In political conflicts most of the time people
only get half of what they want so fight for
anarchism and prison abolition because if we
dont then we wont get anything resembling a
free world, we will end up with a rising
incarceration rate and more police on the
street. To win a political conflict we need to
demand everything we want and never
compromise or surrender.
Capitalism is wrong because capitalism
contains hierarchies such as:
Bosses who try to control their employees.
Corporate executives who control large
companies.
Businesses that decide both the price of
products and employees wages.
Employers that decide who gets hired and who
does not.
Employers that decide when an employees job
ends.
Landlords who demand that tenants pay high
rent.
Wealthy investors who decide what gets
invested in and what does not.
Rich people who use their money to influence
government policy.
Capitalism creates inequality and divides
society into classes such as rich and poor.
Capitalism causes crime because inequality
causes the poor to kill and steal so they can
survive. Many poor, unemployed people are in
prison because they stole money, food, or
property, or sold illegal drugs, so they could
survive. If we abolished capitalism and
inequality then the crime rate would fall. When
the rich steal from the poor it is called
business. When the poor steal from the rich it
is called crime. Governments protect the rich
and oppress the poor. Most governments
protect corporations and capitalism.
Governments enforce the inequality caused by
capitalism. To enforce inequality governments
have a police force that suppresses protests
against inequality. We need an economy that is
based on the rule: from each according to their
ability, to each according to their need. People
who cannot work such as children, seniors, and
people with disabilities, should be given money,
food, water, shelter, and healthcare. Everyone
who is homeless should be given a home.
Every worker should be paid a decent wage
that is not lower than $15 an hour. Nobody
should have to work more than 35 hours a
week to keep their job.
Anarchism is good for the environment.
Hierarchies such as government and capitalism
are polluting the environment, using too much
natural resources, causing climate change, and
causing mass extinction.(36) Governments use
a lot of natural resources to fight wars, build
prisons, enforce the law, and fuel military
vehicles and police vehicles. Corporations use
a lot of natural resources to create the products
they sell. Most of the pollution is done by
governments, corporations, and individuals
who are forced by capitalism to buy products
made by corporations. Most of the
consumption of natural resources today is
forced on us by corporations. Oil companies
are forcing us to use fossil fuels, which causes
climate change and pollution, when we could
be using another type of fuel that doesnt hurt
the environment.(37)
We need bodily integrity, the idea that people
have a right to control their own bodies. Police
violate peoples bodily integrity. Incarceration
takes away peoples bodily integrity. Abortion is
bodily integrity. Women should be allowed to
have an abortion at any time, for any reason,
without having to pay for it. Humans and
animals should not have scientific experiments
done on them without their consent or be
forced to take medication or have surgery
without their consent.
An imaginary community is a community that is
Industrialization made it easy to build large
numbers of prisons. For most of history there
was no incarceration and people had good
lives and communities functioned well. The first
humans were born around 200,000 years ago.
(34) The first prison was built around 3,000
years ago.(35) We need alternatives to
incarceration. In a community everyone should
enforce the rules instead of letting one group of
people like the police enforce the rules. When
one group of people enforces the rules they
become more powerful than everyone else and
they use their power to hurt people.
Communities and individuals have many
different options to deal with wrongdoing that
dont involve incarceration such as restorative
justice, fines, confiscation of property, the
death penalty, and expulsion from the
community. Restorative justice is a process
where the victims and the offenders reach an
agreement that satisfies both sides, that
involves the community and dialogue between
victims and offenders. Victims take an active
role, not a passive role like they do in todays
courtrooms. Offenders take responsibility for
what they did and try to repair the damage they
caused. To learn about alternatives to
incarceration go to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_inc
arceration
not ruled by secret societies operating behind
closed doors like the Freemasons or Illuminati.
The conspiracy to rule the world is right out in
the open for all to see. Police, judges,
prosecutors, and prisons are the conspiracy
that is trying to rule the world.
All forms of incarceration should be
abolished. These are the various forms of
incarceration:
Jails and prisons.
Detention centers for immigrants.
Prisoner-of-war camps.
Concentration camps and internment camps.
Involuntary commitment: keeping someone in a
psychiatric facility, hospital, or nursing home
against their will.
The incarceration of animals in cages, zoos,
farms, aquariums, and laboratories. No animal
wants to be incarcerated.
