Government is force. Anyone who disagrees is invited to try peaceful noncompliance with government. Try not paying taxes, smoking cannabis, working for less than minimum wage, or do anything peaceful that’s against the government’s rules. If they find out and you continue to peacefully refuse to comply, they will eventually assault you and put you in a cage (euphemistically called arrest and imprisonment). If you go one step further and use self defense with a gun (the only realistic way to defend yourself against police), you’ll probably end up getting shot.
Government does things that would be considered criminal if done by ordinary people. It repeatedly takes your money with the threat of force (arrest, or death if you resist that) and calls it taxation. It forbids acts between consenting adults for their own good (any black market activity, any regulated activity). It murders people and calls it war. It prevents the free association of its subjects with other people in the name of restricting immigration. Practically everything it does would be considered criminal if done by an ordinary person.
Even the most minimal night-watchman state, funded by voluntary donations, would still be coercive. At the very least, it would have to prohibit any competing protection services. Otherwise it would risk being competed out of existence.
That government is evil shouldn’t be a controversial point. Economists justify government on the grounds that public goods cannot be produced voluntarily and hence coercive government measures are justified.
Philosophical anarchism is the position that government is a necessary evil, to be done away with if there were a viable alternative. This should be the default position on government, held by any decent person with an intact moral sense. (I go further and advocate market anarchism as a viable alternative.)
Government is force, and force should be used sparingly if it must be used at all. It seems to me that most people have forgotten this; they would prefer profligate use of government over sparing use. Thus, people need constant reminding that government rules are backed by coercive police power (and that markets are voluntary). In most cases, markets can solve whatever problems government is supposedly solving, and much more efficiently to boot. As such, we ought to be doubly reluctant to use government: for both moral and economic reasons.
Great post. Greetings from Croatia.
Magnificent! Philosophical Anarchism is a term I can use comfortably. Thanks!!
The thing that bothers me is that we see so clearly where government fails, and also the problems associated with powers that the government should not have. And we are inline with the founders of this country. That said, we have to wonder how we got to the point we are at now? How have our citizens become so brainwashed? I think that some things that we need to teach are more logic, more critical thinking, and more history.
This is like gravity kills. I’d like to think government could be a problem, so experimenting with you. I’m going to make a governless rule. I’m not providing you with my real email address. I do it all the time on other web sites, but being that big brother has no business in everybodies business I wanted to see how the rule applies to you. Will I get posted? Because I am thinking there is no real thing as anarchy.
Well very good. I very much enjoy the article. I spent way too much time helping Alex Jones. I looked up your name. Toban Wiebe. Your surname. Wiebe- A Mennonite family name of Dutch origin, Wiebe is derived from the Christian name Wiebe or Wiebke. The name among Mennonites spread from Holland to Prussia, then Poland, then Russia, and finally to North America. The name was found in Tiegenhagen, Ladekopp, Rosenort, Fürstenwerder, Heubuden, Elbing, Neunhuben, and Königsberg. According to Franz Crous in his article “Mennonitenfamilien in Zahlen,” the name Wiebe ranked second to Penner in frequency among the Prussian Mennonites (366 bearers) before World War II. Herbert Wiebe was the author of Das Siedlungswerk niederländischer Mennoniten im Weichseltal … (Marburg, 1952). The name was also very common in the Mennonite settlements of Russia and is still widespread among the Mennonites of Canada, and United States, and South America. In Russia, Dietrich Wiebe was a well-known bonesetter from Lichtfelde, Molotschna Colony.
