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Topic: Abolition of Statism
So I Offended "The State". Big Deal!

The big and mighty can turn into even bigger babies with a surprisingly minimal amount of provocation. That's government for you.
by Dan Steward
(libertarian)
Friday, January 2, 2009

They're the most powerful national entity (read: mafia with a flag) on the planet, so you'd think they could handle some well meaning criticism of their collective persons employed and absurd policies without putting a person on a "No-Fly" list. Nope, not these misnamed bumbling gaggle of public servants, as they dare consider themselves our masters.

So I took an herbal supplement that those ghouls at the FDA dislike and I've went off and offended the state by seeking to prolong or improve the quality of my life. Leaping lizards, there's a penalty attached to such a use! Who'd a thunk it? I've hurt their teeny tiny little feelings.

I got a bill from those fatheads at the IRS. My first impulse as an anarchist is to tell them to stuff it down their shorts. Offend is what I set out to do and offend I've somehow done against their fleecing racket when I've politely asked them geography questions such as if they would know "where the sun doesn't shine" when I told them not to put the notice to pay in my mailbox and they asked where instead it should go.

Feel like engaging the services of a "flash mob" for a quickie public protest? What's the matter with you? Are you just begging some cop and the horse he rode in on to trample both your First Amendment rights and your lumpy head?

They're a thin skinned gang of louts without question. As powerful as they are reaching throughout the world flexing their muscles as if they were posing for girls on the beach, they still can't take even a single individual thumbing their nose at their supposed might. Sorry pal, federales will sift through your trash and luggage if you dare take an honest poke at their so-called "leaders" while they dream of a way to make it legal to have the likes of liberty activists such as myself fouling up a cage at Gitmo.

Yeah, I offended the state, and I'm going to keep offending them. What you going to do about it, chum?

With Liberty,

Dan Steward

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Published: Friday, January 2, 2009
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