Essay Outline: The State on Trial: An Anarchist Indictment

Thesis Statement: The state stands accused not through abstract political theory, but through the evidence of its own actions. Res ipsa loquitur—the thing speaks for itself. This essay presents a systematic anarchist indictment of the state based on documented crimes, observable patterns, and the state’s own admissions. The evidence demonstrates that the state is a self-preserving predatory organism that systematically exploits the masses while serving elite interests, maintains its power through surveillance and violence, and is structurally incapable of reform. The verdict is clear: categorical dismantlement.

I. Opening Statement: The Case Before Us

A. The Nature of This Indictment

This is not a philosophical thought experiment. This is not abstract political theory. This is an indictment based on evidence—documented crimes, observable patterns, empirical outcomes, and the state’s own admissions.

The state will be tried by its actions, not its promises. By what it does, not what it claims to do. By the evidence that speaks for itself.

B. The Accused: What Is the State?

Before examining the charges, we must identify the accused. The state is not an idea or a social contract. It is a concrete entity with observable characteristics:

The state is an autonomous, self-preserving organism with these defining features:

  • It funds itself through coercion (taxation without genuine consent)
  • It maintains monopolies over currency, trade, borders, and violence
  • It claims the exclusive right to use force within its territory
  • Its primary imperative is self-preservation and expansion of power
  • It operates through enforcement mechanisms: police, military, bureaucracy, surveillance apparatus

The state is not passive. It acts, it survives, it grows. And like any organism, it can be judged by its behavior.

C. The Standard of Evidence

This indictment will rely on:

  • Documented historical facts (COINTELPRO, state assassinations, surveillance programs)
  • Observable patterns (universal policy failure, selective competence for elites)
  • Statistical evidence (outcomes for ordinary people vs. elites)
  • The state’s own admissions (openly claimed powers, justified violence)
  • Whistleblower revelations (Snowden, Manning, and others)

The evidence will show that the state is not a corrupted institution that could be reformed, but an inherently predatory entity whose crimes define its nature.

D. A Note on Perspective

This indictment comes from an anarchist perspective—meaning it rejects the premise that any institution has legitimate authority to rule through violence. But the anarchist lens is merely the interpretive framework. The facts presented are verifiable regardless of political philosophy. The state’s actions speak for themselves.

II. The Charges: Documented Crimes of the State

This section presents the criminal charges with supporting evidence from the state’s documented actions.

Charge 1: Systematic Extortion and Ransom

The Crime: The state funds itself through coercion, operating as a protection racket that threatens violence against those who refuse to pay.

The Evidence:

Taxation as Extortion:

  • Try not paying taxes. The state will fine you, seize your assets, and ultimately imprison or kill you if you resist
  • This is not voluntary contribution—it is “pay or suffer violence”
  • The state provides no mechanism for individuals to opt out of taxation while remaining on their property
  • Unlike any legitimate service provider, the state does not allow you to decline service and refuse payment

Inflation as Systematic Wealth Transfer:

The state doesn’t merely tax openly—it taxes silently through inflation:

Who It Punishes:

  • Savers holding cash, checking accounts, savings accounts—overwhelmingly ordinary people
  • Wage workers whose pay lags behind rising prices
  • Retirees on fixed incomes watching their savings evaporate
  • The middle class relying on stable savings

Who It Benefits:

  • The state—the largest debtor, whose debt decreases in real value
  • The wealthy—who hold assets (real estate, equities, commodities) that appreciate during inflation
  • Large borrowers with access to cheap credit—who repay loans with devalued currency
  • Financial institutions profiting from the spread

The Evidence:

  • US dollar has lost over 95% of purchasing power since Federal Reserve creation (1913)
  • Asset holders grow wealthier; currency holders grow poorer
  • Citizens cannot opt out—wages paid in state currency, taxes paid in state currency, alternative currencies illegal or regulated

Inflation transfers wealth from those who hold currency (ordinary people with no choice) to those who hold assets and debt (elites with options). This is not economic policy—it is systematic theft disguised as monetary management.

