Citations:anarcho-tyranny

English citations of anarcho-tyranny

• 1993, Spenser Hughes, The Lambda Conspiracy, Chicago: Moody Press, →ISBN, page 89:

  The 1990s thus had produced a form of government that political theorists said was impossible—anarchy and tyranny in a dreadful symbiosis. Under the anarcho-tyranny of 1998, government at all levels intruded clumsily and inefficiently into every area of life. Yet it failed to do the one thing for which it was properly constituted—safeguard lives, liberty, and property.

• 1993, Conservative Review, volume 4, Council for Social and Economic Studies, →OCLC, page 2:

  Under the gentle scepter of anarcho-tyranny, law-abiding citizens who buy more than one gun a month need to walk in fear, while carjackers, rapists and killers walk free on parole.

• 1995, someone, quotee, Gun News Digest, volume 1, The Foundation, →OCLC, page 56:

  We want an end to anarcho-tyranny, our current system of government in which the government does not protect crime victims but instead vigorously prosecutes people who defend themselves and people who commit non-violent thought crimes.

• 2002, Miguel A. Faria, Cuba in Revolution, Hacienda Pub., →ISBN, page 32:

  The gap, a narrow one, can be easily traversed from one side to the other by the extremisms of a police State on the one hand or rampant terrorism and chaos on the other. The end result is anarcho-tyranny. Anarchy, tyranny, or their confluence are neither conducive to economic prosperity nor political freedom.

• 2006, George Michael, The Enemy of My Enemy, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 222:

  Similarly, Sam Francis, a leading paleo-conservative associated with American Renaissance and the Council of Conservative Citizens, referred to the present American system as “anarcho-tyranny,” that is, a combination of anarchy in which legitimate government functions such as spying on and punishing real criminals are not performed, and tyranny in which government performs illegitimate functions such as spying on lawful citizens or criminalizing innocent conduct like gun ownership and political dissent.