Re: Obama Targets LewRockwell.com

Re: Obama targets LewRockwell.com, here is an excerpt from historian John Clark Ridpath, ca. 1898:

“This ‘divine fact’ called government  is generally resident in the will and caprice of a person called a king; but it may exist under any other garb or mask. It may call itself a prince, an emperor, a czar, a shah, a mikado, a sultan, a president, a speaker of the House of Representatives. Whatever it is, and in whatever shape it comes, whether it be angel or devil, its peculiarity is that it exists and maintains itself and exercises its authority outside of and upon the people it governs.

“The theorem continues thus: Government is not of the people, but apart from them. It begins not in the hearts and hopes of them, but in its own passions and ambitions…Did space permit, I should gladly summarize the work of this monstrous thing among the nations of the earth. History is replete with the story of the abuses, cruelties, and tyrannies of the fact called government.”

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1:56 am on May 2, 2010