"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 Creeping Hand of the State
Submitted by Mike Powers on Sun, 2009-05-10 16:00
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"If a small town mayor has no qualms about arresting and forcibly removing a political rival over a disagreement about red light cameras, imagine what he would do if he had the power to abolish freedom of speech altogether? Can it be assumed that he would even hesitate if doing so was to his advantage? " Column by Michael Kleen.
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