I am well aware of their numerous misdeeds, exploiting the loopholes of official 'discretion', while wielding the practical power of armed supremacy. This is an additional reason to frown, when someone says that government is a necessary or desirable form of social control. If it sounds odd, that I describe myself as a liberal, there is really nothing mysterious about it. Fundamentalists take it seriously. As children, we soaped the neighbors' windows and experimented with fireworks.
Most anarchists are former peasants.
Statists, on the other hand, never break the law. They are employed at state universities, nonprofit think tanks, and tax-exempt political 'orgs'. If the economy tanks, Cato will feel divinely anointed to reason with the functionaries and flunkies of state. But they will never put their butts on the firing line and man the barricades on Pennsylvania Avenue. It is inaccurate to call them chickens.