"Any attempt to control prices or quantities of particular commodities deprives competition of its power of bringing about an effective coordination of individual efforts, because price changes then cease to register all the relevant changes in circumstances and no longer provide a reliable guide for the individual's actions."
F. A. Hayek, The Road To Serfdom.
I like this quote, as it tells the story of why free markets provide a superior means of keeping prices low and enterprises most effective. This is the true economy, but it can only happen in a stateless society. The state distorts the free market to favor the powerful over the rest of us through endorsement of collusive contracts and public policy, creating monopolistic dynamics that impoverish the masses while blessing the monopolist and the state representative.
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyan-Gandhian Libertarian for Texas Governor
ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
(Endorsed by Dr. Noam Chomsky)
gkchapman2012@hotmail.com
Saturday, June 1, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Tolstoyan not Tolstoyian
I have just been informed by my bumper sticker maker that I am a Tolstoyan, not a Tolstoyian. Oh well, we can all admit when we make a mistake. I actually like the "i," but I guess I'll fall in line with the masses on this one.
Gene
Gene
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Aetna Heath Insurance Intellectually Dishonest
A few months ago, I made the decision to get health insurance through the company I work for. It was just one of those whimsical decisions. The insurer was Aetna, and nothing was said about any requirements to sign up, not that I would have opposed giving answers to a health history.
Well, I had one of those twice a year plain jain office visits on May 20, 2013 with my family doctor. He checked me over and tweaked up my blood pressure medication that was already on report with my company for DOT purposes.
Today, I got a letter in the mail from Aetna wanting to have me fill out paperwork before they pay the remaining $86 of my office visit demanding I tell them of my health history to determine any preexisting conditions that they might want to refuse to pay.
This is like going to buy a car for $20,000. The salesman takes your $20,000 cash and as he is handing the keys over, stops and says, "Would you like tires and bumpers with that?"
I called the benefits department at my job to drop this intellectually dishonest insurance this afternoon and I am informed that I cannot drop the insurance until November. So I called our HR department to discuss options. They are not answering.
I would encourage all Texans to drop their Aetna Insurance in favor of intellectually honest insurance agencies. This is how a non-state society runs.
The saga continues.
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyan-Gandhian Libertarian for Texas Governor
(Endorsed by Dr. Noam Chomsky)
ChapmanForTexasGovernonr2014.com
gkchapman2014@hotmail.com
Well, I had one of those twice a year plain jain office visits on May 20, 2013 with my family doctor. He checked me over and tweaked up my blood pressure medication that was already on report with my company for DOT purposes.
Today, I got a letter in the mail from Aetna wanting to have me fill out paperwork before they pay the remaining $86 of my office visit demanding I tell them of my health history to determine any preexisting conditions that they might want to refuse to pay.
This is like going to buy a car for $20,000. The salesman takes your $20,000 cash and as he is handing the keys over, stops and says, "Would you like tires and bumpers with that?"
I called the benefits department at my job to drop this intellectually dishonest insurance this afternoon and I am informed that I cannot drop the insurance until November. So I called our HR department to discuss options. They are not answering.
I would encourage all Texans to drop their Aetna Insurance in favor of intellectually honest insurance agencies. This is how a non-state society runs.
The saga continues.
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyan-Gandhian Libertarian for Texas Governor
(Endorsed by Dr. Noam Chomsky)
ChapmanForTexasGovernonr2014.com
gkchapman2014@hotmail.com
Anarchism
Anarchism is a generic term describing various political philosophies and social movements that advocate the elimination of all forms of imposed authority, including social hierarchy and coercivepower. In place of hierarchy, these movements favor relations based upon voluntary cooperation and mutual aid, leading to a society characterised by the ability of each actor to have a say in outcomes proportionate to the degree they are affected by them. These philosophies use anarchy to mean a society based on voluntary cooperation of free individuals. Philosophical anarchist thought does not advocate chaos or anomie — it refers to "anarchy" as a manner of human relations that is intentionally established and maintained.
The Power of Non-Participation
Since my days in Bible College at the age of nineteen, when I first found the Sermon on the Mount, I have been turning over in my head the ideas I espouse now for my gubernatorial campaign, twenty-eight years later.
In South Carolina in 2005, when they locked me up for protesting the second plank of The Communist Manifesto at the IRS, I experimented with the concept of not signing oaths (paperwork) or providing a driver's license or social security number. It has been amazing to see how little can be done with you when you just respectfully decline to participate in your own character assassination by the state. I won't go into detail, as there are many tactics I do not want the state to fully understand, but the tactics of Tolstoy's book, The Kingdom Of God Is Within You, I want everyone to understand do work on at least my level of past use.
