Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 13 2011

The problem with contemporary politics is not that the tenor of discourse is crude and vitriolic. Rather, it is that people focus their hostilities at each other rather than at the apparatus of official coercion called the ?government.?

Rather than coveting our liberties and being suspicious of government power, people have been indoctrinated into coveting government power and being incurably suspicious of each other.

In his essay Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche described the State as ?the coldest of all cold monsters?. Everything it says, it lies; and whatever it has, it has stolen?. [I]t bites with stolen teeth, and it bites often??

One useful habit in talking about politics would be for each person to perceive every proposed legislative act or government action as a death threat ? either directed at him, or directed by him at somebody else. This is the true nature of government power.

By all means, let us be civil in dealing with each other ? but if you can?t say something nice, please make sure that you?re saying something about the government.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.