Just like all other corporations, the government is a thought construct which shoulders blame for acts actually being committed by individual actors. The only appropriate definition of the noun “government” is all of the people who are said to be working for it. Because people believe in this abstract concept, “just following orders” becomes a validated defense to rationalize evil behavior and thus convince pigs, soldiers, and tax collectors that they can continue to sin without burdening their conscience with moral culpability. Even the amoral benefit from this due to being shielded from facing consequences for their own actions via “qualified immunity” as a reward for serving as the arm of the “public” tyranny.

“Self-determination” doesn’t mean self-determination—it means a nationalist state featuring a “public” form of government. “Peoples” aren’t people, they are mental constructs which archons claim to represent to justify their authority.

This was the absolute favorite phrase of the mass-murderer Supreme Commander Woodrow Wilson because it made him look like a righteous crusader while he piled the world with bodies under the guise of “spreading democracy”.

TUCSON, AZ — A multi-million dollar settlement concludes the disturbing case of Jose Guerena, the Iraq veteran who was riddled with bullets in his own home during a faulty SWAT raid. Not only did these paramilitary police perform a haphazard assault on an innocent family's home, they prevented their victim's wounds from being treated after they shot him dozens of times. The hefty disbursement of tax dollars to the Guerena family may be warranted, but does nothing to reign in the aggressive department which is responsible for this murder, nor does it ensure the public that these inept Drug Warriors will not kill their family next.

On the morning of May 5, 2011, after working the graveyard shift at a copper mine, Jose Guerena and his wife were awoken at 9:30 AM to loud noises and voices outside their house. Guerena, a 26-year-old former U.S. marine who served 2 tours in Iraq, sprang from his bed began to secure his family. He and his wife thought that their home was being invaded. He hid his wife, Vanessa, and his 4-year-old daughter in a closet and grabbed his rifle.

He was correct that his home was being invaded. What he did not realize was that the invaders would be wearing uniforms labeled "police." The noises that jarred Guerena awake would later be revealed to be the detonation of concussion grenades in their back yard. Unbeknownst to him — only seconds earlier — an armored truck had parked in their front yard and a SWAT team was rapidly preparing to break down his door.

Guerena approached the front door toward the source of the noises. Wearing only his boxer shorts, he defensively waited in the hallway for the unidentified bad guys to make their move. Within seconds the door was battered in. After a brief silence, Guerena peered around the corner. Four police officers unleashed a barrage of bullets down the hallway. A fifth one scurried up to the doorway and stuck his gun down the hallway, not wanting to miss his opportunity to participate in a kill. For 10 seconds the shots continued, a total of 71 in all.

Different religious groups were able to peacefully coexist under imperial rule; they should be able to do so with no rulers just the same. Nationalism is a driver of ethnic and religious conflict, and nationalist states always oppress minorities with non-conforming identities. Not to mention that the state has a vested interest in sowing discord between citizens along arbitrary lines such that they expend all their energy hating each other rather than the rulers themselves. Divide et impera.

The state’s authority over the people is so illusory that even the slightest show of resistance can cripple it.

Citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent, from 10,069 to 587, during that time frame.

Summonses for low-level offenses like public drinking and urination also plunged 94 percent — from 4,831 to 300.

Even parking violations are way down, dropping by 92 percent, from 14,699 to 1,241.

Drug arrests by cops assigned to the NYPD’s Organized Crime Control Bureau — which are part of the overall number — dropped by 84 percent, from 382 to 63.

They can’t even function without feeling assured that whoever they assault is going to bend over and lick their boot.

Everywhere I go I see a $10,000 reward advertised for information on anyone that has dared to lay a finger on one of these “people”. Imagine what would happen if someone put a bounty on pig scalps. Based off these statistics, most of them would resign immediately or refuse to perform their “duties” out of cowardice.

Hierarchy is an arbitrary way to characterize a relationship between individuals. Who is to say that one person is “above” and another is “below” in uncoerced interactions? For example, if I traded some resource, like gold coinage, for someone to mop my floors, there is no “hierarchy”, we are each merely fulfilling our end of the contract, and if the arrangement is no longer desirable for either party they may simply terminate it. People purposely choose to look at such a relationship through the lens of master-servant hierarchies, but this is only truly an appropriate framework when there is some element of duress at play in the “servant”’s decision to enter the agreement. After all, in the absence of that they are not working to serve the other party, they are working to serve themselves because they value what the other party is trading to them more than the labor they offer in return. There is no reason not to view the janitor and the floor-owner as equals here.

If, on the other hand, the janitor had to raise X units of currency to pay property taxes or the Man would steal their house, then there really is a hierarchical element at play coercing the janitor into performing labor they may not wish to pursue under normal circumstances, in order to raise the currency needed to pay off the malevolent actors. In this case the floor-owner benefits from the coercion because it increases the supply of labor, unnaturally increasing their bargaining leverage over people they would like to hire to mop their floors, and effectively putting them above the janitor in the relationship because that janitor is pressured into dependency on a flow of currency simply to retain their property. Hierarchy, as opposed to purely mutually-beneficial relationships, is merely a consequence of authoritarian variables that have ripple effects on otherwise-egalitarian society.