Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 19, 2011

Now that he?s no longer California?s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger can admit to suffering from a powerful, personality-distorting addiction: In an interview with an Austrian publication, the former governor admits that he became ?addicted? to power while in office.

Addiction is a terrible thing, a form of bondage to sin. Government facilitates and profits from addiction to gambling ? through state lotteries and licensed casinos ? to tobacco ? which is subsidized by federal price supports ? and to alcohol, which is licensed and taxed.

But government owes its existence to the fact that people can easily grow addicted to exercising power over others. This is easily the deadliest and most pernicious of all addictions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger claims that his political career cost him $70 million he could have made as a movie star. No alcoholic, cokehead, pothead, or meth user has ever squandered that much in the service of his addiction. And no mood-altering chemical has ever done as much damage as government routinely inflicts on the innocent.

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