Lesson 1

Government Abolished:
Anarchy or Happiness?

Does anarchy reign when human government is abolished? There is a real life example in our own history. Here is what was said in A Proclamation of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, January 23rd, 1776, after the Colonist found out it was just fine not to have wizards ruling them:

No effectual resistance to the system of tyranny prepared for us could be made without either instant recourse to arms, or a temporary suspension of the ordinary powers of government, and tribunals of justice: To the last of which evils, in hopes of a speedy reconciliation with Great-Britain, upon equitable terms, the Congress advised us to submit: And mankind has seen a phenomenon, without example in the political world, a large and populous colony, subsisting in great decency and order, for more than a year, under such suspension of government.

What they're telling us is that they were very happy to discover policemen, lawyers, judges, and law-makers were not needed at all to keep peace and good order in society. Other men wrote about this period in our history.

Thomas Paine was the foremost thinker behind the American revolution. He wrote a pamphlet called Rights of Man in 1792. In part two of the pamphlet he tells us how we have been tricked into thinking terrible things will happen if we don't have humbugs ruling us. He tells us of the same time when humbugs stopped ruling and everything was just fine. He explains why man's government is not necessary.

"Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It had its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all parts of civilized community upon each other, create the great chain of connection which holds it together. The landholder, the farmer, the manufacturer, the merchant, the tradesman, and every occupation, prospers by the aid which each receives from the other, and from the whole. Common interest regulates their concerns, and forms their laws; and the laws which common usage ordains, have a greater influence than the laws of government. In fine, society performs for itself almost everything which is ascribed to government.

"If we examine, with attention, into the composition and constitution of man, the diversity of his wants, and the diversity of talents in different men for reciprocally accommodating the wants of each other, his propensity to society, and consequently to preserve the advantages resulting from it, we shall easily discover that a great part of what is called government is mere imposition.

"Government is no farther necessary than to supply the few cases to which society and civilization are not conveniently competent; and instances are not wanting to show, that everything which government can usefully add thereto, has been performed by the common consent of society, without government.

"For upward of two years from the commencement of the American War, and to a longer period in several of the America states, there were no established forms of government. The old governments had been abolished, and the country was too much occupied in defense, to employ its attention in establishing new governments; yet during this interval, order and harmony were preserved as inviolate as in any country in Europe.

"There is a natural aptness in man, and more so in society, because it embraces a greater variety of abilities and resources, to accommodate itself to whatever situation it is in. The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

"So far is it from being true, as has been pretended, that the abolition of any formal government is the dissolution of society, that it acts by a contrary impulse, and brings the latter the closer together. All that part of its organization which it had committed to its government, devolves again upon itself, and acts through its medium.

"When me, as well from natural instinct, as from reciprocal benefits, have habituated themselves to social and civilized life, there is always enough of its principles in practice to carry them through any changes they may find necessary or convenient to make in their government. In short, man is so naturally a creature of society, that it is almost impossible to put him out of it.

"Formal government makes but a small part of civilized life; and when even the best that human wisdom can devise is established, it is a thing more in name and idea, than in fact. It is to the great and fundamental principles of society and civilization-to the common usage universally consented to, and mutually and reciprocally maintained-to the unceasing circulation of interest, which, passing through its million channels, invigorates the whole mass of civilized man-it is to these things, infinitely more than to anything which even the best instituted government can perform, that the safety and prosperity of the individual and the whole depends.

"...governments, so far from being always the cause or means of order, are often the destruction of it."

If you show your teachers or other grown-ups Thomas Paine's writings they will refuse to believe what he said even though it is the simple truth. Adults today have been lead to believe that government is the source of all good things. Thomas Paine was only telling the truth about historical facts. When we deny the truth we are left with a lie. Other men lived through that period.

We also have David Ramsey's eye-witness report of the effects of this abolition of human government in the colonies. From his Prelude to the American Revolution, 1765-1775, the section titled Massachusetts Provincial Congress:

Throughout this whole season, civil government, legislation, judicial proceedings, and commercial regulations were in Massachusetts, to all appearances, annihilated. The provincial congress exercised all the semblance of government which existed. From their coincidence, with the prevailing disposition of the people, their resolutions had the weight and efficacy of laws. Under the simple style of recommendations, they organized the militia, and made ordinances respecting public monies, and such further regulation as were necessary for preserving order, and for defending themselves against the British troops.

In this crisis, it seemed to be the sense of the inhabitants of Massachusetts to wait events. They dreaded every evil, that could flow from resistance, less than the operation of the late acts of parliament; but, at the same time, were averse to be the aggressors, in bringing on a civil war. They chose to submit to a suspension of regular government, in preference to permitting the streams of justice to flow in a channel, prescribed by the late acts of parliament, or to conducting them forcibly in the old one, sanctioned by their charter. From the extinction of the old, and the rejection of the new constitution, all regular government was, for several months abolished. Some hundred thousands of people were in a state of nature, without legislation, magistrates or executive officers. There was, nevertheless, a surprising degree of order. Men of the purest morals were among the most active opposers of Great Britain. While municipal laws ceased to operate, the laws of reason, morality, and religion, bound the people to each other as a social band, and preserved as great a degree of decorum, as had at any time prevailed.

