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TO BE GOVERNED...
...IS TO BE WATCHED OVER, INSPECTED, SPIED ON, DIRECTED, LEGISLATED, REGIMATED, CLOSED IN, INDOCTRNATED, PREACHED AT, CONTROLLED, ASSESSED, EVALUATED, CENSORED, COMMANDED ALL BY CREATURES THAT HAVE NEITHER THE RIGHT, NOR THE WISDOM, NOR THE VERTUE... TO BE GOVERNED MEANS THAT AT EVERY MOVE, OPERATION, OR TRANSACTION ONE IS NOTED, REGISTERED, ENTERED IN A CENSUS, TAXED, STAMPED, PRICED, ASSESSED, PATENTED, LICENSED, AUTHORIZED, RECOMMENDED, ADMONISHED, PREVENTED, REFORMED, SET RIGHT, CORRECTED. GOVERNMENT MEANS TO BE SUBJECTED TO TRIBUTE, TRAINED, RANSOMED, EXPLOITED, MONOPOLIZED, EXTORTED, PRESSURED, MYSTIFIED, ROBBED; ALL IN THE NAME OF PUBLIC UTILITY AND THE GENERAL GOOD. THEN AT THE FIRST SIGN OF RESISTANCE OR AT THE FIRST WORD OF COMPLAINT, ONE IS REPRESSED, FINED, DESPISED, VEXED, PURSUED, HUSTLED, BEATEN UP, GARROTED, IMPRISONED, SHOT, MACHINE-GUNNED, JUDGED, SENTENCED, DEPORTED, SACRIFICED, SOLD, BETRAYED, AND TO CAP IT ALL OFF, RIDICULED, MOCKED, OUTRAGED, AND DISHONORED. THAT IS GOVERNMENT, THAT IS ITS JUSTICE AND ITS MORALITY!... O HUMAN PERSONALITY! HOW CAN IT BE THAT YOU HAVE COWERED IN SUCH SUBJECTION FOR SIXTY CENTURIES?
-PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON
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