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And why have they not told us how false, absurd, and tyrannical are all these lawmaking governments?
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “And why have they not told us how false, absurd, and tyrannical are all these lawmaking governments?”
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Spooner criticizes the failure of governments to reveal their own injustices and absurdities.
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On the contrary, they acknowledge themselves robbers, murderers, and villains, pure and simple.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.
They do not attempt to deceive us, or mislead us, or reconcile us to their doings, by any such pretences, impostures, or insults as these.
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.