We don’t go around killing children! Children are cute, we adore them and they are the ones we live for.

Sure, we work hard all day to give them all we can and to insure that they will have it even better than we had. Just as our parents did to allow us to have more freedom and joy.

So, don’t give me that disturbing question – if I killed any children lately? No, obviously not!

That’s great – you all agree and proudly proclaim that you don’t kill or maim children. Sure, there is the rare exception, but most of you will really believe that you do not kill children, but me to take another look.

Let us start with looking at some pictures so that we get in the mood…

OK, OK, but this is far away and it’s not really a child grown up here in the old US of A. Maybe this is some war-torn country – nothing really to do with this.

Right – but let’s look at another picture – still rather easy to handle…

This is obviously an area where there is war – looks like the middle east. Maybe nothing really bad has happened and the girl is just a bit scared – could be. But let’s get a little bit tougher with a picture that is quite a bit older and there is a good chance you  have seen it because it went around the world…

This is a bit more disturbing but the kids are all ok – the soldiers behind them will probably take care of them and all will be ok, right?

But how about this picture – this boy is certainly not ok…

Sure, could have been an accident – they do happen here and they certainly happen in underdeveloped countries. This really  has nothing to do with killing children!

Then let’s get real tough, but I still really want you to look…

Agreed, they are alive – even though badly burned and it could have been that the house they lived in, caught on fire, but they were saved. But there is no more excuses this child really seems to be dead – I mean like in ‘DEAD’…

Out in the field, nothing she might have fallen off of and the bloody chest tells an obvious story.

And now imagine that I have the galls to say you are responsible for all that! And I really mean YOU – the person here in front of your computer reading these lines.  I know you are feeling a lot of objection down there inside of you, but I can’t, and would not,  release you from this uncomfortable feeling, that this might in fact be true.

If there is not at least a little voice that tries to tells you, yes, you are responsible for that, then this is probably the wrong article for you to read and you should type YouTube into your browser and forget about what you saw here.

OK, you are still here, good – then there is a chance that we can change something about that. Only if we face what really IS, do we have a chance to make changes.

Obviously you see where I am aiming at, right? All these atrocities are committed by some form of government, and all these governments get the money from – whom? – the good tax-payers of these governments, right? Sometimes the citizenry is coerced into paying at gun point, sometimes it gives freely because they believe in the good intention and righteousness of ‘their’ government.

There is no way around it – the money to buy the bullet, that blew off that boys leg, was paid by somebody and it might well have been you through your contribution on tax day. For most of us that would be hard to live with, wouldn’t it?

Many of you have the excuse that they did not have a choice but to pay, otherwise they would have gotten into trouble. That might certainly be true, but if you trade the life of another human being for your own convenience then I actually don’t want you to continue reading my words – please go back to America’s Funniest Home Videos.

… still here?

Good! Now we are getting somewhere, but I am sure that by now the group of my readers has considerably thinned out. There are not that many of us that have principles strong enough to overcome the fear of the tax collector and stand up to the egocentricity of staying out of trouble whatever the cost – - as long as it is somebody else’s cost.

If you are still with me now but have not taken steps yet to stop the money flow to buy more bullets or napalm you must have been doing something to silence that nagging voice inside of you. Which did you chose? Did you give freely to charity, did you adopt a foster-child in the developing world or have you joined the peace corps?

I personally was in the second group – and am actually still part of it. The first adopted foster children I had were inherited from my father when he passed away. He had made the commitment to support these two children in Africa up to the age of 18 and I kept that promise in his name. Later, within my own family, we continued with a new set of children after these first two graduated from the Childreach program, now called PlanUSA. I still believe that it is a good idea to help children this way but I know that I can do a lot more by taking the funds away from the people who create those inhuman conditions in the first place, getting rich while doing so.

I can certainly not tell you what to do. Despite the first amendment I would be accused of interfering with the administration of the tax laws, if I would tell you to shut off the money flow to such immoral and unethical causes. So I will not because I want to continue ranting, but I can ask you to scroll up and look at the pictures above once more and then make your own decision.

If you are not quite at the point where you want to take responsibility for some children on the other side of the world that you never have, and never will have, anything to do with, you may take, for now, a bit more egotistical point of few. Let us take the golden rule of “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Doesn’t that mean that if you buy bullets to maim or kill  the children of other parents that you want those parents to buy bullets to kill your child or children? That hits a little bit closer to home, doesn’t it?

I know, I am pretty mean, but I want to give you this last picture on your way as you go on making money and paying it to the henchman…

Footnote:

Did I mention that anything a government currently does can be done better by a profit oriented enterprise – just in case you want to argue that most of your taxes pay for schools and roads and all the good stuff. Why? Because they are using hammers that cost six bucks instead of sixty.

Even defense can be handled that way. Instead of raging a war to find weapons of mass destruction imagine a big poster on the internet: Osama Bin Laden – Dead or Alive – One Billion Dollars! What chances, do you think, bin Laden would have had to survive as long as he did? Very efficient, a lot cheaper, and that little boy above  would not have that box closed permanently over him. But as you gave our ‘leaders’ all that money, they needed to spend it to show you that it was correct that they collected it from you in the first place.

Now…

if you want to change something, but that fear of the taxman with the gun is bugging you so much that you are just frozen, there will be help to overcome that on this site. Start by registering and let me know that you are willing to make some change.

He who sacrifices freedom
for security deserves neither.

With this in mind, an entertaining animation on how money, banks and the IRS all started – another lego brick in our education…

Click here to view the embedded video.

But let us actually look at the numbers, and the picture suddenly turns to be very different than how it looked without the facts. The best demonstration this author found was the following animation…

Click here to view the embedded video.

The only reason, these few can control the many is that we let them. Even if they have all the guns in the world, they really don’t have any power. The only method they do use is the same as the school bully, and we have certainly learned how to handle one of those, right?

What has to change is our state of mind, that there is anything legitimate in the action of the few. We will address that state of mind in other articles.

…that me a good and valid reason to have fear. It might not be a smart move to have fear even in such a situation, but feeling fear under these circumstances would make some sense.

But in most other cases the often quoted acronym for fear is much more likely to be true:

f-e-a-r = False Evidence Appearing Real.