Wars of Attrition:

  • Vietnam War: 58,000+ Americans dead, 2-3 million Vietnamese dead, for a war the US knew was unwinnable
  • Iraq War: launched on false pretenses (WMDs that didn’t exist), cost trillions, killed hundreds of thousands
  • Afghanistan: 20-year occupation that achieved nothing, Taliban back in power
  • These wars consumed the working class (who fight) while enriching defense contractors (Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Halliburton)
  • The state ransoms lives: it sends ordinary people to die for elite interests and state power projection

Pattern: The state takes your money through threat of violence, silently steals your savings through inflation, and ransoms your children’s lives in wars that serve elite interests. This is not governance—it is organized racketeering.

Charge 2: Categorical Monopolization and Economic Stranglehold

The Crime: The state maintains absolute monopolies over fundamental economic activities, creating total dependency and extracting rent at every node of human exchange.

The Evidence:

Currency Monopoly:

  • It is illegal to create competing currencies in most jurisdictions
  • The state prosecutes or shuts down alternative monetary systems (Liberty Dollar case, cryptocurrency regulations)
  • Only the state (or state-chartered entities) may issue legal tender
  • This monopoly enables the inflation crime (Charge 1)

Trade Monopoly:

  • Import/export requires state licensing and payment of tariffs
  • Unlicensed international trade is smuggling—a crime
  • The state positions itself as mandatory intermediary in all cross-border exchange

Infrastructure Monopoly:

  • Roads, airways, ports—all state-owned or state-regulated with mandatory fees
  • Try building a private road without permits, licenses, and regulatory compliance
  • The state has monopolized the physical infrastructure of movement and commerce

Occupational Licensing:

  • Want to cut hair? Get a license (requiring hundreds of hours and thousands in fees)
  • Want to arrange flowers? In some states, you need a license
  • Want to practice law or medicine? State-granted permission required
  • These restrictions have nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with restricting labor supply to benefit incumbents

Pattern: You cannot work, trade, save, travel, or transact without operating within the state’s monopolistic framework. The state has made itself unavoidable, extracting rent at every point of economic life.

The Crime: The state systematically manipulates populations through propaganda, education, and media control to manufacture consent for its own existence.

The Evidence:

Democratic Theater:

  • Studies show public opinion has virtually no impact on policy outcomes (Gilens & Page, 2014)
  • Policies consistently reflect elite preferences regardless of public opinion
  • Elections offer choice between managers of the same coercive system
  • Fundamental questions—should the state exist? should we have a military empire?—are never on the ballot
  • Voter turnout is irrelevant because the system perpetuates regardless

Media Consolidation:

  • Six corporations control 90% of US media (down from 50 companies in 1983)
  • These corporations have aligned interests with state power
  • “Legitimate” political discourse excludes anarchist, abolitionist, or revolutionary perspectives
  • Dissenting voices are marginalized as “fringe” or “extremist”

Education as Indoctrination:

  • Mandatory state education (or state-regulated private education) teaches:
    • History as the history of states and rulers
    • Civics as “how our government works,” not “whether government should exist”
    • Economics that assumes state intervention as natural
  • Children are taught to pledge allegiance to the state before they can read
  • Alternative forms of organization are presented as impossible or dangerous

Nationalist Programming:

  • Anthems at sporting events
  • Pledges of allegiance in schools
  • Flag worship rituals
  • Military glorification in media and culture
  • These rituals naturalize state authority and frame loyalty to the state as moral virtue

Pattern: The state does not earn legitimacy through reason—it manufactures consent through generations of psychological conditioning that makes its authority appear natural and inevitable.

Charge 4: Monopoly on Violence

The Crime: The state claims exclusive right to use force and defines this monopoly as its essential characteristic. All other crimes flow from this foundational assertion.

The Evidence:

The State’s Own Admission:

  • Max Weber defined the state as the entity claiming “monopoly on legitimate use of physical force”
  • This is not a secret—it is openly claimed as the state’s defining feature
  • Every state openly asserts this monopoly

Enforcement:

  • Try organizing private security that isn’t accountable to state authority
  • Try defending yourself from state agents (police, tax collectors)—you will be charged with “resisting arrest” or worse
  • Private violence is crime; state violence is “law enforcement”
  • The difference is not the violence itself but who commits it

Scale:

  • States killed approximately 262 million people in the 20th century (R.J. Rummel, democide research)
  • This excludes war deaths—these are citizens killed by their own governments
  • No private criminal organization comes close to this scale of violence

Pattern: The state reserves the right to use violence and prosecutes anyone who challenges this monopoly. This is not legitimacy—it is successful coercion that has achieved stability.

