Is it self-defense to confront statists?
Written by Dixie Flatline
If I know that people are working through and with the state to steal from me, am I within my rights to confront them? For example, let’s say my neighbor doesn’t like the fence I have erected around my yard. Local ordinances say that the “good side” of the fence must face my neighbor. Yes, I build it, and he gets the better looking side of something on my property…
So he contacts “the city” and complains that I have erected this fence with the “bad side” towards him. Now he is using the state to attack my property. He’s using the state to coerce me for his benefit.
Do I have a right to confront him? Has he created the first aggressive move?
I’m beginning to think so.
What is my recourse? Complain to “the city” about the width of his driveway?
Within this line of thinking, a lot of us are being coercive all of the time. Check yourselves.
Mike Gogulski
The simple answer, I believe, must be “yes”, though men in clown suits will come around eventually and kill you for it.
More challenging is this question: If we agree that taxation is theft, then monies in the state’s treasury are rightly considered stolen property and therefore not the legitimate property of the state. How shall we judge, then, the propriety of a man who liberates an amount of money from the treasury exactly equal to all of his prior tax contributions? And shall we judge the man who liberates more than that amount differently?
Comment — October 17, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
Dixie Flatline
Wow, that is deep.
Comment — October 17, 2008 @ 8:21 pm