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I hate politics.

I hate people who believe they have the right to force me to live as they decide I should.

I hate having to beg for permission to defend myself.

I hate having to pay for a piece of paper that says I am allowed to buy a gun.

I hate having a sheriff deny me the ability legally to exercise my right to carry a weapon.

I hate politicians who claim they pass laws for my own good.

I hate being forced to wear a seat belt.

I hate a policeman pulling me over on the interstate because he thinks I am not wearing a seat belt.

I hate helmet laws that treat me like an imbecile.

I hate random checkpoints that presume I am guilty until I prove I am innocent.

I hate that I cannot simply refuse to be questioned for no good reason and then proceed on my way.

I hate the legal requirement that I must have a State-issued license in order to drive.

I hate having a Social Security number.

I hate having to provide my Social Security number to do anything important in life.

I hate people who pretend that having a Social Security number or showing it is "voluntary."

I hate people who lie and say that the income tax is "voluntary."

I hate having to teach college students who have accepted statist propaganda for thirteen years.

I hate having large amounts of my modest income seized to pay for the "education" of other people's kids.

I hate people who claim that properly calling someone a fascist is worse than being a fascist.

I hate zoning ordinances that raise the cost of housing and deny homes to those who want them.

I hate being more fearful of police than I am of criminals.

I hate the glorification of the collective and the denigration of the individual.

I hate the praising of faith and non-objectivity and the denial of objectivity and reason.

I hate wondering which law I am violating today.

I hate having to live a lower lifestyle so millionaires and poor people can get welfare payments.

I hate paying a thousand dollars more for a new car because of sales tax.

I hate people who think it's wrong to hate injustice...and to say so, directly and without apology.

I hate those who do not have to fight a war or risk death starting wars and drafting others to die for their arrogance.

I hate the death of anonymity by State decree.

I hate the hubris of those who declare I must prove who I am to use my own money.

I hate a government that inflates away the wealth of poor people and makes them dependent on the State.

I hate those who laugh at the gold standard or the idea of private money.

I hate the belief that health care is a right to be obtained at others' expense.

I hate those who tell me I should not take the loss of my own liberty personally.

I hate those who destroy the precision of language and concepts to further their shameful goals.

I hate politicians who rely on the gullibility and greed of voters in order to maintain their power.

I hate voters who rely upon politicians to feed their ignorance and greed in order to obtain what they have not earned.

I hate terrorists who hide behind "animal rights" in order to destroy human rights.

I hate those who ignore facts and logic while pretending to honor them in order to advance their agendas.

I hate pragmatists who insist that "moral" ends justify immoral means.

I hate those who believe that an end can be "moral" if it is achieved immorally.

I hate the cowardice of those who hide monstrous goals behind pretensions of goodness.

I hate so-called environmentalists who would destroy humanity and civilization in order to "save" it.

I hate those who think they are instant experts on everything because they've been elected to political office.

I hate people who believe they have the right to tell me how much water to use in flushing away my waste.

I hate people who forbid others to replace the coolant in their car's air conditioner by themselves.

I hate the imbeciles who dictate what kind of clothes washer I can buy.

I hate those who would force an atheist to listen to others' prayers.

I hate those who would forbid a child from openly praying.

I hate the State monopoly on education that makes either of those situations an issue.

I hate those who burn or murder innocent men, women, and children and get away with claiming those victims deserved it and "brought it on themselves."

I hate anyone who does not know the meaning of the word "is."

I hate those who think the unfit and the disabled have legitimate claims on the lives and property of the fit and the productive...because they are unfit and disabled.

I hate having to pay more for my food because some farmer doesn't want to get a real job.

I hate those who think it is okay to blame someone's property for a crime and to force the "owner" to prove he is innocent of any illegalities when the State seizes that property.

I hate that drug usage by adults is a crime.

I hate that the State is more concerned with punishment and fattening its own coffers than it is with restitution to victims.

I hate those who think that jury members can decide life-and-death matters but are incompetent to judge the law as well as the facts.

I hate having to show an ID to fly on a plane.

I hate being forced to fly without any means of self-defense.

I hate the fact that almost everyone believes that the State has the right to own airports and to dictate "safety" procedures on airplanes.

I hate zero tolerance of common sense, rights, and morality in schools and airports.

I hate those who believe that it is "right" to prevent private citizens from discriminating against others on the basis of sex, race, creed, or for any other reason.

I hate those who are too stupid to realize that it is usually wrong to reject people solely on the basis of their sex or race.

I hate the fact that so many people cannot distinguish between "the right to do the wrong thing" and the fact that "it is not right to do the wrong thing."

I hate those who praise democracy as an end itself regardless of the results.

I hate those who think that everything is simply a "matter of opinion" and yet it is wrong to say that one thing is wrong and another is right.

I hate those who place security above liberty.

I hate the irrational, the altruistic, and the mystical.

I hate that I have to be concerned with politics as a central factor in my life.

I hate that I have to waste so much of my life fighting unjust laws when I'd rather just live my life.

I hate being treated as a slave.

I love being free.