Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute has a great, great piece on how, like Jesus, society should give up its allegiance to violence:

“Love turns us in the opposite direction. It seeks to build up, whereas the state seeks to overawe and kill in the service of the self-interested elites who control it at the expense of the people at large. Love has no need to flex violent muscles or seek vengeance time and again. Love intends the good of the other for its own sake, not as a means toward the end of one’s own aggrandizement. Love is patient and long-suffering; power is impatient and easily provoked.

Love does not keep score; international rivals do so in numerous dimensions. Love leads to inner peace and cordial relations with others, whereas the state remains always at war, if not against other states, then certainly against its own subjects, on whom it preys ceaselessly in order to sustain itself and to gratify the rulers’ insatiable ambitions for personal acclaim and unchecked power.”

Obviously,  this rules out the court system (upheld by violence); as well as the current dollar regime (enforced by violence); the sub-national state and municipalities (upheld by violence); private security forces (upheld by violence); as well as corporations (created by laws upheld by violence)….

Of course, to be a bit more searching, Jesus himself never told the Roman Centurion to leave his position in the Roman army, nor did he tell Peter to get rid of his sword altogether.

And  he struck a fig tree sterile when it didn’t yield figs for him to eat.

Of course,  Jesus himself said that the next time he came, it would be with a sword.

Still, I’m all agog.

When is The Independent Institute going to get rid of copyright and put my name on its books (or at least, not take me to the courts should I do some such thing)?

When is it going to stop using blood-drenched dollars?

(Just to be clear, I’m in favor of copyright laws and I hold dollars, not from love but necessity).

When is the Independent Institute  going to run a piece calling out Edward Snowden as a CIA psyop?

Except for Ivan Eland (props to him), Independent Institute scholars were out promoting Assange, an obvious New World Order mouthpiece.

So, is the national (American Christo-Zionist) police-state evil, but the international (pagan-anti-Zionist) police -state just fine?

Is a War on Terror re-branded  as “defense of private property” a different game?

Is violence the only thing Jesus was against, or was this teaching part of a complete morality that proscribed lying (including false advertising), stealing (including market fraud), greed, covetousness, murder (even of statists), bribery (even of public officials), licentiousness (even masked as women’s reproductive rights), blackmail, condemnation of others (even of evil statists), blasphemy, and many other things not mentioned  (or heartily approved of) by some Rothbardian libertarians?

(Not all).

Did Jesus preach only mercy and not also justice?

That would set him in opposition to the Jewish law.

But he said he came to fulfill Jewish law.

To put it another way, does Jesus hate lies and the father of lies, but make an exception for  CIA psyops?

Just asking…