LewRockwell.Com
by Anthony Gregory

08/09/05

The American right has long dedicated itself to the promotion of limited government -- limited to its key functions of cracking skulls, caging sinners and leveling cities. Helpful to this program of state violence is the fact that most people, left, right, center and libertarian, believe that protecting people's rights to life, liberty and property against foreign and domestic threats is the one unquestionable purpose of government. People tend to consider organized force a legitimate means to defend the innocent against violent criminals, terrorists, and the like. It is along these lines that the most universally accepted government programs are its most explicitly coercive, and that conservatives tend to go overboard in their enthusiasm for the 'legitimate' functions of 'limited' government...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp