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The Tyranny of the Nanny State, Where the Government Knows What's Best for You
• rutherford.orgSurveillance cameras, government agents listening in on your phone calls, reading your emails and text messages and monitoring your spending, mandatory health care, sugary soda bans, anti-bullying laws, zero tolerance policies, political correctness: these are all outward signs of a government?i.e., a societal elite?that believes it knows what is best for you and can do a better job of managing your life than you can.
This is tyranny disguised as "the better good." Indeed, as I document in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, this is the tyranny of the Nanny State: marketed as benevolence, enforced with armed police, and inflicted on all those who do not belong to the elite ruling class that gets to call the shots. Thus, this explains the recent rash of parents getting charged with negligence and arrested for leaving their kids alone for any amount of time, whether at a park, in a store, in a car, or in their front yard?another sign of what C.S. Lewis referred to as tyranny exercised by "omnipotent moral busybodies."