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*This is my entry for the @Freedomtribe Enter The Truth Challenge.* 

Q: Tell us about a powerful truth, or a terrible lie.

# A terrible lie is that we need government in order to survive and thrive.
<center></center>If you repeat the lie often enough, there's a better chance of it being believed. And if you spend millions on 'education services' with the goal of perpetuating that idea, there's a better chance that it will continue to be embraced and believed. 

The state itself is an agent of oppression and coercion. It cannot protect the individual with the right hand, while it violates the natural rights of the individual with the left. 

# Truth doesn't serve statism, lies do.
<center></center>The government bastardizes and misuses language in an effort to keep people from realizing what it really is that they are doing, promoting, and capable of. 

For example, the TSA provides security theater, not true security. The state launches wars against terrorism, when war itself could easily be considered terrorism just the same. The state has proven over thousands of years to be too dangerous to tolerate, but they're still busy perpetuating the biggest lie in human history. 

At this point, with all of the violent history that the state has been responsible for throughout time, you have to wonder how anyone could still place their trust in this criminal organization that violates the consent of millions on a regular basis. The inability to see the state for what it truly is is a political illusion that they have worked very hard to maintain. But it's a self-destructive religious belief that does nothing to promote or protect your personal interests. 

The truth is that *humans can survive without government* and that without an organization with a monopoly on coercion like the state has today, they'd likely *thrive significantly* as a result of those chains being loosened. 


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