I'll post excerpts almost daily from "The work of generations", a review by Andrew C. McCarthy, of "On Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, by Mark R. Levin. Hopefully, you will be inspired to buy the book and read it this summer:
"The second is the statist’s infiltration of government’s faceless bureaucratic sprawl. Levin recounts story upon jaw-dropping story of radicals at the helm: the Social Security Administration’s adoption of Henry Rogers Seager’s socialist rant against the “creed of individualism,” calling for “an aggressive program of governmental control and regulation” to enforce “the common welfare”; the National Park Service ecologist David M. Graber’s declaration that the human beings are a “plague upon the earth” engaged in an “orgy of fossil-energy consumption” which caused him to conclude that “until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along”; and so on. The utopia they promise is a conveyor belt of misery, rolling out millions of deaths when enviro-statists banned the use of DDT, and thousands more (to say nothing of an industry destroyed), when mandated fuel-economy standards made American cars less safe."
(to be continued)
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-work-of-generations-4086
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