kleptocrats, bumptious bugaboos, busybodies, butterbabies, nabobs of nepotism, cranks of cronyism, pusillanimous pussyfooters, riffraffs of rascals, socialist sophists, and Machiavellian mafiosi. Democracy tends to kleptocracy. Anarchy should replace democracy.

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an important early influence in individualist anarchist thought in the United States and Europe. Thoreau was an American author, poet, naturalist, and tax resister. Celebrated economist Murray Rothbard (1926 – 1995) constructed the theory of individualist anarchism and proved it’s the best possible political system on Earth.

Parliaments should be abolished, because they continuously create laws that enslave citizens, constrain economic activity, loot producers, reward drones, and encourage political corruption. The anarchist symbol, a black A enclosed inside a circle, is omnipresent on Athenian walls. Torch the polling booths! Burn the parliament! 

Greek graffiti is due to desperation. If you have no hope for the future you try to destroy everything. Amid widespread disgust at Pasok and Nea Democratia mafias, which have taken turns ruling Greece since the country’s military dictatorship ended in 1974, much of the graffiti reflects a lurch to the extremes of the political fringe.

Greece, the cradle of democracy, has become the cradle of kleptocracy. Since democracy has deteriorated to kleptocracy, especially in Greece, citizens now consider anarchy. Murray Rothbard defines the state as that institution which possesses one of the following properties: it acquires its income by the physical coercion known as taxation; and it asserts and usually obtains a coerced monopoly of the provision of defense service over a given territorial area. 

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Anarchist society is one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of an individual. Anarchists oppose the state because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

Greek graffiti is a symptom of a society that is starting to fray at the edges. In central Athens, where graffiti sprouts like ivy, packs of stray dogs lounge in the sun and junkies openly shoot up. The facades of historic edifices have not been spared. Graffiti is everywhere. It’s unpleasant, hostile and plain vandalism. Outside a city hall building in central Athens, someone has sprayed a symbolic black blindfold upon the eyes of a statue of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. An unemployed scribbled an ironic job ad: Wanted, dead or alive, Greek prime minister. No qualifications or brains required!

The state, by its use of physical coercion, has arrogated to itself a compulsory monopoly of defense services over its territorial jurisdiction. But it is certainly conceptually possible for such services to be supplied by private, non-state institutions, and indeed such services have historically been supplied by other organizations than the state. 

Greek police says it is pointless tackling graffiti, because it returned almost as soon as it was erased. It’s like the marble on Syntagma square. The protesters rip it up and it gets replaced. But two weeks later it’s torn up again. The city is waiting for stability to return, before it cleans up. Though many Greeks and tourists dislike the graffiti, it reflects the country’s agony. The time Greeks live in is aggressive. Art expresses life, so it is reasonable that graffiti is aggressive. However, if there is one unifying theme in the graffiti it is despair.

Because of Graecokleptocracy, thousands of Greeks have suicided. Since euthanasia is not allowed in Greece, most of them had to shoot or hang themselves. Some poor Greeks went to Albania for euthanasia, some rich Greeks went to Switzerland for euthanasia, and some netizens ordered Nembutal through internet. Graecokleptocrats do not allow euthanasia, because they want to have more victims, more taxpayers, and more slaves. Let my people go to the other side in peace. Let my people go! Where are you Moses?

Retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas’ suicide on April 4, 2012 triggered the start of the Greek Spring. Similarly, the suicide of a Tunisian vegetable seller who set himself on fire in December 2010 triggered the start of the Arab Spring. Christoulas was a quiet and gentle man, but shaken by the pain that Graecokleptocracy had inflicted on his fellow citizens.

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