Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tyrant





Brett Meyer has left a new comment on your post "Deputy Doug Englebrecht Is Accountable.So Is SP Ma...":

When an elected official declares himself beyond criticism, and demands that his handling of public matters be kept confidential, and then threatens to accuse those who criticize him of violating the Law; then that elected official has become a tyrant.

Supporting link:
http://ichabodthegloryhasdeparted.blogspot.com/2011/04/glende-is-now-plagiarizing-hisself.html

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It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.
Helen Dunmore

Clever tyrants are never punished.
Voltaire

Ignorance has always been the weapon of tyrants; enlightenment the salvation of the free.
Bill Richardson

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