Know ALL Thy Enemies - Clearly

Yesterday, I concluded my post saying I was helping my reader "know his enemy." That, I pointed out, was all this socialist / communist bullshit about "collective ownership" and "collective responsibility." Today, I will take the discussions further.

The real evil is the IDEA - thus, the ideology itself, and all their ideologues, are your enemies. These include the HRD ministry, the University Grants Commission (UGC), all State-owned universities, their School Boards, and also every single one of their "moles" in the Free Press.

Manmohan Singh thus emerges as Public Enemy #1 - and he has also served as Chairman of UGC. It is his and Amartya Sen's great "scheme" to forcibly "miseducate" all the kids. "It is sacrilege to take advantage of the blind" - and that is PRECISELY their evil intent.

Do read a previous post on Manmohan titled "The Smooth Face of Evil."

Now, look at the State Emblem above. I will proceed to argue that anything associated with this emblem is your enemy.

Let me first begin with the Executive - the ministers and their IAS baboons. Manmohan heads this Executive - and he trains them too, at the "WE are knowledge-proof" IAS Academy I wrote about the other day. 

They have made the entire Government of India into the most ignorant - and hence, the most corrupt - Predatory State in the world. They are taxing us mercilessly, they are borrowing completely recklessly, they are pretending to be into "welfare" - and because of all this our entire economy is heading towards doom. This, in a nation where the predominant majority are dirt poor, is unforgivable.

Do read this Daily Bell article on the Indian economy's impending demise.

The real cause of this doomsday scenario is "collective responsibility." 

I will now discuss the Legislature and the Judiciary.

Before that, let me repeat: Socialism is NOT Freedom. Nehru aped the USSR. No freedom there. These fuckers hate markets. They love State controls. They plunder the property of their citizenry. They violate it with impunity. For all this, they are empowered by the Legislatures. And their "patriotic judiciary" - which is also another bureaucracy - let's them do so.

The Judiciary is anti-property, anti-market, and in favour of "legal plunder." They love legislation because this increases litigation - and this is very good for lawyers. Hence the huge backlog of unresolved cases. 

Thus - there is NO JUSTICE in India.

Legislation is the tool of "social engineering." It is thus the biggest enemy of a free and natural order. It is legislation that empowers "regulators" - and the end result is that every market is "rigged." Take any and every example: RTO, TRAI, NHAI, DDA, IRDA, et. al. Where else do these bureaus get the word "authority" from - other than the Legislature?

 [The acronyms above refer to government regulators and monopolies in transportation, telecom, highways, urban land, and insurance - respectively. We could add many more to the list, like my personal favourite: the Bholay ke Dushman Narcotics Control Bureau. Love to HATE those stoopid fuckers! Do read "The Cannabis Debate" I conducted while with The Economic Times, between the Narcotics Commissioner and the Head of the Department of Psychiatry at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences.]

Back to "regulation":

Of course, their CRONIES (who must never ever be called "capitalists") love regulation - and we know why: Because they can then "rig the market" in their own favour, and thereby SCREW the consumer: YOU.

You see these cronies in Parliament, don't you? They are also your enemies. They employ the "indirect force" of The State to fuck you. You get fucked when you go to the market with your hard-earned money as a consumer - when, in Justice, it is you who ought to be The King, and all should be competing to "serve" you. But, with cronyism, it is the Producer who is King - and you are a mere pawn in the game. Injustice. And completely corrupt, too.





The RBI was created by the Legislature. The very same Legislature passed the draconian FERA. 


This "note" is false money - or we could call it "counterfeit." Real money means coins - of gold and silver. Paper money is a "substitute" - as the "promise to pay" printed on it, and signed by the Governor of the central bank, indicates. This is technically a "social contract" - for it is signed by a "representative of society." Yet, this is "not worth the paper it is printed on."


And the "vote" is also false - for Manmohan has never won an election.


The Election Commission was created by the Constitution. As were the IAS and the IPS. The only thing these guys claim to be able to do is "conduct elections." And what do we get after these elections are over? Legislatures and Executives.


A Constitution that does not recognise the inviolability of Private Property is nothing but a Constitution of thieves, for thieves, by thieves. Period.


And the Indian Army is engaged in "civil wars" against our own citizens - in Kashmir as well as Manipur - while also being embroiled in enormous corruptions. The 30 year-old Siachen War costs many crores every day - for nothing. Frozen wasteland.


The entire IAS, IPS, Armed Forces, et. al. are all involved in two activities alone: first, Budget Maximisation; and second, Turf Maximisation.


In simple words: Tax Parasitism, and Tyranny.


Pakistan, China, the Taliban - they are NOT "the enemy." All our enemies are within. 

Within our The State.

The Pakistan Air Force did not bomb our highways; the PWD did.

And the Chinese Red Army is not looting our street vendors.

Thus, the Executive cannot handle their own employees.

And they want to employ ALL the poor: NREGS. They want to "create work" for others - yet, they do no useful work themselves!

