{"id":10296,"date":"2010-05-08T01:08:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T07:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/wordpress\/?p=10296"},"modified":"2015-05-07T19:01:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T02:01:06","slug":"an-anarchist-perspective-on-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/an-anarchist-perspective-on-government\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anarchist Perspective on Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcreporter.com\/cms\/story\/detail\/power_to_speak\/7876\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/images\/Welfare.png\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/>Power To Speak<\/a> | Government (all governments) resembles nothing so much as a legalized Mafia that claims a monopoly over the use of initiatory violence, usually over a specific geographic area (but sometimes outside it \u2014 see U.S. government) in order to extract protection money (i.e., taxes) to fund its operations.<\/p>\n<p>It claims the power to order people around (i.e., make laws and regulations) at gunpoint. It has enforcers (police, military, investigators, tax-collectors, etc.) to make sure people obey. Federal, state and local laws \u2014 and the regulations they spawn \u2014 most likely number in the millions, now, across America. Remember: ignorance of the law is not a valid defense for violations thereof.<\/p>\n<p>If one disagrees with the government\u2019s edicts, one has the privilege of challenging them before a government-appointed and -paid judge (who was probably a prosecutor for the government at one time) who will decide how the defendant gets to defend himself. Prosecutors get ahead in the legal\/political world based on how many people they convict and lock up \u2014 it could be for murder or rape or for smoking a joint or for painting one\u2019s house a non-approved color. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re perfectly neutral when helping administer their employer\u2019s edicts.  <\/p>\n<p>There is a very clear line between those who rule (government) and the ruled (citizens): one group issues commands backed up by the threat of violence (and sometimes violence itself), and the other obeys (or else). \u201cWe\u201d are not the government, and the government is not \u201cus.\u201d This kind of unbelievable disparity in power can, eventually, only lead to one outcome: totalitarianism\/slavery.<\/p>\n<p>Governments and the agents who serve them are composed of individuals. So we are ruled over by other individuals, not an inanimate and mythical entity we call \u201cgovernment.\u201d Sure, the individuals come and go, but the offices and titles (and most importantly, power) remain: kings, noblemen, knights, divine right to rule, hereditary ascension \u2026 presidents, congressmen, soldiers, democracy, elections.<\/p>\n<p>Governments, essentially, claim ownership over human beings and the products of their labor, and can be seen as a very clever disguise for slavery by the discerning. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcreporter.com\/cms\/story\/detail\/power_to_speak\/7876\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Entire Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Shane Solano<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power To Speak | Government (all governments) resembles nothing so much as a legalized Mafia that claims a monopoly over the use of initiatory violence, usually over a specific geographic area (but sometimes outside it \u2014 see U.S. government) in order to extract protection money (i.e., taxes) to fund its operations. It claims the power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[340,341,134],"class_list":["post-10296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-coercion","tag-coercive","tag-coercive-monopoly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}