Hidden History: Where Organized Crime and Government Meet

by Charles A. Burris

"Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class."

~ Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, The State

The concept of the State is the greatest criminal conspiracy ever perpetuated upon humanity. As Nock details in his book above, all States originate in conquest and exploitation, and as elite oligarchies, continue to exercise this monopoly of crime over their subject peoples through war, taxation, conscription, and indoctrination.

The great German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, a decisive influence upon Nock and other cogent scholars of the origin and practice of this criminal institution, observed:

"The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion of the victorious group over the vanquished, and securing itself against the revolt from within and attacks from abroad. Teleologically, this dominion has no other purpose than the economic exploitation of the vanquished by the victors."

~ Franz Oppenheimer, The State

This has been the case in every State throughout recorded history. From the primitive city-states of ancient Sumer located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Southern Mesopotamia, to the most sophisticated and powerful State-apparatus yet organized – that of the United States of America – presently engaged in an act of criminal conquest, occupation, and savage exploitation of those very lands and peoples in what is presently labeled Iraq.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

Good post but you might want to expand on it.







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I think that's enough to prove Truth-Bringer's point.

When politics aren't interesting enough, make (*)(*)(*)(*) up.

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I'M DOWN WITH G-O-P
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15."
Ronald Reagan

Barack's 66 Page List of Earmarks

The ironic thing about this, as legitament a concern as the creep of government is(and its often overblown btw) is that the argument is employed by the same nefarious people for their own ends. You turn away from government, and you keep handing more power over to the corporations, usually the same group that are controlling the government. Its especially useful because they can go into government, funnel public funds over to the corporations, do an awful job and throw up their hands and say "See? Can't trust government!" An enviable position.

Seriously though, she was for the bridge before she was against it right? Whats up with that? I still haven't seen it countered anywhere. Care to?

An enormously cogent post!

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Tax & Spend > Borrow & Spend any day.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

C2H5OH - the cause of and remedy to all problems.

Alex Jones is a f*cking dickhead.

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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
– James Fenimore Cooper

I just think government should be held to its only legitimate function - punishing those who initiate force, fraud or coercion. In this type of environment, corporations couldn't buy off the government to gain benefits or harm/destroy their competition - which is happening in the present system through Democrats and Republicans.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

No, because he can't counter the truth. Just like they count counter the indisputable fact that McCain was vehemently opposed to the Bush tax cuts but now (allegedly) favors making them permanent.

These clowns can't keep their stories straight.

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"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Schopenhauer

Why is that have you ever listened to him? Have you actually watched any of his videos? On what basis do you state your claims? Or are you just parroting the claims of the mainstream media (propaganda arm)?