Yes, I am an individualist anarchist, but I never assume that I or any other individualist is above the law or that the rules do not apply to us. We should obey the laws of the land, while, as individuating-anarchist supercitizens, we educate, dialogue and reach out to each other to author contracts for the county, for the state and for the federal government.
We form grassroots pressure lobbies of thousands and millions of citizens united on their contracts, and then they lobby and command the politicians that work for us, to obey our instructions, and bring forth the legislation that we favor and to oppose and vote against that which we discount.
Being as we must live under the laws of the land, local, state and federal, we must make sure that only constitutional, inalienable rights consistent, pro-capitalist, pro-small government, gun-loving, sovereignty reinforcing bills are passed.
This is how we get rid of bad, silly, tyrannical laws and ordinances that we cannot in good conscience obey.
A virtuous citizenry must make the just, efficient, limited and constitutional laws through pressure and guidance upon their elected officials. Then, the citizens must agree to obey these laws so that all citizens in the polity will enjoy ordered liberty. Where citizens fail to obey the laws of the land, bad anarchy, lawlessness, chaos and social disintegration will follow.
If the enlightened, organized union of supercitizens will not agree to be rid of a law that an single supercitizen detests as unconstitutional, unjust, illegal, tyrannical or sinful, then that single person has two ways to go. She can continue to obey the law while lobbying and educating to have it removed. Or she can be civily disobedient and be arrested, tried, convicted and jailed for disobeying the law.
The system is not perfect, but it will work rather well.
If supercitizens have a hand in devising the laws of the land, then it would be dishonest and hypocritical not to abide by the laws of the land. None can be above the law, but all have a moral and political obligation to draft the laws.
It may seem inconsistent and paradoxical, even hypocritical--to recommend that the ideal citizen, an educated supercitizen and part-ruler and individuating-anarchist, serving as a politician and voter to improve and maintain our God-centered, free market economical, armed citizenry, running the constitutional republic, unite with others in political parties or as part of coalitions, but that is how the human condition unfolds.
We need live as individuals first, but we are also part of families, churches, neighborhoods, towns, townships, cities, counties, states and America as a whole. With this irrrefragable, blended, dual human condition, the burden of all adult citizens, living as a particular individual, while working with others, the balance must be to have small, but strong, effective government agencies that provide for the general good, without an elite becoming entrenched and addicted to power, living off of and subjugating the masses, rather that protecting and serving them.
Only individuating-anarchist supercitizens, united and organized with other supercitizens, writing, lobbying and enforcing their contract with America, are able to remain individuals while steering and preserving the common good.
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