governments monopoly on offensive violence

The purpose of government should be the elimination of the need for government. While it is not realistic that government can ever be completely eliminated, without stating this as a goal, government will only grow more powerful, overwhelm all the other social institutions and become a tool for social domination in the hands of predators and barbarians.

Transparent Accountable Government
Governance is the selective use of violence. The US Constitution was created to direct and limit that power.
United States Constitution
United States Constitution on Wikipedia
Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence
Wikileaks
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Read the Bills Act (RTBA)

Fortress America
TSA Terrified Security Apparatus
American Inequality The American Human Development Index has applied to the US an aid agency approach to measuring well-being – more familiar to observers of the Third World – with shocking results. The US finds itself ranked 42nd in global life expectancy and 34th in survival of infants to age. Suicide and murder are among the top 15 causes of death and although the US is home to just 5 per cent of the global population it accounts for 24 per cent of the world's prisoners.
4 Scary Toys in Big Brother’s Toolbox
Rejecting Authority at Police State Checkpoint Unfortunately, the US Border Patrol seems to have the legal power to create temporary highway checkpoints within 100 miles of the national borders.
don't ever, ever talk to the police. ever.

Privacy is the Foundation of Freedom
Consumers are all Criminals
Protecting Your Electronic Data
We The People Will Not Be Chipped
Real ID
EFF: Warrant should be required to obtain cell location data

Trading Freedom for Security
Benjamin Franklin Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Security

Civil Disobedience
Civil Disobedience Quotes