The Police State

Government is a gang of thieves writ large. Let's look at the reality. 

Previously untouchable aspects of life are subjected to dictate. Even travel, formerly a right, is now a privilege granted by government agents at their whim.

The United States incarcerates more people than any country in the world today and throughout history. The financial costs are tremendous and rising. It is uncreative, abusive, socialistic, and robs our society and economy of vast human and material resources. It is also un-American.

A DUI is one of the infractions that can cause a de facto iron curtain to fall across the Canadian-US border, separating friends and family; other infractions include possession of marijuana or even a medical-marijuana card, shoplifting, and an arrest for attending a rally.

When the Egyptian protests first broke out, most Americans celebrated.

Government and the media bombard us with examples of real or often just imagined threats and expand them so that they become as big as our worst nightmares. As more of us buy into an overblown story, it takes on a life of its own and often becomes the accepted truth.

Is there an alternative to this Big Brother approach to managing homeland security? I think there is: private defense agencies offering competitive services on an open market.

It's not as if TSA officials had said all along, since 2001, that they needed full-body scanners in order to do their jobs properly. Had they said that in the beginning, then the public probably would've protested enough such that the "small-government" George Bush wouldn't have nationalized airport security.

The national furor over the TSA's new procedures has elicited the typical response from the bureaucracy and its apologists. These invasive scans and "enhanced pat-downs" are for your own good. You don't want another attack, do you?

If it were not for the police, lawlessness and chaos would rule; therefore, we owe our safety, our civilization, our very lives to the selflessness