To be
governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven,
numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, censored, 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 it all, mocked, ridiculed,
derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice, that
is its morality
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