1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:02,920 Welcome to Keith and I don't tread on anyone in the 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,320 Libertarian Institute. This is the libertarian lesson 3 00:00:06,360 --> 00:00:11,360 from the movie Downfall. Once small government advocates 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:15,720 concede that war is a euphemism for theft, funded mass murder, 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,880 taxation is theft, and economic regulation turns productive 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,120 people into criminals, they will frequently say we at least need 7 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:27,200 a government to protect us from other governments. 8 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:30,540 Set aside the fact that death by government from wars, 9 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:34,460 starvation, blockades, and genocides yield a result no 10 00:00:34,460 --> 00:00:37,900 private organization could ever come close to, since no one 11 00:00:37,900 --> 00:00:41,340 imagines private groups have an arbitrary right to initiate 12 00:00:41,340 --> 00:00:43,100 violence against peaceful people. 13 00:00:43,580 --> 00:00:48,020 This mentality ignores the economic reality that one group 14 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:52,820 having a judicial monopoly on an entire geographical area means 15 00:00:52,820 --> 00:00:56,580 that other governments only have to occupy a country's capitol 16 00:00:56,580 --> 00:01:00,290 buildings. In order to take it over, the 17 00:01:00,330 --> 00:01:04,569 excellent World War Two movie Downfall focuses on the National 18 00:01:04,569 --> 00:01:09,090 Socialist government of Germany losing control of Berlin, the 19 00:01:09,090 --> 00:01:11,090 capital of Germany, to the Soviets. 20 00:01:11,410 --> 00:01:16,210 The reason Berlin of all cities was the downfall of the Third 21 00:01:16,210 --> 00:01:19,690 Reich was because that was the central point of the 22 00:01:19,690 --> 00:01:23,610 government's control over the people of Germany once this area 23 00:01:23,610 --> 00:01:25,970 is taken over. And the masses of people have 24 00:01:25,970 --> 00:01:29,130 been trained to answer to the people who occupy those 25 00:01:29,130 --> 00:01:32,290 buildings. The country has effectively been 26 00:01:32,690 --> 00:01:35,170 conquered. Even today, the war in Ukraine 27 00:01:35,170 --> 00:01:38,210 is frequently referred to as the battle for Kiev. 28 00:01:38,770 --> 00:01:42,490 Knowing the implications of how powerful it is to occupy a 29 00:01:42,490 --> 00:01:46,570 country's capital under governments, nations essentially 30 00:01:46,810 --> 00:01:51,730 put all their eggs in one basket, so to speak, under a 31 00:01:51,730 --> 00:01:54,760 free market. No group would have a recognized 32 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,680 judicial monopoly in the form of a capital, making it far more 33 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,000 costly for other gangs or governments to take control of 34 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,480 millions of people's lives through military intervention. 35 00:02:06,120 --> 00:02:09,840 Progressives and conservatives alike always warn us about the 36 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,800 potential dangers of free market monopolies, while advocating the 37 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,800 state monopolize, law and order, compulsory schooling, taxation, 38 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:21,600 the money supply, and a host of other vitally important aspects 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,720 of society. It's true, monopolies give us 40 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:28,280 higher prices and poorer quality then we would otherwise have 41 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,440 under competition. It is also true that this 42 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:34,680 applies to government monopolies as well. 43 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,920 Far from being a utopian fantasy, private security is 44 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,440 already all around us. Recently I witnessed a company 45 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,840 experience a ransomware attack. Every file that made their 46 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:48,920 company what it is was in danger. 47 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,800 At no point did anyone say. Let's call 911 and the FBI and 48 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,120 the NSA and they can protect our property. 49 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,560 They immediately called a private IT company in Arizona, 50 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:03,520 got a hold of Sentinel one private cybersecurity, used 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:08,000 Google Cloud Security to back up their protected files and PayPal 52 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,640 private Security to keep their financial assets safe. 53 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,400 When push came to shove and they needed their most valuable 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,240 assets protected, they went to private security. 55 00:03:18,660 --> 00:03:21,620 And ignored the state completely, knowing it would be 56 00:03:21,620 --> 00:03:24,660 a waste of time. At shopping malls, baseball 57 00:03:24,660 --> 00:03:28,980 games, banks, bars, hotels, amusement parks and concerts we 58 00:03:28,980 --> 00:03:33,140 see private security voluntarily providing with the state claims 59 00:03:33,140 --> 00:03:36,740 only they can give us. It's time we stop having double 60 00:03:36,740 --> 00:03:39,620 standards. If government employees can't 61 00:03:39,620 --> 00:03:42,820 voluntarily compete for our hardearned money, they should go 62 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:47,680 bankrupt and cease to exist. I'll end with a quote by author 63 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:50,560 Michael Malice. If the government didn't have a 64 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:54,120 monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have 65 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:56,360 security. Just like when the government 66 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,440 got out of other businesses. The only cars produced were 67 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,880 limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos, and the 68 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,520 only food produced was Foy gras. Thank you for listening to Keith 69 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:10,800 and I don't tread on anyone and the Libertarian Institute.