re: #109 The Ghost of a Flea

As mottoes go, I prefer “To Serve and Protect” to “Make Them Very Sorry They Did.”

The latter kind of grinds your nose against the Weberian “We have the monopoly on legitimate violence, nyah-nyah-nyah” of it all.

Not just very sorry…very sorry!

State-sponsored punitive violence against the people who do the work and pay the taxes: authoritarians and totalitarians love.it.