This is anyway nonsensical when tax-funded State employees, empowered by Legislation, or even without, are going about STOPPING honest people from working.

Thus, ECONOMIC FREEDOM matters much more than the stupid vote. If you can open a beer bar, you might well survive. If some sexy chicks, accompanied by some funky musicians, can dance in that bar, you might even get rich.


But you cannot do this. Nor can the sexy chicks. And as for our poor musicians...


Wanna vote, anyone?


Or do you wanna FIGHT FOR FREEDOM?


So, let me sum up the discussions:

1. This is a self-interested Predatory State.


2. The "vote motive" is NOT morally superior to the "profit motive."


3. The Law has been perverted.

Thus, anything and everything associated with that State Emblem above is your ENEMY.


It is NOT at all difficult to fight this enemy - for it is a very small minority, while you, all the people, numbering 1000 million and more, are the VAST MAJORITY.


How do you fight the State?


I suggest you WEAR YOUR ATTITUDE - and thereby "show your true colours."


Get t-shirts made with that State Emblem upon them - with a Big Screw going through it.


And wear these t-shirts in public, and on television, everywhere in India.


Wear Rastafarian berets, too.

Red, Gold and Green - the colours of my "I Shot The Sheriff" dreams.


They will soon get the message.


Loud and Clear.

The Greatest Hoax, Ever - Socialism

I have just discussed how the notions of "collective property" and "collective responsibility" are completely ridiculous.

I now proceed to demolish the entire edifice upon which our State-owned enterprises (or PSUs) stand.

The basic DELUSION is that if The State owns something, then we are all the owners - and further, that this is better for all of us.

NONSENSE!

Since we are in Delhi, let us take a look at any residential colony meant for State personnel. Are not all the properties there "collective property"? Do they all not belong to The State?

But that does not at all mean that wee the people are in any way better off, or that these properties "belong" to us.

All these collectively owned residential properties are - IN FACT - very much the "private properties of those who claim to represent the public."

So, wee the people cannot party on the lawns of any neta or baboo's bungalow in Lutyens' Delhi.

The same applies to Air India.

There are private people exploiting their charge over Air India - "in the name of the public."

This applies right through the entire PSU sector. The ministers, the bureaucrats, the management, and even the unionised workforce - they all "exploit that collectively owned property as a private property given to them to run in the name of the public."

Hence all the losses.

Hence, too, their complete refusal to privatise - because their personal financial interests are going to be adversely affected, the "public interest" be damned.

We ought to look at it this way:

The minister is a "temporary head" of a PSU, or a bunch of them. He then "rents" these out to a management team. Then, they all "make hay."

These PSUs are NOT our "commonwealth."

Rather, they are our "commonloss."

Each and every one of them must be PRIVATISED at one fell swoop - and I discussed how in a recent post.

The real world is based on Private Property - and this is a "patchwork." Each Individual owns his own little bit of land, a shop, a flat, or whatever. The very idea that some entity should be the owner of EVERYTHING is ABSURD. But collectivism is precisely such an absurdity. 

The best example of the absurdity of collective ownership is the visa system. The visa system is based on the absurd assumption that The State owns the entire territory. But it does not!

If X has rented a hotel room or an apartment within that territory, and if he is denied a visa by that State, then the property rights of both the domestic proprietor as well as the foreign visitor are affected adversely.

This is the case for the INVIOLABILITY OF PRIVATE PROPERTY.

It is the KEY TO LIBERTY.

If I have grown ganja in my field. If I have stocked it in my own shop. If I have inhaled it into my own lungs - in all cases, no State employee should be able to interfere.

This is what "Every Englishman is the King of his own Castle" used to mean.

That is, even if the King of England wanted to enter his house, he would have to seek an appointment - which might just be denied.

So what to speak of the King's servants!

Now do you see the REAL HOAX?

The real hoax is that these socialists claim to have fought and won a fuckin' FREEDOM STRUGGLE.

What a HOAX!

We have NO FREEDOM today.

And they have all the PROPERTY, and they have all the freedom to do exactly as they please, irrespective of the law. Even their police are completely LAWLESS. I never ever use the word "encounter": I always use the precise legal expression "extra-judicial MURDER."

All those brave souls who "fought for freedom" between 1905 and 1947 were duped. Their sacrifices were all in vain.

A New Freedom Struggle needs to be waged.

First, against ERROR.

And that is MY CHOSEN TASK.

The rest is up to you.

"Know thy enemy," as they say.

Highly recommended reading: My old post titled "Socialism's Epitaph - Chaos and Confusion" - which can be found here. 

Let's Talk About HABITAT - baby!

Statistic: Over 50 per cent of Delhi’s residents live in slums.

Non-statistic: They do so on just about 5 per cent of the total area.

Another non-statistic: The total area covered by unowned keekar jungles in Delhi exceeds the total area covered by slums by at least 400 per cent.

