\u201cA disastrous deportation: why the Jimmy Aldaoud case should trouble us all\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also a story that illustrates very well one of the reasons for my deep reluctance to grant more power or authority to the State than is absolutely necessary. \u00a0I do not trust government officials to possess greater wisdom or goodness or compassion or competence than ordinary mortals. \u00a0On the contrary, since the government is uniquely entrusted with the legal right to coerce, and since, even in a democracy, it is only minimually and periodically accountable to a crude majority of citizens and, in the specific case of unelected bureaucracies and unelected bureaucrats, even less accountable than that<\/em>, I expect it to do considerable harm and to act irresponsibly.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve always liked these early words of one of the great figures in the history of the American conservative movement, and a personal hero of mine:<\/p>\n
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\u201cI will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and Liberals at bay. And the nation free.\u201d \u00a0(William F. Buckley, Jr.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Posted from St. George, Utah<\/p>\n
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