I don’t object to anyone doing non-violent underground civil disobedience of laws against all voluntary transaction. If those people want to publicize their actions, however, the thugs in the gang called “government” will make an example out of them.

Also, democracies and republics need an educated electorate to participate in its elections in order to work. Protesting on the sidelines can have an impact, of course, and is also part of the political process, but nothing gets rid of a bad politician quicker than voting them out of office. As to what can happen when protest is one’s only form of interacting with the state, please see the example above.

To put it another way: if no one votes in elections, why have them? And if you don’t have elections, then you have either anarchy, or a dictatorship. In short, you can either vote for whomever you think will carry out the will of the people best in this republic, or you can suffer the consequences of having someone in power who will abuse it in the worst possible ways–which, of course, would prevent the liberty that you wish to spread. Dictators either conduct sham elections that force everyone to vote for them, or rule by mandate. But even in those countries where it is voluntary, remember that your voice is loudest when it is at the ballot box, not when you are in the streets.