Anarchists in the City of Seattle, Washington have decided to run the local law enforcement out of the area demanding the City return to operating under a "state of nature." This demand runs ignorant of the rule of law and in direct contravention to International Law under the Law of Nations.
The Law of Nations, or principles of the laws of nature, define and describe how members of a society are to behave towards each other and care for one another, especially when some members are offended by others. Pursuant to Section 4 of the Preliminaries of the Law of Nations:
"It is a settled point with writers on the natural law, that all men
inherit from nature a perfect liberty and independence, of
which they cannot be deprived without their own consent. In a State, the
individual citizens do not enjoy them fully and absolutely, because they
have made a partial surrender of them to the sovereign." (See Section 4 of the Preliminaries of the Law of Nations).
By definition, anarchists reject the idea of a political government and desire to live out their lives autonomously free of any form of government. The problem with this idea is members of a society must either govern themselves or be governed. Autonomy requires "independence" or "self-government." Anarchy outright rejects government. Without the enforcement of the rule of law and order in society, anarchy will prevail and crime will persist. Without neutral third-parties to intervene and arbiters to judge accordingly, society is absent of any semblance of justice.
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