Today a caller to our show called to say,"Shame on you, we are the most free people in the world, and you are badmouthing America"!!
We answered that no, we love America, but we Hate the State. There is a big difference.
So I thought I would post this article by Bob Higgs, from Lew Rockwell.com.
"I hold myself
second to none in my adoration of the amber waves of grain and the
purple mountain majesties. I revere the ideal that this nation should
serve as a beacon of freedom to the world and a refuge for its huddled
masses yearning to breathe free. I weep with pride each time I watch
the ailing Lou Gehrig tell the crowd at Yankee Stadium, “Today
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.”
I don’t blame these beautiful, decent, and admirable aspects
of America in the least for the chronic failure of U.S. foreign
and defense policy to serve the general public interest.
With regard
to the fools, mountebanks, unscrupulous opportunists, and psychopaths
who have long played the greatest roles in devising and implementing
U.S. foreign and defense policy, however, I hold a quite different
and decidedly less favorable opinion."
Read the rest here.
