Matty’s Comments (group member since Dec 16, 2013)

Matty’s comments from the On Tyrants & Tributes : Real World Lessons From The Hunger Games group.

Valerie wrote: "Matty wrote: "All it would take for me to be involved on the resistance against the state would be a leader.

Although, here in Australia it's probably even more dangerous to refuse government dema..."

They take away as much of our freedom as is happening in America every year except we don't have a constitution to fall back on or good people like Ron Paul, Ben Swann, John Stossel helping us defend it. And we have a lot more 'nanny state' rules and people supporting the government 'protecting' people from themselves.

A small difference I've noticed between Australia and America is that our defence force budget is significantly less than in America, but half of our federal budget is spent on welfare. Even people that don't need financial help get it, and a lot of people think it's a good deal, to pay taxes and get some back, less government employee costs, general costs, inefficiency costs and etc. It's a crazy idea.

All it would take for me to be involved on the resistance against the state would be a leader.

Although, here in Australia it's probably even more dangerous to refuse government demands than in America. We have been disarmed to the point of no return. We'd essentially be defending ourselves with kitchen knives or bolt action hunting rifles (With a magazine capacity of less than 6 rounds, and only one magazine allowed) per 10,000 people or so.

The town I live in isn't actually that big (less than 75,000 people within 50km radius) so we don't have CCTV cameras up on every street corner. We still have them in banks, mcdonalds, some other businesses here and there but not on the street.

However, whenever I travel to one of Australia's capital cities, the cameras are everywhere, on every street corner, in every building, it's quite distressing walking down the street in Sydney or Brisbane.

Phones and even the car GPS system worries me.

I just think to myself, if somebody wanted to find me, they could do it in minutes. Even though i'm guilty of no crimes, free speech or speaking out for freedom and liberty could be against the law in the future, and in which case my daily facebook posts about liberty and freedom would probably get me arrested, the surveillance just makes it easier for the state to find me.

I've just finished watching the entire playlist and found it great to watch. It was well presented and put together.

Propaganda seems to be a big problem even in our society as it is today. So many people try to defend the actions of the state just because that's how they were brought up. If i'm talking with somebody about whether taxation is theft or not, they more often than not appeal to a 'social contract'. This has just been embedded in their heads with propaganda and 12 years in government schools, and many people working directly for the government.

The propaganda reminded me of the Reichstag Fire Decree, Hitler's first act of power in which he suspended pretty much all of the civilians right to free speech, free press, firearms, right to a trial and etc all in the name of security from 'state endangering communists'.

I'm currently enrolled to start a Bachelor of Law here in Australia. My ultimate goal is to make my career obsolete by making the law simple enough that everyone can understand it without needing to pay for legal advice. (IE: Life, liberty and property rights should be the extent of the law).

I'm very interested in starting businesses to make people's lives better and increase the total amount of wealth in the world.