I do not believe in the legitimacy of government. At the onset of the human race, God granted all earthly authority over the individual to the individual. He did not bestow any privilege upon a collective authority, be it the government, society proper, or the Church. As all controls over human nature are set by God, giving control over the individual a man made institution is giving something that is not ours; it is claiming to have powers reserved by God and thus is blasphemy. Jesus said, "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and give unto God what is God's". Some in the Christian faith view this as Jesus' acceptance of governmental coercion, even though we know that everything is God's. That which we have created has been with the talents and materials that we have been blessed with the ability to use- with the gift of that basic mental framework for intelligence which we then fill with experience. It is ours to exchange for what others have created using God's blessings. It is ours to, out of our hearts, give to those of the like Jesus cared for. That which is created is not such so that we may make the decision of charity for others. It is not such that we may take from another what is created out of our need, without exchanging in agreed equal value what is also the product of God's greatest tool, the human mind.
In that he had forced his pocket the claims he held upon the property of others, nothing is Caesar's.
That may be one of the most liberating thoughts a human can think: Nothing is Caesar's
I've been accosted to explain how I could support the Iraq War and remain committed to what is described as anarchism. It is a simple answer, and is very much similar to the main reason against unilateral nuclear disarmament. Unless we eliminate the smallest possibility of our liberty being threatened, we must maintain a standing army and thus a government. A: If we were to do away with government in the America, our enemies (who hate our freedom, and thus its products: our exported culture, and our exported culture, and thus its source: our freedom) will attack and we will not be able to adequately defend ourselves. The people will seek to reinstate a government likely much stronger than the one that was previously dissolved. B: The greatest way to protect our freedom and make government less necessary is to take positive steps toward the freedom of all. It is a simple and under-appreciated fact of nature that a free person with a knowledge of the workings of his liberty will not attack another free person with that same respect for freedom in general. It is sadly necessary to accept a small amount of illegitimacy in order to prevent a large amount of illegitimacy from being forced upon us.
I like his conclusion, too:
And thus we reach the central dissimilarity between the anarcho conservative and what is perceived as an anarchist: one seeks a world in which the individual's liberty will not even be questioned and will be patient with limited government to reach that goal; the other simply wants to bring down order.
