[ANARCHY] Town posts armed guards to stop contraband entry

[Tom Busby]

I read about this too, it's not really a voluntary society in a libertarian
sense.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/mexican-town-overthrew-their-local-government-and-things-are-going-great

>From here is linked to a Vice article (and video) about this place:

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/gykaq9/a-town-in-mexico-overthrew-their-local-government-things-couldnt-be-going-better

If you watch the vid, one guy works as a professor at a technical
university, and he gets nominated by his peers and elected to be one of the
12 "councilmen" or whatever they call it. It's notable that he doesn't have
a choice in the matter and has to quit his university job for 25% salary as
one of the councilmen.

If your neighbours decide you're standing for election, it doesn't seem you
have a choice. If they then elect you, you don't have a choice either.

On 3 July 2018 at 18:44, Steven Schear <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Though some residents complain they are almost required to pay for this
> protection.
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018, 9:42 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
>
>> A Mexican Town Overthrew Their Local Government And Things Are Going
>> Great
>> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/mexican-town-
>> overthrew-their-local-government-and-things-are-going-great
>>
>>  The town of Cherán, Mexico was once plagued…
>>  Cherán is now run by autonomous groups of armed individuals…
>>  members of an autonomous militia — guard every entrance to the town,
>>  looking for strangers with contraband…
>>
>>  “Contraband” would be considered political propaganda posters of
>>  those who claim the right to rule other human beings.
>>
>>  …Cherán has achieved something unthinkable in Michoacán: a dramatic
>>  drop in murder rates, with rates for other serious crimes hovering
>>  at nearly zero. For those in Mexico, especially in an election year
>>  marred by wanton political murders, Cherán stands as proof that, in
>>  the country’s entrenched cycle of violence, the key ingredient to
>>  that violence is the state.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In other news:
>> Nevada Traffic Deaths Plunge 10% Following Marijuana Legalization
>> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-02/nevada-
>> traffic-deaths-plunge-10-following-marijuana-legalization
>>
>>
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