The State's Failure to Protect Lahaina is Ominous
Don't just assume that the U.S. government will avoid nuclear war with Russia.
As I mentioned in my earlier reports about the Lahaina Fire, I have long perceived that the charming, historical town faced a high fire risk, and that state and county officials were being complacent about it. My intuitions about this proved to be—to my utmost distress and heartbreak—correct.
For some time now I have worried that our U.S. government and mainstream media are being complacent about the risk of nuclear war with Russia. The same people who say that we don’t need to worry about a nuclear exchange also say that Vladimir Putin is a power-hungry madman. Some of these same people say that we need to get rid of Putin, which will necessarily involve putting his back against the wall. These kinds of contradictory assertions and assurances make me very nervous.
The total incineration of Lahaina shows us that we should be leery about any State assurance that a situation is under control. Why should we believe that the politicians who infest Washington D.C. or any state capital know what they are doing?
Reliance on government is ALWAYS the wrong life philosophy.
Governments create negative and unintended consequences, catastrophes, injustices and problems for citizens.
This is one of the main reasons the US is being dismantled as a constitutional republic - too many citizens relying on government in various ways. Such reliance leads to abdication of personal responsibility by people, and growing seizure of power by the government - which is exactly the condition the US is in today.
Abraham Lincoln: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Ronald Reagan: “Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
Martin Luther King, Jr: “We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
Ron Paul: "We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties."
Thomas Sowell: "The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution."
Thomas Payne: "The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes."
The state exists to exploit the people. Their safety is only assured as long as they still possess something worth exploiting.