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Is the U.S. Government Evil? You Tell Me

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The greatest evil is not now done … in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters Is the U.S. government evil? You tell me. This is a government that treats its citizens like faceless statistics and economic units to be bought, sold, bartered, traded, tracked, tortured, and eventually eliminated once they’ve outgrown their usefulness. This is a government that treats human beings like lab rats to be caged, branded, experimented upon, and then discarded and left to suffer from the after-effects. This is a government that repeatedly lies, cheats, steals, spies, ...

The Most Important Question of Our Time

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The question that U.S. presidential candidates should be discussing and debating is this one: What should be the role of government in a free society? In fact, that’s the question that every American should also be discussing and debating. Should government have the power to: 1. Force people to submit to religious indoctrination? 2. Determine what people should read and watch? 3. Decide what people ingest? 4. Provide schooling for people’s children? 5. Provide charity to people? 6. Provide retirement money and healthcare services to people? 7. Provide subsidies and bailouts? 8. Regulate and control economic activity? 9. Police the world? 10. Force people to pay for its “services"? 11. Tax people? 12. Deliver the mail? 13. Impose border controls? 14. Assassinate people? 15. Torture people? 16. Have a standing army and permanent secret intelligence force? 17. Have a secretive agency that conducts secret surveillance on people? 18. Support dictatorships? 19. Initiate coups? 20. Confiscate guns? 21. Incarcerate people indefinitely without trial? 22. Maintain a welfare state? 23. Maintain a national-security state apparatus? 24. Maintain foreign military bases? 25. Engage in foreign interventions and foreign ...

Two Illegitimate Functions of Government

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The question every American needs to ponder and discuss is one that our American ancestors were debating at the inception of our nation: What should be the role of the federal government in American society? That was how we ended up with the Constitution. The Framers didn’t want to bring into existence a government with the general power to do whatever it deemed necessary, beneficial, and wise. For one thing, they knew that the American people would never accept that type of government. But they also knew that freedom for the citizenry is nonexistent when people are living under a government of general powers. So, the Constitution limited the powers of the federal government to the few powers that are enumerated in the Constitution. While that persuaded Americans to permit the federal government to come into existence, Americans were still not satisfied. They demanded a Bill of Rights, which really was a Bill of Prohibitions, which expressly forbade the federal government ...