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[Lil Red]

Wait ... I thought that was a good thing?  (I don't mean Rick Perry, I mean preferring more power in the hands of the state than the federal gov't)

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statism

In political science, statism (French: étatisme) is the belief that a government should control either economic or social policy, or both, to some degree.^[1][2][3][4] Statism is effectively the opposite of anarchism.^[1][2][3][4] Statism can take many forms. Minarchists prefer a minimal or night watchman state to protect people from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud with military, police, and courts.^[5][6][7][8] Some may also include fire departments, prisons, and other functions.^[5][6][7][8]Totalitarians prefer a maximum or all encompassing state.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}Limited government, welfare state, and other options make up the middle territory of the scale of statism.^[14][15]

also: http://billstclair.com/fatalblindness/FREEDOM990607.htm

 

Statism is the doctrine that maintains that your life, money and property are not yours, but the property of the state.  A statist is any individual who upholds this doctrine and/or supports its implementation.

 

A statist knows that he cannot get away with—at least, not yet—openly declaring that your life, money and property are not yours, so he advances these ideas by implicit means.

Statists enact laws that forbid you from taking certain actions altogether or only if you have their permission—and the idea is: if you may only act by permission, you do not have a right to your life.  Statists, through their regulations, determine how much of your money you will be allowed to keep—and the idea is: if you do not have the right to decide how your money is spent, your money is not yours.  Statists issue decrees restricting how you may use your property—and the idea is: if you do not have the right to control the use and disposal of your property, your property is not yours.   These are the indirect means by which statists promote and implement their ideas.

 

An adult statist is grown up, physically, but in a state of self-arrested, stunted, mental development.  His worldview is that of a child who can only do what his parents permit and who is dependent on his parents for everything.  In the adult world, he seeks to forcibly impose this view on others. You are the child and the state, run by statists, is the parent.  The statist may do anything he wants, while you may only do what the statist permits—bringing us a complete reversal of the way it should be.  In fact, you should be free to do whatever you want (so long as you do not violate the right of another to do the same), while government officials should only be able to do what the law specifically permits—and no more.

[brianthephysicist]

Ahh I got completely off track there.  I thought it was state vs fed, but really it's gov't should control everything.  My bad.