Charge 5: Mass Surveillance and Privacy Violation

The Crime: The state maintains omniscient surveillance over entire populations while operating in secrecy, creating total information asymmetry.

The Evidence:

Documented Surveillance Programs:

  • NSA PRISM, XKeyscore (revealed by Snowden, 2013): Mass surveillance of phone records, internet communications, metadata on entire populations
  • GCHQ (UK): Partnered with NSA, intercepts communications on transatlantic cables
  • China’s surveillance state: Social credit system, ubiquitous facial recognition, comprehensive data collection on 1.4 billion people
  • Russia’s SORM: Mandatory surveillance equipment on all telecom networks giving FSB direct access
  • Five Eyes alliance: US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand share surveillance to circumvent domestic legal restrictions

Universal Pattern:

  • Every state surveils its population
  • Every state justifies surveillance with identical rhetoric: “terrorism,” “national security,” “protecting children”
  • Every state primarily uses surveillance to monitor dissidents, activists, journalists

Forced Corporate Compliance:

  • Telecommunications companies legally compelled to provide state access
  • Internet service providers required to retain data and provide it on demand
  • Cloud providers, including security-conscious companies like AWS, forced to comply with state surveillance demands
  • Encryption that the state cannot break is restricted or regulated

Total Asymmetry:

  • The state knows who you talk to, what you read, where you go, what you buy, who you love
  • You cannot know what the state does—state secrecy laws criminalize exposure
  • Whistleblowers (Snowden, Manning, Assange) are prosecuted for revealing state crimes

Pattern: Every state, without exception, surveils its population. The panopticon is not dystopian fiction—it is documented reality.

III. The State’s Enforcement Apparatus: How the Organism Operates

This section documents the concrete mechanisms through which the state maintains power and suppresses threats.

A. The Bureaucracy: Processing Humans into Categories

Observable Function: The bureaucracy transforms every human activity into something requiring state permission.

Evidence:

  • Want to work? Depending on profession: license, certification, registration
  • Want to build on your property? Permits, inspections, zoning compliance
  • Want to marry? Marriage license from the state
  • Want to drive? Driver’s license, vehicle registration
  • Want to leave the country? Passport (permission to travel)

Complexity as Feature:

  • Small businesses spend disproportionate resources on compliance
  • Large corporations hire specialists to navigate (and capture) regulations
  • The complexity protects incumbent wealth from competition

Result: The state has made itself omnipresent and seemingly indispensable. Nothing is simply allowed—everything requires permission.

B. The Police: Property Protection and Dissent Suppression

Observable Function: Police protect property and suppress challenges to the existing order.

Evidence:

Strike-Breaking:

  • 1914 Ludlow Massacre: Colorado National Guard and private guards killed striking miners and their families
  • 1937 Memorial Day Massacre: Chicago police killed 10 striking steel workers
  • 1981 PATCO strike: Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers, broke their union
  • Pattern repeats globally—police consistently side with capital against labor

Protest Suppression:

  • 1970 Kent State: National Guard killed 4 student protesters
  • 2011 Occupy Wall Street: Coordinated police crackdown across cities
  • 2020 George Floyd protests: Widespread police violence against protesters, journalists attacked
  • Police use of tear gas, rubber bullets, kettling tactics against peaceful protesters

Revenue Collection:

  • Traffic stops generate billions in revenue
  • Asset forfeiture allows police to seize property without conviction
  • Ferguson DOJ report (2015): City used police as revenue generation through targeting Black residents

Pattern: Police protect the property of elites while controlling poor communities through surveillance and revenue extraction.

C. Legislative Assemblies: The Illusion of Representation

Observable Function: Legislatures create the appearance of representation while serving elite interests.

Evidence:

Gilens & Page Study (2014):

  • Analyzed 1,779 policy outcomes
  • Economic elite preferences strongly predict policy outcomes
  • Public opinion has “near-zero, statistically non-significant impact”
  • Conclusion: US functions as oligarchy, not democracy

Lobbying Industry:

  • Corporations spend billions annually on lobbying
  • Revolving door: legislators become lobbyists, lobbyists become legislators
  • Policies consistently favor donors over public

Ever-Expanding Legal Code:

  • US Code spans 60,000+ pages
  • Average person commits three felonies a day without knowing (Harvey Silverglate)
  • Complexity ensures everyone is criminal, subject to selective enforcement

Pattern: Legislatures provide democratic theater while serving those with wealth and power.

