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The Statist Has Constructed A Rube Goldberg Array Of Laws And Policies That Have Institutionalized His Objectives. His Success Breeds Confidence In The Limitlessness Of His Endeavors.

The Oil Industry Is Hardly Free To Operate As Efficiently As It Could Or To Be As Responsive To Consumer Demands As It Would Like. It Has Become, In Essence, A Quasi-state-run Enterprise, Because It Cannot Drill, Transport, Refine, And Store Fuel Without Receiving Government Permission, Complying With Government Regulations, And Paying Taxes At Every Level Or Production.

Consequently, Citizen Legislators, Rotating Back To Their Communities After A Short Period Of Public Service—considered An Indispensable And Routine Characteristic And Design Of Representative Government At The Time Of The Founding, And For A Century Thereafter—have Been Replaced With A Professional Ruling Class Led By Governing Masterminds. For The Most Part, They Are Isolated From The Communities From Which They Hail And Are Consumed With The Daily Jockeying For Position And Power Within Their Ranks. Moreover, They Both Pander To And Lord Over Their Constituents.

The Intensive And Concerted Effort To Exclude References To Religion Or God From Public Places Is An Attack On Our Founding Principles. It's An Attempt To Bolster A Growing Reliance On The Government--especially The Judiciary--as The Source Of Our Rights. But If Our Rights Are Not Unalienable, If They Don't Come From A Source Higher Than Ourselves, Then They're Malleable At The Will Of The State. This Is A Prescription For Tyranny.

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