On the record
In no case can the people, whose rights they are continually denying and trampling upon, hold them to any accountability whatever.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “In no case can the people, whose rights they are continually denying and trampling upon, hold them to any accountability…”
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Spooner emphasizes the disconnect between the government and the rights of the people it is supposed to protect.
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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.
They do not carry their heads high, above all other men, and demand our reverence and admiration, as statesmen, patriots, and benefactors.
In short, they acknowledge themselves hostes humani generis: enemies of the human race.