Observable Function: Media creates boundaries of acceptable discourse that never question state legitimacy.

Evidence:

Ownership Concentration:

  • 1983: 50 companies controlled US media
  • 2023: 6 companies control 90%
  • These corporations have aligned interests with state power

Chomsky’s Propaganda Model:

  • Ownership by wealthy interests
  • Advertising dependence (corporate funding)
  • Sourcing (reliance on government/corporate sources)
  • Flak (organized criticism of dissent)
  • Anti-communism/fear-based ideology

Boundaries of Discourse:

  • Acceptable opinion: center-left to center-right
  • Both assume state legitimacy and capitalism as natural
  • Anarchist perspectives excluded as “extremist”
  • Revolutionary alternatives dismissed as “unrealistic”

Pattern: Media doesn’t report reality—it manufactures consensus for the existing order.

E. Metabolizing Dissent: Absorption and Neutralization

Observable Function: The state absorbs opposition movements and transforms them into harmless forms.

Evidence:

Historical Pattern:

  • Civil rights movement → non-profit industrial complex
  • Environmental movement → NGOs dependent on grants
  • Anti-poverty activism → social services that manage poverty, don’t eliminate it

Mechanisms:

  • Professionalization: Activists become paid staff with HR departments
  • Grant dependency: Radical organizations need funding, funders set boundaries
  • 501(c)(3) restrictions: Tax-exempt status requires avoiding “excessive” political activity

Result:

  • “Defund the police” becomes “community policing”
  • “Abolish ICE” becomes “immigration reform”
  • Revolutionary demands become policy recommendations

Pattern: The state absorbs threats and converts them into components that strengthen the system by providing appearance of progress.

F. Violent Suppression: When Absorption Fails

Observable Function: When the state cannot co-opt or absorb dissent, it uses direct violence to eliminate threats.

Evidence:

COINTELPRO (1956-1971, likely continued):

  • FBI program explicitly aimed to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” political organizations
  • Tactics: infiltration, psychological warfare, false media stories, illegal surveillance, harassment, violence
  • Primary targets: Black liberation movements (Black Panthers, NAACP, SNCC), socialists, anti-war movement, American Indian Movement
  • Not foreign spies—domestic political dissidents

Operation CHAOS (1967-1974):

  • CIA violated charter by conducting domestic surveillance
  • Targeted anti-war movement
  • Over 7,000 American citizens had files compiled

State Assassinations:

Fred Hampton (1969):

  • Black Panthers leader, age 21
  • FBI infiltrator drugged him before raid
  • Chicago police fired 90-99 shots; Panthers fired one
  • Hampton shot in his bed, likely while unconscious
  • FBI provided floor plan to police
  • This was explicit state murder of a political dissident

Martin Luther King Jr. (1968):

  • FBI conducted surveillance and harassment campaign
  • FBI sent King letter urging suicide
  • 1999 civil trial concluded government agencies complicit in assassination

Malcolm X (1965):

  • FBI and NYPD had infiltrated his organization
  • Police protection withdrawn day of assassination
  • FBI documents show efforts to intensify conflict between Malcolm and Nation of Islam

International Pattern:

  • 1989 Tiananmen Square: Chinese state massacred student protesters
  • 1970 Kent State: National Guard killed student protesters
  • Tlatelolco Massacre (1968): Mexican state killed hundreds of student protesters
  • Pattern repeats globally: states kill those who threaten their power

Pattern: Surveillance identifies threats, co-optation attempts to neutralize, and when that fails, the state uses violence up to and including assassination.

G. The Surveillance State: The Nervous System

Observable Function: Intelligence agencies gather information on all potential threats to ensure state survival.

Evidence:

Snowden Revelations (2013):

  • NSA collected phone metadata on millions of Americans with no probable cause
  • PRISM program collected internet communications directly from tech companies
  • XKeyscore allowed searching through vast databases of communications
  • Surveillance was mass, warrantless, and lied about to Congress

Universal Infrastructure:

  • All long-distance communication travels through state-controlled or state-regulated infrastructure
  • Telecom companies legally compelled to provide access
  • Encryption is regulated, strong encryption often banned or restricted
  • No communication is truly private from state surveillance

Chilling Effect:

  • Knowledge of surveillance changes behavior (self-censorship)
  • Activists, journalists, organizers must assume they’re monitored
  • Cannot organize effective resistance when all communication is surveilled

Pattern: Every state surveils because surveillance is necessary for the organism to detect threats before they can organize.

