04/25/05

It's a funny kind of 'freedom' that the neoconservatives advocate: The 'freedom' to be taxed and regulated into servitude -- with censorship, suppression and the lash applied as necessary -- so that that same 'freedom' can be taken, on the point of American bayonets, to every corner of the earth heretofore lacking it. Or, as William F. Buckley, Jr. put it: [W]e have to accept Big Government for the duration -- for neither an offensive nor defensive war can be waged given our present government skills, except through the instrument of a totalitarian bureaucracy within our shores. The fall of the Berlin wall was the cue for panic: 'The duration' had arrived at an unexpected time and in an unexpected fashion, shattering neoconservative expectations and aspirations. They'd counted on completing their half-century ascent to total power and, presumably, following up with a millennium of American hegemony under their leadership. Instead, peace and freedom broke out...

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from Free Market News Network, by Thomas L. Knapp