Why Fear Big Government?

Pajamas Media ^ | February 8, 2010 | Victor Davis Hanson

[KippLanham]

There is no reason to review all the standard reasons why the American people are terrified of an all-powerful federal or state government. The case has been made in thousands of elegant treatises and books, and is best reflected in the Constitution and the written work of the Founding Fathers.

But let me list a few other, less elegantly expressed worries, many anecdotal in nature.

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[jessduntno]

Here’s why;

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020803123.html

[Woebama]

Good article but . . . I think on the present course we will blow right past petty bureaucratic annoyances very quickly into beatings and jail terms for those opposing the system or not in a politically connected and protected class. Examples are some of the tea party beatings etc.

[vpintheak]

We hold these truths to be self evident....