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….
Source: Cato-at-liberty - Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Andrew J. Coulson Source Type: blogs
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