How true, how true. It is the most threatening thing for politicians and bureaucrats to be accurately identified as the problem and not the solution. They fear that the Constitution and Bill Of Rights will become contagious. My brief tribute with a little help from my friends:
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged
U.S. government agents/Gestapo seeking a family's National ID Cards: What?! You don't have your papers. Take the alleged Mr. and Mrs. Smith in for questioning. Take the two children to the processing center.
"If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? The organizers maintain that society, when left undirected, rushes headlong to its inevitable destruction because the instincts of the people are so perverse. The legislators claim to stop this suicidal course and to give it a saner direction. Apparently, then, the legislators and the organizers have received from Heaven an intelligence and virtue that place them beyond and above mankind.
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority." -- Frederick Bastiat, The Law (1850)
Especially since they allow to pass such blatant insults to our intelligence. For example: "But I didn't inhale". "It depends on the meaning of what is, is." I didn't have an affair with Jennifer Flowers." "I didn't have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski." The constitution clearly states one and only one recourse when a President is impeached: removal from office. Legislators know how to violate their oath of office.
Prohibition was a total failure but the War On some Drugs will be a success. So will the War On Poverty be a success. "Legitimize" Ruby Ridge, "legitimize" mass murder of seventy-eight innocents at Waco. How many innocents have been terrorized, physically injured, sometimes murdered and financially deprived by no-knock raids? Recently and still ongoing, the government terrorized -- is terrorizing -- 1500 farmers at Klamath Falls basin and in the process destroyed the farmers livelihoods/businesses. And the biggest "good-guy" liberty thief -- the IRS -- how many thousands of innocents have been physically, emotionally and financially terrorized by the IRS criminal investigation division (CID).
Only a man's prior actions can hope to speak for his future intents.
Who are the value producers? Who are the value destroyers?
Protect the value producers -- prosecute the value destroyers.
The Constitution of the Universe
Article 1
No person, group of persons, or government may initiate force, threat of force, or fraud against any individual.
Article 2
Force may be morally and legally used only in self-defense against those who violate Article 1.
Article 3
No exceptions shall exist for Articles 1 and 2.