Tyranny May Creep In Under The Outward

Not Surprisingly, The Federal Judiciary Nearly Always Rules In Favor Of The Federal Government. Judicial Review, Contrary To The Assurances Of Its Advocates, Has Hardly Restrained Congress At All. Instead It Has Progressively Stripped The States Of Their Traditional Powers, While Allowing Federal Power To Grow Unchecked.

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.

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

It Would Be A Healthy Exercise For Every Politician To Look In The Mirror Every Morning And Remind Himself That He Holds Office Only Because, In A Two-man Race Against Another Mediocrity, A Modest Majority Of Those Half-informed People Who Imagined That Their Votes Mattered Reckoned That He Was The Lesser Evil. And They Weren't Too Sure About That.

Even If We Are All Doomed To Live Under The State, It Doesn't Follow That There Is, Or Even Can Be, Such A Thing As A Good State.