Governments are instituted among men to secure their liberties and freedoms in perpetuity, and for posterity to their descendants. This is the only legitimate reason for their existence, and it is spelled out in the founding documents of the United States of America. There is no other purpose, nor legitimate cause of of government action.
You see, in a state of nature man is subject to the oppressive forces of other men, and groups of men, as they please, on a whim, and as they might. This is a violent, terrifying, and fairly miserable existence, and it was the way of the world for most of human history. This is the doctrine of “might makes right” emergent in the rejection of an overarching ethic in social relations degraded into tribalism and warfare in a never-ending Hobbesian power struggle over a slice of the pie – a pie that never grows but does shrink in a zero-sum game. It is only the ability to bargain against the future that allows one to grow in fortune. It’d be a fool who bargains today’s bread for a future that he knows will not come.
The establishment of government among men is undertaken with the full knowledge that government is, too, subject to capture by the devious nature of men, and might we wielded against them as those capturing government run the economies in reverse, thereby enriching themselves in the moment in a bargain that destroys posterity for present gratification. It is for this reason that governments are to be kept small, and wholly subordinate to the people such that even a minority of them might overtake it by force when necessary. It is in this vein that all actions seeking to increase the size or scope of government must be taken as an aggression against you personally, and one with designs on your very future, and on your children. The only reason to grow government is to subordinate those deemed one’s enemy to one’s arbitrary power. We have lost sight of this. It’s high time we remembered.
A most proper institution of government would see the enforcement of law and order undertaken by a partnership of citizens, who would be expected to act accordingly under emergent circumstance, and elected officials responsible for prosecuting crime. In the absence of the willingness, or ability of citizens to undertake such responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities, and their nation (already a sign of a sick culture) it would inevitably fall to a special class of persons to act in a law enforcement capacity. Under their initial formulation such special persons deemed for law enforcement would hold no special powers, nor privileges over the citizen – it would be viewed as highly improper that a special class of persons exist above the citizen (politicians should properly be viewed as below the citizen in a servant capacity). However, over time these highly comfortable citizens would lose position relative to these agents of the state, and, eventually, come to be beneath them, and subject to them. Welcome to modern America, qualified immunity, civil asset forfeiture, and much, much more in our modern police state.
Under our realized formulation these agents of the state are, in all circumstances, armed with minimally a sidearm, and the knowledge that discharging it under any circumstance at all will at worst lead to a loss of employment. There is no quarter given for those who disobey the state. From the most minor of transgressions on – even a parking ticket – if you rebuke the state, refuse to appear before it, pay it an imposed penalty, or, these days, simply speak ill of it these agents will be dispatched to your home. When they knock you do not have the option of ignoring them: they will breach your door with guns drawn if you fail to answer. When they demand you come you do not have the option of turning and waking away: they will tackle you, subject you to dangerous electronic immobilization, and force your compliance. God forbid they lose sight of your hands for a moment or you’re liable to receive over one thousand grains of lead deposited in your torso.
This is all said not (primarily) to disparage law enforcement personnel, but rather to make plain a point that is obvious to some, but seemingly lost on very many: every law is enforced down the barrel of a gun. From the most minor transgression, from the smallest thing that initiates contact with the system, you have entered into a circumstance for which any civil disobedience on your part will lead to a gun in your face. It is for this reason – even sans the profession of law enforcement – the founders only wrote a handful of criminal laws. The system in a free society – a government of, by, and for the people – is to be treated with the seriousness it deserves, but even more so it is to treat the citizens as they deserve: as its master. It should not be employed in the criminal adjudication of minor grievances at all, as this is the road to the enactment of arbitrary power: power for the sake of power, to protect power, and to grow power in perpetuity.
I say all of the preceding to make this one very simple point: the only tool in the governments toolbelt is violence. Want the murderer down the street dealt with in a legitimate manner? Great, government is there for violence. Want your neighbor to kick in funds for your healthcare, and you want them to have no choice in the matter? Great, once again the government is there for violence. That’s how this will work you know? “I want Medicare for all” is more appropriately said “I want government to point a gun at my neighbors, rob them, and give me a cut.” That’s the reality of the situation. Everything the government does is backed by violence. That’s the only way it works once it no longer has the legitimate consent of the governed.
In this it must be said, and understood, that all actions taken by the government of late – from Covid lockdowns, to masking requirements, to movement and purchasing licensing and so on – is violence enacted against the citizenry on behalf of a special class. This special class is the revolutionaries. These revolutionaries demand violence against us. The revolutionary government is happy to comply. It is there for violence.
This is not some tortured logic. The violence of the government is not special just because it’s the government. Its violence will leave you just as dead as any other. It is, now that the revolutionary regime is here, enacting violence upon us all, all day every day, and it is doing it on purpose. It is hurting you on purpose. I say again that it is hurting you on purpose. It is hurting your children on purpose. It is bargaining against your future for present gain on purpose, and if you try to resist it will kill you on purpose. This is the nature of our situation. We know that it is here for violence. This is what the natural law of self defense exists for. It is a right inherent to us all. It applies against government too.