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Tuesday, June 14, 2011

TO BE GOVERNED

To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.


To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

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1 comment:

dan said...

Yes. Because a lawless, government-free, everyone for themselves society will be so much better.

Now, with big bad government, you have property rights, education, transportation systems and thruways, protection from foreign ne'r-to wells, and, oh yeah, an economy.

Rednecks love to scream about how bad the government is, but lets see us all do without.

Again, pick a real issue and argue about that. Otherwise, stay on your couch and be quiet.