Thus Does A 'necessary Evil'

Because The State Can No Longer Protect Us From Crime, It Wants To Take Away From Us The Means Of Protecting Ourselves. This Is The Logic Of Gun Control.

The Most Successful Revolutions Aren't Those That Are Celebrated With Parades And Banners, Drums And Trumpets, Cannons And Fireworks. The Really Successful Revolutions Are Those That Occur Quietly, Unnoticed, Uncommemorated. We Don't Celebrate The Day The United States Constitution Was Destroyed; It Didn't Happen On A Specific Date, And Most Americans Still Don't Realize It Happened At All. We Don't Say The Constitution Has Ceased To Exist; We Merely Say That It's A 'living Document.' But It Amounts To The Same Thing.

The Attempt To Silence A Man Is The Greatest Honor You Can Bestow On Him. It Means That You Recognize His Superiority To Yourself.

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.

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.