Surely, we must challenge authority!

Richard Vobes “I want to focus on the supposed authority that certain persons and corporations and local authorities claim to have over us. Where does this authority come from? It is of course mostly a belief, a make believe that’s been brainwashed into us and that we’ve accepted it over centuries. Take for example a contentious issue like the council tax and I’ve spoken about that in my videos many many times. We’re told of course that we must pay the tax simply for taking shelter from the elements in a building that we’ve perhaps bought or we’re renting or we’re still paying for. But either way, whatever that is, while we’re in there living in a town, we have to pay a tax for that privilege. They pretend, of course, that we are a customer and they write their letters to you, Dear Customer. But as I understand being a customer, I’m not a customer unless I ask for a service. If I become a customer of a supermarket, it’s because I’ve gone there and I’m now in there looking for something and I am their customer. I’ve never put myself in the position of being a customer in terms of the council. And so I’m not a customer. Instead of the council now offering a service or even a range of services like bin collection, contribution to keep up the roads, the parks, the shopping malls, places for the elderly and so on. Or even given a tariff which we could pick and choose from which services we like. Yes, I’ll have the bins and I might have that light outside my house and I’ll pay a little bit towards the police making sure that nobody burgles it or the fire brigade to come along and put out the fire should it start. That’s all very nice. But they don’t offer that. We are in fact told there’s only this one service and we are categorically told that we must pay for it or we’ll be summoned to a fake court and then made to pay. That doesn’t seem fair to me. What and where does the authority that they claim to have come from? UK legislation, apparently. We’re told it’s because they argue that we voted for a democratic government in the long-distance past and agreed to their terms. And so therefore, because we did that or our fathers or our grandfathers did that, we all have to do the same and accept it. Yet, even if it were true that we did vote in that way, apparently we’re not allowed to change our mind. So, we can’t say, “Actually, do you know what, I kind of disagree with this now.” We can’t change our mind. We can’t decide or conclude that the services are no longer fit for purpose, that they appear fraudulent, that there’s something corrupt about them. We can’t challenge that or or even that they’re just unaffordable for us at the moment. No, we are bounded by an agreement that you or I may or may not have made and there is no escape. Well, to me that sounds very much like slavery. Does that sound like slavery to you?”