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Outsourcing our jobs | Toronto Star

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:51:00 -0400

The Star printed my letter in response to this editorial by Haroon Siddiqi.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/04/21/stop_importing_temporary_workers_into_canada_siddiqui.html

Axe the temporary workers program, Opinion April 21

There is only one reason why states ever tighten or loosen the ridiculous rules of entry for the ridiculous lines in the sand known as borders: the whims of the slave masters (i.e. capitalists, socialist bureaucrats, etc). The demand exists for labour, so people who need money will try to supply, by peacefully exchanging their labour for goods and money.

Policy violently coerces these people to the will of the state as ever before, but Haroon Siddiqui thinks complaining about water being wet will make it dry. He misses the elephant in the room: economics.

Economics must inform our political opinion or it is an argument from ignorance. All politics is economic, but not all economics is political. Politics mainly involves the economic form of exchange known as coercion, which we can differentiate sharply from voluntary market exchanges.

The state threatens to create a subjective disvalue to you (prison/physical submission) greater than the subjective value they demand you give up (liberty). In the case of the border, the corrupt “Canadian” state is forcefully permitting only those who meet their stupid criteria to cross.

The demand for labour is there so peaceful people try to supply it. The state imposes regulation so that this process will be orderly, but as Siddiqui outlines well, state attempts to supply labour lead to disorder. Why does the state create only disorder by its attempts to manage the economy in an orderly manner? For the reason we must look to the economic.

Coercion is a universal disvalue. The coerced gives up something of value, the coercer produces and exchanges nothing, so since both parties incurred costs, there is an obvious loss of subjective value. No matter what, the system loses in the aggregate.

Since everything the state does is based on coercive force, the economic system loses value (therefore wealth) every time the state acts in any capacity, including schools, libraries, and medical “care.” Employers stymied by state border coercion, simply use an end-run strategy (smuggling, graft, etc), which leads to disorder.

The more they tighten border policy, the more “illegal” immigration you will have, criminalising peaceful people and creating an underclass of oxymoronically “illegal” human beings. Can a person commit a crime simply by being alive? It seems to negate the very purpose of law: to protect our right to life.

Nature is chaos, but nature is orderly, so chaos produces order. We know from chaos theory that when force is introduced to a chaotic system, the natural order is disrupted. The flow is interrupted and the gradual structuring of chaos into order becomes disorder. An economy is the same thing. Man’s natural state is anarchy, or private rights defence (as opposed to public).

If natural is anarchy, then anarchy is chaos, since nature is chaos. If chaos produces order, then anarchy is the mother of order!! Down with the state!!

Mike Sampat, Toronto

Logic and the case against Stiglitz | Toronto Star

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:40:00 -0400

Logic and the case against Stiglitz | Toronto Star:

Stiglitz spoke at the NDP conference and said some more nonsense about how policy can fix things. I attack his logic here.

Toronto Star: Editorial betrays a Western bias

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:06:00 -0400

Toronto Star: Editorial betrays a Western bias:

I wrote this letter in response to this editorial column:

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2013/02/02/arab_spring_inspired_hopes_that_egypts_turmoil_and_syrias_agony_cant_crush_editorial.html

This is the first letter the Star printed for me with the words “Down with the State” on it. My life is now complete. Everything good that happens to me from now on is bonus.

"Enough of this pleading with our oppressors not to oppress us so much. Let’s stop being depressed..."

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:52:26 -0500

“Enough of this pleading with our oppressors not to oppress us so much. Let’s stop being depressed victims of the state, and instead start imagining all the opportunities its incompetencies create.”

- Kaleb Matson (via paranoialampsandfreedom)

Anarchy: What it is and What it isn't.

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 00:14:00 -0500

Anarchy: What it is and What it isn't.:

This is well written short introduction to anarchy for those interested. Down with the state!!

Toronto Star: Don't look to the state for solutions

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:55:00 -0500

Toronto Star: Don't look to the state for solutions:

I wrote this letter to the Star in response to the following article by Oilvia Ward:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1310794—global-affairs-trends-to-watch-in-2013

kulshedra: I will use this as often as humanly possible.

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:33:19 -0500

kulshedra:

I will use this as often as humanly possible.

