I wrote this and it was originally published in 2006. It makes even more sense now!
In a number of my columns, I have focus on the consequences to the community when the keeper of peace and order doesn’t do its job. The first responsibility and primary job of government is to establish and maintain peace and order so that we “the people” will be free to pursue happiness. Perhaps these lines will be familiar: “…. all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness – That to secure these Rights governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the Consent of the Governed……..” perhaps if you don’t remember the Declaration of Independence the Preamble to the Constitution will ring a bell where it says as the third reason for establishing the nation “to insure domestic tranquility”.
Many of the leaders of government lose sight of this fact and concentrate more and more on making the constituents more and more dependent on them so that the people will keep reelecting them. That is the point at which our representative leaders become rulers, who now know what is best for all of us and try to limit our choices. More »
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