The Police State

The total state claims the right to see you naked. A freer people would demand an end to such nonsense and the policies that perpetuate it.

Western society uses its schools and other public institutions to build an impenetrable wall of destructive social conditioning around the individual.

All the oratory of the advocates of government omnipotence cannot annul the fact that there is but one system that makes for durable peace: a free market economy. Government control leads to economic nationalism and thus results in conflict.

The point, once more, is not that the conservatives deployed bad arguments against the supposed extremism of Mises and Rothbard. Rather, they downgraded the role of reason as such; and this rendered ineffective their resistance to the Left.

It is a feast for the eyes and ears, a look at how dramatically and sweepingly different our times are in so many ways, and yet how the themes of corruption, deception, and lies are persistent wherever public and private violence against person and property rears its ugly head.

"Every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power."

The private road would be devoted to serving the customers, not looting them at the point of a gun."

So long as Obama continues to expand the state in the domestic area — inflating, taxing, regulating, nationalizing — they will put up with abuses of the human rights that they claim to champion.

But people in a society do not find themselves in such a "one-shot Prisoner's Dilemma." Quite the contrary, they must deal with one another repeatedly.