And–as usual–it’s a beauty.
‘..We became a police state some time ago when government became anti-constitutional rather than merely unconstitutional. “What’s not forbidden is compulsory” is the classic description. Nobody under the age of fifty remembers it any other way. If freedom is the exercise of options, and it is, if our options have been removed by protectionism, and they have, then we no longer are free. And we aren’t. Protectionism—consumer protection and environmental protection and the rest—mainly protects the agency’s budgets and their patron’s ambitions. The citizen’s part is to pay the bills and follow directions. Consider: the FDA recently stated outright we have no actionable right to choose our own foods. As things stand, they’re not wrong. Franklin was right, we’ve traded liberty for security and gotten neither. We’ve gotten a police state…’
And that’s not the half of it…the rest is riveting stuff. And has anybody compiled a list of the liberties we’ve lost since-say-1950? It’d make interesting reading. We delude ourselves that we’re free because the truth of the matter is simply too frightening to contemplate.
