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Essay on To Be Governed
| Date: |
03-20-99 6:50am |
| Subject: |
Politics |
| Word Count: |
186 |
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0.74 |
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 placed 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.
P.J. Proudhon, General Idea of the Revolution in the 19th
Century Notice the parallels to the Prisoner? I will not make any
deals with you.I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed,
stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my
own.
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