Hardcore libertarians differentiate between pro-Trump patriots and Black Lives Matter detritus.
BLM rioters trashed, looted and leveled their countrymens private property, their businesses.
Democratic stormtroopers harassed their fellow Americansmeek men and women in eateries, in shopping malls, in the inner sanctum of their homesoften forcing innocents to kneel or recite repulsive, self- incriminating racial catechisms.
These Mao-like cultural revolutionaries descended like locusts on places where their fellow Americans shop and socialize, sadistically threatening, and often visiting, physical harm upon their countrymen, unless they knelt before them like slaves.
In contrast, the ragtag men and women of the MAGA movement stormed only the seat of power and corruption that is the State.
Yet, in reply to the fact that entire cities were burned to the ground by the Lefts militarized BLM troops, some of the staunchest of conservatives, staffers at Breitbart, are purported to have concluded, in error, that storming the Capitol building is much worse than than burning down strip malls.
Wrong!
Hardcore libertarians, very plainly, think the opposite. Like us or not, the radical, libertarian propertarianwho does not live inside and off the Beltwaywill strongly disagree with the contention of the Trump-blaming Breitbarters.
A certain kind of libertarian, the good kind, distinguishes clearly between those who, like BLM, would trash, loot and level private propertythe livelihoods and businesses of private citizensand between those who would storm the plush seats of state power and corruption.
For the State is an entity that, by definition, forsakes the legitimate defense of the lives, liberty and property of its citizens. The States standard operating procedure is to fleece us without flinching, all the better to fatten its members and, reflexively, to increase their sphere of influence.
Libertarians who live by the axiom of non-aggression will always prefer the man who proceeds against the State, governed as it is by force, to the man who destroys private property, rooted as that institution is in peaceful, just, voluntary transactions.
There, Ive said it!
Its no secret that rock-ribbed libertariansas opposed to the lite, establishment libertarianview the State, certainly in its current iteration, as a criminal enterprise. For it operates with force and without the consent of the governed.
If tempted, foolishly, to argue this theoretical point, think only of the meaning of the 2020 election, whereby 81,283,098 million people, or 51.3% of those who voted, not of the people, get to impose their will on 74,222,958, or 46.8% of the voters, as well as on the millions who didnt vote.
Moreover, and since we are no longer a republic in which central authorities have only limited and delimited powersall the people in the commonwealth are compelled to do as the Permanent State and the newly minted state dictate.
No! Government governs without the consent of the governed, for the most, and with the backing of oft-brutal police powers.
Which is why, incidentally, Tucker Carlsons question to a guest on his eponymous Fox News show, the other day, was so misguided.
The young ladys two small businesses had been bankrupted by her states brutal lockdown regimen, which targeted her tiny enterprises, but not the big-box retailers around them. Why was she still paying her taxes, Tucker inquired?
Really?
Taxes are not voluntary. The State is not based on the principle of voluntary association. Tucker ought to try to withhold his taxes. Fail to fork over the shakedown funds extracted by the syndicate that is the Stateand youll find yourself in a cell.
Incontestably, your money, as a private individual working in the private economy, comes from the avails of your labor and is 100% yours in natural law. As such, you should be able to withdraw it from an agency that doesnt serve youand even harms youto give to one that does. But you cant.
For that peaceful act of financial secession, the State will deprive you of your liberty.
Expose the Welfare-Warfare Surveillance State in all its depredations and youll find yourself entombed forever, like Julian Assange or Edward Snowden (who, at least, lives free in Russia).
What I saw in the Capitol on January 6, lamented Never Trumpkin Matt Labash, at the Spectator, made me physically sick
I couldnt tell the difference [between the] Red Hats [and Antifa]. They [the Red Hats] were desecrating something they pretend to love.
Truth be told, to the non-statist libertarian, those citadels of democracy mean very little that is good. Loss of life we lamentbut the song-and-dance about the trampling of those citadels we consider overheated.
Our country is not to be equated with our Capitol.
Certainly, sickening is the cowardice of the garrison city-state that is D.C. In particular, the way the political parasites who comprise it are shielding themselves from us, as they deny us the right to protect private property from them and from their moral emissaries, Black Lives Matter.