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RE: Facebook Fallacies and Bumper Sticker Bullshit
While I agree that government and taxation in its current form is a form of extortion, I don't necessarily believe that that fact means that travel within those established borders should be unhindered by the victims of that distortion. If I own a house and a yard, I have the right to deny access to that property to others. If I am forced against my will to buy that same house and yard, I still retain the right to deny that access.
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Yes, you do have authority to choose your associations and exchanges despite political intervention imposing various threats against you. However, government borders are not analogous to private property. You have no ownership stake in their claims. Your authority does not extend to anyone else's property or associations. People born in territories claimed by other governments have the same individual rights you have.
Government is the term used to represent the collective of people who, whether willingly or unwillingly, pay into it. Those people/victims have some stake in the claim of the government by way of that payment. People who pay into a different government have a stake in the claims of that government but not any other (unless they also paid into that one as well).
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Do victims of mafia racketeering have a stake in the mafia? No. Government is just a bigger, older mafia with better propaganda, and there is no representation.
I would say the victims have a claim to restitution or any property from which restitution could be derived.
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Agreed, but that is a completely different discussion than collective ownership of government territorial claims and grants no legitimacy to immigration restrictions.