All these unowned keekar jungles are the “collective property” of the Delhi Destruction Authority (DDA).

The keekar is a completely useless bush. It is not even a tree.

FACT: For a long time now, right there in the swankiest part of Delhi, opposite the sprawling Lodi Gardens, is the centrally air-conditioned HABITAT Centre – comprising offices, a hotel, restaurants and bars, a theatre, and many conference facilities. Spacious underground parking. All around it are ugly staff quarters for lowly State employees.

Lesson: There is something horrible – even predatory – about “collective ownership” as well as “collective responsibility.”

And this collective owns all the forests – ostensibly to look after tigers. Statistics show that tiger population is declining, and tree cover is declining as well.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Environment has given its “clearance” for setting up a NUCLEAR POWER PLANT in an “ecologically sensitive” virgin forest in the Western Ghats, quite close to Goa, in a place called Jaitapur. This is in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, famous for Alfonso mangoes. Imagine what a nuclear accident will do – and Parliament has “limited” the liability of the foreign nuclear equipment suppliers to just Rs. 1500 crores (1 crore is 10 million).

In almost all our forests, the LOCAL PEOPLE have turned to armed rebellion – which indicates, if nothing else, that they HATE the local administration, including the Forest Department. Policemen, for example, are getting killed in droves. These armed rebels are sometimes called “Naxalites”; more usually they are called “Maoists.”

As I wrote yesterday, the chief ideologue of the Nepal Maoists, right-hand man of Prachanda, holds a PhD in Economics from Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University. Interestingly, this dude I mentioned yesterday with a PhD in Economics from this very same university told me this morning that this Nepal Maoist ideologue is his “friend.”

Maoism is nothing but communism, which is all about “collective ownership” and “collective responsibility.” Socialism – the word now on the Preamble of our Constitution – is the same, just that they say “social ownership” and “social responsibility.” They also say “social contract” – à la Rousseau – but I think we would all be much better off if the “contract” on the rupee note signed by the governor of our central bank is honoured.

Imagine: Parliament passed the draconian Foreign Exchange Regulation Act empowering the dreaded Enforcement Directorate – and Supreme Court lawyers made piles of money (as in paper notes) on the huge amount of litigation that invariably followed.

Collectivism – and its monopolistic justice system.

EVIL!

Back to HABITAT:

RK Pachauri, Nobel laureate - a prize he shared with an American "politician," Al Gore - a global warming pseudo-scientist, has his plush offices in this Habitat Centre. The central air-conditioning uses lots of energy. His “institute” is now called TERI – The Energy Research Institute. It was originally the Tata Energy Research Institute. In the lobby you will find a bust of the Tata director who established Pachauri and TERI – Darbari Seth.

Not unsurprisingly, Manmohan Singh was the first Chairman of this Habitat Centre. He and Pachauri are buddies – and Manmohan is forever flying off to foreign capitals to sign international agreements on environmental issues pertaining to global warming, carbon dioxide emissions, alternative sources of energy, and shit like that. Manmohan is also very "close" to American politicians.

Meanwhile, in those cooler climes, hydroponic indoor cultivation of ganja is widespread, requiring 24-hour high-wattage lamps.

And they all observe Earth Day once every year – and switch off their lights for one hour.

In India, reliable electricity supply is nowhere to be found in the entire sub-continent – because this industry is a State monopoly: which means “collective responsibility.” We have "power cuts" for many hours every single day - everywhere. Pachauri is helping subsidise "alternative energy."

Mrs. Pachauri heads the Population Council.

They hate humans – us.

They love keekars.

They "pretend to love" tigers.


While they actually love the Forest Department. TERI also trains officers of the Forest Department – for a stiff fee.


What they actually love very deeply indeed is The State. Our State, their State - they love any fuckin' State anywhere in the world. They love the paper money any fuckin' The State gives them, of course. Which is why they love the UN, too.

TERI now has a HUGE campus for its TERI University – and thousands of acres of keekars were cleared for that.

They also advise The State on water – which is yet another “collective property.” Hence, all rivers are polluted – and water supply is even more erratic that the electricity. The Earth is 70 per cent water. Desalination is cheap technology these days. But the one desalination plant that has been “approved” – in Chennai – is State-owned: “collective ownership” once again.

THE OTHER PATH:

Human beings first!

Homesteading – which means you can occupy and “own” unowned property by “mixing your labour with the soil,” which is the Lockean Principle. It was John Locke who wrote, in 1691, “Where there is no Property, there is no Justice.”

If Marx or Proudhon had spouted their nonsense in those times, they would surely have been locked up in some loony bin.

And Maoism is spreading in our region – via State-owned universities.

The “radio spectrum” can also be homesteaded. This will avoid all the corruption involved in “auctioning the spectrum” – and these auctions are based on the false notion that whatever God has created belongs to The State.

