An Easy Principle to Start From

• No one is above the Law.

This is so uncontroversial – I think most people already agree on this principle.

• The law is not to be violated by those in government

I truly believe that anyone who accepts that simple maxim is an anarchist at heart. You can’t break the Law to enforce or create the Law.

• It is not lawful to do evil that good may come of it

My Principles

I have some guiding principles.

Love, Compassion, and Truth.

Peace, Unity, and Consent.

These principles got me to Anarchy. I didn’t start as an anarchist – most people don’t. I finished high school with the belief that a one world government was the way to get to more just world.

Borders are imaginary constructs, and morality doesn’t change depending on what side of an imaginary line you’re on, therefore, one world government makes sense. I didn’t know the contradictions of the position, so it’s what I advocated.

My beliefs transformed because I maintained my principles while addressing contradictions in the conclusions I made from those principles. I think yours can transform too, not because you’re so completely wrong in your ethics, but because of your beliefs in goodness and humanity.

Our Desire For Justice is Used Against Us

Our desire for justice is exploited by people in power. Those people confuse the concept of government and associated ideals with their representation of that concept.

They confuse the shape with the object for their benefit at our expense.

The Busted Umbrella

There’s an umbrella that protects society. It doesn’t protect all of the people all of the time – it’s not big enough to do so.

Sometimes it barely protects us. It has holes, it lets a lot of rain in, and it’s terrible in storms. The big fear with Anarchy is that the umbrella will have to come down right now, leaving no shelter or safety for anyone – leaving us to build an umbrella during a storm.

I just want to get rid of the idea, that if government didn’t make the umbrella, we’d have nothing to protect us.

I want people to be able to make their own umbrellas – for themselves, for their families, for their neighbors, for strangers around them, for the downtrodden and needy. And that’s where I’d start, if I could. I’d love nothing more than to build a better umbrella than what we have to show you a better one. But I can’t.

As it stands now, the maker of the busted umbrella will stop other people within imaginary lines from making their own, and they will do so forcefully.

That’s Why I Need You

I can’t do this alone. I need to appeal to you to at least find some common ground.

Let me know what you think.