The percentage of the human population and
the animal population that is incarcerated has
gone up during the past 300 years. The
incarceration rate for humans and animals has
risen a lot since the 1700s because of the
construction of prisons, jails, zoos, and
laboratories. A human or animal alive today is
much more likely to be incarcerated than a
human or animal that was alive in the past.
imagined by people who think they are part of
the same group even though most of them
have never met. The United States is an
imaginary community. Empires, nation-states,
and countries are imaginary communities.
Local communities are real communities. In a
real community most people have met each
other. A real community is a place where there
is face to face interaction between most
people.
To be a movement that changes things
anarchism must be a global movement that is
active in every part of the world. We need a
world of autonomous local communities where
each community decides the rules for that
community. Neighborhoods, towns, villages,
and tribes are local communities that should be
fully autonomous. Cities are too big to be local
communities. Each neighborhood in a city
should be autonomous. Empires, nation-states,
and countries should be abolished because
they take autonomy away from local
communities. In an empire, nation-state, or
country, local communities are controlled by a
government in a faraway capital. Local
communities that are part of an empire, nation-
state, or country have very little autonomy.
To defend themselves local communities can
form a temporary alliance. Alliances made for
defense should be temporary and voluntary so
they dont turn into a country or empire. Local
communities should be allowed to leave an
alliance at any time, without permission.
Borders should be abolished because borders
have divided humanity into these separate,
imaginary communities called countries.
Borders restrict the movement of people.
Governments use borders to control people.
Governments decide who can and cannot
cross borders. Borders are a way for
governments to control people and incarcerate
people by locking up immigrants who did not
break any laws except for crossing a border
without permission. Borders are a way for
corporations, governments, and investors to
make money. Corporations and governments
profit from borders because they build and
maintain detention centers for immigrants and
they build walls and fences along borders.(38)
Investors make money from borders through
buying and selling stock in companies that
build detention centers, border walls, and
fences. Many immigrants die while trying to
cross borders.(39) Borders are bad for the
environment because the walls and fences
along borders make it hard for animals to
migrate across borders so they can find water
Governments kill people everyday. During the
20th century around 260 million people were
killed by their own government because of their
race, ethnicity, religion, political views, or some
other reason.(30) Many of them died in prisons
and concentration camps. Some people were
killed because they participated in a protest or
rebellion against their government. Part of that
260 million are deaths by starvation caused by
government policies that they knew would lead
to starvation. The governments that killed the
most people in their own territory were Nazi
Germany, the Soviet Union, China, the British
empire, and the French empire. During the
20th century around 35 million people were
killed by the government of a foreign country
during a war.(31) In the United States police kill
around 1,000 people each year.(32) A person
in the United States is 58 times more likely to
be killed by a cop than by a terrorist.(33) The
reason governments kill so many people is that
they can get away with it. It is rare for people
who are running a government to be punished
for what they do. The Nuremberg trial of
German leaders after World War 2 was a rare
event. There should not be any governments in
the world.
Conspiracy theories about secret societies
trying to rule the world are wrong. The world is
mental state in which a person who is
incarcerated or held captive in some other way
shows obedience and positive feelings towards
their captors.(28) We are held captive by police
and the government even when we are not
incarcerated. Most people who like police,
prisons, and government have a mild form of
Stockholm syndrome. The positive depiction of
police in shows and movies contributes to
Stockholm syndrome. Many prison inmates
develop Stockholm syndrome and show
obedience and positive feelings towards prison
guards.
Power allows people to hurt others and get
away with it. Hierarchy is wrong because it
gives one person the power to control other
people. People at the top of a hierarchy abuse
and exploit the people at the bottom of a
hierarchy. All hierarchies are corrupt. Power
corrupts. Total power leads to total corruption.
(29) The more power someone has, the more
corrupt they are. People who want to control
others are attracted to government jobs.
Positions of power such as police officer,
prosecutor, judge, and prison guard attract
people who want to control others.
A governments power comes from its ability to
kill, injure, arrest, and incarcerate people.
and food.(40) Borders increase the risk of an
animal going extinct. The natural flow of water
is disrupted by border walls, which can
contribute to flooding and drought. We need a
world without borders, nation-states, countries,
and empires.
Governments use war to control people.
