"From the dawn of man, violent acts have been a sad aspect of life in nearly every civilization and culture. The violence in prisons shows how ineffective even close confinement, total control, and total surveillance can be in preventing this.
Many heavily restrictive governments have failed to prevent violence. In fact, history has shown that powerful, unrestrained governments commit murder and other acts of violence against their own citizens. According to careful statistical analysis by Professor R. J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii, in his detailed work Death By Government, "The more power a government has, the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more it will make war on others and murder its foreign and domestic subjects." On the other hand, "The more constrained the power of governments, the more power is diffused, checked, and balanced, the less it will aggress on others."
via New American
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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4 comments:
I agree, and unforntuately guess which direction we are headed.
I like your blog! Thanks for sharing your views with us.
The swearing of B.Hussein Obama has prompted me to re-read Atlas Shrugged and 1984,two great books. Which are fitting for our current times.
Thanks for this blog, you are so dead on with it........... Frightening times ahead........ I pray this country, will survive........ I pray that those the were swooned into voting wake up, and that our Government doesnt get out of hand.
God Bless America and American's.
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