Mondays With Murray: What Crimes Does The State Hate Most?

In this edition of "Mondays With Murray" we'll take a quick look at Murray's take on what really pisses the State off: crimes against it's dominance that threaten to undermine the existence and control of the giant. From Anatomy of the State:

We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?The gravest crimes in the State’s lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.Or compare the degree of zeal devoted to pursuing the man who assaults a policeman, with the attention that the State pays to the assault of an ordinary citizen. Yet, curiously, the State’s openly assigned priority to its own defense against the public strikes few people as inconsistent with its presumed raison d’etre.

Under Obama, we're seeing this ramped up even more aggressively, with the attempted and sometime achieved prosecution of whistleblowers in recent months, plus clampdowns on public demonstrations. Bradley Manning will spend 35 years in prison for his "crime" of revealing atrocities committed by the government.Naturally, this isn't regulated solely to Obama - any commander of the State apparatus will act in the interest of the State. But policies continue to advance and we are seeing expanded action against citizens who question or pose a threat to the State (NDAA indefinite detention anyone?), which is typically never recalled nor rolled back. The infringements on liberty perpetrated in the Patriot Act remain unchanged and unchallenged, and have all but been accepted as standard by the general public.The government does not have our best interests at heart. We are not the government, and despite the assurances of democracy, the government rarely represents us in any tangible fashion. The overt assaults against those who would seek to illuminate the treachery of government against its own citizens is proof enough of that.Receive access to ALL of our EXCLUSIVE bonus audio content – including “Conspiracy Corner”, “Degenerate Gamblers” and the “League of Liberty Podcast” by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride and supporting us on Patreon!Check out our past editions of Mondays with Murray!10/21/13 - Who Would Fund the Science?10/14/13 - A Strategy for Liberty10/7/13 - Rothbard on "Obamacare"9/30/13 - Rothbard on Ayn Rand9/23/13 - The Influence of Rothbard9/16/13 - Around the World with Rothbard9/9/13 - Rothbard on Syria War Propaganda9/2/13 - Did Rothbard Approve of Torture?7/29/13 - Rothbard on Revolution7/29/13 - Rothbard on Revolution8/24/13 - Rothbard on "Libertarian Populism"8/17/13 - Rothbard on Libertarian Qualifiers8/12/13 - Rothbard on War Revisionism8/5/13 - Rothbard on George Will's Comments Regarding Libertarianism7/22/13 - Rothbard on the George Zimmerman Verdict7/15/13 - Rothbard on Orwell's "1984"7/8/13 - Rothbard on U.S. Aggression Foreign Aggression & Imperialism7/1/13 - Why Be Libertarian?6/24/13 - Rothbard's Conflicting Views on Thomas Jefferson6/17/13 - Who was the "best" U.S. President?6/10/13 - Rothbard on State Surveillance6/3/13 - Rothbard on Chomsky and "Anarcho-Syndicalism"5/27/13 - Rothbard on America's "Two Just Wars"5/20/13 - Do Animals Have "Rights"5/13/13 - A Further Insight on IP5/6/13 - The Boston Lockdown4/29/13 - The Problem with Empirical Studies4/22/13 - The Real Story of the Whiskey Rebellion4/15/13 - What is an Entrepreneur?4/8/13 - Rothbard on Intellectual Property4/1/13 - The Five Key Questions for the Libertarian Movement3/25/13 - The Six Stages of the Libertarian Movement3/18/13 - Rothbard on the Future Prospects for Liberty3/11/13 - Rothbard on Lysander Spooner3/4/13 – Rothbard on Statism2/25/13 – Rothbard on John Bolton and Ann Coulter2/18/13 – Rothbard vs. Krugman on $9 Minimum Wage2/11/13 – Time To Hoard Nickels2/4/13 - The Death of Keynesian Economics1/28/13 – Competition and Monopoly1/21/13 – Rothbard Down The Memory Hole?1/14/13 – We Are Not The Government1//7/13 – Why Does Someone Become A Statist?12/10/12 – Rothbard on Conspiracy Theory12/3/12 – Rothbard on Secession11/26/12 – Rothbard on the Drug War11/19/12 – Rothbard on the Euro Crisis11/12/12 – Rothbard on the Lions of Liberty11/5/12 – Rothbard on Voting and Gas Lines10/29/12 – Mythbusting the “Free Market Cartel”10/22/12 – Rothbard on the Two Party Charade10/15/12 – Rothbard on Private Roads10/8/12 – Rothbard on Private Law10/1/12 – Rothbard on Ron Paul9/24/12 – Rothbard on Quantitative Easing