Watch Politicians Snap when Alternative Media Journalist asks them One Short Question
John Vibes
December 26, 2015
Jan Helfeld is a political journalist who has been traveling around and asking politicians some of the same awkward questions that work to expose the illegitimacy of their authority. His questions were extremely simple and many times ridiculed as “stupid” by the politicians that he interviewed because he was attempting to establish moral principles using the Socratic method.
One of the best and most crucial questions that Helfeld has asked over the years is simple enough: “Can you delegate a right that you don’t have to someone else?”
This simple question has caused dozens of politicians to either become aggressive, run away, or both because it points out that they do not have the right to do the things that they do in the name of government.
To use an example: if an average citizen does not have the right to steal from his neighbor, then he cannot go ahead and vote for one of his friends to do it.
Furthermore, if a particular group – even a group with a majority in a certain area – decided to vote for themselves or one another, to steal from innocent people, they would not be justified in doing so. In this situation, these people would essentially be granting a privilege to another person that they themselves did not have, which is obviously a ridiculous idea.
However, this is exactly how democracy and representative government works. The power of the politicians is supposedly granted by the people. However, average people don’t have the right to do things that politicians and agents of the state do on a regular basis. Therefore, the people living in a democracy never had the authority that they allegedly gave their government to begin with, which means that this authority does not exist and that the government does not have a right to use it.
Helfeld would lead the people he interviewed to this conclusion, which resulted in an incredibly entertaining encounter nearly every time.
In the video below, Helfeld explains his style of interviewing, and how he used the Socratic method to point out contradictions in people’s reasoning.
JAN ON SOCRATIC INTERVIEWING
https://youtu.be/RzJ1gZ_hxYE
In the following video, Helfeld interviewed Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and walked him down the same path of logic that was laid out in this article. He asked Inouye first whether or not people had the right to steal from one another, and then if they had the right to delegate that authority to the government; then finally he asked, “Can a person delegate a right that they do not have?” Inouye sat frozen like a deer in the headlights realizing that he had just been backed into a corner, and that’s when the interview gets really interesting.
BERNIE SANDERS
In the following video, Helfeld interviewed Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and walked him down the same path of logic that was laid out in this article. He asked Inouye first whether or not people had the right to steal from one another, and then if they had the right to delegate that authority to the government; then finally he asked, “Can a person delegate a right that they do not have?” Inouye sat frozen like a deer in the headlights realizing that he had just been backed into a corner, and that’s when the interview gets really interesting.
https://youtu.be/FkpcA3El944
Inouye is not alone, either. Many other politicians and news pundits had similar reactions when faced with the same questions. Check out some of the most interesting below, including an encounter with Bernie Sanders where he gets angry, demands to know by whom Helfeld is funded, and runs out of the room! And you would want Sanders as your 'president'?!
BERNIE SANDERS
https://youtu.be/tBIKP4W50-I
JOHN McCAIN
JOHN McCAIN
https://youtu.be/vS3Kg1UVEJs
CONGRESSMAN MORAN
CONGRESSMAN MORAN
https://youtu.be/zIix40JJSGo
BILL RICHARDSON
BILL RICHARDSON
https://youtu.be/GAY_hHGKL4M
REP. HOEFFEL
REP. HOEFFEL
https://youtu.be/TwOfsSW84k0
http://www.activistpost.com/
John Vibes is an author and researcher who organizes a number of large events including the Free Your Mind Conference. He also has a publishing company where he offers a censorship free platform for both fiction and non-fiction writers. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can purchase his books, or get your own book published at his website www.JohnVibes.com.
John Vibes writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com
3 comments:
IF YOU WANT THE BEST LAUGH YOU HAVE HAD IN AWHILE, I SUGGEST YOU LISTEN TO THESE LIAR-LAWYER TYPES BEING.............. INTERVIEWED.... THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO SAY YES OR NO!! THEY ALWAYS CONVOLUTE THE ANSWER AND SKIRT AROUND THE ISSUE. THESE ARE OUR GOVERNMENT REPRESENATIVE THAT NEED TO GO TO JAIL.... THEY ARE ALL TREASONIST AHOS....WATCH WHAT THEY DO WHEN JOHN BACKS THEM INTO A CORNER, AND WATCH THEM START ARGUING WHEN THEY REALIZE THEY HAVE BEEN HAD... GET READY TO LAUGH!!
It seems that many of our politicians don't understand basic English, are stupid, retarded, or are trying to avoid answering so as to not expose their warped thinking. Anyone of those reasons is reason to vote them out.
Seems they need a little more "edumacation". Ken T.
They can't be "our politicians" or "OUR GOVERNMENT REPRESENATIVE(s)" unless we actually support and believe in what they say and do...
IF we do not support and believe in what they say and do, THEY ARE NOT and CAN NOT be "OURS" - Maybe they are YOURS, But They Are Not "OURS"!
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