So, with homesteading, we human beings can all have Property. Thereafter, we will need “titles” to these, which can easily be supplied by local firms using Google Maps. There is also “title insurance.” The “mystery of capital” will be solved. As well as the “mystery of habitat.”

Lebensraum!

The USSA is 350 million people in 200+ cities. We are 1000+ million people in 5 metros – and another dozen or so small cities.

No HABITAT at all!

Because all unowned land is “collective property.”

With Private Property comes Private Responsibility.

So, the electricity generating private firm will be responsible – as will be the rancher of wildlife. And the timber farmer. And the water supplier.

Today, the combined losses of all Electricity Departments nation-wide is a staggering 150,000 crores - and growing.

Torts and Private Property can solve the “pollution problem” easily – as Rothbard points out here. Remember that the former USSR was one of the most heavily polluted places on earth.

Now, go and spread this virus in the jungles – among the Maoist armed rebels.

Interestingly, HABITAT is the name of yet another of those useless tax-parasitical UN organisations. Below is their logo.

So, build a city on rock-n-roll, and make sure that the city flies its own Flag. 

PS: This post is continued here.

Let's Talk About YOUR phd - baby! Take #2

Met a dude calling himself an "economist." Said he was into "social research." Turned out this meant "measurement of the effectiveness of government welfare programmes." 

"Who pays you to conduct these measurements?" I asked.

His answer: Our The State.

"Do you have a phuddhi da dhakkan?" I asked.

Since he looked baffled, I clarified: "I mean a PhD."

"Yes," he relied, adding that he obtained this paper from The State as well: in fact, from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

The chief ideologue of the Maoists in Nepal is also a PhD (Economics) from JNU.

It's the same story at the IAS Academy - and the IAS fella abducted by the Maoists in Chattisgarh the other day is supposedly a fan of Che Guevara!

All their professors are, in reality, nothing but "socialist bureaucrats." They all receive their salaries from The State. As also their big bungalows.

KR Narayanan, a bureaucrat who rose to be President of India, was once Chancellor of JNU. He is a product of the London School of Economics (LSE), and his portrait hangs on one of their walls. He was, it is said, "the favourite pupil of Harold Laski." 

In Hayek on Hayek, while discussing the decades he spent at the LSE, Hayek is asked about Laski. And he says, "The man was an inveterate liar." Laski was one of those, like Paul Samuelson, who idolised the Soviet Union to their students. Then when the horrors of Stalinism were made public, they lost face. But Laski, Hayek says, simply went into denial.

Manmohan Singh holds a PhD from Cambridge, where he studied under Keynes' right-hand woman, Joan Robinson, who declared that it was the mission of her life to "destroy Say's Law."

And Amartya Sen, his guru, holds professorial positions at both Oxford as well as Harvard. He is also a Cambridge Keynesian - and was, like Keynes himself,  a member of "The Apostles," their secretive student group. 

Sen's latest wife - and he has had a good many - is a Rothschild, from a family of international bankers very close to governments and their central banks, of course. In his Rationality and Freedom (2002) Sen argued that the poor are irrational, and hence cannot be allowed to be free. And as I argued a a short while ago, it is the "global financial elite" who are "criminally insane."

Harvard has accommodated weirdo pseudo-economists all along - from Thorstein Veblen to John Kenneth Galbraith (US Ambassador to Nehru) to Noam Chomsky (and I am speaking of his views on markets).

PJ O'Rourke's record of a Harvard Big Annual Event he attended speaks for itself - for it becomes evident that this university is nothing but "an extension of the US State."

Kaushik Basu is from Cornell - a favourite student of Amartya Sen during his years at the Delhi School of (Mathematical) Economics.

Measurement. Positivism. Socialism. Planning. Totalitarianism. Keynesianism. Inflationism. Welfarism. Nationalism. Protectionism. And WAR.


All these EVILS have the same root - the PhD phuddhi da dhakkan in Economics from any "elite" institution, anywhere in the world.

Manmohan Singh went to lecture students at JNU a couple of years or more ago - and was loudly heckled for being too "market friendly." I wrote an article titled "The Death of Politics" on this for Outlook, which they published, but under the absurdly stupid title "The Liberal Political Salesman." 

My article referred to the fact that "politics is voice," while Manmohan is permanently quiet. Methinks the editors thought I was the "salesman." Reminds me of what Sean Connery told Steve Jobs when the latter asked him to appear for Apple ads: "You may be a computer salesman, but I am Licensed to Kill." Do check out the cover of my first book - on the right - and those are bullet holes on the State Emblem that you see.

I am proud of the fact that I am SELF-TAUGHT.

I spent just one year at the LSE in the late 1980s. Thereafter, I pursued my search for Truth on my own, without any "guide." I relied entirely on my mind's God-given ability to differentiate between what is Right and what is Wrong, or what is Correct and what is Error.

I have never pursued a PhD. This degree is compulsorily required for teaching positions in universities worldwide. And I am extremely happy I chose economic journalism - that too, as a freelancer. 

