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Today's Citizen Is Obliged To Find His Freedom Only In The Narrow Ruts Pre-approved By His Bureaucratic Overlords. "risk-free Liberty" Is The Ideal Of The Welfare State: Citizens Are Permitted Only Liberties Which Have Been Declawed, Defanged, Neutered, Certified And Wrapped In Benevolent Restrictions.
-James Bovard
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Today's Citizen Is Obliged To Find His

James Bovard
Today's Citizen Is Obliged To Find His Freedom Only In The Narrow Ruts Pre-approved By His Bureaucratic Overlords. "risk-free Liberty" Is The Ideal Of The Welfare State: Citizens Are Permitted Only Liberties Which Have Been Declawed, Defanged, Neutered, Certified And Wrapped In Benevolent Restrictions.
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