Life With No Government

Ken Bartle – Today’s mindset cannot see past the security, comforts, and benefits of government, despite its citizens being bound into a life of slavery. Man strives for freedom, but has not yet discovered a political system without political rule.

A representative body acting as public guardian of natural law, can answer people’s protection, security and natural justice, without political rule, provided that it cannot ever be usurped and transformed into government. Kritarchy and Natural Law offer the method.

No government? Oh yes!

ruleToday’s mindset, common as grains of sand on a beach, argues that government is needed to take care of us. That it does the exact opposite seems not to matter in the slightest. The mindset of holding tight to Big Brother’s benefits is the problem. It’s Man’s mindset of dependency. Without political rule, people point to anarchy as the certainty of more chaos, disturbance and increased criminality. It’s not because that outcome is certain, rather that it relieves one’s abject fear of having to rule themselves, fend for themselves, become independent. They want to be saved from sloth and apathy; have something or someone provide for them, never considering at whose expense, even their own. Deeper and more fundamental, an emotional reason exists, one concerning wellbeing and security.

Some know that anarchy truly means the absence or non-recognition of authority or other controlling systems. Among these folk, some will have learned of Minarchy, which means strictly limited government. Fewer still will have heard of Kritarchy.

Kritarchy is a political system without political rule. Think about that! Is there a contradiction? Is it even possible? Or have we been mentally seduced to believe that rule without government is utterly impossible, expressly to make sure that authoritarian rule and Man’s slavery continues? Has our mindset been ruled? Have we become so mentally blinded, that no ‘rule’ can exist, save ‘government rule?’

Kritarchy answers yes, but first let’s look at Anarchy and Minarchy.

Anarchy.

Some regard the absence of government and absolute freedom of individuals, as a political ideal. By far most people (falsely) consider that such permits a state of disorder, due to absence or non-recognition of authority. Anarchy’s origin is mid 16th century: via medieval Latin from Greek anarkhia, from anarkhos, from an- ‘without’ + arkhos ‘chief, ruler.’ Absence of a ‘chief ruler’ seems to imply that Man will run amok without someone controlling his behaviour. Self control is a fiction, it seems. The subject of Anarchy often gives way to Minarchy…

Minarchy.

Minarchism (also known as minimal statism) is a political philosophy holding that minimal government is essential, whose only legitimate function is to protect individuals from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud, through the governmental institutions of the military, police, and courts. Minarchy also allows for fire departments, prisons, the executive, and legislatures as legitimate government functions.

Its central tenet is that the state has no authority to use its monopoly of force to interfere with free transactions between people, and to ensure that the state’s sole responsibility is to protect people and contracts between private individuals and property, through law courts and systems of enforcement. Minarchism is the premise of much libertarian thought.

Minarchists often gravitate toward Anarchism, and vice versa. Both find their greatest disagreements in the the role of the state. Did I mention that ‘rule,’ (read government) is locked into our mindset?

Diligent students of these topics will discover Kritarchy. Likely however, they will turn aside and return to anarchy or minarchy, since Kritarchy also upholds ‘rule,’ least as it is most commonly, but erroneously, described.

It does rule, and it does not, as I’ll explain.

Kritarchy.

Kritarchy is a political system without political rule? It was firmly established in medieval Ireland until the middle of the thirteenth century, and in Frisia into the sixteenth century. In the first half of the nineteenth century, European immigrants who settled in the Midwest and the Far West of North America developed their own brand of kritarchy. No history of Kritarchy exists in the 20th and 21st century.

Google shows that the most common definition of Kritarchy is ‘Rule by Judges.’ Anarchists, monarchists and libertarians give up at this point. Rule by Judges, is rule, in their minds, period.

If so, then how on earth can Kritarchy be a political system without political rule? Did I mention that ‘rule,’ (read government) is locked into our mindset?

For Man, or of Man?

Before putting Anarchy and Minarchy aside, since much literature serves both, a question remains: Which of those two best accommodates the nature of Man, his unalienable rights, natural law, morality and natural justice.

The answer is neither, because both portend a solution “for” Man, instead of one which arises from “out of” Man. This distinction is absolutely crucial, made more so by this next distinction.