In any university, one is given a "fixed course" to teach, over and over again, year after year. In journalism, you have to write something "fresh" every time. Thus, I kept on studying - and kept expanding on my knowledge stock.

On that path, so many years ago, I become a pen-friend of Sudha Shenoy, the daughter of BR Shenoy. I read an interview she had given to The Austrian Economics Newsletter (you can find it on the Mises Institute website) and immediately got in touch with her - because, in that interview, she made the following astounding statement:

Almost every Economics department in the world could be shut down immediately without having any ill-effect on the world of ideas.

Sudha Shenoy was then a mere "lecturer" on Economic History at some obscure Australian university. But I always addressed my letters to her as, "Dear Professor Shenoy."

It was she who first directed me to the fact that there is either Theory or  History - and I now realise that she chose to teach History because all the Theory is bull.

She also told me not to mistake "legislation" for "law" - and that nudged me towards many important studies as well.

Song of the Day: That very old Graham Nash classic, "A Man's a Man who Shoots a man - Right Between the Eyes."

It's Guy Fucks' Day - Live on Planet Earth!

The daily noose reported that Sachin Tendulkar, Rekha and Anu Aga have been "co-opted" into Parliament - the first a star batsman, wielder of the willow; the second, a Bollywood actress of a bygone era; and the third, the "dowager" of an engineering firm who had been co-opted long ago anyway, being on the "advisory council" of Sonia Gandhi, herself a dowager. This firm has some interest in "environmental legislation" - so do read Murray Rothbard's brief "Libertarian Manifesto on Pollution."

But with Tendulkar, a "sporting hero," it seems obvious to me that Parliament is seeking "legitimacy" - and we must not allow that.

Let us, therefore, look at certain "acts" of this Parliament - for "actions speak louder than words." But words are also very powerful: "The Pen is mightier than the sword."

First: On the 50th anniversary of Parliament, they passed a "unanimous resolution" saying that we, the people, our children, our grandchildren, and even our great grandchildren are India's "Biggest Problem" - while they, our so-called "representatives," are The Solution.

They believe their constituents are The Problem.

This is: 

"Parliament - Against the People."

Even today, Raman Singh, BJP Chief Minister of Chattisgarh, is forcibly sterilising his citizens.

Actually, it is his very own "maladministration" that is The Problem.

In the same vein, as I have argued for decades, and as Julian Simon has done before me, it is our The State that is the real problem, while our people are "the ultimate resource."

Second: It is this Parliament that is "Bholay ka Dushman" - they passed the Act that criminalises Cannbliss and empowers the cops.


Of course, there is a "Hindutva Party" in this Parliament - and Advani was a Home Minister, while Atal lives in retirement in Manali, eating apples, I think. Manali charas is 65,000 rupees a kilo or more abroad. This is criminal. Punishments are draconian. The apples are 50 a kilo.


They say "Jai Shri Ram" - and they are all Bholay ke Dushman.


Their real - and completely evil - motive is to cause and then politically exploit inter-religious strife.


Third: This Parliament passed the Representation of People Act which only allows "socialist" parties in the fray. Not that the BJP or the Shiv Sena are socialist. But "classical liberal" parties are debarred from contesting. SV Raju and his Indian Liberal Group have their PIL against this Act pending before the Bombay High Court for over 15 years. Raju and his fellows are all leftovers from the Swatantra Party of old: the "free market and free enterprise" party of Rajaji, Masani, Gayatri Devi, Piloo Modi, etc. They were the largest opposition party Indira Gandhi's CONgress faced during the Emergency years - hence this Act, which "amended" the previous Act. She also had the Constitution amended accordingly, adding the word "socialist" to the Preamble.


Margaret Thatcher told me, in London (October 2002): "You boys must set up a party - and campaign."


I replied: "Even if we invited you to lead our party, it would be illegal."


"This is TYRANNY!" - she cried out.


It is!


So, since this Socialist-Malthusian-Communal Bholay ke Dushman Parliament and their monopoly courts do not recognise the legitimacy of political convictions like mine, why should people-like-me look upon this Parliament as "legitimate"?


Given these circumstances, what is the best way out? 


Dylan shows how:


Gonna change my way of thinking,
Gonna make myself a different set of rules.


So - a "private law society": Property, Contracts, and Torts.


IGNORE ALL THE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT THAT INTERFERE WITH YOUR LIFE.

DISOBEY LEGISLATION - but follow The Law.

Do not violate Property.
Do not violate Contracts.
And Torts work both ways, of course.


What this ought to accomplish - I hope - is PEACEFUL CHANGE.


Similarly, do not accept their paper money - and switch to private money.


Let the private law of Contract govern money and banking.


Nirad C Chaudhuri's Autobiography of an Unknown Indian contains the following perception of Justice in British India before the nationalist agitation began - as a response to that idiot Curzon:

Overhead there appeared to, coinciding with the sky, an immutable sphere of justice and order, brooding sleeplessly over what was happening below. But that feeling vanished at one stroke with the coming of the nationalist agitation in 1905.

