Politicians, bureaucrats, and lawyers tend to hate the successful creation of value. Intellectually, psychologically, and emotionally they tend to be sick. Generally, their jobs involve value destruction on a large scale. The more successful, productive, value-creating, and profitable something is, the more they tend to hate it.
There is a very powerful legal principle you apply to reduce the risk of being attacked by government marauders. I call it "the embarrassing issue principle". I recently heard a story about a prosecutor saying to a judge, "But your honor! You can't allow this matter to be entered as evidence because if you do, it'll destroy the judicial system!"
Suppose you operate some business or activity which is perfectly legitimate but the government criminals don't like it and they've passed some unconstitutional statute prohibiting it. Suppose you have taken a certain legal precaution such that if the government criminals haul you into court, they'll be unable to prevent you from bringing one or more "embarrassing issues" before the court. As soon as they discover your precaution, they may very well back down and leave you alone.
In 1993 government criminals raided the free-enterprise bank of Anthony Hargis. They illegally seized money, records, and computers. The contract Hargis has his clients sign includes several "embarrassing issues". Hargis also submitted an Affidavit of Truth containing "embarrassing issues" to the appropriate government agencies. Later in that same year they returned everything they had seized.
In addition to personal or individual protection, we also need protection on a wider scale. We need an alternative defense system based on voluntary cooperation. Such a system already exists in American: the militia. The militia system needs to be greatly expanded.
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