Government really only has whatever power over you that you give it.
It doesn't seem like it much of the time.
Government employees can murder you-- and may be as likely to do so as freelance thugs. If not yet, then soon.
Just as the amount of property stolen by government now exceeds the amount stolen by freelance thieves (and has for several years- and this doesn't even count taxes!), the number of people murdered by government may soon surpass the number killed by freelance murderers. It wouldn't surprise me even a little.
Still, if you don't let freelance thieves and murderers control how you live your life now, why let government?
You don't owe them your compliance and obedience. You don't owe them respect. If you owe them anything, it is only what they have earned: contempt.
If you go out of your way to express this contempt, you are still letting them control you. I have known people who couldn't pass a cop without flipping them the digitus impudicus. Me? It's not worth my time and effort. I neither go out of my way to avoid cops, nor do I seek them out. They are irrelevant to my life, just like a noxious weed or diseased vermin (until someone has shoved them down my pants). Other coercive government employees are the same.
I refuse to give them the power to control what I do, beyond what I have to do in the instantaneous present to keep them from murdering me. And even that is probably too much.
What are your thoughts on this?
