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In their haste to condemn Edward Snowden for revealing the NSA’s massive secret spy scheme on the American people, conservatives are rushing to point out how the countries that Snowden is considering for asylum — e.g., Venezuela, Bolivia, and Nicaragua — are themselves not exactly bastions of freedom. They are countries in which there is socialism, interventionism, regulation, censorship, and, yes, even secret surveillance of people’s activity.
But conservatives are missing some important points here.
First, Snowden isn’t selecting countries in which to live by how free they are. He’s trying to find a place in which he can escape the clutches of the U.S. government, which is doing everything it can to bring him back to the United States for prosecution, torture, incarceration, and even execution for disclosing its secret surveillance system to the American people and the people of the world.
Ask yourself: If you had a choice of whether to live in a country which is riddled with statism ...
The welfare state is founded on force. With Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies, education grants, foreign aid, and every other welfare-state program, the government forces people to share part of their money with others, including the elderly, the poor, farmers, students, foreign dictators, and many others. This coercive process is based on the government’s seizure of people’s income ...
