by Ben Bartee
The Daily Bell
Originally published via Armageddon Prose:
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” – Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” my Midwestern Irish-Catholic grandmammy used to opine as she indiscriminately lined up and sadistically hosed her captive grand-progenies down in the backyard, me included, after discovering a lone louse on a single head.
“That’s how we did it in the old country,” she would add.
Given how much historically unprecedented power is vested in the nuclear-armed government, derived in theory from the people, one would expect it to be beholden to a higher moral, ethical, and legal standard than the general population.