Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 18, 2009

Washington Post commentator Ezra Klein cannot understand why so many people are deeply mistrustful of government power, and so insistent on limiting the ambitions of the well-intentioned and infinitely competent people who are trying to fix our health-care system.

?What we're seeing here is not merely distrust in the House health-care reform bill,? Klein complains. ?It's distrust in the political system. A healthy relationship does not require an explicit detailing of the `institutional checks? that will prevent one partner from beating or killing the other. In a healthy relationship, such madness is simply unthinkable. ?

The fundamental wisdom of America?s founders is precisely that government?s relationship to the governed is intrinsically unhealthy, and will turn murderous if government power is not restrained by institutional checks.

Klein is free to indulge his delusions about the benevolence of government power. He really shouldn?t upbraid those of us ? beginning with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison ? who know better.

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