Libertarianism and private corruption

Libertarians, objectivists and some conservatives all make the same error. =
They see federal government as an organ of corruption and oppression, and n=
obody else as such.

In fact there are many organs of corruption and oppression that aren't the =
federal government. Violent husbands. Oppressive religions. Suffocating com=
munities. Corrupt networks in law and medicine. In Western countries, these=
 exercise far greater levels of corruption and oppression than does the fed=
eral government.

In Western countries, the governments are elected, official, and made accou=
ntable to the public. The same is not the case for these other entities. Th=
is results in them having an unchecked potential for brutal, corrupt and op=
pressive practices. And while the libertarians are out there hunting for co=
rruption potentials in the federal government, real corruption sprouts up u=
nder their noses and puts them in its service.

You may ask my friend Celeste, an MD who had three of her relatives murdere=
d in American medical health system. Corrupt doctors enlisted corrupt coron=
ers and corrupt lawyers to bury the evidence and draw away from her any law=
yer that she would hire. Or you may ask any number of women who escaped ser=
ious domestic violence in the American South, only to see the courts award =
their children to the perpetrators.  Or you may ask someone I know who trie=
d to escape from Jehovah's Witnesses, only to see his family commit him ind=
efinitely in a mental hospital and manipulate him to become hateful and abu=
sive to his loving and generous girlfriend.

Biden did not do this. Corrupt local entities did.

What is more worthy of authority: An entity that is official, accountable, =
checked and balanced, or entities that are unofficial, unaccountable, unbal=
anced and unchecked? There is no official check on the power of communities=
 and religions. There is no official check on the power of corrupt entities=
 in law and medicine. There is no official check on the power of Jehovah's =
Witnesses. The problem gets no attention at all from the libertarians, as t=
hey spend all their time and energy scrutinizing the federal government. An=
d thile they are out there spouting New World Order conspiracy theories and=
 claiming =E2=80=9Cstatism=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Csocialism,=E2=80=9D real co=
rruption and real oppression grows up in their hometowns. The entities that=
 are responsible for this corruption, being the manipulative little shits t=
hat they are, then, ridiculously, direct the energies of the libertarians t=
oward fighting those in the government who seek to fight this corruption un=
der the false =E2=80=93 and ridiculous =E2=80=93 claim that in doing so the=
y are protecting values and freedom.

Values and freedom that they violate to a far greater extent than does the =
federal government; and which violations, with the energies of the scrutini=
zers spent on the federal government, goes unnoticed and unchecked.

That an entity is unofficial does not make it any less capable of corruptio=
n and oppression than the official entities. Indeed, being unofficial, it i=
s un-scrutinized; which gives it an unlimited potential for corruption and =
oppression. This is the case with the doctors who murdered Celeste's relati=
ves; this is the case with the community courts that award children to chil=
d rapists and batterers; this is the case with Jehovah's Witnesses; this is=
 the case with many others.

A person truly interested in defending liberty and integrity will do so fro=
m all entities that infringe on these things, whether they be official or u=
nofficial. A true libertarian will be just as willing to take on private co=
rruption and oppression as to take on public corruption and oppression. Onc=
e they do, they will have earned their title as defenders of freedom. And u=
ntil they do, they are cowards and hypocrites who attack an entity that is =
easy to attack while doing nothing to fight real wrongs.