Remember - the Empress was some 10,000 miles away. It was "an empire of laws and not men."


That is the direction I am pointing towards - but within "private law."


I conclude with some lines from the Old Testament on why kings and sovereign monarchs are such a bad idea. This is what Samuel told the people of Israel when they asked him for a king:

This is what the king who will reign over you will do. He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow the ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be his perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves...

So, be warned. Kings are Old Hat. Mayors are okay - and the historical example to emulate was discussed only yesterday.


Some may not know what the "Guy Fucks'" in the title means - so, for them, let me briefly explain. Guy Fawkes was a fellow who bombed - or attempted to - the English Parliament. Till today, every 5th of November is CELEBRATED in England as Guy Fawkes' Day. The picture accompanying this post is of the Guy Fawkes mask that revelers wear on this happy day.


Actually, the Anglo-Saxons never had parliaments. The word came to their shores with the Normans - who spoke French. Parliament means "speaking place" - where people parlez. As in "parlour."


In France, every ancient town has its own parlement - what the Anglo-Saxons call "town hall."


So, let us rebuild our shattered civilisation at the level of the polis - the town - with mayors.


And Town Halls.

'scuse me while "I"... FUCK the sky

The entire world is in both political as well as economic turmoil - all caused by the "global financial and political elites" - and these very same people are talking about a "solution" by which they will continue to remain dominant - and that is, some sort of "world government." I have been reading about this "theme" or "meme" of theirs for quite some time on TheDailyBell.com, most recently in this article that says the UN is going to "control crime."

There is "politics for the polis" - very down to earth - and then, there is this Laputa: an island floating high above in the sky. Do read this particular adventure of Gulliver's - and ensure your children read it, too. The above illustration is of this Laputa.

 UN, IMF, World Bank - or the International Gold Standard. It doesn't require a "world government" or "global consensus" to switch from paper to gold. Any city can decide to do so and gain - as I have explained in this old column on the subject.

Anyway, as far as the global financial order is concerned – we are looking at a train wreck.

It’s like:

In the shuffling MADNESS,

(or what I called “criminal insanity”),

Of a locomotive breath,

Runs the all-time loser,

Headlong to his death,

And he can hear the pistons screaming,

Steam braking on his brow,

But ol’ Charlie stole the handle,

And the train it won’t stop moving,

‘Cause it won’t slow down.

And with yesterday’s news about the S&P downgrade of India’s “sovereign rating” – and with dire predictions of more downgrades to come soon, we are looking at another train wreck in India as well.

What can I say, for I did offer to teach, but they said, “WE are knowledge-proof.”

“I” paraphrase Dylan:

I just wanted to be yer Teacher, babe,

I didn’t wanna be yer Boss,

Don’t say I didn’t warn ya,

When yer train gets lost.

And, let us never forget, Manmohan and Montek took all their cues from the same “global financial elite.”

So, let us never agree to any Laputa-in-the-Sky.

There is “politics” – what Aristotle wrote an entire book on – and there is something else, commonplace today, especially in our country, and that is “tax parasitism.” Welfarism is nothing but encouraging the poor to become tax parasites as well – despite the fact that this is economically unsustainable. It is the very same “false philanthropy” that Bastiat warned socialism is all about. I have written against this in a column titled “The Morality of Markets.”

Thus, we see that our corrupt and useless State-level governments are also broke. They are also very much in serious debt. This is true of West Bengal as well. The Chief Minister of this state is “politicking” with New Delhi in order to get more paper money and paper credits for her empty coffers. She, of course, is very keen on “helping the poor.” They all are.

The best model of “politics for the polis” I have found – and let us never forget that all “political science” is History – is that of the Lord Mayor of London. It has never been an “office of profit.” They have never been paid – and this institution is over 800 years old, older than the Magna Carta. Instead, they have had to spend huge sums on living it up in great style – on their own money – so as to astound the monarch with their wealth. In this Olde City, everyone “minds his own business” – except for the Lord Mayor and the two sheriffs, who have to neglect their businesses in order to look after civic affairs. This is how the Civic Sword is best upheld. And this is the key to Civilisation without Politics.

Check out my Natural Order on the right hand bar - and you will find an essay on this honest civic institution steeped in history, customs, as well as pageantry and pomp.

So, private law – which is “rules without rulers.”

So, moderate local taxes for local facilities – capital investments in the city.

And Freedom.

The motto of this ancient city is Domine Dirige Nos – which means, “Let God be our Guide.”

Not the King – who, in fact, is not allowed to interfere.

Not any Planner.

Liberty!

As in Allah ho Akbar!

Each Individual as the “architect of his own fortune.”

I have an old post on the contrasting views on “politics” between a Fabian socialist, Bernard Crick, a British cabinet minister of the Gladstonian era, and Anthony de Jasay, the libertarian philosopher who thinks, as I do, that politics is divisive, the cause of endless conflicts, and much to be deplored. You can read that post here.