Who’s Who Among the Mennonites (1943) listed 14 ministers of the Wiebe family in the United States and Canada, among whom were D. V. Wiebe, Krimmer Mennonite Brethren (KMB) minister and educator, Frank V. Wiebe, KMB preacher at Gnadenau Church and missionary to China, Henry D. Wiebe, Mennonite Brethren (MB) pastor at Shafter, California, J. F. D. Wiebe, KMB minister in Herbert, Saskatchewan, and John A. Wiebe, MB missionary in India. A. J. Wiebe was a pioneer minister for the General Conference Mennonite Church (GCM) at Paso Robles, California; Peter Wiebe was a bishop of the Mennonite Church (MC) near Goshen, Indiana; Orlando Wiebe, an Evangelical Mennonite Brethren (EMB), was a teacher at Grace Bible Institute; Arno Wiebe was an EMB pastor at Dallas, Oregon; H. P. Wiebe was an EMB pastor at Abbotsford, British Columbia. GCM Pastors included Abe Wiebe at Freeman, South Dakota, Willard Wiebe at Mountain Lake, Minnesota, and Ed Wiebe at Ringwood, Oklahoma. Pastors of the Mennonite Brethren church were J. J. Wiebe at Kelowna, British Columbia, W. J. Wiebe at Morden, Manitoba, Anton Wiebe at Niverville, Manitoba, H. G. Wiebe at Leamington, Ontario, and J. P. Wiebe at Hepburn, Saskatchewan. In 1957 there were 40 active Mennonite ministers in North America representing this family. Of this 40, there were 23 in Canada and 17 in the United States distributed as follows: British Columbia 7, Saskatchewan 5, Manitoba 9, Ontario 2, California 8, Oregon 2, Kansas 2, and one each in Indiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Distributed by affiliation the MB conference had 24 ministers with this name, GCM 7, EMB 4, KMB 1, MC 1, and Church of God in Christ 3.
And Wiebe Meaning: “one who was a gallant fighter.”
This explains everything about you.
You were born an anarchist at birth.
And Tobin. Means “God is good”
This explains a lot about your personality.
It probably explains a lot to you.
It looks like Tobin is derived from a surname.
of Norman-French origin, from St. Aubyn in France, and may now be regarded as a completely Hibernicized name. The family, first called de St. Aubyn, arrived in Ireland in the wake of the Norman Invasion (1169 – 1170), and by the year 1200 they were settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, from whence they spread to the neighbouring Munster counties of Cork and Waterford. Other Norman names which have become completely Irish are Roche (originally “de Roche”) and Cusack (originally “de Cussac”). The Tobins were an extremely influential family in County Tipperary in medieval times, and the head of the family was known as Baron of Coursey. In the 14th Century the Tobins were described in the Annals of Clyn as “a turbulent sept more dreaded by the English than the native Irish”. The placename Ballytobin near Callan in County Kilkenny was named from the family, and one James Tobin represented the Tipperary town of Fethard in the Parliament of 1689. A branch of the family who were among the Wild Geese, settled at Nantes in the country of origin, and the best known of these was Edmund Marquis de Tobin (1692 – 1747), who was killed in action in the War of Austrian Succession. A Coat of Arms granted to the Tobin family of Bally-Tobin, County Kilkenny, depicts three silver oak leaves on an azure shield, the Crest being a red demi-lion rampant holding between the paws an oak branch proper. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Tobin, which was dated 1350, in “Medieval Records of County Kilkenny”, during the reign of King Edward 111 of England, known as “The Father of the Navy”, 1327 – 1377. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to “develop” often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling
This part is very interesting. “A branch of the family who were among the Wild Geese”
Very interesting because I’m Vegan.
Hi Toban. I hope everbody is doing okay, and I hope that the others will choke on their food if they are not vegan, especially if they are found selfishly eating at the big capitalist factory farming corperations like KFC. I have a special report from a former Rancher who says he will not eat meat although his generation of family members were always Ranchers. He said people are eating crap. He said he changed his life on his death bed. Good thing. Too bad it takes people so long to become aware that they are not the only one’s that suffers, or feels pain, especially when you are regularly making the dinner table.
I checked out the web site ComingAnarchy.com Speak Victorian, Think Pagan…A big joke. CIA runned or just a bunch of crappy heads. Amazing how people call themselves anarchist while having so many rules. And the Pagan thing. Dorky crappy head stuff..
I think Toban your ideas are good, but I think you really are a conservative Libertarian Republican.
Anyways… I guess there are some anarchist somewhere out there getting themselves into legal problems. Too bad because you can’t change the system through destruction, because some crappy head like Alex Jones or Ron Paul would get into power, and they both use censorship, and have rules themselves.
Rule not everyone is going to like.
I believe when Rand Paul challenged the freedom of speech on the Sean Hannity show it explain how the Paul’s think. Obey me after not obeying the USA government. I think we are going to find this a lot.
Rand Paul is the reson the Indefinite Detention Act got started because before this of Rand Paul’s suggestion to put people in jail for speech, there was no Indefinite Detention Bill.