Government Agents Are Just A Different Kind Of Criminal
'You'll Never Come Back from Copperhead Road'
In case you do not recognize it by now, the above picture is of an ATF agent coving the doorbell camera while serving a “search warrant” during a raid that that killed LR airport director Bryan Malinowski. This photo should be just as infamous as that of the burning Branch Davidian compound - DD
Most people believe in your right to defend yourself in exigent circumstances. In the moment, when your life or safety is threatened, you may take whatever steps are necessary to repel the threat.
Beyond that, agreement declines.
Some believe you should allow yourself or your home to be robbed rather than use physical force. They fail to grasp that property is not only necessary for life, it is an extension of one’s self-ownership. (Then again, there are a lot of things that people fail to grasp.)
Some believe only the “authorities” should own guns. Yeah, that’s right, we’ll all just sit and allow ourselves to be assaulted and robbed. The police will save us. Don’t even get me started.
But then a different kind of question arises. What if the violence isn’t exigent at all? What if it’s ongoing?
We have spoken about it many times before, and we will speak of it again: government is violence. Government itself is a constant attack.
Taxation is theft. Taxation is slavery.
All laws invented by legislatures are a violation of rights. If the law comports with natural law, then it is unnecessary. If it does not, then it is impermissible. Either way, statute law is not needed. Natural law principles can be stated simply in a written constitution, and then actual cases can be adjudicated in (private) courts, using an organic, common-law process: emergent order + accumulated human wisdom.
All force or threat of force against peaceful individuals is morally impermissible..and yet that is definitionally what government does and is.
All violations of consent are…