I posted my usual
Every tax, every regulation comes with it an army of bureaucrats and behind that an army (with guns) of enforcers
in a thread and got this sterling reply.
a standing army of soldiers, a kneeling army of priests and a crawling army of informers
A Crawling Army Of Informers
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7 responses to “A Crawling Army Of Informers”
I don’t know that ‘crawling’ epitomizes their moral status. It grants them far too much height.
Now ‘slithering….’
No one forces you to live here. You can leave anytime you want. We have fences to keep people out not in. Maybe you will like hillary better then obama as she will win in 2016!
That would make a good t-shirt. Rephrased: “Every tax, every regulation, comes with a standing army of soldiers, a kneeling army of priests and a crawling army of informers.”
Though, I must admit that c andrew may be right – “slithering army of informers” does have a certain something…
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captain*arizona
No one forces you to live here. You can leave anytime you want. We have fences to keep people out not in. Maybe you will like hillary better then obama as she will win in 2016.
Does that mean that you approve of the existence of “a crawling army of informers?”
S.M. Stirling and David Drake use that phrase in the General series.
I’m not sure if they made it up or cribbed it from an ancient source, I think it’s the latter.