Tyranny May Creep In Under

Some People Don't Mind A Little Constitutional Sophistry In A Good Cause; And For Liberals, Centralizing All Power In The Federal Government Is Always A Good Cause. Since Most Americans Don't Know Or Care What The Constitution Says, Let Alone What Their Ancestors Thought It Meant, The Great Liberal Snow Job Has Been Very Successful.

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.

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.

Since Outright Slavery Has Been Discredited, "democracy" Is The Only Remaining Rationale For State Compulsion That Most People Will Accept.

People Who Create Things Nowadays Can Expect To Be Prosecuted By Highly Moralistic People Who Are Incapable Of Creating Anything. There Is No Way To Measure The Chilling Effect On Innovation That Results From The Threats Of Taxation, Regulation And Prosecution Against Anything That Succeeds. We'll Never Know How Many Ideas Our Government Has Aborted In The Name Protecting Us.