We All Paid The Price

John Ball writes:
Many years ago, during the Peasants Revolt, many wanted to reform the State, though some of us wanted to destroy it altogether. Wat Tyler, Jack Straw and many others could not believe that young King Richard would harm us. They said that he was surrounded by bad men, such as Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, and that once the King was released from the influence of evil advisers, then we would be happy under the rule of a benign king.
Of course, they were wrong. They were naive and foolish, and we all paid a heavy price for their misplaced trust.
I, myself, knew all along that they were wrong. In Luke's gospel, the devil tempts Jesus with earthly power, proclaiming the kingdoms of the earth to be in his, the devil's, domain.
 Yet, even these days, after a twentieth century in which the State murdered more people than ever before, people still prefer to believe that the State is good.
Yet, behind every act, the State threatens or commits violence.
With every act the State takes away your and my autonomy.
Yet, most people believe that if they vote in a 'democratic' election, then somehow it will be different. But it isn't.
The believers in the idol of the State tell you that the State provides health care, education, jobs and prosperity. But what sort of drug addled health does it provide, this murderous idol? What sort of education does it give, churning out masses of passive unskilled brainwashed consumers? What sort of jobs do you have - dull, repetitive, soul destroying, functional? And you call it prosperity when you don't even have time to think?
The State takes your taxes, that is your time and your labour. It takes you and your effort and moulds you as it wishes. And you thank it, and you want more of it.
The Welfare State does not educate, it does not provide health, and it does not provide a safety net. Instead it destroys society, friendship, mutual support. It diminishes you because it teaches you to think only for yourself.
You support equality, yet the more they preach equality to you, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, reflecting the reality of power, not the illusion of your lazy false democracy.
Democratic, equal, but certainly not free. Bound in mental slavery, crushed by debt servitude, conscripts of wage slavery, your children aborted or stupified by TV and drugs and state education, you think Cameron or Blair is the problem.
The Welfare State, the caring State, the benign, benevolent State, is just a mask that hides unbridled robbery and murder.
Yes, many years ago, Wat and Jack believed that the problem was the King's ministers and we all paid the price.