11 June 2020
There doesn’t seem to be a single successful newsreader on network television who understands anarchy. Even such self-described “liberal’ or “conservative” great minds as Geraldo (“Good Night America”) Rivera and Sean (“Stop the Inns”) Hannity, whose ideologies span the narrow center of the political spectrum, seem to agree in their assessment of the savage occupation of Seattle’s Capitol Hill — “They’re anarchists!”
Really? Let’s look at the record.
By dint of superior arms and other tactical advantages, they have seized a contiguous body of land. They have established borders and crossing checkpoints. They have accepted foreign aid from a neighboring jurisdiction. Revenue agents roam the land, shaking down the local merchants for the “privilege” of doing business in the “state of nature.” (Whether you call that “taxation” or “extortion” makes little difference; violence is threatened, either directly or obliquely, and victims cough up.
That’s not anarchy. That’s government!