Governments decide when they go to war and
who they go to war with. The decision to go to
war is made by a small group of people within
the government. Most people have no say in
the decision to go to war even though they are
affected by war. During war governments use a
divide and conquer strategy to make people in
different countries fight each other.
Governments have divided humanity into
separate countries. Governments and war are
preventing humanity from being united. War
between people in different countries prevents
us from creating a global alliance of protesters
that could overthrow governments around the
world. Governments exaggerate foreign threats
and use the threat of attack by foreigners to
justify the existence of the government. War is
a way for corporations and investors to make
money. Corporations profit from war because
they build weapons and sell them to the
government.(41) Investors make money from
war through buying and selling stock in
companies that build weapons. Militaries
should be abolished because governments use
the military to control people. If the police are
unable to suppress a rebellion then
governments use the military to suppress a
rebellion. The National Guard has killed
protesters in the past.(42) Militaries are a big
threat to humanity because militaries have
nuclear weapons and other powerful weapons
that can kill large numbers of people. Around
half the people who die in wars are civilians.
(43) No one should join the military.
Pacifism is wrong. We need the right to defend
ourselves and the right to bear arms. Everyone
over age 18 should be allowed to have a gun.
Diversity of tactics is when a movement uses
both legal tactics such as peaceful protest and
illegal tactics such as violence and property
destruction. We should use a diversity of
tactics. Power comes from the use of force.
Police are powerful because they use force
everywhere, everyday. For a movement to be
powerful it must use force. Logical arguments
are necessary but they dont win battles by
themselves. Another tactic is a general strike in
which millions of people stop working until their
demands have been met. General strikes can
help a movement achieve its goals faster.
decades after the person was arrested and
makes it hard for them to get a job and make
friends. Police make public the name and face
of people they arrest before they have been
convicted of a crime.
Some people say that police, judges, and
prosecutors arent responsible for what they do
because they were doing their job or following
orders. Thats not true. They arent robots.
They have free will. They chose their job. They
are fully responsible for everything they do and
they should be held accountable for everything
they do.
No one should be a cop. Police interact with
people in a way that is not normal. Police
demand that you do what they say and if you
dont do what they say then they attack you
and arrest you. Most people dont attack you or
arrest you if you dont do what they say.
Police are different from the way they are
depicted on television. Many shows and
movies glorify police and make it look like
police are better than they really are. Shows
and movies do not accurately depict police.
Incidents of corruption, brutality, and
dishonesty are not part of many fictional
portrayals of police. Stockholm syndrome is a
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activities they did that didnt break the law such
as organizing protests, joining a radical group,
or advocating revolution.(19) Sometimes police
assault protesters. Police gather information
about activists.(20) Police may allow a
permitted, peaceful protest to happen but they
dont allow illegal forms of protest because
sometimes illegal methods are faster and more
effective at achieving the goals of the
movement. Movements and protests could
achieve their goals if police did not exist. By
suppressing movements and protests police
are maintaining the inequality, oppression, and
environmental destruction caused by the
current system. We did not choose the current
system that is government, prisons, and
capitalism. We were born into it. Police are
forcing us to live in the system that we were
born into. This is one reason why the world
should not have any police or prisons.
Incarceration is done by governments and
corporations so they can make money. Prison
companies build and maintain prisons so they
can profit from incarceration. Investors make
money from incarceration through buying and
selling stock in prison companies. Many people
with retirement funds are invested in prison
companies and they dont know it.(21) The
more people that are incarcerated, the more
prison a lot of the time because they can afford
a good lawyer. Police target the poor. Poor
neighborhoods have a larger police presence
than rich neighborhoods. Most victims of police
brutality are poor.(14) The more police there
are in an area, the more police brutality there
is.
The federal government and local governments
have acquired billions of dollars by letting
police take money and property from people
through traffic tickets, fines, and seizure of
cash and property during a search of
someones car or home.(15) Police sell the
property they stole to make a profit. Police can
legally steal money and property from
someone who isnt charged with a crime.
During the past 15 years police have stolen
millions of dollars in cash during traffic stops
from people who werent charged with a crime.
(16) Most of the time when police take money
or property they dont give it back.(17)
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Police suppress movements and protests

against the current system. There is large,
intimidating police presence at many protests.