H. Corrupt to the Core: Systematic Failure to Serve the Masses

Observable Function: The state consistently fails to deliver on promises to ordinary people while remaining ruthlessly efficient at serving elites.

The Pattern—Universal Across All States:

Public Transport:

  • Metro lines skip crucial neighborhoods, poor connectivity, inadequate access
  • US projects cost 2-7x comparable European/Asian projects ($1.7B/km vs. $200-500M)
  • California High Speed Rail: billions over budget, decades delayed
  • Designed by elites who are chauffeured everywhere

Housing:

  • Every state claims to prioritize affordable housing
  • Prices rise everywhere—New York, London, Paris, Mumbai, São Paulo
  • Zoning captured by wealthy homeowners
  • “Solutions” enrich developers while restricting supply

Healthcare:

  • US spends more per capita than any nation, worse outcomes than most developed countries
  • 25-30% consumed by administrative costs (insurance bureaucracy)
  • Medical bankruptcy exists only in America
  • System serves pharmaceutical corporations and insurers, not patients

Education:

  • Per-student spending tripled since 1970 (inflation-adjusted)
  • Outcomes stagnated or declined
  • Student debt crisis exploded
  • Produces bureaucracy, not educated citizens

Environment:

  • Decades of regulation, trillions spent
  • CO2 emissions continue rising
  • Climate targets consistently missed
  • States subsidize fossil fuels while regulating emissions

This Failure Is Universal:

Appears in: United States, Russia, China, India, France, Germany, UK, Brazil, Singapore Across: Social democracies and authoritarian regimes, left and right governments, rich and poor nations

The pattern transcends every variable except one: the state itself.

The Rare “Exceptions” Require Iron Fists:

  • Chinese high-speed rail: mass displacement without consent, authoritarian suppression
  • Singapore’s efficiency: extensive surveillance, harsh penalties, one-party rule
  • “Success” requires intensified coercion—deepening the other charges

But The State Excels at Serving Elites:

  • 2008 bank bailouts: trillions mobilized instantly
  • Corporate subsidies and tax breaks: reliably delivered
  • Defense spending: contractors perpetually enriched
  • Police: protect wealthy neighborhoods, occupy poor ones

Why This Happens:

Politicians ARE the elite—elite universities, elite backgrounds, elite salaries, elite healthcare, elite housing.

They don’t use public transit. They don’t live in public housing. They don’t rely on public healthcare. They don’t send children to public schools.

Those who design systems they never experience cannot design systems that work.

This is not incompetence. This is structural inevitability: elites cannot represent non-elites because their material conditions are incompatible.

The state is selectively competent—efficient for self-preservation and elite interests, systematically incompetent for ordinary people. This asymmetry reveals what the state actually is and who it serves.

I. Self-Preservation as Categorical Imperative

Observable Function: All state actions, regardless of stated purpose, serve state survival and power expansion.

Evidence:

Wars Expand State Power:

  • World War I created modern surveillance state
  • World War II massively expanded federal government
  • Cold War created national security state
  • War on Terror created post-9/11 surveillance apparatus
  • Every crisis expands state power permanently

“Reforms” Create More State:

  • New Deal created alphabet soup of agencies
  • Civil Rights Act expanded federal power (even while addressing injustice)
  • Environmental movement created EPA and regulatory apparatus
  • Every “reform” movement creates new bureaucracy

Emergencies Never End:

  • State of emergency declared, powers expanded
  • Emergency becomes permanent
  • PATRIOT Act (2001) still in effect 20+ years later
  • COVID emergency powers expanded state control

Pattern: The state’s primary function is self-preservation. Human welfare is incidental at best, sacrificial at worst.

IV. The Verdict: Why Reform Is Impossible

A. The Nature of the Accused

The evidence demonstrates that the state is not a neutral institution that has been corrupted. It is a predatory organism that operates according to its nature.

