes thus:

How does the king with a hundred armed guards keep a thousand peasants in the fields?

Love it!

And exactly the point :)

Non violent resistance has a poor track record. Even if half the US decided to stop paying taxes, the only result is the law will come for you and your property, one at a time-from the victims perspective.

The only hope of success of a non violent revolt is that the military would come to the rescue of the down trodden civilians--sort of like the guys with bigger guns helping the guys with no guns.

I wonder why Obama want a civilian government force that "is just as well armed and just as well trained" as the army?

Political power comes from the barrel of a gun. All else is wishful thinking.

All governments have existed because people have been convinced that they need them to survive. It's quite the opposite and people are realizing more and more there are other ways free people can act voluntarily for a better society.

Time and time again.

That's it period.

We fund it, They run it.

Don't fall for the traps they lay...

They know damn well what they are doing and how to pin humanity against each other with their tactics of divide and conquer. We are all being manipulated and all we have is each other.

If half of actual tax payers quit paying the system would collapse. TPTB don't have the means or the manpower to go after that many people.

Key word is "Armed"

With chains and superior firepower?

Eating has always been an issue also.

They also usually grasp at straws like "final solutions"
killing millions of innocents.

There is always a price to pay when tyrants are toppled
and it's seldom the upper crust that has to pay.

Dictators(democracy = 1 more choice) that want to stay in bidness learned a long time ago as long as they can pay their thugs(military/po-po) to keep the rabble in line they will stay in power.

A good ideal. Whether the good of us make a difference for the whole of us or it is an exercise in futility for the whole, at the end or hopefully a new beginning, I believe what you do for the whole, you do for your posterity, next life, or a more upward on the thrill of knowing more and being part of a true path in a world that works in balance for the intent of the good of all.
In other words it is the side of all mans sin, selfishness, but the side that does not take from another, but the man who could not live with himself if he did not throw himself in front of a bus to push a little innocent out of the way. <All acts are selfish> Emanuel Kant?

<<If half of actual tax payers quit paying the system would collapse. TPTB don't have the means or the manpower to go after that many people.>>
It would take that and that ace in the whole: a military made up of the downtrodden, and what we need to lead, the intellectuals; attorneys, judges, politicians, and the rest who if truly given a chance to join an orderly herd, and if able to escape the trappings of their office, might just think beyond their own lifespan.

<<Don't fall for the traps they lay...

They know damn well what they are doing and how to pin humanity against each other with their tactics of divide and conquer. We are all being manipulated and all we have is each other.>>
<<Political power comes from the barrel of a gun. All else is wishful thinking.>><< Non violent resistance has a poor track record. Even if half the US decided to stop paying taxes, the only result is the law will come for you and your property, one at a time-from the victims perspective.The only hope of success of a non violent revolt is that the military would come to the rescue of the down trodden civilians--sort of like the guys with bigger guns helping the guys with no guns.>>

We all thinking people know this is possible and if it can be done not so probable, but if given a true chance and the right momentum at the right time, would step beyond our singular selves and act as one. It is an insurrection always building, naturally, to bring balance.
The second amendment is of little use anymore. Its true intent was to give the people the right to protect themselves from a government either overthrown as ours has been, or become impure a devoid of good intent for all. We can have guns but we cant have tanks. The time may come, very soon because the power has become brazen and flaunts its power to manipulate the letter of law. Many of those being taken advantage of are the men in the military itself. A time will come, if the pendulum doesnt hit the wall and destroy itself with us included, the tools of power may make its own destiny.

<<All governments have existed because people have been convinced that they need them to survive. It's quite the opposite and people are realizing more and more there are other ways free people can act voluntarily for a better society.>>

We must have government. Even no government is an expression of rejection of what is currently in control. We need a strong government that is made of the people, for the people, and in the interest for a future.
We cant half step this one. We must see it through and act on what current history has shown us in its extremes. There are three and we are the extreme in the middle. Move the words around to the right place, and practice the intent of law instead of using the letter to the point of creating laws of the letter to take away our freedoms, we are poised to lead. It will take the ultimate sacrifice by those near the top and the always willing burden of those holding this market together. The "intellectuals" in this venue of life, the markets, will be a necessary sacrifice - not by their blood but the blood they live on and the trappings they make off the lives of the mass.
For peaceful, and that is the only kind that will have a lasting, changing, effect, the majority will have to find themselves on the same side. We do this singularly, and gain momentum with sidelong glances, and those who dont think, jump aboard. Those with the real power recoil, over react, and lose traction since they really dont understand what they are dealing with - they are just dealing. They are the minority and the majority, if in mass and in an extreme imbalance, will dismiss the majority.
To quote history at this early stage of our social evolution is too early. Give it time. We are only one foot on the bridge between animal and a self-aware animal. History shows we burn it and start again, with some technology intact. Imagine the barbarians looking and living in a simpler, more desperate life, and seeing the temples built before their time. What happened?
We keep doing what we do, and more and more we reflect upon what has happened, and with the current technology we are no longer clustered but more connected. With the other side sharing the same weapons the outcome is unknown this time around. This is all very new and very fragile.
To cross this bridge, technology intact, it must be a quick and sure crossing with no halts and starts half way across. It is all new, the three extremes of government and markets have all nearly been tried in different combinations except the most obvious and most effective, if we can trust ourselves. We will or we wont with a difference being made by watching eyes among the stars, whether we succeed or fail by self-imposing world that is a federalist, direct democracy with a socialist market with a balance supporting individual contribution and avoiding noncontributing power.
Man must legislate himself using mechanisms insuring diversity and avoiding the hoarding of power. We will be part of the future or an important footnote in the support of another species.