A Reminder
Wednesday 15 May 2013 - Filed under Uncategorized
The founders, for all of their many flaws, understood that coercive power is inevitably abused, which is why they didn’t trust us with anything like the “awesome authority” that is currently wielded by the government. It’s impossible to believe that veterans of the stamp tax and the trial of John Peter Zenger would have been even slightly surprised by the use of tax collectors against political targets, or by the targeting of journalists.
And yet here we are, with a president who simultaneously professes the goodness of government even as that government misuses power in all the old familiar ways, changing only to adapt to new technology.
So, as we prepare to hand authority over our health care system to a tax agency that has, time and again, wielded its power for political purposes on behalf of whoever is currently in power, we owe thanks. Thank you, Mr. President, for demonstrating that you’re just as untrustworthy a bastard as all of your predecessors. Thank you for reminding us that, no matter the public assurances we receive, every iota of power given to the government will be misused. We repeatedly forget these lessons, and we need our reminders.
Many of us didn’t need a reminder that government is nothing but legally entrenched coercive power, but it’s good to have one for those who have heretofore bought what Obama, and the media, have been selling the population since 08. Government is NOT good, and in the end it will bite the hand of even those who support it most.
2013-05-15 » madlibertarianguy