Man skal ikke affinde sig med tyrannernes dominans – det har frygtelige, menneskelige omkostninger.
EU er på vej i den forkerte retning…Her i Italien med Bologna som bannerfører.
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Solsjenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Den værste tyran er dog den, der vil dig det godt – som C.S. Lewis skrev – for han skyer intet middel for at opnå sit mål: at få dig til at adlyde hans bud. For dit eget bedste, naturligvis.
Det er vanskeligt at hævde uvidenhed nu, i modsætning til soviet-tiden, hvor internettet trods alt muliggør kommunikation i et omfang der får magthaverne til at skælve (og etablere sandhedsministerier, gudhjælpemig!)
Husk på at ytringsfrihed blot er et specialtilfælde af ejendomsret – respekten for privat ejendomsret kendetegner civilisation og medfører velstand i et hidtil uset omfang. Det er ikke foreneligt med en stat der breder sig ud over alle aspekter af samfundslivet.
Staten er ikke din ven og beskytter, som Sosjenitsyn erfarede. Vel er Mette ikke Stalin, men vrangforestillingen om egen alviden ligger latent i enhver ambitiøs politiker, og venter blot på den næste krise for springe i fuldt flor.
Læs om hvad staten er for en størrelse i Rothbards Statens Anatomi. Fås her i butikken for 37,50 inflationsramte kroner.
