More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, Singular Human Right to Consent & Other Neglected Matters

By D.C. Quillan Stone

It is Ethics not Politics that seeks liberation from government's shackles and chains hung heavy upon everyone's person, preference, possession and property. And it is Ethics not Politics that insists the regard for one's own Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters, inseparably demands the respect for one's Peculiar Human Ability to Reason on all matters. Politics is contrary even hostile to all such things.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Feb 4, 2021
• ISBN: 9781663217608

D.C. Quillan Stone

Poet/Writer/Blogger ... Californian native however 26+ years in northwest Mississippi near Memphis TN metro ... 9 books of poetry; collections, poetic novel/epic, poetic short stories or mysteries ... 10th and 11th books, philosophy/ethics, 12th book, continuation of the same philosophy/ethics, entitled More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters ... Homepage - www.DCQuillanStone.com ... Blogs - www.CafePerQ.com

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Contents

Proems & Poems

No. 101 - What Is Politics

No. 102 - What Is Politics / 1stReprise

No. 103 - What Is Covetousness

No. 104 - What Is Covetousness / 1st Reprise

No. 105 - What Is Covetousness / 2nd Reprise

No. 106 - What Is Covetousness / 3rd Reprise

No. 107 - What Are Possessions

No. 108 - What Are Possessions / Reprise

No. 109 - Solomon’s Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 1

No. 110 - Solomon’s Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 2

No. 111 - Solomon’s Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 3

No. 112 - Solomon’s Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 4

No. 113 - Solomon’s Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 5

No. 114 - What Is Politics / 2nd Reprise

No. 115 - What Is Politics / 3rd Reprise

No. 116 - What Is Politics / 4th Reprise

No. 117 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk

No. 118 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 1st Reprise

No. 119 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 2nd Reprise

No. 120 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 3rd Reprise

No. 121 - Ethics versus Politics

No. 122 - Ethics versus Politics / 1stReprise

No. 123 - Burden of Responsibility and Risk / 4th Reprise

No. 124 - Matthew Twenty-Five / Part 1

No. 125 - Matthew Twenty-Five / Part 2

No. 126 - Matthew Twenty-Five / Part 3

No. 127 - Ethics versus Politics / 2nd Reprise

No. 128 - Ethics versus Politics / 3rd Reprise

No. 129 - Epicurus and John Locke

No. 130 - Incapable of Gray / Part 1

No. 131 - Incapable of Gray / Part 2

No. 132 - Incapable of Gray / Part 3

No. 133 - Incapable of Gray / Part 4

No. 134 - Pursuit of Happiness

No. 135 - Pursuit of Happiness / 1st Reprise

No. 136 - Pursuit of Happiness / 2nd Reprise

No. 137 - Fierce Regard, Fervent Respect

No. 138 - Pursuit of Happiness / 3rd Reprise

No. 139 - Bill of Right

No. 140 - Bill of Right / 1st Reprise

No. 141 - Bill of Right / 2nd Reprise

No. 142 - Individualistic

No. 143 - Individualistic / Reprise

No. 144 - Rights in the Plural

No. 145 - Pursuit of Happiness / 4th Reprise

No. 146 - Pursuit of Happiness / 5th Reprise

No. 147 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 1

No. 148 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 2

No. 149 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 3

No. 150 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 4

No. 151 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 5

No. 152 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 6

No. 153 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 7

No. 154 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 8

No. 155 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 9

No. 156 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy

No. 157 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy / 1st Reprise

No. 158 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy / 2nd Reprise

No. 159 - Jevons’ Laws of Thought

No. 160 - Jevons’ Laws of Thought / Reprise

No. 161 - Individually We Stand

No. 162 - Individually We Stand / 1st Reprise

No. 163 - Individually We Stand / 2nd Reprise

No. 164 - Constitutional Crisis

No. 165 - Constitutional Crisis / 1st Reprise

No. 166 - Constitutional Crisis / 2nd Reprise

No. 167 - The Rescissionist / Part 1

No. 168 - The Rescissionist / Part 2

No. 169 - The Rescissionist / Part 3

No. 170 - The Rescissionist / Part 4

No. 171 - The Rescissionist / Part 5

No. 172 - Religious Fidelity, Pious Morality

No. 173 - To Refuse Bowing, Submitting

No. 174 - The Rescissionist / Part 6

No. 175 - The Rescissionist / Part 7

No. 176 - The Rescissionist / Part 8

No. 177 - Break and Toss the Linear Scale

No. 178 - Secrecy thus Conspiracy / 3rd Reprise

No. 179 - The Rescissionist / Part 9

No. 180 - The Rescissionist / Part 10

No. 181 - The Rescissionist / Part 11

No. 182 - The Rescissionist / Part 12

No. 183 - The Rescissionist / Part 13

No. 184 - O America!

No. 185 - Soul of America

No. 186 - Violence Consistently Inconsistent

No. 187 - Kennedy Half-Right, Half-Wrong

No. 188 - The Rescissionist / Part 14

No. 189 - The Rescissionist / Part 15

No. 190 - A Reprobate Mind

No. 191 - A Reprobate Mind / 1st Reprise

No. 192 - A Reprobate Mind / 2nd Reprise

No. 193 - A Reprobate Mind / 3rd Reprise

No. 194 - A Reprobate Mind / 4th Reprise

No. 195 - A Reprobate Mind / 5th Reprise

No. 196 - My Life Matters!

