I found the article somewhat disjointed, hopping from topic to topic...probably 'hopping mad' is an accurate description.

But there is one sentence that is both dangerous and untrue: "Such a system might be tolerable if the oligarchs had the people’s best interests at heart." This is the heart of what is wrong: the liberals to whom I speak sincerely believe that they do have "the people's best interests at heart." They are voting for the 'right things' that the (stupid little) common man needs even if he does not know he needs it - like ACA.

No Oligarchy of well-intentioned people should hold power in excess of the rights and freedoms of the people.

Jan

I believe that was '3 felonies'. Not just 3 laws. I do not have a source for that, however.

Jan

Too bad articles like this do not make it the mainstream newspapers.

is this not what we are living in now?

Good observation. Just try to impugn the government to anyone who is dependent on it. You will see a cult like defense of the system automatically!

Unfortunately I think the answer is yes. The worst thing is freedom is usually lost in the end.

I remember reading somewhere that the average Joe breaks at least 3 laws a day. And, they don't even know it. With what the NSA can do now, I think they can go after anyone anytime.

"What we believe and act upon we consider our own free will. Nothing could be further from the truth. We as a people and a nation are subject to massive and continuous propaganda. So programmed are the masses that they become hostile to truth."

That's funny. I've been studying cults recently and the same rule applies, just on a smaller scale. Totalitarian governments are just big cults. Scary isn't it.

As my wife who is a nurse repeatedly tells me.

Project F...right there...

Your system is a legal civil war, where men gang up on one another and struggle for possession of the law, which they use as a club over rivals, till another gang wrests it from their clutch and clubs them with it in their turn, all of them clamoring protestations of service to an unnamed public's unspecified good. - John Galt

Jbrenner, try being a healthcare provider today and stay within the laws- impossible

Incredible article, and excellent comments!!

There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is 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. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kinds of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of lawbreakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with. - Floyd Ferris

Pretty much

Said many time many ways over the centuries, the question lingers; is it only by violence that tyranny perishes?

+1 for truth. I liked that passage also.

Wow, must have read Atlas Shrugged...see it coming so fast you almost need to wear a helmet for protection. Great article...so true..everything. Favorite line, while WE were sleeping they passed all these law... Some of us weren't sleeping, but the bad guys seem to keep winning. Sad.