{"article":{"id":74986,"heading":" Government Has Created A Mystique of Legitimacy","author":" judith mpls","created":"2003-07-29 15:49:45","modified":"2003-07-29 23:18:39","last_modified":"Wed, 30 Jul 2003 06:18:39","article":"

\"Government is a group of individuals organized for the purpose of extracting wealth and exerting power over people and resources in a given geographic area. Government is founded on opinion. A nation must have learned to respect a king, before a king can exert any authority over them.

For more on government abuses, check out Alex Jones (www.infowars.net). <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":" From Wendy McElroy's article "Demystifying the State"","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2003\/07\/74986.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":75025,"heading":"Lincoln saw it differently","article":"Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, saw government as a group of individuals organized to solve problems that individuals were unable or unwilling to solve themselves. Rand's notion seems hopelessly myopic considering government services - police, fire, clean environment - etc that we all have come to expect and willingly pay for. I wouldn't want to live in Rand's dystopia.","author":"moi","parent_id":74986,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-07-29 23:18:39","modified":"2003-07-29 23:18:39","fileurl":""}]}