"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The French were rather efficient at finding out why an airliner collided with an Alp last week, but nobody has been looking much beyond the immediate reason.
That's the scary scenario our enemies like to spread. Government may not be nice, but the alternative is worse. Do they have a point?
The very opposite is the case, reasons today's Zero Government Blog; but a new word has to be coined so as to develop the reasons. Enjoy Krime in the Coming ZGS.
One of the nasty ways government junkies like to scare people off doing without it is to suggest a free society would be infested by gun nuts; that everyone would shoot everyone else when mildly annoyed.
Israeli influence on US government policy is notorious, and was highlighted this week by Netanyahu's address to Congress. But Bibi the Tiller, out today, reasons not just that his hands should not touch the American tiller, but that there should be no tiller at all. Enjoy.
While some others see only gloom and doom ahead, the Zero Government Blog offers a wholly contrary outlook. Today's edition does, however, recommend some urgent intellectual "prepping."