To be GOVERNED is to be...

Subject: To be GOVERNED is to be... Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:00 am

Quote :: To be GOVERNED is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed,
law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled,
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,
enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed,
authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is,
under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general
interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited,
monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the
slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed,
fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked,
imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold,
betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored.
That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. (P.-J.
Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century,
trans. John Beverley Robinson. London: Freedom Press, 1923, p. 294)

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