While I usually find anarchist opinion to interesting ,informative and somewhat enlightening in many ways ,your argument are just imbecilic on so many levels.
If you don't want the Mafia to protect you, then move to a country without a Mafia.
Does this mafia protection involves providing and maintaining basic infrastuctures such as road,health and rescue services(firefighters,ambulance and medicines etc) ,protection from unscrupulous act/attempts against you(even from the Mafia itself) access to basic education,governance and whatnots?And are the "fees" competitive compared to what the local government taxes you while managing similar or superior quality of services?
If yes than I would probably accept the Mafia administration any time
Why should I accept injustice just because a political entity sets itself up to maintain a monopoly on the use of violence to enforce that injustice??
Then I suggest you moves away from the country that oppresses you or organise a resistance.
Gandhi used non-violent resistance to oppose British rule and what he saw as unfair taxes on Indian workers, can you imagine telling him "if you don't like taxes and British rule, move to another country"?
You can't seriously equate a struggle against a colonial ruler (India belongs to Gandhi and his countrymen ,not the British) as the same as not paying taxes
Can you imagine telling Mandela "if you don't like apartheid, live somewhere else"?
Again , this irrelevant and unrepresentative.Unless you are suggesting that havingto pay taxes is equivalent to living in an apartheid system.
Can you imagine telling Arabs in the Arab spring "if you don't like this government, go somewhere else"?
The Arabs were fighting against despotic no-democratic rulers in which they have little say and no way of choosing/changing government.Unless you're living in a similar state, your argument is moot.
You advocate cowardice and submission. That might sit well with you if you are predisposed to it, but it would stick in my throat. Any time someone tries to take away the fruits of my labour using the threat of violence, I will say no.
I'm with you this one.If anyone trying to take the fruit of my labour without giving anything consequential of beneficial in return , then they can expect me to fight back.While I am dissatisfied on how they used my tax money (or the rate of tax for that matter) in my country, I always recognise the necessity of it and conceded paying as my duty/gift to society.
Back to the OP's topic.Your scenario reminded me of similar blackmail scene in "The Dark Knight",though here the punishment must be more severe
