Tuesday, April 19, 2016
One argument recently made is that “a
government that is big enough to give you everything you want is big
enough to take away everything that you have.” It occurs to me that
this does not only apply to the government, and that a private
economy that is big enough to give you everything you want is also
big enough to take away everything that you have.
I should know. I've been on both the
winning and the losing sides of capitalism. And while the attention of
liberty-seekers is directed at confronting the government, many
non-governmental organs of tyranny and corruption grow up outside the
scrutiny of these liberty-seekers.
These organs include, but are not
limited to: Tyrannical families, suffocating communities, oppressive
religions, dishonorable businesses and corrupt networks in law and
medicine. All of the above entities are unelected, unofficial,
unchecked, unbalanced and unaccountable. Which means that all of them
have potential for unlimited tyranny and corruption.
Are governments capable of tyranny and
corruption? Of course they are; and in recognizing this and putting
into place effective corrective measures the founders of America did
a great deed for the whole of mankind. But they have failed to see
how non-governmental organs are also capable of tyranny and
corruption. I would rather be dealing any day with the Obama
government than with Texas Oil, the mafia, religious cults, the
Fatherhood Foundation or crooks on Wall Street. The first is elected,
official, accountable, checked and balanced, which means that there
is a lot done to correct its potentials for wrongdoing. The same is
not the case for the others.
So that while it remains imperative to
continue checking the government in its propensity for corrupt and
tyrannical practices, it is also important to recognize that the
government is not the only entity capable of such things. An entity
that is unelected, unofficial, unaccountable, unchecked and
unbalanced can, and will, possess unlimited potentials for tyranny
and corruption. And a person who is truly dedicated toward fighting
such things will not limit himself to oversight over the government
and will also scrutinize unelected organs of power lest they also
become tyrannical and corrupt.
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