Russell Kanning goes to court for driving without a license, again, accepts community service as penalty
Posted on August 20th, 2008 by bile Tags: agorism, community service, drivers license, New Hampsire, Russell Kanning, wealth consumption, wealth creationI showed up in court today, so the thugs didn’t have to come to my house and break down the door and accidentally kill anyone … or go to the wrong house and hurt others.
The judge found me guilty of driving after suspension of driving priviledges in NH
He fined my 300 bucks … he asked when I would pay it and then said I could do “community service” and I said I could probably do that.Yes … I am free … and I did do some driving today.
coconut … have that video on my desk by morning
I will have to find out where I can do my community service. There should be someplace where I will be helping people and not empowering the bad guys.
They didn’t get any money out of me.
I cost them money.
We had pizza.
coconut had filmed the ordeal and when released I’ll post that here. From other reports on NHUnderground.com Russell agreed to 30 hours of service at $10/hour to pay off the $300 fine. I understand the compromise of service to jail but in a way it seems to be a step backwards philosophically. When Russell was sentenced to jail for nonviolent, statute crimes he was acting under his own volition and the government people aggressed against him in order to place him in their jail. In this case he’s agreed to community service so he’s not harmed and/or thrown in jail again but this decision is made under duress. He’s going to be nonviolent regardless as that’s how he is and if he defended himself he’d likely be seriously harmed so by agreeing to community service he’s submitted to their tyrannical ways actively vs previously just continuing on and putting all responsibility on them. Not that I wouldn’t have done the same nor am I ignoring the fact he showed up to court at their request. Just pointing out the differences in approaches.
There is also this dilemma. If you go to jail you aren’t giving them the resources the government needs to survive. No wealth transfer to them. They have to expend resources in order to deal with you. While with community service, assuming you get to choose, you’d be creating wealth outside the system. Likely fighting the system for as long as possible to the point before they imprison you and then agreeing to community service, again assuming you get to choose it, would be the best route. You’d drain some government resources, bypass possible acts of violence, and create wealth in the private sector. You’d still be bowing down to the aggressors as pointed out above but in almost an agorist fashion helping bleed the beast.
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August 20th, 2008 at 8:29 am
You might drain gov’t resources that way, but won’t the beast just feed again (sooner in fact)?
August 20th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Depends on many things. This plan is really only going to work at the lower levels of government. Those who control the money supply can always print what they need. At the local level there are far more obstacles to increased taxes when the subjects aren’t playing along. With the recession people are more interested in spending and the outcry becomes greater. In places like NH where your state rep lives down the street and you run into them at the supermarket they’ve got more incentive to not be pigs. In addition, the idea is to grow this type of behavior. As it grows either the government will increase their tyranny, showing more people just what they are, or will decrease. There is only so much feeding the local public will take before tarring and feathering begins.