Robert Davison Wolf
Government: An Inevitable and Constant Threat
Tue Apr 20, 2004 12:42
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Government: An Inevitable and Constant Threat



by Robert Davison Wolf
April 19, 2004
Despite claims by anarchists, there is no way to avoid government. A
rule here, an agreement there and before you know it you have a
government. Whenever two people come together, there are rules; as more
people join the association more stipulations are needed. Eventually,
the rules have to be enforced and a government is born. It is as
inevitable as rain. There has never not been government; even the
Quakers found it unavoidable, the only variable in taming the beast is
to limit its size.

There are, of course, various types of governments. Those created by the
left are of the communal variety, with gangs of paupers roaming the
countryside laying claim to anything that gets produced in order to
redistribute it, in the name of social justice, to those that can't or
won't produce. Some justice. They are heavily invested in creating
government programs that manage everything. But, it should be abundantly
clear, to even the mentally challenged, that money spent on government
programs is wasted. The 'overty figures'are as high today as they were
in 1965; health care a costly disaster and the public schools are
unquestionably worse. (Logic would dictate that at some imaginary point
in history the schools would have enough money. After all, there must be
a limit to the number of vice principals a school district can support,
but I digress.)...

Those of a utopian bent believe that a successful government is a mere
matter of design. They believe that somewhere out there is a magic
formula that will create the perfect government. Their quest for this
philosopher's stone of government begets boutique governments of every
philosophy and configuration. Anarchists go a step further believing it
is possible to do without government altogether by consigning our fate
to private protection agencies. When pressed they will allow that there
will always be rules and regulations, but we are assured that these
private companies will never quarrel with each other or exceed their
authority to evolve into (shudder) governments. In other words, we can
forestall a single tyrant, by supporting 1010 enfants terribles.

If government is inevitable, we need a good one and more importantly a
way to limit it. Once you have planted the vine of governance, there is
only one way to control it, issue every citizen a metaphorical axe with
which to hack away at it periodically.

The American republic, as conceived, was the first in human history
build upon the premise that government holds power by the consent of the
governed, rather than the other way around. With a few redactions and
the single addition it will do us nicely. I recommend we keep the first
15 amendments, add an amendment that congress shall make no law
abridging the freedom of production and trade, re-reinterpret the
interstate commerce clause, revoke the duty to provide for the general
welfare, lose the nonsense about 4/5ths Negro, and above all stop paying
politicians.

• Condi - was asleep at the switch. — Larry C. Johnson, Tue Apr 20 14:37
• MUST READ: Condoleezza Rice, "You Are a Liar" — Christopher Rudy, Tue Apr 20 14:41