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“The only way to avoid another Hiroshima is to get rid of the State itself. The only way to get rid of the Bomb is to get rid of the State.” * I have some disagreements, of varying degrees of seriousness, with a couple of the points in this column. I’ll try to cone aroynd to those in comments later if I have time. But I am glad to see Agency putting it out.

“The only way to avoid another Hiroshima is to get rid of the State itself. The only way to get rid of the Bomb is to get rid of the State.” * I have some disagreements, of varying degrees of seriousness, with a couple of the points in this column. I’ll try to cone aroynd to those in comments later if I have time. But I am glad to see Agency putting it out.

Christ, it’s not even the Nones yet and I’ve already hit my first bit of intensely depressing A-bomb apologia for the month.

Hey y’all, I have an orphan quote that I’m trying to connect up with its proper inheritance. LearnLiberty has recently been passing around an image macro with an unsourced quotation, attributed to Cicero, saying: *”The more laws, the less justice.” (Marcus Tullius Cicero) It’s a nice sentiment, but I am having trouble finding any evidence that Cicero said it, and it is raising a lot of red flags for a fake quote. (All I can find by searching for the English phrase is quite recent, and almost universally unsourced — mostly the quote is included in quote lists on web pages or in notable-quotations books; or else it is used, again without any specific citation, in popular writing. All of the popular writing I could find on the web or through Google Books that makes use of this quote comes from the last 15 years or so.) I’ve also seen the same quote attributed to other authors, and to an “old German proverb.” If there is somewhere in Cicero that this quote comes from, then where does it come from? If it’s not from Cicero, then where is it actually from?

Good. Shut them all down. #AbolishICE #ReleaseAllImmigrants #NoBorders #NoDeportation #NoDetention #NotOneMore

Good. Shut them all down. #AbolishICE #ReleaseAllImmigrants #NoBorders #NoDeportation #NoDetention #NotOneMore

David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bindage, ch. 11, “Sone Nineteenth Century Slave Conspiracies and Revolts.”

O.K., this is the shiniest of all possible outcomes