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** FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2024
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If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions; and experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edward Carrington [1787]
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February 15, 2024
How Can We Bring Down the National Security State? ([link removed])
Upon reading my article of yesterday about master worrywart Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, the retired head of the NSA, a longtime supporter of The Future of Freedom Foundation asked how it would ever be possible to bring down an omnipotent governmental structure like a national-security state and replace it with our founding governmental system of a limited-government republic. It’s a ...
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