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Saturday, April 24, 2010
A Critical Observation
Now and then, I return to books I’ve already read, in part to enjoy them a second time, but in larger part to see if their message still “holds true.” Accordingly, I recently reread Stephen Baskerville’s Taken Into Custody: The War Against Fathers, Marriage, and the Family, and found this gem:
[T]he conflict between constitutional government and sound public policy is usually a false one. When we look beneath the surface, we usually find some more fundamental problem. While it is comforting to see all this as “excess” and to believe that “the end justifies the means,” what is often overlooked is that the state may not be interested in the ends it professes so much as in the means themselves, and that the supreme ambition of every government is to control the private lives of its citizens.
I’ve never seen any political or social analyst put it better.
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Greed for power makes greed for money appear virtuous.
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