I upvoted for the power of the story.

I'm staying to say that anarchy didn't cause this suffering, government did. Anarchists don't want a utopia that can never exist, they want to prevent small groups of people determining which humans get disassembled and why, at the end of a gun.

It is not fair to attribute to the anarchists that which 'the current incarnation of the law and government' have created for the people suffering under their rule.

How in the world am I to reconcile the idea that a government created the environment in which this old man nearly lost his life in a brutal fashion, and yet I'm supposed to believe that no matter how warped they are they should be respected? No masters.

Statists must beware that in their idealizing of a statist utopia they do not forget where the responsibility for over 250 million deaths outside of war belong, at the feet of government.

It would appear that OP is confusing anarchy and chaos.