The law of reason is the same as the law of nature. The laws of morality and religion mean the same as the revealed law found in the Bible. God is the source of both the natural and the revealed law. When men are living under God's law they are living in God's Kingdom. This is the meaning of the law of nature and of nature's God that we see in the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson. God's law is the basis for the American idea of government and the legal justification for American independence from Britain. See if you can find this period of American history, when all human government was abolished on the scale of government:

Man's rule (Man's Law)

God's Rule (Natural and Revealed Law)

Thinking back to that time when government was abolished and his observation of the Indians, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to his friend Edward Carrington. Jefferson explained how the greatest happiness of mankind is enjoyed without human government and how effective public opinion alone is in restraining men:

"I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments...."

(I would like to point out something very interesting. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that among the rights the Creator has endowed us with are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. What did he mean by happiness? Right here he tells us. He meant living without government. This is a very, very important point I hope you will remember. Very few people know this. Your teachers can not tell you because they don't know. All grown-ups today are surprised to learn that five years after the signing of the present Constitution, the men on the Supreme Court left no doubt that Americans were still free of government unless they chose to consent as the Declaration says:

The only reason, I believe, that a free man is bound by human law, is, that he binds himself. Upon the same principles, upon which he becomes bound by the laws, he becomes amendable to the courts of justice, which are formed and authorized by those laws. (Chishom vs. Georgia, 2 US (Dall) 419, 455).

So the Colonist pursued happiness and obtained it. They became happy by throwing out British rule. The government they established was really no government at all in the European sense, because it was voluntary. If we today want to be as happy as the Colonists, then we must abolish forced government, too. Now back to Jefferson's words...)

"...Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, and restrains the morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing, they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves and sheep. I do not exaggerate. This is a true picture of Europe. Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Don't be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall become wolves."

Girls, in the true picture of America, we now have a European style government. That simply means the state is believed to be sovereign just like in Europe. The state is believed to have total power. But of course the state is only a fantasy. It is really certain wolf-men who have claimed total power over their fellows, namely, congressmen, governors, judges and lawyers of all kinds. The same people we have been calling wizards, Jefferson called wolves. These wolf-men do bad things in the name of the state that they would never think of doing in their own name. They try to hide from responsibility for their wrong-doing behind the fantasy of the state. They have come to believe that God's law does not apply to them when they play Wizards of America.

For example, President Ronald Reagan, in the name of the United States, sent men in airplanes to kill people in Libya. They thought that the leader of Libya had helped murder some innocent people, but later we learned it was really Syrians who did it. Wolf-men did whatever Ronald Reagan told them without question because it pays well and because they all pretended he is the most powerful wizard-The President. Many innocent people were killed. One of them was a little girl just a year and a half old. Mr. Reagan would never kill a little girl in his own name, but certain wolf-men told him it was fine to do in the name of the state. This is from an article in the newspaper about that murder:

Other sources said Gadhafi's family had been sought out because their deaths would lead to a loss of face for Gadhafi when he could not defend his own family. Gadhafi's wife and eight children were hospitalized, and the Libyans said a 15-month old adopted daughter of Gadhafi's was killed.

Before the bombings, a White House official said, State Department lawyers began to prepare a legal paper that argued that 'in the context of military action what normally would be considered murder is not.'

Girls, the State Department lawyers are wrong. Murder is murder in any context except in the administration of right and justice according to the laws of God. But even then mercy may require us not to murder.

In the name of the state, Mr. Reagan and other wolf-men tried to kill a whole family of innocent people in a far off country. Nine were badly injured and they actually killed a girl about the age of Rachael. Cold-blooded murder is a wolfish thing to do. It is not permitted by the laws of reason, morality and religion. This is lawlessness and anarchy under the guise of government. Why aren't they ashamed? Why doesn't someone speak up? Mr. Reagan and his wolf-men did a very bad thing all the while pretending that a legal paper could make it alright and pretending that the President of the United States is a very powerful wizard not restrained by God's law if they say right magic words. Girls, do you agree it is a very bad thing to kill little children? Can you tell where Ronald Reagan and his wolf-men are on the spectrum of government?:

Man's Rule (Murder babies)

God's Rule (Love babies)

My teachers did not tell me that government is unnecessary and even dangerous. That truth was left out of my history lessons to trick me into thinking we must have violent and terrible wolf-men to govern us. Your teachers will not be able to trick you. The idea of living without wizards and wolves should not frighten you. Now you know that people, when left alone, just naturally try to get along with one another, while humbugs, with their tricks, take all the credit for peace and good order. Now you know that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of a life without government!

We are very fortunate to have these facts of history and the real truth about government from the words of the American colonists in Massachusetts Bay, Thomas Paine, David Ramsey and Thomas Jefferson. This is your first lesson. Learn it well, because without accurate facts we are unable to learn from history. We will draw wrong conclusions and make wrong decisions.

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