Let us also ponder what Ludwig von Mises wrote on the dubious idea of a “world empire” – or any empire for that matter. The following quote is from his Nation, State and Economy:

Liberalism, which demands full freedom of the economy, seeks to dissolve the difficulties that the diversity of political arrangements pits against the development of trade by separating the economy from the state. It strives for the greatest possible unification of law, in the last analysis for world unity of law. But it does not believe that to reach this goal, great empires or even a world empire must be created.

So, as I have been writing for long, though not lately, let us think of one such city, somewhere on this sub-continent – and take it from there.

Do YOU hear “the sound of one hand clapping”?

Is it a fact that “the all-time winner has got him by the balls”?

Has he “picked up Gideon’s Bible – open at Page One”?

But I don’t believe Ol’ Charlie stole any handle at all. These fuckers stole the whole fuckin' train and ripped off the handle. And that explains why they crashed.

CRASH!

Crash, bang, tinkle, plop, plop, plop….

CLOT!

 

Restoring Order - Out Of Chaos - Take #2

Planned Progress or Planned Chaos? - that was the title of one of Professor BR Shenoy's books. He is the only one who dissented with all the others on Nehru's "Panel of Economists" over Soviet-style central planning and "heavy industrialisation" under State-ownership. "Hero and Saint" is what Peter, Lord Bauer thought of him.

Today, it is quite apparent that "planned chaos" is exactly what it is: the traffic, the t-junctions and continuous flyover-building all over a new city like New Delhi, the auto-rickshaws, the roads and highways on which 1000+ people die every day, the slums - and the rigorous "town planning."

Who is the culprit? 

The State.

Why does this State exist? This intelligent question was asked once by Pratap Bhanu Mehta, former professor of Law & Government at JNU, in his regular Indian Express column - but he did not answer it, so I had to, in this post.

The answer: The State exists because of The Constitution.

This is now a "socialist" Constitution - which means "legal plunder": nationalisation, land acquisition, compulsory education, etc. It is a "predatory" Constitution that preys on the people and their properties, which includes their privacy - and, what is worst, their minds as well. 

This socialist Constitution has established a MONSTER - and not done what constitutionalism is supposed to: and that is, "limit" the powers of the government so as to protect the people, their lives, their properties, and their liberties. 

Nor does it limit their Budget: today, S&P has just downgraded India's "sovereign debt rating." They are BROKE; their financial mismanagement is going to destroy us all; and I have recently advised my readers to jump out of their airplane. Their "legal tender" is "legal plunder" as well.

FINANCIAL CHAOS!

Further, wherever legal plunder, which is "theft," prevails, so does "chaos." 

Property creates order - not theft. Witness the huge chaos with every land acquisition. 

Now, the Supreme Court of India is "socialist." They have thrown out every petition challenging socialism - and I have an old post on the last instance they did that, by a bench headed by the Chief Justice himself.

Ours is a "bureaucratic judiciary." And they simply cannot clear the pending backlog of cases. Anyway, as John Locke pronounced way back in 1691, "Where there is no Property there is no Justice."

And why does the Supreme Court exist?

The same answer: Because of The Constitution.

So does the "socialist bureaucracy": the IAS, IPS, and the Forest Service. They "administer" all this chaos, because chaos, like war, is "the health of The State." The more the chaos all around, the more everyone goes to ask them to "solve" the problems. It is as stupid as asking central banksters to "solve inflation."

On the Barkha Dutt Show aeons ago, I said, "The IAS Academy does not teach Law." And N Vittal, IAS, who just received one of those Padmaru awards, farted out: "Of course we study Law: We study The Constitution."

Kapil Sibal, Arun Jaitley - both "socialist" lawyers. The former is now going to "teach our children" - by force. He will teach CIVICS, of course. Which is nothing but The Constitution. While his "Indian Economics" is nothing but socialist central planning.


They are giving us a "Right to Miseducation" - but never ever will they agree to the "Right to Property."


I wrote long ago in favour of a "private law society": Property, Contracts and Torts. Which means NO LEGISLATION - and Parliament is also established by The Constitution. No legislation means NO COERCION - like the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Act, the Gambling Act, and all that shit, which empowers the cops. Cops who protect only VVIPs - all "constitutional functionaries" - and stick it to us.


Private law means PROTECTION - which is the true purpose of Law.

All these Principles of private law - Property, Contracts and Torts - come from the past. There is no "new law" - which is legislation. 

Thus, we immediately solve the Money & Banking Problem. Paper notes become "contracts." Bank deposits as well as loans are also contracts.

All the central banks in the world are creatures of LEGISLATION.

PRIVATE LAW - FROM HERE TO ETERNITY!

