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Report: Armed rangers forced senior-citizen tourists to stay inside their hotel during Yellowstone visit because of shutdown
Keep it up, GovThugs. Give all your subjects a nice big helping of arbitrary Government, right in the face.
The classical definition of the State is the entity that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
Legitimate force, in turn, is force exercised with the consent and approval of the public -- those over whom it is wielded.
When the use of force by State Power becomes arbitrary, Government loses that consent and approval, and undermines its own legitimacy.
An old curse says, "May you live in interesting times." History shows that when Government loses legitimacy, the consequences are interesting, to say the least.
Byron
Report: Armed rangers forced senior-citizen tourists to stay inside their hotel during Yellowstone visit because of shutdown
Keep it up, GovThugs. Give all your subjects a nice big helping of arbitrary Government, right in the face.
The classical definition of the State is the entity that has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.
Legitimate force, in turn, is force exercised with the consent and approval of the public -- those over whom it is wielded.
When the use of force by State Power becomes arbitrary, Government loses that consent and approval, and undermines its own legitimacy.
An old curse says, "May you live in interesting times." History shows that when Government loses legitimacy, the consequences are interesting, to say the least.
Byron
posted by Byron | Tuesday, October 08, 2013
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