Government, as we must never forget, is force. And as Simone Weil so memorably observed, force is that mysterious influence "that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him."William Norman Grigg tells us some stories that will make your blood boil.
I wouldn't want to be one of the mini-tyrants he describes when a victim finally snaps. I wouldn't even want to be associated with them.
[Via Ron W]
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And yet there are those who will still defend "the state" as a legitimate human endeavor.
Ahh, but that's the hard part, holding them closely accountable and bloodying them if necessary.
I would say the blood thing seems to be the only option left.
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