"The government is a group of people that systematically use force and threats of force to accomplish their goals. With no justification other than their ability to use overwhelming violence against those that resist, they act as a monopoly on violence and ultimate decision making over a certain geographical area. They claim the people that live in this area as property, call them “citizens” and take a certain percentage of their income as tribute. They set up rules against certain kinds of non-violent behavior and certain kinds of voluntary transactions between consenting adults. They then initiate force against people that engage in these behaviors and transactions and extract further tribute from them. They are no better and no different than a mafia gang subjecting a local business to a protection racket. Government is just a protection racket writ large."
-- http://theemptiness.info/2011/01/political-discourse-is-violent-rhetoric/#comment-917
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ouch.
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