Courtesy of By Other Means:
No ****, Sherlock!
Peter
The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Doesn't that imply that you agree that government is unambiguously evil and that even a well-meaning leader will soon be turned into a puppet for the evil that permeates it?
Eh, more like Edmund Burke was right – power corrupts. The rest of his statement being unneeded for this exercise…
ROTF. Yep, they are out there!
Well George Washington said that Government was like fire, a dangerous servant and a tyrannical master. Who would have though him to turn out to be an incurable optimist?
All of which points out how Washington truely was the Revolution's "Irreplaceable Man"…..