The Police State

What guarantee do we have that the people who run the state will be less evil than those who are run by the state?

In Germany, 3 families face fines, frozen accounts for homeschooling their children

Doug Sohn, owner of Hot Doug’s,

Bush was wrong, but in a way that is usually not understood. His mistake was not in overthrowing the state but in hoping to create and control a new one.

The Heritage Foundation offers one of those site polls designed to keep you tooling around, and this one I

There is not a living soul who is willing to call the Iraq war a success. At the end of the day, all that Bush will leave is debt, death, and disaster.

The second noticeable consequence of the state's activity in everybody's business but its own is that its own business is monstrously neglected.

The law should focus on violations of person and property, not scientific oddities like blood content.

So it is with the security state. We give it power, we permit it to run itself with no oversight, we put up with its excesses, and we have a hard time imagining what life would be like without it.

Delivered at the Mises Institute on July 6, 2006.