Police come to protests even though they were
not invited. Police arrest activists and
protesters.(18) People in the United States
have been put in prison because of political
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1. https://popularresistance.org/how-hierarchy-
is-actually-bad-for-your-health/
2. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/
2015/05/02/the-painful-price-of-aging-in-prison/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of
_United_States_incarceration_rate_with_other
_countries
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-
checker/wp/2015/04/30/does-the-united-states-
really-have-five-percent-of-worlds-population-
and-one-quarter-of-the-worlds-prisoners/?
utm_term=.133101215fca
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murder-rate-higher-than-nearly-all-other-
developed-countries-fbi-data/
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sa_rampant_police_lying_taints_criminal_justic
e_system_nationwide/
7. http://thepsychreport.com/conversations/coe
rced-to-confess-the-psychology-of-false-
confessions/
8. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree
/2015/feb/19/chicago-police-military-
interrogation-guantanamo
9. http://addictinginfo.org/2015/04/05/from-st-
louis-to-la-ten-cases-of-cops-caught-planting-
evidence-videos/
plant false evidence at the scene of a crime to
convict a certain person even if they didnt
commit the crime.(9) Some police departments
have a quota that requires cops to make a
minimum number of arrests and write a
minimum number of tickets within a certain
period of time.(10) If a cop does less than the
minimum number of arrests and tickets then
they might lose their job. Prosecutors have
quotas that require them to get a minimum
number of convictions within a certain period of
time.(11) Quotas increase the number of
people who are in prison for crimes they did not
do and the number of people who are in prison
for minor crimes. Some people are in prison for
doing things they thought were legal. Many
laws are vague and can be interpreted in more
than one way. A law that is vague is often used
by prosecutors to incarcerate people for a wide
range of different things.
Courts give harsh sentences to the poor and
light sentences to the rich.(12) When a rich
person and a poor person are convicted of the
same type of crime the poor person gets a
harsher sentence. Many people are in prison
because they could not afford a lawyer who
could properly defend them in court, they got a
public defender that did little for them.(13) Rich
people who are charged with a crime avoid
candidates that will give them what they want
like more funding, more weapons, less
accountability, and more jails. In many places
the local government is basically run by the
police.
Police, prosecutors, and judges have the
power to destroy a persons life and get away
with it. They destroy peoples lives everyday.
They decide who goes to prison and who
doesnt. In a courtroom juries and defendants
have the least power and police, prosecutors,
and judges have the most power. Many juries
are manipulated into convicting the defendant.
The government decides who can be on a jury
and the government chooses people who are
most likely to convict the defendant. It is the
government that chooses who gets a letter in
the mail asking them to be on a jury.
The claim that if you dont break the law then
the police wont arrest you is not true. Police
and prisons are corrupt, dishonest institutions.
Many people are in prison for crimes they did
not do because police lied and prosecutors
lied.(6) Police coerce people into confessing to
crimes they did not do.(7) Police are allowed to
lie to suspects during an investigation. The
interrogation methods that police use on
suspects are abusive.(8) Sometimes police
10. http://www.npr.org/2015/04/04/395061810/
despite-laws-and-lawsuits-quota-based-
policing-lingers
11. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/apr/18/local
/me-quota18
12. https://filthyrich.es/affluenza-10-rich-
people-who-got-away-with-horrible-crimes/
13. https://theweek.com/articles/573307/end-
police-violence-have-end-poverty
14. http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/95-
police-killings-2015-occurred-neighborhoods-
incomes-under-100000
15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture
_in_the_United_States
16. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investiga
tive/2014/09/06/stop-and-seize/
17. http://www.sfgate.com/news/nation-
world/article/Asset-forfeiture-both-an-effective-
tool-4546043.php
18. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-day-of-
protests-occupy-wall-street-faces-police-
violence/
19. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/bl
j/vol18/soffiyah.pdf
20. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/12/06/acti
vists-say-chicago-police-used-stingray-
eavesdropping-technology-during-protests/
21. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/whos-
getting-rich-off-the-prison-industrial-complex
22. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archi
ve/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/
23. https://qz.com/777415/an-unprecedented-
prison-strike-hopes-to-change-the-fate-of-the-
900000-americans-trapped-in-an-exploitative-
labor-system/
24. https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/3/
advocates_the_us_still_profits_from
25. https://www.afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.
