From Glenn Geist at MadMikesAmerica:
Most Americans don’t remember the international movement and it’s multiple assassinations, but it was once the source of much fear and trembling – and political cartoons. Most have not read the philosophy behind it either which is troubling because so much of it re-emerged unnoticed in the guise of movements within the Republican party in the last couple of decades. One can see, or believe he sees the thoughts of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in the Tea Party movement, the Sovereign Citizen rebels and many other places masquerading as Conservative Republicans.
“I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will.”
Said Anarchist philosopher Proudhon and I became interested in him years ago because of his eloquent rants against religion, but there is far more to the man (or less in a way) than his hate of Theocratic assertions.
Government is bad, and all laws are the enemy of Liberty, opined several GOP members during the Obama administration and without attribution.