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On escaping from cults

I guess I’m just a total and complete liar. This is my fourth consecutive post relating to the raid and kidnapping at the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints ranch in Eldorado, Texas. I seriously, honestly did not expect to make more than one post in the near future about the events, and now it’s four. Weird.

This post is about a comment made on William Norman Grigg’s blag post, which I linked to three posts ago. The commenter, anonymous, said,

are you serious?

as a former member of a cult in which i had NO choice to be in, i applaud the removal of people from this forced abuse.

A cult you had no choice to be in, eh? Hmmm, I’ve written about those before… What is the largest, most intrusive, most intolerant, most destructive cult ever known to man? Why, it’s the Cult of the State! And believe it or not, anonymous, you’re still a member and always have been. I am not exactly a member, I’m only a victim of its crazed system. I am not a willful participant. Neither is any libertarian.

Would you applaud the removal of people from this forced abuse? (Maybe abuse is a harsh word…extortion? Restriction of liberty? Millions of people certainly are abused, though, by any standard.) If you applaud the removal of some people from forced abuse but not others, why not the others? If you applaud the removal of people from any forcible system they disapprove of, then welcome to the light of libertarianism! You must agree with our assertions of our right to secede from any monopolistic State and form voluntary governing jurisdictions—jurisdictions of one, if need be. You must also, therefore, vehemently support the abolition of the state of Texas and its police force, as vehemently as you support the removal of the FLDS children from their families.

Somehow, I don’t think he would see it that way. That’s why Statism is such a pernicious cult and why it seems impossible to break free from its tyrannical grasp.

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