net/files/documents/torture_in_us_prisons.pdf
26. http://harvardcrcl.org/wp-
content/uploads/2013/04/DeVeaux_257-
277.pdf
27. http://www.newsweek.com/us-jail-and-
state-prison-deaths-have-increased-mortality-
cops-police-359510
28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_sy
ndrome
29. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-robert-
aziz/why-power-corrupts-and-
ab_b_920638.html
30. https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.H
TM
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09/01/30/what-only-34000000-20th-century-
battle-dead/
32. http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/us/police-
involved-shooting-charges/
33. https://sputniknews.com/us/201503081019
233816/#ixzz3TpleaNpV
The constant threat of police brutality, prison,
jail, traffic stops, tickets, fines, searches, and
questioning everywhere you go outweighs any
good thing that the government gives us such
as Social Security, welfare, food, or healthcare.
There are other ways that we can get what we
need like sharing our resources.
Most of the time the governments punishment
for a crime is worse than the crime that was
committed. People are being sentenced to
many years in prison for minor crimes such as
shoplifting and selling illegal drugs.(2) Some
people have been given long prison sentences
because of a mistake they made while driving a
car that resulted in a persons death. The
incarceration rate is the percentage of the
population that is currently incarcerated. The
United States has the second highest
incarceration rate in the world after Seychelles.
(3) Around 25% of the worlds prisoners are in
American prisons but the United States has
only 5% of the worlds population.(4) Police
and prisons are unable to stop crime because
crime rates are still high after decades of
policing, mass incarceration, and very long
sentences.(5)
Police have too much power. Police influence
the outcome of elections by supporting
natural state of humans and animals is not
incarceration, it is freedom. Humans and
animals evolved to be free.
Law is not the same thing as ethics. Law is not
ethics and ethics is not law. Law is the use of
force by a group of people who physically
dominate most other people in a certain
territory. Ethics is knowing the difference
between right and wrong, and choosing to do
what is right. Ethics is a discussion about right
and wrong.
Words such as crime, criminal, law, illegal, and
legal are used to control everyone, to stop
social change, and to control protests about
political, social, and economic issues. When
we think about something or talk about
something we should try to determine if it is
right or wrong, we should not try to determine if
it is legal or illegal.
We should think about the situation we are in to
determine what we should do instead of doing
what a government, law, organization, or
someone else tells us to do. Each person's
situation is different from other people's
situations so your answer is the best answer
about what to do in your situation. Nobody
knows more about your situation than you do.
34. http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2012/09/1
1/160934187/for-how-long-have-we-been-
human
35. http://www.prisonhistory.net/prison-
history/history-of-prisons/
36. http://www.truth-
out.org/opinion/item/19872-capitalism-and-the-
destruction-of-life-on-earth-six-theses-on-
saving-the-humans
37. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/b
ig-oils-big-lies-about-alternative-energy-
20130625
38. http://www.businessofdetention.com/
39. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrant_death
s_along_the_Mexico
%E2%80%93United_States_border
40. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t
rumps-wall-could-cause-serious-
environmental-damage/
41. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/busi
ness/2013/03/10/10-companies-profiting-most-
from-war/1970997/
42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_sh
ootings
43. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casual
ty_ratio
 Reasons For Anarchism
What is the future of freedom? What does a
free world look like? Anarchism is the best way
to guarantee the freedom of humans and
animals, now and in the future. Anarchists want
to eliminate government and other forms of
hierarchy. The ultimate form of hierarchy is
incarceration: when one group of people keeps
another group of people confined in a small
area and tells them what to do. Incarceration is
the biggest threat to freedom. Anarchists
oppose incarceration. Anarchism is a
movement that is trying to create a world of
autonomous communities, non-hierarchical
organizations, and free individuals. Anarchists
oppose hierarchy in all human relationships
and interactions, including the hierarchies that
exist outside the government in corporations,
businesses, non-profit organizations, religious
institutions, families, and contracts.

The scientific case for anarchism: hierarchy is

bad for your health if you are not at the top of
the hierarchy.(1) Those at the top of a
hierarchy live longer than those at the bottom.
People who live in the United States and other
places that are controlled by hierarchies such
as governments, police, and prisons have
health problems caused by hierarchy. The
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