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March 21, 2005

The Most Dangerous Drug

If Adolf Hitler had had television to assist him in his efforts to ban the use of tobacco, I wonder how similar his campaign would have been to the televised congressional circus now being conducted against steroids. In the same frenzied self-righteousness with which Congress supports military wars against the lives of innocents, and domestic wars against domestic liberties, hearings into the dangerous nature and use of steroids are nudging Scott Peterson, Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, and even Martha Stewart from television’s center stage.

So begins another fine Butler Shaffer smash-the-state column at LewRockwell.com.

Shaffer effortlessly elides from the steroid hearings into the drug of statism, which poisons our country and its youth far more than a few baseball players on juice. For example,

This is child abuse of the worst kind! In deadening the minds of children with patriotic opiates, the schools have helped to produce a society of anesthetized adults incapable of discriminating between "truth" and "lies," or even of appreciating the importance of such distinctions in formulating government policies. Most of us have become what the state trained us to become: people who look upon "honesty" and "deception" as nothing more than alternative strategies; people who are willing to accept the fundamental political doctrine that a lie is as good as the truth, if people will only believe it!

As always, a Shaffer column is worth reading in full.

Posted by Mike Tennant at March 21, 2005 10:27 AM

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