On 09/12/2013 04:00 PM, Case Black wrote:
Although not an unalloyed fan of Ms. Rand, her words of 50 years ago
do seem relevant to our current situation ---
"Instead of being a protector of man’s rights, the government is
becoming their most dangerous violator.
Instead of protecting men from the initiators of physical force, the
government is initiating physical force and coercion in any manner and
issue it pleases.
Instead of serving as the instrument of objectivity in human
relationships, the government is creating a deadly, subterranean reign
of uncertainty and fear; by means of nonobjective laws whose
interpretation is left to the arbitrary decisions of random bureaucrats;
That last point certainly sounds like a 50 year-old statement by a
cold-war-stricken zealot.
Bureaucrats aren't the brainless, unfeeling beetle-like men described by
Orwell in 1984.
They are sensible, "objective" architects drawing up blueprints for that
island full of cash
that awaits them when they're finally ready to step through the
revolving door.
-Jonathan
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