This is an essay I wrote for 11th grade English in public school. The prompt was in the format of the Declaration of Independence, write your own declaration from something you don't like in the world. Things other people went with were bad drivers, hitting girls, and school starting too early. I went a bit bigger...
There are times in history when society must rise up against evil. This declaration is long overdue. For too long people have accepted the evils of government as normal. They have come to the short-sighted opinion that it is somehow necessary for society to survive and function.
Slavery is the immoral act of owning someone else as property against their will. The only other option from slavery is self-ownership. Since you own yourself, you have the moral right to use your body how you see fit, use it to earn income, transfer yourself to others, and enforce property rights over yourself. To damage someone's body/self is to infringe on that person's property rights.
The concept of self-ownership leads to another concept, the Non-Aggression Principle. It states "no one may initiate or threaten to initiate force, fraud, or coercion against another." This principle directly conflicts with the very concept of government. What is the one thing that separates government from any other entity? It claims the monopoly on the moral right to initiate force.
You (government) have stolen trillions of dollars from hundreds of millions of people in the USA alone, calling it taxation. You claim because it's for a good cause so, it isn't theft. If someone robs a bank and donates the money to a charity, is he going to be acquitted from a bank robbery charge? No he'll be convicted and sent to a cage for up to 25 years, more than a quarter of most people's lives.To claim a government can take as much money as it wants from people in its geographical area, is to claim that it owns that money. Since you make money from working that means the government owns the fruit of your labor, kind of like slavery? No, exactly like slavery.
You have broken your own laws, the Constitution, time and time again. Then, your politicians go on television and talk about how important it is. If any mere mortal goes against those words on paper, (that people seem to believe were written by god himself) they'll be thrown into a cage. If that person resists their own kidnapping, your "heroic" police force will murder him in cold blood. If he defends himself, stops his own murder with lethal force, he'll be labeled the worst kind of criminal, a cop killer.
Not only have you murdered people in the land that you claim to be your own, you have also committed mass murder overseas, calling it war. For this mass murder you need soldiers, which you get from exploiting the youth's gullibility and ignorance to what you are doing. In the past you have outright enslaved people by forcing them to work for you against their will and called it a draft. When the victims overseas defend themselves, you use their resistance as an excuse to the mindless public to go slaughter more of them.
You have caused more than one tragedy. You are responsible for the genocide of millions of Jews in Germany. You murdered your own citizens in Tiananmen Square. You legally enforced slavery in the United States. If there weren't laws requiring slaves to be returned to their owners, slaves would have easily escaped to the North for freedom. You love slavery, you just won't admit it because it's an unpopular opinion. There is a despicable number of more incidents like these. You are a murderer. You must be ended.
You have obliterated the free market. You have denied people the right to offer jobs paying less than some arbitrary amount of money per hour. Due to this people who can't produce over $8 per hour in labor can't get a job. Since they can't get a job, they can't get experience, so they can't get a job, and so on. You have denied people's freedom of association. Businesses can't deny service to someone because it would be discriminatory. Imagine applying this to people's homes. You have to let people into your house because it would be discriminatory to do otherwise. Business owners own their shops just as much as people own their own houses. Worst of all, when your socialism fails the economy, you claim it's somehow the fault of the non-existent free market. This of course so you can gain even more power.
You claim to hate monopolies, but you're the only reason they exist. Not only are you the monopoly on force, but you created the only legal court system. You don't allow the victim and culprit to mutually agree on an unbiased judge running a private court with profit-incentive to do a good job. You instead force people to be judged by a jury that knows nothing about the law. You force them to be prosecuted by someone who only cares about getting convictions, not finding justice. In fact, these "crimes" you convict people of are often victimless, like smoking a plant. If there isn't a victim then there is no crime. There was a time when a crime was defined as an immoral act against a fellow human being, now it’s the equivalent to a sin against the god known as government. You also create corporations, granting companies special rights no start up businesses have, making it impossible for anyone to compete with those corporations,
The Romans gave "limited" government a chance by creating the Roman Republic, it later became the Roman Empire. The United States was sick of living under King George's tyranny, so what did they do? Create a tyranny of their own. Sure, it wasn't intended to be one, but as long as you give power seekers (politicians) power, they will abuse it. There is no such thing as limited government.
It is time for mankind to finally rip off their shackles. It is time for mankind to stop condoning murder and theft because the government says it's for a good reason. It is time to finally live in peace with our fellow human beings foreign and domestic. It is time to embrace our ownership of ourselves. It is time to end the evils of government forever, not create a new, "better" murderer.
Believe it or not, I received a 100%. It also got posted on a wall in the back of the class.
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