Pearls Before Swine
December 10, 2005
11:50 a.m., MT

I don't agree with everything Lew says in his most recent essay, The Impossibility of Imposed Freedom, but the title's a damned good one, and his points in support of it are strong as well. To wit:

So let us not kid ourselves into thinking that we can have it both ways so that freedom and despotism live peacefully together, the former imposed by the latter. To make a transition from statism to freedom means a complete revolution in economic and political life, from one where the state and its interests rule, to a system where the power of the state plays no role.

Freedom is not a public-policy option and it is not a plan. It is the end of politics itself. It is time for us to take that next step and call for precisely that. If we believe what Jefferson believed, and I think we should, it is time to speak less like managers of bureaucracies, and more like Moses.

The essay is based on a talk he delivered a couple of days ago -- to "staff aides of the US House of Representatives", as the note preceding it states. I'm sure there was a mass resignation after he finished his presentation, along with earnest conversations with their employers, urging them to follow suit. In fact, I might just hear the faint strains of DC imploding from here ...

Oops, nope, guess that was something else. Probably some private enterprise collapsing under the weight of regulatory bloat.

Sunni

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