If you vote, you are a terrorist. Voting is nothing more than endorsing the evil State’s desire to use force against a private citizen. If you vote, you are not much different than Osama Bin Laden. He doesn’t actually terrorize anyone. Instead, he endorses people who do. Just like you do when you put up a yard sign or paste on a bumper sticker that reads, “Vote for Mr. Whoever.” Bin Laden doesn’t actually blow up buildings. Just like you paying taxes, and voting for people to spend it on little military fantasies, bin Laden pays people to blow up buildings.
The State can only achieve things, anything, by using force. Physically forcing people, who would other wise be minding their business, is wrong. Even if you vote for “Mr. Smith” who promises to end the Welfare State and restore the Republic, you are still committing an act of terror. This is because in order to abolish anything, Mr. Smith has to use the power of the State. And the power of the State is rooted in the barbaric concept of physical coercion.
When you vote, you are playing the State’s game. Voting for a candidate who plans to abolish the income tax may make you feel good. Voting in such a manner may even result in extinction of the income tax, but while you may have made the State poorer; you have strengthened it’s legitimacy by acknowledging and accepting it’s power to abolish the income tax.
If you don’t want an income tax, don’t pay it. I, I mean I know a guy, who hasn’t paid income taxes in five years. If you don’t like the State, or if you want to “limit” it, just ignore it or ignore its legitimacy. Granted, this may be time consuming. Your life may be somewhat inconvenienced, but freedom isn’t free right now. Until it is, you’ll have to stop whining and get as many people to do what I do. Ignore the State. What if everyone was like me? What if everyone either ignored or played tricks on the State? While it can be a hassle, there are some fun things about it. For example, give a fake address at the DMV when you get your drivers license. Give the retarded “Welfare to Work” employee at the DMV false information. When I was asked my eye color I told the creature it was blue, when it is really brown. She didn’t even look up to see if I was telling the truth. I did the same for my height and weight. I even lied to the stupid cop when I got pulled over a few weeks ago when he asked, “is this your correct address on your license?” Or don’t even get a drivers license. Of course, my employer at the time required it, so I got one.
Then
there was the time when I received a letter from the Maricopa County
Department of Environmental Whatever. Apparently, some granola-
eating baby went and cried to the government because my 1978 Chrysler was
“smoking” from the hood. The letter said that the department received
a complaint from a motorist about my vehicle and that I needed to make any
necessary repairs or face “administrative action.” I wrote back and I
told them that if they ever sent me another letter or called me that I
would consider it harassment and that I would file a restraining order. I
doubt if any judge would take me seriously, but I never heard from this
agency again. And I’m still smoking down the road.
Now
maybe these tactics seem childlike or trivial. But they can be fun. They
are easy reminders that being an anarchist is as much a state of mind as
it is a course of action. If you were walking down the street and some
stranger started telling you what to do
(I.e. “Hey you, come over here and polish my shoes, now!”)
what would your attitude in that situation be? Use that same attitude when having to deal with the State.
The State, as the Declaration of Independence so eloquently puts it,
“derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.” Until I
see a carbon copy of something I signed which gave my consent to be
governed by anyone, the State is just some stranger on the street barking
orders at me. Voting is the
cowardly act of having someone else bark orders at people for you. Voting
is an act of terror. It is your recognition of the State’s legitimacy, a
legitimacy that it does not have. You can vote for the State to do things
to you, but please, stop voting for them to do things to me!
October 9, 2001
