{"id":1702,"date":"2009-10-31T19:23:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T02:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/31\/pj-proudhon-and-obamacare\/"},"modified":"2009-10-31T19:23:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T02:23:36","slug":"pj-proudhon-and-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/pj-proudhon-and-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Proudhon and Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pjproudhon.jpeg\" title=\"PJ Proudhon\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/pjproudhon.jpeg\" alt=\"PJ Proudhon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be <strong>governed<\/strong> is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so&#8230;. To be <strong>governed<\/strong> is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. And to think that there are democrats among us who pretend that there is any good in government; Socialists who support this ignominy, in the name of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity; proletarians who proclaim their candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic! Hypocrisy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fair-use.org\/p-j-proudhon\/general-idea-of-the-revolution\/epilogue\">Epilogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fair-use.org\/p-j-proudhon\/general-idea-of-the-revolution\/epilogue\"><\/a><cite class=\"volume\">General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century<\/cite>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon\">Pierre-Joseph Proudhon<\/a>, was first published in French as <cite xml:lang=\"fr\">Id\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale de la r\u00e9volution au XIXe si\u00e8cle<\/cite>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To be governed is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so&#8230;. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-punitive-liberalism","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}