People Who Create Things Nowadays Can Expect

The Chances Of Your Being Harmed By Terrorists Are Mathematically Minute. The Chance Of Your Being Robbed By Your Own Government? That's Easy: 100 Per Cent.

There Has Never Been A Humane Communist Regime. Marxism Is Inherently Totalitarian. It Recognizes No Moral Limits On The State. It’s The Most Convenient Ideology For Aspiring Tyrants; It Also Retains Its Appeal For Intellectuals, Who Have Proved Equally Skillful At Rationalizing Abuses Of Power And At Exculpating Themselves.

By Today's Standards King George Iii Was A Very Mild Tyrant Indeed. He Taxed His American Colonists At A Rate Of Only Pennies Per Annum. His Actual Impact On Their Personal Lives Was Trivial. He Had Arbitrary Power Over Them In Law And In Principle But In Fact It Was Seldom Exercised. If You Compare His Rule With That Of Today's U.s. Government You Have To Wonder Why We Celebrate Our Independence.

In A Few More Days We Will Celebrate Xmas, The Day We Commemorate The Birth Of You-know-who. ...it Seems The Modern Consensus Of Enlightened People That His Name Should Be Used In Polite Society Only When Cursing.... [p]oliticians Are Often Eager To Associate Themselves Personally With You-know-who, Even -- And Especially -- When They Rather Flagrantly Ignore His Injunctions.... He Was Out Of Step Then, And He Is Out Of Step Now. He Is Eternally Out Of Step, And Eternally More Powerful Than Those Who Keep In Step. You Know Who I Mean.

Thus Does A 'necessary Evil' Become An Idol. Maybe We're Stuck With It. But Do We Have To Worship It?