No, one cannot choose citizenship if it is thrust on them at birth.
I do not consider myself to have many civil liberties. I am not free to keep all I earn. I am not free to question government officials without risk of reprisal. I am limited by a whole host of laws in regards to engaging in peaceful, honest, voluntary activities.
I do not have protection from harm. Our military creates enemies for us - at our expense. And the Supreme Court has ruled that police have no obligation to protect the public.
I am not free to pursue happiness in my opinion, as happiness to me is the freedom to engage in any peaceful, honest, voluntary activity that I choose. The government will not let me keep all I earn. It tells me what I can and can't put into my body. It tells me who I can and can't sleep with. It controls me in a vast number of ways.
No, you still don't get it. I don't want any of your benefits. Kindly stop stealing my money and you'll have your wish.
I wish you would take responsibility for your own life instead of using force to make other people pay for the things you want.
Why don't you move? Why doesn't the "the state" just move? What gave "the state" the first claim on the land? Who is entitled to occupy the space? Most of you collectivists immediately assume "the state" automatically owns everything. Given "the state's" history of conquest and plunder, I'd say homesteading and voluntary exchange are the only true ethical means of property exchange/acquisition. "The state" doesn't rightfully own any property - the people do.
I am awed at the abundance of nonsense that is possible in a single post!
Homestead operates on the principle of first occupancy. So the state, which represents the body politic formed by the social contract has primacy over the land. Understand that homestead is a legal principle embodied in the torrens system of title - hence an
INVENTION of the state.
And even if, for some absurd twist of logic, your rights are indefeasible, the laws that guarantee the protection of these rights are derived from the same body politic you reject.
So, for all intents and purposes, the only law that operates for you is the law that
NATURE left you with - survival of the fittest, the primacy of the strong, etc.
By the law of nature:
1. you are incapable of ejecting the state from the vicinity of your person by your powers, alone;
2. you are incapable of political association with people of like mind that would help you remove the state (since that would entail being beholden to another);
therefore, your only recourse, (if indeed the state is intolerable), is to remove yourself from it.
This is a simple matter, as I pointed out. Renounce the citizenship you were born with. Just because you were born with it, doesn't mean you are compelled to it. Citizenship is as free an association as the social contract which brought it about.
You don't even have to physically remove yourself from the state's boundaries (since the only place for you is either in the water or on polar ice). You need only stay in a place where the various appendages and organs of government are non-existent. Theoretically, there's no such place, but practically, that would be a place where no people EVER go.
Understand?
