Govt is not the problem, it is those who govern and the media that sets the script
That is because "government" does not exist as anything but a term denoting a concept. There is no material reality to "government" whatsoever. There is, however, plenty of material reality to the
people who govern.
The problem, therefore, is one of people and not so-called "government".
This talk of privatizing all governance is equally delusional with that of governing every time we move our eyeballs. If we privatized all governance today, there would still be widespread corruption and injustice, all else equal. It might even conceivably be worse than it is now, if one can even imagine. All of the problems of governance find their roots in the exact same source: people choosing to violate the rights of other people under the imprimatur of the ever increasingly arbitrary lie we commonly call "government". Sit awhile and quietly ponder just how utterly ridiculous that truth is - not to mention how dangerous. The key lay not in where the duty is discharged or by whom, but in
how. The metes, bounds, and requirements of properly principled governance need to be re-specified in order to return our nation to one where freedom is served by the governors and not clapped into irons as is now the case.
We need SOME governance. This is demonstrably proven, whether discharged publicly or privately. Holding murderers and bank robbers accountable for their nefarious actions is an eminently right role for people holding governing office. That they, too, should be held fully accountable for the actions they undertake in the discharge of their sworn duties is equally important, if not more so. So-called "government" has but ONE single function, which is to ensure the rights of individuals by holding violators accountable for their actions.
As for police, I say the role of law
enforcement should be eliminated in favor of that of criminal investigations. No power to arrest. That should lie with none but the sheriff and "ordinary" citizens. "Police" departments would be redirected to the eminently more useful and just role as local Offices of Criminal Investigations. They investigate and hand their findings over to the local prosecutor. If findings suggest warrants, prosecutor goes to a judge. If a warrant is issued, the sheriff executes it. He may deputize volunteers if he has not enough deputies on hand to do the job, forming a posse, who find the individuals in question, arrest them and hold them for questioning and possible arraignment. This can be made VERY simple and less prone to abuse than the current scheme.
While there
is a legitimate role for gover
nance - there is NO role for govern
ment because government, as commonly taken, is a LIE. It does not materially exist and therefore should not be spoken of, thought of, and acted upon as if it did. The word is nothing more than a convenient label that should be used only in the most casual of circumstances to denote those people who discharge duties of governance. Referring to "government" as an existing thing, and worse yet a living being (government's
interest, government
assets, etc.) serves only to legitimize tyranny and perpetuate the lies and misconceptions of what constitutes justifiable governance.
One element of the cure to many problems arising around governance operations would be to disallow professional governors. Every office is elected and every official strictly held accountable for the manner in which they discharge their sworn oaths and duties. Different offices would have different periods of effect. Sheriffs might go for 4 years whereas prosecutors and judges go only 2. Nobody can retain a given elected office for more than one term. This all would place a heavy demand for community involvement in the process of governance. It would be people governing themselves in the best of terms, with the great emphasis placed on personal accountability of ALL the people - no exceptions.
Governance should be
imposed* ONLY upon those who commit crimes. Freemen who live within the expansively broad limits of their personal prerogatives of liberty should NEVER be governed by any means whatsoever. This is what it means to be FREE. Only those who have trespassed upon the rights of others should be callable with regard to their accountability, and those so calling had better do so justly lest they be called upon to account for their actions as well.
Governance, as a profession, must come to an end if there is to be any hope for us to again live freely. Governance, as a profession, must be eliminated and never again allowed. Elimination of governing-as-career (so-called "lifetime of public service") and its perpetual prohibition should be one of the cardinal tenets of freedom and rightful governance wherein the rights of all men are respected. It is one of several necessary conditions for the restoration of meaningful liberty.
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*Governance is, by virtue of its very nature, an imposition upon men, for it interferes with their intended movements. What counts is that the imposition be just, which implies it be brought to bear only where a violation of the rights of another can be credibly established as having been committed.
