It is the State that is the root cause of this problem, and most others we face today, and yesterday, and countless days before that.

Fighting over which State is "right", and which is "wrong", is exactly the sort of distraction gato is speaking of, and is nothing more than the modern version of *divide et impera*.

Until the State is consigned to the dustbin of history, the expropriation, oppression and mass slaughter of innocents will continue unabated, and likely increase.

The State is the true enemy, not the herds of tax cattle it feeds upon.

"The State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men who clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation – that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class – that is, for a criminal purpose.

No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient."

~ Albert Jay Nock, The Criminality of the State, American Mercury, March 1939.