Ayn Rand
Please consider the following quote and place your thoughts about it within your reply:
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
-- Ayn Rand in "The Nature of Government"
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