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This resolution was only reinforced by the Kennedy and King assassinations, the Vietnam war, and what I learned about Operation Keelhaul. Watergate came as no surprise. It's why I know we've never heard the truth about the U.S.S. Liberty, Gordon Kahl, Waco, or Oklahoma City. It's why I'll trust my own eyes, thank you—rather than the excrement spewed by government and the media it's "embedded" with—in deciding that the World Trade Center was demolished from inside, just like the Old Endicott Building in downtown Scranton or wherever.

The world of today's politics makes Renaissance Italy look like Disneyland.

And so I have lived my life, 60 years, so far. Am I happier than my folks were? I doubt it. Am I freer? Absolutely not, in a physical sense. Do I know who the good guys are and who the real enemy is? I certainly do. Will I die any less disappointed with life than my dad did?

There, I think, I have something of an advantage, however small. I have learned what's important in life: my wife, my daughter, my work for its own sake, starting thousands of tiny brushfires that statists will half kill themselves trying to put out over the next century or three.

I know something that very few—almost none—of the previous generation did. Forget all the political and philosophical divisions and false distinctions that we're accustomed to thinking about. An early intuition I once had, that libertarianism is not an ideology, but the absence of one, was correct. Differing ideologies simply provide differing excuses for government behavior that is always the same.

In the end, you can't get around it.

Government is about stealing.

From the august federal level down to the petty criminals who run whatever city you live in, It's about stealing and absolutely nothing else.

So if you're a Republican, a Democrat, a Green, or a "libertarian" mini-statist, what you're admitting to the whole world is that you're a thief. You're admitting to your neighbors that you want to steal their money, their houses, their weapons, their jewelry, and their children.

You're admitting that, if they won't cough up in a manner that appears comfortingly voluntary, you'll send your thugs (because you lack the balls to do it yourself) to beat them up, kidnap, or kill them.

You're admitting that you differ only by degree from Jesse James, Jimmy Valentine, Boss Tweed, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao. Like Hitler and Stalin's moral cousins Churchill and Roosevelt, whose phony sainthood will last only until "The Greatest Generation" dies.

And history identifies you for what you truly are.
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