Loyalty To Your Country Should Never Require

Tyranny May Creep In Under The Outward Forms Of Traditional Law.

Man Is The Only Creature Disposed To Kill Huge Numbers Of Members Of His Own Species, And His Instrument Is Usually The State.

So When The Wolf Pounces On Your Lamb, Just Ignore The Pitiful Bleating And Remind Yourself That This Is A Democracy, Where Every Sheep Can Freely Express Its Preference For Which Kind Of Wolf It Wants To Be Eaten By. Many Sheep, Perhaps Understandably, Prefer A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing, Which Is After All The Basic Idea Of Democracy. So Far It Has Worked Pretty Well. The Wolves All Agree On That, And They Want To Spread Democracy Everywhere.

...[t]he Constitution Conferred Only A Few Specific Powers On The Federal Government, All Others Being Denied To It (as The Tenth Amendment Would Make Plain). Unfortunately, Only A Tiny Fraction Of The U.s. Population Today - Subtle Logicians Like You - Can Grasp Such Nuances. Too Bad. The Constitution Wasn't Meant To Be A Brain-twister.

Government Is The Agent Of Those Who Are Too Refined To Do Their Own Mugging.