Tyranny May Creep In Under The Outward

Wartime Always Brings Expansions Of State Power, Together With Erosions Of Moral And Constitutional Standards.

What A Blessing 'terrorism' Is For The State! It's The Ideal Distraction From The Day-to-day Reality Of The State's Chief Activity: Wringing From Its Subjects The Wealth They Produce. Last September (2001) A Handful Of Fanatics, Armed Only With Box-cutters, Provided A New Rationale For The Trillion -dollar Swindle. A Bonanza! I Don't Know What These 'terrorists' Thought They Were Achieving: Making The Infidel Respect Allah? If So, They Were Wrong. You Might As Well Try To Make The U.s. Government Respect The U.s. Constitution.

Tax Time Approaches, And Americans Are As Always Paying H & R Block Billions To Help Them Save Some Of Their Wealth From Their Ravenous Government. Pitiful, In A Way: It Underlines The Grim But Unacknowledged Fact That The Government Is Their Enemy And They Have To Hire Protection From It. But Don't We Enjoy 'self-government'? Well, If We Have It, I'd Hardly Say We Enjoy It. True, We Aren't Being Taxed By The Monarch Of Great Britain, But Our American-born Rulers Claim Far More Of Our Wealth Than The British Monarchs Ever Did.

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.

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.