The Failure of Government Protection Agencies
February 14, 2008
A common argument for government is that we need the government to protect the public health and safety. The problem with this is that the government not only fails to do its job, it sometimes does just the opposite. Recently in Georgia, a bridge inspector confessed to not inspecting bridges and then faking inspection reports. Meanwhile, in Florida, the spokesman for the Department of Children & Families was charged with producing child pornography. One of the minor boys used to make the porn was actually in the care of the Department of Children & Families.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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