From Neither Bullets Nor Ballots by Wendy McElroy:

"Government is a group of individuals organized for the purpose of extracting wealth and exerting power over People and resources in a given geographic area. Ordinarily People object to and resist thieves and robbers; but in the case of government, they do not because the government has created a mystique of legitimacy about its activities."

Check out Alex Jones (www.infowars.net) for more on government abuses throughout history of humankind..