Government... IS... PEOPLE!

Andrew J. Coulson The Christian Science Monitor suggests this lesson be drawn from the Obama administration’s recent scandalpalooza: Congress should use this IRS scandal to beef up civics education for federal workers as well as for public school students. Lesson No. 1: Government cannot restrict or discriminate against political causes that it disagrees with. I think the scandals teach a different lesson: Government will misbehave because it, like Soylent Green, is made from people. Fallible, foible-ridden people. Therefore, government’s unique powers must be strictly limited to avoid miscarriages of justice. One of these days, someone should build a nation on that lesson….
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