In such a free order, justice will prevail naturally. There will be very few legal disputes. Legislation causes litigation to increase phenomenally - which is why lawyers love it. Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Jinnah, Lincoln - they were all lawyers. Lawyers become judges. Lawyers teach law. They are a "self-regulating" profession - which is very dangerous. They can engage in as much "malpractice" as medical doctors do.


Law must be simple - and everyone must understand it. Then the whole thing works. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" - this expression was coined in the good old days before all this "democratic legislation" happened.


Property, Contracts, Torts - all can easily understand what these mean.

This is "rules" - but without any "ruler."

Montesquieu was establishing a STATE with his Spirit of the Laws. It is he who wrote about "separation of powers": executive, legislative, and judiciary. It doesn't work - not even in the USSA. Obama taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago - and Ron Paul just gave him an "F".


So read Frederic Bastiat's The Law. 

Also read Bruno Leoni's Freedom and the Law.


And then, Hayek's Law, Legislation and Liberty, Vol. 1, "Rules and Order." Volume 2, "The Mirage of Social Justice," is worth reading as well. But I do not recommend the third volume. Instead, I recommend Hans-Hermann Hoppe's Democracy: The God That Failed.


The Old Testament has a proverb that goes:

The wicked man flees though no one pursues,
But the righteous are as bold as a lion.

I wrote a post titled "Not an Occasion to Celebrate" on the day our The State parades its soldiers up and down Rajpath, and all their military hardware, too. This is the day that some "Constituent Assembly" of long dead people "adopted" this Constitution god knows when - a Constitution that has been "amended" some 100 times since.

This Constitution is the reason why The State exists - with all its debts, its onerous taxes - including fresh taxes on gold and real estate - with its Parliament and its legislation, with its socialist courts that do not work, the IAS and IPS, etc., and with all the chaos all around.

We the people must opt out of this arrangement - if we are to survive, or even flourish.


This Constitution must be REJECTED by mass public opinion.


Natural Order.


Private Property.


Private Money.


Private Law.


I think Jesus put it exactly in "The Seven Woes":

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Jesus also said: 

"The truth shall set you free."

Videshi - From Here to Eternity: Take #2

There was Razia Sultana here - and this was long before Babur - and we have Shiela Dixit today. In Razia's Mehrauli, there must have been imported charas, I am confident. Today, in Mehrauli, there is only "smack" - which is far worse than pure opium in its effects, and there are no booze shops, though some brave Sansis do sell "country liquor," or what they call desi sharaab.

I hate the word desi - and its derivative, swadeshi: the philosophy that the nation will be far better off without imports.

This has been the "official" philosophy for long - and it still continues - but anyone who looks at The Market knows that CONSUMERS have always preferred "imported," or phoren maal.

Shiela Dixit has just announced that she will manufacture liquor for the poor - and "country liquor" will be soon banned. Leave aside the fact that this is NOT the job of government - and this government anyway monopolises the retail trade - the FACT remains that all liquor in India is desi: Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL). A toxicologist once told me that all these IMFL varieties ought to be called "rum" because they are all made from sugarcane alcohol. Which is surely why Vijay Mallya sits in Parliament - and the Customs Gate outside the Mangalore Port is named after his father.


Arrack has for long been manufactured by the Tamil Nadu State for the poor - and I tasted the stuff once in Madras, with the rickshaw-wallahs, and it was awful. But have you ever tasted Sri Lankan arrack? Beats Scotch, if you ask me.


Videshi!


Similarly, there are Bajaj, Tata, and Mahindra - and there are all the rest: the phoren brands. Tata Indica, anyone? Or Tata Nano? Or Mahindra anything? In which case, just like our The State, why not ride the Ambassador - which is what the RTO rides?

Bajaj is also in Parliament. His fucked-up auto-rickshaw sells for 6.5 lakhs in Delhi, whereas a brand new small car costs 2.5 lakhs. This is "capital consumption" - of the poor - and it is caused by "regulation": the RTO. 

And let us not forget that the RTO ultimately screws the customer who pays for the ride. The poor customer gets FUCKED - summer, winter, and rain. Not to speak of the poor auto-rickshaw driver.

Videshi!

Gandhi used to call Jamnalal Bajaj - the MP's father - his "fifth son." There is a management institute named after him, of course. 

Study Economics, dudes - not this stupid "management."


And not "Indian Economics," which is fucked-up bullshit, the primary cause of poverty as well as corruption, but "Austrian Economics": in particular, Ludwig von Mises' Human Action: A Treatise on Economics.


Videshi Economics!


Videshi - from Here to Eternity!


Videshi is good for us as CONSUMERS - and all the hard work we do all day is only for the purpose of satisfying our needs as CONSUMERS. 

The Customs Department ought to be ABOLISHED.

UNILATERAL FREE TRADE.

Videshi - without any "diplomacy." Without any WTO "negotiations."


And if you cannot compete, too bad.


Do not use "indirect force" on the consumer.

Then, it is the consumer who will be KING.

And the producer will be his SERVANT - as he ought to be.