I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS1.
– Malcolm Forbes, when asked if he was afraid of terrorism
1 = for non-US readers, IRS is the Infernal Internal Revenue Service, the United States’ theft enforcement arm
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December 9th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Admissions are mostly made by those who do not know their importance. December 8th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Brotherhood, solidarity, unity, love: they all mean these but not those, you but not them. December 7th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is, in some sense, more than merely the aggregate of all individuals, their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that, in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded, it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind. December 6th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. December 5th, 2002 | Comments are closed
It was futile to argue with politicians, I realized, to try to persuade them that your scepticism concerning their views might be well founded. Politicians developed habits of self-justification and certitude which were immune to logic or emotion: their rhetoric was like a blanket which they wrapped around themselves to keep out the bracing air of dissent. December 4th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
A young black man can be murdered by a gang of white thugs at a bus stop1. The result? Senior politicians and police in front of the cameras; public inquiries; new phrases such as ‘institutional racism’; sweeping reforms; a trust set up to help others from ‘similarly disadvantaged backgrounds’. A young white man gets murdered by a gang of four black men and a black woman in Lewisham, South East London; it makes a one-inch high column at the bottom of page two. Why? 1 = Reference to the murder of Stephen Lawrence. December 3rd, 2002 | 24 comments - (Comments are closed)
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. December 2nd, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers. December 1st, 2002 | Comments are closed
November 24th, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was “but we’ve always done it this way.” A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they? November 18th, 2002 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
When words lose their meaning, people will lose their liberty For example the term ‘liberal’… once meant (& to some, prefaced by ‘classical’, it still does) a supporter of individual liberties against both force backed custom (paleo-conservativism) and force backed allegedly rational planning (socialism). It is now generally used as a euphemism for ‘democratic socialism’. November 17th, 2002 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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