| Re: The Devil’s Picnic review, by Bruce Pollock, Books, May 11-17, 2006.
While I take no issue with Bruce Pollock's review of The Devil's Picnic, I was astounded by his pronouncements: "Some things are simply bad for people and they should be avoided" and "If legislation becomes necessary to protect people from themselves, then so be it."
Oh, really? And who decides? We already have the Nanny-state's thousands of laws and regulations, and Pollock wants more. So… baked, skinless chicken – good! Fried chicken – baaaaad! I propose a 100 per cent tax on all the finger-waggers who want to "help" me to pay for the increased bureaucracy – hopefully that would shut them the hell up. As Ron Paul opines, quoting C. S. Lewis:
"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
I hope I never see the day when Bruce Pollock and his ilk attain the positions of "omnipotent moral busybodies." Oh, wait – we've already begun our own Brave New World.
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