No. 197 - My Life Matters! / 1st Reprise

No. 198 - My Life Matters! / 2nd Reprise

No. 199 - No Less, No More Clarity

No. 200 - What Is Democracy

No. 201 - What Is Democracy / 1st Reprise

No. 202 - What Is Democracy / 2nd Reprise

No. 203 - Rights in the Plural / Reprise

No. 204 - My Life Matters! / 3rd Reprise

No. 205 - The Year 2021 / Part 1

No. 206 - The Year 2021 / Part 2

No. 207 - The Year 2021 / Part 3

No. 208 - The Year 2021 / Part 4

No. 209 - One Last Appeal

No. 210 - One Last Appeal / Reprise

To my daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, who I love more than they know. It is my hope they someday will read this book when aged enough by human experiences hence mildly or gravely despondent over the human yet quite inhumane experiments, that is, the political and social monstrosities called Government.

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Is 1:18 / Mt 5:9

2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23

To the following (incomplete list of) influences, who in various decrees marginally or largely shifted my ideological thus moral paradigm(s), facilitating and fostering the conclusions in this book. Consequently in somewhat chronological order; the Taoist and Greek writers, the Apostles and their Gospels and Epistles, the Early Church writers, the theologians and economists of the School of Salamanca, Roger Williams (his book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience), John Locke, Richard Cantillon, John Stuart Mill, the French economists Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Jean-Baptiste Say and Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (of course the essay The Law as well his complete works), Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton (his article No. 84 only) thus the Federalist Papers, then the arguably preferred Anti-Federalist Papers therefore contributors George Clinton, Melancton Smith, Robert Yates, George Mason and Patrick Henry (his fiery speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention), writers and orators like Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman) as well chiefs Red Jacket, Joseph and others (as compiled by numerous historians), Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner (his collection Let’s Abolish Government), Mark Twain (his short story/prose War Prayer) and the American Anti-Imperialist League, the Austrian economists Carl Menger, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk and Ludwig von Mises (particularly his books Liberalism and Human Action), Carl Jung, F.A. Hayek, Garet Garrett, Albert J. Nock (his book Our Enemy, The State), Frank Chodorov, John T. Flynn, C.S. Lewis (his book Mere Christianity), Leonard Read, Henry Hazlitt (his masterly book Foundations of Morality), Ayn Rand (her book Atlas Shrugged and television interviews), Murray N. Rothbard (his two volume historical work on Economic Thought), Martin Luther King Jr. (his speeches and sermons on nonviolence and peace), John Lennon, Milton Friedman, Irwin Schiff, Francis Schaeffer (his book True Spirituality, most noteworthy the section on covetousness),as well the few (among many) contemporaries per their books, essays, articles, lectures, shows, podcasts, documentaries and interviews like Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, Tom Woods (his lecture on Spanish/Filipino-American wars), Walter Block, Hans-Herman Hoppe (his book Democracy, The God That Failed), James Grant, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Walter E. Williams, Jordan Peterson, Jeffrey Tucker, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente, Niall Ferguson, Hernando de Soto Polar, Thomas Sowell and of course Ron Paul (his book End the Fed, consistently a man of peace).

Proem & Poem No. 101

What Is Politics

W hat is politics? Instead of you putting your own pistol to someone’s head forcing their behavior and/or extorting their possession to satisfy your preference, you vote for politicians thus laws, regulations, policies, programs, licenses, taxes, fees, fines, bans, sanctions and more that put police officers, agents or soldiers’ guns to others’ heads forcing their behavior and/or extorting their possession to satisfy your preference.

What is politics? Instead of you using your own cattle prod to presumptuously herd other people as though solely instinctive nonhuman specie, corralling them into your preferred ism, environment or society, you vote for politicians thus laws, regulations, policies, programs, licenses, taxes, fees, fines, bans, sanctions and more that use police officers, agents and soldiers’ batons and rifle-butts to presumptuously herd other people as though solely instinctive nonhuman specie, corralling them into your preferred ism, environment or society.

What is politics? Instead of you disregarding others’ Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters, thus disrespecting others’ Peculiar Human Ability to Reason on all matters, you vote for politicians thus laws, regulations, policies, programs, licenses, taxes, fees, fines, bans, sanctions and more, hence necessitating police officers, agents or soldiers to disregard on your behalf others’ Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent on all matters, thus disrespecting on your behalf others’ Peculiar Human Ability to Reason on all matters.

Who does Politicism ignore, dismiss, redefine, critique, protest, belittle, ridicule, slander even resent, loathe, despise, hate per covetous propaganda? Who does Politicism hinder, trample, restrain, shackle, castrate, enslave even terminate in various forms abortive, euthanasic, incarcerate, capitally punitive, offensively militaristic, genocidal or holocaustic per avaricious promulgation? Who is Politicism’s analytic censor as well instinctive contender? Individualism of course, or the Individual, that is to literally say, each and every person. To reiterate alternatively, the who is the specie human thus individual, antecedent to arrangements communal if unanimously deemed beneficial, peculiarly able to reason and conclude therefore singularly rightful to consent or dissent, and will do so accordingly, consistently, universally, persistently and if necessary quite insistently.

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O wrested struggle within, the Schaeffer’ian climax to append

To Self ego’ed in glass darkly, aside the Last of the Mosaic Ten

Covetousness haunts the shadowy end of Man’s dimly lit hall

Relentless the gall and Psychosis’ writ as graffito holy on walls

Spirituality truly spewed hence Individuality thoroughly strewn

Humanity’s essence spat upon, scorned long then dragooned

Must not attune, must not contend propaganda’s grandness

Must not portend (empirically) Bastiat’s forewarned madness

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Proem & Poem No. 102

What Is Politics / 1stReprise

T o exemplify for a moment, 20 th /21 st century American society have considered marijuana from political/social toleration to regulation, taxation, with increases of both followed by eventual prohibition, until the recently growing reintroduction of uses medical or recreational, well regulated and taxed of course, per