Liberty Then... and Liberty Now
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis, 1820 Jefferson's words, so true in 1820, continue to carry even greater truth today. Further, the third President of our nation correctly identified that education is the proper remedy in "informing their discretion.". Sadly, as our federal government has grown ever more statist and controlling {think department of education) it has turned not to actual education based on reason and reality, but rather indoctrination and fear based on Leviathans need to retain power. Perhaps, through the effor...