----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles A. Grimes" <cgrimes at rawbw.com>
Been thinking about the Patriot Act and advocacy.
I seem to remember the Quakers are considered a known, listed terrorist organization. They always were up to no good back in the day.
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By any sensible standard, the USG is a terrorist state. So to pay taxes is to engage in aiding and abetting..........
"But consider the definition of a racketeer as someone who creates a threat and then charges for its reduction. Governments' provision of protection, by this standard, often qualifies as racketeering. To the extent that the threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own activities, the government has organized a protection racket. Since governments themselves commonly simulate, stimulate, or even fabricate threats of external war and since the repressive and extractive activities of governments often constitute the largest current threats to the livelihoods of their own citizens, many governments operate in essentially the same ways as racketeers." http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51028/1/256.pdf