by Nathan McKaskle

Mayor Daley of Chicago has enacted the “Tax Whistle Blower Program”, which aims to pit slave against slave, paying those who would tattle on so called tax “cheats”, or those who would dare (perhaps foolishly) to resist and defend themselves against the coercive, violent gun behind state power.

Call me crazy, but seems to me that the only people who could be said to be cheating would be the guy who’s got a gun. If this were a poker game in an old western film, the gun would be in the inevitable scene to follow.

To call those who would try to avoid paying taxes, “cheats”, is to call those who might escape a mugging with money hidden in their shoe, “selfish.” Psychological projection strikes again.

For those who have read Orwell’s famous novel, 1984, this new state tactic of catching a willful and disobedient slave may be disturbingly familiar. This program can only further serve the state by pitting us against each other instead of against those who continue to rob us blind and further enslave us all. The incentive to use the violence of state power against our neighbors, to our own advantage, is stronger than ever, proving once again in brilliant, colorful reality, that it is the state, not statelessness, that leads us to a war of all against all.

Nathan McKaskle lives in Philadelphia, PA. When he is not delivering new content to the readers of Lost Liberty Café and studying philosophy as well as psychology, he is working as a Citrix Server Administrator at a major import/export company.