Nonsense. I didn't burn eighty men, women, and children. I didn't sell nuclear secrets to China. I didn't commit any of a depressingly lengthy list of infamous crimes perpetrated by state agents.
If you were in power, would you FORCE all states to take a Libertarian stance on all these things
"You don't like the Goths?"
"No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!"
"Persecution?" Padway raised his eyebrows.
"Religious persecution. We wont stand for it forever."
"I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased."
"That's just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their business unmolested, as if they owned the country. If that isn't persecution, I'd like to know what is!"
--L. Sprague deCamp (Lest Darkness Fall)