"Who has government enslaved? Who is the child, the brother, the mother, the friend, of someone government has murdered or unjustly imprisoned? Who has tried to start a business, but was overwhelmed by regulations or taxes? Who has tried to catch a fish to feed his children, but didn't have the proper government permission slip? Who has struggled through the death of a parent only to find government has ravished the estate and left the family in debt?
Who has ever looked in the rearview mirror of their automobile and has been gripped by fear knowing the cop behind them can rape them and beat them to death and never be punished for his crime? Who has had their life turned upside down by an uncaring, half-wit, dead-eyed government bureaucrat just doing his job? Who has never been directly confronted by authorities, yet has compassion for the downtrodden and empathy for the victims of oppression? These are potentially our friends, supporters, and possibly even our fellow saboteurs. And with every filmed police brutality, with every repressive act of government, with every asset seizure, with every drone that kills a child, the State creates more of them every single day.
Who takes orders at the restaurant? Who fills prescriptions at the pharmacy? Who empties the trash at the office? Who stands guard at the factory, late into the night? Who installs the wires in the new government courthouse? Who repairs the heating/cooling system at the police station? Who routes the airplanes over the vast expanses of the prairies? Who programs the traffic lights that keep the surges of life flowing through the city during rush hours?
Who drives the ambulance that brings the suffering to the hospital? Who bravely walks into the burning building to save a life? Who is the trusted IT specialist that has access to the network that holds the video that the world needs to see?
The answer is the same as above. The answer is; it is us. The abused. The victims of government and those sympathetic and the empathetic to our plight. And the State creates more of us every single day. We are everywhere. We have no Great Leader and we must never have a Great Leader. We are regular people living regular lives. We write programs that allow desk-top computer-controlled milling machines to cut untraceable parts for military grade weapons in the tool shed of the farmer in Kansas.
We write the virus that invades the government computer network to create back doors. We mow the lawn at the Senator's home while his children nap in their nursery. We hold the oxygen mask snuggly against the face of the city mayor as he drifts into a state that allows him to comfortably have that important surgery. We push the cart and deliver the interoffice mail to the desks of the intelligence analysts who study the results of drone strikes. We inspect the brakes of the fleet vehicles in the motor pool that serves the lobbyist that will meet with the Ways and Means Committee this afternoon. We do these things. We allow the whole system around us to continue and we can stop that entire system or critical aspects of it, any time we decide it needs to stop. This is who we are and this is what we can do.
And the State creates more of us every single day."....