First off I'm a bit of a drunk, and I snap bong rips of really good dope on occasion, so please bare with me as I discuss the taboo topic of violence. Let me assure you I am not Cointelpro, and I have absolutely no affiliation to the government. To principled libertarians violence is like holy water to a vampires, or garlic for that matter... I love garlic... I do not condone violence, nor do I wish it upon anybody. However if one is being attacked, and needs to defend themselves I do believe is necessary in that aspect.

I got with a girl who's brother didn't approve of me, he attacked me after a party one night. I wasn't aware the entire party knew this guy wanted to fight me. As it turns out they all followed me, and the dudes I came there with, out to the alley-way were my car was parked. I had the last beer of the keg in my hand, and just as I put my key into the door to open it, the fucker knocked my beer out of my hand and said "I'm going to kick your ass!". He was a bit bigger than me, and I was a bit buzzed at the time. I kept stumbling backwards around my car saying "don't make be kick your ass!" (I was doing my best to instill fear in the guy). He kept coming at me like the liquid metal terminator in terminator 2, this guy was on a mission. After I was on the retreat, back peddling around my car for the 2nd or 3rd rotation I figured this guy ain't going to stop. It was then that I said to hell with it, I have no choice, it was either kill or be killed. Now I don't think the guy would have killed me, but he sure as hell wanted to fuck me up! I don't know what it was, could have been the survival instinct, or pure adrenalin, or the fact I was piss drunk... Regardless of which I ended up knocking the guy unconscious, he comes too, and the guy does not stop! He persisted to come after me, I ended up breaking my fist on the guys face. This concluded my fifteen minutes of fame in the small town called Lowell, IN. I couldn't stand the small town bullshit, so I moved to California.

The point I am getting at, is that sometimes violence is inevitable, and I believe that just might be the case when it comes to true liberty. Do I wish for violence hell NO, do I condone it NO! I think Gandhi was right and passive resistance is the way. Be the change you want to see! Although this entrapment, this guilty before proven innocent, this Slavery, has got me to believe that unless the masses are educated with the "free" free market concept, there will be violence. The mainstream propaganda is never going to let the truth out, it is considered as preposterous as the 911 conspiracy theories, treated worse than porno. The only other way to combat these tactics of propaganda is with a shit load of money, and I don't see any trillion aires willing to spend their fortune for freedom. It is most likely those types are working to monopolize even more!

So what is my solution? I think the free state project is a good solution..I think that civil disobedience, and passive resistance are good solutions. Educating others, the wonders of the free market, even working within the system (within the FPS of course) those are solutions.

I think violence is the last solution to any problem, but if it Does come down to violence, I hope people are ready. I sure as hell don't want to be known for writing "at first they came for the drunken, pot head anarchists..." I guess all I'm saying is just to beware, and to realize the potential of the situation. It could get ugly, and are you ready for that?

I feel (largely) the same way as you.  I revere the lowly fly, for it has useful purposes, and harms no one (most of the time).  I would bitch slap Pelosi if she stepped foot in my house, and I would never invite her in.  But for the lowly housefly, I politely ask them to leave, and if they don't, I gently collect them in a butterfly net, and put them in their place.

I wonder what the proverbial butterfly net would be to Nancy Pelosi as Fly?