Lets Make it Happen! - Adam Kokesh gives a great speech

Its unfortunate that the Constitution puts age limits on elected leaders...something I think should be amended.

Why should Adam have to wait until 2020 to be electable for president?

I say lower the Congress age threshold to 20, Senate to 25, and President to 30.

The age discrimination thing is a built-in institutionalized mechanism because the older one gets...the less and less they seem to like Lady Liberty.

By allowing younger people into office, this will balance that out and be another chip away at the Establishment.

Adam K for President!

~Chris
Norfolk, VA

Transhumanism is the death of humanity, aka the replacement of human biology with hardware.

It's not going to be a utopia of augmented humans.

Also, we had more freedom before computers and the average person was literate. Freedom is the product of a moral and responsible society.

I don't think so. Steve Jobs may have provided tools, but without a message or philosophy all they are is tools to be used for any message.

For instance, Obama is making use of Steve Jobs tools also.

I don't think Adam realizes that he stumbled knee-deep into Marxist theory... The idea that the political institutions of humanity are a function of it's stage of technological advancement is core to Marxist theory. He explained that ultimately what individuals do is in the bigger picture completely dwarfed by some pre-determined linear human destiny. He even paraphrased the 6 Marxist stages of human societal development (Tribalism->Slavery->Feudalism->Capitalism->Socialism->Anarchy) - just he mixed the order of socialism and capitalism.

He said that the early tribal society meant that you had to follow the leader because you needed to hunt for survival. He then said that we don't need to any longer because there is so much abundance... Marx called this "social surplus" . And when he mentioned the unemployed not having to want for hunger... He essentially did what Marx did, which is to sever the causal link between production and consumption; Because there is so much "social surplus", nobody should ever have to starve.

He even mentioned wage-slavery as one of the stages. Again accepting the Marxist premise that to withhold voluntary consent or dealing is equivalent to force. Where as Austrian economic theory tells us that only the state can create and enforce true monopolies, Adam is left to reason that by refusing to pay a certain wage, a company that holds a majority or totality of marketshare is in effect a coercive monopoly.

When he attacked government qua government as an illegitimate vestigial entity (that is, not just governments that have overstepped the proper role of government, but any government), he essentially advocated for anarchy. Marxist too believe that the state will wither away, and that only anarchy will remain... (they called this anarchy communism - an anarchy under which there is so much social surplus that there is no need to use force). Without a neutral/objective state to define property and adjudicate disputes via law, capitalism is impossible.

He is also deluded if he thinks all our technology changes anything or determines what philosophy will win out - the internet allows for communication so we can't be lied to? An illegitimate state could switch the entire internet off in a second flat if it thought it had to. He doesn't see that all these tools can be used for evil as well as good.

If he is acting with these ideas and philosophical premises as his basis for action - he will be willing to enter alliances of convenience with the philosophical enemies of freedom, and he will deliver to them the fruits of every victory over the status quo.

People, check your premises, please!

But the thing about liberty is that it brings people together who can express wonderful ideas

im a creationist and i was eating this stuff up like chocolate