My First-Hand Experience with Anarcho-Tyranny
The bureaucratic nightmare of Canada's gun control laws
I consider Sam Francis one of the great political thinkers of the late 20th century. The way he aptly predicted the world of today over 30 years ago is enough to make you believe he had seen the future through a crystal ball. Francis accurately diagnosed both the calamitous trajectory universalist egalitarianism had put United States on and the ineptitude of the Conservative movement to do anything about it as far back as the Reagan administration. Despite being stabbed in the back by lifelong conservative grifter Dinesh D’Souza in 1995 and subsequently cancelled, many of Francis’s ideas have now entered mainstream right-wing discourse, almost 20 years after his death.

One term coined by Sam Francis which has now become a mainstay on the right is “anarcho-tyranny”. Francis defined anarcho-tyranny as excessive government force being enacted against the law-abiding while simultaneously being unable or unwilling to police actual criminals. What phrase could better describe that period in Spring 2020, when governments confined ordinary people to their homes under threat of law only to stand by and allow tens of thousands of anti-white rioters to run rampant through the streets a few weeks later? What better phrase could describe the British state, who turn a blind eye to the mass sexual exploitation of white girls in towns like Rotherham while arresting non-violent citizens for social media posts?
I found myself considering the pertinence of the term “anarcho-tyranny” this year when I myself was subjected to this phenomenon at the hands of the Trudeau government’s gun control laws.

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