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With the FBI covertly (when not overtly) bedding down with big tech to censor anyone left of Stalin with an opinion, with medical unions leaning on big government to put the squeeze on parents' rights groups--with VISA and Mastercard goosestepping together with Paypal to cancel their clients for wrongthink-- and with everyone bleating the same refrain in rightful, if wrong-headed, response-- 'That's a violation of the Constitution!' ---with all of these factors on the boil coalescing into a bouillabaisse of bullshit reactions--reactions falsely assuming and thus rewarding the federal government with more power it doesn't legally have, nor will ever deserve, I think it's high time for the States' sovereign citizenry to stop playing a rigged game of baseball and start playing football.
I say it all the time, constantly, ad nauseum, because a truth ignored is the one most in desperate need to be repeated, over and over, lest it slip into oblivion. The States don't own the other States, the citizens of those States own their State; they make the laws, they pay for them, they enforce them. To wit, it is their Constitutions, ratified by the will of their free and independent citizens, that actually matter. Not the federal compact, the authority of which lives and dies by the legitimacy of the States' sovereignty. If the States are not individually sovereign, free and independent in fact, then they cannot, in congress with one another, form a common provisional government; defined by a tiny-ass post-it note of things to do; and nothing the fuck else: for the same reason 13x0=0 and A=A. If the States aren't sovereign, they can't authorize and populate a federation, a Union of States.
It's that simple.*
But I'm burying the lead, here.
The States Constitutions are the ones in danger, their citizens' rights to self-determination-- the fundamental exercise to preserve which is their freedom to speak in the public square--is objectively under siege by international banks. By businesses arrogant enough to think they can wage financial terrorisms against our people--not for the crimes they objectively committed and were convicted of, by due process--but for the words they merely say. The social media horseshit is peanuts by comparison; getting banned on Twitter doesn't matter if I can't afford wifi because I can't afford to sleep indoors. Well, I think it's past time the States brought these companies to heel: by taking a leaf out of Florida's play book and canceling them. Because a sovereign citizens voice is his private property, and any company that dares to violate our Constitutionally protected property rights should have their's removed.
And we could do it! Just pass a Resolution declaring to these banks subsidizing, for example, Paypal's fascism that they must dissolve their contracts with Paypal or our State will dissolve our contracts with them. Give the banks a due date, say six weeks, six weeks to cut ties with Paypal; six weeks to unfreeze any amount of money seized for anything other than criminal violations based on our sovereign legal proceedings, not Paypal's HR or VISA's or Mastercard's. They have to give back aaaall the money they stole, and, if they don't?
We mount. the fuck. up.
We go 'Tombstone' on their asses.
We kick in doors, we seize their facilities, we empty their vaults, and return all the money back to the banks' victims; and (this part's my favorite) all the debts those banks had for any of their customers?
Gone!
No joke. Because the State legislature will, in the Resolution, hand down marching orders for all law enforcement expressly not to enforce any debt collection whatsoever by these corporations; and not to lift a solitary fuckin' finger to help any federal attempts to subvert that State's will. If so much as ONE STATE did this to Visa or MasterCard, can you imagine the bedlam those companies would experience? How rabid their investors would be in their demands for the banks to reverse course? To make money and stop wasting time facebook stalking their customers? And do I think, for a second, the corporate class would lock arms when their balls are on the chopping block?
Oh, hell, no. They will instantly "other" their competition, because there is no honor among thieves. Everyone with money, their money would go back to them; everyone who had debt, their debts would be forfeit with no laws to enforce their collection; and anyone who needs to borrow money? Well, go to the other banks, who will trip, kick, and curb-stomp each other in their desperation to not resemble Visa and Mastercard, because they want to stay in business. Their economy is based on customer debt. Debt equals money; if the States don't enforce their debt collection through our legal systems, which are facilitated by our taxes and our public agents, they're fucked.
It doesn't matter how many bean counters Biden hires--or how many of them spent time at the firing range--you could have an army at your back! It wouldn't mean a damn thing. You can't centralize that much petty bureaucracy, not with any degree of appreciable success. It can't be done.
The States WIN in that fight. And all we need to do is just start a conversation. Say to your legislatures, say the ones up for election this November. 'Hey, fam, should we allow a big tech mogul or banking czar to dictate what words we can and can't say on Twitter to earn a living? Or should we deny them things like, oh, their permits to break ground or maintain property on our publicly owned territory? Mmmmaybe deny them any public resources to terrorize us with our public resources?'
'Oh, suddenly you're pro-cancel culture!'
' Nnno, I'm pro-free speech. I'm the one saying 'Yes, you are a private company, you can do what you want; but you can't do it here, because you don't respect my rights, so I don't respect your's.' The rules to work, here, where I have authority, are simple: Don't fuck with my rights to say whatever the hell I want, when I'm not even on your private property, and I'll fuck with you.' If that's a tall order, well, go away. Go do business with aaaany country, any sovereign State, that will suffer your bullshit in its jurisdiction? Because they deserve you.'
'But what about mom-and-pop businesses with bad customers?'
'They have every right to bounce people out of their stores, that's a false equivalence: one is a strip-mall restaurant, one is a national chain of banks. The bank can freeze your account at a bureaucrat's behest, and deny you your livelihood, the restaurant, by comparison, can deny you your dinner, at that particular restaurant. One is withholding money you gave it, stealing from you, the other is a private citizen withholding a resource it objectively bought and paid for. That is their's to do with as they please. You don't own that individual; they are not your slave.'
There's nothing about any of what I'm proposing that's anti-capitalistic, it's just pro-human rights, those established in our sovereign Constitutions. Based on the universal truth that a person's voice is their private property; and, if that property right is being violated by a company, that company forfeits its private property rights in our jurisdiction. We're not communists, we're Robbin Hood. Robin Hood didn't steal from the rich and give to the poor, he stole from the King, a tyrant who happened to slide out of the right vagina, and his lords, an unelected oligarchy of tax-collectors. Robbin Hood didn't steal property, which is what communists do, he gave it back.