Ever notice that in a horrific story like the six-year-old boy floating away in a giant helium balloon, we are always assured that the government is “racing” to save him? Oh sure they’re racing. In fact, they can’t help. If he survives, it will be because the balloon gently drops to earth. Law enforcement, the military, and the rest of the armed tax-eaters are irrelevant, good–if that is the word–only for putting guns to people’s heads, and sometimes pulling the trigger. Yet the MSM continue to laud them as heroes. Oh, they will jail the father, of course, and maybe the whole family. That’ll help.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.