In his column today, Sheldon Richman takes a look at the recent G-20 meeting and sees nothing but perfidy.
Politicians keep yammering away about the alleged need for an increasingly politicized world, with more and more resources directed by them, more and more decisions about human conduct made by them. A politicized world is one in which the realm of personal liberty constantly shrinks, like the room in which the walls keep moving inward on the people trapped within. But shrinking freedom for ordinary people doesn’t bother the rulers. Their freedom — that is, power to take and command — grows.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote, it’s in the natural order of things for government power to grow and liberty to recede. That is why we need rebellions from time to time.
