{"id":1395,"date":"2011-11-01T23:43:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2011-11-13T14:06:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T18:06:28","slug":"cold-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"Cold Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"

reading this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Smith, who had been released from custody in 2006 pending the government’s appeal of her case, is expected to return to prison before Christmas, her attorney said.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Lawrence Daniels, a supervising deputy attorney general who argued the case for restoring Smith’s conviction, said he couldn’t answer questions about the case until he had fully reviewed the 18-page decision.<\/p>\n

Smith’s attorney, Michael J. Brennan, said he would file a clemency petition with the state government but that the chances of it being granted were “extremely slim.”<\/p>\n

“The attorney general’s office has fought vigorously to reincarcerate her for years. They don’t have the authority to say, ‘Just kidding, she doesn’t have to go back to jail,’ ” Brennan said.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

made me think of this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Somewhere there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brothers: here there are states.<\/p>\n

A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears to me, for now I will speak to you about the death of peoples.<\/p>\n

State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: “I, the state, am the people.”<\/p>\n

It is a lie! It was creators who created peoples, and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.<\/p>\n

Destroyers are they who lay snares for the many, and call it state: they hang a sword and a hundred cravings over them.<\/p>\n

Where there are still peoples, the state is not understood, and is hated as the evil eye, and as sin against laws and customs.<\/p>\n

This sign I give to you: every people speaks its own language of good and evil, which its neighbor does not understand. It has created its own language of laws and customs.<\/p>\n

But the state lies in all the tongues of good and evil; and whatever it says it lies; and whatever it has it has stolen.<\/p>\n

Everything in it is false; it bites with stolen teeth, and bites often. It is false down to its bowels.<\/p>\n

Confusion of tongues of good and evil; this sign I give you as the sign of the state. This sign points to the will to death! it points to the preachers of death!<\/p>\n

All too many are born: for the superfluous the state was created!<\/p>\n

See how it entices them to it, the all-too-many! How it swallows and chews and rechews them!<\/p>\n

“On earth there is nothing greater than I: I am the governing hand of God.” — thus roars the monster. And not only the long-eared and short-sighted fall upon their knees!<\/p>\n

Ah! even in your ears, you great souls, it whispers its gloomy lies! Ah! it finds out the rich hearts which willingly squander themselves!<\/p>\n

Yes, it finds you too, you conquerors of the old God! You became weary of conflict, and now your weariness serves the new idol!<\/p>\n

It would set up heroes and honorable ones around it, the new idol! Gladly it basks in the sunshine of good consciences, — the cold monster!<\/p>\n

It will give everything to you, if you worship it, the new idol: thus it buys the lustre of your virtue, and the glance of your proud eyes.<\/p>\n

Through you it seeks to seduce the all-too-many! Yes, a hellish artifice has been created here, a death-horse jingling with the trappings of divine honors!<\/p>\n

Yes, a dying for many has been created here, which glorifies itself as life: verily, a great service to all preachers of death!<\/p>\n

The state, I call it, where all drink poison, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow suicide of all — is called “life.”<\/p>\n

Behold the superfluous! They steal the works of the creators and the treasures of the wise. Education, they call their theft — and everything becomes sickness and trouble to them!<\/p>\n

Behold the superfluous! They are always sick; they vomit their bile and call it a newspaper. They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.<\/p>\n

Behold the superfluous! They acquire wealth and become the poorer for it. They seek power, and the lever of power, much money — these impotent ones!<\/p>\n

See them clamber, these nimble apes! They clamber over one another, and thus pull each other into the mud and the abyss.<\/p>\n

They all strive for the throne: this is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne! Often filth sits on the throne. — and often also the throne on filth.<\/p>\n

Madmen they all seem to me, and clambering apes, and too eager. Foul smells their idol to me, the cold monster: foul they all smell to me, these idolaters.<\/p>\n

My brothers, will you suffocate in the fumes of their maws and appetites! Better to break the windows and jump into the open air!<\/p>\n

Escape from their foul stench! Escape from the idolatry of the superfluous!<\/p>\n

Escape from their foul stench! Escape from the steam of these human sacrifices!<\/p>\n

The earth is yet free for great souls. There are still many empty sites for the lonesome and the twosome, surrounded by the fragrance of tranquil seas.<\/p>\n

A free life is yet possible for great souls. He who possesses little is that much less possessed: blessed be a little poverty!<\/p>\n

There, where the state ends — there only begins the man who is not superfluous: there begins the song of the necessary, the single and irreplaceable melody.<\/p>\n

There, where the state ends — look there, my brothers! Do you not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the Overman?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus spoke Zarathustra.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

reading this: Smith, who had been released from custody in 2006 pending the government’s appeal of her case, is expected to return to prison before Christmas, her attorney said. . . . Lawrence Daniels, a supervising deputy attorney general who argued the case for restoring Smith’s conviction, said he couldn’t answer questions about the case […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friedrich-nietzsche","category-prosecutors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}