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A few words for Gordon Brown
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A few words for Gordon Brown
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The contempt with which I hold this man is such that I cannot bring myself to waste time thinking about writing something of my own, but fortunately an old liberal wrote quite eloquently enough for me three centuries ago and some...
...whenever the legislators endeavour to take away, and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence. Whensoever therefore the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society; and either by ambition, fear, folly or corruption, endeavour to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other, an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people; by this breach of trust they forfeit the power the people had put into their hands for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who. have a right to resume their original liberty, and, by the establishment of a new legislative, (such as they shall think fit) provide for their own safety and security, which is the end for which they are in society.
Every day I grow closer to being in Locke's state of war with Gordon and all those legislators who support the system he presently presides over. And I fear no political party currently represented in that legislature shares the breadth and depth of my growing hatred towards these institutions and the tyranny they now prosecute. Maybe someone will surprise me. Maybe someone will just start a project to prevent my further "radicalization".
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