Sunday, December 8, 2013

Chapman v. R. Lee Wrights on Taxes

From the R. Lee Wrights Campaign Website:


"If the legislation increases taxes; takes property without consent; centralizes economic or political power in anyone other than the individual; limits personal or family choices; removes personal, corporate, or government accountability; mandates the purchase of a product or service; increases the size, power, or scope of government; creates more non-violent criminals out of harmless people; violates property rights; subsidizes an industry; invades individual privacy; exports more warfare to countries that haven’t harmed us; restricts an individual’s natural right to self determination or personal defense; marginalizes people because of their personal choices, actions, or circumstances; manipulates, uses force, interferes, or restricts the voluntary interactions between peaceful people; or in any way attempts to separate an individual’s personal freedom from the individual’s economic freedom…. I oppose it.
If the legislation helps restore or retain every individual’s natural right to interact freely and peacefully in unobstructed markets with other individuals so long as one individual doesn’t use force or fraud against another… I support it.
I do not apologize for this view.

One Response to Where I Stand On Any Legislation"


Gene's reply:  I direct your attention to the first word's of Mr. Wrights' statement:  "If the legislation increases taxes . . . ."

Clearly, Mr. Wrights believes in the current tax system's right to exist, else he would say, "taxes should not exist," as I propose.  He believes in the right for the state to enslave the individual, one would conclude.  If it has the right to tax, then it has the right to use force against the individual.  As a Tolstoyan-Gandhian Libertarian, I do not believe the state has the moral right to exist, much less use force against individuals at any level.  I hold the Rothbardian view that the state should be something we seek to abolish, not compromise with. The very "legislation" Mr. Wrights assumes in his statement should not exist, so that we may live the Kingdom conception of life, as proposed by Leo Tolstoy's famous book, "The Kingdom Of God Is Within You."

My position presupposes all his other points.

Gene Chapman
ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
[(Endorsed by Dr. Noam Chomsky (Intellectual of the Age), Dr. Ravindra Kumar (World's Most Prominent Gandhian Intellectual) and Bishop T. D. Jakes (World Renowned Pastor)]
ChapmanShredsRLeeWrights.blogspot.com


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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

R. Lee Wrights Finally Appears in Texas Gubernatorial Discussion.


R. Lee Wrights Finally Appears in Texas Gubernatorial Discussion.



  • Question for Gene?
    Question: "Mr. Chapman, how do you and R. Lee Wrights differ in your run for Texas Governor?"

    Answer: Well, Lee is supportive of the "state conception of life," as Leo Tolstoy would put it, while I am a philosophical anarchist in line with Lew Rockwell, Economist Murray Rothbard, Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, Jesus Christ and the Dalai Lama, etc.

    If you really want to stop the Dallas Police and other police departments from killing our mentally handicapped citizens in their front yards, for example, as we see on the news month-after-month here in Texas, then what better way than to abolish the state conception of life in favor of Tolstoy's Kingdom conception of life (a libertarian stateless society driven by conscience)?

    Lee's postions are not publicized on his campaign website the last time I checked, so it is hard to say where else we would differ at this point.

    If you go to my website, you know in about 15 or 20 posts pretty much what I'm about. If you go to every other candiate's website, including Lee's, you only have a highly managed spot presentation of what they are about. People say they want openness in their candidates. I'm prepared to wear a live streaming camera on my person to show what I'm about (in the shower, if they want it).

    Gene Chapman,
    Tolstoyan-Gandhian Libertarian Candidate for Texas Governor
    [(Endorsed by Dr. Noam Chomsky, Intellectual of the Age) and Dr. Ravindra Kumar (World's Most Prominent Gandhian Intellectual)]
    ChapmanForTexasGovernor2014.com
    gkchapman2012@hotmail.com


    R. Lee Wrights I'll thank Mr. Chapman, or anyone else, to NOT speak for me and my beliefs. I have never met Mr. Chapman, so he hardly has the proper knowledge of me to express my views for me.
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  • Gene Chapman Well Lee, 1) are you working to abolish the state conception of life or not? I don't see any attempt to abolish the state from what I can read about your views. 2) I honestly can't comment too much on your beliefs, as your positions are not up on your campaign website.

    Gene Chapman "Government should be" That's right off Lee Wrights' Texas Gubernatorial website. How am I misrepresenting your views, Lee? I think I'm being pretty tame and spot on, Lee.  I believe 'Government should not be,' and I suggest that you spoke for your own beliefs on your own campaign website. I simply read your beliefs, and because I am a well educated individual with the endorsement of two of the most respected minds on earth, I transferred the unequivocal meaning of your statement "Government should be" to my answer. Pretty simple, Lee.
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