Authority Rejection Quotes
His most influential teacher was the English philosopher and feminist, Annie Besant, 1847-1933. See her quotations for some parallel ideas.
In a sense he was the first establishment victim of the student demonstrations of 1968. He called the police to eject the student demonstrators from the buildings they were occupying.
This statement transformed Cromwell from a bully to a dictator. If the chief executive can dismiss the legislature, then there is no real check on the powers of the executive and he/she is a de facto dictator.
Although James’ mother, Mary Queen of Scots had been a Catholic, James was a fervent Protestant. However, he found the separation of the State from authority over the church and the Presbyterian approach not to his liking. Also, the early tradition of the Presbyterian preachers scolding the monarch, especially his mother, was uncomfortable for James.
This is a very interesting historical and psychological hypothesis, but it is supported by very few especially English and Anglo Americans. They find it absurd that they would ever feel guilty and lawless for not following a treaty between two enemies—Spain and Portugal and formalized by the Pope whose authority they had rejected. What Lopez Tijerina refers to as “piracy” was privateering which most countries engaged in with no guilt whatsoever. There is guilt for the Anglo discrimination against the Hispanics of the new world on the part of many Anglos but it is for their past discriminatory behavior not for opposing the Spanish or the Catholic countries.
