Our job is to illuminate the criminality of the State
On a planet teeming with over 8 billion souls, the division and suffering of humanity are orchestrated by the policies, enforcement, and violence of roughly 200 governments. These governments claim dominion over individuals, families, and communities—binding them beneath the authority of a minute fraction of the population. This authority is wielded without regard for shared values, morals, or customs, and is maintained through the ever-present threat of violence, incarceration, or dispossession.
Each government is but a construct of a small minority who hold power over their fellows. The manner by which they secure or sustain this power—be it through inheritance, conquest, manipulation, or the semblance of democratic consent—is irrelevant to the reality of their dominance. History has shown us the atrocities perpetrated under every imaginable form of governance: from the iron-fisted rule of totalitarian regimes to the gilded deception of democracies. None are innocent.
Democracy, far from being a shield against tyranny, often implicates its supporters as complicit in the crimes of the state. The veneer of collective choice obscures the fundamental truth: that governments persist not because of the will of the people but through the manipulation of that will. Control of media and education ensures that the masses remain ignorant or apathetic to the state’s pervasive wrongs. This control serves not to enlighten but to indoctrinate, silencing dissent and preserving the machinery of power.
Governments claim to stand as arbiters of justice, yet they often stand between the victims of crimes and the justice they deserve. The militarization of domestic police forces, the unrelenting expansion of surveillance, and the intrusion into private lives reveal the government’s true priorities: the consolidation of control rather than the protection of life and property. Indeed, the very institutions tasked with ensuring safety frequently abandon their responsibilities, leaving individuals to fend for themselves while imposing burdensome regulations that stifle liberty.
Moreover, the violence of governments is not confined to their own borders. State actors wage wars, often under dubious pretenses, unleashing devastation upon other nations and, by extension, the innocent people who inhabit them. These acts of aggression are not the aberrations of rogue regimes; they are the standard operating procedures of the modern state.
If humanity were to unite and reject the existence of such positions of power—if it were to remove the obstacle of government from human relationships—we would witness a profound transformation. Without governments to orchestrate division, enforce oppression, and escalate conflicts to industrial proportions, the machinery of violence and abduction would falter. Peace would not be a utopian dream but a practical reality, as individuals and communities engage with one another on voluntary and equitable terms, unshackled from the coercion and corruption of the state.