tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post1510639274543876116..comments2023-12-13T05:02:37.426-05:00Comments on Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Fantino's Victory Moves us Closer to a Police StateEmily Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-56507444225076076662010-11-30T10:16:38.841-05:002010-11-30T10:16:38.841-05:00Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms ...Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms?<br /><br />The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity.<br /><br />Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride,<br /><br />“What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.”<br />~ St. Augustine of Hippo<br /><br />Pirates and Emperors? No real difference.<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQBWGo7pef8&feature=player_embeddedNadine Lumleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05591663475427502169noreply@blogger.com