I’ve been writ­ing and speak­ing about the abuses and fail­ings of gov­ern­ment for some time. Some call me an anti-government zealot. That is like call­ing some­one an anti-Santa Claus zealot. Nei­ther one really exists. Gov­ern­ment is just a con­ve­nient def­i­n­i­tion for an orga­nized crim­i­nal enter­prise used to soothe the con­sciences of its sup­port­ers when sub­du­ing oth­ers with whom it dis­agrees or from whom it demands wealth for its own per­pet­u­a­tion. It may have began as a “good idea”, but there are many good ideas which do not demand alle­giance and obe­di­ence to, what is ulti­mately, a vio­lent expres­sion of power by force. There are places in this world were there is no artic­u­la­ble gov­ern­ing body aside from soci­ety itself. Gov­ern­ment does not rise up from nature.