Back in the day and way before I had my act together, I loved (or back then thought I did) a girl that didn't love me back. In fact, she barely knew I was alive until one day in the roach motel of a school cafeteria, I flung a piece of macaroni at her head to get her attention. The awful public elementary school I was forced to attend by law, had inadvertently “fated” us to be together.

The good news was that the deck wasn't stacked against me. I had really good mentors then that showed me early that unrequited love for anything or anyone, was undignified and a waste of time and energy. You could say that I had the best of both worlds as I was able to enjoy the advantages of being a kid while getting a very decent head start towards being an adult inside my own mind.

When you're young it can be said that you have an excuse for loving someone that doesn't love you back. Of course, being an adult, you should have learned to have known better by now. So just what gives with some of us that love the state? Why indeed can't we give up that sick addiction to that forced partner who dedicates their foul self to stealing from you and pushing you around, sometimes even harming you in some way if you don't comply?

Do you really want to love someone that not only doesn't love you back, they even have utter contempt for you? Could you actually ever consider such a passion for any abuser, no matter who they are, to be a healthy one? How strange it is that a single person may much more often than not, be quickly ejected by you from your life due to their obvious transgressions against your person or property without so much as a second thought as to their value to you.

With that in mind, what kind of perceived “legitimacy” would government ever have, even on it's best day, that uses the same cruel tactics of your garden variety abuser? What could they possibly ever give you or someone else that deems it okay to act in the nature that they do that would make all their ills against the world, be absolved? Again they do not love or even like you, and you could get to be a pauper (if you're not already), scraping by while they live it up on funds swiped from you. They grant themselves privileges and immunities from you, ones you will never enjoy as an “ordinary person”.

The armed gang with contrived “authority” that refers to itself as “government” may conduct their business any way they like, break rules at will, and do what they wish to anyone on earth, will claim authority over your own business and legislate away your rights to run it as you know best. Typical abuser-speak: “do as I say, not as I do, I know what's best for you and yours”.

Your torturers laugh in your face as they slap you around and you still find it within yourself to love him or her, no matter what privations are heaped upon you. My mind simply cannot fathom a more sick form of one-way street kind of love than that.

Do you still love the state? If so, how could you ever?

With Liberty,

Dan Steward