I'm Allowed to Rob You!
Overview
A short anarchist-leaning video by Larken Rose arguing that the Constitution and similar documents cannot legitimately grant anyone the right to take other people's property. It uses a rhetorical 'paper that lets me rob you' setup to challenge belief in political authority.
On Hacker News
Libertarian-minded commenters post it in surveillance, government and constitution threads as a red-pill argument that political authority is illusory.
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Sources
Video by Larken Rose, played through YouTube.
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