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Don't Be A Government Hooker

This past May 23rd Lady GaGa's new album Born This Way was released. In addition to the better known singles Judas and Born This Way it features also a more peculiar song, Government Hooker.

On one's first listen the song may sound crude, being about a young girl who wants to be a hooker. The song carries on about how she'll do or be anything that he wants. By the end of the song she is casting him off saying, "Stop f***ing me government hooker".

I think that this can be viewed as an anti-statist metaphor. Afterall is the State not a kind of pimp? Some would object to the "kind and paternalistic" government being portrayed as such, but what happens if one refuses to work for the gain of the state or chooses to opt out of its compulsory programs? Are we not all forced to be "government hookers"? We are allowed to keep some of our money from our labor but we must always pay off our pimps. Otherwise there will be problems.

No we are not allowed to choose self-determination, doing so brings the heavy hand of state violence upon us. If you don't like working several months of the year to pay off the interest payments to the Federal Reserve via the IRS, don't want to be mandated to purchase health insurance, or want to pass on all (not half) of your life's work to your children after you die then that's just too bad.

When we give up our liberties for money and protection are we not indeed prostituting ourselves? When we bow down and when we accept provisions like the Patriot Act wire tapping, TSA groping, secret kidnappings and assassinations of "enemy combatants" in the name of some petty fiction of safety and welfare we are prostituting ourselves to the state. We don't step out of line or disobey lest our pimps in DC smack us around.

As Rep. Ron Paul writes in the closing to Liberty Defined,

"Liberty built civilization. It can rebuild civilization. And when the tides turn and culture again celebrates what it means to be free our battle will be won. It could happen in our time. It might happen after we are gone from this earth. But it will happen."

Lady Gaga dares us to stop being government hookers. No more kneeling, no more forced servitude, it is time to throw off the yoke of oppression and build a free society.

Eric Sharp,
Regular Columnist, THL
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