Frank van Dun, (Philosopher of Law in the Netherlands), explains that “according to its etymological roots, a kritarchy is a political system in which justice (more exactly the judgment that seeks to determine justice) is the ruling principle or first cause. He further describes that the term ‘kritarchy’, compounded from the Greek words ‘kritès’ (judge) or ‘krito’ (to judge) and ‘archè’ (principle, cause), is attributed to the English author Robert Southy, in 1844.” The operative words are ‘judge, principle, and cause.”

Justice is the ruling principle.

The common definition of Kritarchy, known as ’Rule by Judges,’ is shown false and turned on its head. As van Dun describes, determination of justice is the ruling principle, or first cause. Do you see the distinction?

Judges do not rule – Justice rules.

Justice arises out of the nature of Man, what he is, the natural laws of his own being. Justice is ‘of’ Man, therefore, and cannot be other without it serves injustice. Justice is of nature and ruled by it. It is not the rule of legislators nor judges. Justice is for Man to discover, practice, and remedy any violation of, so to protect Man’s unalienable right to his life, his body, and the property of his efforts.

A political system without the institution of political rule.

A political system without the institution of political rule, even if considered as ‘the rule of judges’, must absolutely deny judges any and all particular privileges or special powers. Their ‘commission’ is not to invent justice, or ‘rule’ by statute, but to administer existent justice, inherent in nature herself. No one decides justice, it just is. It is the natural order of things, natural law.

No government.

By this reckoning there can be no government, as we know it. In a short, but masterful historical description, van Dun tells how the original ideas concerning natural law have been twisted so that … “wealth and welfare were taken to be the true ‘natural rights’ of men, and ‘justice’ was re-interpreted to mean the efficient production and ‘fair’ distribution of wealth.

Further, that “At the end of the second millennium before Christ, the Jews lived in a system described in the biblical book of [the] Judges. Their ‘judges’ were not judges as we understand our modern legal systems. Instead they were “influential respected men (and women, I trust) who provided leadership and counsel, with no power to coerce, tax, or write laws that infringed natural justice.”

Rule and justice — from Man’s nature.

Kritarchy, as van Dun describes, offers an accused individual the opportunity to choose their own judge. Think very hard about that, because it means, ultimately, that any injustice will necessarily hasten its own demise. Justice will prevail. I urge that you read van Dun’s article; a powerful argument for Man’s freedom, from a Philosopher of Law.

Man’s protection and security without the institution of political rule, boils down to ‘self rule’, not the absence of rule. I prefer the phrase ‘self management,’ simply because the word management implies consistent adjudication of one’s actions, rather than application of a fixed mandate, policy, dictate or rule. In other words, one manages their own justice, as the ruling principle, or first cause of their life. One employs ethics to administer their own morality, the act of living as they choose, respectful of the equal rights of others, as I’ve set forth in two publications, and in the Declaration of Individual Rights.

Comfortable justice vs clinical justice.

Is self administered justness adequate? Will it satisfy? Is it conceivable that Man will give up the security he perceives is offered by government, to willingly accept full self responsibility for his life in harmony with others?

I think not, least presently. Whatever freedom Man may wish for, or implore, he will fight to retain some tangible form of security, an instrument of ‘comfort,’ if you prefer. The reason why anarchy is so reviled, is because it seems to strip Man of comfort and security. One easily feels exposed, vulnerable, forced to grapple with issues that are too big. Chaos and increased criminality are considered to be certain, if individuals cannot protect themselves from a gang of thugs, absent a police force; read absent government.

Confession of guilt.

Humans necessarily have the right to think, speak, judge, make choices and act, else they cannot support and maintain their own life. Whosoever denies these rights to any human individual, unambiguously denies his very own being. (Free will is localised within, not ubiquitous free licence.) Such violation of Man’s rights confesses that the denier has willfully renounced his own rights, thereby making him/herself an outlaw.

Guilt status applies to all made-for-Man statute laws, because all run roughshod over natural law.

Does it surprise that a democracy must necessarily and constitutionally outlaw all independent protections of natural rights, so as to ensure that no natural rights can be invoked against the legal rights of its democratic rule? Democracy must protect against its own confession of guilt. So it does, through many means, corporatisation being one. Linguistic perversion, inherent in the phrase ‘natural persons,’ is another.  Continue reading . . .

SF Source Wake Up World  Apr 2016

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