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In a major foreign-policy address delivered a few months back in San Francisco, President Bill Clinton solemnly affirmed that everything everywhere in the world is the business of the United States. If you ever entertained the thought that we Americans should be free just to live our lives, raise our families, and participate voluntarily in our communities forget it. The president of the United States has plans for us and our money.
"Today," Mr. Clinton said, "we must embrace the inexorable logic of globalization that everything, from the strength of our economy to the safety of our cities, to the health of our people, depends on events not only within our borders, but half a world away."
Let's pause here to let this sink in. That is truly an extraordinary statement. "Everything depends on events half a world away." Really?
Lest you think Clinton has an unrealistic agenda in mind, he added, "We cannot, indeed, we should not, do everything ...
In his 1651 classic, Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes warned: "To obey the King who is God's lieutenant, is the same as to obey God. We shall have no peace till we have absolute obedience." Many contemporary statists share Hobbes's assumption that near-total control is the only way to avoid near-certain destruction that without a policeman, a bureaucrat, and a politician watching over their every move, citizens would beat their wives, starve their children, poison their customers, and blow up city hall. Supposedly, it is only the restraining hand of government that prevents the total dissolution of civilization, and the more power the restraining hand possesses, the safer civilization becomes.
How much subjugation is necessary to preserve civil peace? At what point do force and threat of force subvert order? French philosopher Pierre Bayle wrote, "It is not tolerance, ...
In his 1651 classic, Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes warned: "To obey the King who is God's lieutenant, is the same as to obey God. We shall have no peace till we have absolute obedience." Many contemporary statists share Hobbes's assumption that near-total control is the only way to avoid near-certain destruction that without a policeman, a bureaucrat, and a politician watching over their every move, citizens would beat their wives, starve their children, poison their customers, and blow up city hall. Supposedly, it is only the restraining hand of government that prevents the total dissolution of civilization, and the more power the restraining hand possesses, the safer civilization becomes.
How much subjugation is necessary to preserve civil peace? At what point do force and threat of force subvert order? French philosopher Pierre Bayle wrote, "It is not tolerance, ...
