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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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