Depending on the political climate, non state organisations can help resolve community issues and provide protection, while the official government views them as gangs / terrorists. For example, in Northern Ireland.
But what if you realized that the ones burning your house and attacking your neighbours were the police? Then, the obvious option would be to turn to yourself and like-minded friends to create your own institution to protect the community from assault.
This was what happened during the recent 25-year conflict
If you can’t see the difference between taxes and extortion then you’re either extremely naive or really really dumb… In functioning democracies, taxes are used for the good of all.
Extortion money goes to the mob boss.
Then again, maybe you’re American? That would explain something too, as (again) you need an actual functioning democracy for taxes to work correctly
Depending on the political climate, non state organisations can help resolve community issues and provide protection, while the official government views them as gangs / terrorists. For example, in Northern Ireland.
“Recent” that happened in 1969.
Yeah, that is a highly romanticized and naive way of describing extortion
Like taxes?
If you can’t see the difference between taxes and extortion then you’re either extremely naive or really really dumb… In functioning democracies, taxes are used for the good of all.
Extortion money goes to the mob boss.
Then again, maybe you’re American? That would explain something too, as (again) you need an actual functioning democracy for taxes to work correctly
Ah yes, I’m an American using the main UK based instance of Lemmy
Sooooo, dumbass it is, then? You equate taxes with extortion. If you’re not a dumb American, there aren’t many other categories to place you.