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.

-Joseph Sobran

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What A Blessing 'terrorism' Is For The

Joseph Sobran

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.

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Blessing

Reality

Government

We Have Been Living Amidst One Of The Great Revolutions Of Human History, And We Hardly Know It: The Penetration Of The State Into Every Aspect Of Human Life And Society. Some People Regard This As Good And "progressive," Others Regard It As Tyrannical; But Either Way, It's A Fact, A Transformation As Great As, Say, The Industrial Revolution. Absolutely Nothing Is Now Beyond The Scope Of State Power.

People

Liberty

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