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Finally... Never be
under any illusions about the meaning of
'government'
Pierre
Proudhon's analysis....
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, assesed, 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, harrased, 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. --Pierre J. Proudhon, General Idea of the
Revolution in the 19th Century
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