Comments on Titanic Deck Chairs: The Negation of Freedom

There is some evidence -- very tenuous evidence, g...

2009-11-11T20:57:26.593-05:00

There is some evidence -- very tenuous evidence, granted, but it justifies a tiny quantum of hope -- but some evidence that a number of Senators will sink the House bill and experience gridlock in the Senate over its own versions of the health care bill. One or two Senators actually try to oppose any version of the bills on Constitutional grounds; others cite their sheer economic impracticality;

I didn't read that into what Napolitano said, ...

2009-11-09T23:12:59.225-05:00

I didn't read that into what Napolitano said, but now that you mention it, I can certainly see that possibility.

I read it as saying "what the government has become is the negation of freedom," but based on your comment, I now wonder if I'm being too generous. As written, he condemned all government, which is a position I think is naive and untenable. For individual

wouldn't negation of freedom imply anarchism o...

2009-11-09T22:08:30.895-05:00

wouldn't negation of freedom imply anarchism overtones.