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Target Role: governor

Source Role: shepherd

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Target Role: governed

Source Role: sheep

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Target Role: governing_actions

Source Role: shepherding_activities

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Target Entailment: If government sucessfully performs action, people will flourish

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Target Entailment: government makes decisions, people do what government wants them to

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Target Entailment: Governed people are not capable of making decisions or protecting themselves

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Text: Citizen Sheep Government Shepherds


Provenance: Book title, by Mike Sodrel

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Text: Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.


Provenance: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, section 4 chapter 6

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Text: Obama and the Progressives do not believe this. They believe they must decide what is best. In their view Americans are sheep and they are the shepherd.


Provenance: "Conservative Historian" webpage: http://conservativehistorian.com/columns/platoandpresidentobama.html Accessed 11/29/12

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EntailmentIf government sucessfully performs action, people will flourish (If shepherd successfully performs actions, sheep will flourish, ?, ?) +, government makes decisions, people do what government wants them to (shepherd makes decsions, sheep do what shepherd wants them to, ?) + and Governed people are not capable of making decisions or protecting themselves (Sheep are not capable of flourishing on their own (without shepherd)., ?, ?) +
ExampleEnglish (Citizen Sheep Government Shepherds, ?, ?, Book title, by Mike Sodrel, ?, ?, ?) +, English (Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence, it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd., ?, ?, Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, section 4 chapter 6, ?, ?) + and English (Obama and the Progressives do not believe this. They believe they must decide what is best. In their view Americans are sheep and they are the shepherd., ?, ?, "Conservative Historian" webpage: http://conservativehistorian.com/columns/platoandpresidentobama.html Accessed 11/29/12, ?, ?, ?) +
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Has target frameFrame:Government +
Mappinggovernor (shepherd, ?) +, governed (sheep, ?) +, governor_objectives (objective(s), ?) + and governing_actions (shepherding_activities, ?) +
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Related metaphoris a source subcase of (GOVERNMENT IS A PERSON, ?) +
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