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Governor Barnes, the Georgia legislature, and the citizens of this state clamoring for video poker machine prohibition provide a clear example of how liberty and justice are slowly being suffocated in America. All three parties believe their actions are just and honorable. The truth is, their actions are exactly the opposite. They are unjust and dishonorable.
Let’s assume one of our neighbors puts a video poker machine on his front porch. He allows anybody to willingly use it, and he willingly pays cash to winners. How many of us believe that we have the right, as a neighbor, to go onto his property and destroy his machine? If you, as an individual, do not have this right, then how can the state have it since the state is nothing more than an extension of our selves?
The people that use political force to “protect us from evil” are misguided. I am confident that most of them are devout and sincere. Using government force to destroy private property is immoral. It’s wrong when individuals do it, and it’s wrong when government does it.
It’s ironic that the people claiming moral high ground are the ones behaving immorally. I believe television promotes laziness and stupidity. Does that give me the right to destroy your television set and stop you from wasting your time viewing it?
Liberty is being able to do anything you like so long as it harms no one else. God gave each of us this right. Justice is the protection of this right to liberty. Justice must naturally use physical force or the threat of force to protect liberty. It is morally just to use force to protect myself. It is morally unjust to use force any other way. Forcing you to do something you do not want to do, infringes on your liberty.
Government is nothing more than individuals agreeing to combine their separate rights to use force to protect liberty jointly. When we created government, we authorized it to protect liberty on our behalf.
The only proper function of state government is to protect our liberty. Do you want dictated morality and protection from stupidity; or the freedom to use, or waste, your time and resources as you see fit?
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