We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. (John Perry Barlow)

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks.

John Perry Barlow

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