“All governments - left, right or other - are by their very nature coercive. They have to be. A rule not ultimately backed by the threat of violence is merely a suggestion.”

—  Jack Donovan

Violence is Golden
A Sky Without Eagles (2014)

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American activist, editor and writer 1974

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