The State is that … which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area …

It’s so simple.

A cop has the right to shoot you. It’s a discretionary right, and used whenever that high school diploma badgeholder decides it should be.

If you shoot a cop, though, even if you were in fear for your life … game over.

The state does everything it can to maintain a monopoly, over the use of force.

If you use it, on anyone, they can and do punish you, starting with depriving you of your freedom to move at will.

Morally speaking, the State itself is a hypocritical monstrosity, not a mechanism for ensuring life, or liberty, and not compatible with pursuing one’s own happiness, in spite of their pretty constitutional words.

The quotation continues:

in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.
Source

They coerce you as a matter of course to pay for the right to live in their horrifying system by their ugly rules, which change to suit their needs.

Capitalism, communism, fascism, socialism, democracy all matter far, far less than Statism. They’re just flavors of it.

The buffalo were murdered to perpetuate its interests.

To say nothing of the free indigenous peoples whose economy and very ecology depended on those big shaggy beasts.

The buffalo had to be wiped out because they refused to be domesticated.

The same was true of the man they called Geronimo, and thousands like him.

They domesticated actual human beings to serve as farm labor down south, and serve the vittles on silver platters up north of Richmond.

Today in this Land of the Free, everyone is domesticated.

I mean you, and I mean me, too.

We agreed, implicitly or explicitly or both, to play nice with the oppressors. The Massas. The owners of the big house.

We made our own little killings, on the backs and by the terms of their mass killings.

The casualties of which included our spirits.

“The system isn’t perfect, but it’s by far the best one–suck it up!”

Do you still cling to that shit, or is it clinging to you?