I plan not to vote in November, 2014, as the signature to vote is a de-facto oath; however, there will be many who will vote with an eye toward our convictions. It is these I want to reach and teach. So if you donate to this campaign, you will be donating to teach others to abandon the state in every respect, not because it was given by Jesus to build his Kingdom, but because it was understood by Tolstoy and used to great effect by Mahatma Gandhi to free India from British Colonialism. If a Kingdom is built, fine, but I seek no Kingdom but to be left alone by the state and its violence.
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyian-Gandhian Libertarian for Texas Governor
ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
gkchapman2012@hotmail.com
In South Carolina in 2005, when they locked me up for protesting the second plank of The Communist Manifesto at the IRS, I experimented with the concept of not signing oaths (paperwork) or providing a driver's license or social security number. It has been amazing to see how little can be done with you when you just respectfully decline to participate in your own character assassination by the state. I won't go into detail, as there are many tactics I do not want the state to fully understand, but the tactics of Tolstoy's book, The Kingdom Of God Is Within You, I want everyone to understand do work on at least my level of past use.
I plan not to vote in November, 2014, as the signature to vote is a de-facto oath; however, there will be many who will vote with an eye toward our convictions. It is these I want to reach and teach. So if you donate to this campaign, you will be donating to teach others to abandon the state in every respect, not because it was given by Jesus to build his Kingdom, but because it was understood by Tolstoy and used to great effect by Mahatma Gandhi to free India from British Colonialism. If a Kingdom is built, fine, but I seek no Kingdom but to be left alone by the state and its violence.
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyian-Gandhian Libertarian for Texas Governor
ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
gkchapman2012@hotmail.com
The Path to World Peace
1) Do not take oaths (ends the state and all its systems of violence).
2) Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth (mitigates envy and covetousness and refocusses life on the family and community).
3) Render not evil for evil (ends war).
4) Go not to law (ends the legal system).
5) Judge not, condemn not (ends bigotry, discrimination, the prison system and the death penalty).
Conclusion: Peace on earth.
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyan-Gandhian Libertarian Candiate for Texas Governor
(Endorsed by Dr. Noam Chomsky)
ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
gkchapman2012@hotmail.com
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
State Barriers to Saving Lives in Moore, Oklahoma Tornados
As I was finishing up my Welding degree back in 2011, there was an EF5 tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that sucked up two feet of ground underneath the tornado for miles. I began to work on a structure made of 1/4" steel plate, 8' x 4' sheets. It would cost about $1,600 in materials and could be buried long ways in the ground to save lives.
I pitched it to the Small Business Administration, and they were awed by its simplicity and low cost per unit. They hooked me up with a NASA engineer who told me that he could not sign off on the idea because of liability issues, even though he had the proper certification. (If an engineer signs off on a structure, he also gets credit for it, not the inventor.) I found a former worldwide President of the American Welding Society here in Dallas, Texas (a real live rocket scientist), and he told me he didn't have a PE (Public Engineer) certification, so he couldn't sign off on the idea, everyone excited along the way. After several other attempts, engineers telling me to not give out too much information on this unprotected idea, one after the other, finally, I gave up on the idea that could have been utilized in Moore, Oklahoma to save every person in that town for a low end cost of $1,600 per unit/ home.
That is the state for you.
Do not take oaths (ends the state and all its systems of violence).
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyian-Gandhian Libertarian for Texas Governor
ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
gkchapman2012@hotmail.com
I pitched it to the Small Business Administration, and they were awed by its simplicity and low cost per unit. They hooked me up with a NASA engineer who told me that he could not sign off on the idea because of liability issues, even though he had the proper certification. (If an engineer signs off on a structure, he also gets credit for it, not the inventor.) I found a former worldwide President of the American Welding Society here in Dallas, Texas (a real live rocket scientist), and he told me he didn't have a PE (Public Engineer) certification, so he couldn't sign off on the idea, everyone excited along the way. After several other attempts, engineers telling me to not give out too much information on this unprotected idea, one after the other, finally, I gave up on the idea that could have been utilized in Moore, Oklahoma to save every person in that town for a low end cost of $1,600 per unit/ home.
That is the state for you.
Do not take oaths (ends the state and all its systems of violence).
Gene Chapman,
Tolstoyian-Gandhian Libertarian for Texas Governor
ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
gkchapman2012@hotmail.com
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