.... The government occasionally reveals stories of its successes, but
they tend to show less success and more manufacture of a success where
no threat would exist if the government had kept its nose out of it.
On the other hand, there are far too many stories of harm happening
to good people at the government’s hand in the name of protecting us,
and these stories provide foundations that don’t require me to squint
hard, cover my ears and merely believe. They allow me to know. And what
I know isn’t pleasant....