You Better Wise Up!

All you people out there, Republicans, Democrats, Perotistas, Greens, etc., who are so eager to give up your freedom, so that the police can protect you from doing things that are bad for you, by putting you in prison or seizing your property (just like a loving parent, no? -- though Martin Sheen didn't seem to be happy when Charlie got arrested) -- well, I really don't think it is a good idea to let people sell themselves into slavery; but if you really want to, I don't suppose I want try and stop you.

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

-- Samuel Adams [not just beer]

But, you do not have the authority to surrender my rights, sell me into slavery, or have your armed agents attack me for peacefully disposing of my own person and property as I see fit, in voluntary relationships with others. If you do that, then you are criminals; and I have an absolute right, before God and the Constitution, to defend myself against the wrongs and injustice of your criminal assaults and the tyranny of your politicians, judges, bureaucrats, and officers (good Germans, all of them). Mind your own damn business, and leave me the hell alone! But if you want the goons and tax collectors off your back too, you can always vote Libertarian!