[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]
If you still can't understand the dire need to get the small wonderful people (kids) in your life out of public and even government-approved private school, this should drive it home.
A Canadian reader sent along a copy of a recent letter to parents from a public indoctrination camp teacher on a pop quiz to be given at a Canadian government-approved and licensed school. This is an actual, direct copy with real names removed to protect the guilty.
Sent: May-30-13 3:05 PM
To:
Subject: Government Pop Quiz TomorrowDear Parents,
I have given the students a heads-up this morning that there will be a government of Canada pop quiz tomorrow. I have given them the 8 questions ahead of time so they know what to study. They should have all their notes home tonight to study from. Many hand-outs have also been shared with the students through Google Apps.
For those who were not in class today, here are the questions:
1) Importance of a government (3 reasons)
2) 3 levels of government on Canada and services each one provides
3) How these 3 levels of government work together to help Canadians
4) What happens in the House of Commons and what role does it play in the federal government
5) Importance of 'good' laws
6) Importance of Confederation of Canada
7) Difference between a province and a territory
8) Process of how Bills are passed into laws
There is also another blog assignment posted. If there isn't enough time tonight students can view the video and post their blog over the weekend.
Thanks for your attention.
Notice that there is no alternative theory to the one that says government should be there in the first place. The implication is that government is as natural and necessary to the proper functioning of the planet as sunlight. Now we know that to most people an alternative theory to government sounds like an alternative theory to a heliocentric solar system. But we put forth that non-aggression is the center of a properly functioning society and economy. Any society that puts the initiation of force known as the state at its center is bound to suffer economic misallocations, violence, crime and eventually collapse. Government: it's just no way to live! It's simply a medieval, barbaric concept.
We thought for fun we'd go through some of the trickier questions and answer them with a dose of peace-centric reality. We hope our reader gives these comments to his child as a "Coles Notes" for writing his own answers.
1) Three reasons why government is important.
Answer: We start off with a bit of a fumble because we can only come up with one really good reason: to concentrate the proceeds of socially accepted theft into the hands of those most willing to use force. We suppose that most people would offer some pre-programmed responses about providing "certain" services more efficiently than the free market, regulating and prohibiting transactions to keep the most possible people "safe", and preventing all of us boobs from stabbing each other and poking out our own eyes.
4) What happens in the House of Commons and what role does it play in the federal government
Answer: What happens in the House of Commons is theft and violence by people in costumes that sometimes are business suits and sometimes robes and wigs. The true tragedy of what happens there is that apparently a significant amount of the population approves of the House's criminal actions and allows them to play out their grand opera by which they come up with arbitrary criminal concepts and then have other people in different colored costumes then carry out their bidding using force. All activities conducted in this location are criminal and those associated with their activities should be regarded as such.
5) The importance of 'good' laws
Answer: First define a 'good' law. To many unthinking people, various prohibitions are 'good' because they keep people from doing things with their own bodies that other people just don't like…yet banning actions like these invariably results in a black market, extra-legal and violent resolution of disputes and a humongous public cost of enforcement.
But we'd go a bit further and say that even the most basic of 'good' laws –like don't harm the person or property of another– are redundant because people don't generally do that anyway because they figure out very early in life that cooperation makes them richer. Even further we'd say that the laws are hypocritical because the government that's supposed to enforce them gives itself license to kidnap, assault, steal, destroy and kill. At the center of the law is a Gordian Knot of hypocrisy that cannot be done as long as the supposed peace is guarded by those who claim the right to initiate aggression on everyone else. As a very smart philosopher has repeatedly pointed out, you can't protect property rights with an agency that in its essence is a violation of property rights.
F- AND THE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
Of course, any child prisoner in a Canadian day-camp for youngsters who answered the way we did here would receive an F-minus. Of course, getting suspended or thrown out of their indoctrinating prison camp could be the best thing that could possibly happen to them.
Around the same time I received the email from the Canadian government indoctrinator, good friend and host of the Global Escape Hatch conferences (next one coming up in Panama in September – and I'll be there), Bobby Casey, posted the following to his Facebook wall:
My daughter got an email from her teacher yesterday in response to her US history paper. It said, "this sounds like you have been raised by an anarchist".
