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But all other government crimes have been more rampant since the war, than they were before.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “But all other government crimes have been more rampant since the war, than they were before.”
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Spooner argues that government crimes have increased since the war, contrary to any expectations of improvement.
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They neither ask, nor expect, any mercy, if they should ever fall into the hands of honest men.
For all these reasons, they are not only modest and sensible, but really frank, honest, and honorable villains, contrasted with these courts of injustice, and the lawmakers by whom these courts are established.
They do not tell us of the almshouses, hospitals, schools, churches, etc., which, out of the purest charity and benevolence, they maintain for our benefit, out of the money they take from us.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.