"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Wounded Knee 1973
Some claim to have been inspired by Ayn Rand's improbable fictional heroes: I chose a real-world one who's beliefs Rand would have have (and did on several occasions) deemed sub-human(or "un-civilized"...) That Means', and AIM's, exploits required extensive research to uncover, while Rand's "Fountainhead" was on the "summer reading list" at my public high school in the 80's tells me I chose well in my inspiration.
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