Opening the Cage (Parts 2 & 3)

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:48:51 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Larken Rose - another in the TMDS (The Most Dangerous Superstition) series of essays. More on self-ownership. Cops who enforce laws with no proper authority to exist are criminals, and should be treated like any other criminal who threatens your life or property. Part 3 is here.

When someone hiding behind the label of "authority" or "law
enforcement" forces his way into someone's home, with the intention
of catching the homeowner with an unapproved LEAF (e.g.,
marijuana), in order to drag that person away and put him in a cage
for several years, the leaf-smoker has the absolute right to use
any means necessary, including killing the intruder (the "cop"), to
protect himself.

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Surely I'm not defending the "cop-killer" mentality?! Actually, I
am doing precisely that, when the so-called "cops" are the ones
doing the robbery, assault, or kidnapping. Despite how radical that
may sound, it was not at all an usual attitude among those who
started this country. The Declaration of Independence says that the
only legitimate purpose of government is to protect the unalienable
rights of the individual, and when it "becomes destructive of those
ends," it is both the right and duty of the people to overthrow it
and start over...

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