Reverse the Flow

Reverse the Flow
-anonymous (feel free to copy, steal, add to any and all parts)

This morning Donald Beardslee was murdered by lethal injection by the state of California. Lethal injection has become a form of ritual used by the state to remind the population that it is only the state who may control death. Donald Beardslee was used as a reminder that the state has control over us. However, government is limited in how it is able to enforce its control. It is very rare when the state can actually force us to do something. Instead psychological means must be used; mainly fear. Fear of punishment. Fear of being imprisoned or murdered. This fear of punishment is the reason we pay attention to the law at all. This fear is what allows to government to hold influence and control over our lives.

The purpose of the state is to allow a certain group to keep control over all others; control over consumption, control over production, control over life and death. This control is rarely pure. We almost always have choices. For example, we all have some limited amount of choice as to which boss is going to exploit our labor. The state almost never destroys our ability to chose. Instead it creates a very limited, controlled set of choices. By allowing us this limited spectrum of choice the state attempts to mask its nature.

Likewise, with the death penalty the state is attempting to mask its own nature. In hopes of appearing just and good natured, the state attempts to create a less-painful form of death. Those who are to be murdered by the state receive a last meal, clean clothes, etc. This is all done in an attempt to make the murder seem more humane. The state attempts to convince us that the death penalty is not murder, but justice. Those receiving this justice are treated as well as possible.

This, is all done to allow the state to claim that there is no other option. Once all the appeals have been rejected, there is nothing the government can do but murder. As in all other cases of state control, it is not the fault of the government, that's just the way things are. The state will claim it does not want to murder, but someone must punish those who commit crimes.

The government does not care about Beardslee. The individual is not important in this case. What is important is keeping a monopoly on state control. It is imperative to the state to keep acts of murder flowing in one direction. From the state to the population. the state must be able to end the lives the individuals, but individuals must not be allowed t threaten the state. Those who are not a part of the state, who are not murdering on behalf of the state are a threat to the monopoly because they might revers the flow of murder. Those individuals who commit murder against other individuals are only a worry because they may turn their actions on the state. Beardslee committed murder. Again the state creates an illusion of caring about justice for those who were killed. The state does not care about justice. Its goal is to create fear in the hearts of those who may otherwise take up arms against the state; those who may revers th flow of murder.

We who stand against the state must not allow the government to hold a monopoly over our lives and over our deaths. Let us, in fact, take power over the life and death of the state. The idea of eliminating the monopolies which the state holds brings fear to the powerful. So much effort is being taken to ensure the safety of George Walker Bush during the inauguration. It is the reversal of control that those in power are afraid of. It is not the control of the state that we seek, it is the power to destroy the state.

To eliminate the state, we must assault the monopolies it attempts to hold. We must attack the state anytime it attempts to create fear or control over us. Abolishing the death penalty will most certainly not rid us of the state. Government has other ways, and will create other ways to hold onto its control over the population. But for every reform which creates a limit on state power, which slows the control over one aspect of our lives (or in this case deaths), we are one step closer towards freedom.