What the Evidence Shows:

  • The state funds itself through coercion (Charge 1)
  • The state maintains economic stranglehold through monopolies (Charge 2)
  • The state manufactures consent through propaganda (Charge 3)
  • The state claims monopoly on violence as its defining feature (Charge 4)
  • The state surveils entire populations (Charge 5)
  • The state efficiently serves elites while systematically failing ordinary people (Section III-H)
  • The state co-opts dissent when possible, murders it when necessary (Sections III-E, III-F)
  • The state’s primary imperative is self-preservation (Section III-I)

These are not bugs—these are features. These are not corruptions of an otherwise legitimate institution—these are the institution’s essential characteristics.

B. Reform Requires the State to Commit Suicide

To ask the state to:

  • Stop extorting (taxation) → it would have no funding
  • Stop monopolizing → it would have no defining feature
  • Stop manufacturing consent → people might question its legitimacy
  • Give up monopoly on violence → it would cease to be a state
  • Stop surveilling → it couldn’t identify threats
  • Serve masses over elites → it would violate its self-preservation imperative

Is to ask the state to cease being the state. Organisms do not commit suicide. The state cannot reform itself because reform requires it to willingly diminish its own power, which violates its categorical imperative.

Historical Evidence Confirms:

  • Reform movements create more bureaucracy, not less state
  • “Accountability” measures expand state, don’t limit it
  • The state metabolizes reform into justification for growth

C. The State’s Own Standards Condemn It

The supreme irony: if we apply the state’s own legal standards to the state itself, the verdict is clear.

The state prosecutes others for:

  • Extortion and racketeering → but funds itself this way
  • Monopolistic practices → but operates through monopolies
  • Fraud and manipulation → but manufactures consent
  • Organized violence → but claims violence as its right
  • Mass surveillance → but surveils everyone
  • Conspiracy to violate civil rights → but COINTELPRO did exactly this

If a private organization operated as the state operates, it would be prosecuted as the most dangerous criminal enterprise in history. We would not debate its reform—we would demand its dismantlement.

D. The Only Logical Conclusion

Given that:

  • The state’s crimes are documented, not alleged
  • These crimes define what the state is, not accidents of corruption
  • Reform is structurally impossible
  • The state’s own legal standards, applied to itself, demand its abolition

The verdict is clear: categorical dismantlement.

Not reform. Not oversight. Not accountability measures. Complete abolition of:

  • Police forces
  • Military institutions
  • Intelligence agencies
  • Central banks
  • Legislative assemblies
  • Bureaucracies
  • National borders
  • The entire apparatus of state power

This is not political preference—it is the logical conclusion from the evidence presented.

V. Conclusion: The Case Rests

A. Summary of Evidence

The state has been tried by its own actions:

Documented crimes:

  • Systematic extortion through taxation
  • Theft through inflation
  • Ransoming lives in wars of attrition
  • Economic monopolization creating total dependency
  • Mass psychological manipulation and consent manufacturing
  • Claiming monopoly on violence
  • Mass surveillance of entire populations
  • Selective competence: efficient for elites, incompetent for masses
  • Co-optation and absorption of dissent
  • Murder of dissidents when absorption fails (Hampton, MLK, Malcolm X)

Observable patterns:

  • Universal policy failure across all states
  • Consistent service to elite interests
  • Self-preservation as overriding goal
  • Expansion through crisis and “reform”

The state’s own admissions:

  • Openly claims monopoly on violence
  • Openly conducts surveillance (after being caught)
  • Openly maintains economic monopolies
  • Justifies violence as necessary

B. The Thing Speaks For Itself

Res ipsa loquitur. The evidence speaks for itself. This is not philosophical abstraction—this is documented reality.

The state is not a theory to be debated. It is an entity to be judged by its actions. And its actions condemn it.

C. A Curious Observation

It is worth noting that if you follow certain philosophical premises to their logical conclusions, you arrive at this same verdict through pure reason:

  • If you begin from absolute individual sovereignty (anarcho-capitalism), you conclude the state must be abolished
  • If you begin from absolute opposition to hierarchy and exploitation (anarcho-communism), you conclude the state must be abolished

But we do not need these philosophical journeys. The evidence alone is sufficient. The state’s crimes are not theoretical—they are real, documented, and ongoing.

D. Final Statement

The state stands convicted by its own actions. The evidence is overwhelming. The verdict is clear.

The only question remaining is: do we have the courage to carry out the sentence?

The case rests.