Anarchistic Beliefs

Anarchy is the ultimate form of freedom. It's the belief in self-restraint, rather than governmental-restraint. People should be allowed to decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong! Anarchy is not an excuse for random acts of violence. It is more of a belief that everyone should be allowed to do what is right for their life, instead of being told by others how to live their lives. Violence goes against everything a true anarchist believes in. To wrong another intrudes upon their freedom, and their choices. To rob, vandalize, or completely destroy a store, for instance, goes against the store-owner's decision to run a business. To kill a man destroys his choice to live his life. Anarchists believe that not only should they be allowed to live their lives the way that they choose, but that the lives they live and the choices they make, should not harm or wrong others. It is because of the desire of the few, to control the many, and the fear of the many to be truly and completely independent, that governments exist! Through this fear, the governments rule our lives. We pay politicians more money than most of us earn, through taxes, just for them to decide our lives for us! Why should we be forced to, not only live by the rules of another, but also pay them to do so? Politicians are just human beings, just like the rest of us. Why do their opinions count for more than ours?!? Are they more intelligent than the rest of us? I think not! Why are college graduates considered more intelligent than high-school drop-outs?

Because the government and corporate society decided they are! Everyone has the ability to learn, and everyone learns in their own way. Not everyone learns best by sitting in a school, for over six hours a day. But, the government decided for us that that is what we have to do for most of our young adult lives. And who decides what we learn? The government! And who decides what we do not learn? Again, the government! Finally, who decides who teaches us? Yes, you guessed it, the government!!! We are brain-washed from the moment we enter the school system, to the moment we finish with it. We are forced to be obedient to every rule they set for us. If you do not show complete conformity, you are reprimanded through detentions, suspensions, expulsions, and in some schools, even beatings! Why are you forced to be in a school for over six hours a day, if you can learn the information that they attempt to teach you, in far less time? It is because the government wants to force people into submission from the earliest possible age! In the school system, you learn how to be taught, instead of being taught how to learn. If you learn what they want you to learn, you are rewarded with a diploma, certificate, or degree. However, if you learn whatever it is that you want to learn, you are branded as a "bad student," and refused those rewards. Free thinking is not allowed! Some teachers will refuse to pass a student, simply because they do not agree with the way the teacher teaches the class. Why should anyone be refused a diploma, simply because they fail one class?!? It is because the government decides what it is that we should be required to learn. Why should a future writer be refused a diploma now, for failing Math? Why should a future accountant be refused a diploma for failing science? Etc. etc. etc…. Because the government has decided for us what it is that we should learn! Many of us can learn far better from a book, or personal experience, than from a teacher. Yet, if you do so, you are considered inferior, because you did not put in your government required time at the prison, called school. Thinking for yourself is strictly prohibited in school! You are forced to learn what they want you to, when they want you to, and how they want you to. Who are they to that they know better than us what we need to know for our future? It's OUR future!!! How can a person who has never met you before decide this?!? What about attendance policies? In many schools, if you are absent, or tardy from a class too many times, you will automatically fail that class.

If you already know the information, what does attendance have to do with your passing or failing? If you can show up at school once a month, take all your tests and pass them, why should you still fail just because you didn't put in your government-required time? It is because the government doesn't care how intelligent you are, or how much you know. All they care about, is that you get your daily dose of brain-washing! Why do you think they force you to recite the pledge of allegiance every morning in school? It is because they want to ingrain it into your mind, from the earliest possible age, to respect the government! They do this just to insure that the upcoming generations will be slaves to the government, just like the last ones. They dare not take the chance of allowing future generations to grow up, free-thinking, and free-spirited! If people decided to stop paying taxes, stop living for the government, and start living for themselves, the politicians would lose their meal tickets. Politicians make all their decisions based on money. They don't get elected to office if they're poor. And, they don't stay in office by reflecting the average person's opinions. They stay in office by favoring big-business. There is only one form of government left in the world-Capitalism! Whoever has the money makes the rules, and anyone who believes otherwise is an idealistic fool. Whatever happened to the idea of a government for the people, by the people? All we have now is a government for the people with money, run by the people who have the most money! How often do you hear of drunk drivers being let loose, with nothing more of a penalty given to them than the loss of their license? Where-as, if you are convicted of tax-evasion, you have to face penalties, fines, interest of incredible amounts, and if you cannot, or will not pay, you will be forced to serve prison-time! What is the difference between the two crimes? One endangers the lives of other, but the other is a strictly monetary ordeal. However, a drunk-driver does not affect the government directly, whereas tax-evasion is a crime directly against the government. Politicians would rather endanger the lives and well-being of average citizens, than endanger their meal tickets by allowing people to choose whether or not, and how much, they wish to pay for taxes! If a single person, family, or community can live and function completely self-sufficiently, what right does the government have to step in and force them to pay taxes and obey their laws? If the government was created for the people, by the people, what right does it have to force its way into our lives, if we have no need to be governed? Money! The government does not care whether we need or want its influence. All it cares about, is that it gets our money! The government owns us, whether we realize it or not. From the earliest possible age we are herded into school, to learn how to be sheep, later to be herded by the government. But, what about that occasional black sheep? Well, they're branded as delinquents, and cast away, instead of being excepted as who they are and taught anyway. Then we reach working age.

So, we get our first jobs, and pay our first taxes, before we are even old enough to vote. We are forced to pay politicians to make laws that affect our lives, yet the government has decided that we are not yet old enough to have any say in those laws that affect us! A government for the people, by the people who are considered legally adults? If you are old enough to think for yourself, you should be old enough to decide what's best for yourself, regardless of your linear age. Since when are you only intelligent or wise, once you have reached the age of 18, or 21?!? Then when you finally reach the age of 18, you're finally allowed certain rights and freedoms, including voting, but the government can never allow its slaves to have too much freedom! Instead, they dangle freedom in front of your nose, not unlike dangling a carrot in front of a donkey's nose, while they force you to sign your life away, by enlisting in the draft! We are living in a grotesque travesty of freedom! We live our lives on borrowed time as indentured servants to the government. The draft is termed as voluntary, yet if you do not enlist, you will be arrested, and imprisoned! In most basic terms, it means: If you do not sign your life away to the government, they will take it away from you forcibly! How is this considered freedom in any form or fashion?!? We are nothing but slaves to the system! Many ask, "what does it hurt to sign the draft papers? We'll never actually be drafted in our lives…." Well, let me ask you this: Does a slave-owner ever have to actually whip a slave, for the slave to know that they can or will be whipped? This is nothing but communism, plain and simple! Wars are nothing but pure evil. How can murder ever be justified, just because our government has decided that another government has wronged us? How can any conscienable person ever kill another person, just because their government told them to? Why is the other soldier considered the enemy, when they are just following the orders of their government too? Have either of them wronged each other in any form or fashion? I f anyone had been wronged, it was the politicians, not the citizens or soldiers. So, why aren't the politicians fighting the wars? Because they have the government to send us in to battle to die, while they sit comfortably at home. And why? Because we are nothing but puppets to the government, just waiting for our strings to be pulled!