Comments on: Ignore the State!

By: frank rivera

frank rivera — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:23:03 +0000

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By: jomama

jomama — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:06:23 +0000

I have been ignoring goofyment for a long time…after I came on this:

Etienne de la Boetie 1553 France

“There are [four] kinds of tyrants: some receive
their proud position through elections by the
people, others by force of arms, others by
inheritance, [others by 'divine right']. Although
the means of coming into power differ, still the
method of ruling is practically the same. The
tyrant has nothing more than the power you confer
upon him to destroy you. How does he have any
power over you except through you? Tyrants need
only be deprived of the public’s continuing
supply of funds and resources. Resolve to serve
no more! and you are at once free. I do not ask
that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple
him over, but simply that you support him no
longer. Then you will behold him, like a great
Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away,
fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”

What’s holding you back?

By: The War on Cosmetology

The War on Cosmetology — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:57:46 +0000

[...] I think the best way to fight stupid licensing requirements is to ignore the state and turn to the gray market, this sort of legal work is important to protect those being actively [...]

By: Chicago Man Jailed for 6 Months for Yawning in Court

Chicago Man Jailed for 6 Months for Yawning in Court — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:17:48 +0000

[...] of the judge, but, if you piss him off, he can lock you up for just about anything. You can ignore the state, but that doesn’t mean it will ignore you. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Chicago Man Jailed [...]

By: Rich Paul

Rich Paul — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:08:04 +0000

Reminds me of “Rational Anarchy”, which is basically ignoring annoying laws when the benefits of ignoring the law exceed the cost and/or risk of obeying the law, making a sincere effort to escape detection. In other words, minimize the damage that the state does in your personal life.

If you’re somewhere like New Hampshire, surrounded by other activists intent on ignoring the state, you could even set up whole businesses with no state contact, if you were willing to accept the modest lifestyle as the cost of the pleasure of not doing business with them.

Of course risk exists, which means you want a good activist network to do this, so that if you go to jail, at least you have a bunch of tailgaters outside the jail letting you know they still care.

http://freestateproject.org/

By: Tobacco Smugglers for Freedom

Tobacco Smugglers for Freedom — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:09:10 +0000

[...] unwilling to submit to unjust government control. While engaging in illegal trade or otherwise ignoring the state will often provoke a violent response, it also makes stupid laws harder to [...]

By: Brad Taylor

Brad Taylor — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:37:57 +0000

I don’t think anyone can ignore the state completely. I think the important thing is to increase your freedom on whatever margins you can (and that you feel comfortable with) and show others that they can do likewise. When the state interferes, you’ll normally have to acquiesce since it has the guns. That doesn’t mean you should accept it as legitimate, any more than you accept an armed robber’s demands on your property as legitimate.

By: David Singhiser

David Singhiser — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:45:00 +0000

I’m coming to the same conclusion. I’ll do my part to warn and rebuke, but I don’t confidence in the people’s desire to be free. I however am working on getting out of the system. If the people are dumb enough to love their chains, I can still break out of mine.

By: Mariana Evica

Mariana Evica — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:24:06 +0000

I loved this brief piece; unlike Mike, ironically or not, I’m not quite personally at the stage wherein I can claim to simply ignore the State — though we all should, from a moral point of view, be able to.

The inability of free people to “opt out” of the state (in other words, to declare the state’s contracts null and void), without threat of violence, is what makes any State evil and coercive. I might even argue that there are no small acts of civil disobedience if undertaken as a strategy to ignore the state.

While I am less the protesty kind of activist, I think taken en masse, the more people who adopt a conscious posture of either ignoring the state, or acting, through the power of the purse, to make it obsolete by choosing conscious contracts in direct competition with the state, the greater our visibility as a movement (or anti-movement), and the less effective and relevant the state shall be.

The points at which free individuals encounter force by the state in their effort to opt out, will cast in sharp relief the violent methods and tyrannical approach of the state and its agents.

By: Mike Gogulski

Mike Gogulski — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:14:56 +0000

State? What state?