Define Councils & Governments

[BEDROCK]

in·com·pe·tent

adjective /inˈkämpətənt/  /iNG-/ 

 

Not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully

- a forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant

 

Not qualified to act in a particular capacity

- the patient is deemed legally incompetent

 

(esp. of a valve or sphincter) Not able to perform its function

 

noun /inˈkämpətənt/  /iNG-/ 

incompetents, plural

 

An incompetent person

 

Incompetent, incapable, unfit, unable, inefficient, unqualified, ineffective, inapt.

[BonusGame]

Thieves and liars most of them.

[Cavegirl]

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ...

 

To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.

 

It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured.

 

That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.

 

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

 

Idée Générale de la Révolution au XIXe Siècle [The General Idea of the Revolution] (1851); quoted in The Anarchists (1964) by James Joll, Ch. 3, p. 78