Toronto Star: An early start to indoctrination

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:09:43 -0500

Toronto Star: An early start to indoctrination:

Written in response to the opinion below.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1298841—early-learning-is-a-better-bargain-than-universities-goar

Star off-base on coverage of Ford

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:06:00 -0500

Star off-base on coverage of Ford:

In response to a column by the Star’s Rick Salutin on Mayor Rob Ford’s removal from office, I wrote this letter.

Don't look to the state to solve our traffic woes...

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:33:31 -0500

Don't look to the state to solve our traffic woes...:

The Star printed my letter in response to an article on telecommuting as a solution to gridlock.

In response to this op-ed by Bob Hepburn, I wrote the letter in the description. I doubt they'll print it...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:36:57 -0500

In response to this op-ed by Bob Hepburn, I wrote the letter in the description. I doubt they'll print it...:

At a conference entitled, “The Common Good: Who Decides?”, 350 elites gathered to discuss the rising crisis of confidence in so-called democracy. Well, if our intrepid leaders must ask a question, which democracy answers by its very name, then we may already know the source of the crisis. Democracy means rule by the people, so there is no question of who decides, only how these “experts” will achieve the people’s will.

But we live in a representative democracy, something the Greeks, inventors of true democracy, might refer to as a republic. It has the advantage of allowing the political class to make decisions instead of the people, which makes it much more responsive to the needs of the business class (our true rulers). Is there any wonder that the people lose confidence in their “leaders”? How can we be led by one group’s servants?

What’s the solution? Proponents of our sham of a political process argue that those who are disaffected should run for office and create change themselves. But this asks us to use the immoral and ultimately violent means of state control as our own salvation. We must become what we despise, use the methods of our oppressors, in order to be free.

This is an obvious dead end, philosophically and practically. Instead, as Hepburn points out, people turn to citizen movements. Grassroots solutions are all that will ever work, for the class made to strive in the dirt, while our masters attend well-appointed conferences to decide the “public good”.

Democracy is a lie. Waiting for our “leaders” to save us will not work; they have other priorities. If you want to be free, just see your chains and you will break them. Take your life into your own hands. Stop believing that wage-slavery and servitude are your lot in life. Stop complying with the rule of people who have no legitimate authority over you. Practice counter-economics (peaceful activity which is forbidden by the state). Practice agorism: the peaceful revolution has begun!

Mike Sampat

rainbowsunicornsandbutterflies: Capitalism is freedom. Nice!!

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:21:06 -0400

rainbowsunicornsandbutterflies:

Capitalism is freedom.

Nice!!

The Star: PM's passing grade disputed

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 11:17:42 -0400

The Star: PM's passing grade disputed:

The Star prints my letter about Stephen Harper.

Ghandi was an anarchist!

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:12:59 -0400

Ghandi was an anarchist!

Toronto Star - Police stops are not helping

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:23:10 -0400

Toronto Star - Police stops are not helping:

This is the second time I’ve felt I had to respond to a letter by Ross Quantz. Will he never learn?

Toronto Star - The politics behind Batman

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:00:00 -0400

Toronto Star - The politics behind Batman:

The fact that the Star printed my egregious error of grammar has tested my faith in their editors.

Toronto Star - Our democracy deficit

Sun, 12 Aug 2012 17:54:00 -0400

Toronto Star - Our democracy deficit:

Scroll down. Apparently I’m not the only one who thought this article was provocative.

fuckyeahtattoos: This is a quote from Samuel Beckett and as...

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 02:11:28 -0400

fuckyeahtattoos:

This is a quote from Samuel Beckett and as soon as I read it I knew it would be on me. It describes my life very well. I’ve lived 29 years before being diagnosed with ADHD so I was perpetually banging my head against walls, never knowing why I couldn’t figure things out, but trying again anyways. Done by Matt at Action Tattoo in Yorba Linda, CA.

Anarcho Capitalism people...the way forward is without government.

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 18:40:26 -0400

Anarcho Capitalism people...the way forward is without government.

Know your rights when dealing with the police, Canadians!!

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:53:00 -0400

Know your rights when dealing with the police, Canadians!!:

The recent behaviour of Quebec police in the face of the most important social movement in modern Canadian history has been shameful. It has reminded me even more powerfully than the G20 debacle did that we live in a police-state. The reemergence of bill C-30, the portions of bill C-38 relating to arrest and detention by foreign police, etc are all more evidence. We need to remain vigilant now more than ever, before capitalists turn our homeland into a nightmare.