Mob Rule

 

Anarchist private defense agencies are inherently tyrannical. They’re fundamentally criminal organizations which coerce third parties and operate outside the law. By their nature they attack people and property. These mafia agencies have huge incentives to violate rights and few to protect them. Virtually nothing can stop their tyranny and evil outside of a libertarian state. Certainly not some farcical “free market in government”.

As it performs its job (sic), a lawless private defense agency strides the land looking for plunder and victims. If it spots a defenseless innocent walking down the street, it stops them and says “You robbed my client” or “you assaulted my customer”. In the name of a fraudulent justice, the innocent victim is coerced into paying a huge fine. Altho some money might go to the employer, the mafioso PDA collects the lion’s share of the booty. Hence the criminal gang is motivated to attack and rob people and property as much as possible, no matter how innocent they may be.

The anarchic PDA almost certainly will even steal from its own clients. It will routinely hike its fees sky-high and say “Pay up – or else.” Since the lawless PDA is answerable to no libertarian authority or legal control, and since it possesses almost all the guns, while its customers possess almost all the money, the result of the gangster PDA’s “request” for extra “protection money” is obvious.

It’s laughable to think the customer can somehow fire or escape the PDA. The mobster protection racket will almost surely not allow this to happen. They’ll probably just go ahead and steal all the client’s wealth. Who’s going to stop them?

The lawfree defense agency will also quite possibly jail them too. They’ll hold them hostage and force them to contact their rich family and friends in order to pay the ransom. The only alternative to this dismal fate is to hire an even more powerful PDA – to protect and free the customer from the first. But this just postpones the inevitable.

Anarchist PDAs are naturally and inherently cannibalistic. They feast upon society’s defenseless and innocent. But they feast upon their clients too.