Angelo Mike's Columns
What 'Extraordinary' Statement?
"The 'American way' is very different for someone who’s seen family members blown to pieces by US bombs rather than for someone who’s grown up in one of its public schools and gives the Pledge of Allegiance every morning to its flag." Column by Angelo Mike.
Gun Control, Crisis and the State
"Any limit to such a power is arbitrary, since not even the total state could prevent all such killings anywhere. Rather, it is most likely to engage in such murder itself, and seizes on the possibility of any non-state murder as a pretense for its own aggrandizement." Column by Angelo Mike.
"Libertarianism has a funny way of shedding light on an entirely different chain of reasoning than that which most people see. While she saw the gun ban as an act of peace, I saw it as the most dangerous gang of people on earth violently disarming hundreds of thousands of innocent people." Column by Angelo Mike.
Column by Angelo Mike.
Stockholm Syndrome and the State
"Upon greeting our captors in the jury conference room...a spell immediately came over everyone. They talked openly to the bureaucrats, telling them about their favorite sports teams and their families, and joking about trying to get out of jury duty. Do these people have any idea who they’re talking to? These people are threatening to fine us $100, imprison us for three days, or both, if we didn’t show up to that meeting." Column by Angelo Mike.
Zodiac: A Lesson in Anarchist Crime Fighting
"Private law enforcement would have bad or shortsighted people in it as well. These people will exist as long as people exist. My argument is not that these will go away on a market, but that their actions would have to conform to the demands of consumers or they would no longer be in business." Column by Angelo Mike.
My First and Last Time in Political Activism
"Every one of these trips [to D.C.] makes it all the more heartbreaking to see how these lives are wasted either being prostituted for some criminal politician’s plan to force everyone else to live how he wants....[D.C. has] a population so infantilized and hedonistic, a society so eroded by legislation, disarmed by the police, all while D.C.’s leaders arm the military to kill anyone they want and threaten the world with nuclear war, that you can see in the eyes of its residents how their souls are crushed by the state." Column by Angelo Mike.
The Fraudulent Ideology of Voting
"And yet, should Enron have made the mistake of killing over 600,000 Iraqis among other numerous crimes, we would have bounties on the heads of the men and women who ordered such aggression and would consider them outlaws and murderers. They could not possibly claim that they are essential to our well being, and that for our own good we will be under threat of violence and imprisonment if we decide we don’t want their services of protection, which seem to only invite more and more aggression." Column by Angelo Mike.
The Futility of Being Anti-War and Pro-State
"So it’s important that society not be viewed as a separate or productive entity apart from this gang. For if they are really viewed as separate, then it is clear that they are mere victims of aggression from these domestic invaders. This is why any state which is to survive must create an intellectual middle class which propagates support for it by taking children from a young age and teaching them that they are the government." Column by Angelo Mike.
A Radical Proposal for Education
"...the best way to educate each person is on an individual basis, so as to allow people to tailor instruction, formal or informal, to their own tastes and aptitudes." Column by Angelo Mike.
When the State Makes Pedophiles Deserve Defense
"H.L. Mencken once said that the problem with the government is that in order to defend ourselves against it, we frequently must defend those within society who are the least popular. They are those who it is easiest for the government to go after, such as drug dealers, drunks, gamblers, gays, perverts, pornographers, prostitutes, johns, and the like. But even rats deserve defending. And the government, in its malice and idiocy, can make the reprehensible defendable." Column by Angelo Mike.
"How appropriate...that Rob Murphy’s book on anarcho-capitalism, Chaos Theory, should begin with a quote from Liam Neeson as Rob Roy: “All men with honor are kings. But not all kings have honor." Column by Angelo Mike.
External Markets in a Self-Regulating Society
Column by Angelo Mike.
"In a just world, the story would have just stopped with the numbers and sex would not be politicized." Column by Angelo Mike.
Column by Angelo Mike.
Right Wing Fascists in Higher Education
"I’ve been under the instruction of an overbearing, ill-tempered, bad mannered right-winger. For him, Abraham Lincoln is a hero....He’s even said that in Bush’s capacity as a propagandist he is failing, and if lying works, he should do it." (Column by Angelo Mike)
Voluntarism, Coercion and the Poor
"Democracy just makes this process of stealing massive and organized....Instead of taking up the risk yourself of stealing, knowing you might be hurt or killed by someone defending their property, and for a one time sum, you can just vote for the candidate who will put the laws, tax collectors, police, and civil servants at work to do the job for you." Column by Angelo Mike.
Religion and Politics Don't Mix
"Under such a framework, religion is perfectly legitimate, libertarian, and individualist. Think of the Amish, who have all but entirely seceded from the state, which wishes to further and further try and regulate them. They have their laws, many of which I would never adhere to and I don’t understand. But the benefit of freedom is that they cannot impose their laws onto me." Column by Angelo Mike.
"...we
need to be free of shills like Rangel who sheepishly think that once
Discussion With a Defender of the State
Recommended "If people are as bad as they are, why would you want them to have such a terrible and irrevocable authority?" Column by Angelo Mike.
"People have been walking around wearing 'I Voted' stickers, like Catholics with ashes on their forehead for this most holy of all days around which we all gather in fellowship." Column by Angelo Mike.
"Week after week, Dobbs helps the government’s ideological foundation, in which it may rule innocent people against their wishes. He consistently makes the work of government easier, wants us to have no legal recourse against it, and yet expects the government to finally make decisions which are good for us." Column by Angelo Mike.
Lou Dobbs: Patronizing, Separatist, Statist
"I’m
sick of Lou Dobbs. I’m tired of his pompous moralizing, as well as his
bizarre fixation on the middle class, as if we’re this discretely hidden
group of people with our group status tattooed on our arms for corporate