Her teacher was right; she has been raised by anarchists. Bobby has expatriated to Latvia where he lives with his 17-year-old daughter and, yet, she still has a "US History Class"! While I never saw her paper, I know Bobby well enough to know that her paper likely didn't jibe with things like "Lincoln", the movie, and instead was factually and historically correct and saw Lincoln as a genocidal, fascist criminal.
My own children will, hopefully, never get far enough along in their Mexican private school to even have to answer pop quizes like the one above or even have to respond with inaccurate, flattering answers to the questions about the unspeakable acts of the US government throughout American history.
To add even more to the hope for the future is not just Bobby Casey's daughters responses to her indoctrinators but also the blog below.
I recently interviewed an entire anarchist family that has moved down to Galt's Gulch Chile. Terry Neudorf, who now works with us at GGC, talked about his anarchist family and how they just took off one day and headed down on an adventure to South America. You can see the full interview below.
You can see his entire beautiful family in the final minute of the video. Open, happy, free thinking individuals, each one, right down to their three-year-old daughter.
But what amazed me recently was his beautiful nine-year-old daughter. For emphasis, NINE years old. Here is her recent blog post that she wrote all on her own without her father even knowing about it:
I want to talk to you about GMO. It is a bad chemical for bees and people. It is killing bees and making people die. Me and my family go the healthy lifestyle. We do not eat GMO or aspartame, glucose and things like that. It also makes your mind not think as well. So when we got to the grocery store we look in the ingredients. One of the reasons the bees are dying is because farmers are buying seed from Monsanto which has a poison to keep the bees away. That makes them die. The reason bees are good is that they make honey and they pollinate the plants so you can have more healthy seed. And when the bees make honey you can have the honey for things instead of corn syrup and sugar because honey is sweet and tasty and healthy. You may not believe me because I am only a child but I'm doing this all for the good and I believe it.
When he sent it to me I sat well back in my chair, looked to the sky and thought to myself, "Oh my god, there is hope!". More than just hope there are countless unschooled pure, free, individual human beings coming on to this planet that can show us more than we ever imagined.
I responded to Terry, telling him how exciting and unbelievable it is to see a nine-year-old girl writing about this.
Here was his response:
Yes, she did this without us even knowing it. We talk a lot about these kinds of issues, and often with the children. A few days ago, she was ready to call her grandpa (Kim's dad) and tell him to stop growing soybeans and spraying "cemikls" on them, and I said: "You know, that might not go over very well, and maybe isn't the best approach. Maybe you should do some research and write a post on your little blog about it – it's better to educate than to preach." The next day she showed me these 3 pages she had written for her blog. I didn't know she would just go and do it. We posted it. I don't know what grandpa will say, but it's a lot less direct than the urgent phone call she was planning 😉
I grimaced at the spelling, and grinned at the content. She spells phonetically – you'll notice each word is spelled exactly as it sounds to her!
Spelling aside… and if he caught more spelling errors in her blog than I regularly do in The Dollar Vigilante blog, then he is a better editor than I!
But, far and beyond spelling, if these kinds of children are coming up behind us, then there is tremendous hope. I hate to use words like "the children are the future" and "hope" and "change" after those words have been so prostituted by politicians (and politicians are just sociopathic con men), but if this a hint of the future, then we have much, much better times ahead.
I'd like to see her, Bobby Casey or my children answer the government pop quiz at the top of this article.
There is an awakening that is happening. Unfortunately, most people who remain affixed to the Western government and societal social constructs will be the last to learn.
But, as Dayna Martin in another interview I did, said, "My unschooled children will be your college-educated children's bosses".
The future still has the hope of being beautiful. Free your mind, get outside of the boxes built around you and seek the truth.
Those things are most easily done by just getting out of where you live and gravitating to a place where people like Terry Neudorf have gone, like Galt's Gulch. Or, become an expatriate like Bobby Casey and either get out of your Western country or outright renounce your citizenship and get a citizenship in another, less oppressive country (TDV Passports can help here). Or just subscribe to TDV where we talk in detail about how to do the things that Terry, Bobby and myself have done and where paid subscribers have access to things like TDV Groups, which now has freedom-minded expatriates in over 30 countries ready and willing to outstretch their hand and welcome you to the future.
Or, just stay in the West and keep your kids locked up in public school, reciting memorized dates of how FDR saved the US from the Great Depression by killing hundreds of thousands of people and ignore the fact that the Greater Depression is already upon us.
The choice is yours!
