Blair to Authorise Bugging Elected MPS

"To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated, regimented, closed in, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, evaluated, censored, commanded; all by creatures that have neither the right, nor wisdom, nor virtue... 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 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 all, 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 centures?"
- Proudhon

3 comments

i just heard this and really couldn't believe it.

left by michael the tubthumper on 16 January 2006

Nothing that man does woud surprise me any more. Thanks for the Proudhon quotation, though. Oh, and as regards Blair, remember Bakunin's assessment of Marx: "a vain man, perfidious and crafty."

left by Delescluze on 16 January 2006

More on American attack on 'liberties' here at Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2134215?nav=wp

'Audible' clip good too.

As regards Proudhon, 'Propertyis Theft' is the best description I can hear for PFI.

left by Lee Collins on 17 January 2006