Anarchy is a functioning society free of government controls.  That is individual persons operating together in harmony based on freely reached agreements concluded between individual members and groups of a society.  Anarchy is simply a free society.  Anarchy is not the result of a statist-government failure; that would be chaos.  The chaos in New Orleans is not due to anarchy, it is an example of the failure of statist-government. People have said and written to me that: “See, anarchy can’t work because look at what happened in New Orleans when there was no government.”

To define anarchy as statist-government failure is such an obvious distortion of the concept of a free society that it is hard to decide where to begin to dismantle such thoughtlessness.I like to begin by simply pointing out that at least four layers of statist-government agencies still claim jurisdiction over the area known as New Orleans (city, parish, state and federal).The undeniable fact is that they all four failed to provide the services they had promised to provide when they were justifying the theft of individual resources called taxes.It boggles the mind how one can point to obvious failure to live up to political promises as a way to abdicate the responsibility of politicians to live up to those promises.

Of course statist-governments never have and never will provide what they have promised.They simply return promising more and more if only they could have more power and more money. Next time, politicians promise, things will be different, better. Politics is just a show, and the curtain was pulled back in New Orleans The main problem is that in spite of a long history of failure living up to its promises, so many people still see the statist-government system as the only available method of organizing society.When one government fails, statist drones can’t wait to revive it or start another one

The problem is perceived to be that it was the people who ran the system that failed and not the system itself. The blame game gets heated up as the bureaucrats immediately start pointing at each other. The sheep line up behind their “leaders” who “did all they could do” so that when the dust settles and the checks spending taxpayer monies get distributed, their loyalty will be rewarded. But these knaves are but a small band of thieves; it is the dupes who make it all possible.

The lure for those educated in statist-government indoctrination centers and informed by media misinformation organs to equate the failure of statist-government to a state of anarchy is overwhelming to what little logic remains in their thought processes.

When someone truly believes that society cannot exist without a central authority wielding a monopoly on the use of force to keep order, then it is easy to fall into this illogical mire.Getting out of this mire takes a level of desire for the truth that most sadly lack.So try undisputed facts that most people already know of to counteract this tendency

First, the catastrophe in New Orleans was not caused by the hurricane, but by the flooding that followed the failure of the dikes.Were these dikes built and maintained by private organizations, as they would be under anarchy (if built) or by statist-government agencies?The Army Corp of Engineers built and maintained the dikes after politicians decided it was a good idea to build a city below sea level.The failure of the Army Corp of Engineers to build dikes that would withstand a commonly known potential risk as well as their failure to maintain these dikes is not anarchy.

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