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A comment to the artilce by a "Strummered" "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty". - T
by pcunite 13y ago
A comment to the artilce by a "Strummered"
"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty". - Thomas Jefferson
All we have now are corporate lawyers and stooges.
- rhizome 13y ago"When the government fears the people, there is liberty". And the way in which the government can fear the people is through a revolt of the secret-keepers. Probably why all the sysadmins are getting fired, as a possible admission that the NSA doesn't know who of their own they can trust.
- gruseom 13y agoNot only did Jefferson not say that, it wasn't even attributed to him until 1994. http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fears-people-there-libertyquotation http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fea...