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<p>Original:<br><a href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-malta-daphne/malta-officials-resign-in-broadening-scandal-over-journalists-murder-idUKKBN1Y00X7?rpc=401&amp;">Malta officials resign in broadening scandal over journalist's murder</a></p>
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<p>Murder. The intentional killing of another. The most serious of all crimes. It should be that simple. We live in a Statist world, so it's not. In the Statist world I have to qualify the statement with 'depending on what costume you happen to be wearing'. The State ascribes to itself the 'Right' to intentionally kill. The voting process facilitates this and is part of why voting is immoral. The irresponsible <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/el-salvador-upholds-30-year-sentence-stillbirth-case-171215104626774.html">handing over of 'Rights' that people do not posses in the first instance</a>.</p>
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<p>Control the protection rackets by making your own choices about who's services you pay for. Find this one morally repugnant? Switch your subscription to another. Not your vote, the stuff that actually matters in an un-brainwashed world, the money. There are very few <em>immoral</em> enforcers out there who will do their dirty work without pay. It would bring clarity and alter the nature of debate. Would you choose to pay for a security service and then spend your time shouting 'fascist' at it?</p>
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<p>You're choices won't be ideal or perfect in every respect and you won't agree with others choices entirely either. But they will be your choices which means you cannot escape responsibility for them by bleating on about 'politicians'. <em>You</em> are the politician. In a free world, you control the purse strings.</p>
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<p>For the inevitable (entirely understandable and legitimate) counters to this perspective please see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o">David Friedman The Machinery of Freedom</a></p>
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<p>For now I suggest suspending, for a moment at least, the reflex we are taught from birth that tells us that as soon as there isn't a 'higher authority' dictating what's best for us, our world will descend into chaos.</p>
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<p>I digress you may think. However the above, in my experience, touches on some very deeply held beliefs that are difficult to confront over a significant period of time (more often than not, lifetimes). This is the problem with commenting on news-pieces from day to day. Statists in the mainstream media (MM) are fond of this approach for the obvious reason that it can be used to avoid asking deeper questions about the nature of the State. However, the other side of that coin is that daily news stories can create a useful framework for discussing less popular perspectives as well. It's a question of interpretation.</p>
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<p>This story helps us to put the process, of exchanging one set of Statists who commit murder behind the scenes with another set who shout 'mafia' at them today and continue to extort in the name of the State tomorrow, into context. If you chose the security services investigating this heinous crime through your own pocket your personnel would be motivated to find and detain those involved who you could then expose to a system of justice that you also had <em>chosen</em> to subscribe to (not one organized and financed by the Statist Mafia). If you feel insecure about your personal purchasing power you might reflect for a moment on how much of your income is currently extorted from you in all the forms of taxation (not just income tax). Just a sample:</p>
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<p>Freed from the presumption that someone else knows best how you should spend your hard earned money, you can make choices regarding those services that you <em>genuinely</em> believe in. I may choose to subscribe to a service that fully investigated and prosecuted this case so that Daphne Caruana Galizia did not die in vain. You may disagree with my choice. That's what being an individual is all about. That's one reason why an individual life is precious. Of course the 'Mafia' will kill people who tell the Truth. They've been doing it since the beginning of time. The question is what are you (and I) going to do about it?</p>
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<p><br>or should we let the State decide for us?</p>
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<p>It's the idea that Ms. Galizia represented that cannot be killed. Speaking Truth to power. She will forever have lived a life of tremendous meaning even whilst having tragically confronted death at a relatively early age.</p>
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<p>She inspires me to write, no matter what the Mafia (costumed or otherwise) and it's apologists do, because they will never understand that you can't cage or blow up an idea like freedom, even if you have all the power and resources in the world</p>
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