First of all, it is not so simple to just pack up and move to a new country. I would love to be in the Czech Republic as they have much laxer laws than the USA does, but that would entail me learning to speak their language and lots of other things. It is not trivial to change your citizenship. In a free libertarian society you do not need to pick any protection agency! Your comparison of this situation to a free market is incorrect, if it were a free market I would opt out of funding the DEA immediately. I would opt out of funding any agency that enforces drug laws! No nations protection agencies have a package that I would spend money on. I am forced to select one thus I am not in a free market where I could select none. And within the nations there is not a free market or even the option to select from various agencies, there is a single monopoly protected by the federal government, and all of us are forced to fund these agencies and receive even "protections" that we do not desire. Your claim that this is equivalent to a free market shows that you haven't the slightest clue what a free market actually is. Indeed, and wouldn't you rather spend your money only on the things that you agree with? Why would you desire to be forced into funding things that you disagree with? Are you incapable of making choices on your own? The trade off is your freedom for slavery to the collective! When your money is forcibly taken from you and spent on things you disagree with, even on your own oppression, you are not a free person anymore. My neighbor can spend what he wants to spend and I will spend what I want to spend. I don't care about neighborhood defense, I care about defense of my own life and property. If other neighbors would like to pool resources so that we can afford more comprehensive neighborhood security, than those who pool money will obtain the services paid for. I will not force my neighbor to pay for defense and I will not pay for his. Indeed and Jews could have moved from Nazi Germany prior to the holocaust so their extermination is to be blamed only on them. They were free! You understanding of what a free market is is extremely incorrect. Guess what, a critical mass of the population didn't give two shits about drug use until the United States federal government pushed out a bunch of propaganda and conditioned them into accepting that the war on drugs was a good thing and drugs were bad. Look at things like reefer madness , do you think the people who made that propaganda thought that it was honest truth? No, people who make propaganda at the highest levels understand that it is false and lies. The government lied to the people to justify imprisoning and enslaving millions of its own citizens for the profit of private interests. They have literally sold us into prison industrial slavery, and no our neighbors did not decide to do this on their own, they were conditioned into it by a group of powerful elites who would profit from our slavery. Democracy is a flawed system, the masses are too easily manipulated for it to be meaningful in the slightest. We will what end the war on drugs when people wake up from decades or centuries of propaganda and lies? And this is your victory of democracy?! So then they can move on to the next behavior that will be demonized and prosecuted, and the new masses will be conditioned by the new generation of propaganda and lies?! Slaves are too valuable for them to simply free us all. Government and democracy ensures an endless cycle of slavery with only details of the slaves backgrounds changing. You will need to clarify for me what exactly public good are in your opinion. In my vision all goods are private, so there is no need to provide public goods and thus your dubious claim that private industry can not provide them is entirely irrelevant. I have attended private and public schools in a similar socioeconomic setting, I can say that in my opinion private education is superior. According to this time article they still found that children who attended Catholic private schools performed better, even when those variables were controlled for: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1670063,00.html additionally that study looks dubious and political at first glance, although I have not read it. So those that can't afford private schooling must be subject to statist indoctrination at a public school entirely funded by gun toting IRS agents extorting money from people, for the sole purpose of indoctrinating kids who can't afford an education otherwise into statism and exposing them early to government propaganda (D.A.R.E immediately comes to mind!) ? That sounds like an awful idea! Religious people already force me to fund the neighborhood public school, so once again in your nightmare 'free market' society nothing has changed except the name Government and the people in charge. Look where you are typing this!! You are telling me this on a privately owned forum that is dedicated to drug traffickers who participate in the privately owned for profit drug trading market named silk road! This is illegal in every nation state on earth and yet we are still here. Look no further than here to see that even when there are overwhelmingly powerful oppressors, the free market will stand and private providers of security and defense will successfully stand up to them! We have our private security agency right here, and indeed we are successfully protected by it from the unjust laws of society. And now I say that we must also have private law, and the law must be that those who have oppressed us will be brought to justice for their crimes against us. And you describe the situation as it is today. Your biggest criticism of libertarian anarchy is that you are afraid it will become what you have today! And yet you cling to what we have today like a frightened child afraid to leave the perceived safety of his mothers embrace. There is only a government backed legal framework preventing other criminals from forcing their services onto us because the government is a criminal organization forcing their services onto us and they do not want any competition to their monopoly! In the nightmare scenario that you proposed there is no difference to the scenario of today. Your view of the downfall of anarchy is that it decomposes into the government of today, and you see the government of today as good yet what anarchy will in your opinion turn into as bad. You suffer from cognitive dissonance. Non-constitutional democracy is synonymous with mob rule and the constitution of the United States and any government will be interpreted away by the government. We do live in a totalitarian state. I am forced to fund government programs. I am forced to fund the government program that has the purpose of locating and arresting me for having caused harm to nobody. This is oppression! I will be sent to a prison, possibly exploited for labor but certainly will fund the paycheck of prison guards and similar slave holders, thus this is SLAVERY. I am EXTORTED to pay for my own OPPRESSION and I am ENSLAVED by my government and thus my government is a totalitarian state. Ostensibly my government is controlled by the mob, and indeed democracy is mob rule, however there are groups of elites who have mastered the art of manipulating the masses. They can influence the mob to such a high degree that the mob is only a proxy for their own control of the state, it masks the true power holders and tames the people who actually believe they have power over their own lives. These elites are the ones who gain the most from our slavery, they are the reason we are enslaved. 35% a financial slave is still a slave. There are degrees of slavery but freedom is only total. The only difference you seem to believe exists between private and public is that public things cannot be bad and private things often are. There are other security agencies to govern him. If he violates the rights of other people who are offered security services through other private services, he will find himself dead. The DEA is indeed a band of gun waving robbers, kidnappers, murderers and slave traders. They are protected by a criminal government that is controlled by a group of elite slave traders. It exists in the first place because this elite group of slave traders created propaganda and lies for the purposes of convinced the masses to allow for the slavery of certain minority groups. It continues to exist today because total indoctrination takes huge amounts of time to overcome. The DEA is part of the government and in practice the government is a law unto itself, only in your imagination does your idealistic statist utopia actually exist. What a coincidence I think the same exact thing about you! We live in a totalitarian state ostensibly governed by mod rule but actually governed by small elite groups who have mastered the art of controlling large mobs. No intellectually honest person can differentiate in any meaningful way between two different people who kick in a door and take drugs and prisoners. If you can differentiate between two such people, something is very wrong with your thought process. Our values as a society are a reflection of government and religious propaganda. The DEA agents should be treated as any other robbers and kidnappers would be. To think differently is to say that crimes committed in the name of a state are excusable. So explain to me how you are different from a Nazi war criminal?