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voting is not the answer

Imagine that a man brings you into his workshop, ties you to a chair, and shows you a big welded together device controlled by a state machine.

He even gives you a diagram of the state machine.

He says “at each transition, you get to control what state the machine moves to via this lever here”

You can look at diagram of the state machine.

You blurt out “This is a scam! No matter what path through the state space I take, this machine ends up turning on and grinding my legs between the gears!”

The guy says “Well, maybe, yes. But, still, this is a democracy. You get to vote! Not only that, but you’re the only voter! I’m not voting against you – you control every decision.”

You, if you have any sense, start struggling against your bonds, hopefully free yourself, grab a monkey wrench, and beat the !@#-er’s head in until there’s nothing left but a thin red smear on the concrete floor and a bunch of bone fragments and brain juice in the jaws of the monkey wrench.

OK.

Let me now show you a state machine.

http://www.nationalreview.com/exchequer/…


Voting is not the answer.

Killing government officials (the president, members of congress, IRS agents, BATF agents, etc.) is.

It worked before.

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6 Responses to “voting is not the answer”

  1. Michael Says:
    July 20th, 2010 at 12:22 pm

    There are going to be some 75 million retires soon who are going to find their free ride social security checks are rubber. I wonder if we can get the AARP to convince these people to arm themselves.

    Anton Sherwood Reply:
    July 22nd, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    Arm themselves and then what? Compel the next generation to make good on the checks? Take the hollow solace of revenge?

    Michael Reply:
    July 23rd, 2010 at 3:47 am

    Around here, every time you see a American Recovery and Reinvestment Act sign, you know the roads are going to be torn up and new gutters put in. Why not let them run red?

  2. Mark Horning Says:
    July 20th, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    My friend Erine Hancock uses this analogy.

    You (TJIC), me, Bob, and Jim sit down for dinner.
    Bob stand us and says, I vote we take TJIC’s soup.
    Jim and I argree and say yeah, that’s a good idea.
    “Hey TJIC, how do you vote?”

    The point being that a Libertarian would say “sod off, some things aren’t up fr a vote”

    Rick C Reply:
    July 20th, 2010 at 5:56 pm

    This is, of course, a longer formulation of “Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner.”

    nzc Reply:
    July 21st, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Erinye Hancock?