The bestial Bush administration

In recent centuries, war has reliably accomplished three things: kill vast quantities of individuals, expand the size and scope of the central state and degrade the traditional values of Western Civilization. As the historian Paul Johnson points out in "Modern Times": "The effect of the Great War was enormously to increase the size and therefore the destructive capacity and propensity to oppress, of the state. Before 1914, all state sectors were small, though most were growing, some of them fast. The area of actual state activity averaged between 5 and 10 percent of the Gross National Product."

According to the CIA World Factbook, the five leading members of the Coalition of the Willing, the multinational force purportedly bringing "freedom" to occupied Iraq, feature state sectors averaging 34.9 percent of Gross Domestic Product, a five-fold increase in less than 100 years. It is sobering to realize that for all of our technological riches, citizens of modern democracies possess far less economic freedom than did the average subject of Kaiser Wilhelm II or King George V.

Vox Day