Letters to the Editor
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Cabdriver, you have no idea what you're talking about
I am a pacifist anarchist, not a, uh, vendettist.
Your scenario, "played out under practical "real world" conditions of 21st century style anarchism," would be impossible in any form of 19th, 20th, or 21st-century anarchism.
In theory, the first stage could happen.
In theory the second stage could happen, noting that the corporate form is a state subsidy, and the local community may not recognize any special status for the corporations.
However, the third stage would be more problematic, no protection agency, public or private, would have any special rights; their members would have the same rights as any local individual, or any community militia members. To protect themselves, the members of such an agency could (1) handle investigative tasks and leave touchier stuff to the community militia or (2) request searches, or permission, from the community militia and/or targets' protection agencies and/or respected neutral parties. If the first protection agency threatens murder, the community militia and/or targets' protection agencies and/or respected neutral parties *may* target the first protection agency and *will never again* approve the first protection agency's search requests.
And the fourth stage, execution, would not happen, as it would leave the protection agency a band of murderers, at war with the world. Some people may shoot back. Other people may just burn their stuff. Going to war with the world is friggin' stupid. I imagine most groups would stop beforehand.
Most anarchists would find your scenario even less plausible:
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/secI5.html#seci58