Consent of the Governed
You do realize, don’t you, that slaves very nearly always outweigh their masters in number and thereby effectively give their consent to be enslaved? Same goes for the "governed."
"I think this shows that the police are fast reaching the limits of the ‘consent’ by which they claim they serve."
A comment to a blog entry. He’s talking about this 5-page collection of evidence of civil disobedience in the UK.
(via Perry de Havilland)
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