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Welcome to Keith and I don't 
tread on anyone in the 

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Libertarian Institute. 
This is a section from my book 

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Domestic Imperialism titled 
Arbitrary Divides. 

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On June 12th, 2016, Omar Mateen 
murdered 49 people and wounded 

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53 at the Pulse nightclub in 
Orlando, FL. 

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While inside Pulse, Mateen 
called the police to admit to 

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the terrorist act in hopes of 
amplifying his motives. 

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Here's how then President Barack
Obama addressed this tragedy 4 

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days later. 
This was an attack on the LGBT 

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community. 
Americans were targeted because 

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we're a country that has learned
to welcome everyone, no matter 

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who you are or who you love. 
And hatred towards people 

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because of sexual orientation, 
regardless of where it comes 

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from, is a betrayal of what's 
best in US. 

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Here are the actual words spoken
by Mateen in his phone call with

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police on the night of the 
massacre. 

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You have to tell America to stop
bombing Syria and Iraq. 

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They're killing a lot of 
innocent people. 

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What am I to do here when my 
people are getting killed over 

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there? 
You get what I'm saying. 

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You need to stop the US air 
strikes. 

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They need to stop the US air 
strikes, OK? 

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They need to stop the US air 
strikes. 

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You have to tell the US 
government to stop bombing. 

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They are killing too many 
children. 

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They are killing too many women.
OK, I feel the pain of the 

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people getting killed in Syria 
and Iraq. 

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They need to stop bombing Syria 
and Iraq. the US is 

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collaborating with Russia and 
they are killing innocent women 

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and children. 
OK, The air strikes need to stop

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and stop collaborating with 
Russia. 

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OK? 
Tell the fucking the air strikes

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need to stop. 
You see? 

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Now you feel. 
Now you feel how it is. 

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Now you feel how it is. 
Barack Obama took what was 

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clearly a response to the US 
government's foreign policy as 

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an opportunity to place focus on
the arbitrary demographic of the

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victim's sexual orientation. 
He didn't say this was an attack

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on young people, even though 
most of the victims were young. 

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He didn't say this was an attack
on Floridians, even though the 

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attack occurred in Florida. 
A sane response would have been 

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this tragedy shows the human 
cost of our government's 

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violence against innocent people
abroad. 

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As Americans, we must reject the
use of violence against innocent

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people to achieve our goals as a
nation, regardless of country, 

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gender, nationality, or sexual 
orientation. 

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We must constantly have a 
policy, both foreign and 

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domestic, which embraces life, 
liberty, and the peaceful 

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pursuit of happiness. 
To clarify, in 2016, the year of

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the Pulse massacre, the United 
States government dropped 24,287

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bombs on Iraq and Syria, 
according to the Council on 

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Foreign Relations. 
The use of arbitrary divides 

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involves separating people based
on accidents of birth or 

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irrelevant personal attributes, 
as opposed to actions they as 

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individuals, choose to engage 
in. 

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Here are some arbitrary group 
identities commonly used by 

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progressives to divide people of
goodwill, male versus female, 

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rich versus poor, Russian versus
American, straight versus gay, 

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black versus white. 
Two more examples illustrate 

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this issue. 
First from CNN in an article 

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titled US Black, White 
Inequality in Four Charts. 

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Second, Congresswoman Alexandria
Ocasio Cortez's speech Combating

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the Gender Pay Gap. 
The implicit assumption is that 

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the existence of inequality is 
the result of discrimination, 

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and the state must coercively 
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between groups. 
Here are some disparities in 

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America that the article and the
speech both conveniently 

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neglected to mention. 
How many hours men work annually

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compared to women, which fields 
men tend to study compared to 

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those which women tend to study.
Engineering, communications and 

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how ambitiously they studied. 
Black immigrants to America earn

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more than US born blacks. 
Married men earn more than 

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unmarried men. 
The state wage gap. 

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Maryland versus Mississippi 
median income. 

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The age wage gap. 
Older men earn more than younger

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men. 
Indian Americans and Asian 

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Americans earn more than white 
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Most homeless people are men. 
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die on the job. 
Men are roughly 50% of the 

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American population, but 95% of 
those killed by police. 

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Women are roughly 50% of the 
American population, but 89% of 

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the elementary school teachers 
female only fans creators earn 

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78% more than their male 
counterparts. 1 Kenyan tribe The

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Kalanjin produces the world's 
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California donut shops are owned
by Cambodians. 

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The reality is that disparities 
and outcomes are all around us 

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and are not only the result of 
unjust discrimination. 

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Progressives seemingly cherry 
pick certain disparities to 

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create division among 
populations so that they can 

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have an enemy, thereby 
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over others. 
Focusing on disparities also 

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distracts from focusing on the 
principle at hand. 

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Progressives will often oppose 
the war on drugs, for example, 

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on the grounds that certain 
demographics are 

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disproportionately targeted for 
drug arrests. 

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But this assumes that the state 
has the right to imprison people

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for victimless crimes. 
So all the police need to do is 

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arrest more people at a rate 
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demographic. 
According to the Selective 

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Service System, all men ages 18 
to 26 must register for the 

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draft. 
One way to approach it this is 

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to say that forced labor is 
immoral. 

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Another is to say that this is 
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Therefore, women too should be 
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their will. 
The profit motive is another 

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arbitrary divide progressives 
use. 

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Every time a person acts, he is 
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effort, money, products at his 
disposal in an attempt to 

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improve his situation. 
This is the nature of homo 

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economicus. 
Every second you spend reading, 

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you're not sleeping or hiking. 
For every dollar you spend on 

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coffee, it's one less dollar you
can spend on clothing. 

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The Progressive takes this 
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and then pins it uniquely on the
free market. 

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Do politicians not profit from 
television appearances and from 

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large crowds sharing their 
names? 

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Setting aside the psychic 
profit, politicians aren't 

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exactly unpaid volunteers, with 
most of them having net worths 

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much higher than those of their 
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Soldiers, teachers, and police 
officers are also profit 

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seekers, as opposed to unpaid 
volunteers or people who don't 

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reap any mental or social status
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Everyone is trying to maximize 
profit at every moment of every 

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day. 
Actor Sean Penn recently used 

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the example of when police show 
up to protect Grandma, they 

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don't make her put her credit 
card down, insinuating that the 

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government exudes generosity 
while the free market is greedy.

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What happens when Grandma 
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tax, or income tax? 
Does the government call her and

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say, miss Grandma, we noticed 
you didn't chip in this year to 

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the Internal Revenue Service. 
Are you unhappy with our 

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services? 
Please reconsider being our 

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customer. 
Of course not. 

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The state will imprison people 
for not giving them money, a 

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method far greedier than 
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It's also worth noting now the 
voluntary profit incentive 

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encourages goodwill among 
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Almost every time I purchase a 
good or service in the private 

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sector, the employees will thank
me for shopping at their store. 

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However, after having been a net
taxpayer for 11 years, I have 

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never once been thanked by a 
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teacher, or politician. 
This constant attempt to divide 

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people of goodwill based on 
arbitrary attributes is what 

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makes progressivism such an 
insidious ideology. 

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Instead of separating heroes 
from villains based on income or

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accidents of birth, as 
progressivism does, people 

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should be divided based on whose
behavior is peaceful, honest, 

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and cooperative, in opposition 
to people whose behavior is 

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violent, fraudulent, and 
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Thank you for watching Keith and
I don't tread on anyone in the 

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Libertarian Institute.