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It is a logical fallacy to assume that since the State is evil, _all_ laws it enforces are likewise, evil. However, _many_ laws are in fact, are fruits of the poisoned tree. While I will focus on the US, many of the issues mentioned apply universally.
Obviously, murder is a crime, and we should all try to avoid murdering or being murdered. However, the State wants a monopoly on that, through capital punishment and militarization of the police. In the US, police departments can get anti-personnel weapons, SWAT equipment, and even tanks from the feds. Federal agencies are arming themselves to the teeth as well [1], buying up enough ammo to kill everyone in the US many times over (in 2013, Homeland Security had stockpiled 1.6 billion rounds).
The laws are, of course, there to protect murder performed as part of the job of policing, and it is very rare that police are accountable for murder, even in extreme cases such as breaking into the wrong house and shooting residents. If a policeman believes his life is in danger, they can just shoot anyone.
Undeclared wars (euphemistically 'military actions' or worse yet, 'peacekeeping') are mass murder, pure and simple.
The State can kidnap anyone who does not conform. The reach has been extended greatly with the recent wars on terrorism, whatever that is, and drugs, inanimate objects. Kidnapping works really well to replace the pool of indentured servants, as outright slavery is frowned upon. Spending absurd money on 'privatized prisons' is a nice fascist way to 'stimulate the economy'. Taxpayer money, tens of thousands of dollars per prisoner per year[2], translates to near-free labor for corporations.
The state offers the wayward rich a way out via bail; for most people the amounts are unattainable and they opt to post a bond, paying the kidnapper unrecoverable funds via a third party, in exchange for freedom.
Taxation is the prime form of extortion, a pure protection racket. Property taxes are generally assessed using numbers pulled out of thin air, and are nearly impossible to change or argue. However, many forms of taxation, licensing, inspection, permitting, etc. make sure that people stay subservient and small businesses fail in favor of big corporations aligned with governments, a fascist economy goal.
Taxation is of course, a form of robbery, when enforced by men with guns who threaten you with kidnapping and torture.
Assets are routinely seized or forfeited from peaceful people, with allegations of various crimes [3]. Traveling on interstate highways makes you a mark for having all your cash confiscated by state police with no explanation, a fundraising mechanism in which a Federal program kicks back most of confiscated assets.
So-called Social Security is entirely a Ponzi scheme, in which new entrants pay the earlier participants, while there is a ruse of a 'trust fund' or a 'pension account' maintained for individuals. The election process and the illusion of representation are complete fabrications. Pretty much every government program is wasteful, a ruse to provide employment for masses of people, while helping few with a fraction of allocated resources (which are 'borrowed' as needed)
Various lotteries run by states are completely crooked, paying a fraction of the interest on the collected funds and immediately taxing back a large portion...
Money has been replaced by worthless paper. Debts can no longer be extinguished, only rolled over. Polititians, once, had to work hard to raise or borrow money for wars and wasteful projects - now the 'borrowing' involves creating money out of thin air via a Federal Reseve (not Federal and nothing in reserves!) and shill banks that trade paper back and forth in ever-increasing amounts, creating the illusion of a legitimate market. Inflation caused by constant debasement of money (so-called borrowing), has been normalized, and the populations accepts it, as alternatives are criminalized and protected by heavy propaganda.
Once again, the goal is a monopoly; if not the State itself, then, its preferred and protected business partners. Sackler gets away with murdering tens of thousands, while small businessmen are kidnapped [4]. Wars are waged against largely peaceful people who want to, in the privacy of their own homes, consume substances of their own choosing, combined with the propaganda machine pumping fear of 'cartels' and 'criminal druglords', and entire countries.
It is interesting to watch the propaganda machine aiming at, say, Portland OR, where most drugs are now legal: "Portland Legalized Drugs and Here's What Happened", showing homeless tents and quoting crime statistics, which are really not that different from prior to legalization (Portland has allowed people to sleep on the streets for decades).
Agencies in charge of informing and protecting citizens are largely sources of disinformation.
Anyone who is objecting to the current regime, is, of course, a terrorist. After the WTC incident, a personal vendetta against the Bush family activity in the Middle East, any human rights are pretty much out the window, and you will be kidnapped and hauled of to a concentration camp in Cuba (?) In the meantime, absurd amounts of money had been spent creating and militarizing federal agencies and killing innocent people around the world.
Interestingly, torture became and acceptable form of debriefing of so-called 'enemy combatants' and as a way of obtaining confessions...
Of course, undeclared wars are a clear form of terrorism -- wheter it is with large invading forces or random drone attacks against civilians who are declared enemies of the state...
This is just a small sampling of the monopolies on crime claimed by governments.
This is hardly an exhaustive list -- just something to think about.
[1]
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-19-175
https://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/obama-homeland-security-vast-ammunition-purchases/
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[4]
https://www.statista.com/statistics/895945/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-us/